Requirements Gathering Contracts in Central London

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Requirements Gathering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Requirements Gathering over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 66 75
Rank change year-on-year +8 +9 +33
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 70 66 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.50% 2.72% 2.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.76% 3.00% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 47 79
10th Percentile £413 £458 £405
25th Percentile £463 £513 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +13.21%
75th Percentile £695 £588 £725
90th Percentile £788 £723 £821
London median daily rate £570 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +3.64% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.75 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £23.50 - £52.50
75th Percentile £24.25 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £23.50 £67.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -65.19% +8.00% -11.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Requirements Gathering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,860 2,197 3,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.95% 90.56% 91.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,203 1,565 2,378
10th Percentile £357 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +4.44%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 24 29
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.01 £15.45
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.38 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -13.58%
75th Percentile £43.97 £29.11 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £41.29 £88.30
London median hourly rate £34.00 £29.00 £39.00
% change year-on-year +17.24% -25.64% +7.11%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in Central London

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Requirements Gathering in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Requirements Gathering in Central London

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering in Central London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in Central London

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Requirements Gathering in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Gathering in Central London

Requirements Gathering
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 4 May 2025. 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
City of London +1 54 £594 +7.95% 23
Southwark - 5 £155 -
City of Westminster -3 1 £475 -36.67%
West End of London -9 1 £475 +7.04% 8
Requirements Gathering
London

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 5 (7.14%) Confluence
2 3 (4.29%) CMS
2 3 (4.29%) Drupal
2 3 (4.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (11.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (4.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (4.29%) MS Visio
4 2 (2.86%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.43%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.43%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (1.43%) SAP CAR
2 1 (1.43%) SAP MDG
2 1 (1.43%) SAP MM
2 1 (1.43%) SAP Retail
2 1 (1.43%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 14 (20.00%) Azure
2 12 (17.14%) Power Platform
3 6 (8.57%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (7.14%) Microsoft Copilot
5 4 (5.71%) AWS
5 4 (5.71%) PaaS
5 4 (5.71%) Serverless
6 2 (2.86%) dbt
6 2 (2.86%) IBM Blueworks
6 2 (2.86%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.43%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.43%) Figma
7 1 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.43%) Miro
7 1 (1.43%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.43%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.29%) Network Security
2 2 (2.86%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (2.86%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (1.43%) BGP
3 1 (1.43%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (1.43%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.43%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (1.43%) Firewall
3 1 (1.43%) LAN
3 1 (1.43%) Multicast
3 1 (1.43%) VPN
3 1 (1.43%) VXLAN
3 1 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.14%) Power BI
2 7 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.00%) Tableau
3 5 (7.14%) BusinessObjects
3 5 (7.14%) Crystal Reports
3 5 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.43%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.43%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.43%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 9 (12.86%) JIRA
2 4 (5.71%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.86%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.86%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (2.86%) Git
3 2 (2.86%) JUnit
3 2 (2.86%) SonarQube
General
1 30 (42.86%) Finance
2 29 (41.43%) Social Skills
3 14 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (18.57%) Banking
5 11 (15.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (8.57%) Front Office
7 6 (8.57%) Public Sector
8 5 (7.14%) Financial Institution
8 5 (7.14%) Investment Banking
9 3 (4.29%) Back Office
9 3 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (2.86%) Retail
11 1 (1.43%) General Ledger
11 1 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (48.57%) Analyst
2 31 (44.29%) Business Analyst
3 12 (17.14%) Developer
4 10 (14.29%) Senior
5 7 (10.00%) Lead
6 6 (8.57%) Architect
6 6 (8.57%) Data Analyst
6 6 (8.57%) Data Business Analyst
6 6 (8.57%) Designer
7 5 (7.14%) Consultant
7 5 (7.14%) Content Designer
7 5 (7.14%) Junior
7 5 (7.14%) Junior Content Designer
7 5 (7.14%) Junior Designer
7 5 (7.14%) Power BI Developer
8 4 (5.71%) Azure Architect
8 4 (5.71%) IT Analyst
8 4 (5.71%) Lead Consultant
8 4 (5.71%) Project Manager
8 4 (5.71%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.29%) .NET
1 3 (4.29%) .NET Core
2 2 (2.86%) ASP.NET
2 2 (2.86%) ASP.NET Core
2 2 (2.86%) CSS
2 2 (2.86%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (2.86%) FpML
2 2 (2.86%) HTML
3 1 (1.43%) Kafka
3 1 (1.43%) OAuth
3 1 (1.43%) OpenID
3 1 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (8.57%) Equities
3 5 (7.14%) Management Information System
4 4 (5.71%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.71%) Fixed Income
4 4 (5.71%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.29%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.86%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.86%) Derivative
6 2 (2.86%) PMI
6 2 (2.86%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.86%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.43%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.86%) Linux
1 2 (2.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (30.00%) Agile
2 20 (28.57%) Business Analysis
2 20 (28.57%) Data Analysis
3 16 (22.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (15.71%) Project Management
5 10 (14.29%) DevOps
5 10 (14.29%) Process Improvement
6 9 (12.86%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (12.86%) User Experience
6 9 (12.86%) User Stories
6 9 (12.86%) Visualisation
7 8 (11.43%) Analytics
7 8 (11.43%) Project Delivery
8 7 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (10.00%) CI/CD
8 7 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
9 6 (8.57%) Change Management
9 6 (8.57%) Collaborative Working
9 6 (8.57%) Scrum
9 6 (8.57%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 24 (34.29%) SQL
2 4 (5.71%) Python
3 3 (4.29%) C#
4 2 (2.86%) Java
4 2 (2.86%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.86%) T-SQL
4 2 (2.86%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (11.43%) Degree
1 8 (11.43%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.14%) CBAP
4 4 (5.71%) PMI Certification
5 3 (4.29%) CFA
5 3 (4.29%) Master's Degree
5 3 (4.29%) PMP
6 2 (2.86%) CCIE
6 2 (2.86%) CCNP
6 2 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.86%) MBA
7 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.43%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.43%) MiFID
2 7 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 7 (10.00%) EMIR
3 4 (5.71%) QA
4 2 (2.86%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.86%) Dodd-Frank
4 2 (2.86%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (1.43%) GDPR
5 1 (1.43%) SLA
5 1 (1.43%) UCITS
System Software
1 2 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.71%) Ansible
1 4 (5.71%) Terraform
2 3 (4.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.14%) ServiceNow
3 3 (4.29%) Cisco
3 3 (4.29%) Oracle
3 3 (4.29%) SAP
4 2 (2.86%) SimCorp
5 1 (1.43%) Adobe
5 1 (1.43%) Advent
5 1 (1.43%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.43%) Blue Prism
5 1 (1.43%) Charles River
5 1 (1.43%) Confluent
5 1 (1.43%) Google
5 1 (1.43%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.43%) Progress
5 1 (1.43%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.43%) UiPath