HP Quality Center Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for HP Quality Center skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland 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 23 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 Scotland 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP Quality Center (HP QC)
Rank 66 63 43
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -20
Contract jobs citing HP Quality Center 56 46 78
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 2.294% 1.743% 2.772%
As % of the Systems Management category 31.28% 23.96% 31.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 22 37
Average daily rate £350 £304 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.22% -13.21%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £225 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £418
UK excluding London average daily rate £339 £310 £325
% change year-on-year
+9.27% -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
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category		 179 192 248
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 7.333% 7.275% 8.813%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 102 93
Average daily rate £370 £328 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.97% +9.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £225 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 8
Average hourly rate £82.89 £25.00 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+231.54% +21.95%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.77 £25.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £150.00 £35.00 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -27.08%
HP Quality Center
UK

HP Quality Center
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland HP Quality Center Daily Rate Trend

HP Quality Center
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HP Quality Center across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Scotland HP Quality Center Daily Rate Histogram

HP Quality Center
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP Quality Center within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 23 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
Glasgow -20 18 £318 +12.38%
Edinburgh +5 17 £325 -11.26%
Renfrewshire - 11 £369 -
Stirling -4 7 £363 -
Fife - 1 £330 -
HP Quality Center
UK

HP Quality Center
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 34 (44.74%) Finance
2 31 (40.79%) Test Scripting
3 27 (35.53%) SQL
4 26 (34.21%) Banking
4 26 (34.21%) User Acceptance Testing
5 24 (31.58%) TestDirector
6 22 (28.95%) ISEB
7 16 (21.05%) HP
8 14 (18.42%) Windows
9 13 (17.11%) Windows Server 2003
9 13 (17.11%) Oracle
9 13 (17.11%) Workflow
9 13 (17.11%) Security Cleared
10 11 (14.47%) Windows XP
11 10 (13.16%) SC Cleared
12 9 (11.84%) Use Case
12 9 (11.84%) Test Automation
12 9 (11.84%) QuickTest Pro
12 9 (11.84%) Regression Testing
13 8 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
13 8 (10.53%) Investment Banking
13 8 (10.53%) OpenView Configuration Management
13 8 (10.53%) Test Management
13 8 (10.53%) System Testing
14 7 (9.211%) UML
14 7 (9.211%) ISTQB
15 6 (7.895%) Retail Banking
15 6 (7.895%) StarTeam
15 6 (7.895%) Data Analysis
15 6 (7.895%) Retail

HP Quality Center
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 6 (7.895%) XML
2 3 (3.947%) XML Messaging
3 2 (2.632%) .NET
3 2 (2.632%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.316%) COM
4 1 (1.316%) EJB
4 1 (1.316%) CSS
4 1 (1.316%) JDBC
4 1 (1.316%) JSP
4 1 (1.316%) Servlets
4 1 (1.316%) SOAP
4 1 (1.316%) Web Services
4 1 (1.316%) HTML
4 1 (1.316%) JMS
4 1 (1.316%) XMLBeans
4 1 (1.316%) Spring
4 1 (1.316%) JSF
4 1 (1.316%) TopLink
4 1 (1.316%) Hibernate
4 1 (1.316%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (1.316%) Tomcat
1 1 (1.316%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (7.895%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.632%) MS PowerPoint
2 2 (2.632%) MS Project
3 1 (1.316%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.579%) TOAD
2 3 (3.947%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.947%) RDBMS
2 3 (3.947%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.316%) MySQL
3 1 (1.316%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.316%) MS Access
3 1 (1.316%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (1.316%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 24 (31.58%) TestDirector
2 9 (11.84%) QuickTest Pro
3 6 (7.895%) StarTeam
4 5 (6.579%) WinRunner
5 3 (3.947%) LoadRunner
6 2 (2.632%) CruiseControl
6 2 (2.632%) Subversion
7 1 (1.316%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.316%) PVCS
7 1 (1.316%) Ant
7 1 (1.316%) RequisitePro
7 1 (1.316%) XDE
7 1 (1.316%) Maven
7 1 (1.316%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.316%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.316%) MSBuild
General
1 34 (44.74%) Finance
2 26 (34.21%) Banking
3 8 (10.53%) Investment Banking
4 6 (7.895%) Retail Banking
4 6 (7.895%) Retail
5 3 (3.947%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.947%) Back Office
6 1 (1.316%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (1.316%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 37 (48.68%) Analyst
2 30 (39.47%) Test Analyst
3 19 (25.00%) Tester
4 8 (10.53%) Business Analyst
4 8 (10.53%) Test Leader
5 6 (7.895%) Systems Tester
6 5 (6.579%) Test Engineer
7 4 (5.263%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (5.263%) Senior Test Analyst
8 3 (3.947%) Technical Business Analyst
8 3 (3.947%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (3.947%) Performance Tester
9 2 (2.632%) UAT Test Analyst
9 2 (2.632%) Banking Business Analyst
9 2 (2.632%) Developer
9 2 (2.632%) Test Manager
9 2 (2.632%) UAT Analyst
9 2 (2.632%) IT Business Analyst
9 2 (2.632%) Coordinator
10 1 (1.316%) Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.579%) Clustering
2 4 (5.263%) PDA
3 3 (3.947%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.947%) Reference Data
3 3 (3.947%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.316%) W3C
4 1 (1.316%) N-Tier
4 1 (1.316%) Mathematics
4 1 (1.316%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 14 (18.42%) Windows
2 13 (17.11%) Windows Server 2003
3 11 (14.47%) Windows XP
4 5 (6.579%) AIX
4 5 (6.579%) UNIX
4 5 (6.579%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (2.632%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (40.79%) Test Scripting
2 26 (34.21%) User Acceptance Testing
3 13 (17.11%) Workflow
4 9 (11.84%) Use Case
4 9 (11.84%) Test Automation
4 9 (11.84%) Regression Testing
5 8 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (10.53%) Test Management
5 8 (10.53%) System Testing
6 7 (9.211%) UML
7 6 (7.895%) Data Analysis
8 5 (6.579%) Process Management
8 5 (6.579%) Test Strategy
9 4 (5.263%) Agile Software Development
9 4 (5.263%) Software Testing
10 3 (3.947%) Web Development
11 2 (2.632%) Continuous Improvement
11 2 (2.632%) Fund Accounting
11 2 (2.632%) Continuous Integration
11 2 (2.632%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (35.53%) SQL
2 4 (5.263%) Java
3 3 (3.947%) C
3 3 (3.947%) C#
4 2 (2.632%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.316%) Perl
5 1 (1.316%) C++
5 1 (1.316%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (28.95%) ISEB
2 13 (17.11%) Security Cleared
3 10 (13.16%) SC Cleared
4 7 (9.211%) ISTQB
5 4 (5.263%) Degree
6 3 (3.947%) ISEB Practitioner
6 3 (3.947%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.263%) QA
2 3 (3.947%) Basel II
2 3 (3.947%) MiFID
3 1 (1.316%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (6.579%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 8 (10.53%) OpenView Configuration Management
2 5 (6.579%) Netcool
2 5 (6.579%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 16 (21.05%) HP
2 13 (17.11%) Oracle
3 6 (7.895%) Borland
4 5 (6.579%) Citrix
4 5 (6.579%) Veritas
4 5 (6.579%) McAfee
4 5 (6.579%) VMware
4 5 (6.579%) Pega
5 3 (3.947%) Business Objects
5 3 (3.947%) Cadis
6 2 (2.632%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.316%) Siebel
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