Requirements Gathering Contracts in the City of London

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Requirements Gathering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Requirements Gathering over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 77 101
Rank change year-on-year +5 +24 -21
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 56 108 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.59% 3.02% 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.86% 3.31% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 76 61
10th Percentile £463 £450 £413
25th Percentile £525 £494 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £540
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £588 £725 £599
90th Percentile £713 £823 £675
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £535
% change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £51.25 £69.25
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £70.50
Median % change year-on-year - -25.53% -
75th Percentile - £53.75 £71.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - £52.50 £70.50
% change year-on-year - -25.53% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Requirements Gathering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,955 3,266 3,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.51% 91.46% 91.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,381 2,203 2,972
10th Percentile £356 £356 £385
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £688
90th Percentile £813 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 25 44
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.10 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £16.61 £21.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -12.50% +122.53%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.63
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £64.78
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Requirements Gathering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in the City of London

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Requirements Gathering in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Requirements Gathering in the City of London

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 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in the City of London

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Requirements Gathering in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Gathering in the City of London

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (28.57%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.79%) CMS
2 1 (1.79%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 8 (14.29%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.79%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (1.79%) SAP CCM
3 1 (1.79%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 17 (30.36%) Azure
2 11 (19.64%) Dynamics 365
3 10 (17.86%) Power Platform
4 8 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (14.29%) Power Automate
4 8 (14.29%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.79%) AWS
5 1 (1.79%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.79%) dbt
5 1 (1.79%) GitHub
5 1 (1.79%) Miro
5 1 (1.79%) SaaS
5 1 (1.79%) Serverless
5 1 (1.79%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 8 (14.29%) Power BI
2 3 (5.36%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.57%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.79%) Airbyte
4 1 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.79%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.79%) Flink
4 1 (1.79%) GIS
4 1 (1.79%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.79%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (5.36%) GitLab
2 1 (1.79%) JIRA
General
1 35 (62.50%) Finance
2 22 (39.29%) Social Skills
3 13 (23.21%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (21.43%) Public Sector
5 10 (17.86%) Retail
6 8 (14.29%) General Ledger
7 6 (10.71%) Banking
8 3 (5.36%) Back Office
8 3 (5.36%) Marketing
9 1 (1.79%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (50.00%) Analyst
2 27 (48.21%) Business Analyst
3 12 (21.43%) Consultant
3 12 (21.43%) Data Business Analyst
3 12 (21.43%) Data Migration Analyst
3 12 (21.43%) Data Migration Business Analyst
3 12 (21.43%) Migration Analyst
4 9 (16.07%) SharePoint Analyst
4 9 (16.07%) SharePoint Business Analyst
5 8 (14.29%) Microsoft Consultant
6 6 (10.71%) Finance Business Analyst
6 6 (10.71%) Financial Analyst
7 5 (8.93%) Financial Business Analyst
7 5 (8.93%) Financial Services Business Analyst
7 5 (8.93%) Senior
7 5 (8.93%) Service Analyst
8 4 (7.14%) Developer
8 4 (7.14%) Finance Systems Analyst
8 4 (7.14%) Systems Analyst
9 3 (5.36%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.14%) .NET
1 4 (7.14%) ASP.NET
2 3 (5.36%) .NET Framework
2 3 (5.36%) ASP.NET Core
2 3 (5.36%) React
2 3 (5.36%) Web Services
3 1 (1.79%) EDI
3 1 (1.79%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 4 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.36%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.57%) Reinsurance
4 2 (3.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.79%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (37.50%) User Acceptance Testing
1 21 (37.50%) User Stories
2 20 (35.71%) Validation
3 18 (32.14%) Data Management
3 18 (32.14%) GAP Analysis
3 18 (32.14%) Migration
4 17 (30.36%) Data Migration
5 16 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
6 12 (21.43%) DevOps
7 11 (19.64%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (16.07%) Requirements Workshops
9 8 (14.29%) Accounts Payable
9 8 (14.29%) Accounts Receivable
10 7 (12.50%) Agile
11 6 (10.71%) Customer Service
12 5 (8.93%) Translating Business Requirements
13 4 (7.14%) Asset Management
13 4 (7.14%) Data Modelling
13 4 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
13 4 (7.14%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.93%) SQL
2 4 (7.14%) C#
3 3 (5.36%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (19.64%) Degree
2 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.79%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (30.36%) Data Quality
1 17 (30.36%) QA
2 2 (3.57%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.79%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.79%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 15 (26.79%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.50%) SAP
3 5 (8.93%) Oracle
4 2 (3.57%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.79%) Calypso
5 1 (1.79%) CyberSource
5 1 (1.79%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.79%) Sage
5 1 (1.79%) Workday