Requirements Gathering Contracts in Reading

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 79 62
Rank change year-on-year +23 -17 -1
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 4 12 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.67% 1.01% 2.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 1.12% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 20
10th Percentile £374 £445 £450
25th Percentile £409 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £530 £515
Median % change year-on-year -8.02% +2.91% +28.74%
75th Percentile £526 £573 £560
90th Percentile £537 £668 £638
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £530 £511
% change year-on-year -15.09% +3.67% +27.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £53.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £56.50
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate - - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +3.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in Reading

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Requirements Gathering in Reading

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Gathering in Reading

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (25.00%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Security Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Learning Management System
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) User Stories
2 2 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (25.00%) BPMN
3 1 (25.00%) CRM
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Journey Map
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Data Flow Diagram
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Journey Map
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Management
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow Analysis
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) IIBA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce