Requirements Gathering Contracts in the Midlands

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 82 73
Rank change year-on-year +18 -9 +11
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 71 85 156
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.63% 2.53% 3.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.20% 2.87% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 66 109
10th Percentile £275 £333 £362
25th Percentile £350 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £389 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -22.20% +5.26% +7.04%
75th Percentile £565 £538 £540
90th Percentile £681 £609 £628
England median daily rate £533 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.52% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £92.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate - £95.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - +442.86% -16.67%
75th Percentile - £97.50 £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £50.25 £61.50 £53.00
% change year-on-year -18.29% +16.04% +152.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,219 2,963 4,395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.09% 88.29% 88.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,482 2,074 3,238
10th Percentile £238 £250 £250
25th Percentile £356 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +3.47% +15.15%
75th Percentile £600 £591 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 106 145
10th Percentile £11.06 £11.90 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.60 £14.64 £13.73
Median hourly rate £18.50 £20.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +14.29% +13.27%
75th Percentile £34.56 £31.50 £22.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £56.25 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.25% +49.36% +6.38%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in the Midlands

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Requirements Gathering in the Midlands

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in the Midlands

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Gathering in the Midlands

Requirements Gathering
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 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
West Midlands +17 62 £360 -28.00% 27
East Midlands +15 5 £425 -6.59% 9
Requirements Gathering
England

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (12.68%) CICS
1 9 (12.68%) SAS
2 1 (1.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (4.23%) SAP MII
1 3 (4.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.82%) SAP HCM
3 1 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.41%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.41%) SAP GRC
3 1 (1.41%) SAP PP
3 1 (1.41%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 7 (9.86%) Power Platform
2 2 (2.82%) SuccessFactors
3 1 (1.41%) Azure
3 1 (1.41%) Boomi
3 1 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.41%) Power Automate
3 1 (1.41%) PowerApps
3 1 (1.41%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (1.41%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.45%) LAN
1 6 (8.45%) WAN
2 5 (7.04%) Junos
3 4 (5.63%) BGP
3 4 (5.63%) Cisco IOS
3 4 (5.63%) IPsec
3 4 (5.63%) MPLS
4 3 (4.23%) Network Security
5 2 (2.82%) Firewall
6 1 (1.41%) VPN
6 1 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (22.54%) Amazon Redshift
1 16 (22.54%) MySQL
2 10 (14.08%) DB2
3 9 (12.68%) IDMS
4 6 (8.45%) Power BI
5 4 (5.63%) SAP BW
6 1 (1.41%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.41%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (35.21%) Git
General
1 14 (19.72%) Finance
2 13 (18.31%) Social Skills
3 9 (12.68%) Manufacturing
4 8 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.27%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Automotive
6 1 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (25.35%) Analyst
2 17 (23.94%) Business Analyst
3 13 (18.31%) Consultant
3 13 (18.31%) Developer
4 10 (14.08%) IBM Mainframe Developer
4 10 (14.08%) Mainframe Developer
5 9 (12.68%) SAP Consultant
6 4 (5.63%) Architect
6 4 (5.63%) Junior
6 4 (5.63%) Network Architect
7 3 (4.23%) Junior Product Owner
7 3 (4.23%) Process Analyst
7 3 (4.23%) Product Owner
8 2 (2.82%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
8 2 (2.82%) Functional Consultant
8 2 (2.82%) Lead
8 2 (2.82%) Report Analyst
8 2 (2.82%) SAP HCM Consultant
8 2 (2.82%) Technical Analyst
8 2 (2.82%) Test Environment Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.41%) .NET
1 1 (1.41%) Blazor
1 1 (1.41%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (1.41%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (1.41%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (1.41%) SAP MI
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.08%) IBM Mainframe
1 10 (14.08%) Mainframe
2 4 (5.63%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.63%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.41%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.41%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.68%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (40.85%) Agile
2 26 (36.62%) Scrum
3 19 (26.76%) Analytics
3 19 (26.76%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (25.35%) Configuration Management
4 18 (25.35%) Continuous Integration
4 18 (25.35%) Data Analytics
4 18 (25.35%) ETL
4 18 (25.35%) Software Engineering
5 17 (23.94%) Data Extraction
6 16 (22.54%) Dashboard Development
6 16 (22.54%) Process Improvement
7 13 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (16.90%) Test Strategy
9 8 (11.27%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (9.86%) Business Analysis
10 7 (9.86%) Project Management
11 6 (8.45%) Workflow
12 5 (7.04%) Workshop Facilitation
13 4 (5.63%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 10 (14.08%) COBOL
2 9 (12.68%) CLIST
2 9 (12.68%) REXX
2 9 (12.68%) SELCOPY
3 2 (2.82%) SQL
4 1 (1.41%) C#
4 1 (1.41%) Python
Qualifications
1 29 (40.85%) Security Cleared
2 24 (33.80%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.04%) CCNP
3 5 (7.04%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (5.63%) CCNA
5 3 (4.23%) Degree
5 3 (4.23%) JNCIS
5 3 (4.23%) SAP Certification
6 2 (2.82%) CBAP
7 1 (1.41%) APMP
7 1 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.41%) IIBA
7 1 (1.41%) ISEB
7 1 (1.41%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.04%) SLA
2 3 (4.23%) QA
3 2 (2.82%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.41%) PSD2
Systems Management
1 16 (22.54%) Grafana
Vendors
1 17 (23.94%) SAP
2 16 (22.54%) Denodo
2 16 (22.54%) Talend
3 10 (14.08%) IBM
4 9 (12.68%) Syncsort
5 5 (7.04%) Cisco
5 5 (7.04%) Juniper
5 5 (7.04%) Microsoft
6 4 (5.63%) Salesforce
7 3 (4.23%) Anaplan
8 1 (1.41%) Ariba
8 1 (1.41%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (1.41%) ServiceNow