Requirements Gathering Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Requirements Gathering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 26 -
Rank change year-on-year -21 - -
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 15 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 3.98% 0.89% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.66% 1.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 0
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £360 -
Median % change year-on-year +34.72% - -
75th Percentile £492 - -
90th Percentile £500 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £531 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.19% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 322 100 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 85.41% 89.29% 63.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 66 26
10th Percentile £400 £263 £278
25th Percentile £453 £362 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £477 £405
Median % change year-on-year +6.08% +17.78% -24.72%
75th Percentile £538 £530 £500
90th Percentile £552 £567 £536
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £523 £500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 1
10th Percentile £23.20 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £12.18 £14.87
Median % change year-on-year +106.49% -18.09% -13.10%
75th Percentile - £17.89 -
90th Percentile £32.58 £21.32 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.50 £21.59 £28.25
% change year-on-year -5.05% -23.58% +63.13%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Requirements Gathering job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

Requirements Gathering
Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

Requirements Gathering
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 10 January 2026. 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
Telford -22 15 £485 +34.72% 11
Requirements Gathering
West Midlands

Requirements Gathering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 10 (66.67%) Confluence
2 8 (53.33%) SAS
3 3 (20.00%) Anypoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) HTTPS
Development Applications
1 10 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 12 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
1 12 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (80.00%) Analyst
1 12 (80.00%) Business Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Migration Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) SAS Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) SAS Business Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Pega Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Lead Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Agile
1 11 (73.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 10 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 8 (53.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 8 (53.33%) Analytics
3 8 (53.33%) Business Analysis
3 8 (53.33%) Data Governance
3 8 (53.33%) DevOps
3 8 (53.33%) User Stories
4 6 (40.00%) Impact Assessments
4 6 (40.00%) Migration
4 6 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 6 (40.00%) Workshop Facilitation
5 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (20.00%) Data Privacy
5 3 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
5 3 (20.00%) User Experience
6 2 (13.33%) Scenario Testing
7 1 (6.67%) Analytical Thinking
7 1 (6.67%) Impact Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) COBOL
1 1 (6.67%) Java
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) IIBA
2 6 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Axway
1 3 (20.00%) IBM
1 3 (20.00%) IBM Sterling
1 3 (20.00%) MuleSoft
1 3 (20.00%) Pega
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle