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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 125 108
Rank change year-on-year +1 -17 +3
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 46 57 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.30% 1.19% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 1.45% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 41 81
10th Percentile £365 £353 £413
25th Percentile £400 £375 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.33% -3.33% +6.49%
75th Percentile £525 £600 £600
90th Percentile £634 £675 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £46.90
25th Percentile - - £53.50
Median hourly rate - £67.02 £59.75
Median % change year-on-year - +12.17% +18.65%
75th Percentile - - £64.63
90th Percentile - - £69.05
England median hourly rate £27.50 £48.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year -43.59% -25.00% +3.17%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,153 3,926 4,964
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.32% 82.19% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,962 2,362 3,368
10th Percentile £238 £256 £250
25th Percentile £394 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £517 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.34% -0.53% +3.53%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 307 231
10th Percentile £13.71 £15.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £26.47 £21.24
Median hourly rate £23.00 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.90% +14.70% +80.31%
75th Percentile £53.63 £70.29 £64.81
90th Percentile £69.65 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +54.55%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Requirements Gathering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Requirements Gathering

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 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in the South East

Requirements Gathering
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Requirements Gathering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Requirements Gathering

Requirements Gathering
DemandTrendContract 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +21 35 £450 -10.00% 46
Berkshire +29 25 £475 -17.39% 39
Buckinghamshire +3 5 £450 +5.88% 5
Oxfordshire -7 5 £419 -16.25% 4
Surrey +6 3 £388 -26.19% 6
West Sussex -3 3 £625 +74.58% 2
Hampshire +5 2 £500 -1.48% 23
Kent -5 2 £675 - 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 (8.70%) Confluence
2 3 (6.52%) Camunda
3 1 (2.17%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (4.35%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (4.35%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (4.35%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (4.35%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (4.35%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (4.35%) Workday HCM
3 1 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (2.17%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (2.17%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (2.17%) SAP QM
3 1 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.87%) Azure
2 3 (6.52%) Power Platform
3 2 (4.35%) AWS
3 2 (4.35%) Slack
3 2 (4.35%) Snowflake
4 1 (2.17%) Azure API Management
4 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.17%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (2.17%) Azure Functions
4 1 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (2.17%) Azure Storage
4 1 (2.17%) Boomi
4 1 (2.17%) Figma
4 1 (2.17%) GCP
4 1 (2.17%) PaaS
4 1 (2.17%) SaaS
4 1 (2.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (2.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.52%) Power BI
1 3 (6.52%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.17%) Data Hub
2 1 (2.17%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.17%) Data Mart
2 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.17%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (10.87%) JIRA
2 1 (2.17%) Postman
2 1 (2.17%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 12 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (13.04%) Finance
3 6 (13.04%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.52%) Retail
5 2 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Local Government
5 2 (4.35%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.17%) Back Office
6 1 (2.17%) General Ledger
6 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.17%) Law
6 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.17%) Police
6 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (63.04%) Analyst
2 25 (54.35%) Business Analyst
3 5 (10.87%) Consultant
3 5 (10.87%) Senior
3 5 (10.87%) Senior Analyst
3 5 (10.87%) Senior Business Analyst
4 4 (8.70%) Architect
4 4 (8.70%) Data Analyst
4 4 (8.70%) Data Business Analyst
4 4 (8.70%) Technical Analyst
5 3 (6.52%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 3 (6.52%) Project Manager
5 3 (6.52%) Report Analyst
5 3 (6.52%) Security Analyst
5 3 (6.52%) Technical Business Analyst
5 3 (6.52%) Workday Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Functional Consultant
6 2 (4.35%) Oracle Financials Consultant
6 2 (4.35%) Oracle Financials Functional Consultant
6 2 (4.35%) Oracle Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.52%) .NET
1 3 (6.52%) AngularJS
1 3 (6.52%) React
1 3 (6.52%) REST
2 2 (4.35%) RESTful
3 1 (2.17%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.17%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.17%) OpenAPI
3 1 (2.17%) SOAP
3 1 (2.17%) Swagger
3 1 (2.17%) WSDL
3 1 (2.17%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.70%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (4.35%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.17%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.17%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (2.17%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.17%) Learning Management System
3 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.17%) Life Science
3 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (43.48%) Agile
2 11 (23.91%) User Stories
3 10 (21.74%) Business Analysis
3 10 (21.74%) Workshop Facilitation
4 9 (19.57%) Analytics
5 8 (17.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 7 (15.22%) BPMN
6 7 (15.22%) Data Analysis
6 7 (15.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (15.22%) User Acceptance Testing
7 6 (13.04%) Migration
7 6 (13.04%) Scrum
8 5 (10.87%) Waterfall
9 4 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (8.70%) Data Architecture
9 4 (8.70%) Data Migration
9 4 (8.70%) Data Protection
9 4 (8.70%) Decision-Making
9 4 (8.70%) Microservices
9 4 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.04%) SQL
2 2 (4.35%) C#
3 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (10.87%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.52%) Degree
3 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.17%) CISM
3 1 (2.17%) CISSP
3 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.17%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.17%) IIBA
3 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) QA
2 2 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.35%) GDPR
3 1 (2.17%) GRC
Vendors
1 6 (13.04%) Oracle
2 4 (8.70%) Salesforce
3 3 (6.52%) Workday
4 1 (2.17%) Capita
4 1 (2.17%) Dell
4 1 (2.17%) HubSpot
4 1 (2.17%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.17%) SAP
4 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.17%) TIBCO
4 1 (2.17%) webMethods