Requirements Gathering Contracts in London

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 103 110
Rank change year-on-year -3 +7 -21
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 413 672 981
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.34% 2.55% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.64% 2.80% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 477 682
10th Percentile £400 £400 £376
25th Percentile £463 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £638
90th Percentile £787 £800 £736
England median daily rate £532 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.24% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 2
10th Percentile £50.88 £47.15 £65.43
25th Percentile £57.82 £53.50 £66.06
Median hourly rate £65.43 £62.50 £67.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.68% -7.75% +15.81%
75th Percentile £68.75 £66.00 £70.06
90th Percentile - £68.05 £71.08
England median hourly rate £50.25 £61.50 £53.00
% change year-on-year -18.29% +16.04% +152.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,657 23,997 35,658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.72% 90.95% 92.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,215 17,295 26,043
10th Percentile £341 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 313 273 419
10th Percentile £15.96 £18.50 £17.56
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £24.08
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +5.41% +13.85%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.00 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.40 £81.80 £68.88
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.38% +49.28% +6.38%

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 12 May 2024.

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 12 May 2024.

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 12 May 2024. 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 +3 67 £550 -8.33% 16
West London +19 7 £627 +56.75% 3
South London +10 6 £370 -32.73% 1
North London +2 1 £425 -19.05%
East London -1 1 £540 - 7
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 (5.08%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.69%) Confluence
3 5 (1.21%) CMS
3 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.24%) IIS
5 1 (0.24%) JBoss
Applications
1 15 (3.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.45%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.48%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.48%) Trello
6 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 22 (5.33%) Dynamics AX
2 21 (5.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (2.91%) Endur
4 8 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (1.45%) SAP Travel Management
6 4 (0.97%) SAP SD
7 2 (0.48%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.48%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.48%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.48%) WebTrends
8 1 (0.24%) Actimize
8 1 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.24%) SAP CCM
8 1 (0.24%) SAP FSCM
8 1 (0.24%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 82 (19.85%) Azure
2 42 (10.17%) Dynamics 365
3 40 (9.69%) Power Platform
4 26 (6.30%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (5.33%) Power Automate
5 22 (5.33%) PowerApps
6 17 (4.12%) AWS
7 11 (2.66%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 9 (2.18%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 8 (1.94%) Azure Service Bus
10 7 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (1.69%) SaaS
11 5 (1.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (1.21%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (1.21%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.21%) Route 53
11 5 (1.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (0.97%) GCP
12 4 (0.97%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.69%) SSH
2 6 (1.45%) Cisco IOS
2 6 (1.45%) IOS XR
3 5 (1.21%) BGP
3 5 (1.21%) MPLS
3 5 (1.21%) Network Security
4 2 (0.48%) Broadband
4 2 (0.48%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (0.48%) Firewall
4 2 (0.48%) HTTP
4 2 (0.48%) IPv6
4 2 (0.48%) L2TP
4 2 (0.48%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.48%) VPLS
4 2 (0.48%) VPN
5 1 (0.24%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.24%) NX-OS
5 1 (0.24%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.24%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (8.23%) Power BI
2 26 (6.30%) Data Lake
3 22 (5.33%) SQL Server
4 20 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (1.94%) KDB
5 8 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.21%) Big Data
7 5 (1.21%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
7 5 (1.21%) Geospatial Data
8 4 (0.97%) DB2
8 4 (0.97%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.97%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.97%) SAP HANA
8 4 (0.97%) Tableau
9 3 (0.73%) Data Mart
9 3 (0.73%) Flink
9 3 (0.73%) GIS
9 3 (0.73%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 22 (5.33%) JIRA
2 9 (2.18%) Git
3 8 (1.94%) Cucumber
4 7 (1.69%) JUnit
5 6 (1.45%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.21%) GitLab
7 4 (0.97%) Visual Website Optimizer
8 2 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.24%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.24%) HP UFT
9 1 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.24%) Selenium
9 1 (0.24%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.24%) WebDriver
General
1 154 (37.29%) Finance
2 138 (33.41%) Social Skills
3 83 (20.10%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (14.04%) Banking
5 42 (10.17%) Public Sector
6 27 (6.54%) Retail
7 26 (6.30%) General Ledger
8 21 (5.08%) Back Office
8 21 (5.08%) Front Office
8 21 (5.08%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (3.15%) Financial Institution
10 12 (2.91%) Marketing
11 11 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (2.42%) Investment Banking
13 7 (1.69%) Billing
14 6 (1.45%) Legal
15 4 (0.97%) Advertising
16 3 (0.73%) Games
16 3 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.73%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 158 (38.26%) Analyst
2 154 (37.29%) Business Analyst
3 64 (15.50%) Consultant
4 63 (15.25%) Senior
5 53 (12.83%) Developer
6 30 (7.26%) Data Business Analyst
7 26 (6.30%) Architect
8 25 (6.05%) Product Owner
8 25 (6.05%) Senior Analyst
9 23 (5.57%) Senior Business Analyst
10 19 (4.60%) Lead
11 18 (4.36%) Microsoft Consultant
12 16 (3.87%) Functional Consultant
13 15 (3.63%) C# Developer
13 15 (3.63%) Data Analyst
13 15 (3.63%) Financial Analyst
13 15 (3.63%) SAP Consultant
14 13 (3.15%) Data Migration Analyst
14 13 (3.15%) Finance Business Analyst
14 13 (3.15%) Migration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.60%) Web Services
2 16 (3.87%) XML
3 13 (3.15%) .NET
3 13 (3.15%) JSON
4 10 (2.42%) ASP.NET
5 9 (2.18%) SOAP
5 9 (2.18%) Spring
6 8 (1.94%) Lightning Web Components
6 8 (1.94%) REST
7 7 (1.69%) .NET Framework
7 7 (1.69%) Hibernate
7 7 (1.69%) J2EE
7 7 (1.69%) JPA
7 7 (1.69%) SAP TM
8 5 (1.21%) ASP.NET Core
8 5 (1.21%) CSS
8 5 (1.21%) EDI
8 5 (1.21%) HTML
8 5 (1.21%) React
8 5 (1.21%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 49 (11.86%) Product Ownership
2 27 (6.54%) Data Structures
3 17 (4.12%) Management Information System
4 16 (3.87%) Derivative
5 14 (3.39%) Fixed Income
6 11 (2.66%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.42%) Onboarding
8 9 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (2.18%) Equity Derivative
9 8 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.94%) Reinsurance
10 7 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.69%) Replication
10 7 (1.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 6 (1.45%) Equities
12 5 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 3 (0.73%) Freedom of Information
13 3 (0.73%) Freedom of Information Act
13 3 (0.73%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.18%) Linux
1 9 (2.18%) Unix
2 8 (1.94%) Windows
3 4 (0.97%) VMS
4 2 (0.48%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.24%) AIX
5 1 (0.24%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (22.76%) Agile
2 74 (17.92%) User Stories
3 66 (15.98%) Stakeholder Management
4 59 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
5 58 (14.04%) Migration
6 57 (13.80%) DevOps
7 54 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
8 51 (12.35%) Business Analysis
9 50 (12.11%) Project Management
10 45 (10.90%) Business Intelligence
11 43 (10.41%) Data Modelling
11 43 (10.41%) Scrum
12 37 (8.96%) Data Migration
13 36 (8.72%) Analytics
13 36 (8.72%) GAP Analysis
14 34 (8.23%) Requirements Workshops
15 33 (7.99%) Data Analysis
15 33 (7.99%) Data Management
16 31 (7.51%) Change Management
16 31 (7.51%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 49 (11.86%) SQL
2 34 (8.23%) Python
3 20 (4.84%) C#
3 20 (4.84%) Java
4 10 (2.42%) PL/SQL
5 7 (1.69%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.45%) Apex Code
7 5 (1.21%) Perl
7 5 (1.21%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.21%) XPath
7 5 (1.21%) XQuery
8 4 (0.97%) VBA
9 2 (0.48%) C++
9 2 (0.48%) COBOL
9 2 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.48%) REXX
9 2 (0.48%) SELCOPY
10 1 (0.24%) R
10 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.24%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 65 (15.74%) Degree
2 31 (7.51%) Security Cleared
3 21 (5.08%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.66%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.45%) CCNP
6 6 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.73%) CBAP
8 3 (0.73%) MBA
8 3 (0.73%) PhD
9 2 (0.48%) CSPO
10 1 (0.24%) BC Cleared
10 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.24%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.24%) IIBA
10 1 (0.24%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.24%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 1 (0.24%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (10.17%) QA
2 21 (5.08%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.15%) PCI DSS
4 4 (0.97%) ISO 20022
5 3 (0.73%) GDPR
6 2 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.24%) GRC
7 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (1.45%) Docker
2 3 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.48%) Time Sharing Option
3 2 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (1.45%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.21%) Grafana
2 5 (1.21%) Prometheus
2 5 (1.21%) Terraform
3 4 (0.97%) Ansible
4 1 (0.24%) MOM
4 1 (0.24%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 61 (14.77%) Microsoft
2 39 (9.44%) SAP
3 35 (8.47%) Oracle
4 22 (5.33%) Salesforce
5 8 (1.94%) Google
6 6 (1.45%) Calypso
6 6 (1.45%) Cisco
6 6 (1.45%) IBM
6 6 (1.45%) Nokia
6 6 (1.45%) Reuters
7 5 (1.21%) Databricks
7 5 (1.21%) Guidewire
7 5 (1.21%) OpenLink
7 5 (1.21%) ServiceNow
8 4 (0.97%) Adobe
8 4 (0.97%) Bloomberg
8 4 (0.97%) ION Trading
8 4 (0.97%) Murex
8 4 (0.97%) Optimizely
8 4 (0.97%) Refinitiv