Requirements Gathering Job Trends in the North of England

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Requirements Gathering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 185 176
Rank change year-on-year -11 -9 +35
Permanent jobs citing Requirements Gathering 77 97 116
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.71% 1.07% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 1.18% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 59 79 101
10th Percentile £47,000 - £36,270
25th Percentile £51,250 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £42,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -19.05% +5.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £54,875 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £84,164 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,623 8,255 7,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 80.03% 90.79% 88.33%
Number of salaries quoted 4,624 3,681 5,913
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,010
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,856
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -0.71%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,100 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Requirements Gathering job vacancy trend in the North of England

Requirements Gathering
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Requirements Gathering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Requirements Gathering

Requirements Gathering
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Requirements Gathering in the North of England

Requirements Gathering
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Requirements Gathering within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
North West -8 51 £60,000 +41.18% 33
Yorkshire -8 17 £66,250 +26.19% 19
North East +16 9 £52,500 -12.08% 10
Requirements Gathering
England

Requirements Gathering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 4 (5.19%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.60%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (5.19%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (6.49%) NetSuite
2 2 (2.60%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (2.60%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (2.60%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (2.60%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.30%) Maximo
3 1 (1.30%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 30 (38.96%) Azure
2 13 (16.88%) AWS
3 9 (11.69%) Power Platform
4 8 (10.39%) GCP
5 6 (7.79%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (7.79%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.60%) Amazon Cognito
6 2 (2.60%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (2.60%) OCI
6 2 (2.60%) SaaS
6 2 (2.60%) Serverless
7 1 (1.30%) Azure AI
7 1 (1.30%) Azure App Service
7 1 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.30%) dbt
7 1 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.30%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.30%) DNS
1 1 (1.30%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.58%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (6.49%) Power BI
3 2 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.60%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.30%) DB2
4 1 (1.30%) Metadata
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.30%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (1.30%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.60%) JIRA
General
1 33 (42.86%) Finance
2 19 (24.68%) Social Skills
3 17 (22.08%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (19.48%) Retail
5 5 (6.49%) Banking
5 5 (6.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (6.49%) Legal
5 5 (6.49%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.19%) Billing
6 4 (5.19%) Financial Institution
6 4 (5.19%) Law
6 4 (5.19%) Marketing
7 3 (3.90%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.60%) Electronics
8 2 (2.60%) General Ledger
8 2 (2.60%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.30%) Back Office
9 1 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.30%) Military
Job Titles
1 23 (29.87%) Analyst
2 19 (24.68%) Business Analyst
3 17 (22.08%) Senior
4 14 (18.18%) Consultant
5 12 (15.58%) Azure Data Engineer
5 12 (15.58%) Azure Engineer
5 12 (15.58%) Data Engineer
5 12 (15.58%) Senior Data Engineer
6 8 (10.39%) Infrastructure Manager
6 8 (10.39%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 8 (10.39%) Project Manager
7 7 (9.09%) Architect
8 6 (7.79%) Developer
9 5 (6.49%) Functional Consultant
9 5 (6.49%) NetSuite Consultant
9 5 (6.49%) Technology Consultant
10 4 (5.19%) Lead
10 4 (5.19%) Lead Developer
10 4 (5.19%) Payments Architect
11 3 (3.90%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.49%) .NET
2 4 (5.19%) OAuth
3 3 (3.90%) OAuth2
3 3 (3.90%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (3.90%) Spring
4 2 (2.60%) OpenAPI
4 2 (2.60%) Spring Boot
4 2 (2.60%) Swagger
5 1 (1.30%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.30%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (1.30%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 1 (1.30%) OpenID
5 1 (1.30%) React
5 1 (1.30%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.39%) Data Centre
2 7 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.19%) AI Agents
3 4 (5.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (5.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 3 (3.90%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.90%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.90%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.30%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.30%) IoT
5 1 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.30%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.39%) Windows
2 1 (1.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (25.97%) Agile
1 20 (25.97%) Stakeholder Management
2 18 (23.38%) AI
2 18 (23.38%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (22.08%) CI/CD
4 15 (19.48%) Data Modelling
4 15 (19.48%) Project Management
5 14 (18.18%) Project Delivery
5 14 (18.18%) User Stories
6 13 (16.88%) Change Management
7 12 (15.58%) Business Analysis
8 11 (14.29%) Roadmaps
8 11 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 11 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
9 10 (12.99%) Business Development
9 10 (12.99%) DevOps
9 10 (12.99%) Mentoring
9 10 (12.99%) Workshop Facilitation
10 9 (11.69%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (11.69%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 17 (22.08%) SQL
2 14 (18.18%) Python
3 4 (5.19%) Java
4 3 (3.90%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.30%) C#
5 1 (1.30%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (16.88%) Degree
2 3 (3.90%) Master's Degree
2 3 (3.90%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.60%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.60%) DV Cleared
3 2 (2.60%) IIBA
4 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.30%) CISM
4 1 (1.30%) CISSP
4 1 (1.30%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (1.30%) ISEB
4 1 (1.30%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.30%) PMP
4 1 (1.30%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.79%) QA
2 4 (5.19%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.19%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (5.19%) ISO 20022
2 4 (5.19%) SEPA
2 4 (5.19%) TARGET2
3 1 (1.30%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.30%) GDPR
3 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.30%) NIST
3 1 (1.30%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.30%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (1.30%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (11.69%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.39%) Google
2 8 (10.39%) Oracle
3 3 (3.90%) SAP
4 2 (2.60%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.30%) Databricks
5 1 (1.30%) Foundry
5 1 (1.30%) IBM
5 1 (1.30%) iManage