Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Requirements Gathering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Requirements Gathering over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 195 196 191
Rank change year-on-year +1 -5 -26
Permanent jobs citing Requirements Gathering 1,514 2,017 3,305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.54% 1.93% 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 2.02% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,094 1,326 2,115
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,925 £60,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% +8.11% +0.91%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,875 £90,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Requirements Gathering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Requirements Gathering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in the UK

Requirements Gathering
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Requirements Gathering.

Salary trend for Requirements Gathering in the UK

Requirements Gathering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Requirements Gathering in the UK

Requirements Gathering
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Requirements Gathering within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England +13 1,334 £55,000 -8.33% 348
UK excluding London +14 976 £49,500 -5.71% 201
Work from Home +29 743 £54,000 -6.09% 169
London -4 461 £70,000 +7.69% 167
South East +28 262 £49,750 -0.50% 40
North of England +53 222 £52,500 -4.34% 56
Midlands -13 168 £45,000 -14.29% 29
South West +16 128 £50,000 +4.17% 33
North West +16 123 £50,000 -9.09% 33
West Midlands -12 100 £47,500 -13.64% 23
Yorkshire +95 86 £54,950 +3.68% 13
East of England -3 83 £49,500 -17.50% 10
Scotland -55 79 £42,500 -12.82% 24
East Midlands -7 65 £44,250 -11.45% 6
Wales +4 20 £48,500 +12.93% 5
North East -7 13 £57,965 -25.21% 10
Northern Ireland +18 12 £48,150 -8.29% 7
Isle of Man - 4 £54,000 -

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 59 (3.90%) Confluence
2 46 (3.04%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.99%) Apache
5 13 (0.86%) CMS
6 11 (0.73%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.66%) IIS
8 7 (0.46%) SAS
9 5 (0.33%) JBoss
9 5 (0.33%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.33%) WebLogic
9 5 (0.33%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.33%) WildFly
10 3 (0.20%) IBM Domino
11 2 (0.13%) Drupal
11 2 (0.13%) Magnolia
11 2 (0.13%) Moodle
11 2 (0.13%) nginx
11 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 118 (7.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (2.51%) MS Visio
3 36 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
4 25 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
6 13 (0.86%) Sketch
7 11 (0.73%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.53%) InDesign
9 6 (0.40%) InVision
10 4 (0.26%) Windchill
11 2 (0.13%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.066%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.066%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 57 (3.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.86%) Dynamics NAV
4 12 (0.79%) Dynamics AX
5 10 (0.66%) NetSuite
6 9 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
7 8 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
8 7 (0.46%) Workday HCM
9 6 (0.40%) Maximo
9 6 (0.40%) SAP CO
9 6 (0.40%) SAP FI
9 6 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
10 5 (0.33%) Distributed Ledger
10 5 (0.33%) SAP MDG
10 5 (0.33%) Teamcenter
11 4 (0.26%) Oracle Payroll
11 4 (0.26%) SAP HCM
11 4 (0.26%) Shopify
11 4 (0.26%) Sonata
12 3 (0.20%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 260 (17.17%) Power Platform
2 229 (15.13%) Azure
3 94 (6.21%) Dynamics 365
4 86 (5.68%) SaaS
5 72 (4.76%) AWS
6 61 (4.03%) Microsoft 365
7 52 (3.43%) PowerApps
8 38 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
9 36 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
10 29 (1.92%) Amazon S3
10 29 (1.92%) Miro
11 26 (1.72%) Entra ID
12 25 (1.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 24 (1.59%) OCI
14 22 (1.45%) Power Automate
15 19 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
16 14 (0.92%) GitHub
17 13 (0.86%) OneDrive
18 9 (0.59%) Cloud Computing
18 9 (0.59%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.92%) HTTP
2 12 (0.79%) Unified Communications
3 11 (0.73%) Internet
3 11 (0.73%) WAN
4 10 (0.66%) Broadband
4 10 (0.66%) WPA
5 9 (0.59%) 5G
5 9 (0.59%) Firewall
5 9 (0.59%) SAN
5 9 (0.59%) SD-WAN
6 8 (0.53%) Intranet
6 8 (0.53%) Wireless
7 6 (0.40%) Cisco Firepower
7 6 (0.40%) DNS
7 6 (0.40%) VPN
8 4 (0.26%) Ethernet
8 4 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (0.20%) SSL
10 2 (0.13%) LAN
10 2 (0.13%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 227 (14.99%) Power BI
2 104 (6.87%) SQL Server
3 83 (5.48%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (3.30%) Tableau
5 40 (2.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 31 (2.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 24 (1.59%) Power Query
8 22 (1.45%) Data Lake
9 18 (1.19%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 18 (1.19%) Oracle Reports
10 16 (1.06%) Metadata
11 13 (0.86%) Amazon QuickSight
11 13 (0.86%) NoSQL
12 12 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (0.73%) Big Data
13 11 (0.73%) BusinessObjects
13 11 (0.73%) Relational Database
14 9 (0.59%) Data Mining
14 9 (0.59%) MongoDB
14 9 (0.59%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 144 (9.51%) JIRA
2 28 (1.85%) Git
3 17 (1.12%) Visual Studio
4 15 (0.99%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 12 (0.79%) Eclipse
6 10 (0.66%) TestRail
7 9 (0.59%) GitLab
8 7 (0.46%) JMeter
8 7 (0.46%) Rational DOORS
8 7 (0.46%) Selenium
9 6 (0.40%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.40%) LoadRunner
9 6 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.33%) Gatling
10 5 (0.33%) Postman
10 5 (0.33%) Subversion
11 4 (0.26%) Jenkins
12 3 (0.20%) Rational Rhapsody
13 2 (0.13%) Hudson
13 2 (0.13%) SoapUI
General
1 489 (32.30%) Social Skills
2 351 (23.18%) Finance
3 300 (19.82%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (6.94%) Retail
5 91 (6.01%) Marketing
6 86 (5.68%) Law
7 80 (5.28%) Public Sector
8 72 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 68 (4.49%) Manufacturing
10 66 (4.36%) Presentation Skills
11 50 (3.30%) Banking
12 48 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
13 46 (3.04%) Legal
14 25 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
15 24 (1.59%) Local Government
16 23 (1.52%) Electronics
17 19 (1.25%) Telecoms
18 17 (1.12%) Front Office
18 17 (1.12%) Games
19 15 (0.99%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 551 (36.39%) Analyst
2 355 (23.45%) Business Analyst
3 221 (14.60%) Senior
4 182 (12.02%) Consultant
5 158 (10.44%) Developer
6 111 (7.33%) Senior Analyst
7 110 (7.27%) Lead
8 88 (5.81%) Project Manager
9 81 (5.35%) Senior Business Analyst
10 77 (5.09%) Architect
11 50 (3.30%) Technical Consultant
12 48 (3.17%) IT Analyst
13 45 (2.97%) Data Analyst
14 44 (2.91%) Product Owner
15 41 (2.71%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 41 (2.71%) Business IT Analyst
15 41 (2.71%) IT Business Analyst
15 41 (2.71%) Solutions Architect
16 33 (2.18%) Senior Consultant
16 33 (2.18%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (4.49%) HTML
2 52 (3.43%) .NET
3 36 (2.38%) CSS
4 34 (2.25%) JSON
4 34 (2.25%) Web Services
5 33 (2.18%) REST
6 32 (2.11%) AngularJS
6 32 (2.11%) XML
7 25 (1.65%) React
8 17 (1.12%) Spring
8 17 (1.12%) XSL
9 16 (1.06%) ASP.NET
9 16 (1.06%) EDI
9 16 (1.06%) RESTful
10 13 (0.86%) HTML5
10 13 (0.86%) Lightning Web Components
11 12 (0.79%) .NET Core
11 12 (0.79%) Hibernate
12 11 (0.73%) ASP.NET MVC
12 11 (0.73%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 120 (7.93%) Product Ownership
2 114 (7.53%) Self-Motivation
3 51 (3.37%) Management Information System
4 34 (2.25%) Onboarding
5 33 (2.18%) Data Centre
6 21 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
7 19 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (1.25%) Virtual Team
8 17 (1.12%) Public Cloud
9 16 (1.06%) Low-Code
9 16 (1.06%) NHS
10 15 (0.99%) Driving Licence
11 14 (0.92%) Data Structures
12 12 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 12 (0.79%) Reference Data
12 12 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
13 11 (0.73%) Taxonomies
14 10 (0.66%) Algorithms
14 10 (0.66%) Social Media
15 9 (0.59%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 51 (3.37%) Windows
2 40 (2.64%) Linux
3 18 (1.19%) Windows Server
4 16 (1.06%) Windows 10
5 10 (0.66%) Unix
6 3 (0.20%) Android
6 3 (0.20%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.066%) CentOS
7 1 (0.066%) VMS
7 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 492 (32.50%) Agile
2 374 (24.70%) Problem-Solving
3 261 (17.24%) Business Analysis
4 249 (16.45%) Business Intelligence
4 249 (16.45%) Project Management
5 225 (14.86%) Stakeholder Management
6 185 (12.22%) Roadmaps
7 176 (11.62%) User Stories
8 160 (10.57%) Migration
9 146 (9.64%) Workshop Facilitation
10 143 (9.45%) Analytics
11 137 (9.05%) Project Delivery
12 136 (8.98%) Actionable Insight
12 136 (8.98%) Scrum
13 134 (8.85%) Mentoring
14 117 (7.73%) Decision-Making
15 114 (7.53%) ERP
16 113 (7.46%) SDLC
17 106 (7.00%) Continuous Improvement
18 104 (6.87%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 316 (20.87%) SQL
2 129 (8.52%) Python
3 74 (4.89%) C#
3 74 (4.89%) JavaScript
4 72 (4.76%) Java
5 58 (3.83%) T-SQL
6 42 (2.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 30 (1.98%) PL/SQL
8 25 (1.65%) PowerShell
9 17 (1.12%) C++
10 16 (1.06%) C
10 16 (1.06%) R
11 14 (0.92%) PHP
12 12 (0.79%) TypeScript
13 11 (0.73%) VBA
14 10 (0.66%) RPG
14 10 (0.66%) VB
15 9 (0.59%) Embedded C
16 7 (0.46%) MATLAB
17 4 (0.26%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 256 (16.91%) Degree
2 171 (11.29%) Security Cleared
3 112 (7.40%) SC Cleared
4 44 (2.91%) DBS Check
5 42 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (2.38%) Master's Degree
7 33 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (1.12%) PMI Certification
9 16 (1.06%) DV Cleared
10 15 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (0.86%) PMP
12 12 (0.79%) AWS Certification
12 12 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 10 (0.66%) ISTQB
13 10 (0.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 9 (0.59%) CISM
14 9 (0.59%) CISSP
15 8 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 7 (0.46%) CSPO
17 6 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (5.81%) QA
2 43 (2.84%) Data Quality
3 15 (0.99%) Accessibility
3 15 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (0.79%) ISO 9001
5 9 (0.59%) PMO
6 8 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
6 8 (0.53%) GDPR
7 5 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.26%) JTAG
8 4 (0.26%) Solvency II
9 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.20%) NIST
10 1 (0.066%) ECSS
10 1 (0.066%) GMP
10 1 (0.066%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (1.98%) Active Directory
2 20 (1.32%) Docker
3 18 (1.19%) Firmware
4 14 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.79%) Embedded Firmware
5 12 (0.79%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.26%) vSphere
8 1 (0.066%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 27 (1.78%) Kubernetes
2 18 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (0.40%) SCCM
3 6 (0.40%) Terraform
4 4 (0.26%) WSUS
5 2 (0.13%) Ansible
5 2 (0.13%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.13%) PingFederate
5 2 (0.13%) Puppet
6 1 (0.066%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.066%) Grafana
6 1 (0.066%) Graylog
6 1 (0.066%) HP SiteScope
6 1 (0.066%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.066%) Nagios
6 1 (0.066%) Perfmon
6 1 (0.066%) TeamSite
6 1 (0.066%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 283 (18.69%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.08%) Oracle
3 72 (4.76%) Salesforce
4 67 (4.43%) SAP
5 28 (1.85%) Adobe
6 23 (1.52%) ServiceNow
7 16 (1.06%) VMware
8 14 (0.92%) IFS
9 13 (0.86%) Apple
9 13 (0.86%) EMC
10 12 (0.79%) Workday
11 10 (0.66%) Cisco
12 8 (0.53%) Databricks
12 8 (0.53%) F5
12 8 (0.53%) Google
12 8 (0.53%) Sage
13 7 (0.46%) Epicor
13 7 (0.46%) ION Trading
13 7 (0.46%) Juniper
13 7 (0.46%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud