Requirements Gathering Contracts in Northamptonshire

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 10 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 31 21
Rank change year-on-year -7 -10 0
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 12 6 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 3.97% 2.26% 4.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.17% 2.55% 5.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 10
10th Percentile £308 £386 £409
25th Percentile £315 £393 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £348 £400 £453
Median % change year-on-year -13.06% -11.60% -9.50%
75th Percentile £369 £410 £458
90th Percentile £441 £482 £504
East Midlands median daily rate £358 £403 £450
% change year-on-year -11.06% -10.56% -10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 288 235 184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 95.36% 88.68% 91.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 182 133
10th Percentile £268 £353 £213
25th Percentile £341 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £445 £455
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% -2.29% -2.06%
75th Percentile £447 £550 £565
90th Percentile £525 £619 £606
East Midlands median daily rate £410 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -8.89% -5.26% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 15
10th Percentile £17.57 £25.41 £12.91
25th Percentile - £28.88 £33.40
Median hourly rate £21.39 £36.34 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.14% -28.75% +45.71%
75th Percentile - £44.36 £51.50
90th Percentile £38.20 £48.17 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £20.75 £35.03
% change year-on-year -9.06% -40.77% +62.93%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in Northamptonshire

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Requirements Gathering in Northamptonshire.

Daily rate trend for Requirements Gathering in Northamptonshire

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 10 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in Northamptonshire

Requirements Gathering
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 10 August 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
Northampton -8 11 £358 -10.50% 3
Requirements Gathering
East Midlands

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) SaaS
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
General
1 8 (66.67%) Banking
2 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
3 6 (50.00%) Finance
4 3 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Analyst
1 6 (50.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Payments Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Payments Business Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Digital Product Owner
3 2 (16.67%) Product Owner
3 2 (16.67%) Programme Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Business Analysis Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Business Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Change Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Payments Programme Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Scrum Master
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Change Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Delivery Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Agile
2 7 (58.33%) Scrum
2 7 (58.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (50.00%) Roadmaps
4 4 (33.33%) Business Analysis
4 4 (33.33%) Project Delivery
5 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (25.00%) Kanban
5 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (25.00%) Project Management
5 3 (25.00%) Risk Management
5 3 (25.00%) User Stories
5 3 (25.00%) Waterfall
6 2 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (16.67%) DevOps
6 2 (16.67%) Fintech
6 2 (16.67%) Iteration Planning
6 2 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
6 2 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
6 2 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft