ClearCase Contract Job Trends

IBM Rational ClearCase
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring ClearCase skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 585 518 599
Rank change year-on-year -67 +81 +154
Contract jobs citing ClearCase 10 2 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.026% 0.006% 0.014%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.18% 0.047% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile £503 - £454
25th Percentile £506 £575 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £530
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +13.21% -18.46%
75th Percentile £538 £625 £560
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £600 £530
% change year-on-year -12.50% +13.21% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £81.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.50 - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

ClearCase falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,540 4,266 5,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.33% 13.56% 12.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,799 2,676 3,779
10th Percentile £349 £332 £363
25th Percentile £406 £410 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.63%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -0.42% -4.60% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 69 212
10th Percentile £39.00 £26.45 £40.13
25th Percentile £52.50 £48.00 £49.62
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £75.57
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.50 £88.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ClearCase relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

ClearCase job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ClearCase.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ClearCase

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Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ClearCase.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ClearCase

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Top 7 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ClearCase within the UK over the 6 months to 30 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London -52 9 £525 -12.50% 4
Scotland - 8 £525 - 4
England -69 2 - -
Work from Home - 2 - - 4
London - 1 - -
North West - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (90.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (10.00%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Systems Engineer
2 6 (60.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Systems Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Middleware
1 1 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (10.00%) XML
1 1 (10.00%) XSD
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) Linux
1 9 (90.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (10.00%) Energy Management
2 1 (10.00%) ETL
2 1 (10.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (10.00%) OO
2 1 (10.00%) OOP
2 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (10.00%) Product Strategy
2 1 (10.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (10.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (10.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
1 10 (100.00%) SQL
2 9 (90.00%) C
3 8 (80.00%) Shell Script
4 3 (30.00%) C++
5 1 (10.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Oracle
2 9 (90.00%) NetApp
3 1 (10.00%) IBM