Requirements Gathering Contracts in the North West

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 64 109 87
Rank change year-on-year +45 -22 +8
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 75 52 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.82% 1.66% 2.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.29% 1.84% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 42 77
10th Percentile £325 £363 £350
25th Percentile £394 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £431 £490
Median % change year-on-year +10.14% -11.99% +12.00%
75th Percentile £598 £547 £525
90th Percentile £630 £563 £587
England median daily rate £533 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.52% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £55.25 £57.95
Median % change year-on-year - -4.66% -
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
North West

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 North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,283 2,831 3,588
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.83% 90.48% 88.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,449 1,995 2,611
10th Percentile £308 £313 £250
25th Percentile £406 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 139 172
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.80 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.50 £23.15 £14.44
Median hourly rate £23.50 £36.00 £23.55
Median % change year-on-year -34.72% +52.90% +27.82%
75th Percentile £45.88 £49.46 £50.01
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £75.00
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in the North West

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Requirements Gathering in the North West

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in the North West

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Gathering in the North West

Requirements Gathering
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West 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
Manchester +24 41 £475 +14.46% 17
Cheshire +23 24 £568 +5.76% 6
Lancashire +10 6 £475 -13.64% 3
Merseyside +18 3 £258 +8.65% 4
Cumbria -19 1 £235 -
Requirements Gathering
England

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (1.33%) Confluence
1 1 (1.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.67%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (5.33%) SAP EWM
2 1 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.33%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.33%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.33%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (1.33%) SAP GTS
2 1 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.33%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 4 (5.33%) Cloud Computing
1 4 (5.33%) Power Platform
2 3 (4.00%) Azure
2 3 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (4.00%) SaaS
3 1 (1.33%) AWS
3 1 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.33%) GCP
3 1 (1.33%) Google Workspace
3 1 (1.33%) Matillion
3 1 (1.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (5.33%) Power BI
2 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (14.67%) JIRA
2 1 (1.33%) Git
General
1 21 (28.00%) Finance
1 21 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (16.00%) Manufacturing
3 9 (12.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 6 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.00%) Banking
6 2 (2.67%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.67%) Front Office
6 2 (2.67%) Local Government
6 2 (2.67%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.33%) Billing
7 1 (1.33%) Electronics
7 1 (1.33%) French Language
7 1 (1.33%) Games
7 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.33%) Marketing
7 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Retail
7 1 (1.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (54.67%) Analyst
2 39 (52.00%) Business Analyst
3 13 (17.33%) Project Manager
4 6 (8.00%) Senior
4 6 (8.00%) Senior Analyst
4 6 (8.00%) User Researcher
5 5 (6.67%) Architect
5 5 (6.67%) Consultant
5 5 (6.67%) Senior Business Analyst
6 4 (5.33%) Pega Architect
6 4 (5.33%) Technical Analyst
6 4 (5.33%) Technical Business Analyst
7 2 (2.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 2 (2.67%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
7 2 (2.67%) Data Analyst
7 2 (2.67%) Risk Business Analyst
7 2 (2.67%) Risk Management Analyst
7 2 (2.67%) Risk Management Business Analyst
7 2 (2.67%) Senior Reporting Analyst
7 2 (2.67%) Senior Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.33%) REST
1 4 (5.33%) SOAP
2 1 (1.33%) .NET
2 1 (1.33%) .NET Core
2 1 (1.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.33%) ASP.NET Web Forms
2 1 (1.33%) Entity Framework
2 1 (1.33%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (1.33%) Sass
2 1 (1.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.33%) Industry 4.0
1 4 (5.33%) IoT
1 4 (5.33%) Robotics
2 3 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.33%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.33%) Android
1 1 (1.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (28.00%) Business Analysis
2 20 (26.67%) Agile
2 20 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 15 (20.00%) Project Management
4 11 (14.67%) Design Patterns
4 11 (14.67%) Workshop Facilitation
5 10 (13.33%) Requirements Workshops
6 9 (12.00%) CRM
7 8 (10.67%) Change Management
7 8 (10.67%) User Acceptance Testing
8 7 (9.33%) Data Protection
8 7 (9.33%) Mentoring
8 7 (9.33%) Requirements Engineering
8 7 (9.33%) Software Engineering
8 7 (9.33%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
8 7 (9.33%) Systems Engineering
8 7 (9.33%) Thought Leadership
8 7 (9.33%) Translating Business Requirements
8 7 (9.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 7 (9.33%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.00%) SQL
2 7 (9.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.33%) ABAP
3 1 (1.33%) Apex Code
3 1 (1.33%) Bicep
3 1 (1.33%) C#
3 1 (1.33%) T-SQL
3 1 (1.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (14.67%) Degree
2 5 (6.67%) IIBA
2 5 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.67%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.67%) ISEB
5 1 (1.33%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 6 (8.00%) GDPR
1 6 (8.00%) QA
2 5 (6.67%) Good Clinical Practice
2 5 (6.67%) GxP
3 1 (1.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.33%) Terraform
1 1 (1.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (9.33%) Avaloq
2 6 (8.00%) SAP
3 4 (5.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.33%) Pega
4 3 (4.00%) Salesforce
4 3 (4.00%) Siemens
5 2 (2.67%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.33%) Computacenter
6 1 (1.33%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.33%) Workday