Requirements Gathering Contract Job Trends in South London

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Requirements Gathering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 32 37
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 +22
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 2 8 4
As % of all contract jobs in South London 0.97% 3.48% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 3.92% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - - £608
25th Percentile £825 - £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £538 £663
Median % change year-on-year +57.99% -18.79% +17.78%
75th Percentile £875 £550 £675
90th Percentile - £557 -
London median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +9.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 180 204 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 86.96% 88.70% 87.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 140 151
10th Percentile £300 £236 £185
25th Percentile £450 £413 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +0.96% -5.45%
75th Percentile £566 £600 £600
90th Percentile £649 £788 £675
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 17
10th Percentile £54.42 £32.72 £15.35
25th Percentile £54.55 £55.91 £19.25
Median hourly rate £61.22 £73.60 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.82% +213.19% -46.42%
75th Percentile £66.50 £79.60 £46.85
90th Percentile £67.70 £81.76 £58.93
London median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Requirements Gathering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South London.

Requirements Gathering job vacancy trend in South London

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Requirements Gathering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Requirements Gathering

Requirements Gathering
Hourly Rate Trend in South London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Requirements Gathering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Requirements Gathering

Requirements Gathering
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Bromley -6 1 £850 - 1
Requirements Gathering
London

Requirements Gathering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) FIX Connectivity
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Gradle
1 2 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 2 (100.00%) Maven
General
1 2 (100.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Derivative
1 1 (50.00%) Equities
1 1 (50.00%) TWAP
1 1 (50.00%) VWAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Algorithmic Trading
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Garbage Collection
1 2 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 2 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) OOD
1 2 (100.00%) Quantitative Trading
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) UML
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) E-business
2 1 (50.00%) Electronic Trading
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Smart Order Routing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA