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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 91 104
Rank change year-on-year -23 +13 +7
Permanent jobs citing Requirements Gathering 45 50 66
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.27% 2.39% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% 2.49% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 28 38 55
10th Percentile £48,750 £44,475 £45,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +36.36% -26.67%
75th Percentile £101,250 £88,750 £77,750
90th Percentile £105,750 £97,500 £99,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +36.36% -26.67%

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 2,927 2,007 2,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 82.80% 95.94% 91.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,060 1,503 2,486
10th Percentile £44,900 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £97,813 £97,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £113,750
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £73,750
% change year-on-year +6.67% +1.69% -1.67%

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 10 April 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 9 (20.00%) Confluence
2 7 (15.56%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.00%) Azure
2 8 (17.78%) Power Platform
3 6 (13.33%) Microsoft Copilot
4 4 (8.89%) Azure Logic Apps
4 4 (8.89%) Copilot Studio
4 4 (8.89%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (6.67%) Datadog
6 2 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.44%) Google Analytics
6 2 (4.44%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.22%) AWS
7 1 (2.22%) Collibra
7 1 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.22%) GCP
7 1 (2.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) IP Telephony
1 2 (4.44%) PBX
1 2 (4.44%) PSTN
1 2 (4.44%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.67%) Power BI
1 3 (6.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.22%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 10 (22.22%) JIRA
2 2 (4.44%) Git
3 1 (2.22%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (44.44%) Finance
2 9 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.44%) Banking
3 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.44%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.22%) Advertising
4 1 (2.22%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.22%) Front Office
4 1 (2.22%) General Ledger
4 1 (2.22%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (46.67%) Analyst
2 17 (37.78%) Senior
3 15 (33.33%) Business Analyst
4 6 (13.33%) Developer
4 6 (13.33%) Insurance Business Analyst
4 6 (13.33%) Technical Analyst
4 6 (13.33%) Technical Business Analyst
5 5 (11.11%) Product Manager
6 4 (8.89%) Senior Developer
7 3 (6.67%) Business Data Analyst
7 3 (6.67%) Data Analyst
7 3 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (6.67%) Workday Manager
8 2 (4.44%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
8 2 (4.44%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (4.44%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
8 2 (4.44%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 2 (4.44%) JavaScript Developer
8 2 (4.44%) Junior Analyst
8 2 (4.44%) Product Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (4.44%) Django
2 2 (4.44%) Next.js
2 2 (4.44%) React
2 2 (4.44%) REST
2 2 (4.44%) SOAP
2 2 (4.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 4 (8.89%) Low-Code
2 4 (8.89%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.67%) Fixed Income
4 2 (4.44%) IVR
5 1 (2.22%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (2.22%) Derivative
5 1 (2.22%) Equities
5 1 (2.22%) IoT
5 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.22%) PropTech
5 1 (2.22%) Reference Data
5 1 (2.22%) Reinsurance
5 1 (2.22%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.22%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.22%) Linux
1 1 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (48.89%) Stakeholder Management
2 20 (44.44%) Agile
3 9 (20.00%) DevOps
3 9 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 8 (17.78%) Mentoring
4 8 (17.78%) Process Improvement
5 7 (15.56%) Analytics
5 7 (15.56%) Project Delivery
5 7 (15.56%) User Stories
6 6 (13.33%) AI
6 6 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (13.33%) Data Flow Diagram
6 6 (13.33%) Roadmaps
6 6 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (11.11%) Coaching
7 5 (11.11%) Creative Thinking
7 5 (11.11%) ETL
7 5 (11.11%) Generative AI
7 5 (11.11%) Use Case
7 5 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (22.22%) SQL
2 9 (20.00%) Python
3 4 (8.89%) Bicep
3 4 (8.89%) C#
4 3 (6.67%) Java
5 2 (4.44%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.44%) R
6 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (4.44%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.89%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.44%) IFRS
2 2 (4.44%) PMO
3 1 (2.22%) GAAP
3 1 (2.22%) GDPR
3 1 (2.22%) IFRS 17
3 1 (2.22%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 10 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.67%) Guidewire
2 3 (6.67%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.44%) Avaya
3 2 (4.44%) Cisco
3 2 (4.44%) Genesys
3 2 (4.44%) Google
4 1 (2.22%) Databricks
4 1 (2.22%) GoldenSource
4 1 (2.22%) Informatica
4 1 (2.22%) Revolut
4 1 (2.22%) Splunk
4 1 (2.22%) Workday