Requirements Gathering Contracts in the West Midlands

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Requirements Gathering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Requirements Gathering over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 63 64
Rank change year-on-year +6 +1 +5
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 52 84 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.69% 3.48% 3.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.21% 3.94% 3.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 64 82
10th Percentile £262 £315 £363
25th Percentile £335 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £525 £455
Median % change year-on-year -31.81% +15.38% +6.56%
75th Percentile £513 £540 £540
90th Percentile £575 £601 £561
England median daily rate £533 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.52% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £92.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate - £95.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - +442.86% -16.67%
75th Percentile - £97.50 £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £53.00 £61.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -13.82% +44.71% +102.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Requirements Gathering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,620 2,133 3,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.94% 88.43% 89.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,071 1,463 2,393
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £401 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +17.66%
75th Percentile £624 £600 £575
90th Percentile £738 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 46 72
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.25 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.70
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.66
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +6.35% -4.79%
75th Percentile £40.81 £23.62 £19.59
90th Percentile £57.50 £50.63 £21.85
England median hourly rate £35.00 £38.35 £24.00
% change year-on-year -8.74% +59.79% -

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in the West Midlands

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Requirements Gathering in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Requirements Gathering in the West Midlands

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in the West Midlands

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Requirements Gathering in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Gathering in the West Midlands

Requirements Gathering
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
Shropshire +31 19 £358 -33.58% 7
Birmingham -2 13 £513 +13.89% 10
Solihull - 7 £275 -
Warwickshire -9 5 £535 +1.90%
Staffordshire +6 4 £215 -14.00%
Worcestershire - 2 £400 - 1
Requirements Gathering
England

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 9 (17.31%) CICS
1 9 (17.31%) SAS
2 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.92%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.85%) SAP HCM
2 1 (1.92%) SAP GRC
2 1 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (9.62%) Power Platform
2 1 (1.92%) Azure
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (1.92%) Power Automate
2 1 (1.92%) PowerApps
2 1 (1.92%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 1 (1.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (1.92%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.62%) Junos
1 5 (9.62%) LAN
1 5 (9.62%) WAN
2 4 (7.69%) BGP
2 4 (7.69%) Cisco IOS
2 4 (7.69%) IPsec
2 4 (7.69%) MPLS
3 3 (5.77%) Network Security
4 2 (3.85%) Firewall
5 1 (1.92%) VPN
5 1 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (19.23%) DB2
2 9 (17.31%) Amazon Redshift
2 9 (17.31%) IDMS
2 9 (17.31%) MySQL
3 5 (9.62%) Power BI
4 3 (5.77%) SAP BW
5 1 (1.92%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (34.62%) Git
2 1 (1.92%) Oracle APEX
General
1 11 (21.15%) Finance
2 8 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (9.62%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.77%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (26.92%) Analyst
2 13 (25.00%) Business Analyst
3 12 (23.08%) Developer
4 10 (19.23%) IBM Mainframe Developer
4 10 (19.23%) Mainframe Developer
5 7 (13.46%) Consultant
6 4 (7.69%) Architect
6 4 (7.69%) Network Architect
6 4 (7.69%) SAP Consultant
7 3 (5.77%) Junior
7 3 (5.77%) Process Analyst
8 2 (3.85%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 2 (3.85%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
8 2 (3.85%) Environment Manager
8 2 (3.85%) Functional Consultant
8 2 (3.85%) Junior Product Owner
8 2 (3.85%) Report Analyst
8 2 (3.85%) SAP HCM Consultant
8 2 (3.85%) Technical Analyst
8 2 (3.85%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.92%) .NET
1 1 (1.92%) Blazor
1 1 (1.92%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (1.92%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (1.92%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.23%) IBM Mainframe
1 10 (19.23%) Mainframe
2 3 (5.77%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.85%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.92%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.92%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 9 (17.31%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (44.23%) Agile
2 20 (38.46%) Scrum
3 17 (32.69%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (21.15%) Configuration Management
4 11 (21.15%) Continuous Integration
4 11 (21.15%) ETL
4 11 (21.15%) Software Engineering
5 10 (19.23%) Analytics
5 10 (19.23%) Data Analytics
5 10 (19.23%) Data Extraction
6 9 (17.31%) Dashboard Development
6 9 (17.31%) Process Improvement
7 8 (15.38%) Test Strategy
8 7 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (11.54%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (11.54%) Project Management
10 5 (9.62%) Workflow
11 4 (7.69%) Business Analysis
11 4 (7.69%) Workshop Facilitation
12 3 (5.77%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (19.23%) COBOL
2 9 (17.31%) CLIST
2 9 (17.31%) REXX
2 9 (17.31%) SELCOPY
3 3 (5.77%) SQL
4 1 (1.92%) C#
4 1 (1.92%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.92%) Korn
4 1 (1.92%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.92%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (42.31%) Security Cleared
2 17 (32.69%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.62%) CCNP
3 5 (9.62%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (7.69%) CCNA
5 3 (5.77%) JNCIS
6 1 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.92%) CBAP
6 1 (1.92%) Degree
6 1 (1.92%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.62%) SLA
2 3 (5.77%) QA
3 2 (3.85%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 9 (17.31%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (19.23%) IBM
2 9 (17.31%) Denodo
2 9 (17.31%) SAP
2 9 (17.31%) Syncsort
2 9 (17.31%) Talend
3 5 (9.62%) Cisco
3 5 (9.62%) Juniper
4 3 (5.77%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.77%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.85%) Anaplan
6 1 (1.92%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (1.92%) Oracle