Harrogate ClearQuest Contracts

This section looks at the demand for IBM Rational ClearQuest skills within the Harrogate region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited ClearQuest over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM Rational ClearQuest
Location Berkshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf City of London Docklands, London East Midlands East of England England Fareham Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands North West North Yorkshire Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Solihull Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford UK Wales Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	10	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	9	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	60.00 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£193	-
Average daily rate	£199	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£205	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£321
% change on same period last year	+4.96 %
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	£41.17	£35.80
% change on same period last year	+14.99 %
Development Applications Harrogate
Matching contract IT job ads	15	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.004 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£193	-
Average daily rate	£199	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£205	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£335
% change on same period last year	-2.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.80	-
Average hourly rate	£17.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.20	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.37	£33.40
% change on same period last year	-0.07 %
ClearQuest North Yorkshire

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.

ClearQuest
Demand Trend

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

ClearQuest
Daily Rate Trend

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

ClearQuest
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Harrogate 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 22 (91.67 %) Project Management 1 22 (91.67 %) Finance 2 19 (79.17 %) Business Development 3 15 (62.50 %) Project Planning 4 13 (54.17 %) Financial Institution 4 13 (54.17 %) Resource Management 4 13 (54.17 %) CheckPoint 5 11 (45.83 %) ClearCase 6 10 (41.67 %) MS Office 6 10 (41.67 %) Office Project Server 7 9 (37.50 %) PRINCE2 7 9 (37.50 %) Microsoft 8 8 (33.33 %) MS Excel 8 8 (33.33 %) MS PowerPoint 9 1 (4.167 %) Banking

9 1 (4.167 %) Systems Analysis 9 1 (4.167 %) Business Analysis 9 1 (4.167 %) MS Project 9 1 (4.167 %) ATM 9 1 (4.167 %) XML Schema 9 1 (4.167 %) UML 9 1 (4.167 %) RUP 9 1 (4.167 %) XML 9 1 (4.167 %) EFT 9 1 (4.167 %) RequisitePro 9 1 (4.167 %) PRINCE

ClearQuest
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Harrogate 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 (4.167 %) XML 1 1 (4.167 %) XML Schema	Application Platforms 1 10 (41.67 %) Office Project Server
Applications 1 10 (41.67 %) MS Office 2 8 (33.33 %) MS Excel 2 8 (33.33 %) MS PowerPoint 3 1 (4.167 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 1 (4.167 %) ATM
Development Applications 1 11 (45.83 %) ClearCase 2 1 (4.167 %) RequisitePro	General 1 22 (91.67 %) Finance 2 13 (54.17 %) Financial Institution 3 1 (4.167 %) Banking
Job Titles 1 16 (66.67 %) Analyst 2 15 (62.50 %) Support Analyst 2 15 (62.50 %) Project Analyst 2 15 (62.50 %) Project Support Analyst 3 1 (4.167 %) Project Coordinator 3 1 (4.167 %) Business Systems Analyst 3 1 (4.167 %) Systems Analyst 3 1 (4.167 %) Coordinator 3 1 (4.167 %) Business Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 1 (4.167 %) EFT
Processes & Methodologies 1 22 (91.67 %) Project Management 2 19 (79.17 %) Business Development 3 15 (62.50 %) Project Planning 4 13 (54.17 %) Resource Management 5 9 (37.50 %) PRINCE2 6 1 (4.167 %) UML 6 1 (4.167 %) RUP 6 1 (4.167 %) PRINCE 6 1 (4.167 %) Systems Analysis 6 1 (4.167 %) Business Analysis	Vendors 1 13 (54.17 %) CheckPoint 2 9 (37.50 %) Microsoft