Requirements Gathering Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Requirements Gathering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 56 44
Rank change year-on-year -11 -12 +11
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 12 15 49
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 1.45% 1.88% 3.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 2.20% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 31
10th Percentile £356 £465 £413
25th Percentile £365 £508 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -22.17% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £553 £680 £600
90th Percentile £581 £716 £638
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.32
Median hourly rate - - £16.11
75th Percentile - - £16.90
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £16.11

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 722 681 1,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 87.20% 85.45% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 428 808
10th Percentile £290 £329 £323
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 18 19
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.00 £12.94
25th Percentile - £19.19 £16.71
Median hourly rate £22.14 £27.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.49% +44.74% -9.52%
75th Percentile £66.88 £37.50 £23.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £44.00 £30.02
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.00 £19.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year +31.58% -10.84% +12.16%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Requirements Gathering job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Requirements Gathering

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in West Yorkshire

Requirements Gathering
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Requirements Gathering

Requirements Gathering
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 October 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
Leeds -5 11 £448 -24.15% 8
Requirements Gathering
Yorkshire

Requirements Gathering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) Asana
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Functions
3 2 (16.67%) dbt
3 2 (16.67%) GCP
3 2 (16.67%) Smartsheet
4 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (8.33%) Figma
4 1 (8.33%) IBM Blueworks
4 1 (8.33%) Lucidchart
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) BigQuery
1 2 (16.67%) Bigtable
1 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
1 2 (16.67%) RDBMS
1 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 9 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (50.00%) Finance
3 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Legal
5 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Analyst
1 6 (50.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) IT Manager
2 3 (25.00%) IT Project Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Payments Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Payments Business Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Project Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Data Architect
3 2 (16.67%) GCP Architect
3 2 (16.67%) GCP Data Architect
4 1 (8.33%) HR Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) HR Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) .NET
1 2 (16.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Unix
2 1 (8.33%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
1 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 3 (25.00%) Business Analysis
2 3 (25.00%) Business Case
2 3 (25.00%) Business Strategy
2 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (25.00%) DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
2 3 (25.00%) PRINCE2
3 2 (16.67%) Architectural Design
3 2 (16.67%) Architecture Roadmap
3 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 2 (16.67%) Critical Thinking
3 2 (16.67%) Data Design
3 2 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 2 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) ANSI SQL
1 2 (16.67%) Java
1 2 (16.67%) Python
1 2 (16.67%) Scala
1 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
1 2 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
1 3 (25.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (8.33%) ACCA
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Control-M
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (8.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Wrike
2 1 (8.33%) IBM
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow