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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 200 206 203
Rank change year-on-year +6 -3 -38
Permanent jobs citing Requirements Gathering 1,507 1,840 3,306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.51% 1.86% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 1.94% 2.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,088 1,231 2,037
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +3.64%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,900 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £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 18 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 18 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 +9 1,332 £55,000 -8.33% 347
UK excluding London +17 973 £50,000 -4.76% 222
Work from Home +37 748 £54,000 -10.00% 211
London +10 456 £70,000 +7.69% 171
South East +22 262 £50,000 -4.76% 51
North of England +53 221 £51,250 -2.84% 61
Midlands -20 165 £45,000 -14.29% 29
South West +17 139 £50,000 - 30
North West +9 124 £50,000 -9.09% 34
West Midlands -13 100 £45,000 -14.29% 23
Yorkshire +86 84 £55,000 +4.76% 22
East of England -17 77 £49,500 -17.50% 10
Scotland -42 77 £44,000 -13.73% 26
East Midlands -2 62 £49,500 -5.71% 6
Wales -1 20 £47,000 +10.59% 10
North East -10 13 £57,965 -25.21% 6
Northern Ireland +5 10 £54,400 +3.62% 6
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 (3.92%) Confluence
2 48 (3.19%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (1.00%) Apache
5 11 (0.73%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.73%) CMS
6 10 (0.66%) IIS
6 10 (0.66%) SAS
7 5 (0.33%) JBoss
7 5 (0.33%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.33%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.33%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.33%) WildFly
8 2 (0.13%) Drupal
8 2 (0.13%) IBM Domino
8 2 (0.13%) Magnolia
8 2 (0.13%) Moodle
8 2 (0.13%) nginx
8 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.066%) Documentum
Applications
1 108 (7.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (2.65%) MS Visio
3 38 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
4 25 (1.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
6 13 (0.86%) Sketch
7 6 (0.40%) InVision
8 4 (0.27%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.27%) Windchill
9 2 (0.13%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.066%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.066%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.066%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.066%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 57 (3.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.86%) Dynamics AX
4 11 (0.73%) Dynamics NAV
4 11 (0.73%) Maximo
4 11 (0.73%) NetSuite
4 11 (0.73%) Workday HCM
5 10 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
6 8 (0.53%) SAP MDG
7 7 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
7 7 (0.46%) SAP HCM
8 5 (0.33%) Distributed Ledger
8 5 (0.33%) SAP CO
8 5 (0.33%) SAP FI
8 5 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
8 5 (0.33%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.27%) Oracle Payroll
9 4 (0.27%) Sonata
10 3 (0.20%) Fidessa
10 3 (0.20%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 253 (16.79%) Power Platform
2 226 (15.00%) Azure
3 93 (6.17%) Dynamics 365
4 84 (5.57%) SaaS
5 77 (5.11%) AWS
6 62 (4.11%) Microsoft 365
7 53 (3.52%) PowerApps
8 38 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (2.26%) Azure Data Factory
10 31 (2.06%) Amazon S3
11 28 (1.86%) Miro
12 27 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 25 (1.66%) Entra ID
14 24 (1.59%) Power Automate
15 22 (1.46%) Amazon EC2
16 21 (1.39%) OCI
17 13 (0.86%) OneDrive
18 12 (0.80%) GitHub
19 10 (0.66%) GCP
20 9 (0.60%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.06%) WAN
2 15 (1.00%) 5G
2 15 (1.00%) SD-WAN
3 12 (0.80%) HTTP
3 12 (0.80%) Unified Communications
4 10 (0.66%) Broadband
4 10 (0.66%) Internet
4 10 (0.66%) WPA
5 9 (0.60%) Firewall
6 8 (0.53%) SAN
6 8 (0.53%) Wireless
7 7 (0.46%) Intranet
8 6 (0.40%) Cisco Firepower
8 6 (0.40%) VPN
9 5 (0.33%) DNS
10 4 (0.27%) Ethernet
10 4 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (0.20%) SSL
12 2 (0.13%) PBX
12 2 (0.13%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (14.47%) Power BI
2 98 (6.50%) SQL Server
3 83 (5.51%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (3.32%) Tableau
5 38 (2.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 26 (1.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 25 (1.66%) Power Query
8 21 (1.39%) Data Lake
9 18 (1.19%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 16 (1.06%) Amazon QuickSight
10 16 (1.06%) NoSQL
10 16 (1.06%) Oracle Reports
11 15 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
11 15 (1.00%) Metadata
12 12 (0.80%) Data Mining
13 11 (0.73%) Relational Database
14 10 (0.66%) DynamoDB
15 9 (0.60%) Big Data
15 9 (0.60%) MongoDB
15 9 (0.60%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 139 (9.22%) JIRA
2 28 (1.86%) Git
3 16 (1.06%) Visual Studio
4 15 (1.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 12 (0.80%) Eclipse
6 9 (0.60%) GitLab
6 9 (0.60%) TestRail
7 7 (0.46%) JMeter
7 7 (0.46%) Rational DOORS
8 6 (0.40%) Cucumber
8 6 (0.40%) LoadRunner
8 6 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (0.33%) Gatling
9 5 (0.33%) Postman
9 5 (0.33%) Selenium
9 5 (0.33%) Subversion
10 4 (0.27%) Jenkins
11 3 (0.20%) Rational Rhapsody
12 2 (0.13%) Hudson
12 2 (0.13%) SoapUI
General
1 509 (33.78%) Social Skills
2 328 (21.77%) Finance
3 295 (19.58%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (6.30%) Retail
5 83 (5.51%) Marketing
6 81 (5.37%) Law
7 75 (4.98%) Public Sector
8 71 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 70 (4.64%) Presentation Skills
10 63 (4.18%) Manufacturing
11 50 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
12 46 (3.05%) Legal
13 44 (2.92%) Banking
14 25 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
15 24 (1.59%) Local Government
16 23 (1.53%) Electronics
17 18 (1.19%) Telecoms
18 17 (1.13%) Front Office
18 17 (1.13%) Games
19 14 (0.93%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 546 (36.23%) Analyst
2 353 (23.42%) Business Analyst
3 214 (14.20%) Senior
4 187 (12.41%) Consultant
5 152 (10.09%) Developer
6 108 (7.17%) Senior Analyst
7 106 (7.03%) Lead
8 91 (6.04%) Project Manager
9 77 (5.11%) Senior Business Analyst
10 72 (4.78%) Architect
11 55 (3.65%) IT Analyst
12 48 (3.19%) Business IT Analyst
12 48 (3.19%) IT Business Analyst
12 48 (3.19%) Technical Consultant
13 44 (2.92%) Data Analyst
14 41 (2.72%) Product Owner
15 36 (2.39%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 36 (2.39%) Senior Consultant
15 36 (2.39%) Solutions Architect
16 33 (2.19%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (4.45%) HTML
2 51 (3.38%) .NET
3 35 (2.32%) JSON
4 34 (2.26%) CSS
5 33 (2.19%) REST
6 32 (2.12%) Web Services
7 31 (2.06%) AngularJS
7 31 (2.06%) XML
8 21 (1.39%) React
9 17 (1.13%) EDI
9 17 (1.13%) Spring
9 17 (1.13%) XSL
10 16 (1.06%) RESTful
11 15 (1.00%) Lightning Web Components
12 14 (0.93%) ASP.NET
13 13 (0.86%) Middleware
14 12 (0.80%) Hibernate
14 12 (0.80%) HTML5
14 12 (0.80%) SOAP
15 10 (0.66%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 113 (7.50%) Self-Motivation
2 109 (7.23%) Product Ownership
3 51 (3.38%) Management Information System
4 36 (2.39%) Onboarding
5 32 (2.12%) Data Centre
6 22 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
7 21 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (1.33%) Virtual Team
9 17 (1.13%) Public Cloud
10 16 (1.06%) NHS
11 15 (1.00%) Driving Licence
12 14 (0.93%) Data Structures
12 14 (0.93%) Low-Code
13 13 (0.86%) Mobile App
14 12 (0.80%) Reference Data
14 12 (0.80%) Renewable Energy
15 11 (0.73%) Algorithms
16 10 (0.66%) Taxonomies
17 9 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
17 9 (0.60%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 50 (3.32%) Windows
2 40 (2.65%) Linux
3 17 (1.13%) Windows Server
4 15 (1.00%) Windows 10
5 10 (0.66%) Unix
6 8 (0.53%) Android
6 8 (0.53%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.066%) CentOS
7 1 (0.066%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 470 (31.19%) Agile
2 373 (24.75%) Problem-Solving
3 259 (17.19%) Project Management
4 250 (16.59%) Business Analysis
5 239 (15.86%) Business Intelligence
6 203 (13.47%) Stakeholder Management
7 188 (12.48%) Roadmaps
8 172 (11.41%) User Stories
9 157 (10.42%) Migration
10 145 (9.62%) Project Delivery
11 140 (9.29%) Scrum
11 140 (9.29%) Workshop Facilitation
12 138 (9.16%) Analytics
13 136 (9.02%) Mentoring
14 129 (8.56%) Actionable Insight
15 115 (7.63%) Decision-Making
16 109 (7.23%) SDLC
17 108 (7.17%) Process Improvement
18 107 (7.10%) ERP
19 105 (6.97%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 314 (20.84%) SQL
2 128 (8.49%) Python
3 71 (4.71%) C#
4 70 (4.64%) JavaScript
5 68 (4.51%) Java
6 53 (3.52%) T-SQL
7 43 (2.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 28 (1.86%) PL/SQL
9 24 (1.59%) PowerShell
10 20 (1.33%) R
11 15 (1.00%) C
12 13 (0.86%) C++
12 13 (0.86%) PHP
13 12 (0.80%) VBA
14 11 (0.73%) RPG
14 11 (0.73%) TypeScript
15 10 (0.66%) MATLAB
15 10 (0.66%) VB
16 9 (0.60%) Embedded C
17 4 (0.27%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 261 (17.32%) Degree
2 173 (11.48%) Security Cleared
3 115 (7.63%) SC Cleared
4 46 (3.05%) DBS Check
5 40 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (2.39%) Master's Degree
7 30 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (1.13%) PMI Certification
9 16 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (0.93%) DV Cleared
11 13 (0.86%) PMP
12 12 (0.80%) AWS Certification
12 12 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (0.60%) CISM
13 9 (0.60%) CISSP
13 9 (0.60%) ISTQB
13 9 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 8 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 7 (0.46%) CSPO
16 6 (0.40%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (6.24%) QA
2 43 (2.85%) Data Quality
3 15 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (0.80%) Accessibility
4 12 (0.80%) ISO 9001
5 10 (0.66%) PMO
6 8 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
6 8 (0.53%) GDPR
7 5 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.27%) JTAG
8 4 (0.27%) Solvency II
9 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.20%) NIST
9 3 (0.20%) SLA
10 1 (0.066%) ECSS
10 1 (0.066%) GMP
System Software
1 30 (1.99%) Active Directory
2 20 (1.33%) Docker
3 18 (1.19%) Firmware
4 13 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.80%) Embedded Firmware
5 12 (0.80%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.20%) vSphere
9 1 (0.066%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 28 (1.86%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (0.53%) Terraform
4 6 (0.40%) SCCM
5 4 (0.27%) WSUS
6 3 (0.20%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.13%) Ansible
7 2 (0.13%) Grafana
7 2 (0.13%) Puppet
8 1 (0.066%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.066%) Graylog
8 1 (0.066%) HP SiteScope
8 1 (0.066%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.066%) Nagios
8 1 (0.066%) Perfmon
8 1 (0.066%) PingFederate
8 1 (0.066%) TeamSite
8 1 (0.066%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 280 (18.58%) Microsoft
2 90 (5.97%) Oracle
3 76 (5.04%) SAP
4 75 (4.98%) Salesforce
5 23 (1.53%) ServiceNow
6 21 (1.39%) Adobe
7 15 (1.00%) IFS
7 15 (1.00%) VMware
7 15 (1.00%) Workday
8 13 (0.86%) Apple
8 13 (0.86%) EMC
9 10 (0.66%) Cisco
10 9 (0.60%) Databricks
11 8 (0.53%) Epicor
11 8 (0.53%) F5
12 7 (0.46%) ION Trading
12 7 (0.46%) Juniper
12 7 (0.46%) Sage
12 7 (0.46%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 6 (0.40%) Hotjar