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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 67 66
Rank change year-on-year -11 -1 +8
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 53 51 58
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.27% 3.01% 2.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.66% 3.22% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 26 43
10th Percentile £390 £413 £466
25th Percentile £465 £503 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £594 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% +7.95% -10.20%
75th Percentile £638 £725 £619
90th Percentile £818 £744 £733
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%

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 1,990 1,584 1,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.26% 93.62% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,365 1,004 1,368
10th Percentile £356 £356 £350
25th Percentile £450 £454 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 14 11
10th Percentile £17.84 £18.15 £19.92
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.98 £20.22
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.33 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +7.90% -25.00%
75th Percentile £52.49 £41.48 £40.00
90th Percentile £62.89 £59.25 £41.84
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £28.33 £27.81
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.85% -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 30 May 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 (9.43%) Confluence
2 3 (5.66%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.89%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (7.55%) MS Visio
2 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Actimize
1 1 (1.89%) JDE EnterpriseOne
1 1 (1.89%) Summit
1 1 (1.89%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 6 (11.32%) Power Platform
2 3 (5.66%) Snowflake
3 2 (3.77%) SaaS
3 2 (3.77%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (1.89%) Azure
4 1 (1.89%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (1.89%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.89%) OCI
4 1 (1.89%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (1.89%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.77%) Internet
1 2 (3.77%) VPN
2 1 (1.89%) Broadband
2 1 (1.89%) Firewall
2 1 (1.89%) LAN
2 1 (1.89%) Multicast
2 1 (1.89%) WAN
2 1 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.89%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.32%) Power BI
2 2 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.77%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.89%) Metadata
3 1 (1.89%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (15.09%) JIRA
General
1 20 (37.74%) Finance
2 19 (35.85%) Social Skills
3 18 (33.96%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (20.75%) Banking
5 4 (7.55%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.66%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.77%) Front Office
7 2 (3.77%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.77%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.77%) Legal
7 2 (3.77%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.77%) Retail
8 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.89%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.89%) Law
8 1 (1.89%) Marketing
8 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.89%) Police
Job Titles
1 31 (58.49%) Analyst
2 30 (56.60%) Business Analyst
3 5 (9.43%) Banking Analyst
3 5 (9.43%) Consultant
3 5 (9.43%) Project Manager
3 5 (9.43%) Senior
3 5 (9.43%) Senior Business Analyst
4 4 (7.55%) Banking Business Analyst
4 4 (7.55%) Data Business Analyst
4 4 (7.55%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (5.66%) Data Analyst
5 3 (5.66%) FX Business Analyst
5 3 (5.66%) Risk Analyst
5 3 (5.66%) Technical Analyst
5 3 (5.66%) Technical Business Analyst
6 2 (3.77%) Credit Analyst
6 2 (3.77%) Data Consultant
6 2 (3.77%) IT Business Analyst
6 2 (3.77%) Principal Consultant
6 2 (3.77%) Product Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.77%) JSON
1 2 (3.77%) Middleware
1 2 (3.77%) XML
2 1 (1.89%) Kafka
2 1 (1.89%) LDAP
2 1 (1.89%) Murex MxML
2 1 (1.89%) OAuth
2 1 (1.89%) RESTful
2 1 (1.89%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.89%) SAML
2 1 (1.89%) SOAP
2 1 (1.89%) Web Services
2 1 (1.89%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (9.43%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.55%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.66%) Derivative
4 3 (5.66%) Fixed Income
4 3 (5.66%) PMI
4 3 (5.66%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.77%) Credit Risk
5 2 (3.77%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.77%) Equities
5 2 (3.77%) Market Risk
5 2 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.89%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.89%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.77%) Unix
2 1 (1.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (30.19%) Agile
1 16 (30.19%) Stakeholder Management
1 16 (30.19%) Workshop Facilitation
2 14 (26.42%) Business Analysis
2 14 (26.42%) Project Delivery
2 14 (26.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 13 (24.53%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (20.75%) Project Management
5 10 (18.87%) Validation
6 9 (16.98%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (15.09%) Data Modelling
8 7 (13.21%) Data Analysis
9 6 (11.32%) Analytics
9 6 (11.32%) BPMN
9 6 (11.32%) Migration
9 6 (11.32%) Use Case
9 6 (11.32%) Visualisation
9 6 (11.32%) Waterfall
10 5 (9.43%) Data Mapping
10 5 (9.43%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (20.75%) SQL
2 4 (7.55%) Python
3 1 (1.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (1.89%) Groovy
3 1 (1.89%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.89%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (13.21%) SC Cleared
1 7 (13.21%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.43%) PMI Certification
3 4 (7.55%) Degree
3 4 (7.55%) PMP
4 2 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.77%) CBAP
4 2 (3.77%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.89%) CCIE
5 1 (1.89%) CCNP
5 1 (1.89%) CFA
5 1 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.89%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (18.87%) Data Quality
2 5 (9.43%) QA
3 2 (3.77%) GDPR
3 2 (3.77%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.89%) Basel III
4 1 (1.89%) GAAP
4 1 (1.89%) IFRS
4 1 (1.89%) PMO
4 1 (1.89%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.89%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (1.89%) logstash
Vendors
1 9 (16.98%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.66%) Databricks
2 3 (5.66%) Oracle
3 2 (3.77%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.77%) SAP
3 2 (3.77%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.77%) Workday
4 1 (1.89%) Adobe
4 1 (1.89%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.89%) BT
4 1 (1.89%) Cisco
4 1 (1.89%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.89%) iManage
4 1 (1.89%) JD Edwards
4 1 (1.89%) LexisNexis
4 1 (1.89%) Murex
4 1 (1.89%) Pega
4 1 (1.89%) Qualtrics
4 1 (1.89%) Solace