City of London ClearQuest Contracts

This section looks at the demand for IBM Rational ClearQuest skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited ClearQuest over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM Rational ClearQuest
Location Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Canary Wharf Cheadle Cheshire City of London Docklands, London East Midlands East of England England Farnborough Glasgow Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Home Counties Leatherhead Leicester Leicestershire London Manchester Middlesex Midlands North West North Yorkshire Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Solihull Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stevenage Stockport Surrey Swansea Telford UK Wales Wells West Midlands West Wales Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	197	191
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching contract IT job ads	26	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.035 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	3.922 %	1.460 %
Daily rates quoted	23	0
Average minimum daily rate	£377	-
Average daily rate	£427	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£478	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£315
% change on same period last year	+4.99 %
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	£31.78	£36.14
% change on same period last year	-12.06 %
Development Applications City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	663	548
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.880 %	0.562 %
Daily rates quoted	362	263
Average minimum daily rate	£363	£426
Average daily rate	£403	£457
% change on same period last year	-11.71 %
Average maximum daily rate	£444	£488
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£330
% change on same period last year	+0.24 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.12	£18.00
Average hourly rate	£33.44	£20.07
% change on same period last year	+66.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.76	£22.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.35	£33.70
% change on same period last year	-1.04 %
ClearQuest London

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing ClearQuest across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ClearQuest across the City of London region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ClearQuest across the City of London region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ClearQuest across the City of London region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing ClearQuest 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 ClearQuest.

1 29 (60.42 %) ClearCase 2 21 (43.75 %) Banking 2 21 (43.75 %) Investment Banking 2 21 (43.75 %) Derivative 3 18 (37.50 %) Finance 4 14 (29.17 %) C++ 4 14 (29.17 %) VB 5 12 (25.00 %) VC++ 5 12 (25.00 %) OO 5 12 (25.00 %) OOD 6 9 (18.75 %) RUP 7 7 (14.58 %) DSDM 7 7 (14.58 %) SQL 7 7 (14.58 %) MS Project 7 7 (14.58 %) Fixed Income

7 7 (14.58 %) Test Scripting 8 6 (12.50 %) Resource Management 8 6 (12.50 %) Configuration Management 8 6 (12.50 %) Change Management 8 6 (12.50 %) RequisitePro 8 6 (12.50 %) MS Office 8 6 (12.50 %) UNIX 9 5 (10.42 %) Windows 9 5 (10.42 %) Insurance 10 4 (8.333 %) Office Project Server 10 4 (8.333 %) User Acceptance Testing 10 4 (8.333 %) MS Excel 10 4 (8.333 %) UML 10 4 (8.333 %) SQL Server 10 4 (8.333 %) Perl

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing ClearQuest 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 ClearQuest. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (6.250 %) .NET 2 2 (4.167 %) J2EE 2 2 (4.167 %) ASP.NET 2 2 (4.167 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 4 (8.333 %) Office Project Server 2 3 (6.250 %) SharePoint 3 2 (4.167 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 1 (2.083 %) WebSphere Message Broker 4 1 (2.083 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 1 (2.083 %) Lotus Notes 4 1 (2.083 %) Lotus Domino
Applications 1 7 (14.58 %) MS Project 2 6 (12.50 %) MS Office 3 4 (8.333 %) MS Excel	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (8.333 %) SQL Server 1 4 (8.333 %) SQL Server 7 2 3 (6.250 %) SQL Server 2005 2 3 (6.250 %) Datawarehouse 2 3 (6.250 %) BusinessObjects 3 1 (2.083 %) SAP BW 3 1 (2.083 %) Oracle 10g 3 1 (2.083 %) DB2 3 1 (2.083 %) Crystal Reports 3 1 (2.083 %) Oracle Reports 3 1 (2.083 %) BusinessObjects XI 3 1 (2.083 %) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 29 (60.42 %) ClearCase 2 6 (12.50 %) RequisitePro 3 3 (6.250 %) WinRunner 4 2 (4.167 %) QuickTest Pro 5 1 (2.083 %) LoadRunner 5 1 (2.083 %) XDE 5 1 (2.083 %) AppScan 5 1 (2.083 %) Ant	General 1 21 (43.75 %) Banking 1 21 (43.75 %) Investment Banking 2 18 (37.50 %) Finance 3 5 (10.42 %) Insurance 4 3 (6.250 %) Government 4 3 (6.250 %) Front Office 5 2 (4.167 %) Education 6 1 (2.083 %) Financial Institution 6 1 (2.083 %) Legal 6 1 (2.083 %) Criminal Justice
Job Titles 1 13 (27.08 %) Analyst 2 12 (25.00 %) Developer 2 12 (25.00 %) C++ Developer 2 12 (25.00 %) VB Developer 3 9 (18.75 %) Test Analyst 4 6 (12.50 %) Tester 5 4 (8.333 %) Coordinator 5 4 (8.333 %) Project Coordinator 6 3 (6.250 %) Senior Test Analyst 6 3 (6.250 %) Business Analyst 6 3 (6.250 %) Administrator 6 3 (6.250 %) Senior Analyst 6 3 (6.250 %) Support Analyst 7 2 (4.167 %) Consultant 7 2 (4.167 %) Software Tester 7 2 (4.167 %) Systems Tester 7 2 (4.167 %) Applications Tester 7 2 (4.167 %) Project Controller 8 1 (2.083 %) Senior Datawarehouse Analyst 8 1 (2.083 %) Configuration Management Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 21 (43.75 %) Derivative 2 7 (14.58 %) Fixed Income 3 3 (6.250 %) Asset Management 4 1 (2.083 %) Credit Derivative 4 1 (2.083 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 4 1 (2.083 %) Blackberry 4 1 (2.083 %) Spread Betting
Operating Systems 1 6 (12.50 %) UNIX 2 5 (10.42 %) Windows 3 3 (6.250 %) Windows NT 4 1 (2.083 %) AIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (25.00 %) OO 1 12 (25.00 %) OOD 2 9 (18.75 %) RUP 3 7 (14.58 %) DSDM 3 7 (14.58 %) Test Scripting 4 6 (12.50 %) Configuration Management 4 6 (12.50 %) Change Management 4 6 (12.50 %) Resource Management 5 4 (8.333 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 4 (8.333 %) UML 6 3 (6.250 %) Project Management 7 2 (4.167 %) PRINCE2 7 2 (4.167 %) Use Case 7 2 (4.167 %) Automated Testing 7 2 (4.167 %) Software Testing 7 2 (4.167 %) Regression Testing 7 2 (4.167 %) Performance Testing 8 1 (2.083 %) SC Cleared 8 1 (2.083 %) Security Cleared 8 1 (2.083 %) Scrum
Programming Languages 1 14 (29.17 %) C++ 1 14 (29.17 %) VB 2 12 (25.00 %) VC++ 3 7 (14.58 %) SQL 4 4 (8.333 %) Perl 5 2 (4.167 %) C# 5 2 (4.167 %) Shell Script 6 1 (2.083 %) PL/SQL 6 1 (2.083 %) Java	Qualifications 1 2 (4.167 %) Degree 2 1 (2.083 %) ISEB 2 1 (2.083 %) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (4.167 %) QA	Vendors 1 4 (8.333 %) IBM 1 4 (8.333 %) NetApp 2 3 (6.250 %) Oracle 2 3 (6.250 %) Business Objects 3 1 (2.083 %) SAP 3 1 (2.083 %) Lotus 3 1 (2.083 %) Sage