Requirements Gathering Contracts in the UK excluding London

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 131 126
Rank change year-on-year -17 -5 -39
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 221 343 456
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.71% 1.69% 1.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 2.01% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 238 331
10th Percentile £334 £313 £363
25th Percentile £400 £361 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year - -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £552 £568 £560
90th Percentile £625 £650 £606
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 22
10th Percentile £21.07 - £53.64
25th Percentile £23.30 £23.63 £55.75
Median hourly rate £27.00 £36.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -41.46% +44.71%
75th Percentile £28.25 £58.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £29.00 £75.00 £67.33
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £50.25 £61.50
% change year-on-year -42.29% -18.29% +16.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,714 17,075 20,684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.67% 84.25% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,292 10,208 14,243
10th Percentile £234 £250 £258
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £651 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 858 2,062 1,260
10th Percentile £14.10 £12.34 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.08 £15.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.71
UK median hourly rate £27.64 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -24.27% +1.39% +40.19%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Requirements Gathering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in the UK excluding London

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Requirements Gathering in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Requirements Gathering in the UK excluding London

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in the UK excluding London

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Requirements Gathering in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Gathering in the UK excluding London

Requirements Gathering
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 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
North of England -18 72 £475 -3.06% 193
North West -14 48 £483 +1.58% 137
Scotland +3 43 £466 +3.45% 33
Midlands -22 30 £500 +32.80% 105
West Midlands -25 25 £500 +39.28% 74
South West +40 24 £500 +11.11% 60
South East -12 24 £450 -14.29% 206
East of England +25 18 £500 +19.40% 57
Yorkshire -11 15 £463 -5.61% 37
North East - 9 £350 - 19
East Midlands +11 5 £444 +4.47% 26
Northern Ireland -2 4 - - 11
Channel Islands - 3 £463 - 17
Wales - 3 £351 - 16
Requirements Gathering
UK

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 22 (9.95%) Confluence
2 6 (2.71%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.26%) ArcGIS
4 3 (1.36%) CMS
5 2 (0.90%) Apache
5 2 (0.90%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.90%) EPiServer
5 2 (0.90%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.90%) WordPress
6 1 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.45%) JBoss
6 1 (0.45%) MS Project Server
6 1 (0.45%) nginx
6 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.45%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.45%) WebLogic Portal
6 1 (0.45%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.45%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 19 (8.60%) MS Visio
2 15 (6.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (3.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.90%) InVision
5 2 (0.90%) UserZoom
6 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.36%) PeopleSoft Financials
2 3 (1.36%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 2 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.90%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.90%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.90%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.90%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.90%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.90%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.45%) BASE24
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.45%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.45%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.45%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 20 (9.05%) Power Platform
2 16 (7.24%) Azure
3 12 (5.43%) AWS
4 6 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (2.26%) Entra ID
5 5 (2.26%) PowerApps
6 4 (1.81%) OCI
6 4 (1.81%) Power Automate
7 3 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (1.36%) GitHub
7 3 (1.36%) SaaS
8 2 (0.90%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (0.90%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (0.90%) Canva
8 2 (0.90%) IaaS
8 2 (0.90%) IBM Blueworks
8 2 (0.90%) Lucidchart
8 2 (0.90%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.36%) HTTP
1 3 (1.36%) Intranet
2 1 (0.45%) ATM
2 1 (0.45%) Internet
2 1 (0.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.69%) Power BI
2 14 (6.33%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (3.62%) Tableau
4 5 (2.26%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.81%) MySQL
5 4 (1.81%) Siebel EIM
6 3 (1.36%) GIS
6 3 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.36%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.36%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.36%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.90%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.90%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.90%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.90%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (0.90%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 31 (14.03%) JIRA
2 3 (1.36%) Git
3 2 (0.90%) Axure RP
4 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.45%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.45%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.45%) MagicDraw
4 1 (0.45%) Postman
4 1 (0.45%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.45%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (0.45%) Selenium
General
1 81 (36.65%) Social Skills
2 50 (22.62%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (19.91%) Finance
4 28 (12.67%) Public Sector
5 19 (8.60%) Banking
6 11 (4.98%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (4.52%) Retail
8 6 (2.71%) Local Government
9 5 (2.26%) Law
9 5 (2.26%) Marketing
10 4 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.81%) Legal
10 4 (1.81%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.36%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.90%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.90%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.90%) Publishing
12 2 (0.90%) Social Housing
12 2 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 112 (50.68%) Analyst
2 98 (44.34%) Business Analyst
3 17 (7.69%) Architect
3 17 (7.69%) Consultant
4 14 (6.33%) Developer
5 13 (5.88%) Senior
6 11 (4.98%) Data Analyst
7 10 (4.52%) Technical Analyst
7 10 (4.52%) Technical Business Analyst
8 8 (3.62%) Lead
8 8 (3.62%) SAP Analyst
8 8 (3.62%) SAP Business Analyst
9 7 (3.17%) Business IT Analyst
9 7 (3.17%) IT Analyst
9 7 (3.17%) IT Business Analyst
9 7 (3.17%) Project Manager
9 7 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (2.71%) Data Business Analyst
10 6 (2.71%) SAP Consultant
11 5 (2.26%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.17%) SOAP
1 7 (3.17%) Web Services
2 6 (2.71%) REST
3 4 (1.81%) JMS
3 4 (1.81%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (1.81%) RESTful
4 3 (1.36%) CSS
4 3 (1.36%) EDI
4 3 (1.36%) HTML
4 3 (1.36%) IDoc
4 3 (1.36%) J2EE
4 3 (1.36%) JDBC
4 3 (1.36%) Middleware
4 3 (1.36%) XSLT
5 2 (0.90%) .NET
5 2 (0.90%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.90%) React
5 2 (0.90%) Spring
6 1 (0.45%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.45%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.88%) Management Information System
1 13 (5.88%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.62%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (1.81%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.36%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (0.90%) Clustering
5 2 (0.90%) CMDB
5 2 (0.90%) Educational Technology
5 2 (0.90%) Freedom of Information
5 2 (0.90%) Learning Management System
5 2 (0.90%) PMI
5 2 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (0.90%) Replication
5 2 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (0.90%) Social Media
5 2 (0.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (0.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 18 (8.14%) Windows
2 12 (5.43%) Linux
3 2 (0.90%) AIX
3 2 (0.90%) Android
3 2 (0.90%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.90%) Solaris
4 1 (0.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (31.22%) Agile
2 59 (26.70%) Stakeholder Management
3 58 (26.24%) Problem-Solving
4 48 (21.72%) Business Analysis
5 35 (15.84%) Migration
6 33 (14.93%) Change Management
7 30 (13.57%) Data Analysis
7 30 (13.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 30 (13.57%) User Stories
8 28 (12.67%) Project Management
9 27 (12.22%) Workshop Facilitation
10 24 (10.86%) Analytics
11 22 (9.95%) Scrum
12 20 (9.05%) Business Intelligence
12 20 (9.05%) Waterfall
13 19 (8.60%) Project Delivery
13 19 (8.60%) SDLC
14 18 (8.14%) Decision-Making
14 18 (8.14%) Roadmaps
14 18 (8.14%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 35 (15.84%) SQL
2 11 (4.98%) Java
3 7 (3.17%) JavaScript
4 6 (2.71%) PL/SQL
5 5 (2.26%) PowerShell
5 5 (2.26%) Python
6 3 (1.36%) ABAP
6 3 (1.36%) Groovy
6 3 (1.36%) PeopleCode
7 2 (0.90%) C++
7 2 (0.90%) COBOL
7 2 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.45%) ANSI SQL
8 1 (0.45%) C
8 1 (0.45%) R
8 1 (0.45%) Scala
8 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (15.84%) Degree
2 27 (12.22%) Security Cleared
3 18 (8.14%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.62%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.26%) SAP Certification
7 4 (1.81%) CBAP
8 3 (1.36%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.90%) CSPO
9 2 (0.90%) IIBA
9 2 (0.90%) PMP
10 1 (0.45%) ACCA
10 1 (0.45%) CIMA
10 1 (0.45%) CIPFA
10 1 (0.45%) ICAEW
10 1 (0.45%) ISEB
10 1 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.45%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.45%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.43%) QA
2 9 (4.07%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.62%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.81%) GDPR
5 3 (1.36%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.90%) SLA
7 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.45%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.45%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.45%) PMO
7 1 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (2.71%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.90%) Docker
2 2 (0.90%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.45%) LXC
3 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (2.26%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (1.36%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.90%) Data Guard
3 2 (0.90%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (0.90%) HP Data Protector
3 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (0.90%) NetBackup
3 2 (0.90%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (0.90%) Oracle Flashback
4 1 (0.45%) Ansible
4 1 (0.45%) Control-M
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Identity Management
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.45%) PTC Integrity
Vendors
1 35 (15.84%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.05%) Oracle
2 20 (9.05%) SAP
3 6 (2.71%) ServiceNow
4 5 (2.26%) Apple
4 5 (2.26%) IBM
4 5 (2.26%) Samsung
4 5 (2.26%) SOTI
4 5 (2.26%) VMware
5 4 (1.81%) Dell
5 4 (1.81%) Siebel
6 3 (1.36%) Adobe
6 3 (1.36%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (1.36%) Civica
6 3 (1.36%) PeopleSoft
6 3 (1.36%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.90%) Computacenter
7 2 (0.90%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.90%) IFS
7 2 (0.90%) Virgin Media