The first table below looks at the demand for Requirements Analysis skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Requirements Analysis over the 3 months to 20 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 Glasgow 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Requirements Analysis
Rank 69 56 58
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +2
Contract jobs citing Requirements Analysis 9 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.951% 0.383% 0.146%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.395% 0.569% 0.215%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 1
Average daily rate £350 £369 £213
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.08% +73.52%
UK excluding London average daily rate £385 £380 £328
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +16.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.75 £37.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+10.13% +13.84%
All Processes & Methodologies
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
645 527 466
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 68.18% 67.31% 67.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 285 275
Average daily rate £338 £340 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.73% -2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £235 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 22 14
Average hourly rate £9.25 £25.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-63.00% -37.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
Requirements Analysis
Scotland

Requirements Analysis
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow Requirements Analysis Jobs Demand Trend

Requirements Analysis
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Requirements Analysis Daily Rate Trend

Requirements Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Requirements Analysis across the Glasgow region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Glasgow Requirements Analysis Daily Rate Histogram

Requirements Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Requirements Analysis Hourly Rate Trend

Requirements Analysis
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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.

1 5 (45.45%) Data Modelling
2 4 (36.36%) Java
2 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 4 (36.36%) OOA/OOD
2 4 (36.36%) OO
2 4 (36.36%) BPMN
3 3 (27.27%) Business Analysis
3 3 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (27.27%) Spring
3 3 (27.27%) Maven
3 3 (27.27%) Tomcat
3 3 (27.27%) T-SQL
3 3 (27.27%) Sybase
3 3 (27.27%) Ant
3 3 (27.27%) UML
4 2 (18.18%) BPR
4 2 (18.18%) SOA
4 2 (18.18%) Eclipse
4 2 (18.18%) JUnit
4 2 (18.18%) Unified Process
4 2 (18.18%) Investment Banking
4 2 (18.18%) Systems Analysis
4 2 (18.18%) Banking
4 2 (18.18%) SWT
4 2 (18.18%) Degree
4 2 (18.18%) ERD
4 2 (18.18%) Database Tuning
4 2 (18.18%) Waterfall
4 2 (18.18%) JFace
4 2 (18.18%) Eclipse RCP

Requirements Analysis
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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.

Application Development
1 3 (27.27%) Spring
2 2 (18.18%) SWT
2 2 (18.18%) JFace
3 1 (9.091%) iBATIS
3 1 (9.091%) JDBC
3 1 (9.091%) Swing
Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) Tomcat
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (9.091%) GemFire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (9.091%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Ant
1 3 (27.27%) Maven
2 2 (18.18%) Eclipse RCP
2 2 (18.18%) JUnit
2 2 (18.18%) Eclipse
General
1 2 (18.18%) Banking
1 2 (18.18%) Investment Banking
2 1 (9.091%) Front Office
2 1 (9.091%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Business Analyst
1 7 (63.64%) Analyst
2 4 (36.36%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Java Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Business Process Analyst
3 3 (27.27%) Process Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (9.091%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (9.091%) Technical Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) Equities
1 1 (9.091%) Derivative
1 1 (9.091%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Data Modelling
2 4 (36.36%) OOA/OOD
2 4 (36.36%) OO
2 4 (36.36%) BPMN
3 3 (27.27%) UML
3 3 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (27.27%) Business Analysis
4 2 (18.18%) Unit Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Unified Process
4 2 (18.18%) BPR
4 2 (18.18%) SOA
4 2 (18.18%) ERD
4 2 (18.18%) Database Tuning
4 2 (18.18%) Waterfall
4 2 (18.18%) Use Case
4 2 (18.18%) Systems Analysis
5 1 (9.091%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (9.091%) Data Transformation
5 1 (9.091%) ETL
5 1 (9.091%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Java
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Sybase