The first table below looks at the demand for Requirements Engineering skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Requirements Engineering over the 3 months to 24 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 England 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Requirements Engineering
Rank 485 534 524
Rank change year-on-year
+49 -10
Contract jobs citing Requirements Engineering 28 25 47
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.067% 0.047% 0.084%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.094% 0.069% 0.123%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 10 32
Average daily rate £438 £356 £530
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+22.80% -32.78%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £345 £325
% change year-on-year
+15.94% +6.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £28.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -18.57%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
29704 36492 38199
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 71.44% 68.42% 67.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 18148 21397 22087
Average daily rate £420 £413 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.81% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £588 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 918 1197 1399
Average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £28.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.00% -12.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.55 £13.21 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Requirements Engineering
UK

Requirements Engineering
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England Requirements Engineering Daily Rate Trend

Requirements Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Requirements Engineering across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Requirements Engineering Daily Rate Histogram

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 England region.

England Requirements Engineering Hourly Rate Trend

Requirements Engineering
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Requirements Engineering within the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +52 21 £460 -23.33%
South West +29 4 £445 +27.14%
East of England +18 1 - -
South East +6 1 - -
Yorkshire +1 1 £315 -14.28%
Requirements Engineering
UK

Requirements Engineering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 29 (54.72%) Business Analysis
2 17 (32.08%) ISEB
3 16 (30.19%) UML
4 13 (24.53%) Finance
4 13 (24.53%) Banking
4 13 (24.53%) Security Cleared
5 11 (20.75%) Use Case
5 11 (20.75%) Investment Banking
5 11 (20.75%) Systems Analysis
5 11 (20.75%) Project Management
6 10 (18.87%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (18.87%) SC Cleared
6 10 (18.87%) DV Cleared
6 10 (18.87%) Product Management
7 9 (16.98%) Requirements Management
8 8 (15.09%) Service Management
9 7 (13.21%) Web Services
10 6 (11.32%) Back Office
10 6 (11.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (11.32%) Degree
10 6 (11.32%) Fixed Income
10 6 (11.32%) Validation
10 6 (11.32%) Software Engineering
10 6 (11.32%) Asset Management
10 6 (11.32%) Derivative
11 5 (9.434%) IIBA
11 5 (9.434%) CBAP
11 5 (9.434%) Confluence
11 5 (9.434%) Wiki
11 5 (9.434%) PRINCE2

Requirements Engineering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

Application Development
1 7 (13.21%) Web Services
2 1 (1.887%) Ajax
2 1 (1.887%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.887%) JSON
2 1 (1.887%) ASP.NET
2 1 (1.887%) CSS
2 1 (1.887%) SOAP
2 1 (1.887%) XML
2 1 (1.887%) HTML
2 1 (1.887%) .NET
2 1 (1.887%) XBRL
2 1 (1.887%) jQuery
2 1 (1.887%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 5 (9.434%) Confluence
2 1 (1.887%) CMS
2 1 (1.887%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (5.660%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.774%) MS Excel
2 2 (3.774%) MS Office
2 2 (3.774%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (1.887%) MS Project
3 1 (1.887%) Simulink
3 1 (1.887%) TargetLink
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.887%) DNS
1 1 (1.887%) 3G
1 1 (1.887%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.887%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (1.887%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (1.887%) SQL Server
1 1 (1.887%) DTS
1 1 (1.887%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (1.887%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (1.887%) IBM InfoSphere
Development Applications
1 1 (1.887%) Rational DOORS
General
1 13 (24.53%) Finance
1 13 (24.53%) Banking
2 11 (20.75%) Investment Banking
3 6 (11.32%) Back Office
4 4 (7.547%) Military
5 3 (5.660%) Legal
6 2 (3.774%) Marketing
7 1 (1.887%) Automotive
7 1 (1.887%) Retail
7 1 (1.887%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.887%) Local Government
7 1 (1.887%) German Language
Job Titles
1 37 (69.81%) Analyst
2 35 (66.04%) Business Analyst
3 10 (18.87%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
4 6 (11.32%) Project Manager
5 5 (9.434%) Business Systems Analyst
5 5 (9.434%) Systems Analyst
6 3 (5.660%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (3.774%) Digital Project Manager
7 2 (3.774%) Developer
7 2 (3.774%) IT Business Analyst
8 1 (1.887%) Senior Project Manager
8 1 (1.887%) .NET Developer
8 1 (1.887%) Technical Analyst
8 1 (1.887%) Change Analyst
8 1 (1.887%) Implementation Analyst
8 1 (1.887%) Business Project Manager
8 1 (1.887%) Senior Analyst
8 1 (1.887%) Technical Business Analyst
8 1 (1.887%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 1 (1.887%) Business Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 6 (11.32%) Fixed Income
1 6 (11.32%) Derivative
2 5 (9.434%) IIBA
2 5 (9.434%) Wiki
3 3 (5.660%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.660%) Mathematics
3 3 (5.660%) Computer Science
3 3 (5.660%) Visualisation
3 3 (5.660%) Open Source
4 2 (3.774%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (3.774%) ASIC
5 1 (1.887%) Data Integration
5 1 (1.887%) Mechatronics
5 1 (1.887%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.774%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (54.72%) Business Analysis
2 16 (30.19%) UML
3 11 (20.75%) Use Case
3 11 (20.75%) Systems Analysis
3 11 (20.75%) Project Management
4 10 (18.87%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (18.87%) Product Management
5 9 (16.98%) Requirements Management
6 8 (15.09%) Service Management
7 6 (11.32%) Validation
7 6 (11.32%) Software Engineering
7 6 (11.32%) Asset Management
8 5 (9.434%) PRINCE2
9 3 (5.660%) Information Security
9 3 (5.660%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 3 (5.660%) Data Modelling
9 3 (5.660%) Change Management
10 2 (3.774%) Customer Engagement
10 2 (3.774%) Quality Management
10 2 (3.774%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.547%) C#
2 1 (1.887%) C
2 1 (1.887%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.887%) SQL
2 1 (1.887%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (32.08%) ISEB
2 13 (24.53%) Security Cleared
3 10 (18.87%) SC Cleared
3 10 (18.87%) DV Cleared
4 6 (11.32%) Degree
5 5 (9.434%) CBAP
6 4 (7.547%) GSAE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.547%) QA
2 1 (1.887%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (1.887%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (7.547%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.774%) VMware
3 1 (1.887%) Casewise
3 1 (1.887%) SAP
3 1 (1.887%) Business Objects
3 1 (1.887%) IBM
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