Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Requirements Gathering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Requirements Gathering over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 192 197 190
Rank change year-on-year +5 -7 -23
Permanent jobs citing Requirements Gathering 1,515 1,956 3,323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.54% 1.89% 2.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 1.98% 2.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,091 1,311 2,102
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,900 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% +5.26% +3.64%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £90,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,624 98,922 149,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.89% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,744 58,119 83,346
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in the UK

Requirements Gathering
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Requirements Gathering.

Salary trend for Requirements Gathering in the UK

Requirements Gathering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Requirements Gathering in the UK

Requirements Gathering
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Requirements Gathering within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +12 1,335 £55,000 -8.33% 336
UK excluding London +18 978 £49,500 -5.71% 198
Work from Home +33 743 £54,000 -6.09% 198
London -4 460 £70,000 +7.69% 161
South East +26 259 £49,750 -5.24% 39
North of England +54 224 £52,500 -2.67% 51
Midlands 0 169 £45,000 -14.29% 33
South West +7 132 £50,000 - 33
North West +16 125 £50,000 -9.09% 28
West Midlands -15 102 £46,250 -15.91% 25
Yorkshire +92 86 £54,950 +4.67% 16
East of England -6 80 £49,500 -17.50% 11
Scotland -52 79 £42,500 -12.82% 23
East Midlands -4 64 £42,500 -17.07% 8
Wales +6 21 £48,500 +12.93% 5
North East -12 13 £57,965 -25.21% 7
Northern Ireland +12 12 £48,150 -8.29% 7
Isle of Man - 4 £54,000 -

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 59 (3.89%) Confluence
2 45 (2.97%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.58%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.99%) Apache
5 13 (0.86%) CMS
6 11 (0.73%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.66%) IIS
8 7 (0.46%) SAS
9 5 (0.33%) JBoss
9 5 (0.33%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.33%) WebLogic
9 5 (0.33%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.33%) WildFly
10 3 (0.20%) IBM Domino
11 2 (0.13%) Drupal
11 2 (0.13%) Magnolia
11 2 (0.13%) Moodle
11 2 (0.13%) nginx
11 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 116 (7.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (2.51%) MS Visio
3 36 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
4 25 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
6 13 (0.86%) Sketch
7 9 (0.59%) Photoshop
8 6 (0.40%) InDesign
8 6 (0.40%) InVision
9 4 (0.26%) Windchill
10 2 (0.13%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.066%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.066%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.066%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 57 (3.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.79%) Dynamics NAV
4 11 (0.73%) Dynamics AX
5 10 (0.66%) NetSuite
6 9 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
7 8 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
8 7 (0.46%) Maximo
8 7 (0.46%) Workday HCM
9 6 (0.40%) SAP CO
9 6 (0.40%) SAP FI
9 6 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
9 6 (0.40%) SAP MDG
10 5 (0.33%) Distributed Ledger
10 5 (0.33%) Teamcenter
11 4 (0.26%) Oracle Payroll
11 4 (0.26%) SAP HCM
11 4 (0.26%) Shopify
11 4 (0.26%) Sonata
12 3 (0.20%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 260 (17.16%) Power Platform
2 226 (14.92%) Azure
3 96 (6.34%) Dynamics 365
4 84 (5.54%) SaaS
5 72 (4.75%) AWS
6 60 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
7 54 (3.56%) PowerApps
8 39 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
9 35 (2.31%) Azure Data Factory
10 29 (1.91%) Amazon S3
11 28 (1.85%) Miro
12 26 (1.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 26 (1.72%) Entra ID
13 24 (1.58%) Power Automate
14 23 (1.52%) OCI
15 19 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
16 14 (0.92%) GitHub
17 13 (0.86%) OneDrive
18 9 (0.59%) Cloud Computing
18 9 (0.59%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.86%) HTTP
1 13 (0.86%) WAN
2 12 (0.79%) Unified Communications
3 11 (0.73%) 5G
3 11 (0.73%) Internet
3 11 (0.73%) SD-WAN
4 10 (0.66%) Broadband
4 10 (0.66%) WPA
5 9 (0.59%) Firewall
6 8 (0.53%) Intranet
6 8 (0.53%) SAN
6 8 (0.53%) Wireless
7 6 (0.40%) Cisco Firepower
7 6 (0.40%) VPN
8 5 (0.33%) DNS
9 4 (0.26%) Ethernet
9 4 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (0.20%) SSL
11 2 (0.13%) LAN
11 2 (0.13%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (14.92%) Power BI
2 103 (6.80%) SQL Server
3 83 (5.48%) Data Warehouse
4 51 (3.37%) Tableau
5 39 (2.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 30 (1.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 25 (1.65%) Power Query
8 22 (1.45%) Data Lake
9 18 (1.19%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 17 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
11 16 (1.06%) Metadata
12 14 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
13 13 (0.86%) Amazon QuickSight
14 12 (0.79%) NoSQL
15 11 (0.73%) Big Data
15 11 (0.73%) Relational Database
16 10 (0.66%) BusinessObjects
17 9 (0.59%) Data Mining
17 9 (0.59%) MongoDB
18 8 (0.53%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 142 (9.37%) JIRA
2 29 (1.91%) Git
3 17 (1.12%) Visual Studio
4 15 (0.99%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 12 (0.79%) Eclipse
6 10 (0.66%) TestRail
7 9 (0.59%) GitLab
8 7 (0.46%) JMeter
8 7 (0.46%) Rational DOORS
8 7 (0.46%) Selenium
9 6 (0.40%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.40%) LoadRunner
9 6 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.33%) Gatling
10 5 (0.33%) Postman
10 5 (0.33%) Subversion
11 4 (0.26%) Jenkins
12 3 (0.20%) Rational Rhapsody
13 2 (0.13%) Hudson
13 2 (0.13%) SoapUI
General
1 497 (32.81%) Social Skills
2 344 (22.71%) Finance
3 301 (19.87%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (6.86%) Retail
5 90 (5.94%) Marketing
6 83 (5.48%) Law
7 77 (5.08%) Public Sector
8 73 (4.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 67 (4.42%) Manufacturing
9 67 (4.42%) Presentation Skills
10 49 (3.23%) Banking
11 48 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
12 47 (3.10%) Legal
13 25 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
14 24 (1.58%) Local Government
15 23 (1.52%) Electronics
16 19 (1.25%) Telecoms
17 17 (1.12%) Front Office
17 17 (1.12%) Games
18 15 (0.99%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 549 (36.24%) Analyst
2 354 (23.37%) Business Analyst
3 220 (14.52%) Senior
4 183 (12.08%) Consultant
5 155 (10.23%) Developer
6 110 (7.26%) Lead
6 110 (7.26%) Senior Analyst
7 88 (5.81%) Project Manager
8 80 (5.28%) Architect
8 80 (5.28%) Senior Business Analyst
9 49 (3.23%) IT Analyst
10 48 (3.17%) Technical Consultant
11 46 (3.04%) Data Analyst
12 44 (2.90%) Product Owner
13 43 (2.84%) Solutions Architect
14 42 (2.77%) Business IT Analyst
14 42 (2.77%) IT Business Analyst
15 40 (2.64%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 34 (2.24%) Senior Consultant
17 33 (2.18%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (4.49%) HTML
2 52 (3.43%) .NET
3 36 (2.38%) CSS
4 35 (2.31%) Web Services
5 34 (2.24%) JSON
6 33 (2.18%) REST
7 32 (2.11%) XML
8 31 (2.05%) AngularJS
9 24 (1.58%) React
10 17 (1.12%) Spring
10 17 (1.12%) XSL
11 16 (1.06%) ASP.NET
11 16 (1.06%) EDI
11 16 (1.06%) RESTful
12 14 (0.92%) Lightning Web Components
13 13 (0.86%) HTML5
14 12 (0.79%) .NET Core
14 12 (0.79%) Hibernate
15 11 (0.73%) .NET Framework
15 11 (0.73%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 118 (7.79%) Product Ownership
2 113 (7.46%) Self-Motivation
3 52 (3.43%) Management Information System
4 33 (2.18%) Data Centre
4 33 (2.18%) Onboarding
5 21 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
6 19 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (1.25%) Virtual Team
7 17 (1.12%) Public Cloud
8 16 (1.06%) Low-Code
8 16 (1.06%) NHS
9 15 (0.99%) Driving Licence
10 14 (0.92%) Data Structures
11 12 (0.79%) Reference Data
11 12 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
12 11 (0.73%) Algorithms
12 11 (0.73%) Taxonomies
13 9 (0.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 9 (0.59%) Social Media
14 8 (0.53%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 50 (3.30%) Windows
2 40 (2.64%) Linux
3 17 (1.12%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.99%) Windows 10
5 10 (0.66%) Unix
6 3 (0.20%) Android
6 3 (0.20%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.066%) CentOS
7 1 (0.066%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 487 (32.15%) Agile
2 375 (24.75%) Problem-Solving
3 258 (17.03%) Business Analysis
4 252 (16.63%) Project Management
5 246 (16.24%) Business Intelligence
6 223 (14.72%) Stakeholder Management
7 188 (12.41%) Roadmaps
8 177 (11.68%) User Stories
9 158 (10.43%) Migration
10 146 (9.64%) Workshop Facilitation
11 144 (9.50%) Analytics
12 139 (9.17%) Project Delivery
13 137 (9.04%) Scrum
14 136 (8.98%) Actionable Insight
15 134 (8.84%) Mentoring
16 118 (7.79%) Decision-Making
17 113 (7.46%) SDLC
18 109 (7.19%) ERP
19 106 (7.00%) Continuous Improvement
20 103 (6.80%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 315 (20.79%) SQL
2 129 (8.51%) Python
3 75 (4.95%) C#
4 73 (4.82%) JavaScript
5 71 (4.69%) Java
6 56 (3.70%) T-SQL
7 43 (2.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 30 (1.98%) PL/SQL
9 24 (1.58%) PowerShell
10 17 (1.12%) R
11 16 (1.06%) C
11 16 (1.06%) C++
12 13 (0.86%) PHP
13 12 (0.79%) TypeScript
13 12 (0.79%) VBA
14 11 (0.73%) RPG
15 10 (0.66%) VB
16 9 (0.59%) Embedded C
17 7 (0.46%) MATLAB
18 4 (0.26%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 257 (16.96%) Degree
2 171 (11.29%) Security Cleared
3 113 (7.46%) SC Cleared
4 45 (2.97%) DBS Check
5 42 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (2.38%) Master's Degree
7 31 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (1.12%) PMI Certification
9 16 (1.06%) DV Cleared
9 16 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (0.86%) PMP
11 12 (0.79%) AWS Certification
11 12 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 10 (0.66%) ISTQB
12 10 (0.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 9 (0.59%) CISM
13 9 (0.59%) CISSP
14 8 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 7 (0.46%) CSPO
16 6 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (5.81%) QA
2 44 (2.90%) Data Quality
3 15 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (0.86%) Accessibility
5 12 (0.79%) ISO 9001
6 9 (0.59%) PMO
7 8 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (0.53%) GDPR
8 5 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.26%) JTAG
9 4 (0.26%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.20%) NIST
11 1 (0.066%) ECSS
11 1 (0.066%) GMP
11 1 (0.066%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (1.91%) Active Directory
2 20 (1.32%) Docker
3 18 (1.19%) Firmware
4 13 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.79%) Embedded Firmware
5 12 (0.79%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.20%) vSphere
9 1 (0.066%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 27 (1.78%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (0.40%) SCCM
3 6 (0.40%) Terraform
4 4 (0.26%) WSUS
5 2 (0.13%) Ansible
5 2 (0.13%) Grafana
5 2 (0.13%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.13%) PingFederate
5 2 (0.13%) Puppet
6 1 (0.066%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.066%) Graylog
6 1 (0.066%) HP SiteScope
6 1 (0.066%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.066%) Nagios
6 1 (0.066%) Perfmon
6 1 (0.066%) TeamSite
6 1 (0.066%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 283 (18.68%) Microsoft
2 91 (6.01%) Oracle
3 72 (4.75%) Salesforce
4 68 (4.49%) SAP
5 26 (1.72%) Adobe
6 23 (1.52%) ServiceNow
7 15 (0.99%) VMware
8 14 (0.92%) IFS
9 13 (0.86%) Apple
9 13 (0.86%) EMC
10 12 (0.79%) Workday
11 10 (0.66%) Cisco
12 8 (0.53%) Databricks
12 8 (0.53%) F5
12 8 (0.53%) Google
12 8 (0.53%) Sage
13 7 (0.46%) Epicor
13 7 (0.46%) ION Trading
13 7 (0.46%) Juniper
13 7 (0.46%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud