Requirements Gathering Contracts in the South East

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Requirements Gathering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Requirements Gathering over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 115 90
Rank change year-on-year -7 -25 0
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 80 98 213
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.45% 1.72% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 1.93% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 70 163
10th Percentile £320 £401 £363
25th Percentile £390 £433 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £463
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% +11.08% +2.78%
75th Percentile £585 £584 £555
90th Percentile £690 £636 £638
England median daily rate £530 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile - £54.05 £42.43
25th Percentile £23.63 £54.88 £44.19
Median hourly rate £25.25 £59.75 £47.75
Median % change year-on-year -57.74% +25.13% -12.94%
75th Percentile £26.88 £67.50 £50.69
90th Percentile - - £52.08
England median hourly rate £50.25 £61.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -18.29% +44.71% +102.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Requirements Gathering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,650 5,085 6,887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.33% 89.37% 89.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,713 3,536 4,653
10th Percentile £250 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £402 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 433 222 283
10th Percentile £13.00 £17.05 £12.26
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £15.56
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +130.23% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.59 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.98 £61.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

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 8 May 2024.

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 8 May 2024. 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 -19 35 £528 +2.43% 15
Berkshire -24 21 £537 +4.27% 5
Surrey +27 18 £450 +25.87% 1
Hampshire -8 15 £544 -0.18% 11
Buckinghamshire +14 14 £400 -23.81% 3
West Sussex +8 4 £358 -10.50% 3
East Sussex +8 3 - - 1
Kent +7 1 £450 +7.14% 4
M4 Corridor - 1 £598 -
Home Counties - 1 - -
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 5 (6.25%) CICS
2 4 (5.00%) Confluence
2 4 (5.00%) SAS
3 2 (2.50%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.25%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.75%) AutoCAD
1 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (3.75%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (5.00%) Infor SunSystems
2 2 (2.50%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.25%) Sage X3
3 1 (1.25%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (1.25%) SAP PM
3 1 (1.25%) SAP PS
3 1 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (11.25%) AWS
2 7 (8.75%) Azure
3 4 (5.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.75%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (3.75%) SaaS
5 2 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.50%) PaaS
5 2 (2.50%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.25%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (1.25%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (1.25%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.25%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.25%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.25%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) Taleo
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.25%) VPN
2 4 (5.00%) LAN
2 4 (5.00%) WAN
3 3 (3.75%) Junos
3 3 (3.75%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (2.50%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (2.50%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (2.50%) SAN
5 1 (1.25%) ATM
5 1 (1.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.25%) DB2
2 4 (5.00%) IDMS
3 3 (3.75%) Power BI
4 2 (2.50%) Big Data
4 2 (2.50%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.50%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.25%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.25%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.25%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.25%) Impala
5 1 (1.25%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.25%) Sqoop
5 1 (1.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (8.75%) JIRA
2 4 (5.00%) Git
General
1 28 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 20 (25.00%) Finance
3 13 (16.25%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.00%) Retail
5 5 (6.25%) Banking
5 5 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.00%) Automotive
6 4 (5.00%) Marketing
7 3 (3.75%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (2.50%) Back Office
8 2 (2.50%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.50%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.25%) French Language
9 1 (1.25%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Law
9 1 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 37 (46.25%) Analyst
2 24 (30.00%) Business Analyst
3 10 (12.50%) Architect
4 8 (10.00%) Product Analyst
5 6 (7.50%) Consultant
5 6 (7.50%) Project Manager
6 5 (6.25%) Developer
6 5 (6.25%) Security Analyst
6 5 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (6.25%) Test Manager
7 4 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 4 (5.00%) IBM Mainframe Developer
7 4 (5.00%) Mainframe Developer
7 4 (5.00%) Systems Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Network Architect
9 2 (2.50%) Cisco Architect
9 2 (2.50%) Cisco Network Architect
9 2 (2.50%) E-Commerce Manager
9 2 (2.50%) Product Owner
9 2 (2.50%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.75%) Web Services
2 2 (2.50%) HTML
3 1 (1.25%) .NET
3 1 (1.25%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.25%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.25%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (1.25%) Entity Framework
3 1 (1.25%) HTML5
3 1 (1.25%) JSON
3 1 (1.25%) Kafka
3 1 (1.25%) PySpark
3 1 (1.25%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (1.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.75%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.00%) IBM Mainframe
3 4 (5.00%) Mainframe
4 3 (3.75%) Life Science
5 2 (2.50%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.50%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.50%) NHS
6 1 (1.25%) Biopharmaceutical
6 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) PMI
6 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.25%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.25%) Windows
2 4 (5.00%) zOS
3 3 (3.75%) Linux
4 2 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (30.00%) Business Analysis
2 23 (28.75%) Agile
3 21 (26.25%) Project Management
4 15 (18.75%) Scrum
4 15 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 14 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (17.50%) User Stories
6 11 (13.75%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (13.75%) Roadmaps
7 10 (12.50%) Business Case
7 10 (12.50%) Project Delivery
7 10 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
8 8 (10.00%) Computer Science
8 8 (10.00%) DevOps
8 8 (10.00%) SDLC
9 7 (8.75%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (8.75%) Kanban
9 7 (8.75%) Test Strategy
9 7 (8.75%) Time Management
9 7 (8.75%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 9 (11.25%) SQL
2 5 (6.25%) COBOL
3 4 (5.00%) CLIST
3 4 (5.00%) REXX
4 3 (3.75%) SELCOPY
5 2 (2.50%) Java
5 2 (2.50%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.50%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.50%) Python
6 1 (1.25%) JCL
6 1 (1.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (25.00%) Degree
2 12 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 8 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 6 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (6.25%) CCNA
5 5 (6.25%) CCNP
5 5 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (5.00%) ACCA
6 4 (5.00%) CIMA
6 4 (5.00%) Master's Degree
7 3 (3.75%) ISTQB
7 3 (3.75%) JNCIA
8 2 (2.50%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.50%) JNCIS
8 2 (2.50%) PhD
9 1 (1.25%) CBAP
9 1 (1.25%) CSPO
9 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.25%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.25%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.00%) QA
2 3 (3.75%) HL7
3 2 (2.50%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.50%) GDPR
3 2 (2.50%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.50%) PMO
4 1 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.25%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.25%) HDFS
Vendors
1 7 (8.75%) SAP
2 5 (6.25%) Cisco
2 5 (6.25%) Juniper
2 5 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.00%) IBM
3 4 (5.00%) Oracle
3 4 (5.00%) Salesforce
3 4 (5.00%) Sun
3 4 (5.00%) Syncsort
4 2 (2.50%) F5
4 2 (2.50%) Informatica
4 2 (2.50%) JDA
4 2 (2.50%) VMware
5 1 (1.25%) Adobe
5 1 (1.25%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.25%) Sage