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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 66 77
Rank change year-on-year +9 +11 -9
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 92 62 47
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.30% 3.60% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.75% 3.82% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 41 33
10th Percentile £404 £350 £423
25th Percentile £450 £413 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £650
90th Percentile £723 £738 £770
Central London median daily rate £563 £558 £563
% change year-on-year +0.90% -0.89% +2.27%
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 1,938 1,625 1,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.60% 94.31% 92.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,344 1,103 1,216
10th Percentile £368 £326 £371
25th Percentile £456 £423 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £765 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 19
10th Percentile £17.39 £16.96 £15.60
25th Percentile £17.60 £21.09 £21.81
Median hourly rate £20.25 £27.50 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.36% -28.57% +23.20%
75th Percentile £27.35 £39.88 £102.25
90th Percentile £44.85 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% -21.43% +27.27%

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 11 October 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 6 (6.52%) Confluence
2 2 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.17%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.17%) CMS
3 1 (1.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (4.35%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.09%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.17%) SAP CO
2 2 (2.17%) SAP FI
2 2 (2.17%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (2.17%) SAP MDG
2 2 (2.17%) SAP Travel Management
2 2 (2.17%) SAP WM
3 1 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.09%) OneSumX
3 1 (1.09%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.09%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.09%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (1.09%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.09%) SAP EWM
3 1 (1.09%) SAP FI-FM
3 1 (1.09%) SAP PM
3 1 (1.09%) SAP QM
3 1 (1.09%) SystmOne
3 1 (1.09%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 17 (18.48%) Azure
2 15 (16.30%) Power Platform
3 9 (9.78%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (4.35%) AWS
4 4 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (4.35%) GCP
5 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Copilot
5 3 (3.26%) Snowflake
6 2 (2.17%) Azure AI
6 2 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.17%) dbt
6 2 (2.17%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.17%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.17%) SaaS
7 1 (1.09%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.09%) Miro
7 1 (1.09%) PaaS
7 1 (1.09%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.09%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (1.09%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.35%) VPN
2 3 (3.26%) Firewall
2 3 (3.26%) Multicast
3 2 (2.17%) DNS
4 1 (1.09%) Internet
4 1 (1.09%) LAN
4 1 (1.09%) SSH
4 1 (1.09%) SSL
4 1 (1.09%) WAN
4 1 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.13%) Power BI
2 5 (5.43%) Metadata
3 4 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.17%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.17%) SAP BW
4 2 (2.17%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.17%) Star Schema
5 1 (1.09%) Ataccama
5 1 (1.09%) Big Data
5 1 (1.09%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.09%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (1.09%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.09%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (13.04%) JIRA
2 2 (2.17%) Git
2 2 (2.17%) GitLab
2 2 (2.17%) Jenkins
General
1 37 (40.22%) Social Skills
2 30 (32.61%) Finance
3 17 (18.48%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (17.39%) Banking
5 9 (9.78%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.43%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (5.43%) Front Office
7 4 (4.35%) Investment Banking
7 4 (4.35%) Legal
7 4 (4.35%) Marketing
7 4 (4.35%) Retail
8 3 (3.26%) Back Office
8 3 (3.26%) Retail Banking
9 2 (2.17%) Law
9 2 (2.17%) Legal Technology
9 2 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.09%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (54.35%) Analyst
2 48 (52.17%) Business Analyst
3 13 (14.13%) Senior
4 12 (13.04%) Developer
5 9 (9.78%) Technical Analyst
6 8 (8.70%) Consultant
6 8 (8.70%) Senior Analyst
6 8 (8.70%) Senior Business Analyst
6 8 (8.70%) Technical Business Analyst
7 6 (6.52%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 6 (6.52%) Data Business Analyst
8 5 (5.43%) Insurance Business Analyst
9 4 (4.35%) Credit Analyst
9 4 (4.35%) Data Analyst
9 4 (4.35%) Power BI Developer
9 4 (4.35%) Product Manager
9 4 (4.35%) Transformation Analyst
10 3 (3.26%) Middleware Engineer
10 3 (3.26%) SAP Analyst
10 3 (3.26%) SAP Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.35%) Middleware
1 4 (4.35%) Terraform
2 2 (2.17%) Kafka
2 2 (2.17%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (2.17%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.17%) SAP TM
3 1 (1.09%) .NET
3 1 (1.09%) MACH
3 1 (1.09%) REST
3 1 (1.09%) Spring
3 1 (1.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.13%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.52%) Data Structures
2 6 (6.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (5.43%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.35%) AI Agents
4 4 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.35%) Fixed Income
5 3 (3.26%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.26%) Reference Data
5 3 (3.26%) Replication
6 2 (2.17%) Derivative
6 2 (2.17%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.17%) FMCG
6 2 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.17%) NHS
6 2 (2.17%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.09%) Equities
7 1 (1.09%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.09%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.43%) Linux
2 3 (3.26%) Unix
3 2 (2.17%) Windows
3 2 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (52.17%) Stakeholder Management
2 28 (30.43%) Workshop Facilitation
3 27 (29.35%) Agile
4 26 (28.26%) User Stories
5 25 (27.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 24 (26.09%) Business Analysis
7 20 (21.74%) Translating Business Requirements
8 19 (20.65%) User Acceptance Testing
8 19 (20.65%) Validation
9 18 (19.57%) Business Intelligence
10 15 (16.30%) AI
10 15 (16.30%) Data Analysis
10 15 (16.30%) Decision-Making
10 15 (16.30%) Migration
10 15 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (16.30%) Requirements Workshops
11 13 (14.13%) Analytics
11 13 (14.13%) Process Improvement
12 12 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (13.04%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 27 (29.35%) SQL
2 11 (11.96%) Python
3 4 (4.35%) Java
3 4 (4.35%) Korn
4 3 (3.26%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.26%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.17%) Bash
5 2 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.17%) Scala
6 1 (1.09%) C#
6 1 (1.09%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 10 (10.87%) SC Cleared
1 10 (10.87%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.17%) Degree
2 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.09%) CCIE
3 1 (1.09%) CCNP
3 1 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.09%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.09%) IIBA
3 1 (1.09%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.09%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (16.30%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.70%) QA
3 2 (2.17%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.17%) GDPR
4 1 (1.09%) GAAP
4 1 (1.09%) GRC
4 1 (1.09%) IFRS
4 1 (1.09%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.26%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (2.17%) Ansible
2 2 (2.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (18.48%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.78%) SAP
3 7 (7.61%) Databricks
4 5 (5.43%) Oracle
5 3 (3.26%) Google
5 3 (3.26%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.26%) Solace
6 2 (2.17%) Bloomberg
6 2 (2.17%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.17%) Informatica
6 2 (2.17%) Murex
6 2 (2.17%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.17%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.09%) Calypso
7 1 (1.09%) Cisco
7 1 (1.09%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.09%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.09%) OpenText
7 1 (1.09%) UiPath
7 1 (1.09%) Workday