Requirements Gathering Contracts in the West Midlands

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 46 63
Rank change year-on-year -36 +17 -7
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 20 72 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.36% 3.53% 3.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 4.36% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 58 47
10th Percentile £327 £325 £357
25th Percentile £375 £352 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £375 £475
Median % change year-on-year +23.33% -21.05% -
75th Percentile £528 £554 £538
90th Percentile £584 £600 £580
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.62% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £92.50
Median hourly rate - - £95.00
75th Percentile - - £97.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £38.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -24.00% -18.70% +4.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,306 1,651 1,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 89.09% 81.01% 87.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 824 1,096 1,340
10th Percentile £205 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £505
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -0.99% +2.02%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £614
90th Percentile £659 £738 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 115 46
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.18 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.96 £14.19 £15.13
Median hourly rate £24.28 £22.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.91% -10.00% +47.06%
75th Percentile £33.35 £39.38 £30.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £57.75 £50.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.17
% change year-on-year -34.02% +2.56% +44.74%

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 27 June 2025.

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 27 June 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
Birmingham +1 9 £500 -9.09% 20
Solihull +8 2 £575 +108.91%
Staffordshire +1 2 £450 +109.30% 15
Warwickshire -2 2 £400 -26.61% 20
Coventry - 2 £325 - 3
Shropshire -21 1 - - 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 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (5.00%) SAP BPC
2 1 (5.00%) SAP CO
2 1 (5.00%) SAP ERP
2 1 (5.00%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.00%) AWS
3 1 (5.00%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) LAN
1 1 (5.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Power BI
1 2 (10.00%) SAP HANA
2 1 (5.00%) Data Mining
2 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.00%) GIS
2 1 (5.00%) MySQL
2 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Legal
4 1 (5.00%) Advertising
4 1 (5.00%) Aerospace
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Law
4 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Analyst
2 10 (50.00%) Business Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Consultant
3 3 (15.00%) SAP Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Developer
5 1 (5.00%) .NET Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Banking Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Business Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Business Project Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Junior
5 1 (5.00%) Junior Project Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Project Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.00%) SAP CO Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) SAP MM Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (5.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (5.00%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.00%) CMDB
3 1 (5.00%) Learning Management System
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Agile
2 6 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 4 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (15.00%) Data Analysis
5 3 (15.00%) Data Protection
5 3 (15.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (15.00%) DevOps
5 3 (15.00%) Migration
5 3 (15.00%) Process Improvement
5 3 (15.00%) Waterfall
5 3 (15.00%) Workshop Facilitation
6 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (10.00%) Business Process Improvement
6 2 (10.00%) ERP
6 2 (10.00%) GAP Analysis
6 2 (10.00%) ITIL
6 2 (10.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.00%) C#
2 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.00%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) SAP
3 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.00%) Ariba