HP Quality Center Contracts in Manchester
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for HP Quality Center skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HP Quality Center over the 3 months to 24 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 Systems Management category for the Manchester 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP Quality Center (HP QC)
Rank 71 75 62
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -13
Contract jobs citing HP Quality Center 4 8 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.429% 0.619% 0.960%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.143% 9.302% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 7
Average daily rate £325 £425 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.52% +63.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £315 £370 £217
10% offered a daily rate of more than £335 £462 £360
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £310 £325
% change year-on-year
+8.87% -4.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.25 £29.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year
+26.27% -5.60%
All Systems Management
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category		 56 86 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 6.002% 6.656% 2.879%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 22 16
Average daily rate £285 £300 £298
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% +0.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £190 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £415 £545
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £328 £300
% change year-on-year
+0.76% +9.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 3
Average hourly rate £22.00 £16.00 £16.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+37.50% -1.53%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -27.08%
HP Quality Center
North West

HP Quality Center
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing HP Quality Center across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

Manchester HP Quality Center Jobs Demand Trend

HP Quality Center
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing HP Quality Center across the Manchester region.

Manchester HP Quality Center Daily Rate Trend

HP Quality Center
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing HP Quality Center across the Manchester region.

Manchester HP Quality Center Hourly Rate Trend

HP Quality Center
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing HP Quality Center 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 HP Quality Center.

1 3 (50.00%) UNIX
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) FTP
1 3 (50.00%) HTTP
1 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Validation
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 2 (33.33%) HP
2 2 (33.33%) ISEB
2 2 (33.33%) SOAP
2 2 (33.33%) Web Services
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (16.67%) DB2
3 1 (16.67%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (16.67%) MS Office
3 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) COBOL
3 1 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) .NET
3 1 (16.67%) MySQL
3 1 (16.67%) XML
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL

HP Quality Center
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing HP Quality Center 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 HP Quality Center. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (33.33%) SOAP
1 2 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) XML
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (16.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 1 (16.67%) ISPF
2 1 (16.67%) WebSphere
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (16.67%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Office
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) FTP
1 3 (50.00%) HTTP
1 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) LAN
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) DB2
2 1 (16.67%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
1 1 (16.67%) TestDirector
1 1 (16.67%) LoadRunner
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Defect Manager
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Test Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
1 1 (16.67%) VSAM
1 1 (16.67%) Mathematics
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) UNIX
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Validation
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum
3 1 (16.67%) Web Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Test Management
3 1 (16.67%) Time Management
3 1 (16.67%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) COBOL
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
1 1 (16.67%) JCL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
1 2 (33.33%) ISEB
2 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) XenApp
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) VMware
1 2 (33.33%) HP
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) AppSense
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