Requirements Gathering Contracts in Oxfordshire

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 7 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 21 28
Rank change year-on-year -6 +7 +8
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 5 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 3.16% 1.06% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.50% 1.41% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £402 - £470
25th Percentile £405 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year -16.25% -20.00% +35.14%
75th Percentile £442 - £638
90th Percentile £451 - £645
South East median daily rate £438 £508 £525
% change year-on-year -13.79% -3.33% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 143 142 210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 90.51% 75.13% 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 99 140
10th Percentile £182 £179 £200
25th Percentile £250 £263 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.39% - -
75th Percentile £541 £500 £625
90th Percentile £681 £608 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £520 £518
% change year-on-year -3.75% +0.21% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 18
10th Percentile £18.29 £11.50 £25.00
25th Percentile £24.08 £12.08 £25.95
Median hourly rate £25.90 £25.99 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year -0.35% -19.54% +61.50%
75th Percentile £54.10 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £65.00 £51.13
South East median hourly rate £21.43 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -62.63% +14.70% +108.94%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in Oxfordshire

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Requirements Gathering in Oxfordshire

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Requirements Gathering in Oxfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Gathering in Oxfordshire

Requirements Gathering
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 7 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
Oxford -5 2 £400 -20.00% 1
Thame - 1 £438 - 1
Requirements Gathering
South East

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (20.00%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Business Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Functional Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Financials Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Financials Functional Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Functional Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Analytics
1 2 (40.00%) Business Process Analysis
1 2 (40.00%) Cash Management
1 2 (40.00%) Data Architecture
1 2 (40.00%) Functional Testing
1 2 (40.00%) Scrum
1 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
1 2 (40.00%) User Stories
2 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (20.00%) Data Development
2 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (20.00%) Order to Cash
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Reverse Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle