The first table below looks at the demand for ClearQuest skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ClearQuest 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 Development Applications category for the South East 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
IBM Rational ClearQuest
Rank 209 223 210
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -13
Contract jobs citing ClearQuest 14 19 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.180% 0.187% 0.464%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.677% 2.097% 4.537%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 22
Average daily rate £411 £373 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.33% +22.13%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £346 £300 £271
10% offered a daily rate of more than £462 £399 £380
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-17.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 13
Average hourly rate - £45.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +28.57%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-11.05% +21.42%
All Development Applications
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
835 906 1080
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 10.73% 8.909% 10.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 469 447
Average daily rate £350 £330 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% +1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £272 £250 £221
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 54 117
Average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% +11.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £31.00 £30.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £50.00 £45.00
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 South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East 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
Hampshire +8 12 £443 +15.06%
Berkshire +16 2 £330 -11.40%
ClearQuest
England

ClearQuest
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 17 (68.00%) ClearCase
2 16 (64.00%) Linux
3 14 (56.00%) UML
3 14 (56.00%) SQL
3 14 (56.00%) XML
4 10 (40.00%) Motif
4 10 (40.00%) C
4 10 (40.00%) C++
4 10 (40.00%) Ant
4 10 (40.00%) UNIX
4 10 (40.00%) OOD
4 10 (40.00%) Ingres
4 10 (40.00%) Python
4 10 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (40.00%) NUnit
4 10 (40.00%) CruiseControl
4 10 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
4 10 (40.00%) wxWidgets
4 10 (40.00%) CppUnit
4 10 (40.00%) GoogleTest
5 8 (32.00%) Security Cleared
5 8 (32.00%) MS Excel
6 6 (24.00%) WebLogic
6 6 (24.00%) Java
6 6 (24.00%) J2EE
6 6 (24.00%) HP Quality Center
7 5 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
7 5 (20.00%) Telecoms
7 5 (20.00%) Microsoft

ClearQuest
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 14 (56.00%) XML
2 10 (40.00%) Motif
2 10 (40.00%) wxWidgets
3 6 (24.00%) J2EE
4 4 (16.00%) JAXP
4 4 (16.00%) SAX
4 4 (16.00%) XSD
4 4 (16.00%) DOM
4 4 (16.00%) XSLT
4 4 (16.00%) Spring
5 2 (8.000%) CSS
5 2 (8.000%) Web Services
5 2 (8.000%) WebSphere
5 2 (8.000%) Hibernate
5 2 (8.000%) JSF
6 1 (4.000%) JAX-RS
6 1 (4.000%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 6 (24.00%) WebLogic
2 4 (16.00%) WebLogic Portal
2 4 (16.00%) Liferay
3 2 (8.000%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 8 (32.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (8.000%) MS Office
3 1 (4.000%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) DVB
1 4 (16.00%) UPnP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (40.00%) Ingres
1 10 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (16.00%) Data Mining
3 2 (8.000%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 17 (68.00%) ClearCase
2 10 (40.00%) Ant
2 10 (40.00%) NUnit
2 10 (40.00%) CruiseControl
2 10 (40.00%) CppUnit
2 10 (40.00%) GoogleTest
3 4 (16.00%) Rational Rose
3 4 (16.00%) Eclipse
3 4 (16.00%) Subversion
4 1 (4.000%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 5 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (8.000%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) Developer
2 6 (24.00%) C++ Developer
3 5 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Test Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Analyst
6 2 (8.000%) Test Analyst
6 2 (8.000%) C++ Software Engineer
6 2 (8.000%) Software Engineer
7 1 (4.000%) Functional Test Analyst
7 1 (4.000%) Quality Analyst
7 1 (4.000%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (4.000%) Functional Analyst
7 1 (4.000%) Team Leader
7 1 (4.000%) Senior Support Analyst
7 1 (4.000%) Project Analyst
7 1 (4.000%) Technical Team Leader
7 1 (4.000%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 1 (4.000%) Senior Test Engineer
7 1 (4.000%) Java Team Leader
7 1 (4.000%) Project Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Management Information System
1 4 (16.00%) Streaming Video
1 4 (16.00%) Derivative
1 4 (16.00%) STB
1 4 (16.00%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 16 (64.00%) Linux
2 10 (40.00%) UNIX
3 5 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (16.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) UML
2 10 (40.00%) OOD
2 10 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (16.00%) Project Management
3 4 (16.00%) Configuration Management
3 4 (16.00%) OO
3 4 (16.00%) RUP
3 4 (16.00%) Software Engineering
3 4 (16.00%) Requirements Analysis
3 4 (16.00%) Unified Process
3 4 (16.00%) Multithreading
3 4 (16.00%) Refactoring
3 4 (16.00%) Use Case
3 4 (16.00%) Integration Testing
3 4 (16.00%) Memory Management
4 3 (12.00%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (8.000%) Change Management
5 2 (8.000%) Validation
5 2 (8.000%) ITIL
5 2 (8.000%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 14 (56.00%) SQL
2 10 (40.00%) C
2 10 (40.00%) C++
2 10 (40.00%) Python
3 6 (24.00%) Java
4 4 (16.00%) VB
4 4 (16.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (16.00%) PL/SQL
4 4 (16.00%) XPath
4 4 (16.00%) Bash shell
5 1 (4.000%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.000%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (8.000%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) QA
2 2 (8.000%) GxP
System Software
1 2 (8.000%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (16.00%) HP
2 4 (16.00%) Oracle
2 4 (16.00%) IBM
3 2 (8.000%) SAP
4 1 (4.000%) Talend