Requirements Gathering Jobs in the West Midlands

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Requirements Gathering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Requirements Gathering over the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 154 136
Rank change year-on-year +59 -18 -17
Permanent jobs citing Requirements Gathering 117 102 137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.65% 1.38% 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.90% 1.67% 2.21%
Number of salaries quoted 67 69 106
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £49,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -18.18% +5.36%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £75,188
90th Percentile £75,500 £72,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +8.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,039 6,107 6,186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.40% 82.86% 96.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,692 4,565 3,200
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,250 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £79,025
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Requirements Gathering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in the West Midlands

Requirements Gathering
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Requirements Gathering in the West Midlands

Requirements Gathering
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Requirements Gathering in the West Midlands

Requirements Gathering
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Requirements Gathering within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
Birmingham +60 64 £52,500 -9.43% 16
Solihull +25 25 £60,000 +26.32% 1
Wolverhampton - 11 £45,500 -
Walsall - 10 £47,500 - 1
Worcestershire +20 3 £47,500 +5.56% 1
Shropshire +19 3 £45,000 - 2
Warwickshire -4 3 £88,000 - 14
Dudley - 2 £57,500 - 2
Kingswinford - 1 £37,500 -
Requirements Gathering
England

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.71%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 22 (18.80%) NetSuite
2 4 (3.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.71%) SAP EWM
3 2 (1.71%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.85%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.85%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.85%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 12 (10.26%) Power Platform
2 10 (8.55%) SaaS
3 9 (7.69%) Azure
4 6 (5.13%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (2.56%) AWS
6 2 (1.71%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.85%) Azure Storage
7 1 (0.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.85%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.85%) Matillion
7 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.85%) SAP Fieldglass
7 1 (0.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.69%) BGP
1 9 (7.69%) Cisco IOS
1 9 (7.69%) IPsec
1 9 (7.69%) Junos
1 9 (7.69%) LAN
1 9 (7.69%) MPLS
1 9 (7.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.26%) Power BI
2 4 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.71%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (3.42%) JIRA
1 4 (3.42%) LSMW
2 2 (1.71%) Selenium
3 1 (0.85%) ERwin
General
1 79 (67.52%) Analytical Skills
2 46 (39.32%) Law
3 43 (36.75%) Finance
4 41 (35.04%) Manufacturing
5 31 (26.50%) Social Skills
6 14 (11.97%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.56%) Billing
7 3 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.56%) Legal
7 3 (2.56%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.71%) Local Government
9 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 41 (35.04%) Analyst
2 38 (32.48%) Logistics Engineer
2 38 (32.48%) Project Engineer
3 31 (26.50%) Business Analyst
4 21 (17.95%) Consultant
5 15 (12.82%) Functional Consultant
6 14 (11.97%) NetSuite Consultant
7 10 (8.55%) Architect
7 10 (8.55%) Finance Business Analyst
7 10 (8.55%) Financial Analyst
8 9 (7.69%) Finance Systems Analyst
8 9 (7.69%) Network Architect
9 8 (6.84%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 7 (5.98%) CRM Analyst
10 7 (5.98%) CRM Business Analyst
10 7 (5.98%) CRM Systems Analyst
10 7 (5.98%) Financial Business Analyst
10 7 (5.98%) Senior
10 7 (5.98%) Systems Analyst
11 6 (5.13%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.71%) Middleware
1 2 (1.71%) Playwright
2 1 (0.85%) .NET
2 1 (0.85%) SailPoint
2 1 (0.85%) Vue
2 1 (0.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.26%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (5.98%) Taxonomies
3 4 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.56%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.71%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.71%) Replication
5 2 (1.71%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.85%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (42.74%) Data Analysis
2 43 (36.75%) Logistics
3 41 (35.04%) Business Case
3 41 (35.04%) Data Management
4 38 (32.48%) Logistic Engineering
5 31 (26.50%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (23.08%) Project Management
7 26 (22.22%) CRM
8 24 (20.51%) ERP
9 23 (19.66%) Stakeholder Management
10 22 (18.80%) Migration
11 20 (17.09%) Data Migration
12 17 (14.53%) Agile
12 17 (14.53%) Decision-Making
13 16 (13.68%) Collaborative Working
14 15 (12.82%) Change Management
15 14 (11.97%) Business Intelligence
15 14 (11.97%) User Stories
16 12 (10.26%) Analytics
16 12 (10.26%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 9 (7.69%) SQL
2 2 (1.71%) C#
2 2 (1.71%) T-SQL
3 1 (0.85%) ABAP
3 1 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (0.85%) Go
3 1 (0.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 44 (37.61%) Degree
2 13 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 10 (8.55%) SC Cleared
4 9 (7.69%) CCNA
4 9 (7.69%) CCNP
4 9 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (7.69%) JNCIS
5 6 (5.13%) CBAP
5 6 (5.13%) IIBA
5 6 (5.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (3.42%) ISTQB
6 4 (3.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.85%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.85%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.85%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 1 (0.85%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.69%) SLA
2 3 (2.56%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.71%) QA
4 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.85%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 9 (7.69%) Cisco
1 9 (7.69%) Juniper
1 9 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 9 (7.69%) SAP
2 7 (5.98%) Databricks
2 7 (5.98%) Salesforce
3 2 (1.71%) JD Edwards
3 2 (1.71%) QAD
4 1 (0.85%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (0.85%) CyberArk
4 1 (0.85%) Epicor
4 1 (0.85%) Okta
4 1 (0.85%) Pegasus
4 1 (0.85%) Sage