Requirements Gathering Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire with a requirement for Requirements Gathering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Requirements Gathering over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 51 44
Rank change year-on-year +15 -7 +9
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 15 26 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 3.12% 3.03% 4.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.76% 3.22% 4.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 19 32
10th Percentile £345 £431 £405
25th Percentile £375 £437 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 £580
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -9.48% +32.57%
75th Percentile £525 £580 £650
90th Percentile £577 £586 -
South East median daily rate £525 £515 £470
% change year-on-year +1.94% +9.57% +3.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 399 807 809
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 82.95% 94.06% 90.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 648 601
10th Percentile £253 £275 £225
25th Percentile £400 £403 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% - +2.70%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £566
90th Percentile £648 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 2 42
10th Percentile £15.85 £10.18 -
25th Percentile £18.00 £11.19 £10.77
Median hourly rate £25.00 £13.75 £12.18
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% +12.89% -6.31%
75th Percentile £28.75 £16.69 £14.32
90th Percentile £48.75 £17.93 £52.00
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +132.56% -21.82%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in Buckinghamshire

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Requirements Gathering in Buckinghamshire.

Daily rate trend for Requirements Gathering in Buckinghamshire

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in Buckinghamshire

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Requirements Gathering in Buckinghamshire.

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Gathering in Buckinghamshire

Requirements Gathering
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Requirements Gathering within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes +19 14 £400 -23.81%
High Wycombe - 1 - - 1
Requirements Gathering
South East

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
1 1 (6.67%) CICS
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
2 2 (13.33%) Snowflake
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Big Data
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Hive
2 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (6.67%) DB2
2 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
2 1 (6.67%) Impala
2 1 (6.67%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (6.67%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Finance
3 5 (33.33%) Banking
3 5 (33.33%) Retail
4 4 (26.67%) Corporate Banking
5 3 (20.00%) Automotive
5 3 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (6.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Analyst
2 8 (53.33%) Business Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) CRM Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Data Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Digital Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Digital Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Financial Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Functional Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Governance Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Software Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Software Test Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Kafka
1 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.67%) VSAM
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Business Analysis
2 7 (46.67%) User Stories
3 6 (40.00%) Data Analysis
3 6 (40.00%) Data Design
3 6 (40.00%) Impact Assessments
3 6 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 5 (33.33%) Change Management
5 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (13.33%) Agile
6 2 (13.33%) Analytics
6 2 (13.33%) CRM
6 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
6 2 (13.33%) ETL
7 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (6.67%) Data Management
7 1 (6.67%) E-Commerce
7 1 (6.67%) Project Management
7 1 (6.67%) Software Testing
7 1 (6.67%) TDD
7 1 (6.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) COBOL
3 1 (6.67%) JCL
3 1 (6.67%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) HDFS
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Informatica
2 1 (6.67%) Cloudera
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) SAP