The first table below looks at the demand for ClearQuest skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ClearQuest 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 Development Applications category for the East of England 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
IBM Rational ClearQuest
Rank 115 129 120
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -9
Contract jobs citing ClearQuest 3 7 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.136% 0.232% 0.360%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.075% 2.251% 2.899%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 3
Average daily rate £250 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% -14.28%
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-12.87% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £32.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.14%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-11.05% +21.42%
All Development Applications
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
279 311 345
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 12.62% 10.30% 12.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 141 133
Average daily rate £335 £350 £331
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.28% +5.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £222 £275 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £457
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 49 56
Average hourly rate £33.00 £36.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% +2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £31.10 £25.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.30 £44.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.04% +5.00%
ClearQuest
England

ClearQuest
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ClearQuest across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

East of England ClearQuest Jobs Demand Trend

ClearQuest
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ClearQuest across the East of England region.

East of England ClearQuest Daily Rate Trend

ClearQuest
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ClearQuest across the East of England region.

East of England ClearQuest Hourly Rate Trend

ClearQuest
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ClearQuest within the East of England 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
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Job
Vacancies
Hertfordshire +20 3 £250 - 1
ClearQuest
England

ClearQuest
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) ClearCase
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Subversion
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) IBM
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Middleware
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 1 (33.33%) VB.NET
3 1 (33.33%) .NET
3 1 (33.33%) Windows XP
3 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (33.33%) Billing
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
3 1 (33.33%) Cygwin
3 1 (33.33%) Redmine

ClearQuest
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 2 (66.67%) Middleware
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) ClearCase
1 3 (100.00%) Subversion
2 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
2 1 (33.33%) Redmine
General
1 1 (33.33%) Billing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Support
2 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows XP
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) Cygwin
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (66.67%) IBM
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
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