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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 61 78
Rank change year-on-year -12 +17 -1
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 61 53 55
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.75% 3.03% 2.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.18% 3.27% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 32 39
10th Percentile £387 £416 £478
25th Percentile £470 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £633 £695 £588
90th Percentile £826 £820 £683
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%

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 1,916 1,619 2,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.38% 92.57% 90.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,315 1,032 1,428
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £674 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £774 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 10 14
10th Percentile - £22.00 £17.58
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.07 £32.83 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% +36.77% -36.42%
75th Percentile £52.16 £47.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £67.38 £47.73
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £31.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -14.34% +11.47% -20.54%

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 16 April 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 (14.75%) Confluence
2 6 (9.84%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.64%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (14.75%) MS Visio
2 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (4.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Actimize
1 1 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.64%) JDE EnterpriseOne
1 1 (1.64%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.64%) Summit
1 1 (1.64%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 7 (11.48%) Power Platform
2 4 (6.56%) Azure
3 3 (4.92%) Snowflake
4 2 (3.28%) AWS
4 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (3.28%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.64%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.64%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.64%) ChatGPT
5 1 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.64%) GCP
5 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (1.64%) OCI
5 1 (1.64%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.64%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.64%) Broadband
1 1 (1.64%) Firewall
1 1 (1.64%) Internet
1 1 (1.64%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.48%) Power BI
2 2 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.28%) Oracle Database
2 2 (3.28%) Tableau
3 1 (1.64%) Metadata
3 1 (1.64%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (19.67%) JIRA
2 1 (1.64%) Git
2 1 (1.64%) MSTest
2 1 (1.64%) Postman
General
1 27 (44.26%) Analytical Skills
2 26 (42.62%) Finance
3 24 (39.34%) Social Skills
4 14 (22.95%) Banking
5 9 (14.75%) Public Sector
6 5 (8.20%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (6.56%) Legal
8 3 (4.92%) Investment Banking
8 3 (4.92%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (3.28%) Front Office
9 2 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (3.28%) Retail
10 1 (1.64%) Back Office
10 1 (1.64%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.64%) Law
10 1 (1.64%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.64%) Police
Job Titles
1 37 (60.66%) Analyst
2 35 (57.38%) Business Analyst
3 10 (16.39%) Senior
4 9 (14.75%) Senior Business Analyst
5 8 (13.11%) Senior Analyst
6 7 (11.48%) Project Manager
7 6 (9.84%) Banking Analyst
8 5 (8.20%) Banking Business Analyst
8 5 (8.20%) Consultant
9 4 (6.56%) Data Business Analyst
9 4 (6.56%) Payments Analyst
9 4 (6.56%) Payments Business Analyst
10 3 (4.92%) Data Analyst
10 3 (4.92%) FX Business Analyst
10 3 (4.92%) Principal Consultant
10 3 (4.92%) Product Manager
10 3 (4.92%) Technical Analyst
10 3 (4.92%) Technical Business Analyst
11 2 (3.28%) Risk Analyst
11 2 (3.28%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.92%) JSON
1 3 (4.92%) XML
2 2 (3.28%) .NET
2 2 (3.28%) .NET Framework
2 2 (3.28%) RESTful
3 1 (1.64%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.64%) Kafka
3 1 (1.64%) LDAP
3 1 (1.64%) Middleware
3 1 (1.64%) Murex MxML
3 1 (1.64%) OAuth
3 1 (1.64%) React
3 1 (1.64%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.64%) SAML
3 1 (1.64%) SOAP
3 1 (1.64%) Swagger
3 1 (1.64%) Web Services
3 1 (1.64%) WinForms
3 1 (1.64%) WPF
3 1 (1.64%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.48%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (8.20%) PMI
3 4 (6.56%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.56%) Virtual Team
4 3 (4.92%) Market Risk
4 3 (4.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (3.28%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (3.28%) Credit Risk
5 2 (3.28%) Derivative
5 2 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.28%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.64%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.64%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.64%) Equities
6 1 (1.64%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.64%) Unix
1 1 (1.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (39.34%) Agile
2 21 (34.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 20 (32.79%) Workshop Facilitation
4 19 (31.15%) Business Analysis
5 17 (27.87%) Project Delivery
5 17 (27.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 16 (26.23%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (21.31%) Project Management
8 10 (16.39%) User Stories
8 10 (16.39%) Validation
9 9 (14.75%) BPMN
9 9 (14.75%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (14.75%) Data Modelling
9 9 (14.75%) Visualisation
10 8 (13.11%) Use Case
11 7 (11.48%) Change Management
11 7 (11.48%) Data Mapping
11 7 (11.48%) Process Improvement
11 7 (11.48%) User Acceptance Testing
11 7 (11.48%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 13 (21.31%) SQL
2 3 (4.92%) Python
3 2 (3.28%) C#
4 1 (1.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.64%) Groovy
4 1 (1.64%) Java
4 1 (1.64%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.64%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.64%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (18.03%) Security Cleared
2 10 (16.39%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.48%) Degree
3 7 (11.48%) PMI Certification
4 4 (6.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (6.56%) Master's Degree
4 4 (6.56%) PMP
5 3 (4.92%) CBAP
6 2 (3.28%) CFA
7 1 (1.64%) CISM
7 1 (1.64%) CISSP
7 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.64%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.64%) IIBA
7 1 (1.64%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.39%) Data Quality
2 6 (9.84%) QA
3 3 (4.92%) GDPR
3 3 (4.92%) ISO 20022
4 2 (3.28%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.64%) Basel III
5 1 (1.64%) ISO 8583
5 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.64%) NIST
5 1 (1.64%) PMO
5 1 (1.64%) PSD2
5 1 (1.64%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.64%) logstash
Vendors
1 13 (21.31%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.56%) Oracle
3 3 (4.92%) Databricks
4 2 (3.28%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.28%) SAP
4 2 (3.28%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.28%) Workday
5 1 (1.64%) Adobe
5 1 (1.64%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.64%) BT
5 1 (1.64%) iManage
5 1 (1.64%) JD Edwards
5 1 (1.64%) LexisNexis
5 1 (1.64%) Murex
5 1 (1.64%) Pega
5 1 (1.64%) Qualtrics