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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 74 65
Rank change year-on-year +12 -9 +21
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 57 54 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.25% 2.57% 3.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.45% 2.79% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 36 67
10th Percentile £355 £431 £420
25th Percentile £413 £486 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +2.27% -
75th Percentile £725 £656 £685
90th Percentile £753 £781 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - -
Median hourly rate £27.50 - -
75th Percentile £28.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £23.50 - -

All Process and 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 1,650 1,935 2,700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.12% 91.92% 90.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,221 1,867
10th Percentile £324 £375 £363
25th Percentile £415 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £701
90th Percentile £763 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 16
10th Percentile £17.08 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.75 £20.00 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.15 £27.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% +8.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £56.75 £82.19 £44.87
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -18.57% +34.62% -38.82%

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
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 19 September 2025.

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 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 5 (8.77%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (10.53%) MS Visio
2 5 (8.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (7.02%) Aladdin
2 3 (5.26%) Oracle Cash Management
2 3 (5.26%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (5.26%) Oracle Financials
2 3 (5.26%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (5.26%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (5.26%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (3.51%) SAP MDG
3 2 (3.51%) SAP PLM
3 2 (3.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (3.51%) SAP VC
4 1 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.75%) Endur
4 1 (1.75%) OpenLink RightAngle
Cloud Services
1 8 (14.04%) Azure
2 3 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (5.26%) Power Platform
3 2 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (1.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (1.75%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.75%) SaaS
4 1 (1.75%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (1.75%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.75%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (1.75%) Network Security
1 1 (1.75%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (5.26%) Power BI
1 3 (5.26%) SQL Server
1 3 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (3.51%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (3.51%) Crystal Reports
2 2 (3.51%) Tableau
3 1 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.75%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.75%) Power Query
3 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (10.53%) JIRA
2 3 (5.26%) Git
3 2 (3.51%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (3.51%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.51%) JUnit
4 1 (1.75%) GitLab
4 1 (1.75%) Gradle
General
1 36 (63.16%) Social Skills
2 29 (50.88%) Finance
3 16 (28.07%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (17.54%) Front Office
5 9 (15.79%) Banking
6 4 (7.02%) Financial Institution
6 4 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (7.02%) Investment Banking
7 3 (5.26%) Back Office
8 2 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.51%) Marketing
8 2 (3.51%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.75%) Billing
9 1 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.75%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 30 (52.63%) Analyst
2 27 (47.37%) Business Analyst
3 16 (28.07%) Consultant
4 8 (14.04%) Lead
4 8 (14.04%) Lead Consultant
5 7 (12.28%) Developer
5 7 (12.28%) Lead Business Analyst
6 6 (10.53%) Business Consultant
7 4 (7.02%) Charles River Consultant
7 4 (7.02%) Senior
8 3 (5.26%) Business Development Analyst
8 3 (5.26%) Business IT Analyst
8 3 (5.26%) Charles River Analyst
8 3 (5.26%) Charles River Business Analyst
8 3 (5.26%) Development Analyst
8 3 (5.26%) Development Consultant
8 3 (5.26%) Functional Consultant
8 3 (5.26%) IT Analyst
8 3 (5.26%) Oracle Consultant
8 3 (5.26%) Oracle Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.75%) ADO
1 1 (1.75%) DCOM
1 1 (1.75%) HTML
1 1 (1.75%) JSON
1 1 (1.75%) RESTful
1 1 (1.75%) SailPoint
1 1 (1.75%) Spring
1 1 (1.75%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.77%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.51%) Algorithms
2 2 (3.51%) Derivative
2 2 (3.51%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.75%) Fixed Income
3 1 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.75%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.75%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.75%) PMI
3 1 (1.75%) Reinsurance
3 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.02%) Linux
2 3 (5.26%) Unix
3 1 (1.75%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.75%) Windows
3 1 (1.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (40.35%) Agile
2 18 (31.58%) Stakeholder Management
3 17 (29.82%) Validation
4 16 (28.07%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (26.32%) Business Analysis
5 15 (26.32%) Project Delivery
6 14 (24.56%) Data Analysis
6 14 (24.56%) GAP Analysis
7 13 (22.81%) Project Management
8 11 (19.30%) Asset Management
8 11 (19.30%) Scrum
8 11 (19.30%) User Stories
9 10 (17.54%) Change Management
9 10 (17.54%) Workshop Facilitation
10 9 (15.79%) End-to-End Testing
10 9 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 9 (15.79%) User Acceptance Testing
11 8 (14.04%) Portfolio Management
11 8 (14.04%) System Testing
11 8 (14.04%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 17 (29.82%) SQL
2 3 (5.26%) Java
3 2 (3.51%) ABAP
4 1 (1.75%) C#
4 1 (1.75%) C++
4 1 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.75%) Fortran
4 1 (1.75%) MATLAB
4 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.75%) Python
4 1 (1.75%) R
4 1 (1.75%) Swift
4 1 (1.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (14.04%) Degree
2 7 (12.28%) Security Cleared
3 6 (10.53%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.26%) CBAP
5 1 (1.75%) CCIE
5 1 (1.75%) CCNP
5 1 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.75%) IIBA
5 1 (1.75%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.75%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.75%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.79%) EMIR
1 9 (15.79%) MiFID
2 3 (5.26%) QA
3 2 (3.51%) GDPR
4 1 (1.75%) COBIT
4 1 (1.75%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.75%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (1.75%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.75%) PMO
4 1 (1.75%) PSD2
4 1 (1.75%) SEPA
4 1 (1.75%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.75%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 17 (29.82%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.02%) Charles River
2 4 (7.02%) Salesforce
3 3 (5.26%) Blue Prism
3 3 (5.26%) Oracle
3 3 (5.26%) SAP
3 3 (5.26%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.26%) UiPath
4 2 (3.51%) Duck Creek
4 2 (3.51%) Guidewire
5 1 (1.75%) Adobe
5 1 (1.75%) Cisco
5 1 (1.75%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.75%) OpenLink
5 1 (1.75%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (1.75%) Plaid
5 1 (1.75%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) SimCorp
5 1 (1.75%) Xceptor