Requirements Gathering Contracts in Scotland

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Requirements Gathering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Requirements Gathering over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 102 69
Rank change year-on-year +11 -33 +5
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 44 60 126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.97% 2.10% 3.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 2.26% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 42 102
10th Percentile £206 £363 £389
25th Percentile £281 £403 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.94% - +8.76%
75th Percentile £523 £500 £492
90th Percentile £564 £538 £548
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Requirements Gathering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,980 2,651 3,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.55% 92.63% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,210 1,904 2,315
10th Percentile £238 £263 £242
25th Percentile £400 £406 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 56 50
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £14.99
25th Percentile £16.00 £12.04 £17.58
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -43.75% -27.59%
75th Percentile £40.94 £53.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.03 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Requirements Gathering in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering in Scotland over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in Scotland

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Gathering in Scotland

Requirements Gathering
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
Edinburgh +24 22 £282 -37.33% 7
Glasgow +8 14 £495 +14.32% 11
Lanarkshire +4 3 £488 - 1
Perthshire +7 2 £450 -10.00%
Aberdeen - 1 - -
Requirements Gathering
UK

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (6.82%) Confluence
2 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.82%) MS Visio
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (15.91%) Azure
2 6 (13.64%) AWS
3 4 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.27%) Figma
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.27%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (2.27%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (20.45%) JIRA
General
1 16 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.73%) Finance
3 7 (15.91%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Banking
5 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 27 (61.36%) Analyst
2 20 (45.45%) Business Analyst
3 7 (15.91%) Consultant
3 7 (15.91%) Management Consultant
3 7 (15.91%) Service Management Consultant
4 5 (11.36%) Systems Analyst
4 5 (11.36%) Technical Analyst
5 4 (9.09%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.55%) Data Business Analyst
6 2 (4.55%) Digital Analyst
6 2 (4.55%) Digital Business Analyst
6 2 (4.55%) Implementation Consultant
6 2 (4.55%) Junior
6 2 (4.55%) Junior Analyst
6 2 (4.55%) Lead
6 2 (4.55%) Service Implementation Consultant
7 1 (2.27%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
7 1 (2.27%) IT Analyst
7 1 (2.27%) Power BI Developer
7 1 (2.27%) UX Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.27%) OpenAPI
1 1 (2.27%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.82%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (6.82%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.27%) NHS
3 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (2.27%) Taxonomies
3 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (70.45%) Agile
2 11 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 9 (20.45%) Process Management
3 9 (20.45%) Project Delivery
3 9 (20.45%) User Stories
4 8 (18.18%) Service Management
5 7 (15.91%) Coaching
5 7 (15.91%) Project Management
5 7 (15.91%) Service Delivery
6 6 (13.64%) Change Management
6 6 (13.64%) ITIL
6 6 (13.64%) ITSM
6 6 (13.64%) Workshop Facilitation
7 5 (11.36%) CRM
7 5 (11.36%) DevOps
7 5 (11.36%) Scrum
7 5 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (11.36%) Systems Analysis
8 4 (9.09%) Business Transformation
8 4 (9.09%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.36%) SQL
2 4 (9.09%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.27%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.18%) QA
1 8 (18.18%) SLA
2 5 (11.36%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.27%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (2.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (18.18%) ServiceNow
2 4 (9.09%) Avaloq
3 3 (6.82%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.27%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.27%) Salesforce