Requirements Gathering Contract Job Trends in Northampton

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northampton requiring Requirements Gathering skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 26 19
Rank change year-on-year -10 -7 -9
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 13 7 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 4.73% 3.11% 2.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.85% 3.41% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 3
10th Percentile £317 £387 £385
25th Percentile £331 £396 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £388 £426 £519
90th Percentile £447 £483 £530
Northamptonshire median daily rate £358 £401 £453
% change year-on-year -10.78% -11.33% -9.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 268 205 108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 97.45% 91.11% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 164 80
10th Percentile £270 £353 £198
25th Percentile £349 £382 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £445 £482
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% -7.68% +7.11%
75th Percentile £448 £575 £534
90th Percentile £500 £620 £588
Northamptonshire median daily rate £390 £445 £489
% change year-on-year -12.36% -9.00% +5.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
Median hourly rate £21.39 - £14.52
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.28%
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £21.39 £24.20 £51.00
% change year-on-year -11.61% -52.55% +45.71%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Job postings citing Requirements Gathering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in Northampton

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Requirements Gathering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Requirements Gathering

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering in Northampton over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in Northampton

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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 2 (15.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) AWS
1 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) JIRA
General
1 8 (61.54%) Banking
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 7 (53.85%) Finance
3 3 (23.08%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Analyst
1 9 (69.23%) Business Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Payments Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Payments Business Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Programme Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Salesforce Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Salesforce Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Business Analysis Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Business Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Change Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Digital Product Owner
4 1 (7.69%) ITSM Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Payments Programme Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Product Owner
4 1 (7.69%) Project Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Scrum Master
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Change Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Delivery Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Agile
2 9 (69.23%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (38.46%) Business Analysis
3 5 (38.46%) Risk Management
3 5 (38.46%) Roadmaps
3 5 (38.46%) Scrum
4 4 (30.77%) Decision-Making
4 4 (30.77%) Project Delivery
4 4 (30.77%) User Stories
5 3 (23.08%) Backlog Management
5 3 (23.08%) Kanban
5 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) Project Management
5 3 (23.08%) User Experience
5 3 (23.08%) Waterfall
6 2 (15.38%) CRM
6 2 (15.38%) Sprint Planning
6 2 (15.38%) Sprint Retrospective
6 2 (15.38%) Sprint Review
6 2 (15.38%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) DocuSign
2 2 (15.38%) Salesforce
3 1 (7.69%) Remedy
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow