Requirements Gathering Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Requirements Gathering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 85 57
Rank change year-on-year -4 -28 +27
Permanent jobs citing Requirements Gathering 4 21 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Hertfordshire 0.25% 1.66% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 1.80% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3 8 1
10th Percentile £53,500 £65,000 -
25th Percentile £55,000 £65,938 £107,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £73,750 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.64% -35.87% +81.10%
75th Percentile £62,500 £80,938 £122,500
90th Percentile - £92,750 -
East of England median annual salary £55,000 £70,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -21.43% -17.65% +47.83%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

Requirements Gathering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Hertfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,149 1,164 643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 70.66% 91.94% 89.31%
Number of salaries quoted 646 457 486
10th Percentile £27,875 £35,000 £31,875
25th Percentile £35,500 £45,000 £41,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £89,050 £79,750
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Requirements Gathering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Requirements Gathering job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Requirements Gathering
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Requirements Gathering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Requirements Gathering

Requirements Gathering
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Requirements Gathering within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 28 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Watford -5 1 £60,000 -20.00% 15
St Albans - 1 £60,000 -
Requirements Gathering
East of England

Requirements Gathering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (25.00%) Cognos Connection
1 1 (25.00%) Cognos Event Studio
1 1 (25.00%) Cognos Framework Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (25.00%) DTS
1 1 (25.00%) Metadata
1 1 (25.00%) OLAP
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) QlikView
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (25.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Games
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Cognos Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Report Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Support Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Business Strategy
1 2 (50.00%) Presales
1 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) AI
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Practice Management
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cognos
1 1 (25.00%) Dell
1 1 (25.00%) IBM
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce