Requirements Gathering Contracts in the Thames Valley

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 107 85
Rank change year-on-year +19 -22 -12
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 14 38 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.93% 1.41% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.62% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 23 54
10th Percentile £361 £357 £425
25th Percentile £400 £394 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £525 £514
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +2.19% +14.17%
75th Percentile £478 £583 £578
90th Percentile £510 £685 £634
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £505
% change year-on-year -9.52% +3.96% +8.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £53.50
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +27.27% +3.77%
75th Percentile - - £56.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - £25.25 £59.75
% change year-on-year - -57.74% +25.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in the Thames Valley

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Requirements Gathering in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Requirements Gathering in the Thames Valley

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in the Thames Valley

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Requirements Gathering in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Gathering in the Thames Valley

Requirements Gathering
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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
Berkshire +19 11 £450 -15.09% 22
Oxfordshire - 2 £400 - 22
Buckinghamshire +2 1 £425 +6.25% 16
Requirements Gathering
South East

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (21.43%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.14%) CMS
2 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Power Platform
2 3 (21.43%) PowerApps
3 2 (14.29%) Azure
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (14.29%) Power Automate
4 1 (7.14%) AWS
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 1 (7.14%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Local Government
4 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Analyst
2 8 (57.14%) Business Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Data Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Data Business Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Power Apps Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Excel Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) HR Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) HR Business Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Power BI Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) SQL Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) SQL Data Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) SQL Reporting Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Workday Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Workday Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Learning Management System
2 1 (7.14%) Life Science
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) User Stories
2 5 (35.71%) Agile
3 3 (21.43%) Acceptance Criteria
3 3 (21.43%) BPMN
3 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (21.43%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (21.43%) Workshop Facilitation
4 2 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (14.29%) Analytics
4 2 (14.29%) Business Process Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) Change Management
4 2 (14.29%) Client Onboarding
4 2 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 2 (14.29%) Migration
4 2 (14.29%) Project Management
4 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Identification
4 2 (14.29%) User Experience
4 2 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
1 1 (7.14%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Capita
2 1 (7.14%) Salesforce
2 1 (7.14%) Workday