Requirements Gathering Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Requirements Gathering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 14 16
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 +12
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 5 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 2.87% 1.75% 3.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.14% 2.27% 4.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £215
Median % change year-on-year - - -59.05%
75th Percentile £475 - £270
90th Percentile - - £356
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £450 £425
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -10.53%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 159 44 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 91.38% 77.19% 76.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 19 51
10th Percentile £178 £139 £130
25th Percentile £240 £145 £229
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £350 £374
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -6.42% -25.20%
75th Percentile £595 £494 £475
90th Percentile £850 £618 £594
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £519
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.66% +3.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 6
10th Percentile £13.10 £24.43 £15.13
25th Percentile £17.74 £29.00 £19.83
Median hourly rate £19.41 £30.00 £33.93
Median % change year-on-year -35.30% -11.58% +23.38%
75th Percentile £21.08 £31.00 £34.73
90th Percentile £21.36 £34.68 £41.88
West Midlands median hourly rate £29.91 £24.34 £22.05
% change year-on-year +22.88% +10.41% -19.84%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Requirements Gathering job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

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

Requirements Gathering
Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

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

Requirements Gathering
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 12 September 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
Stoke-on-Trent - 1 £450 - 1
Requirements Gathering
West Midlands

Requirements Gathering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) OCI
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Change Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Change Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Help Desk Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) HR Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle HRMS Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Payroll Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (60.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (40.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
4 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (20.00%) Logistics
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Requirements Workshops
4 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft