Requirements Gathering Contracts in Wales

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 - 51
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 3 0 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 1.05% - 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% - 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 12
10th Percentile £294 - £363
25th Percentile £313 - £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £351 - £506
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.97%
75th Percentile £390 - £572
90th Percentile £410 - £600
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 250 308 550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 87.72% 78.57% 86.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 210 422
10th Percentile £185 £165 £183
25th Percentile £285 £360 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -2.06%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £574
90th Percentile £625 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 31 28
10th Percentile £15.60 £11.75 £14.78
25th Percentile £20.12 £14.78 £16.98
Median hourly rate £21.01 £22.50 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -6.62% +19.59% -16.38%
75th Percentile £35.25 £51.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £45.00 £86.00 £49.13
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £36.00
% change year-on-year -19.33% -0.14% +44.00%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Requirements Gathering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Requirements Gathering in Wales.

Daily rate trend for Requirements Gathering in Wales

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering in Wales over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in Wales

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Requirements Gathering in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Gathering in Wales

Requirements Gathering
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 4 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
South Wales - 3 £351 -
Requirements Gathering
UK

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) JBoss
1 1 (33.33%) nginx
1 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
1 1 (33.33%) WebLogic
1 1 (33.33%) WebLogic Portal
1 1 (33.33%) WebSphere
1 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) OCI
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Implementation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) JWT
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) API Management
2 1 (33.33%) Business Case
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Workshops
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) LXC
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat