Requirements Gathering Contracts in London

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Requirements Gathering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Requirements Gathering over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 101 97
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 +13
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 328 413 660
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.65% 2.36% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.88% 2.67% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 291 472
10th Percentile £357 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £669 £650 £688
90th Percentile £759 £787 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 9
10th Percentile - £50.88 £47.15
25th Percentile £22.75 £57.82 £53.50
Median hourly rate £23.50 £65.43 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -64.08% +4.68% -7.75%
75th Percentile £39.00 £68.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £47.85 - £68.05
England median hourly rate £25.25 £50.25 £61.50
% change year-on-year -49.75% -18.29% +16.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,393 15,485 23,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.20% 88.60% 90.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,687 11,108 17,072
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £431 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year - -7.17% +3.04%
75th Percentile £688 £681 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 308 267
10th Percentile £16.04 £15.81 £18.30
25th Percentile £22.86 £20.00 £22.45
Median hourly rate £33.00 £27.92 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year +18.19% -25.23% +2.55%
75th Percentile £50.50 £48.75 £63.88
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.83 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.41 £36.50 £36.54
% change year-on-year -22.16% -0.11% +46.16%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in London

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Requirements Gathering in London

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering in London over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in London

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Gathering in London

Requirements Gathering
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Requirements Gathering in London over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in London

Requirements Gathering
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Requirements Gathering within the London region over the 6 months to 21 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +11 71 £575 +4.55% 51
East London +16 3 £630 +16.67% 6
South London +2 2 £325 -10.96% 1
West London +9 1 - - 8
North London -2 1 £440 +3.53%
Requirements Gathering
England

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 21 (6.40%) Confluence
2 7 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.22%) CMS
3 4 (1.22%) Drupal
4 2 (0.61%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.30%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 32 (9.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (7.62%) MS Visio
3 16 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.83%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (1.22%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (1.22%) Trello
7 2 (0.61%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.61%) Notepad++
7 2 (0.61%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (2.44%) SAP MDG
2 7 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (1.52%) SAP Retail
5 4 (1.22%) SAP CAR
6 3 (0.91%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.91%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.91%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.91%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.61%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.61%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.61%) Endur
7 2 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.61%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.61%) SAP GTS
8 1 (0.30%) Kondor
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.30%) PeopleSoft HCM
8 1 (0.30%) SAP FSCM
8 1 (0.30%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 47 (14.33%) Power Platform
2 46 (14.02%) Azure
3 19 (5.79%) AWS
4 12 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (3.05%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (2.74%) Lucidchart
6 9 (2.74%) Serverless
6 9 (2.74%) Snowflake
7 8 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (2.13%) dbt
8 7 (2.13%) SaaS
9 5 (1.52%) Amazon S3
9 5 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.22%) Figma
10 4 (1.22%) PaaS
10 4 (1.22%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.22%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.52%) Network Security
2 4 (1.22%) BGP
2 4 (1.22%) Firewall
2 4 (1.22%) LAN
3 3 (0.91%) IPsec
3 3 (0.91%) MPLS
3 3 (0.91%) WAN
4 2 (0.61%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (0.61%) HTTP
4 2 (0.61%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.30%) ATM
5 1 (0.30%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.30%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (0.30%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.30%) MQTT
5 1 (0.30%) Multicast
5 1 (0.30%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (13.41%) Power BI
2 20 (6.10%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (4.88%) SQL Server
4 15 (4.57%) Tableau
5 9 (2.74%) BusinessObjects
6 6 (1.83%) Crystal Reports
7 5 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (1.52%) Metadata
7 5 (1.52%) MS Access
7 5 (1.52%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.91%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.91%) Power Query
8 3 (0.91%) SAP BW
9 2 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.30%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.30%) DbVisualizer
10 1 (0.30%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.30%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 37 (11.28%) JIRA
2 8 (2.44%) Git
3 5 (1.52%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.61%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.61%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (0.61%) Eclipse
4 2 (0.61%) JUnit
4 2 (0.61%) MagicDraw
4 2 (0.61%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.61%) XMLSpy
5 1 (0.30%) AdminStudio
5 1 (0.30%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.30%) MSI
5 1 (0.30%) Postman
5 1 (0.30%) RStudio
5 1 (0.30%) Storybook
General
1 135 (41.16%) Social Skills
2 105 (32.01%) Finance
3 86 (26.22%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (9.76%) Banking
5 25 (7.62%) Retail
6 21 (6.40%) Front Office
7 16 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (4.88%) Public Sector
8 15 (4.57%) Marketing
9 14 (4.27%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (3.66%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (3.35%) Legal
12 9 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (2.13%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.83%) Financial Institution
15 5 (1.52%) Back Office
15 5 (1.52%) Manufacturing
16 4 (1.22%) Law
16 4 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (1.22%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 170 (51.83%) Analyst
2 143 (43.60%) Business Analyst
3 33 (10.06%) Senior
4 30 (9.15%) Architect
4 30 (9.15%) Consultant
5 23 (7.01%) Developer
6 18 (5.49%) Technical Analyst
7 17 (5.18%) Data Analyst
8 16 (4.88%) Lead
9 15 (4.57%) Technical Business Analyst
10 14 (4.27%) Project Manager
11 13 (3.96%) Senior Analyst
11 13 (3.96%) Senior Business Analyst
12 10 (3.05%) Data Business Analyst
12 10 (3.05%) Designer
12 10 (3.05%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 10 (3.05%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
13 9 (2.74%) Business IT Analyst
13 9 (2.74%) IT Analyst
13 9 (2.74%) IT Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.66%) .NET
2 9 (2.74%) HTML
3 6 (1.83%) .NET Core
3 6 (1.83%) CSS
4 5 (1.52%) AngularJS
4 5 (1.52%) React
5 4 (1.22%) FpML
5 4 (1.22%) HTML5
6 3 (0.91%) ASP.NET
6 3 (0.91%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (0.91%) RESTful
6 3 (0.91%) SailPoint
6 3 (0.91%) XML
7 2 (0.61%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (0.61%) DCOM
7 2 (0.61%) Middleware
7 2 (0.61%) Smart Contracts
7 2 (0.61%) Swagger
7 2 (0.61%) Vue
7 2 (0.61%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (5.79%) Product Ownership
2 14 (4.27%) Management Information System
3 11 (3.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 10 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (2.44%) Derivative
5 8 (2.44%) Equities
6 7 (2.13%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.52%) Fixed Income
7 5 (1.52%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 4 (1.22%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.22%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.22%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.22%) Reference Data
9 3 (0.91%) Credit Risk
9 3 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.91%) PMI
9 3 (0.91%) Reinsurance
10 2 (0.61%) Equity Derivative
10 2 (0.61%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.91%) Windows
2 2 (0.61%) Linux
2 2 (0.61%) Unix
2 2 (0.61%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.30%) Android
3 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (34.15%) Agile
2 86 (26.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 80 (24.39%) Business Analysis
4 73 (22.26%) Problem-Solving
5 69 (21.04%) Workshop Facilitation
6 57 (17.38%) Project Management
7 49 (14.94%) Data Analysis
7 49 (14.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 48 (14.63%) User Stories
9 45 (13.72%) Analytics
10 40 (12.20%) Business Intelligence
10 40 (12.20%) Migration
11 30 (9.15%) DevOps
11 30 (9.15%) Scrum
12 28 (8.54%) User Acceptance Testing
13 27 (8.23%) Validation
14 26 (7.93%) Visualisation
15 25 (7.62%) Data Modelling
15 25 (7.62%) Risk Management
15 25 (7.62%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 57 (17.38%) SQL
2 23 (7.01%) Python
3 10 (3.05%) Java
4 7 (2.13%) C#
4 7 (2.13%) JavaScript
5 5 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (1.52%) PowerShell
6 4 (1.22%) T-SQL
6 4 (1.22%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.91%) PHP
7 3 (0.91%) R
7 3 (0.91%) VBA
8 2 (0.61%) Bash
8 2 (0.61%) VBScript
9 1 (0.30%) C
9 1 (0.30%) C++
9 1 (0.30%) COBOL
9 1 (0.30%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.30%) PeopleCode
9 1 (0.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 39 (11.89%) Degree
2 36 (10.98%) Security Cleared
3 29 (8.84%) SC Cleared
4 9 (2.74%) PMI Certification
5 8 (2.44%) PMP
6 6 (1.83%) CBAP
6 6 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.52%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.22%) CISSP
9 3 (0.91%) CFA
9 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.61%) CCIE
10 2 (0.61%) CCNP
10 2 (0.61%) CEH
10 2 (0.61%) CISA
10 2 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.61%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.61%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.49%) QA
2 10 (3.05%) MiFID
3 9 (2.74%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.44%) EMIR
5 7 (2.13%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.13%) GDPR
6 4 (1.22%) SLA
7 3 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.61%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.61%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.61%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.61%) NIST
8 2 (0.61%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.30%) Basel III
9 1 (0.30%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.30%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.30%) UCITS
9 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.22%) Docker
3 2 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (1.83%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.22%) Ansible
2 4 (1.22%) Terraform
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.30%) SCCM
3 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (16.16%) Microsoft
2 38 (11.59%) SAP
3 22 (6.71%) Salesforce
4 17 (5.18%) ServiceNow
5 9 (2.74%) Ariba
6 7 (2.13%) Adobe
6 7 (2.13%) Cisco
7 6 (1.83%) Oracle
8 5 (1.52%) Google
9 3 (0.91%) Blue Prism
9 3 (0.91%) Guidewire
9 3 (0.91%) UiPath
10 2 (0.61%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.61%) Duck Creek
10 2 (0.61%) Foundry
10 2 (0.61%) HubSpot
10 2 (0.61%) Palantir
10 2 (0.61%) SimCorp
10 2 (0.61%) Workday
10 2 (0.61%) Wrike