The first table below looks at the demand for ClearQuest skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ClearQuest over the 3 months to 24 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Rational ClearQuest
Rank 316 314 328
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +14
Permanent jobs citing ClearQuest 5 9 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.043% 0.069% 0.019%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.303% 0.654% 0.185%
Number of salaries quoted 3 7 3
Average salary £57,500 £47,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+22.34% +4.44%
UK excluding London average salary £46,250 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+8.82% +6.25%
All Development Applications
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
1649 1376 1624
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 14.14% 10.53% 10.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1412 1294 1501
Average salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.00% -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £35,500 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
ClearQuest
London

ClearQuest
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London ClearQuest Jobs Demand Trend

ClearQuest
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing ClearQuest across the City of London region.

City of London ClearQuest Salary Trend

ClearQuest
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 IT job ads sampled that cited ClearQuest.

1 6 (85.71%) Banking
2 5 (71.43%) Investment Banking
3 4 (57.14%) SQL
3 4 (57.14%) Windows
3 4 (57.14%) XML
4 3 (42.86%) UNIX
4 3 (42.86%) Finance
4 3 (42.86%) Migration
4 3 (42.86%) Bugzilla
4 3 (42.86%) Data Migration
4 3 (42.86%) JIRA
5 2 (28.57%) QA
5 2 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (28.57%) Fixed Income
5 2 (28.57%) Validation
5 2 (28.57%) ClearCase
6 1 (14.29%) ETL
6 1 (14.29%) SAS
6 1 (14.29%) Eclipse
6 1 (14.29%) SMS
6 1 (14.29%) Internet
6 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
6 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
6 1 (14.29%) Process Management
6 1 (14.29%) CMMI
6 1 (14.29%) Change Management
6 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
6 1 (14.29%) Linux
6 1 (14.29%) RUP
6 1 (14.29%) Python

ClearQuest
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 IT job ads sampled that cited ClearQuest. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (57.14%) XML
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) EJB
2 1 (14.29%) JDBC
2 1 (14.29%) JSP
2 1 (14.29%) SOAP
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) JSF
2 1 (14.29%) Java EE
2 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Wicket
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) SAS
1 1 (14.29%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) SMS
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Bugzilla
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) ClearCase
3 1 (14.29%) Eclipse
3 1 (14.29%) Ant
3 1 (14.29%) JUnit
3 1 (14.29%) Maven
3 1 (14.29%) Mercurial
3 1 (14.29%) Hudson
3 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (85.71%) Banking
2 5 (71.43%) Investment Banking
3 3 (42.86%) Finance
4 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Tester
1 3 (42.86%) Technical Tester
2 2 (28.57%) QA Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Team Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Team Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Java Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Fixed Income
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) UNIX
3 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Migration
1 3 (42.86%) Data Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (28.57%) Validation
3 1 (14.29%) ETL
3 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 1 (14.29%) Process Management
3 1 (14.29%) CMMI
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) RUP
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Data Management
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Data Management
3 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) Perl
2 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Perforce