The first table below looks at the demand for Requirements Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Requirements Management over the 3 months to 19 June 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 South East 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Requirements Management
Rank 190 207 215
Rank change year-on-year
+17 +8
Contract jobs citing Requirements Management 30 40 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.375% 0.400% 0.292%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.544% 0.605% 0.456%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 18 7
Average daily rate £400 £356 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.28% +9.61%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £388 £450
% change year-on-year
-9.67% -13.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
Average hourly rate £36.64 £40.00 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.39% -11.11%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.65 £36.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+3.15% +21.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
5512 6610 6800
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 68.83% 66.13% 64.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2869 3135 3151
Average daily rate £375 £370 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.35% -1.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 312 351
Average hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £30.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.88 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £47.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Requirements Management
England

Requirements Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Requirements Management Jobs Demand Trend

Requirements Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East Requirements Management Daily Rate Trend

Requirements Management
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Requirements Management across the South East region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

South East Requirements Management Daily Rate Histogram

Requirements Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East Requirements Management Hourly Rate Trend

Requirements Management
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Requirements Management within the South East region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Hampshire +5 16 £350 -6.66% 4
Surrey +16 6 £325 -8.77% 1
Berkshire +16 5 £400 +41.59%
Buckinghamshire -5 2 - - 2
Kent - 2 - -
Middlesex - - - -
Oxfordshire - - - -
East Sussex - - - - 1
West Sussex - - - - 1
Requirements Management
England

Requirements Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 20 (38.46%) Project Management
2 17 (32.69%) E-Commerce
2 17 (32.69%) Business Analysis
3 16 (30.77%) Use Case
4 15 (28.85%) Retail
5 14 (26.92%) ATG
6 13 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
7 12 (23.08%) Finance
7 12 (23.08%) UML
8 11 (21.15%) RUP
8 11 (21.15%) Scrum
9 10 (19.23%) RAD
9 10 (19.23%) Windows
9 10 (19.23%) Security Cleared
10 9 (17.31%) OOA/OOD
10 9 (17.31%) Java
10 9 (17.31%) Unified Process
11 8 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (13.46%) SC Cleared
12 7 (13.46%) Microsoft
13 6 (11.54%) UNIX
13 6 (11.54%) Rational DOORS
14 5 (9.615%) User Acceptance Testing
14 5 (9.615%) ERP
14 5 (9.615%) SQL
14 5 (9.615%) MS Office
14 5 (9.615%) SAP
14 5 (9.615%) Telecoms
15 4 (7.692%) Change Management
15 4 (7.692%) C#

Requirements Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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.

Application Development
1 3 (5.769%) .NET
1 3 (5.769%) WCF
1 3 (5.769%) WF
1 3 (5.769%) AppFabric
2 2 (3.846%) OpenGL
3 1 (1.923%) STL
3 1 (1.923%) SAP XI
3 1 (1.923%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 3 (5.769%) BizTalk Server
1 3 (5.769%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 5 (9.615%) MS Office
2 4 (7.692%) MS Project
3 3 (5.769%) MS Visio
4 2 (3.846%) MS Excel
4 2 (3.846%) Simulink
5 1 (1.923%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.846%) SAP PSCD
1 2 (3.846%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (3.846%) SAP ERP
1 2 (3.846%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.923%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (1.923%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.923%) SAP FI-CA
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.846%) Wireless
1 2 (3.846%) Firewall
1 2 (3.846%) Broadband
1 2 (3.846%) Ethernet
1 2 (3.846%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.923%) VPN
2 1 (1.923%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.846%) QlikView
1 2 (3.846%) SQL Server
1 2 (3.846%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (3.846%) OLTP
1 2 (3.846%) Snowflake Schema
1 2 (3.846%) Star Schema
2 1 (1.923%) IBM InfoSphere
Development Applications
1 6 (11.54%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (1.923%) Eclipse
2 1 (1.923%) ClearCase
2 1 (1.923%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.923%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 15 (28.85%) Retail
2 12 (23.08%) Finance
3 5 (9.615%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.846%) Banking
4 2 (3.846%) Billing
4 2 (3.846%) General Ledger
4 2 (3.846%) Military
4 2 (3.846%) Electronics
5 1 (1.923%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.923%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (63.46%) Business Analyst
1 33 (63.46%) Analyst
2 12 (23.08%) Agile Business Analyst
3 3 (5.769%) Software Engineer
3 3 (5.769%) Architect
3 3 (5.769%) Project Manager
3 3 (5.769%) Consultant
3 3 (5.769%) Senior Business Analyst
3 3 (5.769%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (5.769%) SAP Consultant
4 2 (3.846%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
4 2 (3.846%) Build Engineer
4 2 (3.846%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (3.846%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 2 (3.846%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (3.846%) Design Engineer
5 1 (1.923%) Coordinator
5 1 (1.923%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (1.923%) Technical Project Manager
5 1 (1.923%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.769%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.846%) NHS
2 2 (3.846%) N-Tier
3 1 (1.923%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (19.23%) Windows
2 6 (11.54%) UNIX
3 3 (5.769%) Linux
4 2 (3.846%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (38.46%) Project Management
2 17 (32.69%) E-Commerce
2 17 (32.69%) Business Analysis
3 16 (30.77%) Use Case
4 13 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
5 12 (23.08%) UML
6 11 (21.15%) RUP
6 11 (21.15%) Scrum
7 10 (19.23%) RAD
8 9 (17.31%) OOA/OOD
8 9 (17.31%) Unified Process
9 8 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (9.615%) User Acceptance Testing
10 5 (9.615%) ERP
11 4 (7.692%) Change Management
11 4 (7.692%) Data Modelling
11 4 (7.692%) Business Intelligence
12 3 (5.769%) CRM
12 3 (5.769%) Project Planning
12 3 (5.769%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (17.31%) Java
2 5 (9.615%) SQL
3 4 (7.692%) C#
4 3 (5.769%) C++
5 2 (3.846%) VB
5 2 (3.846%) C
5 2 (3.846%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 10 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 7 (13.46%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.846%) CBAP
3 2 (3.846%) DV Cleared
3 2 (3.846%) Degree
3 2 (3.846%) ISEB
3 2 (3.846%) CCA
4 1 (1.923%) CCNP
4 1 (1.923%) CCNA
4 1 (1.923%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.923%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.846%) QA
2 1 (1.923%) TickIT
System Software
1 3 (5.769%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 14 (26.92%) ATG
2 7 (13.46%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.615%) SAP
4 3 (5.769%) VMware
5 2 (3.846%) TOWER Software
5 2 (3.846%) BT
5 2 (3.846%) Oracle
5 2 (3.846%) CA
5 2 (3.846%) Intel
6 1 (1.923%) IBM
6 1 (1.923%) HP
6 1 (1.923%) NetApp
6 1 (1.923%) webMethods
6 1 (1.923%) hybris