Requirements Gathering Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 88 114
Rank change year-on-year -29 +26 -20
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 221 362 555
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.23% 2.36% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.45% 2.68% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 249 402
10th Percentile £339 £363 £388
25th Percentile £417 £450 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +0.95% +6.49%
75th Percentile £630 £630 £604
90th Percentile £713 £725 £724
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 11
10th Percentile - - £53.50
25th Percentile £66.25 £61.68 £54.19
Median hourly rate £67.50 £63.36 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% -1.01% +26.54%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.03 £66.75
90th Percentile - - £67.50
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £58.18 £61.50
% change year-on-year -50.15% -5.40% +44.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Requirements Gathering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Requirements Gathering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Requirements Gathering trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Requirements Gathering over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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 14 (6.33%) Confluence
2 7 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.81%) Umbraco
4 3 (1.36%) CMS
5 2 (0.90%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.90%) EPiServer
5 2 (0.90%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.90%) WordPress
6 1 (0.45%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (9.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (6.79%) MS Visio
3 12 (5.43%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.81%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (1.36%) Trello
7 1 (0.45%) InVision
7 1 (0.45%) Notepad++
7 1 (0.45%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 7 (3.17%) SAP MDG
2 5 (2.26%) SAP Retail
3 4 (1.81%) PeopleSoft Financials
3 4 (1.81%) SAP CAR
3 4 (1.81%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.36%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (1.36%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (1.36%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (1.36%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 2 (0.90%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.90%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.90%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.90%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 2 (0.90%) Oracle Internet Expenses
5 2 (0.90%) Oracle iProcurement
5 2 (0.90%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.90%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.90%) SAP EWM
5 2 (0.90%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 29 (13.12%) Azure
2 22 (9.95%) Power Platform
3 18 (8.14%) AWS
4 11 (4.98%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.26%) Power Automate
7 5 (2.26%) PowerApps
8 4 (1.81%) IBM Blueworks
9 3 (1.36%) GitHub
9 3 (1.36%) SaaS
10 2 (0.90%) Canva
10 2 (0.90%) dbt
10 2 (0.90%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.90%) GCP
10 2 (0.90%) IaaS
10 2 (0.90%) Miro
10 2 (0.90%) PaaS
10 2 (0.90%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.45%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.26%) Firewall
2 2 (0.90%) Intranet
3 1 (0.45%) ATM
3 1 (0.45%) BGP
3 1 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.45%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.45%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (0.45%) HTTP
3 1 (0.45%) LAN
3 1 (0.45%) MQTT
3 1 (0.45%) Multicast
3 1 (0.45%) VPN
3 1 (0.45%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.69%) Power BI
2 12 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (4.52%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.71%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.26%) Tableau
6 4 (1.81%) BusinessObjects
6 4 (1.81%) MS Access
6 4 (1.81%) Oracle Database
6 4 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.36%) MySQL
7 3 (1.36%) SAP BW
7 3 (1.36%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.90%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.90%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.45%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.45%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 23 (10.41%) JIRA
2 3 (1.36%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.90%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.90%) MagicDraw
3 2 (0.90%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.45%) Axure RP
4 1 (0.45%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (0.45%) RStudio
4 1 (0.45%) Storybook
4 1 (0.45%) XMLSpy
General
1 73 (33.03%) Social Skills
2 56 (25.34%) Finance
3 49 (22.17%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (10.86%) Banking
5 18 (8.14%) Public Sector
5 18 (8.14%) Retail
6 11 (4.98%) Marketing
7 10 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.52%) Legal
7 10 (4.52%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.71%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.71%) Law
9 5 (2.26%) General Ledger
9 5 (2.26%) Local Government
9 5 (2.26%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.36%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.36%) Front Office
10 3 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.90%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 78 (35.29%) Analyst
2 77 (34.84%) Business Analyst
3 36 (16.29%) Consultant
4 25 (11.31%) Senior
5 23 (10.41%) Architect
6 14 (6.33%) Lead
7 11 (4.98%) Developer
7 11 (4.98%) Functional Consultant
8 10 (4.52%) Data Business Analyst
9 9 (4.07%) Data Analyst
9 9 (4.07%) SAP Consultant
10 7 (3.17%) Product Owner
10 7 (3.17%) Senior Analyst
10 7 (3.17%) Senior Business Analyst
11 6 (2.71%) Project Manager
11 6 (2.71%) Solutions Architect
12 5 (2.26%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
12 5 (2.26%) IFS Consultant
13 4 (1.81%) IT Analyst
13 4 (1.81%) Senior Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.17%) .NET
2 4 (1.81%) .NET Core
3 3 (1.36%) CSS
3 3 (1.36%) DCOM
3 3 (1.36%) HTML
3 3 (1.36%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (0.90%) ASP.NET
4 2 (0.90%) ASP.NET Core
4 2 (0.90%) React
4 2 (0.90%) Spring
5 1 (0.45%) ADO
5 1 (0.45%) FpML
5 1 (0.45%) JPA
5 1 (0.45%) Middleware
5 1 (0.45%) MyBatis
5 1 (0.45%) OAuth
5 1 (0.45%) PySpark
5 1 (0.45%) Smart Contracts
5 1 (0.45%) Swagger
5 1 (0.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.60%) Product Ownership
2 10 (4.52%) Management Information System
3 8 (3.62%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (2.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (1.81%) Derivative
5 4 (1.81%) Equities
5 4 (1.81%) Fixed Income
5 4 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.81%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.36%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.90%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.90%) Freedom of Information
7 2 (0.90%) NHS
7 2 (0.90%) OTC Derivatives
7 2 (0.90%) Reference Data
7 2 (0.90%) Reinsurance
7 2 (0.90%) Social Media
8 1 (0.45%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.43%) Windows
2 7 (3.17%) Linux
3 2 (0.90%) Unix
4 1 (0.45%) AIX
4 1 (0.45%) Android
4 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.45%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (27.60%) Agile
2 50 (22.62%) Stakeholder Management
3 49 (22.17%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (18.55%) Workshop Facilitation
5 35 (15.84%) Business Analysis
6 33 (14.93%) Data Analysis
7 31 (14.03%) Analytics
8 29 (13.12%) User Stories
9 25 (11.31%) Migration
9 25 (11.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 21 (9.50%) Project Management
11 20 (9.05%) DevOps
11 20 (9.05%) Scrum
12 19 (8.60%) Business Intelligence
12 19 (8.60%) Decision-Making
12 19 (8.60%) User Acceptance Testing
13 18 (8.14%) Process Improvement
14 17 (7.69%) Acceptance Criteria
15 16 (7.24%) ERP
16 15 (6.79%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 44 (19.91%) SQL
2 10 (4.52%) Python
3 6 (2.71%) PL/SQL
4 5 (2.26%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.81%) C#
5 4 (1.81%) Java
5 4 (1.81%) PeopleCode
6 3 (1.36%) C
6 3 (1.36%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.90%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.45%) ABAP
8 1 (0.45%) Bash
8 1 (0.45%) C++
8 1 (0.45%) COBOL
8 1 (0.45%) PHP
8 1 (0.45%) R
8 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (16.74%) Degree
2 24 (10.86%) Security Cleared
3 18 (8.14%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.71%) PMI Certification
4 6 (2.71%) PMP
5 5 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.36%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.36%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.90%) CBAP
7 2 (0.90%) CFA
7 2 (0.90%) CSPO
7 2 (0.90%) MBA
7 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.90%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.45%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.45%) CEH
8 1 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.45%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.52%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.62%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.17%) GDPR
3 7 (3.17%) QA
4 5 (2.26%) EMIR
4 5 (2.26%) MiFID
5 3 (1.36%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.90%) Dodd-Frank
6 2 (0.90%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.45%) GRC
7 1 (0.45%) GxP
7 1 (0.45%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.45%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.45%) NIST
7 1 (0.45%) PMO
7 1 (0.45%) SLA
7 1 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (1.81%) Docker
2 2 (0.90%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 7 (3.17%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.90%) Terraform
3 1 (0.45%) Ansible
3 1 (0.45%) Data Guard
3 1 (0.45%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle Flashback
3 1 (0.45%) PTC Integrity
Vendors
1 35 (15.84%) Microsoft
2 31 (14.03%) SAP
3 12 (5.43%) Oracle
4 8 (3.62%) Ariba
5 6 (2.71%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.26%) IFS
6 5 (2.26%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.26%) VMware
7 4 (1.81%) PeopleSoft
8 3 (1.36%) IBM
9 2 (0.90%) Adobe
9 2 (0.90%) Facebook
9 2 (0.90%) Instagram
9 2 (0.90%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.90%) Sparx
9 2 (0.90%) Twitter
9 2 (0.90%) Workday
10 1 (0.45%) Confluent
10 1 (0.45%) Liquidlogic
10 1 (0.45%) UiPath