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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 68 105
Rank change year-on-year -35 +37 0
Permanent jobs citing Requirements Gathering 28 68 64
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.95% 4.03% 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 4.19% 2.36%
Number of salaries quoted 22 63 36
10th Percentile £37,000 £48,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £71,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 £82,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -19.09% +29.41% -15.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £80,938
90th Percentile £103,400 £94,500 £107,500
Central London median annual salary £65,000 £82,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -21.21% +13.79% -3.33%

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 2,358 1,621 2,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.40% 96.03% 93.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,722 1,294 1,802
10th Percentile £47,500 £39,615 £43,525
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £122,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -1.69%

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 26 September 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 5 (17.86%) Confluence
1 5 (17.86%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.57%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.00%) Azure
1 7 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 6 (21.43%) Power Automate
2 6 (21.43%) PowerApps
3 4 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (10.71%) AWS
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Functions
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (10.71%) SaaS
4 3 (10.71%) Serverless
5 2 (7.14%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 2 (7.14%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (3.57%) Collibra
6 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.57%) GCP
6 1 (3.57%) GitHub
6 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.57%) OneDrive
6 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Power BI
2 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.57%) Metadata
2 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) JIRA
2 1 (3.57%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) JIRA Agile
General
1 13 (46.43%) Finance
2 12 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (17.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (14.29%) Legal
5 3 (10.71%) Marketing
6 2 (7.14%) Advertising
6 2 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (7.14%) General Ledger
7 1 (3.57%) Billing
7 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.57%) Law
7 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (46.43%) Analyst
2 11 (39.29%) Business Analyst
3 7 (25.00%) Senior
4 6 (21.43%) Developer
4 6 (21.43%) Insurance Business Analyst
5 4 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
5 4 (14.29%) Technical Business Analyst
6 3 (10.71%) Consultant
6 3 (10.71%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Market Analyst
6 3 (10.71%) Systems Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Business Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Junior
7 2 (7.14%) Junior Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Senior Consultant
7 2 (7.14%) Systems Analyst
8 1 (3.57%) Business Systems Analyst
8 1 (3.57%) Project Manager
8 1 (3.57%) Senior Software Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (3.57%) Bootstrap
2 1 (3.57%) CSS
2 1 (3.57%) Django
2 1 (3.57%) HTML
2 1 (3.57%) React
2 1 (3.57%) React Native
2 1 (3.57%) REST
2 1 (3.57%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Onboarding
1 4 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 2 (7.14%) Derivative
2 2 (7.14%) Equities
2 2 (7.14%) Fixed Income
2 2 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (7.14%) Low-Code
2 2 (7.14%) Reference Data
3 1 (3.57%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (3.57%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.57%) Taxonomies
3 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
1 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (67.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 14 (50.00%) Agile
3 11 (39.29%) Workshop Facilitation
4 8 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (28.57%) User Stories
5 7 (25.00%) Analytics
6 6 (21.43%) Process Improvement
6 6 (21.43%) Roadmaps
6 6 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (21.43%) Translating Business Requirements
6 6 (21.43%) Validation
7 5 (17.86%) Mentoring
7 5 (17.86%) SDLC
7 5 (17.86%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (14.29%) AI
8 4 (14.29%) Business Analysis
8 4 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (14.29%) Data Engineering
8 4 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 4 (14.29%) Requirements Workshops
Programming Languages
1 10 (35.71%) SQL
2 6 (21.43%) JavaScript
3 4 (14.29%) Python
4 3 (10.71%) C#
5 2 (7.14%) VBA
6 1 (3.57%) Bash
6 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.57%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (21.43%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.71%) IFRS
3 2 (7.14%) Accessibility
3 2 (7.14%) GAAP
3 2 (7.14%) GDPR
4 1 (3.57%) IFRS 17
4 1 (3.57%) QA
4 1 (3.57%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Argo
1 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (39.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.57%) Aderant
3 1 (3.57%) Concur
3 1 (3.57%) Databricks
3 1 (3.57%) Informatica
3 1 (3.57%) Intapp
3 1 (3.57%) Splunk