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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 63 75
Rank change year-on-year -6 +12 -16
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 77 57 54
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.44% 3.26% 2.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.86% 3.46% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 40 36
10th Percentile £396 £355 £431
25th Percentile £463 £413 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% +2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £656
90th Percentile £717 £753 £781
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £538
% change year-on-year - +6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £27.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £23.50 -

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 1,994 1,647 1,942
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.98% 94.17% 91.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,375 1,095 1,226
10th Percentile £368 £321 £375
25th Percentile £458 £415 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £764 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 21 16
10th Percentile £16.98 £17.08 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.15 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +4.26% +8.00%
75th Percentile £32.05 £56.75 £82.19
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £28.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.74% -19.07% +34.62%

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 20 September 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 5 (6.49%) Confluence
2 2 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.60%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.30%) CMS
3 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.19%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.30%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (3.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.60%) SAP MDG
3 1 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.30%) OneSumX
3 1 (1.30%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.30%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.30%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (1.30%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.30%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.30%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.30%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.30%) SAP PM
3 1 (1.30%) SAP QM
3 1 (1.30%) SAP Travel Management
3 1 (1.30%) SAP WM
3 1 (1.30%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 16 (20.78%) Azure
2 12 (15.58%) Power Platform
3 7 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.19%) AWS
4 4 (5.19%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (5.19%) GCP
5 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Copilot
5 3 (3.90%) Snowflake
6 2 (2.60%) Azure AI
6 2 (2.60%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.60%) dbt
6 2 (2.60%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.60%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.60%) SaaS
7 1 (1.30%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.30%) Miro
7 1 (1.30%) PaaS
7 1 (1.30%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.30%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.19%) VPN
2 3 (3.90%) Firewall
2 3 (3.90%) Multicast
3 2 (2.60%) DNS
4 1 (1.30%) Internet
4 1 (1.30%) LAN
4 1 (1.30%) SSH
4 1 (1.30%) SSL
4 1 (1.30%) WAN
4 1 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.99%) Power BI
2 4 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.90%) Metadata
4 2 (2.60%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.60%) SAP BW
5 1 (1.30%) Ataccama
5 1 (1.30%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.30%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (1.30%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.30%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (12.99%) JIRA
2 2 (2.60%) Git
2 2 (2.60%) GitLab
2 2 (2.60%) Jenkins
General
1 30 (38.96%) Social Skills
2 25 (32.47%) Finance
3 18 (23.38%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (15.58%) Banking
5 6 (7.79%) Public Sector
6 5 (6.49%) Front Office
7 4 (5.19%) Legal
7 4 (5.19%) Marketing
7 4 (5.19%) Retail
8 3 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.90%) Law
8 3 (3.90%) Retail Banking
9 2 (2.60%) Back Office
9 2 (2.60%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.60%) Legal Technology
9 2 (2.60%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.30%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.30%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 41 (53.25%) Analyst
1 41 (53.25%) Business Analyst
2 9 (11.69%) Senior
2 9 (11.69%) Technical Analyst
2 9 (11.69%) Technical Business Analyst
3 8 (10.39%) Developer
4 7 (9.09%) Consultant
5 5 (6.49%) Insurance Business Analyst
5 5 (6.49%) Senior Analyst
5 5 (6.49%) Senior Business Analyst
6 3 (3.90%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 3 (3.90%) Credit Analyst
6 3 (3.90%) Data Analyst
6 3 (3.90%) Data Business Analyst
6 3 (3.90%) Middleware Engineer
6 3 (3.90%) Product Manager
7 2 (2.60%) Data Engineer
7 2 (2.60%) Finance Business Analyst
7 2 (2.60%) Power BI Developer
7 2 (2.60%) SAP MDM Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.19%) Middleware
1 4 (5.19%) Terraform
2 2 (2.60%) Kafka
2 2 (2.60%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (2.60%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.30%) .NET
3 1 (1.30%) JSON
3 1 (1.30%) LDAP
3 1 (1.30%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.30%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.88%) Product Ownership
2 6 (7.79%) Data Structures
2 6 (7.79%) Onboarding
3 5 (6.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (5.19%) AI Agents
4 4 (5.19%) Data Centre
4 4 (5.19%) Fixed Income
5 3 (3.90%) Replication
6 2 (2.60%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.60%) Derivative
6 2 (2.60%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.60%) FMCG
6 2 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.60%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.30%) PKI
7 1 (1.30%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.49%) Linux
2 3 (3.90%) Unix
3 2 (2.60%) Windows
3 2 (2.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (48.05%) Stakeholder Management
2 25 (32.47%) Workshop Facilitation
3 23 (29.87%) Agile
4 21 (27.27%) Business Analysis
4 21 (27.27%) User Stories
5 20 (25.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 17 (22.08%) Translating Business Requirements
6 17 (22.08%) User Acceptance Testing
7 16 (20.78%) Validation
8 14 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
8 14 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (16.88%) Data Analysis
9 13 (16.88%) Decision-Making
9 13 (16.88%) Requirements Workshops
10 12 (15.58%) AI
10 12 (15.58%) Process Improvement
11 11 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (14.29%) Migration
12 10 (12.99%) Roadmaps
13 9 (11.69%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 21 (27.27%) SQL
2 10 (12.99%) Python
3 3 (3.90%) Java
3 3 (3.90%) Korn
3 3 (3.90%) PowerShell
3 3 (3.90%) Shell Script
4 2 (2.60%) Bash
4 2 (2.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (2.60%) Scala
5 1 (1.30%) C#
5 1 (1.30%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 9 (11.69%) SC Cleared
1 9 (11.69%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.30%) CCIE
3 1 (1.30%) CCNP
3 1 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.30%) Degree
3 1 (1.30%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.30%) IIBA
3 1 (1.30%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (16.88%) Data Quality
2 8 (10.39%) QA
3 3 (3.90%) GDPR
4 2 (2.60%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.30%) GAAP
5 1 (1.30%) GRC
5 1 (1.30%) IFRS
5 1 (1.30%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.90%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (2.60%) Ansible
2 2 (2.60%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.39%) SAP
3 5 (6.49%) Databricks
4 4 (5.19%) Oracle
5 3 (3.90%) Google
5 3 (3.90%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.90%) Solace
6 2 (2.60%) Bloomberg
6 2 (2.60%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.60%) Informatica
6 2 (2.60%) Murex
6 2 (2.60%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.60%) Workday
7 1 (1.30%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.30%) Calypso
7 1 (1.30%) Cisco
7 1 (1.30%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.30%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.30%) OpenText
7 1 (1.30%) Salesforce