Requirements Gathering Contracts with Work from Home Options

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 114 96
Rank change year-on-year +23 -18 -8
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 356 556 1,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.33% 2.15% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% 2.39% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 403 899
10th Percentile £369 £388 £355
25th Percentile £443 £432 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £493
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +6.49% +6.31%
75th Percentile £636 £603 £575
90th Percentile £725 £724 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 4
10th Percentile - £53.50 £22.52
25th Percentile - £54.19 £31.93
Median hourly rate - £64.00 £50.58
Median % change year-on-year - +26.54% +100.76%
75th Percentile - £66.75 £67.38
90th Percentile - £67.50 £72.55
UK median hourly rate £53.00 £61.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -13.82% +44.71% +77.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,424 23,231 40,628
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.86% 89.84% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,959 16,419 29,475
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £715
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 532 547
10th Percentile £15.12 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £24.25 £30.54 £19.89
Median hourly rate £40.28 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.76% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.23 £67.20
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Requirements Gathering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Requirements Gathering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Requirements Gathering trend for jobs with a WFH option

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Requirements Gathering.

Requirements Gathering daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Requirements Gathering over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Requirements Gathering daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Requirements Gathering
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Requirements Gathering.

Requirements Gathering hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 13 (3.65%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.81%) CICS
3 9 (2.53%) Confluence
4 8 (2.25%) SAS
5 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.84%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.56%) CMS
7 2 (0.56%) IIS
7 2 (0.56%) JBoss
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 15 (4.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.53%) Chatbot
3 8 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.25%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.56%) Trello
6 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (6.18%) Dynamics AX
2 20 (5.62%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (2.81%) Endur
4 6 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (1.69%) SAP Travel Management
5 3 (0.84%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.56%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.56%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.56%) SAP Hybris
6 2 (0.56%) SAP PM
6 2 (0.56%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.28%) SAP BRIM
7 1 (0.28%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.28%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.28%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.28%) SAP PS
7 1 (0.28%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 67 (18.82%) Azure
2 35 (9.83%) Power Platform
3 33 (9.27%) Dynamics 365
4 29 (8.15%) AWS
5 25 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (6.74%) Power Automate
6 24 (6.74%) PowerApps
7 12 (3.37%) GCP
8 8 (2.25%) Amazon S3
8 8 (2.25%) SaaS
9 7 (1.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (1.97%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (1.97%) Route 53
9 7 (1.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (1.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 5 (1.40%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 5 (1.40%) SuccessFactors
12 4 (1.12%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (1.12%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.81%) Network Security
2 3 (0.84%) HTTP
2 3 (0.84%) WinSCP
3 2 (0.56%) Firewall
3 2 (0.56%) VPN
3 2 (0.56%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.28%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (0.28%) Junos
4 1 (0.28%) LAN
4 1 (0.28%) WAN
4 1 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.71%) Power BI
2 25 (7.02%) Data Lake
3 19 (5.34%) SQL Server
4 15 (4.21%) DB2
5 10 (2.81%) IDMS
6 9 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.84%) Airbyte
9 3 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.84%) Flink
9 3 (0.84%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (0.84%) GIS
9 3 (0.84%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.84%) Tableau
10 2 (0.56%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.56%) KDB
10 2 (0.56%) Looker
10 2 (0.56%) MySQL
10 2 (0.56%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 28 (7.87%) JIRA
2 17 (4.78%) Git
3 9 (2.53%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.12%) Eclipse
5 3 (0.84%) Postman
5 3 (0.84%) SoapUI
6 2 (0.56%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.28%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.28%) GitLab
General
1 131 (36.80%) Social Skills
2 113 (31.74%) Finance
3 59 (16.57%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (10.11%) Public Sector
5 32 (8.99%) Banking
6 24 (6.74%) General Ledger
6 24 (6.74%) Retail
7 18 (5.06%) Front Office
8 15 (4.21%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (3.65%) Manufacturing
10 10 (2.81%) Financial Institution
11 9 (2.53%) Back Office
11 9 (2.53%) Telecoms
12 8 (2.25%) Billing
12 8 (2.25%) Marketing
13 7 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (1.40%) Legal
16 4 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 138 (38.76%) Business Analyst
2 135 (37.92%) Analyst
3 71 (19.94%) Consultant
4 34 (9.55%) Architect
5 32 (8.99%) Developer
6 20 (5.62%) Senior
7 18 (5.06%) Data Business Analyst
7 18 (5.06%) Project Manager
8 17 (4.78%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
9 15 (4.21%) Lead
10 14 (3.93%) Microsoft Consultant
11 13 (3.65%) C# Developer
11 13 (3.65%) Management Consultant
12 12 (3.37%) Product Owner
12 12 (3.37%) SAP Consultant
12 12 (3.37%) Technical Analyst
13 11 (3.09%) Front Office Developer
13 11 (3.09%) Solutions Architect
14 9 (2.53%) Senior Business Analyst
14 9 (2.53%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.37%) SOAP
2 11 (3.09%) REST
3 10 (2.81%) .NET
4 9 (2.53%) RESTful
4 9 (2.53%) Web Services
5 7 (1.97%) ASP.NET
6 6 (1.69%) SAP TM
7 5 (1.40%) .NET Framework
7 5 (1.40%) HTML
8 3 (0.84%) Entity Framework
8 3 (0.84%) JDBC
8 3 (0.84%) JSON
8 3 (0.84%) Lightning Web Components
8 3 (0.84%) Oracle Fusion
9 2 (0.56%) CSS
9 2 (0.56%) HTML5
9 2 (0.56%) Murex MxML
9 2 (0.56%) React
9 2 (0.56%) Swagger
9 2 (0.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.43%) Product Ownership
2 25 (7.02%) Data Structures
3 13 (3.65%) Derivative
4 11 (3.09%) Mainframe
5 10 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.81%) Equity Derivative
6 9 (2.53%) IBM Mainframe
7 8 (2.25%) IVR
8 6 (1.69%) Replication
9 5 (1.40%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.12%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.12%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.84%) Reinsurance
11 3 (0.84%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 2 (0.56%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.81%) Windows
2 8 (2.25%) zOS
3 5 (1.40%) VMS
4 4 (1.12%) Unix
5 3 (0.84%) Linux
6 2 (0.56%) AIX
6 2 (0.56%) Solaris
7 1 (0.28%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (28.37%) Agile
2 65 (18.26%) User Stories
3 63 (17.70%) Business Analysis
4 59 (16.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 53 (14.89%) DevOps
6 45 (12.64%) Requirements Workshops
7 43 (12.08%) Project Management
8 41 (11.52%) Business Intelligence
9 40 (11.24%) Problem-Solving
10 38 (10.67%) User Acceptance Testing
11 35 (9.83%) Scrum
12 30 (8.43%) Migration
13 27 (7.58%) GAP Analysis
14 26 (7.30%) Project Delivery
15 25 (7.02%) Roadmaps
16 24 (6.74%) Accounts Payable
16 24 (6.74%) Accounts Receivable
16 24 (6.74%) Data Migration
17 23 (6.46%) Change Management
17 23 (6.46%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (7.02%) SQL
2 22 (6.18%) Python
3 19 (5.34%) C#
4 13 (3.65%) COBOL
5 11 (3.09%) Java
6 10 (2.81%) REXX
7 9 (2.53%) SELCOPY
8 8 (2.25%) CLIST
9 6 (1.69%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.12%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.56%) Assembly Language
11 2 (0.56%) JCL
11 2 (0.56%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.28%) ABAP
12 1 (0.28%) Bicep
12 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.28%) R
12 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 52 (14.61%) Degree
2 30 (8.43%) Security Cleared
3 24 (6.74%) SC Cleared
4 9 (2.53%) Master's Degree
5 7 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.40%) MBA
7 3 (0.84%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.84%) PhD
8 2 (0.56%) CBAP
8 2 (0.56%) CCNA
8 2 (0.56%) CCNP
8 2 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.56%) IIBA
8 2 (0.56%) ISEB
8 2 (0.56%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.56%) PMP
9 1 (0.28%) CISA
9 1 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (9.55%) QA
2 14 (3.93%) Data Quality
3 11 (3.09%) SLA
4 6 (1.69%) PMO
5 4 (1.12%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (1.12%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.56%) GDPR
7 1 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.28%) NCSC
7 1 (0.28%) PMBOK
7 1 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 8 (2.25%) Docker
2 3 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.56%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.56%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 8 (2.25%) Grafana
1 8 (2.25%) Terraform
2 7 (1.97%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.97%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.56%) Tivoli
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 60 (16.85%) Microsoft
2 35 (9.83%) SAP
3 21 (5.90%) Oracle
4 16 (4.49%) IBM
5 15 (4.21%) Salesforce
6 10 (2.81%) ServiceNow
6 10 (2.81%) Syncsort
7 8 (2.25%) Genesys
7 8 (2.25%) Pega
8 6 (1.69%) F5
9 4 (1.12%) Ariba
9 4 (1.12%) Avaloq
9 4 (1.12%) Avaya
9 4 (1.12%) Bloomberg
9 4 (1.12%) OpenLink
9 4 (1.12%) Refinitiv
10 3 (0.84%) ESRI
10 3 (0.84%) ION Trading
10 3 (0.84%) Reuters
10 3 (0.84%) Workday