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The table below looks at the demand for Requirements Analysis skills within the England 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 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkRequirements Analysis
Location
3 months to
21 Nov 2008
Same period last year
Rank293317
Rank change on same period last yearUp+24
Matching contract IT job ads261382
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.411 %0.409 %
As % of the category below0.819 %0.871 %
Daily rates quoted124127
Average minimum daily rate£421£395
Average daily rate£443£414
% change on same period last year+7.17 %
Average maximum daily rate£466£432
UK excluding London average daily rate£440£376
% change on same period last year+17.14 %
Hourly rates quoted1545
Average minimum hourly rate£35.00£34.39
Average hourly rate£37.47£35.65
% change on same period last year+5.10 %
Average maximum hourly rate£39.94£36.91
UK excluding London average hourly rate£34.94£35.55
% change on same period last year-1.71 %
England IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
England
Matching contract IT job ads3187943836
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled50.21 %46.97 %
Daily rates quoted1126014678
Average minimum daily rate£381£387
Average daily rate£408£411
% change on same period last year-0.66 %
Average maximum daily rate£435£435
UK excluding London average daily rate£380£370
% change on same period last year+2.76 %
Hourly rates quoted23913052
Average minimum hourly rate£26.71£28.91
Average hourly rate£28.42£30.69
% change on same period last year-7.40 %
Average maximum hourly rate£30.13£32.48
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.17£29.91
% change on same period last year-5.80 %
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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 England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

England Requirements Analysis Demand Trend

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 England region.

England Requirements Analysis Daily Rate Trend

Requirements Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Requirements Analysis across the England region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

England Requirements Analysis Daily Rate Histogram

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 England region.

England Requirements Analysis Hourly Rate Trend

Requirements Analysis
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Requirements Analysis across the England region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

England Requirements Analysis Hourly Rate Histogram

Requirements Analysis
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Requirements Analysis within the England region over the 3 months to 21 November 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.

LocationRank 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
LondonUp+2477£454+1.32 %
South WestUp+4471£447+10.64 %
South EastUp+744£458+29.50 %
East MidlandsUp+822£462+12.02 %
YorkshireUp+3619£288-28.12 %
East of EnglandUp+1611£295-16.49 %
North WestUp+811£497+11.43 %
West MidlandsUp+56£280-22.75 %
MidlandsUp+133£311-1.71 %
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Requirements Analysis
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

1179 (31.46 %)Finance
2135 (23.73 %)Business Analysis
3120 (21.09 %)Banking
486 (15.11 %)CA Clarity
579 (13.88 %)GAP Analysis
579 (13.88 %)Retail
675 (13.18 %)UML
770 (12.30 %)Security Cleared
865 (11.42 %)Retail Banking
957 (10.02 %)Oracle
1055 (9.666 %)Migration
1154 (9.490 %)SQL
1250 (8.787 %)PRINCE2
1349 (8.612 %)Data Migration
1446 (8.084 %).NET
1544 (7.733 %)XML
1544 (7.733 %)Change Management
1643 (7.557 %)User Acceptance Testing
1739 (6.854 %)Government
1838 (6.678 %)Data Modelling
1933 (5.800 %)Java
1933 (5.800 %)SC Cleared
2032 (5.624 %)ASP.NET
2032 (5.624 %)Insurance
2131 (5.448 %)Data Analysis
2131 (5.448 %)Windows
2131 (5.448 %)DSDM
2131 (5.448 %)NHS
2230 (5.272 %)Microsoft
2329 (5.097 %)C#

Requirements Analysis
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

England IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
146 (8.084 %).NET
244 (7.733 %)XML
332 (5.624 %)ASP.NET
417 (2.988 %)HTML
512 (2.109 %)XSLT
611 (1.933 %)WebServices
611 (1.933 %)XBRL
710 (1.757 %)CSS
87 (1.230 %)ASP
87 (1.230 %).NET Framework
96 (1.054 %)SOAP
105 (0.879 %)J2EE
114 (0.703 %)Middleware
114 (0.703 %)FpML
114 (0.703 %)Spring
114 (0.703 %)Hibernate
123 (0.527 %)XSL
123 (0.527 %)COM
123 (0.527 %)EJB
132 (0.351 %)Struts
England IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
19 (1.582 %)CMS
28 (1.406 %)IIS
37 (1.230 %)SharePoint
44 (0.703 %)Joomla!
53 (0.527 %)Apache
53 (0.527 %)Tuxedo
53 (0.527 %)OpenROAD
62 (0.351 %)WebLogic
71 (0.176 %)WebSphere Application Server
71 (0.176 %)JBoss
71 (0.176 %)SAS
71 (0.176 %)Oracle HTTP Server
71 (0.176 %)BizTalk Server
71 (0.176 %)Tomcat
71 (0.176 %)Oracle Workflow
71 (0.176 %)IBM HTTP Server
71 (0.176 %)SharePoint Portal Server
71 (0.176 %)Oracle BPEL
71 (0.176 %)SharePoint Server 2007
England IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
186 (15.11 %)CA Clarity
216 (2.812 %)MS Excel
313 (2.285 %)MS Visio
410 (1.757 %)MS Office
55 (0.879 %)MS Project
64 (0.703 %)MS PowerPoint
72 (0.351 %)MATLAB
72 (0.351 %)Simulink
81 (0.176 %)Spreadsheet
England IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
17 (1.230 %)SAP HR
23 (0.527 %)Oracle EBS
23 (0.527 %)MAXIMO
23 (0.527 %)Oracle Applications
32 (0.351 %)SAP SRM
32 (0.351 %)Sophis VALUE
32 (0.351 %)Oracle CRM
32 (0.351 %)Oracle Financials
41 (0.176 %)Microsoft CRM
41 (0.176 %)SAP FI
41 (0.176 %)SAP PS
41 (0.176 %)Oracle HRMS
41 (0.176 %)Oracle ERP
41 (0.176 %)SAP ERP
41 (0.176 %)Oracle Payroll
41 (0.176 %)SAP FI/CO
41 (0.176 %)SAP CO
41 (0.176 %)MultiFonds
41 (0.176 %)SAP Retail
41 (0.176 %)SAP Oil and Gas
England IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
111 (1.933 %)Internet
27 (1.230 %)Firewall
34 (0.703 %)Intranet
34 (0.703 %)3G
34 (0.703 %)TCP/IP
34 (0.703 %)DNS
34 (0.703 %)DHCP
43 (0.527 %)GPRS
43 (0.527 %)GSM
43 (0.527 %)UMTS
52 (0.351 %)HTTP
52 (0.351 %)OSPF
52 (0.351 %)EIGRP
52 (0.351 %)Wireless
52 (0.351 %)BIG-IP
61 (0.176 %)VLAN
61 (0.176 %)Wireshark
61 (0.176 %)IPsec
61 (0.176 %)X.509
61 (0.176 %)HTTPS
England IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
129 (5.097 %)SQL Server
224 (4.218 %)Datawarehouse
317 (2.988 %)SQL Server 2005
415 (2.636 %)Oracle 10g
514 (2.460 %)RDBMS
69 (1.582 %)SAP BW
78 (1.406 %)MySQL
78 (1.406 %)DB2
87 (1.230 %)ETL
87 (1.230 %)SQL Server Integration Services
96 (1.054 %)SQL Server 2000
96 (1.054 %)Oracle Discoverer
105 (0.879 %)Oracle 9i
114 (0.703 %)OLAP
114 (0.703 %)BusinessObjects
123 (0.527 %)Oracle Reports
123 (0.527 %)Reference Data
123 (0.527 %)GIS
123 (0.527 %)PostgreSQL
132 (0.351 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
England IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
110 (1.757 %)ClearCase
110 (1.757 %)Eclipse
28 (1.406 %)ClearQuest
37 (1.230 %)TestDirector
45 (0.879 %)JUnit
45 (0.879 %)Visual Studio
54 (0.703 %)Ant
54 (0.703 %)Selenium
63 (0.527 %)Oracle Forms
72 (0.351 %)Rational Rose
72 (0.351 %)LoadRunner
72 (0.351 %)RequisitePro
72 (0.351 %)MSI
72 (0.351 %)NUnit
72 (0.351 %)Subversion
72 (0.351 %)Oracle APEX
72 (0.351 %)CaliberRM
81 (0.176 %)QARun
81 (0.176 %)Bugzilla
81 (0.176 %)Synon
England IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1179 (31.46 %)Finance
2120 (21.09 %)Banking
379 (13.88 %)Retail
465 (11.42 %)Retail Banking
539 (6.854 %)Government
632 (5.624 %)Insurance
729 (5.097 %)Health
827 (4.745 %)Telecoms
827 (4.745 %)Investment Banking
917 (2.988 %)Manufacturing
1012 (2.109 %)Military
1111 (1.933 %)Pensions
1210 (1.757 %)Publishing
1210 (1.757 %)Electric
139 (1.582 %)Front Office
148 (1.406 %)Financial Institution
157 (1.230 %)Back Office
157 (1.230 %)Aerospace
157 (1.230 %)Avionics
166 (1.054 %)Billing
England IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
1316 (55.54 %)Analyst
2259 (45.52 %)Business Analyst
383 (14.59 %)Developer
454 (9.490 %)Banking Business Analyst
533 (5.800 %)Project Manager
627 (4.745 %)Consultant
724 (4.218 %)Senior Analyst
822 (3.866 %)Architect
921 (3.691 %).NET Developer
1019 (3.339 %)Senior Business Analyst
1118 (3.163 %)Requirements Analyst
1118 (3.163 %)Insurance Business Analyst
1217 (2.988 %)C# Developer
1315 (2.636 %)Test Analyst
1413 (2.285 %)Software Engineer
1413 (2.285 %)Senior Developer
1413 (2.285 %)Technical Lead
1512 (2.109 %)C#/ASP.NET Developer
1512 (2.109 %)Investment Banking Business Analyst
1611 (1.933 %)ASP.NET Developer
England IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
131 (5.448 %)NHS
222 (3.866 %)Derivative
315 (2.636 %)Fixed Income
412 (2.109 %)Client/Server
511 (1.933 %)Equities
610 (1.757 %)Credit Risk
78 (1.406 %)Equity Derivative
78 (1.406 %)Management Information System
86 (1.054 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
95 (0.879 %)Physics
95 (0.879 %)Device Driver
104 (0.703 %)RMADS
104 (0.703 %)Credit Derivative
104 (0.703 %)Mainframe
104 (0.703 %)PACS
113 (0.527 %)NPfIT
113 (0.527 %)Market Risk
113 (0.527 %)IBM Mainframe
122 (0.351 %)Data Extraction
122 (0.351 %)Interactive TV
England IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
131 (5.448 %)Windows
227 (4.745 %)UNIX
314 (2.460 %)Windows Server 2003
411 (1.933 %)Linux
56 (1.054 %)Solaris
65 (0.879 %)Embedded Linux
74 (0.703 %)Windows XP
81 (0.176 %)Windows 2000 Server
England IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1135 (23.73 %)Business Analysis
279 (13.88 %)GAP Analysis
375 (13.18 %)UML
470 (12.30 %)Security Cleared
555 (9.666 %)Migration
650 (8.787 %)PRINCE2
749 (8.612 %)Data Migration
844 (7.733 %)Change Management
943 (7.557 %)User Acceptance Testing
1038 (6.678 %)Data Modelling
1133 (5.800 %)SC Cleared
1231 (5.448 %)DSDM
1231 (5.448 %)Data Analysis
1327 (4.745 %)SSADM
1327 (4.745 %)Project Management
1425 (4.394 %)Use Case
1523 (4.042 %)Test Scripting
1619 (3.339 %)Project Planning
1619 (3.339 %)Configuration Management
1718 (3.163 %)Business Intelligence
England IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
154 (9.490 %)SQL
233 (5.800 %)Java
329 (5.097 %)C#
425 (4.394 %)C++
516 (2.812 %)PL/SQL
615 (2.636 %)C
714 (2.460 %)JavaScript
87 (1.230 %)PHP
87 (1.230 %)COBOL
87 (1.230 %)VB
96 (1.054 %)VB.NET
96 (1.054 %)Transact-SQL
105 (0.879 %)Embedded C
105 (0.879 %)Embedded C++
105 (0.879 %)DHTML
105 (0.879 %)PHP5
114 (0.703 %)VB6
114 (0.703 %)Perl
123 (0.527 %)Progress 4GL
132 (0.351 %)Tcl
England IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
123 (4.042 %)Degree
211 (1.933 %)HND
36 (1.054 %)ISEB
36 (1.054 %)PRINCE2 Certification
45 (0.879 %)HNC
54 (0.703 %)Citrix Certification
62 (0.351 %)PMI Certification
71 (0.176 %)ISEB Practitioner
71 (0.176 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
71 (0.176 %)Microsoft Certification
71 (0.176 %)Siebel Certification
71 (0.176 %)ITIL Certification
71 (0.176 %)PMP
71 (0.176 %)MCAD
71 (0.176 %)MCSD
England IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
122 (3.866 %)QA
29 (1.582 %)Basel II
36 (1.054 %)SLA
42 (0.351 %)CESG Infosec
51 (0.176 %)PCI DSS
51 (0.176 %)COBIT
51 (0.176 %)MiFID
51 (0.176 %)SNOMED CT
England IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
17 (1.230 %)Active Directory
21 (0.176 %)MSMQ
England IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
12 (0.351 %)Tivoli
12 (0.351 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
21 (0.176 %)OVSD
21 (0.176 %)SCCM
21 (0.176 %)OpenView
England IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
157 (10.02 %)Oracle
230 (5.272 %)Microsoft
325 (4.394 %)SAP
415 (2.636 %)Sybase
511 (1.933 %)IBM
511 (1.933 %)Adobe
67 (1.230 %)Siebel
76 (1.054 %)EMC
85 (0.879 %)Fidessa
85 (0.879 %)Cisco
94 (0.703 %)Business Objects
94 (0.703 %)HP
94 (0.703 %)MicroStrategy
103 (0.527 %)Metastorm
103 (0.527 %)Infor
103 (0.527 %)Progress
112 (0.351 %)Hyperion
112 (0.351 %)thinkFolio
112 (0.351 %)Casewise
112 (0.351 %)Sophis