The first table below looks at the demand for HP Quality Center skills in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset 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 19 June 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 Somerset 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP Quality Center (HP QC)
Rank 32 22 36
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +14
Contract jobs citing HP Quality Center 2 9 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 1.093% 5.202% 0.478%
As % of the Systems Management category 16.67% 81.82% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 0
Average daily rate £301 £420 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-28.33% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £310 £325
% change year-on-year
+7.98% -4.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £32.25 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+0.77% +11.20%
All Systems Management
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
12 11 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 6.557% 6.358% 1.914%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 0
Average daily rate £275 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £325 £314
% change year-on-year
+4.61% +3.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
Average hourly rate £10.00 £18.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.44% +2.85%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -27.08%
HP Quality Center
South 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 Somerset region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset HP Quality Center Daily Rate Trend

HP Quality Center
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) J2EE
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) Ant
1 2 (50.00%) SAP
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) JSP
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (50.00%) Apache
1 2 (50.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (50.00%) Eclipse
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
1 2 (50.00%) HP
1 2 (50.00%) ISEB
1 2 (50.00%) QuickTest Pro
1 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (50.00%) Cryptography
1 2 (50.00%) ISEB Practitioner
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (50.00%) Project Planning
1 2 (50.00%) Web Development
1 2 (50.00%) Java EE
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
1 2 (50.00%) jQuery
1 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting

HP Quality Center
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) J2EE
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) JSP
1 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) Java EE
1 2 (50.00%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Apache
1 2 (50.00%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Ant
1 2 (50.00%) Eclipse
1 2 (50.00%) QuickTest Pro
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Test Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (50.00%) J2EE Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Test Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Web Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cryptography
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Project Planning
1 2 (50.00%) Web Development
1 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 2 (50.00%) System Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (50.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) ISEB
1 2 (50.00%) ISEB Practitioner
1 2 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) SAP
1 2 (50.00%) HP