Requirements Gathering Contracts in the City of London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Requirements Gathering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Requirements Gathering over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 74 109
Rank change year-on-year -1 +35 -24
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 56 119 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.52% 3.22% 1.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.80% 3.51% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 85 57
10th Percentile £479 £390 £463
25th Percentile - £463 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £595 £544
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% +9.38% +14.53%
75th Percentile £588 £713 £599
90th Percentile £679 £817 £660
Central London median daily rate £550 £595 £540
% change year-on-year -7.56% +10.19% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £51.25 £69.25
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £70.50
Median % change year-on-year - -25.53% -
75th Percentile - £53.75 £71.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - £52.50 £70.50
% change year-on-year - -25.53% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Requirements Gathering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,003 3,388 3,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.18% 91.69% 91.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,415 2,265 2,992
10th Percentile £354 £350 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £808 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 27 40
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.50 £18.30
25th Percentile £20.22 £19.36 £23.44
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -14.63% +78.26%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.00
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in the City of London

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Requirements Gathering in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Requirements Gathering in the City of London

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 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in the City of London

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Requirements Gathering in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Gathering in the City of London

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 18 (32.14%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.79%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (14.29%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.79%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (1.79%) SAP CCM
3 1 (1.79%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 15 (26.79%) Azure
2 10 (17.86%) Dynamics 365
3 9 (16.07%) Power Platform
4 8 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (14.29%) Power Automate
4 8 (14.29%) PowerApps
5 2 (3.57%) SaaS
6 1 (1.79%) AWS
6 1 (1.79%) dbt
6 1 (1.79%) GitHub
6 1 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) 5G
1 1 (1.79%) LAN
1 1 (1.79%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.79%) WAN
1 1 (1.79%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 8 (14.29%) Power BI
2 3 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.79%) Airbyte
4 1 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.79%) Flink
4 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (5.36%) GitLab
General
1 38 (67.86%) Finance
2 23 (41.07%) Social Skills
3 16 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (17.86%) Public Sector
4 10 (17.86%) Retail
5 8 (14.29%) General Ledger
6 6 (10.71%) Banking
7 2 (3.57%) Marketing
8 1 (1.79%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 30 (53.57%) Analyst
1 30 (53.57%) Business Analyst
2 14 (25.00%) Data Business Analyst
2 14 (25.00%) Data Migration Analyst
2 14 (25.00%) Data Migration Business Analyst
2 14 (25.00%) Migration Analyst
3 11 (19.64%) Consultant
3 11 (19.64%) SharePoint Analyst
3 11 (19.64%) SharePoint Business Analyst
4 8 (14.29%) Microsoft Consultant
5 7 (12.50%) Finance Business Analyst
5 7 (12.50%) Financial Analyst
6 5 (8.93%) Financial Business Analyst
6 5 (8.93%) Financial Services Business Analyst
6 5 (8.93%) Service Analyst
7 4 (7.14%) Developer
7 4 (7.14%) Finance Systems Analyst
7 4 (7.14%) Systems Analyst
8 3 (5.36%) Architect
8 3 (5.36%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.14%) .NET
1 4 (7.14%) ASP.NET
2 3 (5.36%) .NET Framework
2 3 (5.36%) ASP.NET Core
2 3 (5.36%) React
3 2 (3.57%) Web Services
4 1 (1.79%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.57%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.57%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.79%) Life Science
3 1 (1.79%) Reinsurance
3 1 (1.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.79%) Windows
1 1 (1.79%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (42.86%) User Stories
2 22 (39.29%) User Acceptance Testing
3 20 (35.71%) Validation
4 19 (33.93%) Data Management
4 19 (33.93%) GAP Analysis
4 19 (33.93%) Migration
5 18 (32.14%) Data Migration
5 18 (32.14%) Root Cause Analysis
6 11 (19.64%) DevOps
7 10 (17.86%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (14.29%) Accounts Payable
8 8 (14.29%) Accounts Receivable
8 8 (14.29%) Requirements Workshops
9 6 (10.71%) Agile
9 6 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (8.93%) Customer Service
11 4 (7.14%) Process Improvement
12 3 (5.36%) BDD
12 3 (5.36%) Continuous Improvement
12 3 (5.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.14%) C#
1 4 (7.14%) SQL
2 3 (5.36%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (19.64%) Degree
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.79%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (32.14%) Data Quality
1 18 (32.14%) QA
2 1 (1.79%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.79%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.79%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (26.79%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.71%) SAP
3 4 (7.14%) Oracle
4 2 (3.57%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.79%) Calypso
5 1 (1.79%) Cisco
5 1 (1.79%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.79%) Juniper
5 1 (1.79%) Sage
5 1 (1.79%) Workday