Requirements Gathering Contracts in the North of England

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Requirements Gathering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Requirements Gathering over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 78 111
Rank change year-on-year -24 +33 -45
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 64 115 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.94% 2.42% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.15% 2.82% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 83 99
10th Percentile £346 £325 £320
25th Percentile £403 £403 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £463
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +5.95% -2.63%
75th Percentile £569 £596 £544
90th Percentile £594 £638 £600
England median daily rate £525 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -0.94% +0.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £55.25
England median hourly rate £27.06 £58.18 £61.50
% change year-on-year -53.48% -5.40% +44.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Requirements Gathering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,970 4,081 5,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.97% 85.83% 90.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,907 2,497 3,663
10th Percentile £263 £300 £304
25th Percentile £380 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £684
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 357 205
10th Percentile £13.70 £11.04 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.31 £12.50 £15.75
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.72 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +62.25% -36.03% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.59 £44.74 £45.05
90th Percentile £83.41 £55.40 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Requirements Gathering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in the North of England

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Requirements Gathering in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Requirements Gathering in the North of England

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in the North of England

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Requirements Gathering in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Gathering in the North of England

Requirements Gathering
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Requirements Gathering within the North of England region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West -19 42 £483 +4.32% 102
Yorkshire -19 12 £463 -5.61% 18
North East - 10 £350 - 16
Requirements Gathering
England

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (15.63%) Confluence
2 5 (7.81%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (7.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.69%) MS Visio
3 2 (3.13%) InVision
3 2 (3.13%) UserZoom
4 1 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (4.69%) PeopleSoft Financials
2 3 (4.69%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.56%) SAP CRM
3 1 (1.56%) SAP MM
3 1 (1.56%) SAP PS
3 1 (1.56%) SAP SD
3 1 (1.56%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 6 (9.38%) Power Platform
2 3 (4.69%) Azure
3 2 (3.13%) Lucidchart
3 2 (3.13%) Miro
4 1 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.56%) Power Automate
4 1 (1.56%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.81%) Power BI
1 5 (7.81%) Tableau
2 3 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (4.69%) Siebel EIM
3 2 (3.13%) MySQL
4 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.56%) EDRMS
4 1 (1.56%) GIS
4 1 (1.56%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (17.19%) JIRA
2 2 (3.13%) Axure RP
3 1 (1.56%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.56%) Git
General
1 28 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 19 (29.69%) Finance
3 13 (20.31%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 6 (9.38%) Banking
6 4 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (4.69%) Legal
7 3 (4.69%) Marketing
8 2 (3.13%) Law
8 2 (3.13%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.56%) Games
9 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.56%) Local Government
9 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.56%) Retail
9 1 (1.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (42.19%) Analyst
2 25 (39.06%) Business Analyst
3 8 (12.50%) Consultant
4 6 (9.38%) Architect
4 6 (9.38%) Technical Business Analyst
5 5 (7.81%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (7.81%) Technical Analyst
6 4 (6.25%) Developer
6 4 (6.25%) Senior
7 3 (4.69%) Agile Business Analyst
7 3 (4.69%) Commercial Officer
7 3 (4.69%) Designer
7 3 (4.69%) PeopleSoft Consultant
7 3 (4.69%) Product Manager
7 3 (4.69%) Project Manager
7 3 (4.69%) Service Designer
8 2 (3.13%) Data Migration Analyst
8 2 (3.13%) Functional Consultant
8 2 (3.13%) Requirements Analyst
8 2 (3.13%) SAP Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.69%) CSS
1 3 (4.69%) HTML
1 3 (4.69%) JMS
1 3 (4.69%) Oracle Fusion
1 3 (4.69%) SOAP
1 3 (4.69%) Web Services
2 2 (3.13%) React
3 1 (1.56%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.56%) CSS3
3 1 (1.56%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.56%) HTML5
3 1 (1.56%) JPA
3 1 (1.56%) jQuery
3 1 (1.56%) MyBatis
3 1 (1.56%) Node.js
3 1 (1.56%) REST
3 1 (1.56%) RESTful
3 1 (1.56%) Spring
3 1 (1.56%) Spring MVC
3 1 (1.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.81%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.13%) CMDB
2 2 (3.13%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.56%) PMI
3 1 (1.56%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.56%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.69%) Linux
2 2 (3.13%) Android
2 2 (3.13%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (34.38%) Agile
2 21 (32.81%) Stakeholder Management
3 19 (29.69%) Change Management
3 19 (29.69%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (23.44%) Migration
5 13 (20.31%) Business Analysis
6 12 (18.75%) User Stories
7 11 (17.19%) Data Analysis
7 11 (17.19%) Roadmaps
8 10 (15.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 9 (14.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (14.06%) Scrum
9 9 (14.06%) Waterfall
10 8 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
11 7 (10.94%) Business Case
11 7 (10.94%) Project Management
11 7 (10.94%) Project Planning
11 7 (10.94%) Service Delivery
12 6 (9.38%) Business Intelligence
12 6 (9.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (12.50%) SQL
2 4 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 3 (4.69%) PeopleCode
3 3 (4.69%) PL/SQL
4 2 (3.13%) Java
5 1 (1.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (14.06%) Degree
2 7 (10.94%) Security Cleared
3 6 (9.38%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.69%) CBAP
4 3 (4.69%) PMI Certification
5 2 (3.13%) PMP
5 2 (3.13%) SAP Certification
6 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.56%) CSPO
6 1 (1.56%) ISEB
6 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.56%) GDPR
3 1 (1.56%) QA
3 1 (1.56%) SLA
3 1 (1.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.13%) HP Data Protector
1 2 (3.13%) NetBackup
2 1 (1.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 9 (14.06%) Oracle
2 6 (9.38%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.38%) SAP
3 5 (7.81%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.69%) PeopleSoft
4 3 (4.69%) Siebel
5 2 (3.13%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (3.13%) Dell
5 2 (3.13%) ESRI
5 2 (3.13%) Veritas
5 2 (3.13%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.56%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.56%) Civica