Requirements Gathering Contracts in the South West

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 132 107
Rank change year-on-year +49 -25 -13
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 27 21 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.60% 0.66% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 0.79% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 14 37
10th Percentile £308 £260 £228
25th Percentile £360 £336 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +8.57% -7.89%
75th Percentile £606 £694 £575
90th Percentile £725 £725 £596
England median daily rate £525 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -0.94% +0.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 15
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.26 - £57.25
Median hourly rate £27.13 £53.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.82% -13.82% +9.67%
75th Percentile £28.99 - £65.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £27.06 £58.18 £61.50
% change year-on-year -53.48% -5.40% +44.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,522 2,648 3,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.33% 82.98% 89.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 966 1,690 2,398
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 335 334
10th Percentile £18.36 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.61 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.50 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.37
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in the South West

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Requirements Gathering in the South West

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering in the South West over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in the South West

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Gathering in the South West

Requirements Gathering
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Bristol +29 12 £625 +95.31% 9
Wiltshire +38 8 £315 -55.00% 2
Gloucestershire +14 3 £500 -9.09% 14
Somerset +4 2 £500 +42.86% 1
Requirements Gathering
England

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (3.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) BASE24
1 1 (3.70%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (3.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
2 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (3.70%) AWS
2 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (3.70%) GitHub
2 1 (3.70%) Matillion
2 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) Oracle Database
1 2 (7.41%) Power BI
2 1 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.70%) MySQL
2 1 (3.70%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) JIRA
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (3.70%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.70%) Git
3 1 (3.70%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (3.70%) Selenium
General
1 11 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 6 (22.22%) Finance
3 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (14.81%) Retail
5 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 2 (7.41%) Local Government
6 2 (7.41%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.70%) Banking
7 1 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Analyst
2 6 (22.22%) Business Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) Windows Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Build Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Windows Build Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Consultant
5 2 (7.41%) Data Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Database Consultant
5 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Migration Consultant
5 2 (7.41%) Oracle Consultant
5 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Senior
6 1 (3.70%) C++ Software Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Data Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) Middleware
1 2 (7.41%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (3.70%) EMV
1 1 (3.70%) Mainframe
1 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
1 1 (3.70%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.93%) Windows
2 5 (18.52%) Linux
3 2 (7.41%) AIX
3 2 (7.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.93%) Agile
2 6 (22.22%) Migration
2 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (18.52%) User Stories
4 4 (14.81%) Application Packaging
4 4 (14.81%) Data Modelling
4 4 (14.81%) Epics
4 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (14.81%) Validation
4 4 (14.81%) Waterfall
5 3 (11.11%) Business Analysis
5 3 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (11.11%) Privileged Access Management
5 3 (11.11%) Process Improvement
5 3 (11.11%) Use Case
6 2 (7.41%) Analytics
6 2 (7.41%) Data Integration
6 2 (7.41%) Database Security
6 2 (7.41%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.81%) SQL
2 3 (11.11%) Python
3 2 (7.41%) C++
3 2 (7.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (3.70%) C
4 1 (3.70%) COBOL
4 1 (3.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (22.22%) DV Cleared
3 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
4 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (7.41%) Degree
5 1 (3.70%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (3.70%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.70%) ISO 8583
1 1 (3.70%) JSP 440
1 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
1 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) Oracle
2 3 (11.11%) VMware
3 1 (3.70%) HP
3 1 (3.70%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (3.70%) Liquidlogic
3 1 (3.70%) SAP