Requirements Gathering Contract Job Trends in Reading

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Requirements Gathering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 78 71
Rank change year-on-year +22 -7 -7
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 14 7 19
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.93% 0.78% 1.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 0.85% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 12
10th Percentile £412 £431 -
25th Percentile £433 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £523 £537
Median % change year-on-year +10.05% -2.70% +10.38%
75th Percentile £630 £545 £595
90th Percentile £688 £591 £782
Berkshire median daily rate £531 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -2.52% -0.91% +22.22%

All Process & 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 637 828 911
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 87.98% 92.31% 92.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 452 594
10th Percentile £325 £300 £213
25th Percentile £416 £431 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.94% +8.62% -
75th Percentile £620 £650 £615
90th Percentile £664 £685 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 8 17
10th Percentile £14.60 £28.18 £56.41
25th Percentile £58.00 £39.13 £60.82
Median hourly rate £81.00 £59.63 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year +35.84% -5.78% -9.91%
75th Percentile £95.00 £67.26 £66.00
90th Percentile £105.80 £75.56 £67.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.00 £61.50 £61.00
% change year-on-year -5.68% +0.81% -6.15%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Requirements Gathering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Requirements Gathering job vacancy trend in Reading

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering in Reading over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in Reading

Requirements Gathering
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Requirements Gathering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Requirements Gathering

Requirements Gathering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) Smallworld
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Workday HCM
2 1 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (7.14%) SAP QM
2 1 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (7.14%) Lucidchart
1 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Data Mart
1 1 (7.14%) GIS
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Finance
3 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Billing
5 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
5 1 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 1 (7.14%) Retail
5 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Analyst
2 5 (35.71%) Business Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Senior
4 2 (14.29%) Consultant
4 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Lead
4 2 (14.29%) Operations Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Operations Business Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Report Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Security Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Business Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Operations Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Workday Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) CRM Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Oracle Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) SAP QM Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Security Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (7.14%) HTML
2 1 (7.14%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Operational Technology
2 1 (7.14%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (28.57%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) Analytics
3 3 (21.43%) Change Management
3 3 (21.43%) Dashboard Development
3 3 (21.43%) Data Analysis
3 3 (21.43%) Decision-Making
3 3 (21.43%) SDLC
3 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (21.43%) Workshop Facilitation
4 2 (14.29%) Benchmarking
4 2 (14.29%) Business Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) Business Strategy
4 2 (14.29%) GAP Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Scorecard
4 2 (14.29%) Scrum
4 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Identification
4 2 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
1 1 (7.14%) Magik
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) PMO
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle
1 2 (14.29%) Workday
2 1 (7.14%) HubSpot
2 1 (7.14%) Salesforce
2 1 (7.14%) SAP