Essex Requirements Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Requirements Management skills within the Essex 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 Management over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Requirements Management
Location Berkshire Bracknell Bridgend Bristol Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Crawley Darlington Durham East Midlands East of England England Essex Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Lancashire Leeds London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex North East North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Preston Reading Shropshire Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West Stockport Surrey Telford UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	58	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.510 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£400	-
Average daily rate	£400	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£400	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£364
% change on same period last year	+4.70 %
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	£33.62	£39.23
% change on same period last year	-14.28 %
Processes & Methodologies Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	392	427
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.522 %	0.426 %
Daily rates quoted	143	137
Average minimum daily rate	£380	£352
Average daily rate	£400	£374
% change on same period last year	+6.96 %
Average maximum daily rate	£421	£396
UK excluding London average daily rate	£379	£376
% change on same period last year	+0.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	43	81
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.68	£31.92
Average hourly rate	£32.31	£32.50
% change on same period last year	-0.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.94	£33.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.35	£30.32
% change on same period last year	+0.10 %
Requirements Management East of England

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 Management
Demand Trend

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

Requirements Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

Requirements Management
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 (33.33 %) Oracle 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Office 1 1 (33.33 %) UML 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 10g 1 1 (33.33 %) Change Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Electronics 1 1 (33.33 %) Automotive 1 1 (33.33 %) SysML 1 1 (33.33 %) Requirements Analysis 1 1 (33.33 %) Test Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Test Scripting

Requirements Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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.

Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Office	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 10g
General 1 1 (33.33 %) Electronics 1 1 (33.33 %) Automotive	Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Test Manager 1 1 (33.33 %) Systems Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Requirements Engineer
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) UML 1 1 (33.33 %) Change Management 1 1 (33.33 %) SysML 1 1 (33.33 %) Requirements Analysis 1 1 (33.33 %) Test Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Test Scripting	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft