The first table below looks at the demand for HP Quality Center skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HP Quality Center over the 3 months to 24 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 Systems Management category for the Bristol 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP Quality Center (HP QC)
Rank 43 44 29
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -15
Contract jobs citing HP Quality Center 7 20 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 1.357% 2.392% 3.251%
As % of the Systems Management category 21.88% 40.82% 53.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 7
Average daily rate £320 £265 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.75% -11.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £165 £206
10% offered a daily rate of more than £513 £301 £385
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £310 £325
% change year-on-year
+8.87% -4.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £17.00 £36.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -53.42%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.25 £29.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year
+26.27% -5.60%
All Systems Management
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
32 49 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 6.202% 5.861% 6.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 27 16
Average daily rate £320 £288 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.30% -23.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £235 £269
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £327 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £328 £300
% change year-on-year
+0.76% +9.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
Average hourly rate £9.50 £18.50 £36.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-48.64% -49.31%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -27.08%
HP Quality Center
South West

HP Quality Center
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing HP Quality Center across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

Bristol HP Quality Center Jobs Demand Trend

HP Quality Center
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing HP Quality Center across the Bristol region.

Bristol HP Quality Center Daily Rate Trend

HP Quality Center
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HP Quality Center across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Bristol HP Quality Center Daily Rate Histogram

HP Quality Center
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing HP Quality Center across the Bristol region.

Bristol HP Quality Center Hourly Rate Trend

HP Quality Center
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing HP Quality Center 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 HP Quality Center.

1 8 (53.33%) HP
2 6 (40.00%) Finance
3 5 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 5 (33.33%) ISEB
4 4 (26.67%) Test Management
4 4 (26.67%) Banking
5 3 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (20.00%) SAP
5 3 (20.00%) Windows
6 2 (13.33%) C#
6 2 (13.33%) SQL
6 2 (13.33%) .NET
6 2 (13.33%) CA
6 2 (13.33%) QuickTest Pro
6 2 (13.33%) Unicenter
6 2 (13.33%) SAP BW
6 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
6 2 (13.33%) ACCA
6 2 (13.33%) Project Management
6 2 (13.33%) Unit Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Windows 7
6 2 (13.33%) SCCM
6 2 (13.33%) SQL Server 2008
6 2 (13.33%) .NET Framework
6 2 (13.33%) Selenium
6 2 (13.33%) jQuery
6 2 (13.33%) Retail
6 2 (13.33%) Subversion
6 2 (13.33%) ISTQB

HP Quality Center
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing HP Quality Center 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 HP Quality Center. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (13.33%) .NET
1 2 (13.33%) .NET Framework
1 2 (13.33%) jQuery
1 2 (13.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 2 (13.33%) KnockoutJS
2 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET MVC 2
2 1 (6.667%) MDX
2 1 (6.667%) J2EE
2 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.667%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (6.667%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (6.667%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (6.667%) SAP CO
1 1 (6.667%) SAP FI-GL
1 1 (6.667%) SAP FI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.667%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) SAP BW
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (6.667%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (6.667%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) QuickTest Pro
1 2 (13.33%) Selenium
1 2 (13.33%) Subversion
2 1 (6.667%) WebDriver
2 1 (6.667%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Retail
3 2 (13.33%) Retail Banking
4 1 (6.667%) General Ledger
4 1 (6.667%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Test Leader
2 4 (26.67%) Test Manager
3 3 (20.00%) Test Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Defect Manager
5 1 (6.667%) Automation Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Automation Test Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) SAP Manager
5 1 (6.667%) Senior Project Manager
5 1 (6.667%) .NET Developer
5 1 (6.667%) C# Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Senior Test Manager
5 1 (6.667%) SAP Test Manager
5 1 (6.667%) Coordinator
5 1 (6.667%) Project Manager
5 1 (6.667%) Web Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Senior Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.667%) Replication
1 1 (6.667%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Windows 7
3 1 (6.667%) Linux
3 1 (6.667%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 4 (26.67%) Test Management
3 3 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Project Management
4 2 (13.33%) Unit Testing
5 1 (6.667%) User Stories
5 1 (6.667%) Test Strategy
5 1 (6.667%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (6.667%) SAP Implementation
5 1 (6.667%) Test Automation
5 1 (6.667%) Web Testing
5 1 (6.667%) Service Management
5 1 (6.667%) Regression Testing
5 1 (6.667%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) C#
1 2 (13.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) ISEB
2 2 (13.33%) ACCA
2 2 (13.33%) ISTQB
3 1 (6.667%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Unicenter
1 2 (13.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) HP
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) SAP
3 2 (13.33%) CA