Requirements Gathering Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Requirements Gathering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 81 100
Rank change year-on-year -33 +19 +26
Permanent jobs citing Requirements Gathering 34 63 59
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.92% 3.34% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 3.49% 2.34%
Number of salaries quoted 21 56 39
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £78,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +31.25% -17.24%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £91,250 £95,500
Central London median annual salary £67,500 £82,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -17.68% +36.67% -18.64%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,972 1,806 2,526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.17% 95.71% 92.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,169 1,383 1,998
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,642 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £54,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -3.33%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Requirements Gathering job vacancy trend in the City of London

Requirements Gathering
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Requirements Gathering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Requirements Gathering

Requirements Gathering
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Requirements Gathering in the City of London

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 8 (23.53%) Confluence
1 8 (23.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (14.71%) Power Platform
2 4 (11.76%) Azure
2 4 (11.76%) Power Automate
2 4 (11.76%) PowerApps
3 3 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (8.82%) SaaS
4 2 (5.88%) AWS
4 2 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.94%) Collibra
5 1 (2.94%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.94%) GCP
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (2.94%) OneDrive
5 1 (2.94%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) Serverless
5 1 (2.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) Power BI
2 1 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.94%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 8 (23.53%) JIRA
General
1 14 (41.18%) Finance
2 9 (26.47%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Legal
4 2 (5.88%) Advertising
4 2 (5.88%) General Ledger
4 2 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.94%) Marketing
5 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (52.94%) Analyst
2 14 (41.18%) Business Analyst
3 7 (20.59%) Insurance Business Analyst
3 7 (20.59%) Technical Analyst
3 7 (20.59%) Technical Business Analyst
4 5 (14.71%) Senior
5 4 (11.76%) Business Data Analyst
5 4 (11.76%) Data Analyst
5 4 (11.76%) Product Manager
6 3 (8.82%) Consultant
6 3 (8.82%) Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Market Analyst
6 3 (8.82%) Workday Manager
7 2 (5.88%) Business Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Junior
7 2 (5.88%) Junior Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Consultant
8 1 (2.94%) Data Modeller
8 1 (2.94%) Implementation Manager
8 1 (2.94%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Onboarding
1 4 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.88%) Derivative
2 2 (5.88%) Equities
2 2 (5.88%) Fixed Income
2 2 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (5.88%) Low-Code
2 2 (5.88%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.94%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (2.94%) IoT
3 1 (2.94%) PropTech
3 1 (2.94%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.94%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Linux
1 1 (2.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (73.53%) Stakeholder Management
2 15 (44.12%) Agile
3 9 (26.47%) Workshop Facilitation
4 7 (20.59%) Analytics
4 7 (20.59%) Process Improvement
5 6 (17.65%) Data Flow Diagram
5 6 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 6 (17.65%) User Acceptance Testing
5 6 (17.65%) User Stories
6 5 (14.71%) Business Analysis
6 5 (14.71%) ETL
7 4 (11.76%) Asset Management
7 4 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (11.76%) Data Engineering
7 4 (11.76%) Mentoring
7 4 (11.76%) Roadmaps
7 4 (11.76%) Translating Business Requirements
7 4 (11.76%) Validation
8 3 (8.82%) Requirements Workshops
Programming Languages
1 11 (32.35%) SQL
2 3 (8.82%) JavaScript
2 3 (8.82%) Python
3 2 (5.88%) VBA
4 1 (2.94%) C#
4 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
1 1 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.65%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.82%) IFRS
3 2 (5.88%) Accessibility
3 2 (5.88%) GAAP
4 1 (2.94%) GDPR
4 1 (2.94%) IFRS 17
4 1 (2.94%) QA
4 1 (2.94%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 8 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.88%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.94%) Databricks
3 1 (2.94%) Informatica
3 1 (2.94%) Splunk