Requirements Gathering Contract Job Trends in Wales

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Requirements Gathering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 44 45
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 -6
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 9 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 1.86% 0.68% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 0.84% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 3
10th Percentile £392 £407 £433
25th Percentile £431 £417 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £444 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.23% -6.58% -11.21%
75th Percentile £515 £480 £494
90th Percentile £523 £496 £498
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

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 397 359 397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 82.19% 81.04% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 211 302
10th Percentile £183 £161 £175
25th Percentile £266 £213 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% - -11.37%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £573
90th Percentile £613 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 47 26
10th Percentile £13.33 £17.08 £15.93
25th Percentile £16.89 £20.12 £21.27
Median hourly rate £19.19 £25.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.24% -3.85% +30.59%
75th Percentile £25.11 £38.64 £50.00
90th Percentile £29.64 £48.75 £55.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.71% +25.00%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Requirements Gathering job vacancy trend in Wales

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

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

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering in Wales over the 6 months to 3 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in Wales

Requirements Gathering
Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

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

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 3 December 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 +10 7 £501 +12.95% 6
West Wales - 1 £463 -
Requirements Gathering
UK

Requirements Gathering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (44.44%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
General
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Law
3 1 (11.11%) Police
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Analyst
1 5 (55.56%) Business Analyst
2 4 (44.44%) ABAP Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) SAP Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Business IT Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) IT Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) IT Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) NHS
1 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Project Management
2 4 (44.44%) Performance Optimisation
2 4 (44.44%) SAP Implementation
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (22.22%) Scrum
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (22.22%) Workshop Facilitation
5 1 (11.11%) Analytical Thinking
5 1 (11.11%) Business Analysis
5 1 (11.11%) Business Case
5 1 (11.11%) Critical Thinking
5 1 (11.11%) DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (11.11%) Requirements Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Requirements Workshops
5 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (11.11%) User Stories
5 1 (11.11%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Adobe
1 4 (44.44%) SAP