Requirements Gathering Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Requirements Gathering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 28 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.37% 1.46% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 1.67% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.00% - -
South West median daily rate £500 £531 £475
% change year-on-year -5.88% +11.84% -5.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 188 120 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 69.37% 87.59% 81.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 77 99
10th Percentile £220 £215 £155
25th Percentile £263 £363 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £588
90th Percentile £600 £719 £625
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £533
% change year-on-year - -1.41% -3.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 1 31
10th Percentile £40.37 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 £12.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £13.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +342.31% -67.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £13.50 £48.00
90th Percentile - - £55.94
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year -11.54% +33.42% -20.78%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Requirements Gathering job vacancy trend in Somerset

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

Requirements Gathering
Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

Requirements Gathering
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 26 February 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
Bridgwater - 1 £370 -
Requirements Gathering
South West

Requirements Gathering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Power Query
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks