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 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 82 65
Rank change year-on-year +27 -17 +28
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 63 44 89
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.75% 2.09% 3.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.97% 2.27% 3.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 30 61
10th Percentile £352 £413 £425
25th Percentile £413 £493 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £555 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% +0.91% -
75th Percentile £725 £650 £650
90th Percentile £768 £762 £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 £27.50 - -

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 1,586 1,938 2,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.52% 91.89% 89.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,095 1,190 1,791
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £420 £463 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £594
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.20% +3.30%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £764 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% +1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 17
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.07 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.71% +54.55% -36.05%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £59.30
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -20.00% +30.84% -37.06%

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 25 October 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 & 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 7 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (1.59%) Apache
2 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (14.29%) MS Visio
2 7 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (6.35%) Aladdin
2 3 (4.76%) Oracle Cash Management
2 3 (4.76%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (4.76%) Oracle Financials
2 3 (4.76%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (4.76%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (4.76%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (3.17%) SAP MDG
3 2 (3.17%) SAP PLM
3 2 (3.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (3.17%) SAP VC
4 1 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.59%) Endur
4 1 (1.59%) OpenLink RightAngle
4 1 (1.59%) SAP BRIM
4 1 (1.59%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 10 (15.87%) Azure
2 4 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (4.76%) AWS
3 3 (4.76%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.59%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (1.59%) Azure Functions
4 1 (1.59%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (1.59%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (1.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.59%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.59%) GCP
4 1 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (1.59%) SaaS
4 1 (1.59%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (1.59%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (1.59%) Serverless
4 1 (1.59%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.59%) Firewall
1 1 (1.59%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.76%) Power BI
1 3 (4.76%) Tableau
2 2 (3.17%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.59%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.59%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.59%) Informix
3 1 (1.59%) MySQL
3 1 (1.59%) Power Query
3 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (12.70%) JIRA
2 1 (1.59%) Git
2 1 (1.59%) GitLab
2 1 (1.59%) Gradle
2 1 (1.59%) MSTest
2 1 (1.59%) Postman
General
1 33 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 32 (50.79%) Finance
3 14 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (20.63%) Banking
5 11 (17.46%) Front Office
6 4 (6.35%) Back Office
6 4 (6.35%) Investment Banking
7 3 (4.76%) Billing
8 2 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.17%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.17%) Marketing
8 2 (3.17%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (3.17%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.59%) Law
9 1 (1.59%) Legal
9 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (53.97%) Analyst
2 30 (47.62%) Business Analyst
3 18 (28.57%) Consultant
4 8 (12.70%) Lead
4 8 (12.70%) Lead Consultant
5 7 (11.11%) Lead Business Analyst
6 6 (9.52%) Business Consultant
7 5 (7.94%) Senior
7 5 (7.94%) Technical Analyst
7 5 (7.94%) Technical Business Analyst
8 4 (6.35%) Charles River Consultant
8 4 (6.35%) Functional Consultant
9 3 (4.76%) Banking Analyst
9 3 (4.76%) Business Development Analyst
9 3 (4.76%) Business Development Consultant
9 3 (4.76%) Development Analyst
9 3 (4.76%) Development Consultant
9 3 (4.76%) Oracle Consultant
9 3 (4.76%) Oracle Functional Consultant
9 3 (4.76%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.76%) JSON
2 1 (1.59%) .NET
2 1 (1.59%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.59%) ADO
2 1 (1.59%) DCOM
2 1 (1.59%) HTML
2 1 (1.59%) RESTful
2 1 (1.59%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.59%) Spring
2 1 (1.59%) Swagger
2 1 (1.59%) SwiftUI
2 1 (1.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.94%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 2 (3.17%) Derivative
3 2 (3.17%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.59%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.59%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.59%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.59%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.59%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.59%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.59%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.59%) PMI
4 1 (1.59%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.17%) Linux
2 1 (1.59%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.59%) Unix
2 1 (1.59%) Windows
2 1 (1.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (46.03%) Agile
2 22 (34.92%) Stakeholder Management
3 18 (28.57%) Validation
4 17 (26.98%) Business Analysis
5 16 (25.40%) Data Analysis
5 16 (25.40%) Project Delivery
6 15 (23.81%) Project Management
6 15 (23.81%) Workshop Facilitation
7 14 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (22.22%) Scrum
8 13 (20.63%) GAP Analysis
8 13 (20.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 13 (20.63%) User Stories
9 12 (19.05%) Change Management
9 12 (19.05%) User Acceptance Testing
10 10 (15.87%) Waterfall
11 9 (14.29%) Analytics
11 9 (14.29%) Asset Management
11 9 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
12 8 (12.70%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (31.75%) SQL
2 3 (4.76%) C#
2 3 (4.76%) Python
3 2 (3.17%) ABAP
3 2 (3.17%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.59%) C++
4 1 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.59%) Fortran
4 1 (1.59%) Java
4 1 (1.59%) MATLAB
4 1 (1.59%) R
4 1 (1.59%) Swift
4 1 (1.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (17.46%) Degree
2 7 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 7 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.76%) CBAP
4 2 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.59%) CFA
5 1 (1.59%) CISM
5 1 (1.59%) CISSP
5 1 (1.59%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.59%) IIBA
5 1 (1.59%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.59%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.59%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.87%) EMIR
2 9 (14.29%) MiFID
3 5 (7.94%) GDPR
3 5 (7.94%) QA
4 3 (4.76%) Data Quality
5 2 (3.17%) Dodd-Frank
5 2 (3.17%) ISO 20022
6 1 (1.59%) COBIT
6 1 (1.59%) GRC
6 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.59%) NIST
6 1 (1.59%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.59%) PMO
6 1 (1.59%) PSD2
6 1 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.59%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (26.98%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.52%) Oracle
3 5 (7.94%) SAP
4 4 (6.35%) Charles River
4 4 (6.35%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.17%) Blue Prism
5 2 (3.17%) Duck Creek
5 2 (3.17%) Guidewire
5 2 (3.17%) UiPath
6 1 (1.59%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.59%) Databricks
6 1 (1.59%) iManage
6 1 (1.59%) ION Trading
6 1 (1.59%) OpenLink
6 1 (1.59%) Plaid
6 1 (1.59%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.59%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.59%) SimCorp
6 1 (1.59%) Workday
6 1 (1.59%) Xceptor