Requirements Gathering Contracts in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Requirements Gathering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Requirements Gathering over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 70 73
Rank change year-on-year +7 +3 +27
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 60 60 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.30% 2.81% 2.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.52% 3.07% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 41 71
10th Percentile £388 £463 £425
25th Percentile £509 £500 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £596 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.41% -8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £725 £625 £725
90th Percentile £749 £738 £813
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £23.50 - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - -30.92%

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 1,705 1,952 3,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.84% 91.26% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,093 1,349 2,158
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £552 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -1.43% -6.67% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 24
10th Percentile £17.08 £19.21 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £16.33
Median hourly rate £31.00 £26.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.43% -23.93% -18.83%
75th Percentile £56.75 £40.46 £57.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -22.86% -18.13%

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 5 July 2025.

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 7 (11.67%) Confluence
2 2 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.67%) MS Visio
3 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (3.33%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Aladdin
2 2 (3.33%) SAP MDG
2 2 (3.33%) SAP PLM
2 2 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.33%) SAP VC
3 1 (1.67%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.67%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 15 (25.00%) Azure
2 9 (15.00%) Power Platform
3 6 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Copilot
5 4 (6.67%) PaaS
5 4 (6.67%) Serverless
6 3 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.33%) AWS
8 1 (1.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.67%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.67%) Figma
8 1 (1.67%) GitHub
8 1 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.67%) IaaS
8 1 (1.67%) Miro
8 1 (1.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.00%) Network Security
2 2 (3.33%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (3.33%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.00%) Power BI
2 6 (10.00%) Tableau
3 5 (8.33%) BusinessObjects
3 5 (8.33%) Crystal Reports
3 5 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 5 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.67%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 10 (16.67%) JIRA
2 2 (3.33%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (3.33%) Git
2 2 (3.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.33%) JUnit
3 1 (1.67%) Gradle
General
1 34 (56.67%) Social Skills
2 29 (48.33%) Finance
3 16 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (16.67%) Front Office
5 9 (15.00%) Banking
6 7 (11.67%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (6.67%) Investment Banking
8 3 (5.00%) Financial Institution
8 3 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (3.33%) Back Office
9 2 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.67%) Billing
10 1 (1.67%) Marketing
10 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (55.00%) Analyst
2 27 (45.00%) Business Analyst
3 11 (18.33%) Consultant
3 11 (18.33%) Developer
4 9 (15.00%) Lead
5 8 (13.33%) Lead Business Analyst
5 8 (13.33%) Lead Consultant
6 6 (10.00%) Architect
6 6 (10.00%) Business Consultant
7 5 (8.33%) Power BI Developer
7 5 (8.33%) Senior
8 4 (6.67%) Azure Architect
8 4 (6.67%) Charles River Consultant
8 4 (6.67%) Data Analyst
8 4 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (5.00%) Business Development Consultant
9 3 (5.00%) Development Analyst
9 3 (5.00%) Java Developer
9 3 (5.00%) Technical Analyst
9 3 (5.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.67%) .NET
1 1 (1.67%) .NET Core
1 1 (1.67%) ADO
1 1 (1.67%) DCOM
1 1 (1.67%) HTML
1 1 (1.67%) Kafka
1 1 (1.67%) OAuth
1 1 (1.67%) OpenID
1 1 (1.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.67%) Cloud Native
1 4 (6.67%) Public Cloud
2 3 (5.00%) Derivative
2 3 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.33%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.33%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.67%) Equities
4 1 (1.67%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.67%) PMI
4 1 (1.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.00%) Linux
1 3 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (41.67%) Agile
2 21 (35.00%) Business Analysis
3 19 (31.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 17 (28.33%) Data Analysis
5 15 (25.00%) Project Delivery
5 15 (25.00%) Project Management
5 15 (25.00%) Validation
6 13 (21.67%) GAP Analysis
7 12 (20.00%) Asset Management
7 12 (20.00%) Scrum
8 11 (18.33%) Change Management
8 11 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (16.67%) DevOps
9 10 (16.67%) User Stories
10 9 (15.00%) Portfolio Management
10 9 (15.00%) System Testing
10 9 (15.00%) Workshop Facilitation
11 8 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (13.33%) End-to-End Testing
12 7 (11.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 22 (36.67%) SQL
2 3 (5.00%) Java
2 3 (5.00%) Python
3 2 (3.33%) ABAP
3 2 (3.33%) VBA
4 1 (1.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (13.33%) Degree
1 8 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (11.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.00%) CBAP
4 2 (3.33%) CCIE
4 2 (3.33%) CCNP
4 2 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.33%) PMI Certification
4 2 (3.33%) PMP
5 1 (1.67%) CFA
5 1 (1.67%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.67%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (20.00%) MiFID
2 11 (18.33%) EMIR
3 2 (3.33%) Dodd-Frank
3 2 (3.33%) QA
4 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.67%) COBIT
4 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.67%) GDPR
4 1 (1.67%) SLA
4 1 (1.67%) UCITS
Systems Management
1 4 (6.67%) Ansible
1 4 (6.67%) Terraform
2 1 (1.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 23 (38.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 4 (6.67%) Charles River
4 3 (5.00%) Blue Prism
4 3 (5.00%) UiPath
5 2 (3.33%) Cisco
5 2 (3.33%) Duck Creek
5 2 (3.33%) Guidewire
5 2 (3.33%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.33%) SAP
5 2 (3.33%) SimCorp
6 1 (1.67%) Adobe
6 1 (1.67%) Advent
6 1 (1.67%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.67%) Confluent
6 1 (1.67%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (1.67%) Progress
6 1 (1.67%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud