Basingstoke SC Cleared Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Security Check (SC) Clearance skills within the Basingstoke region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SC Cleared over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Location Aldershot Andover Avon Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield Chorley City of London Clydebank Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Daventry Derby Derbyshire Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Farnborough Feltham Filton Glamorgan Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Preston Reading Rugby Ruislip Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West Southampton Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stirling Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teddington Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Thatcham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Wells Welwyn Garden City West Dunbartonshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wimbledon Wirral Woking Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	17	19
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	17	24
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.024 %
As % of the category below	10.83 %	12.18 %
Daily rates quoted	1	14
Average minimum daily rate	£360	£357
Average daily rate	£380	£412
% change on same period last year	-7.67 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£466
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£367
% change on same period last year	-2.17 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£39.00	-
Average hourly rate	£42.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£46.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.47	£30.20
% change on same period last year	-2.42 %
Processes & Methodologies Basingstoke
Matching contract IT job ads	157	197
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.223 %	0.199 %
Daily rates quoted	43	69
Average minimum daily rate	£348	£353
Average daily rate	£373	£378
% change on same period last year	-1.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£399	£403
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£371
% change on same period last year	+1.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	36	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.93	£29.05
Average hourly rate	£33.39	£31.95
% change on same period last year	+4.51 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.85	£34.84
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.32	£30.04
% change on same period last year	-2.39 %
SC Cleared Hampshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SC Cleared across the Basingstoke region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SC Cleared across the Basingstoke region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SC Cleared across the Basingstoke region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SC Cleared across the Basingstoke region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing SC Cleared 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 SC Cleared.

1 19 (100.00 %) Security Cleared 2 7 (36.84 %) Government 3 6 (31.58 %) TETRA 4 5 (26.32 %) Windows 5 3 (15.79 %) C 5 3 (15.79 %) C++ 5 3 (15.79 %) MS Office 5 3 (15.79 %) System Testing 6 2 (10.53 %) UMTS 6 2 (10.53 %) Assembly Language 6 2 (10.53 %) Military 6 2 (10.53 %) Asset Management 6 2 (10.53 %) Windows Server 2003 6 2 (10.53 %) Windows NT 6 2 (10.53 %) SharePoint

6 2 (10.53 %) Windows XP 6 2 (10.53 %) DECT 6 2 (10.53 %) GSM 6 2 (10.53 %) Embedded C 6 2 (10.53 %) Embedded C++ 7 1 (5.263 %) Active Directory 7 1 (5.263 %) EMC 7 1 (5.263 %) ISEB 7 1 (5.263 %) SMS 7 1 (5.263 %) SAP 7 1 (5.263 %) HNC 7 1 (5.263 %) HND 7 1 (5.263 %) SQL 7 1 (5.263 %) MS Excel 7 1 (5.263 %) MOM

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing SC Cleared 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 SC Cleared. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 2 (10.53 %) SharePoint	Applications 1 3 (15.79 %) MS Office 2 1 (5.263 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 6 (31.58 %) TETRA 2 2 (10.53 %) UMTS 2 2 (10.53 %) DECT 2 2 (10.53 %) GSM 3 1 (5.263 %) SMS 3 1 (5.263 %) Wireless	Development Applications 1 1 (5.263 %) StarTeam
General 1 7 (36.84 %) Government 2 2 (10.53 %) Military 3 1 (5.263 %) Electronics 3 1 (5.263 %) Telecoms 3 1 (5.263 %) Education	Job Titles 1 3 (15.79 %) Systems Engineer 2 2 (10.53 %) Test Engineer 2 2 (10.53 %) Consultant 3 1 (5.263 %) Programme Manager 3 1 (5.263 %) Software Engineer 3 1 (5.263 %) Analyst 3 1 (5.263 %) Test Manager 3 1 (5.263 %) Development Manager 3 1 (5.263 %) Security Consultant 3 1 (5.263 %) Administrator 3 1 (5.263 %) SharePoint Consultant 3 1 (5.263 %) Infrastructure Designer 3 1 (5.263 %) Document Controller 3 1 (5.263 %) Hardware Design Engineer 3 1 (5.263 %) Design Engineer 3 1 (5.263 %) Hardware Engineer 3 1 (5.263 %) Systems Test Engineer 3 1 (5.263 %) Integration Engineer 3 1 (5.263 %) Contracts Manager 3 1 (5.263 %) Electronics Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (5.263 %) Management Information System	Operating Systems 1 5 (26.32 %) Windows 2 2 (10.53 %) Windows Server 2003 2 2 (10.53 %) Windows NT 2 2 (10.53 %) Windows XP 3 1 (5.263 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 19 (100.00 %) Security Cleared 2 3 (15.79 %) System Testing 3 2 (10.53 %) Asset Management 4 1 (5.263 %) CAD 4 1 (5.263 %) Configuration Management 4 1 (5.263 %) Change Management 4 1 (5.263 %) Supply Chain Management 4 1 (5.263 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 1 (5.263 %) Test Scripting 4 1 (5.263 %) CRAMM 4 1 (5.263 %) QMS 4 1 (5.263 %) Validation	Programming Languages 1 3 (15.79 %) C 1 3 (15.79 %) C++ 2 2 (10.53 %) Assembly Language 2 2 (10.53 %) Embedded C 2 2 (10.53 %) Embedded C++ 3 1 (5.263 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 1 (5.263 %) ISEB 1 1 (5.263 %) HNC 1 1 (5.263 %) HND 1 1 (5.263 %) ISEB Practitioner 1 1 (5.263 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (5.263 %) ISO27001
System Software 1 1 (5.263 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 1 (5.263 %) MOM 1 1 (5.263 %) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors 1 1 (5.263 %) EMC 1 1 (5.263 %) SAP 1 1 (5.263 %) Cadence 1 1 (5.263 %) Borland 1 1 (5.263 %) Microsoft