The first table below looks at the demand for Requirements Engineering skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Requirements Engineering over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Buckinghamshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Requirements Engineering
Rank - 67 73
Contract jobs citing Requirements Engineering 0 6 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire - 0.608% 0.276%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 0.920% 0.461%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
Average daily rate - - £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £345 £325
% change year-on-year
+15.94% +6.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
570 652 651
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 70.28% 66.06% 59.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 306 273
Average daily rate £340 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.61% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £190
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £425 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 29 47
Average hourly rate £17.75 £15.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.33% -25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £10.58 £13.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £18.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Requirements Engineering
South East

Requirements Engineering
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Requirements Engineering across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Buckinghamshire Requirements Engineering Jobs Demand Trend

Requirements Engineering
Daily Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Requirements Engineering Daily Rate Trend

Requirements Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Requirements Engineering Hourly Rate Trend

Requirements Engineering
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing Requirements Engineering 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 Engineering.

1 10 (100.00%) ISEB
1 10 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 10 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (70.00%) DV Cleared
2 7 (70.00%) UML
3 6 (60.00%) Systems Analysis
4 5 (50.00%) PRINCE2
5 4 (40.00%) GSAE
6 3 (30.00%) C#
6 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (20.00%) VMware
7 2 (20.00%) Customer Engagement
8 1 (10.00%) Project Management
8 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
8 1 (10.00%) ITIL
8 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
8 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
8 1 (10.00%) Workflow

Requirements Engineering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing Requirements Engineering 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 Engineering. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Business Analyst
1 10 (100.00%) Analyst
2 4 (40.00%) Business Systems Analyst
2 4 (40.00%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) IT Business Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Business Analysis
2 7 (70.00%) UML
3 6 (60.00%) Systems Analysis
4 5 (50.00%) PRINCE2
5 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (20.00%) Customer Engagement
7 1 (10.00%) Project Management
7 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
7 1 (10.00%) ITIL
7 1 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) ISEB
1 10 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (70.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (40.00%) GSAE
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft