North East ClearCase Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for IBM Rational ClearCase skills within the North East region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited ClearCase over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM Rational ClearCase
Location Basingstoke Beckenham Berkshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Chesterfield City of London Derbyshire Docklands, London Durham East Midlands East of England England Essex Farnborough Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Middlesex Midlands Newport North East North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Somerset South East South Wales South West Southampton Stevenage Surrey Swansea Swindon UK Wales Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	53	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	1.266 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£440	-
Average daily rate	£440	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£440	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£363
% change on same period last year	+4.68 %
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	£34.76	£35.98
% change on same period last year	-3.38 %
Development Applications North East
Matching contract IT job ads	79	59
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.112 %	0.060 %
Daily rates quoted	17	26
Average minimum daily rate	£315	£268
Average daily rate	£333	£281
% change on same period last year	+18.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£351	£295
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£327
% change on same period last year	-1.24 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.50	£24.00
Average hourly rate	£22.58	£25.00
% change on same period last year	-9.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.67	£26.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.43	£31.25
% change on same period last year	+3.75 %
ClearCase England

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.

ClearCase
Demand Trend

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

ClearCase
Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ClearCase across the North East region.

ClearCase
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ClearCase within the North East region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Durham	-	1	£440	-

ClearCase England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East region citing ClearCase 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 ClearCase.

1 7 (87.50 %) Oracle 1 7 (87.50 %) PVCS 1 7 (87.50 %) UNIX 1 7 (87.50 %) Configuration Management 1 7 (87.50 %) Applix 2 6 (75.00 %) ICL 2 6 (75.00 %) Staffware 2 6 (75.00 %) Release Management 2 6 (75.00 %) VME 3 3 (37.50 %) MS Excel 3 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft 3 3 (37.50 %) MS Project 3 3 (37.50 %) MS Office 4 2 (25.00 %) ISO9001 5 1 (12.50 %) Java

5 1 (12.50 %) PL/SQL 5 1 (12.50 %) SQL 5 1 (12.50 %) Ant 5 1 (12.50 %) JUnit 5 1 (12.50 %) WebLogic 5 1 (12.50 %) UML 5 1 (12.50 %) OOA/OOD 5 1 (12.50 %) RUP 5 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 9i 5 1 (12.50 %) EJB 5 1 (12.50 %) JDBC 5 1 (12.50 %) JSP 5 1 (12.50 %) Struts 5 1 (12.50 %) XML 5 1 (12.50 %) XSLT

ClearCase
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East region citing ClearCase 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 ClearCase. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (12.50 %) EJB 1 1 (12.50 %) JDBC 1 1 (12.50 %) JSP 1 1 (12.50 %) Struts 1 1 (12.50 %) XML 1 1 (12.50 %) XSLT 1 1 (12.50 %) JMS 1 1 (12.50 %) Hibernate 1 1 (12.50 %) Spring 1 1 (12.50 %) Java EE	Application Platforms 1 1 (12.50 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 3 (37.50 %) MS Project 1 3 (37.50 %) MS Office 1 3 (37.50 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 6 (75.00 %) Staffware
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 9i	Development Applications 1 7 (87.50 %) PVCS 2 1 (12.50 %) Rational Rose 2 1 (12.50 %) Ant 2 1 (12.50 %) JUnit
Job Titles 1 7 (87.50 %) Release Manager 2 1 (12.50 %) Java Developer 2 1 (12.50 %) Developer	Operating Systems 1 7 (87.50 %) UNIX 2 6 (75.00 %) VME
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (87.50 %) Configuration Management 2 6 (75.00 %) Release Management 3 1 (12.50 %) Unified Process 3 1 (12.50 %) UML 3 1 (12.50 %) OOA/OOD 3 1 (12.50 %) RUP	Programming Languages 1 1 (12.50 %) Java 1 1 (12.50 %) PL/SQL 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 1 (12.50 %) Sun Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (25.00 %) ISO9001
Vendors 1 7 (87.50 %) Oracle 1 7 (87.50 %) Applix 2 6 (75.00 %) ICL 3 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft 4 1 (12.50 %) Sun 4 1 (12.50 %) BEA 4 1 (12.50 %) webMethods