The first table below looks at the demand for Requirements Analysis skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Requirements Analysis over the 3 months to 21 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 Scotland 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Requirements Analysis
Rank 101 98 98
Rank change year-on-year
-3 0
Contract jobs citing Requirements Analysis 21 11 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.850% 0.416% 0.658%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.249% 0.649% 0.979%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 4 15
Average daily rate £300 £369 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.64% +63.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £319 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £379 £250
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £380 £328
% change year-on-year
+1.97% +16.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.75 £37.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year
+10.13% +12.12%
All Processes & Methodologies
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1682 1696 1838
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 68.04% 64.17% 67.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 867 863 956
Average daily rate £360 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £261 £225 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 66 48
Average hourly rate £20.50 £22.75 £29.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.89% -22.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.00 £35.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Requirements Analysis
UK

Requirements Analysis
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Requirements Analysis Hourly Rate Trend

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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 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
Glasgow -13 9 £350 -5.08%
Edinburgh - 6 £300 -
Fife - 2 - -
Dundee - 1 £260 -
Requirements Analysis
UK

Requirements Analysis
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 11 (40.74%) Business Analysis
2 7 (25.93%) Data Modelling
3 5 (18.52%) Java
3 5 (18.52%) Finance
4 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (14.81%) Banking
4 4 (14.81%) SQL
4 4 (14.81%) OOA/OOD
4 4 (14.81%) OO
4 4 (14.81%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (14.81%) SCADA
4 4 (14.81%) Use Case
4 4 (14.81%) Degree
4 4 (14.81%) BPMN
4 4 (14.81%) Business Transformation
5 3 (11.11%) JSR 286
5 3 (11.11%) WebSphere Portal
5 3 (11.11%) Unit Testing
5 3 (11.11%) Maven
5 3 (11.11%) Investment Banking
5 3 (11.11%) WebSphere
5 3 (11.11%) Spring
5 3 (11.11%) Tomcat
5 3 (11.11%) T-SQL
5 3 (11.11%) Sybase
5 3 (11.11%) Ant
5 3 (11.11%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (11.11%) UML
5 3 (11.11%) BPR
6 2 (7.407%) Telecoms

Requirements Analysis
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 (11.11%) JSR 286
1 3 (11.11%) WebSphere
1 3 (11.11%) Spring
2 2 (7.407%) HTML5
2 2 (7.407%) JFace
2 2 (7.407%) SWT
3 1 (3.704%) Worklight
3 1 (3.704%) REST
3 1 (3.704%) JSON
3 1 (3.704%) iBATIS
3 1 (3.704%) jQuery
3 1 (3.704%) Ajax
3 1 (3.704%) JSF
3 1 (3.704%) Software Packaging
3 1 (3.704%) Swing
3 1 (3.704%) J2EE
3 1 (3.704%) JDBC
3 1 (3.704%) SOAP
3 1 (3.704%) Web Services
3 1 (3.704%) XML
Application Platforms
1 3 (11.11%) WebSphere Portal
1 3 (11.11%) Tomcat
1 3 (11.11%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (3.704%) GemFire
2 1 (3.704%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (3.704%) WebSphere Process Server
Applications
1 1 (3.704%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.407%) GSM
1 2 (7.407%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.704%) RDBMS
1 1 (3.704%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Maven
1 3 (11.11%) Ant
2 2 (7.407%) JUnit
2 2 (7.407%) Eclipse
2 2 (7.407%) Eclipse RCP
3 1 (3.704%) MSI
3 1 (3.704%) InstallShield
General
1 5 (18.52%) Finance
2 4 (14.81%) Banking
3 3 (11.11%) Investment Banking
4 2 (7.407%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.704%) Marketing
5 1 (3.704%) Retail
5 1 (3.704%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 17 (62.96%) Analyst
1 17 (62.96%) Business Analyst
2 4 (14.81%) Java Developer
2 4 (14.81%) Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Business Process Analyst
3 3 (11.11%) Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Process Analyst
4 2 (7.407%) Network Consultant
4 2 (7.407%) Systems Analyst
4 2 (7.407%) Consultant
4 2 (7.407%) WebSphere Architect
4 2 (7.407%) WebSphere Portal Architect
5 1 (3.704%) Applications Packager
5 1 (3.704%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (3.704%) Technical Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) SCADA
2 1 (3.704%) Derivative
2 1 (3.704%) Computer Science
2 1 (3.704%) Credit Risk
2 1 (3.704%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.407%) Linux
1 2 (7.407%) UNIX
2 1 (3.704%) Windows 7
2 1 (3.704%) Windows XP
2 1 (3.704%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (40.74%) Business Analysis
2 7 (25.93%) Data Modelling
3 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (14.81%) OOA/OOD
3 4 (14.81%) OO
3 4 (14.81%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (14.81%) Use Case
3 4 (14.81%) BPMN
3 4 (14.81%) Business Transformation
4 3 (11.11%) Unit Testing
4 3 (11.11%) UML
4 3 (11.11%) BPR
5 2 (7.407%) Validation
5 2 (7.407%) Unified Process
5 2 (7.407%) SOA
5 2 (7.407%) Systems Analysis
5 2 (7.407%) ERD
5 2 (7.407%) Database Tuning
5 2 (7.407%) Waterfall
5 2 (7.407%) Cyber Security
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) Java
2 4 (14.81%) SQL
3 3 (11.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Degree
2 2 (7.407%) ISEB
3 1 (3.704%) CBAP
3 1 (3.704%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (3.704%) PMP
3 1 (3.704%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.704%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.704%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.704%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.704%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) Sybase
2 2 (7.407%) PeopleSoft
3 1 (3.704%) IBM
3 1 (3.704%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.704%) Citrix
Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
UTILITIES EXPERIENCE IS A MUSTResponsibilitiesKey project deliverables will be to manage the investigation of how the business does things currently (in relation to telemetry and SCADA systems) and...
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Posted: 15 May 2013