The first table below looks at the demand for SC Cleared in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SC Cleared 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 Qualifications for the Birmingham 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Check (SC) Clearance
Rank 19 43 29
Rank change year-on-year
+24 -14
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 24 13 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 5.467% 2.093% 3.899%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.71% 13.83% 27.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 13
Average daily rate £398 £388 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.58% +49.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £355 £338 £201
10% offered a daily rate of more than £505 £465 £319
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £375 £371
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +1.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
Average hourly rate £175.00 - £13.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £20.00 £24.75
% change year-on-year
+7.50% -19.19%
All Qualifications
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
62 94 74
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 14.12% 15.14% 14.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 59 41
Average daily rate £363 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.53% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £230 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 5
Average hourly rate £32.50 £17.50 £13.15
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+85.71% +33.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £26.50 £12.00 £12.26
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £175.00 £17.50 £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
SC Cleared
West Midlands

SC Cleared
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham SC Cleared Daily Rate Trend

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SC Cleared across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Birmingham SC Cleared Daily Rate Histogram

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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham SC Cleared Hourly Rate Trend

SC Cleared
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 43 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (44.19%) IBM
3 14 (32.56%) Time Management
4 13 (30.23%) Infrastructure Management
5 11 (25.58%) User Acceptance Testing
5 11 (25.58%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (20.93%) Migration
6 9 (20.93%) Linux
7 8 (18.60%) Data Migration
7 8 (18.60%) Requirements Analysis
8 7 (16.28%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (16.28%) .NET
8 7 (16.28%) Data Modelling
8 7 (16.28%) SQL Server
8 7 (16.28%) SQL
8 7 (16.28%) Microsoft
8 7 (16.28%) Project Management
9 6 (13.95%) Red Hat
9 6 (13.95%) TCP/IP
9 6 (13.95%) ETL
9 6 (13.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (13.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (11.63%) WebSphere Process Server
10 5 (11.63%) WebSphere
10 5 (11.63%) DV Cleared
10 5 (11.63%) IBM HTTP Server
10 5 (11.63%) JMS
10 5 (11.63%) HTTP
10 5 (11.63%) Active Directory
10 5 (11.63%) Web Services

SC Cleared
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 Development
1 7 (16.28%) .NET
2 5 (11.63%) WebSphere
2 5 (11.63%) JMS
2 5 (11.63%) Web Services
3 4 (9.302%) Middleware
4 3 (6.977%) Silverlight
4 3 (6.977%) .NET Framework
4 3 (6.977%) WCF
5 2 (4.651%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 2 (4.651%) Managed Extensibility Framework
6 1 (2.326%) Ajax
6 1 (2.326%) ADO.NET
6 1 (2.326%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.326%) CSS
6 1 (2.326%) HTML
6 1 (2.326%) Windows SharePoint Services
6 1 (2.326%) WPF
6 1 (2.326%) WF
Application Platforms
1 5 (11.63%) WebSphere Process Server
1 5 (11.63%) IBM HTTP Server
2 4 (9.302%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 3 (6.977%) IIS
4 2 (4.651%) ArcGIS
5 1 (2.326%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (2.326%) SharePoint
5 1 (2.326%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (2.326%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (2.326%) SharePoint Foundation
Applications
1 4 (9.302%) MS Excel
2 3 (6.977%) MS Office
3 1 (2.326%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 1 (2.326%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.326%) Maximo
1 1 (2.326%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (2.326%) Misys Midas
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.95%) TCP/IP
2 5 (11.63%) HTTP
3 4 (9.302%) LDAP
3 4 (9.302%) DNS
4 3 (6.977%) VoIP
5 2 (4.651%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (4.651%) Cisco PIX
5 2 (4.651%) Firewall
6 1 (2.326%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (2.326%) DSLAM
6 1 (2.326%) DSL
6 1 (2.326%) SAN
6 1 (2.326%) Internet
6 1 (2.326%) WAN
6 1 (2.326%) Ethernet
6 1 (2.326%) ADSL
6 1 (2.326%) Broadband
6 1 (2.326%) ISDN
6 1 (2.326%) PSTN
6 1 (2.326%) LLU
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.28%) SQL Server
2 6 (13.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (11.63%) DB2
4 3 (6.977%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (4.651%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.326%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (2.326%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (6.977%) Visual Studio
2 2 (4.651%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (4.651%) Moq
2 2 (4.651%) MSTest
3 1 (2.326%) NUnit
3 1 (2.326%) Visual Studio Team System
3 1 (2.326%) CruiseControl
3 1 (2.326%) MSBuild
General
1 2 (4.651%) Telecoms
1 2 (4.651%) Finance
2 1 (2.326%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 6 (13.95%) Analyst
2 4 (9.302%) Business Analyst
3 3 (6.977%) Security Architect
3 3 (6.977%) Data Migration Specialist
3 3 (6.977%) Architect
3 3 (6.977%) Project Manager
3 3 (6.977%) Consultant
3 3 (6.977%) Developer
4 2 (4.651%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (4.651%) .NET Software Developer
4 2 (4.651%) C# Programmer
4 2 (4.651%) Software Programmer
4 2 (4.651%) C# Software Developer
4 2 (4.651%) Software Developer
4 2 (4.651%) Administrator
4 2 (4.651%) DBA
4 2 (4.651%) Programmer
4 2 (4.651%) Software Engineer
4 2 (4.651%) WebSphere Specialist
4 2 (4.651%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (9.302%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.651%) RIA
3 2 (4.651%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (4.651%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.326%) E-Learning
4 1 (2.326%) Replication
4 1 (2.326%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.93%) Linux
2 6 (13.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (9.302%) Windows
4 3 (6.977%) Windows 7
5 1 (2.326%) Windows XP
5 1 (2.326%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (32.56%) Time Management
2 13 (30.23%) Infrastructure Management
3 11 (25.58%) User Acceptance Testing
3 11 (25.58%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (20.93%) Migration
5 8 (18.60%) Data Migration
5 8 (18.60%) Requirements Analysis
6 7 (16.28%) Data Modelling
6 7 (16.28%) Project Management
7 6 (13.95%) ETL
8 4 (9.302%) SOA
8 4 (9.302%) ITIL
8 4 (9.302%) Data Management
9 3 (6.977%) Service Management
9 3 (6.977%) UML
9 3 (6.977%) Analytics
9 3 (6.977%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 2 (4.651%) Master Data Management
10 2 (4.651%) Statistical Modelling
10 2 (4.651%) Information Assurance
Programming Languages
1 7 (16.28%) SQL
2 3 (6.977%) C#
3 1 (2.326%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.326%) T-SQL
3 1 (2.326%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 43 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.63%) DV Cleared
3 3 (6.977%) ISEB
3 3 (6.977%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (6.977%) CCNA
3 3 (6.977%) Degree
4 2 (4.651%) BC Cleared
5 1 (2.326%) CEH
5 1 (2.326%) GCIA
5 1 (2.326%) GCIH
5 1 (2.326%) CIMA
5 1 (2.326%) CISSP
5 1 (2.326%) ACCA
5 1 (2.326%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.651%) Data Quality
1 2 (4.651%) QA
1 2 (4.651%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (11.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.326%) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors
1 19 (44.19%) IBM
2 7 (16.28%) Microsoft
3 6 (13.95%) Red Hat
4 5 (11.63%) Oracle
5 3 (6.977%) Cisco
5 3 (6.977%) Remedy
6 2 (4.651%) ESRI
7 1 (2.326%) BT
7 1 (2.326%) Cramer
7 1 (2.326%) BMC
7 1 (2.326%) Ericsson
7 1 (2.326%) NetApp
7 1 (2.326%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.326%) HP
7 1 (2.326%) ArcSight