West Midlands Requirements Analysis Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Requirements Analysis skills within the West Midlands 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 Analysis over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Requirements Analysis
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Bradford Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheadle Cheshire City of London Colchester Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dundee East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Gosport Halifax Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury North West Northampton Northamptonshire Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staines Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Wells West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	113	132
Rank change on same period last year	+19
Matching contract IT job ads	10	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	0.572 %	0.471 %
Daily rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum daily rate	£225	£260
Average daily rate	£263	£279
% change on same period last year	-5.97 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£298
UK excluding London average daily rate	£375	£379
% change on same period last year	-1.12 %
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	£35.21	£34.44
% change on same period last year	+2.23 %
Processes & Methodologies West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	1748	1697
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.363 %	1.673 %
Daily rates quoted	472	463
Average minimum daily rate	£337	£319
Average daily rate	£362	£340
% change on same period last year	+6.43 %
Average maximum daily rate	£387	£362
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£375
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	104	186
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.58	£24.78
Average hourly rate	£27.50	£26.97
% change on same period last year	+1.97 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.42	£29.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.41	£30.41
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
Requirements Analysis 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 Analysis
Demand Trend

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

Requirements Analysis
Daily Rate Trend

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

Requirements Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Shropshire	-3	6	-	-
Herefordshire	-	3	£175	-
Coventry	-	1	£350	-

Requirements Analysis England

Requirements Analysis
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 6 (42.86 %) XML 1 6 (42.86 %) Adobe 1 6 (42.86 %) XBRL 2 5 (35.71 %) Government 3 2 (14.29 %) Performance Management 3 2 (14.29 %) Security Cleared 3 2 (14.29 %) SLA 4 1 (7.143 %) Workflow Management 4 1 (7.143 %) Project Planning 4 1 (7.143 %) Use Case 4 1 (7.143 %) PHP5 4 1 (7.143 %) PHP4 4 1 (7.143 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 1 (7.143 %) GAP Analysis 4 1 (7.143 %) Workflow

4 1 (7.143 %) Metastorm 4 1 (7.143 %) Stakeholder Management 4 1 (7.143 %) LAMP 4 1 (7.143 %) Agresso 4 1 (7.143 %) PRINCE2 4 1 (7.143 %) Linux 4 1 (7.143 %) UML 4 1 (7.143 %) SSADM 4 1 (7.143 %) Apache 4 1 (7.143 %) Data Modelling 4 1 (7.143 %) PHP 4 1 (7.143 %) VB.NET 4 1 (7.143 %) .NET 4 1 (7.143 %) MySQL

Requirements Analysis
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 6 (42.86 %) XML 1 6 (42.86 %) XBRL 2 1 (7.143 %) LAMP 2 1 (7.143 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 1 (7.143 %) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (7.143 %) MySQL	General 1 5 (35.71 %) Government
Job Titles 1 7 (50.00 %) Analyst 2 5 (35.71 %) Business Analyst 3 3 (21.43 %) Consultant 4 2 (14.29 %) Report Analyst 4 2 (14.29 %) Web Consultant 5 1 (7.143 %) Web Developer 5 1 (7.143 %) Author 5 1 (7.143 %) Technical Author 5 1 (7.143 %) Developer 5 1 (7.143 %) Project Manager	Operating Systems 1 1 (7.143 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (14.29 %) Performance Management 1 2 (14.29 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (7.143 %) PRINCE2 2 1 (7.143 %) UML 2 1 (7.143 %) SSADM 2 1 (7.143 %) Data Modelling 2 1 (7.143 %) GAP Analysis 2 1 (7.143 %) Workflow 2 1 (7.143 %) Stakeholder Management 2 1 (7.143 %) Workflow Management 2 1 (7.143 %) Project Planning 2 1 (7.143 %) Use Case 2 1 (7.143 %) User Acceptance Testing	Programming Languages 1 1 (7.143 %) PHP 1 1 (7.143 %) VB.NET 1 1 (7.143 %) PHP5 1 1 (7.143 %) PHP4
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (14.29 %) SLA	Vendors 1 6 (42.86 %) Adobe 2 1 (7.143 %) Agresso 2 1 (7.143 %) Metastorm