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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 78 103
Rank change year-on-year +3 +25 -31
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 43 42 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.62% 1.98% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.80% 2.25% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 27 40
10th Percentile £318 £237 £363
25th Percentile £413 £282 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -5.26% +9.70%
75th Percentile £541 £515 £500
90th Percentile £625 £561 £551
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £19.59 - -
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £50.25 £61.50
% change year-on-year -42.29% -18.29% +16.04%

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 1,538 1,870 2,508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.72% 88.00% 92.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 882 1,150 1,773
10th Percentile £263 £220 £260
25th Percentile £375 £369 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +0.95%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £600 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 92 55
10th Percentile £15.95 £12.30 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.18 £15.92 £11.25
Median hourly rate £19.90 £19.50 £15.99
Median % change year-on-year +2.05% +21.95% -57.28%
75th Percentile £24.66 £42.71 £50.74
90th Percentile £50.06 £60.75 £67.13
UK median hourly rate £27.64 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -24.27% +1.39% +40.19%

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 21 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

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 21 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 +1 22 £475 -1.55% 13
Edinburgh +8 18 £455 +61.35% 8
Stirling - 1 £400 -
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
2 1 (2.33%) Apache
2 1 (2.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (23.26%) MS Visio
2 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (6.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
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%) Microsoft 365
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%) 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 13 (30.23%) Public Sector
3 12 (27.91%) Social Skills
4 7 (16.28%) Finance
5 5 (11.63%) Banking
6 2 (4.65%) Retail
6 2 (4.65%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.33%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (74.42%) Analyst
2 28 (65.12%) Business Analyst
3 7 (16.28%) Senior
4 6 (13.95%) SAP Analyst
4 6 (13.95%) SAP Business Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) Data Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Database Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Developer
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
6 2 (4.65%) Senior User Researcher
6 2 (4.65%) User Researcher
7 1 (2.33%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
7 1 (2.33%) Dynamics 365 Business Analyst
7 1 (2.33%) Payments Analyst
7 1 (2.33%) SAP PP Analyst
7 1 (2.33%) Senior Payments Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.65%) REST
2 1 (2.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.33%) Middleware
2 1 (2.33%) OpenAPI
2 1 (2.33%) RESTful
2 1 (2.33%) Spring
2 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%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
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 16 (37.21%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (30.23%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (25.58%) Agile
4 10 (23.26%) Business Analysis
5 8 (18.60%) Data Analysis
6 7 (16.28%) Project Management
7 6 (13.95%) Analytics
8 5 (11.63%) CRM
8 5 (11.63%) ETL
8 5 (11.63%) SDLC
8 5 (11.63%) Service Design
8 5 (11.63%) Translating Business Requirements
8 5 (11.63%) User Research
8 5 (11.63%) User Stories
9 4 (9.30%) Decision-Making
9 4 (9.30%) User Experience
10 3 (6.98%) Acceptance Criteria
10 3 (6.98%) Coaching
10 3 (6.98%) Continuous Improvement
10 3 (6.98%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 8 (18.60%) SQL
2 1 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (2.33%) Java
2 1 (2.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (20.93%) Degree
2 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 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
3 2 (4.65%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.33%) GDPR
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%) Microsoft
1 6 (13.95%) SAP
2 2 (4.65%) Dell
2 2 (4.65%) Dynatrace
2 2 (4.65%) IBM
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle
2 2 (4.65%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.33%) Alteryx
3 1 (2.33%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (2.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.33%) Splunk