Requirements Gathering Contracts in the South East

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 125 125
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 -32
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 28 81 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.93% 1.46% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.72% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 53 76
10th Percentile £353 £320 £400
25th Percentile £383 £406 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £505
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +3.96% +8.60%
75th Percentile £544 £585 £580
90th Percentile £688 £700 £620
England median daily rate £525 £533 £525
% change year-on-year -1.50% +1.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 5
10th Percentile - - £54.05
25th Percentile - £23.63 £54.88
Median hourly rate - £25.25 £59.75
Median % change year-on-year - -57.74% +25.13%
75th Percentile - £37.66 £67.50
90th Percentile - £57.06 -
England median hourly rate £27.06 £53.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -48.94% -13.82% +44.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,748 4,707 5,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.63% 84.80% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,752 2,740 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -1.48% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 432 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £16.34 £18.20 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.72%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.83 £37.50
% change year-on-year -16.27% -4.45% +53.20%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Requirements Gathering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in the South East

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Requirements Gathering in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Requirements Gathering in the South East

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering in the South East over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in the South East

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Requirements Gathering in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Gathering in the South East

Requirements Gathering
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Thames Valley +13 14 £438 -16.67% 28
Berkshire +15 11 £450 -15.09% 12
Hampshire +22 8 £588 +8.00% 24
Surrey +5 5 £365 -18.89% 6
Oxfordshire - 2 £400 - 15
West Sussex +10 1 £190 -46.93% 3
Buckinghamshire +1 1 £425 +6.25% 6
Requirements Gathering
England

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.14%) Confluence
3 1 (3.57%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 5 (17.86%) Azure
3 3 (10.71%) PowerApps
4 2 (7.14%) Adobe Analytics
4 2 (7.14%) AWS
4 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (7.14%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.57%) SaaS
5 1 (3.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (3.57%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) Firewall
1 1 (3.57%) Intranet
1 1 (3.57%) VPN
1 1 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) Power BI
2 2 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle Database
2 2 (7.14%) Qlik Sense
2 2 (7.14%) Tableau
3 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 10 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Retail
4 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.14%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.57%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.57%) Back Office
5 1 (3.57%) Finance
5 1 (3.57%) Local Government
5 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (67.86%) Analyst
2 15 (53.57%) Business Analyst
3 6 (21.43%) Data Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) Architect
5 3 (10.71%) Business IT Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Consultant
5 3 (10.71%) Data Business Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Developer
5 3 (10.71%) IT Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) IT Business Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) IFS Consultant
6 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Power Apps Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Retail Business Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) SQL Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) SQL Data Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) Technical Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Technical Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.57%) Learning Management System
2 1 (3.57%) Life Science
2 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.57%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (3.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Windows
2 2 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 7 (25.00%) Agile
2 7 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 6 (21.43%) Business Analysis
3 6 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (21.43%) Migration
3 6 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (21.43%) User Stories
4 5 (17.86%) Analytics
4 5 (17.86%) Data Migration
4 5 (17.86%) Validation
5 4 (14.29%) Change Management
5 4 (14.29%) Data Analysis
5 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
6 3 (10.71%) Acceptance Criteria
6 3 (10.71%) BPMN
6 3 (10.71%) DevOps
6 3 (10.71%) ERP
6 3 (10.71%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 8 (28.57%) SQL
2 2 (7.14%) PL/SQL
3 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.29%) Degree
2 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) QA
2 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 4 (14.29%) Oracle
2 2 (7.14%) Adobe
2 2 (7.14%) IFS
2 2 (7.14%) VMware
3 1 (3.57%) Capita
3 1 (3.57%) Cisco
3 1 (3.57%) Databricks
3 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.57%) Workday