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 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 59 72
Rank change year-on-year -17 +13 +4
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 68 64 52
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.98% 3.58% 2.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.38% 3.80% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 42 35
10th Percentile £354 £365 £455
25th Percentile £456 £413 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.16%
75th Percentile £645 £725 £663
90th Percentile £715 £773 £782
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £538
% change year-on-year - +6.98% -6.11%
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 2,013 1,683 1,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.29% 94.02% 91.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,389 1,107 1,235
10th Percentile £375 £325 £384
25th Percentile £456 £424 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -25.86% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £32.05 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.07 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -13.78% +7.67% -1.82%

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 6 September 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 (4.41%) Confluence
2 2 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.94%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.47%) CMS
3 1 (1.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.88%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.47%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (4.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.94%) SAP MDG
3 1 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.47%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 1 (1.47%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.47%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.47%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (1.47%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.47%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.47%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.47%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.47%) SAP PM
3 1 (1.47%) SAP QM
3 1 (1.47%) Summit
3 1 (1.47%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 14 (20.59%) Azure
2 10 (14.71%) Power Platform
3 6 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.88%) AWS
4 4 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (5.88%) GCP
5 3 (4.41%) Snowflake
6 2 (2.94%) Azure AI
6 2 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.94%) dbt
6 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (2.94%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.94%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.94%) SaaS
6 2 (2.94%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (1.47%) Copilot Studio
7 1 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.47%) OCI
7 1 (1.47%) PaaS
7 1 (1.47%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.88%) VPN
2 3 (4.41%) Firewall
2 3 (4.41%) Multicast
3 2 (2.94%) DNS
4 1 (1.47%) Internet
4 1 (1.47%) LAN
4 1 (1.47%) SSH
4 1 (1.47%) SSL
4 1 (1.47%) WAN
4 1 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.76%) Power BI
2 4 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (5.88%) Metadata
3 2 (2.94%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.94%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.47%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.47%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.47%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (1.47%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (11.76%) JIRA
2 2 (2.94%) Git
2 2 (2.94%) GitLab
2 2 (2.94%) Jenkins
General
1 26 (38.24%) Social Skills
2 22 (32.35%) Finance
3 15 (22.06%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (14.71%) Banking
5 6 (8.82%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.88%) Legal
6 4 (5.88%) Marketing
6 4 (5.88%) Retail
7 3 (4.41%) Front Office
7 3 (4.41%) Law
7 3 (4.41%) Retail Banking
8 2 (2.94%) Back Office
8 2 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.94%) Legal Technology
8 2 (2.94%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.47%) Advertising
9 1 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (51.47%) Business Analyst
2 34 (50.00%) Analyst
3 8 (11.76%) Consultant
4 7 (10.29%) Developer
4 7 (10.29%) Senior
4 7 (10.29%) Technical Analyst
4 7 (10.29%) Technical Business Analyst
5 4 (5.88%) Insurance Business Analyst
5 4 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (5.88%) Senior Business Analyst
6 3 (4.41%) Functional Consultant
6 3 (4.41%) Middleware Engineer
7 2 (2.94%) Banking Business Analyst
7 2 (2.94%) Business Integration Analyst
7 2 (2.94%) Data Business Analyst
7 2 (2.94%) Financial Analyst
7 2 (2.94%) Integration Analyst
7 2 (2.94%) Product Owner
7 2 (2.94%) Salesforce Administrator
7 2 (2.94%) SAP Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.88%) Middleware
1 4 (5.88%) Terraform
2 2 (2.94%) Kafka
2 2 (2.94%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.47%) .NET
3 1 (1.47%) JSON
3 1 (1.47%) LDAP
3 1 (1.47%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.47%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.71%) Product Ownership
2 7 (10.29%) Onboarding
3 6 (8.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (7.35%) Data Structures
4 5 (7.35%) Fixed Income
5 4 (5.88%) AI Agents
5 4 (5.88%) Data Centre
6 3 (4.41%) Derivative
6 3 (4.41%) Replication
7 2 (2.94%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.94%) Credit Risk
7 2 (2.94%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (2.94%) FMCG
7 2 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.94%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.47%) Life Science
8 1 (1.47%) Market Risk
8 1 (1.47%) Reinsurance
8 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.35%) Linux
2 4 (5.88%) Unix
3 2 (2.94%) Windows
3 2 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (42.65%) Stakeholder Management
2 20 (29.41%) Agile
3 19 (27.94%) Workshop Facilitation
4 17 (25.00%) Business Analysis
5 16 (23.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 16 (23.53%) User Stories
6 15 (22.06%) User Acceptance Testing
7 14 (20.59%) Translating Business Requirements
8 13 (19.12%) Validation
9 12 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (16.18%) Data Analysis
10 11 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (16.18%) Requirements Workshops
11 10 (14.71%) Decision-Making
11 10 (14.71%) Process Improvement
12 9 (13.24%) AI
12 9 (13.24%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (13.24%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 9 (13.24%) Migration
13 8 (11.76%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 20 (29.41%) SQL
2 8 (11.76%) Python
3 3 (4.41%) PowerShell
3 3 (4.41%) Shell Script
4 2 (2.94%) Bash
4 2 (2.94%) Java
4 2 (2.94%) Scala
5 1 (1.47%) C#
5 1 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.47%) Korn
5 1 (1.47%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 8 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 8 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.47%) CCIE
3 1 (1.47%) CCNP
3 1 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.47%) Degree
3 1 (1.47%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.47%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.71%) Data Quality
2 6 (8.82%) QA
3 3 (4.41%) GDPR
4 2 (2.94%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.47%) GAAP
5 1 (1.47%) GRC
5 1 (1.47%) IFRS
5 1 (1.47%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.41%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (2.94%) Ansible
2 2 (2.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (16.18%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.29%) SAP
3 4 (5.88%) Databricks
3 4 (5.88%) Oracle
4 3 (4.41%) Google
4 3 (4.41%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.41%) Solace
5 2 (2.94%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.94%) Informatica
5 2 (2.94%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.94%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.94%) Workday
6 1 (1.47%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.47%) Cisco
6 1 (1.47%) iManage
6 1 (1.47%) JD Edwards
6 1 (1.47%) Murex
6 1 (1.47%) OpenText
6 1 (1.47%) Qualtrics
6 1 (1.47%) UiPath