The first table below looks at the demand for Requirements Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Requirements Management over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Edinburgh 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Requirements Management
Rank 61 - 64
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Requirements Management 2 0 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.216% - 0.300%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.308% - 0.464%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
Average daily rate £380 - £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £450
% change year-on-year
-12.50% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
650 713 862
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 70.27% 67.14% 64.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 335 459
Average daily rate £400 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 8
Average hourly rate £19.50 £24.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.75% +37.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £12.87 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.25 £40.00 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Requirements Management
Scotland

Requirements Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Requirements Management Jobs Demand Trend

Requirements Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Requirements Management Daily Rate Trend

Requirements Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Requirements Management Hourly Rate Trend

Requirements Management
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Requirements Management 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 Management.

1 1 (50.00%) COBOL
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) UML
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) CICS
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Document Management
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Use Case
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins

Requirements Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Requirements Management 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 Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) CICS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Insurance Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) UML
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Document Management
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Use Case
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) COBOL
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) IBM