Requirements Gathering Contracts in Scotland

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 74 86 103
Rank change year-on-year +12 +17 -42
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 43 43 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.65% 1.94% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.83% 2.19% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 26 43
10th Percentile £371 £206 £363
25th Percentile £413 £281 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £481 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.90% +6.94% -
75th Percentile £550 £523 £500
90th Percentile £625 £564 £538
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £19.59 - -
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £58.18 £61.50
% change year-on-year -50.15% -5.40% +44.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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 1 May 2025.

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

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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 1 May 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
Glasgow +11 22 £484 -2.32% 6
Edinburgh +2 18 £446 +57.98% 10
Stirling - 1 £400 - 1
West Lothian - 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 7 (16.28%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (30.23%) MS Visio
2 5 (11.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (13.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (13.95%) AWS
2 3 (6.98%) Azure
3 2 (4.65%) IaaS
3 2 (4.65%) IBM Blueworks
3 2 (4.65%) OCI
3 2 (4.65%) PaaS
3 2 (4.65%) SaaS
4 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.33%) Datadog
4 1 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.33%) GitHub
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.33%) OneDrive
4 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.28%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle Exadata
2 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.33%) Data Mining
3 1 (2.33%) Power BI
3 1 (2.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (18.60%) JIRA
2 1 (2.33%) LoadRunner
2 1 (2.33%) Postman
General
1 16 (37.21%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (34.88%) Social Skills
3 13 (30.23%) Public Sector
4 6 (13.95%) Finance
5 5 (11.63%) Banking
6 3 (6.98%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (6.98%) Retail
7 2 (4.65%) Retail Banking
8 1 (2.33%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (81.40%) Analyst
2 31 (72.09%) Business Analyst
3 6 (13.95%) SAP Analyst
3 6 (13.95%) SAP Business Analyst
4 4 (9.30%) Senior
5 3 (6.98%) Data Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Database Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Finance Business Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Financial Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Senior Business Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Senior Database Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) Data Business Analyst
7 1 (2.33%) Payments Analyst
7 1 (2.33%) SAP PP Analyst
7 1 (2.33%) SAP PP Business Analyst
7 1 (2.33%) SAP WM Analyst
7 1 (2.33%) SAP WM Business Analyst
7 1 (2.33%) Senior Payments Business Analyst
7 1 (2.33%) Smart Metering Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.33%) Middleware
1 1 (2.33%) OpenAPI
1 1 (2.33%) REST
1 1 (2.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.65%) Clustering
1 2 (4.65%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (4.65%) Product Ownership
1 2 (4.65%) Replication
2 1 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (2.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.33%) Fixed Income
2 1 (2.33%) Reference Data
2 1 (2.33%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (2.33%) Smart Meter
2 1 (2.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.98%) Windows
2 2 (4.65%) AIX
2 2 (4.65%) Linux
2 2 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (4.65%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (41.86%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (37.21%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (25.58%) Business Analysis
4 8 (18.60%) Agile
4 8 (18.60%) Data Analysis
4 8 (18.60%) Translating Business Requirements
4 8 (18.60%) User Stories
5 6 (13.95%) Acceptance Criteria
5 6 (13.95%) Workshop Facilitation
6 5 (11.63%) CRM
6 5 (11.63%) ETL
7 4 (9.30%) Analytics
7 4 (9.30%) Decision-Making
7 4 (9.30%) Product Backlog
7 4 (9.30%) Project Management
7 4 (9.30%) Scrum
7 4 (9.30%) SDLC
8 3 (6.98%) Business Strategy
8 3 (6.98%) Migration
8 3 (6.98%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (16.28%) SQL
2 1 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (2.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (16.28%) Degree
2 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.95%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.98%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (6.98%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.65%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (4.65%) Data Guard
1 2 (4.65%) Failover Clustering
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Clustering
1 2 (4.65%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (4.65%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 6 (13.95%) SAP
2 5 (11.63%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.65%) Dell
3 2 (4.65%) Dynatrace
3 2 (4.65%) IBM
3 2 (4.65%) Oracle
3 2 (4.65%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.33%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.33%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (2.33%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.33%) Splunk