The first table below looks at the demand for ClearQuest skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ClearQuest over the 3 months to 21 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.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Rational ClearQuest
Rank 748 767 760
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -7
Permanent jobs citing ClearQuest 112 120 111
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.103% 0.099% 0.091%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.700% 0.696% 0.711%
Number of salaries quoted 54 96 80
Average salary £55,000 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+29.41% +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,000 £34,000 £21,410
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £55,000 £60,250
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+11.76% +6.25%
All Development Applications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
15992 17239 15612
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 14.72% 14.23% 12.79%
Number of salaries quoted 13641 15127 13714
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%

ClearQuest
Jobs Demand Trend

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

ClearQuest Jobs Demand Trend

ClearQuest
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing ClearQuest within the UK.

ClearQuest Salary Trend

ClearQuest
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing ClearQuest over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 within the UK.

ClearQuest Salary Histogram

ClearQuest
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ClearQuest within the UK over the 3 months to 21 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +18 104 £57,500 +35.29%
South East +26 55 £62,500 +47.05%
Berkshire +29 26 £65,000 +91.17%
London +21 24 £62,500 +16.82%
Reading +18 23 £67,500 +98.52%
West Sussex - 15 - -
Crawley - 15 - -
Hertfordshire +12 14 £37,000 -17.77%
East of England -7 14 £37,000 -12.94%
West Midlands -17 8 £37,500 +50.00%
Hampshire -1 7 £47,500 +31.03%
Surrey +11 6 £62,500 +38.88%
City of London +3 6 £57,500 +22.34%
Guildford -2 6 £62,500 -1.57%
Gloucester +12 3 - -
Gloucestershire +10 3 - -
South West +1 3 - -
Warwickshire - 3 £37,500 -
Coventry - 3 £55,000 -
Basingstoke -6 2 - -
Rickmansworth -12 2 £45,000 -
Warwick - 2 £37,500 -
Telford - 2 - -
Shropshire - 2 - -
Watford +16 1 £34,500 -31.00%
Stevenage +9 1 £42,500 -5.55%
Southampton -1 1 £62,500 +38.88%
Wales -6 1 £37,500 +15.38%
South Wales -8 1 £37,500 +15.38%
Cardiff -20 1 £37,500 +15.38%

ClearQuest
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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.

1 120 (68.57%) ClearCase
2 73 (41.71%) UNIX
3 57 (32.57%) UML
4 56 (32.00%) Windows
5 52 (29.71%) Linux
5 52 (29.71%) IBM
6 50 (28.57%) SQL
7 48 (27.43%) Finance
8 45 (25.71%) Configuration Management
9 44 (25.14%) MS Office
10 43 (24.57%) C
11 41 (23.43%) C++
12 40 (22.86%) HP Quality Center
13 37 (21.14%) OO
14 36 (20.57%) Oracle
14 36 (20.57%) Embedded Software Development
15 34 (19.43%) Perl
15 34 (19.43%) MS Excel
15 34 (19.43%) Telecoms
15 34 (19.43%) Agile Software Development
16 33 (18.86%) Degree
16 33 (18.86%) Waterfall
17 32 (18.29%) JSF
17 32 (18.29%) Java
18 31 (17.71%) DB2
18 31 (17.71%) Solaris
19 30 (17.14%) Ant
19 30 (17.14%) Management Information System
19 30 (17.14%) Integration Testing
20 28 (16.00%) Shell Script

ClearQuest
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 32 (18.29%) JSF
2 27 (15.43%) HTML
2 27 (15.43%) XML
3 25 (14.29%) Middleware
4 24 (13.71%) WebSphere
5 18 (10.29%) Spring
6 17 (9.714%) Hibernate
7 13 (7.429%) J2EE
8 12 (6.857%) JSP
9 10 (5.714%) CGI
10 9 (5.143%) Motif
10 9 (5.143%) wxWidgets
11 7 (4.000%) Ajax
11 7 (4.000%) JRules
12 6 (3.429%) JPA
12 6 (3.429%) Spring Security
12 6 (3.429%) Spring Web Flow
12 6 (3.429%) JDBC
12 6 (3.429%) Struts
12 6 (3.429%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 10 (5.714%) WebLogic
2 8 (4.571%) WebSphere MQ
2 8 (4.571%) SAS
2 8 (4.571%) Tomcat
3 6 (3.429%) WebSphere Application Server
4 4 (2.286%) Apache
5 3 (1.714%) Documentum
5 3 (1.714%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.714%) WebSphere Message Broker
6 2 (1.143%) Confluence
6 2 (1.143%) IIS
7 1 (0.571%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.571%) JRun
Applications
1 44 (25.14%) MS Office
2 34 (19.43%) MS Excel
3 24 (13.71%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (0.571%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.143%) SunGard Stream Clearvision
2 1 (0.571%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.571%) SAP IS-U
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.857%) Internet
1 5 (2.857%) LTE
2 4 (2.286%) FTP
2 4 (2.286%) SSH
2 4 (2.286%) Firewall
3 3 (1.714%) 3GPP
3 3 (1.714%) SSL
3 3 (1.714%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (1.714%) NAS
4 2 (1.143%) 3G
4 2 (1.143%) Wireless
5 1 (0.571%) ASN.1
5 1 (0.571%) RTP
5 1 (0.571%) UMTS
5 1 (0.571%) VoIP
5 1 (0.571%) WCDMA
5 1 (0.571%) ADSL
5 1 (0.571%) GSM
5 1 (0.571%) SMS
5 1 (0.571%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (17.71%) DB2
2 13 (7.429%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (6.286%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (6.286%) Ingres
4 8 (4.571%) Big Data
5 6 (3.429%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.429%) MySQL
6 5 (2.857%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (2.857%) TOAD
7 3 (1.714%) SQL Server 2008
8 2 (1.143%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.571%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 120 (68.57%) ClearCase
2 30 (17.14%) Ant
3 27 (15.43%) JIRA
3 27 (15.43%) Rational DOORS
4 16 (9.143%) Maven
4 16 (9.143%) Subversion
5 15 (8.571%) Jenkins
6 14 (8.000%) Eclipse
7 11 (6.286%) CruiseControl
7 11 (6.286%) NUnit
7 11 (6.286%) RequisitePro
7 11 (6.286%) CppUnit
7 11 (6.286%) GoogleTest
8 10 (5.714%) Mercurial
8 10 (5.714%) JUnit
9 9 (5.143%) Git (software)
10 8 (4.571%) Bugzilla
11 7 (4.000%) LoadRunner
12 6 (3.429%) QuickTest Pro
13 5 (2.857%) Hudson
General
1 48 (27.43%) Finance
2 34 (19.43%) Telecoms
3 25 (14.29%) Electronics
4 24 (13.71%) Avionics
4 24 (13.71%) Aerospace
4 24 (13.71%) Military
5 7 (4.000%) Games
6 6 (3.429%) Banking
7 5 (2.857%) Legal
7 5 (2.857%) Marketing
7 5 (2.857%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.143%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.143%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.571%) Advertising
9 1 (0.571%) Dutch Language
9 1 (0.571%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (14.86%) Team Leader
2 20 (11.43%) Software Engineer
3 17 (9.714%) Software Manager
4 13 (7.429%) Analyst
4 13 (7.429%) Tester
5 12 (6.857%) Developer
5 12 (6.857%) Configuration Manager
5 12 (6.857%) Software Configuration Manager
6 11 (6.286%) Technical Leader
6 11 (6.286%) Architect
7 10 (5.714%) Senior Tester
8 9 (5.143%) Technical Architect
9 8 (4.571%) Test Manager
9 8 (4.571%) Software Developer
9 8 (4.571%) Technical Engineer
10 7 (4.000%) Test Team Leader
10 7 (4.000%) Software Architect
10 7 (4.000%) Senior Technical Engineer
11 6 (3.429%) Test Leader
11 6 (3.429%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 30 (17.14%) Management Information System
2 24 (13.71%) Chip and PIN
3 21 (12.00%) Device Driver
4 11 (6.286%) DataPower
5 10 (5.714%) Computer Science
6 8 (4.571%) Data Integration
7 6 (3.429%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (3.429%) Derivative
8 5 (2.857%) PKI
8 5 (2.857%) Client/Server
9 4 (2.286%) SWIFT
9 4 (2.286%) Handset
10 3 (1.714%) Replication
11 2 (1.143%) Mobile App
11 2 (1.143%) Open Source
11 2 (1.143%) Social Network
11 2 (1.143%) Fixed Income
12 1 (0.571%) Cryptography
12 1 (0.571%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 73 (41.71%) UNIX
2 56 (32.00%) Windows
3 52 (29.71%) Linux
4 31 (17.71%) Solaris
5 27 (15.43%) AIX
6 25 (14.29%) VxWorks
7 15 (8.571%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (3.429%) Windows Server 2008
8 6 (3.429%) Ubuntu
9 3 (1.714%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (1.714%) zOS
9 3 (1.714%) CentOS
10 1 (0.571%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.571%) Android
10 1 (0.571%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (32.57%) UML
2 45 (25.71%) Configuration Management
3 37 (21.14%) OO
4 36 (20.57%) Embedded Software Development
5 34 (19.43%) Agile Software Development
6 33 (18.86%) Waterfall
7 30 (17.14%) Integration Testing
8 27 (15.43%) Software Engineering
9 26 (14.86%) Software Testing
10 24 (13.71%) Communications Security
10 24 (13.71%) Information Management
10 24 (13.71%) Requirements Management
11 21 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
12 20 (11.43%) Validation
13 19 (10.86%) OOD
14 18 (10.29%) User Acceptance Testing
15 17 (9.714%) RUP
16 15 (8.571%) Multithreading
17 14 (8.000%) Unit Testing
17 14 (8.000%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 50 (28.57%) SQL
2 43 (24.57%) C
3 41 (23.43%) C++
4 34 (19.43%) Perl
5 32 (18.29%) Java
6 28 (16.00%) Shell Script
7 24 (13.71%) Ada
8 23 (13.14%) Python
9 12 (6.857%) JavaScript
10 11 (6.286%) PL/SQL
11 5 (2.857%) MATLAB
12 3 (1.714%) VBScript
13 2 (1.143%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.143%) C#
14 1 (0.571%) PHP
14 1 (0.571%) ABAP
14 1 (0.571%) VBA
14 1 (0.571%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 33 (18.86%) Degree
2 25 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 22 (12.57%) ISTQB
4 15 (8.571%) ISEB
5 14 (8.000%) SC Cleared
6 13 (7.429%) PhD
7 3 (1.714%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.571%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (13.71%) DO-178B
2 19 (10.86%) QA
System Software
1 6 (3.429%) vSphere
1 6 (3.429%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 40 (22.86%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (1.714%) Backup Exec
2 3 (1.714%) WSUS
2 3 (1.714%) Tivoli
3 1 (0.571%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 52 (29.71%) IBM
2 36 (20.57%) Oracle
3 27 (15.43%) HP
4 25 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 19 (10.86%) Perforce
6 15 (8.571%) Red Hat
7 14 (8.000%) Niku
8 10 (5.714%) Remedy
9 8 (4.571%) Ab Initio
10 7 (4.000%) ILOG
11 6 (3.429%) JBoss
11 6 (3.429%) VMware
12 4 (2.286%) Coverity
13 3 (1.714%) SAP
13 3 (1.714%) Cisco
13 3 (1.714%) Dell
13 3 (1.714%) Symantec
13 3 (1.714%) SolarWinds
14 2 (1.143%) Atlassian
14 2 (1.143%) Norkom
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