The first table below looks at the demand for ClearQuest skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ClearQuest over the 3 months to 17 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 Development Applications category for the London 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Rational ClearQuest
Rank 357 377 376
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -1
Contract jobs citing ClearQuest 28 29 61
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.130% 0.108% 0.195%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.074% 1.131% 1.721%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 15 18
Average daily rate £375 £450 £379
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +18.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £351 £338 £261
10% offered a daily rate of more than £612 £540 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-17.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £27.00 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -14.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-11.05% +21.42%
All Development Applications
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
2606 2565 3545
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 12.07% 9.578% 11.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1935 1739 2422
Average daily rate £415 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.35% -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 37 29
Average hourly rate £41.50 £35.00 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.57% +25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.70 £22.10 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.40 £45.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
ClearQuest
England

ClearQuest
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London ClearQuest Daily Rate Trend

ClearQuest
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ClearQuest across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London ClearQuest Daily Rate Histogram

ClearQuest
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
City of London +10 5 £550 +22.22%
Canary Wharf -9 4 - -
ClearQuest
England

ClearQuest
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 36 (52.94%) ClearCase
2 29 (42.65%) ITIL
3 22 (32.35%) PRINCE2
4 19 (27.94%) RUP
4 19 (27.94%) MS Project
5 17 (25.00%) Service Management
5 17 (25.00%) OO
6 16 (23.53%) Finance
7 15 (22.06%) Change Management
7 15 (22.06%) Agile Software Development
7 15 (22.06%) Microsoft
7 15 (22.06%) Release Management
8 14 (20.59%) Java
9 12 (17.65%) J2EE
9 12 (17.65%) UML
9 12 (17.65%) Risk Management
10 11 (16.18%) MS Office
10 11 (16.18%) IBM
10 11 (16.18%) Project Management
10 11 (16.18%) Intranet
11 10 (14.71%) Content Management
12 9 (13.24%) Web Design
12 9 (13.24%) Documentum
12 9 (13.24%) MS Excel
13 8 (11.76%) UNIX
13 8 (11.76%) Oracle
13 8 (11.76%) Linux
13 8 (11.76%) EMC
13 8 (11.76%) Remedy
13 8 (11.76%) Unified Process

ClearQuest
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 12 (17.65%) J2EE
2 7 (10.29%) WebSphere
3 6 (8.824%) HTML
4 4 (5.882%) HTML5
4 4 (5.882%) CSS
4 4 (5.882%) XML
5 2 (2.941%) ODBC
5 2 (2.941%) ActiveX
5 2 (2.941%) Java EE
5 2 (2.941%) ASP
5 2 (2.941%) DCOM
5 2 (2.941%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 9 (13.24%) Documentum
2 7 (10.29%) CMS
3 6 (8.824%) WebLogic
4 5 (7.353%) WebSphere MQ
5 2 (2.941%) IIS
6 1 (1.471%) WebSphere Process Server
6 1 (1.471%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 19 (27.94%) MS Project
2 11 (16.18%) MS Office
3 9 (13.24%) MS Excel
4 2 (2.941%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 11 (16.18%) Intranet
2 1 (1.471%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.882%) MS Access
2 2 (2.941%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.941%) TOAD
2 2 (2.941%) SQL Navigator
2 2 (2.941%) Oracle 10g
2 2 (2.941%) Oracle 9i
Development Applications
1 36 (52.94%) ClearCase
2 6 (8.824%) CruiseControl
3 5 (7.353%) Ant
3 5 (7.353%) RequisitePro
4 4 (5.882%) Rational Rose
4 4 (5.882%) Subversion
5 2 (2.941%) JIRA
5 2 (2.941%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.471%) QuickTest Pro
6 1 (1.471%) Rational Functional Tester
6 1 (1.471%) Rational Robot
6 1 (1.471%) Bugzilla
General
1 16 (23.53%) Finance
2 8 (11.76%) Banking
3 2 (2.941%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (2.941%) Publishing
4 1 (1.471%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.471%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.471%) Automotive
4 1 (1.471%) Retail
4 1 (1.471%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.471%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 35 (51.47%) Analyst
2 19 (27.94%) Service Analyst
3 18 (26.47%) Service Transition Analyst
4 10 (14.71%) Project Manager
5 8 (11.76%) Business Analyst
6 6 (8.824%) Administrator
7 5 (7.353%) Team Leader
8 4 (5.882%) Systems Administrator
9 3 (4.412%) Architect
9 3 (4.412%) Developer
9 3 (4.412%) Release Analyst
9 3 (4.412%) Java Team Leader
10 2 (2.941%) SQL Developer
10 2 (2.941%) Development Team Leader
10 2 (2.941%) PL/SQL Developer
10 2 (2.941%) Technical Team Leader
10 2 (2.941%) Deployment Analyst
10 2 (2.941%) Agile Business Analyst
10 2 (2.941%) Software Architect
11 1 (1.471%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.824%) Management Information System
2 5 (7.353%) Replication
2 5 (7.353%) Reference Data
2 5 (7.353%) Telematics
3 4 (5.882%) New Media
3 4 (5.882%) Freedom of Information
3 4 (5.882%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (5.882%) Freedom of Information Act
4 1 (1.471%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.471%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.471%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.471%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.76%) UNIX
1 8 (11.76%) Linux
2 3 (4.412%) Windows
3 2 (2.941%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.471%) Windows 7
4 1 (1.471%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (42.65%) ITIL
2 22 (32.35%) PRINCE2
3 19 (27.94%) RUP
4 17 (25.00%) OO
4 17 (25.00%) Service Management
5 15 (22.06%) Change Management
5 15 (22.06%) Agile Software Development
5 15 (22.06%) Release Management
6 12 (17.65%) Risk Management
6 12 (17.65%) UML
7 11 (16.18%) Project Management
8 10 (14.71%) Content Management
9 9 (13.24%) Web Design
10 8 (11.76%) Unified Process
11 6 (8.824%) OOA/OOD
11 6 (8.824%) Technical Architecture
11 6 (8.824%) Information Governance
12 5 (7.353%) Data Architecture
12 5 (7.353%) Document Management
13 4 (5.882%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (20.59%) Java
2 7 (10.29%) Perl
2 7 (10.29%) SQL
3 2 (2.941%) VB
3 2 (2.941%) VBA
3 2 (2.941%) VB6
3 2 (2.941%) PL/SQL
3 2 (2.941%) C++
4 1 (1.471%) C
4 1 (1.471%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (10.29%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.824%) DV Cleared
3 2 (2.941%) Degree
4 1 (1.471%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.353%) SLA
2 4 (5.882%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (2.941%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.471%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.471%) Cygwin
Systems Management
1 4 (5.882%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 15 (22.06%) Microsoft
2 11 (16.18%) IBM
3 8 (11.76%) Oracle
3 8 (11.76%) EMC
3 8 (11.76%) Remedy
4 4 (5.882%) Interwoven
5 2 (2.941%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.471%) Reuters
6 1 (1.471%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.471%) HP