The first table below looks at the demand for ClearQuest skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ClearQuest over the 3 months to 22 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 West 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Rational ClearQuest
Rank 109 134 91
Rank change year-on-year
+25 -43
Contract jobs citing ClearQuest 2 5 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.097% 0.151% 1.050%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.966% 1.433% 9.148%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 11
Average daily rate £450 £315 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+42.69% -10.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-17.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £42.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-11.05% +21.42%
All Development Applications
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
207 349 317
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 10.04% 10.57% 11.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 215 135
Average daily rate £335 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £288 £227
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £450 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 26 49
Average hourly rate £40.00 £35.00 £35.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -1.40%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £23.88 £32.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £40.25 £40.50
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 West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

South West 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 West region.

South West ClearQuest Daily Rate Trend

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 West region.

South West 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 West region over the 3 months to 22 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
Devon - 1 - -
Gloucestershire - 1 £450 -
ClearQuest
England

ClearQuest
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 2 (66.67%) ClearCase
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) JBoss
2 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Solaris
2 1 (33.33%) C
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Perl
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) J2EE
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Dell
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) UTRAN
2 1 (33.33%) Symantec
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Perforce
2 1 (33.33%) Replication
2 1 (33.33%) VMware

ClearQuest
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 1 (33.33%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) UTRAN
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (33.33%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) ClearCase
2 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
2 1 (33.33%) Subversion
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Git (software)
2 1 (33.33%) Valgrind
2 1 (33.33%) GDB
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Development Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) PMO Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Development Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
1 1 (33.33%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Solaris
2 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) CentOS
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) C
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Perl
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) vSphere
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Backup Exec
1 1 (33.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) JBoss
2 1 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Dell
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) Symantec
2 1 (33.33%) Perforce
2 1 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds