Requirements Gathering Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Requirements Gathering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 68 67
Rank change year-on-year -8 -1 +12
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 63 59 59
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.62% 3.16% 2.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.02% 3.36% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 32 42
10th Percentile £354 £387 £451
25th Percentile £438 £450 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £578 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.00% -6.38%
75th Percentile £664 £725 £647
90th Percentile £724 £749 £751
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £27.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £23.50 -

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,087 1,756 1,903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.85% 94.05% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,410 1,133 1,291
10th Percentile £368 £338 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £678 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 22 18
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.57 £19.71
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.88
Median hourly rate £19.50 £29.75 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.45% -11.19% -10.46%
75th Percentile £41.25 £54.75 £74.38
90th Percentile £60.78 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £31.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -25.29% -6.06% -5.71%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Requirements Gathering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Requirements Gathering job vacancy trend in the City of London

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Requirements Gathering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Requirements Gathering

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering in the City of London over the 6 months to 25 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in the City of London

Requirements Gathering
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Requirements Gathering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Requirements Gathering

Requirements Gathering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.76%) Confluence
2 2 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.59%) CMS
3 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.59%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.17%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.59%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) SAP MDG
1 2 (3.17%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (3.17%) Workday HCM
2 1 (1.59%) Actimize
2 1 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.59%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.59%) SAP PM
2 1 (1.59%) SAP QM
2 1 (1.59%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 10 (15.87%) Power Platform
2 8 (12.70%) Azure
3 4 (6.35%) Snowflake
4 3 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (3.17%) Azure AI
5 2 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (3.17%) OCI
5 2 (3.17%) Power Automate
5 2 (3.17%) SaaS
5 2 (3.17%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.59%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (1.59%) Google Gemini
6 1 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.59%) Miro
6 1 (1.59%) PaaS
6 1 (1.59%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.59%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.35%) VPN
2 3 (4.76%) Multicast
3 1 (1.59%) Firewall
3 1 (1.59%) Internet
3 1 (1.59%) LAN
3 1 (1.59%) WAN
3 1 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.59%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.70%) Power BI
2 3 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (4.76%) Metadata
3 2 (3.17%) Data Lake
3 2 (3.17%) Oracle Database
3 2 (3.17%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.59%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.59%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (1.59%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 25 (39.68%) Social Skills
2 20 (31.75%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (30.16%) Finance
4 8 (12.70%) Banking
5 6 (9.52%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.35%) Retail
7 3 (4.76%) Marketing
7 3 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (3.17%) Back Office
8 2 (3.17%) Front Office
8 2 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.17%) Law
8 2 (3.17%) Legal
8 2 (3.17%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.17%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (3.17%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.59%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.59%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.59%) Military
9 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (49.21%) Analyst
1 31 (49.21%) Business Analyst
2 7 (11.11%) Consultant
2 7 (11.11%) Developer
2 7 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
2 7 (11.11%) Technical Business Analyst
3 5 (7.94%) Data Analyst
3 5 (7.94%) Data Business Analyst
3 5 (7.94%) Senior
3 5 (7.94%) Senior Business Analyst
4 4 (6.35%) Project Manager
4 4 (6.35%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (4.76%) Functional Consultant
5 3 (4.76%) Middleware Engineer
5 3 (4.76%) Principal Consultant
6 2 (3.17%) Business Integration Analyst
6 2 (3.17%) Integration Analyst
6 2 (3.17%) Product Analyst
6 2 (3.17%) Salesforce Administrator
6 2 (3.17%) SAP Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.35%) Middleware
2 2 (3.17%) JSON
2 2 (3.17%) XML
3 1 (1.59%) LDAP
3 1 (1.59%) OAuth
3 1 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.59%) RESTful
3 1 (1.59%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.59%) SAML
3 1 (1.59%) SOAP
3 1 (1.59%) Web Services
3 1 (1.59%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.52%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.94%) Fixed Income
2 5 (7.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (6.35%) Data Centre
3 4 (6.35%) Data Structures
3 4 (6.35%) Derivative
3 4 (6.35%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.76%) Replication
4 3 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.17%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.17%) Credit Risk
5 2 (3.17%) FMCG
5 2 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.17%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.59%) Equities
6 1 (1.59%) Life Science
6 1 (1.59%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.59%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.35%) Unix
2 3 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (31.75%) Stakeholder Management
2 19 (30.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 17 (26.98%) Agile
4 16 (25.40%) Workshop Facilitation
5 15 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (23.81%) Validation
6 14 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
7 13 (20.63%) Business Analysis
8 12 (19.05%) Data Modelling
9 11 (17.46%) Data Analysis
9 11 (17.46%) Translating Business Requirements
10 10 (15.87%) User Acceptance Testing
11 9 (14.29%) Project Delivery
11 9 (14.29%) User Stories
12 8 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (11.11%) AI
13 7 (11.11%) Data Governance
13 7 (11.11%) Decision-Making
14 6 (9.52%) Backlog Management
14 6 (9.52%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 18 (28.57%) SQL
2 6 (9.52%) Python
3 3 (4.76%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.59%) Groovy
4 1 (1.59%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.59%) Korn
4 1 (1.59%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.59%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.59%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 10 (15.87%) SC Cleared
1 10 (15.87%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.17%) Degree
2 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (3.17%) PMP
3 1 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.59%) CCIE
3 1 (1.59%) CCNP
3 1 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.59%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.59%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 6 (9.52%) QA
3 2 (3.17%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.17%) GDPR
4 1 (1.59%) GAAP
4 1 (1.59%) GRC
4 1 (1.59%) IFRS
4 1 (1.59%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (4.76%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 8 (12.70%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.94%) Databricks
2 5 (7.94%) Oracle
2 5 (7.94%) SAP
3 3 (4.76%) Solace
3 3 (4.76%) Workday
4 2 (3.17%) Informatica
4 2 (3.17%) OpenAI
4 2 (3.17%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.17%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.59%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.59%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.59%) Cisco
5 1 (1.59%) Google
5 1 (1.59%) iManage
5 1 (1.59%) JD Edwards
5 1 (1.59%) LexisNexis
5 1 (1.59%) Murex
5 1 (1.59%) Qualtrics
5 1 (1.59%) UiPath