The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Requirements Analysis skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Requirements Analysis over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category.

Requirements Analysis
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank339302337
Rank change year-on-year
Down-37Up+35
Matching permanent IT job ads824928547
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.683 %0.757 %0.573 %
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category0.927 %1.039 %0.809 %
Number of salaries quoted654805451
Average salary£47,500£45,000£46,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.55 %-2.17 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£33,500£30,000£30,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£75,000£67,500
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£38,000£40,750
% change year-on-year
+5.26 %-6.74 %
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryAll Processes & Methodologies
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
889158928967609
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK73.73 %72.82 %70.81 %
Number of salaries quoted755227477355328
Average salary£47,000£47,500£47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.05 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£30,000£29,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£75,000£77,500£75,000
UK excluding London average salary£41,000£40,000£40,000
% change year-on-year
+2.50 %-

Requirements Analysis
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Requirements Analysis within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Requirements Analysis Demand Trend

Requirements Analysis
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Requirements Analysis within the UK.

Requirements Analysis Salary Trend

Requirements Analysis
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Requirements Analysis over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

Requirements Analysis Salary Histogram

Requirements Analysis
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Requirements Analysis within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-54765£47,500+5.55 %
LondonDown-53315£60,000+9.09 %
South EastDown-49118£42,500-
South WestDown-36115£39,000+11.42 %
City of LondonUp+39110£65,000+4.00 %
North WestNo change065£36,750+5.00 %
YorkshireUp+1750£45,000+17.64 %
ManchesterDown-450£40,000+14.28 %
West MidlandsUp+649£50,000+38.88 %
East of EnglandDown-2047£42,500-1.16 %
HampshireUp+534£40,000-3.61 %
WiltshireDown-934£40,000+21.21 %
BirminghamUp+1832£65,000+38.29 %
ScotlandUp+3331£41,000-13.68 %
SwindonDown-131£40,000+21.21 %
SurreyDown-1230£45,000+2.85 %
GloucestershireDown-4529£34,000-9.33 %
West YorkshireUp+1427£33,500-25.55 %
LeedsUp+1027£33,500-16.25 %
EdinburghUp+3324£42,500-10.52 %
HertfordshireUp+2323£45,000+25.87 %
GloucesterDown-1822£37,500-11.76 %
BristolNo change021£45,000+114.28 %
West SussexUp+1920£45,000+63.63 %
BerkshireDown-5317£50,000+18.34 %
North YorkshireUp+1214£70,000+98.58 %
YorkNew entry-14£70,000-
DorsetUp+1413£25,000-
WorcestershireDown-213£34,500-37.27 %
SomersetDown-212£40,000+14.28 %

Requirements Analysis
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Requirements Analysis.

1425 (26.61 %)Finance
2346 (21.67 %)SQL
3342 (21.42 %).NET
4327 (20.48 %)Project Management
5317 (19.85 %)Java
6316 (19.79 %)Oracle
7309 (19.35 %)Degree
8308 (19.29 %)SQL Server
9297 (18.60 %)C#
10242 (15.15 %)Agile Software Development
11234 (14.65 %)Business Analysis
12215 (13.46 %)UML
13206 (12.90 %)XML
14189 (11.83 %)Microsoft
15182 (11.40 %)ASP.NET
16170 (10.64 %)Software Engineering
17160 (10.02 %)Scrum
18155 (9.706 %)JavaScript
19143 (8.954 %)Data Modelling
20140 (8.766 %)User Acceptance Testing
21138 (8.641 %)Stakeholder Management
21138 (8.641 %)Web Services
22130 (8.140 %)Banking
23126 (7.890 %)J2EE
23126 (7.890 %)Data Warehouse
24125 (7.827 %)CSS
25124 (7.765 %)Security Cleared
26123 (7.702 %)GAP Analysis
27122 (7.639 %)Retail
28120 (7.514 %)C++

Requirements Analysis
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Requirements Analysis. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1342 (21.42 %).NET
2206 (12.90 %)XML
3182 (11.40 %)ASP.NET
4138 (8.641 %)Web Services
5126 (7.890 %)J2EE
6125 (7.827 %)CSS
7115 (7.201 %)HTML
891 (5.698 %)Spring
979 (4.947 %)WCF
1074 (4.634 %)Hibernate
1074 (4.634 %)WinForms
1172 (4.508 %)Ajax
1267 (4.195 %)WebSphere
1267 (4.195 %)jQuery
1355 (3.444 %)XSLT
1451 (3.193 %)Struts
1547 (2.943 %)JFace
1646 (2.880 %)SWT
1743 (2.693 %)WPF
1840 (2.505 %)Spring MVC
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
176 (4.759 %)SharePoint
272 (4.508 %)Apache
364 (4.008 %)Tomcat
443 (2.693 %)WebLogic
538 (2.379 %)Jetty
625 (1.565 %)CMS
720 (1.252 %)Drupal
819 (1.190 %)SharePoint 2010
819 (1.190 %)IIS
915 (0.939 %)WordPress
915 (0.939 %)SharePoint Server
1012 (0.751 %)Lotus Notes
1110 (0.626 %)Oracle Workflow
129 (0.564 %)BizTalk Server
129 (0.564 %)ESB
129 (0.564 %)Joomla!
137 (0.438 %)Movable Type
137 (0.438 %)Force.com
146 (0.376 %)Documentum
155 (0.313 %)Sitecore CMS
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
189 (5.573 %)MS Excel
248 (3.006 %)MS Visio
336 (2.254 %)MS Project
428 (1.753 %)MS Office
526 (1.628 %)MATLAB
66 (0.376 %)MS PowerPoint
73 (0.188 %)Mingle
73 (0.188 %)Photoshop
82 (0.125 %)PowerPivot
91 (0.063 %)Simulink
91 (0.063 %)Stateflow
91 (0.063 %)Adobe Illustrator
91 (0.063 %)Windchill
91 (0.063 %)QuarkXPress
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
169 (4.321 %)Oracle EBS
263 (3.945 %)Oracle Payroll
331 (1.941 %)SAP PM
424 (1.503 %)Oracle EBS R12
523 (1.440 %)SAP APO
523 (1.440 %)SAP CRM
621 (1.315 %)Oracle 11i
720 (1.252 %)SAP EBP
816 (1.002 %)Oracle ERP
913 (0.814 %)Dynamics CRM
109 (0.564 %)Siebel Analytics
118 (0.501 %)SAP Business One
118 (0.501 %)Oracle Applications
118 (0.501 %)Pegasus Opera
127 (0.438 %)SAP ERP
136 (0.376 %)Dynamics AX
136 (0.376 %)Oracle CRM
145 (0.313 %)SAP LE
154 (0.250 %)Google Analytics
154 (0.250 %)BusinessWorks
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
190 (5.636 %)Internet
234 (2.129 %)Intrusion Detection
332 (2.004 %)Intranet
422 (1.378 %)HTTP
512 (0.751 %)Wireless
611 (0.689 %)Firewall
79 (0.564 %)ATM
88 (0.501 %)SAN
97 (0.438 %)VLAN
105 (0.313 %)Broadband
105 (0.313 %)WAN
105 (0.313 %)LAN
114 (0.250 %)Network Security
114 (0.250 %)TETRA
123 (0.188 %)Extranet
123 (0.188 %)DHCP
132 (0.125 %)TCP/IP
132 (0.125 %)VPN
132 (0.125 %)GPRS
132 (0.125 %)3G
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1308 (19.29 %)SQL Server
2126 (7.890 %)Data Warehouse
3106 (6.637 %)SQL Server 2008
470 (4.383 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
568 (4.258 %)ETL
661 (3.820 %)SQL Server Integration Services
753 (3.319 %)RDBMS
838 (2.379 %)MySQL
930 (1.879 %)PowerCenter
1029 (1.816 %)Crystal Reports
1128 (1.753 %)Oracle BI EE
1226 (1.628 %)OLAP
1324 (1.503 %)DB2
1324 (1.503 %)TOAD
1423 (1.440 %)SAP BW
1423 (1.440 %)Oracle 11g
1522 (1.378 %)SQL Server 2005
1522 (1.378 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1522 (1.378 %)Oracle 8/8i
1621 (1.315 %)MS Access
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
189 (5.573 %)Visual Studio
268 (4.258 %)Subversion
355 (3.444 %)Eclipse
430 (1.879 %)Hudson
520 (1.252 %)Rational Rhapsody
618 (1.127 %)XDE
618 (1.127 %)Rational Rose
717 (1.064 %)Team Foundation Server
816 (1.002 %)Oracle Forms
816 (1.002 %)Rational DOORS
913 (0.814 %)JUnit
913 (0.814 %)NetBeans
1012 (0.751 %)NUnit
1110 (0.626 %)JIRA
1110 (0.626 %)JDeveloper
128 (0.501 %)VSS/SourceSafe
128 (0.501 %)Maven
128 (0.501 %)Selenium
137 (0.438 %)Git (software)
146 (0.376 %)MSTest
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1425 (26.61 %)Finance
2130 (8.140 %)Banking
3122 (7.639 %)Retail
467 (4.195 %)Telecoms
555 (3.444 %)Legal
652 (3.256 %)Manufacturing
741 (2.567 %)Marketing
838 (2.379 %)Retail Banking
932 (2.004 %)Investment Banking
1021 (1.315 %)Back Office
1116 (1.002 %)Front Office
1116 (1.002 %)Corporate Banking
1212 (0.751 %)Pharmaceutical
1212 (0.751 %)Games
1311 (0.689 %)Electronics
1410 (0.626 %)Local Government
159 (0.564 %)Aerospace
159 (0.564 %)Law
168 (0.501 %)Publishing
168 (0.501 %)Financial Institution
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1483 (30.24 %)Analyst
2458 (28.68 %)Developer
3419 (26.24 %)Business Analyst
4192 (12.02 %)Consultant
5141 (8.829 %)Architect
6105 (6.575 %).NET Developer
795 (5.949 %)C# Developer
893 (5.823 %)Software Engineer
983 (5.197 %)Project Manager
1080 (5.009 %)Java Developer
1170 (4.383 %)Oracle Consultant
1265 (4.070 %)Software Developer
1362 (3.882 %)Senior Analyst
1460 (3.757 %)Systems Analyst
1559 (3.694 %)Senior Business Analyst
1658 (3.632 %)Oracle Payroll Consultant
1658 (3.632 %)Payroll Consultant
1754 (3.381 %)Business Systems Analyst
1754 (3.381 %)C# .NET Developer
1849 (3.068 %)Technical Architect
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
182 (5.135 %)Computer Science
273 (4.571 %)Client/Server
345 (2.818 %)Management Information System
432 (2.004 %)Digital Media
531 (1.941 %)iPhone
630 (1.879 %)Social Media
729 (1.816 %)Data Integration
827 (1.691 %)SaaS
926 (1.628 %)Derivative
1021 (1.315 %)FMCG
1021 (1.315 %)SWIFT
1120 (1.252 %)Embedded Systems
1120 (1.252 %)Market Risk
1218 (1.127 %)New Media
1218 (1.127 %)NHS
1317 (1.064 %)Mathematics
1416 (1.002 %)Credit Risk
1515 (0.939 %)Cloud Computing
1614 (0.877 %)Open Source
1614 (0.877 %)Equities
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1116 (7.264 %)Windows
2112 (7.013 %)UNIX
392 (5.761 %)Linux
419 (1.190 %)Android
512 (0.751 %)MVS
69 (0.564 %)Windows Server 2008
77 (0.438 %)VxWorks
86 (0.376 %)webOS
95 (0.313 %)Windows Server 2003
104 (0.250 %)Windows Mobile
104 (0.250 %)Apple iOS
113 (0.188 %)Windows NT
122 (0.125 %)Solaris
131 (0.063 %)Oracle Linux
131 (0.063 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1327 (20.48 %)Project Management
2242 (15.15 %)Agile Software Development
3234 (14.65 %)Business Analysis
4215 (13.46 %)UML
5170 (10.64 %)Software Engineering
6160 (10.02 %)Scrum
7143 (8.954 %)Data Modelling
8140 (8.766 %)User Acceptance Testing
9138 (8.641 %)Stakeholder Management
10123 (7.702 %)GAP Analysis
11118 (7.389 %)Data Analysis
12116 (7.264 %)Use Case
13114 (7.138 %)Systems Analysis
14112 (7.013 %)OO
15110 (6.888 %)Integration Testing
16105 (6.575 %)Service Delivery
17101 (6.324 %)Business Intelligence
1890 (5.636 %)CRM
1890 (5.636 %)ERP
1983 (5.197 %)RUP
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1346 (21.67 %)SQL
2317 (19.85 %)Java
3297 (18.60 %)C#
4155 (9.706 %)JavaScript
5120 (7.514 %)C++
687 (5.448 %)VB.NET
772 (4.508 %)C
866 (4.133 %)Python
958 (3.632 %)PL/SQL
1051 (3.193 %)T-SQL
1149 (3.068 %)PHP
1242 (2.630 %)VB
1330 (1.879 %)Perl
1425 (1.565 %)VBA
1523 (1.440 %)Bash shell
1617 (1.064 %)VC++
1617 (1.064 %)XQuery
1617 (1.064 %)AWK
1716 (1.002 %)VB6
1812 (0.751 %)Ruby
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1309 (19.35 %)Degree
2124 (7.765 %)Security Cleared
380 (5.009 %)ISEB
456 (3.507 %)SC Cleared
547 (2.943 %)DV Cleared
637 (2.317 %)ISTQB
736 (2.254 %)HND
824 (1.503 %)SAP Certification
917 (1.064 %)Oracle Certification
1012 (0.751 %)Microsoft Certification
118 (0.501 %)PMI Certification
127 (0.438 %)Cisco Certification
134 (0.250 %)MCAD
134 (0.250 %)MCSD
134 (0.250 %)HNC
143 (0.188 %)MCDBA
143 (0.188 %)PRINCE2 Certification
143 (0.188 %)ACCA
143 (0.188 %)MCITP
143 (0.188 %)MBA
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
184 (5.260 %)QA
222 (1.378 %)Data Quality
312 (0.751 %)ISO 9001
410 (0.626 %)SLA
59 (0.564 %)IEC 61508
65 (0.313 %)TickIT
74 (0.250 %)GLP
74 (0.250 %)ISO 9000
74 (0.250 %)Solvency II
83 (0.188 %)Basel II
83 (0.188 %)DO-178B
83 (0.188 %)GCP
83 (0.188 %)ISO 12207
92 (0.125 %)WAI
101 (0.063 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
101 (0.063 %)GAMP
101 (0.063 %)PCI DSS
101 (0.063 %)JTAG
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
136 (2.254 %)Active Directory
223 (1.440 %)Oracle RAC
311 (0.689 %)VMware Infrastructure
44 (0.250 %)XenApp
44 (0.250 %)VMware ESX
52 (0.125 %)Hyper-V
52 (0.125 %)ISA Server
61 (0.063 %)XenServer
61 (0.063 %)XenDesktop
61 (0.063 %)vSphere
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
123 (1.440 %)Data Guard
25 (0.313 %)Tivoli
33 (0.188 %)Norton AntiVirus
33 (0.188 %)SCCM
42 (0.125 %)HP Quality Center
51 (0.063 %)Puppet
51 (0.063 %)Control-M
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1316 (19.79 %)Oracle
2189 (11.83 %)Microsoft
384 (5.260 %)SAP
466 (4.133 %)Informatica
551 (3.193 %)IBM
650 (3.131 %)Business Objects
728 (1.753 %)Hitachi
826 (1.628 %)Hyperion
918 (1.127 %)Trillium
1015 (0.939 %)NetSuite
1114 (0.877 %)Citrix
1213 (0.814 %)Salesforce.com
1312 (0.751 %)VMware
1312 (0.751 %)Novell
1312 (0.751 %)Lotus
1312 (0.751 %)JBoss
1411 (0.689 %)Siebel
1411 (0.689 %)TIBCO
1510 (0.626 %)Symantec
169 (0.564 %)Cognos