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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 80 62
Rank change year-on-year +7 -18 +20
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 56 41 73
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.07% 2.14% 3.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.43% 2.32% 3.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 29 51
10th Percentile £355 £413 £463
25th Percentile £413 £463 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £711 £631
90th Percentile £700 £852 £700
Central London median daily rate £500 £640 £550
% change year-on-year -21.88% +16.36% -4.35%
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 & 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 1,635 1,764 2,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.74% 91.92% 89.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,075 1,547
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £571
% change year-on-year -6.09% +0.66% -0.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 10
10th Percentile £19.94 £15.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £28.00 £42.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.12% +61.90% -30.46%
75th Percentile £42.30 £112.00 £44.56
90th Percentile £45.56 £132.40 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.66
% change year-on-year -25.40% +26.56% -20.99%

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 9 January 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 9 (16.07%) Confluence
2 4 (7.14%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.79%) Apache
3 1 (1.79%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 12 (21.43%) MS Visio
2 8 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (8.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Oracle Cash Management
1 3 (5.36%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (5.36%) Oracle Financials
1 3 (5.36%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (5.36%) Oracle Payables
1 3 (5.36%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.79%) Endur
2 1 (1.79%) OpenLink RightAngle
2 1 (1.79%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.79%) SAP BRIM
2 1 (1.79%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 9 (16.07%) Azure
2 5 (8.93%) Power Platform
3 4 (7.14%) AWS
4 3 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.79%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.79%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.79%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.79%) ChatGPT
5 1 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.79%) GCP
5 1 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (1.79%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.79%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (1.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (1.79%) Serverless
5 1 (1.79%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) Firewall
1 1 (1.79%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.93%) Power BI
2 4 (7.14%) Tableau
3 2 (3.57%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.79%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.79%) Informix
4 1 (1.79%) MySQL
4 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (21.43%) JIRA
2 2 (3.57%) Git
3 1 (1.79%) GitLab
3 1 (1.79%) MSTest
3 1 (1.79%) Postman
General
1 28 (50.00%) Finance
2 26 (46.43%) Social Skills
3 18 (32.14%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (32.14%) Banking
4 6 (10.71%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.14%) Investment Banking
5 4 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (5.36%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (5.36%) Front Office
6 3 (5.36%) Legal
6 3 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.57%) Back Office
7 2 (3.57%) Billing
7 2 (3.57%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.79%) Law
8 1 (1.79%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 30 (53.57%) Analyst
2 27 (48.21%) Business Analyst
3 11 (19.64%) Senior
4 9 (16.07%) Senior Business Analyst
5 8 (14.29%) Consultant
5 8 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
6 7 (12.50%) Banking Analyst
7 5 (8.93%) Banking Business Analyst
8 4 (7.14%) Functional Consultant
8 4 (7.14%) Payments Analyst
8 4 (7.14%) Payments Business Analyst
8 4 (7.14%) Technical Analyst
8 4 (7.14%) Technical Business Analyst
9 3 (5.36%) Architect
9 3 (5.36%) Developer
9 3 (5.36%) Oracle Consultant
9 3 (5.36%) Oracle Financials Consultant
9 3 (5.36%) Oracle Financials Functional Consultant
9 3 (5.36%) Oracle Functional Consultant
9 3 (5.36%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.36%) JSON
2 2 (3.57%) .NET
2 2 (3.57%) .NET Framework
2 2 (3.57%) RESTful
3 1 (1.79%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.79%) Murex MxML
3 1 (1.79%) React
3 1 (1.79%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.79%) Swagger
3 1 (1.79%) SwiftUI
3 1 (1.79%) WinForms
3 1 (1.79%) WPF
3 1 (1.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 6 (10.71%) PMI
3 4 (7.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 3 (5.36%) Management Information System
4 3 (5.36%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.57%) Market Risk
5 2 (3.57%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.79%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.79%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.79%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.79%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.79%) Equities
6 1 (1.79%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.79%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.79%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.57%) Windows
2 1 (1.79%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.79%) Linux
2 1 (1.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (44.64%) Agile
2 22 (39.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 17 (30.36%) Workshop Facilitation
4 16 (28.57%) Business Analysis
4 16 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 15 (26.79%) User Stories
6 14 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (23.21%) User Acceptance Testing
8 11 (19.64%) Project Delivery
9 10 (17.86%) Project Management
10 9 (16.07%) Waterfall
11 8 (14.29%) Analytics
11 8 (14.29%) Data Mapping
11 8 (14.29%) Roadmaps
11 8 (14.29%) Scrum
12 7 (12.50%) Migration
12 7 (12.50%) Process Improvement
12 7 (12.50%) Visualisation
13 6 (10.71%) DevOps
13 6 (10.71%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 11 (19.64%) SQL
2 4 (7.14%) C#
3 3 (5.36%) Python
4 2 (3.57%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.79%) C++
5 1 (1.79%) Fortran
5 1 (1.79%) Java
5 1 (1.79%) MATLAB
5 1 (1.79%) R
5 1 (1.79%) Swift
Qualifications
1 11 (19.64%) Degree
2 7 (12.50%) PMI Certification
3 6 (10.71%) CBAP
3 6 (10.71%) Security Cleared
4 5 (8.93%) SC Cleared
5 4 (7.14%) Master's Degree
6 2 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.57%) CFA
6 2 (3.57%) IIBA
7 1 (1.79%) CISM
7 1 (1.79%) CISSP
7 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.79%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.79%) MBA
7 1 (1.79%) PMP
7 1 (1.79%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.71%) QA
2 5 (8.93%) GDPR
3 4 (7.14%) Data Quality
4 3 (5.36%) ISO 20022
5 2 (3.57%) PCI DSS
5 2 (3.57%) PSD2
6 1 (1.79%) Basel III
6 1 (1.79%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (1.79%) EMIR
6 1 (1.79%) GRC
6 1 (1.79%) ISO 8583
6 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.79%) NIST
6 1 (1.79%) PMO
6 1 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.79%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (1.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (26.79%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.71%) Oracle
3 3 (5.36%) SAP
4 2 (3.57%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.79%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.79%) Databricks
5 1 (1.79%) iManage
5 1 (1.79%) Informatica
5 1 (1.79%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.79%) Murex
5 1 (1.79%) OpenLink
5 1 (1.79%) Plaid
5 1 (1.79%) Talend
5 1 (1.79%) Workday
5 1 (1.79%) Xceptor