Buckinghamshire Requirements Analysis Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Requirements Analysis skills within the Buckinghamshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Requirements Analysis over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Requirements Analysis
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheadle Cheshire City of London Colchester Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucestershire Gosport Halifax Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury North West Northampton Northamptonshire Portsmouth Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staines Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley UK Wales Warrington Wells West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	71	77
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	7	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	0.903 %	1.641 %
Daily rates quoted	1	5
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£356
Average daily rate	£350	£381
% change on same period last year	-8.13 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£406
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£386
% change on same period last year	-0.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.79	£34.80
% change on same period last year	+8.61 %
Processes & Methodologies Buckinghamshire
Matching contract IT job ads	775	853
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.023 %	0.850 %
Daily rates quoted	270	221
Average minimum daily rate	£341	£332
Average daily rate	£362	£351
% change on same period last year	+3.20 %
Average maximum daily rate	£383	£370
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£377
% change on same period last year	+0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	110	75
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.79	£31.19
Average hourly rate	£26.80	£32.15
% change on same period last year	-16.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.81	£33.11
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.30	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.42 %
Requirements Analysis South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Requirements Analysis
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Requirements Analysis across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Requirements Analysis
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Requirements Analysis across the Buckinghamshire region.

Requirements Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Requirements Analysis across the Buckinghamshire region.

Requirements Analysis
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Requirements Analysis within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Milton Keynes	-3	7	£350	-8.13 %

Requirements Analysis South East

Requirements Analysis
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing Requirements Analysis also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Requirements Analysis.

1 10 (43.48 %) VB 1 10 (43.48 %) SSADM 2 8 (34.78 %) Government 2 8 (34.78 %) SC Cleared 2 8 (34.78 %) Security Cleared 3 7 (30.43 %) VB6 3 7 (30.43 %) Finance 4 6 (26.09 %) DSDM 4 6 (26.09 %) Windows 4 6 (26.09 %) DB2 4 6 (26.09 %) COBOL 4 6 (26.09 %) IBM 5 5 (21.74 %) SQL Server 5 5 (21.74 %) PRINCE2 5 5 (21.74 %) Banking

5 5 (21.74 %) Business Analysis 6 4 (17.39 %) System Testing 6 4 (17.39 %) GIS 6 4 (17.39 %) Regression Testing 6 4 (17.39 %) XML 6 4 (17.39 %) MS Office 6 4 (17.39 %) C# 6 4 (17.39 %) HTML 6 4 (17.39 %) VB.NET 6 4 (17.39 %) .NET 6 4 (17.39 %) Oracle 6 4 (17.39 %) Citrix Certification 6 4 (17.39 %) Data Modelling 7 3 (13.04 %) Windows XP 7 3 (13.04 %) Windows NT

Requirements Analysis
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing Requirements Analysis also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Requirements Analysis. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 4 (17.39 %) XML 1 4 (17.39 %) HTML 1 4 (17.39 %) .NET 2 3 (13.04 %) ASP 2 3 (13.04 %) ArcObjects	Application Platforms 1 3 (13.04 %) ArcSDE
Applications 1 4 (17.39 %) MS Office 2 3 (13.04 %) CA Clarity 3 1 (4.348 %) MS Excel 3 1 (4.348 %) Casewise Corporate Modeler Suite	Communications & Networking 1 3 (13.04 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (26.09 %) DB2 2 5 (21.74 %) SQL Server 3 4 (17.39 %) GIS	General 1 8 (34.78 %) Government 2 7 (30.43 %) Finance 3 5 (21.74 %) Banking 4 1 (4.348 %) Financial Institution 4 1 (4.348 %) Construction 4 1 (4.348 %) Retail 4 1 (4.348 %) Retail Banking
Job Titles 1 11 (47.83 %) Business Analyst 1 11 (47.83 %) Analyst 2 10 (43.48 %) Developer 3 6 (26.09 %) Applications Developer 4 5 (21.74 %) IT Business Analyst 5 3 (13.04 %) Business Systems Analyst 5 3 (13.04 %) Systems Analyst 5 3 (13.04 %) Lead Developer 5 3 (13.04 %) GIS Developer 6 2 (8.696 %) Team Leader 6 2 (8.696 %) Banking Business Analyst 7 1 (4.348 %) DBA 7 1 (4.348 %) Project Manager 7 1 (4.348 %) Development Team Leader 7 1 (4.348 %) Oracle DBA	Miscellaneous 1 3 (13.04 %) Mainframe 1 3 (13.04 %) Replication 1 3 (13.04 %) IBM Mainframe 2 1 (4.348 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 6 (26.09 %) Windows 2 3 (13.04 %) Windows XP 2 3 (13.04 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (43.48 %) SSADM 2 8 (34.78 %) SC Cleared 2 8 (34.78 %) Security Cleared 3 6 (26.09 %) DSDM 4 5 (21.74 %) PRINCE2 4 5 (21.74 %) Business Analysis 5 4 (17.39 %) System Testing 5 4 (17.39 %) Regression Testing 5 4 (17.39 %) Data Modelling 6 3 (13.04 %) UML 6 3 (13.04 %) GAP Analysis 6 3 (13.04 %) Migration 6 3 (13.04 %) Data Migration 6 3 (13.04 %) Systems Analysis 7 2 (8.696 %) Data Analysis 7 2 (8.696 %) Agile Software Development 7 2 (8.696 %) RAD 7 2 (8.696 %) BPR 7 2 (8.696 %) Project Management 8 1 (4.348 %) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages 1 10 (43.48 %) VB 2 7 (30.43 %) VB6 3 6 (26.09 %) COBOL 4 4 (17.39 %) C# 4 4 (17.39 %) VB.NET 5 3 (13.04 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 4 (17.39 %) Citrix Certification
Vendors 1 6 (26.09 %) IBM 2 4 (17.39 %) Oracle 3 1 (4.348 %) Casewise