Requirements Gathering Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Requirements Gathering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 95 114
Rank change year-on-year -18 +19 +32
Permanent jobs citing Requirements Gathering 10 8 25
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.55% 0.55% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.63% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 5 3 20
10th Percentile - £42,290 £40,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £45,650 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £68,750 £54,875 £59,813
90th Percentile £84,500 £55,550 £75,100
Yorkshire median annual salary £67,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +28.57% +5.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,464 1,277 1,892
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 80.57% 87.95% 91.58%
Number of salaries quoted 855 636 1,438
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,125 £41,077 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.34%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Requirements Gathering job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Requirements Gathering
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Requirements Gathering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Requirements Gathering

Requirements Gathering
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Requirements Gathering in West Yorkshire

Requirements Gathering
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 11 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
Leeds -17 9 £67,500 +28.57% 4
Bradford - 1 - - 2
Requirements Gathering
Yorkshire

Requirements Gathering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (10.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon Cognito
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Serverless
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (20.00%) Retail
4 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Systems Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Data Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Designer
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Oracle Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Solutions Designer
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) OpenAPI
1 2 (20.00%) Swagger
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (20.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 4 (40.00%) Business Analysis
3 4 (40.00%) Change Management
4 3 (30.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) Business Continuity
4 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (30.00%) Incident Management
4 3 (30.00%) Information Security
4 3 (30.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (30.00%) Problem Management
4 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) Requirements Workshops
4 3 (30.00%) Security Patching
4 3 (30.00%) Supplier Management
4 3 (30.00%) User Stories
5 2 (20.00%) Business Strategy
5 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (20.00%) IIBA
3 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Cyber Essentials
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle