The first table below looks at the demand for ClearQuest skills in IT contracts advertised for the Stevenage 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 Stevenage 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 11 14 14
Rank change year-on-year
+3 0
Contract jobs citing ClearQuest 2 1 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stevenage 5.714% 1.639% 12.50%
As % of the Development Applications category 14.29% 5.882% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £256 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-17.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-11.05% +21.42%
All Development Applications
Stevenage
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
14 17 50
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stevenage 40.00% 27.87% 62.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
Average daily rate £250 - £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 14 26
Average hourly rate £36.75 £37.50 £37.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.00% +1.35%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.00 £34.25 £35.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.50 £41.10 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
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ClearQuest
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ClearQuest across the Stevenage region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Stevenage 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 Stevenage region.

Stevenage 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 Stevenage region.

Stevenage ClearQuest Hourly Rate Trend

ClearQuest
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stevenage 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 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) ClearCase
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) Subversion
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (50.00%) Cygwin
2 1 (50.00%) Redmine
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Billing
2 1 (50.00%) Middleware
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (50.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) VB.NET
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET

ClearQuest
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stevenage 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 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) ClearCase
1 2 (100.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) Redmine
2 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
General
1 1 (50.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
1 2 (100.00%) Administrator
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Cygwin
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
Stevenage, Hertfordshire
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Posted: 21 May 2013