Requirements Gathering Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 - 28
Rank change year-on-year - - +30
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 1.36% - 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% - 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £374 - -
25th Percentile £383 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.71%
75th Percentile £458 - -
90th Percentile £468 - -
North East median daily rate £438 - £550
% change year-on-year - - +23.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 181 150 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 81.90% 90.36% 86.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 84 121
10th Percentile £200 £331 £350
25th Percentile £413 £381 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £617
90th Percentile £625 £650 £720
North East median daily rate £480 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +6.67% -5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 6
10th Percentile £13.37 £16.18 £17.50
25th Percentile £14.13 £18.06 £18.19
Median hourly rate £17.30 £21.50 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -19.53% +8.86% +19.70%
75th Percentile £20.63 £65.00 £29.06
90th Percentile £36.00 £70.00 £32.88
North East median hourly rate £17.30 £46.18 £26.00
% change year-on-year -62.54% +77.62% +55.22%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Requirements Gathering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in Tyne and Wear

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Requirements Gathering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Requirements Gathering

Requirements Gathering
Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Requirements Gathering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Requirements Gathering

Requirements Gathering
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 20 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 3 £419 - 6
Requirements Gathering
North East

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (33.33%) Miro
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Postman
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
1 1 (33.33%) OpenAPI
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) Swagger
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
1 2 (66.67%) UML
2 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
2 1 (33.33%) Business Process Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Conflict Resolution
2 1 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (33.33%) Design Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Epics
2 1 (33.33%) Fintech
2 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Workshops
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Review
2 1 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft