Requirements Gathering Contracts in the Thames Valley

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 80 71
Rank change year-on-year -25 -9 +13
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 36 67 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.38% 2.38% 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 2.61% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 50 82
10th Percentile £357 £430 £364
25th Percentile £397 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% +4.17%
75th Percentile £583 £584 £567
90th Percentile £640 £638 £650
South East median daily rate £525 £515 £470
% change year-on-year +1.94% +9.57% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year - +3.77% -
South East median hourly rate £25.25 £59.75 £47.75
% change year-on-year -57.74% +25.13% -12.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,273 2,564 3,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.09% 91.12% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,262 1,770 2,157
10th Percentile £213 £320 £227
25th Percentile £370 £413 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £486
Median % change year-on-year - +2.99% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £601 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.94% +1.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 64 87
10th Percentile £14.17 £18.50 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.13 £11.78
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.05 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.85% +200.29% -19.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.21 £23.75
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.42
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 the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in the Thames Valley

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Requirements Gathering in the Thames Valley

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in the Thames Valley

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Gathering in the Thames Valley

Requirements Gathering
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 21 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
Berkshire -31 21 £537 +4.27% 8
Buckinghamshire +12 15 £400 -23.81% 2
Requirements Gathering
South East

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (5.56%) Confluence
2 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.78%) CICS
2 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (2.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (19.44%) AWS
2 5 (13.89%) Azure
3 3 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.56%) PaaS
4 2 (5.56%) SaaS
4 2 (5.56%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.78%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.78%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (2.78%) ATM
2 1 (2.78%) Junos
2 1 (2.78%) LAN
2 1 (2.78%) Network Security
2 1 (2.78%) VPN
2 1 (2.78%) WAN
2 1 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) Big Data
1 2 (5.56%) Data Lake
1 2 (5.56%) Power BI
2 1 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (2.78%) Apache Hive
2 1 (2.78%) Data Mining
2 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.78%) DB2
2 1 (2.78%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.78%) Impala
2 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.78%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 17 (47.22%) Social Skills
2 10 (27.78%) Finance
3 8 (22.22%) Retail
4 6 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (13.89%) Banking
6 4 (11.11%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (8.33%) Automotive
7 3 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (5.56%) Marketing
8 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
8 2 (5.56%) Telecoms
9 1 (2.78%) General Ledger
9 1 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 23 (63.89%) Analyst
2 17 (47.22%) Business Analyst
3 5 (13.89%) Product Analyst
4 4 (11.11%) Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Consultant
5 3 (8.33%) Project Manager
5 3 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Data Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 2 (5.56%) E-Commerce Manager
6 2 (5.56%) E-Commerce Project Manager
6 2 (5.56%) OSS Business Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Product Business Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Security Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Technical Business Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Technical Consultant
6 2 (5.56%) Transformation Analyst
7 1 (2.78%) Digital Analyst
7 1 (2.78%) Digital Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) Web Services
2 1 (2.78%) Kafka
2 1 (2.78%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.56%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.78%) Biopharmaceutical
4 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.78%) Life Science
4 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.78%) PMI
4 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.78%) VSAM
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (44.44%) Business Analysis
2 11 (30.56%) Agile
3 10 (27.78%) User Acceptance Testing
3 10 (27.78%) User Stories
4 7 (19.44%) Project Management
5 6 (16.67%) Data Analysis
5 6 (16.67%) Data Design
5 6 (16.67%) Impact Assessments
5 6 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (13.89%) Business Case
6 5 (13.89%) Change Management
6 5 (13.89%) Scrum
7 4 (11.11%) Data Security
7 4 (11.11%) DevOps
7 4 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (11.11%) Waterfall
8 3 (8.33%) Analytics
8 3 (8.33%) CI/CD
8 3 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (8.33%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (19.44%) SQL
2 2 (5.56%) Java
2 2 (5.56%) Python
3 1 (2.78%) COBOL
3 1 (2.78%) JCL
3 1 (2.78%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (2.78%) CBAP
2 1 (2.78%) CCNA
2 1 (2.78%) CCNP
2 1 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.78%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.78%) JNCIA
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.78%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) Data Quality
1 2 (5.56%) QA
2 1 (2.78%) HL7
2 1 (2.78%) PMO
2 1 (2.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) HDFS
Vendors
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.33%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.56%) Informatica
3 2 (5.56%) SAP
4 1 (2.78%) Cisco
4 1 (2.78%) Cloudera
4 1 (2.78%) Juniper
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle