The first table below looks at the demand for ClearQuest skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire 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 - - 44
Contract jobs citing ClearQuest 0 0 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire - - 1.556%
As % of the Development Applications category - - 5.645%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-12.87% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-11.05% +21.42%
All Development Applications
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
19 50 124
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 7.917% 9.921% 27.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 34 43
Average daily rate £325 £385 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.58% -0.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £290 £269
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £433
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 31
Average hourly rate £32.25 £37.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.00% +7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.50 £21.00 £34.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £39.00 £35.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.04% +5.00%
ClearQuest
South West

ClearQuest
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire ClearQuest Hourly Rate Trend

ClearQuest
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (100.00%) ClearCase
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Symantec
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Perforce
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Backup Exec
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) WSUS
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS

ClearQuest
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 1 (100.00%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) ClearCase
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Backup Exec
1 1 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Symantec
1 1 (100.00%) Perforce
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
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