The first table below looks at the demand for ClearQuest skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wales 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 Wales 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 42 51 57
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +6
Contract jobs citing ClearQuest 3 5 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 0.703% 0.871% 0.306%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.522% 9.615% 3.448%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
Average daily rate £325 £390 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +7.58%
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-17.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-11.05% +21.42%
All Development Applications
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
46 52 58
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 10.77% 9.059% 8.869%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 27 22
Average daily rate £325 £383 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.03% +19.53%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £16.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
ClearQuest
UK

ClearQuest
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wales 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 Wales region.

Wales ClearQuest Daily 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 Wales 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
South Wales - 3 £325 -
ClearQuest
UK

ClearQuest
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 32 (100.00%) ClearCase
2 30 (93.75%) Oracle
3 28 (87.50%) Java
4 27 (84.38%) WebLogic
5 25 (78.13%) SQL
6 23 (71.88%) PL/SQL
7 22 (68.75%) XML
7 22 (68.75%) XSLT
8 21 (65.63%) Security Cleared
8 21 (65.63%) Liferay
9 20 (62.50%) UML
9 20 (62.50%) Eclipse
10 19 (59.38%) XSD
10 19 (59.38%) Spring
11 17 (53.13%) JSF
11 17 (53.13%) XPath
11 17 (53.13%) DOM
11 17 (53.13%) J2EE
11 17 (53.13%) JAXP
11 17 (53.13%) SAX
12 14 (43.75%) CSS
12 14 (43.75%) WebLogic Portal
12 14 (43.75%) Agile Software Development
13 11 (34.38%) Maven
13 11 (34.38%) Hibernate
14 10 (31.25%) Web Services
14 10 (31.25%) Ant
15 8 (25.00%) Oracle 11g
15 8 (25.00%) SC Cleared
16 7 (21.88%) Release Management

ClearQuest
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 22 (68.75%) XML
1 22 (68.75%) XSLT
2 19 (59.38%) XSD
2 19 (59.38%) Spring
3 17 (53.13%) JSF
3 17 (53.13%) DOM
3 17 (53.13%) J2EE
3 17 (53.13%) JAXP
3 17 (53.13%) SAX
4 14 (43.75%) CSS
5 11 (34.38%) Hibernate
6 10 (31.25%) Web Services
7 4 (12.50%) Java EE
7 4 (12.50%) JPA
8 3 (9.375%) Spring Batch
9 2 (6.250%) WSDL
9 2 (6.250%) EJB
10 1 (3.125%) WebSphere
10 1 (3.125%) HTML
10 1 (3.125%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 27 (84.38%) WebLogic
2 21 (65.63%) Liferay
3 14 (43.75%) WebLogic Portal
4 5 (15.63%) SAS
5 1 (3.125%) WebSphere Message Broker
5 1 (3.125%) WebSphere MQ
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.250%) SSL
1 2 (6.250%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.00%) Oracle 11g
2 4 (12.50%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.125%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 32 (100.00%) ClearCase
2 20 (62.50%) Eclipse
3 11 (34.38%) Maven
4 10 (31.25%) Ant
General
1 6 (18.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (75.00%) Developer
2 17 (53.13%) Java Developer
3 7 (21.88%) Release Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Lead Developer
4 5 (15.63%) Lead Java Developer
5 3 (9.375%) SQL Developer
5 3 (9.375%) PL/SQL Developer
6 2 (6.250%) Designer
7 1 (3.125%) WebSphere Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.250%) Clustering
1 2 (6.250%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.250%) Windows
1 2 (6.250%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (62.50%) UML
2 14 (43.75%) Agile Software Development
3 7 (21.88%) Release Management
3 7 (21.88%) Configuration Management
4 6 (18.75%) Scrum
5 3 (9.375%) Unit Testing
5 3 (9.375%) RUP
6 1 (3.125%) Use Case
6 1 (3.125%) OOA/OOD
6 1 (3.125%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 28 (87.50%) Java
2 25 (78.13%) SQL
3 23 (71.88%) PL/SQL
4 17 (53.13%) XPath
5 7 (21.88%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
6 2 (6.250%) Korn
Qualifications
1 21 (65.63%) Security Cleared
2 8 (25.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (3.125%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 30 (93.75%) Oracle
2 7 (21.88%) IBM