The first table below looks at the demand for SC Cleared in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SC Cleared 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 Qualifications for the Bedfordshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Check (SC) Clearance
Rank 29 30 39
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +9
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 1 3 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 0.529% 1.075% 1.024%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.167% 5.556% 6.667%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £325 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +30.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £375 £371
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +1.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £31.25 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +4.16%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £20.00 £24.75
% change year-on-year
+7.50% -19.19%
All Qualifications
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
24 54 45
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 12.70% 19.35% 15.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 32 19
Average daily rate £400 £335 £235
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+19.40% +42.55%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
Average hourly rate £17.50 £35.50 £21.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-50.70% +63.21%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%
SC Cleared
East of England

SC Cleared
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SC Cleared across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Bedfordshire SC Cleared Jobs Demand Trend

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bedfordshire SC Cleared Daily Rate Trend

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bedfordshire SC Cleared Hourly Rate Trend

SC Cleared
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) VLAN
2 2 (40.00%) LAN
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) CCNP
3 1 (20.00%) Dell
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (20.00%) PRINCE
3 1 (20.00%) Six Sigma
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Military
3 1 (20.00%) SCCM
3 1 (20.00%) SCOM
3 1 (20.00%) SCVMM
3 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (20.00%) Lync
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Windows

SC Cleared
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 1 (20.00%) Lync
1 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2013
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) VLAN
1 2 (40.00%) LAN
General
1 1 (20.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Configuration Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Systems Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Installations Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Rollout Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Consultant
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) PRINCE
1 1 (20.00%) Six Sigma
1 1 (20.00%) Migration
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) CCNP
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
1 1 (20.00%) SCOM
1 1 (20.00%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Dell