Blackburn Security Cleared Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Security Clearance in IT contracts within the Blackburn region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Security Cleared over the 3 months to 7 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aldershot Andover Banbury Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Blandford Forum Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bradford-on-Avon Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham City of London Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Filton Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Hendon Henlow Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lanarkshire Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shefford Shropshire Sleaford Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton Southend-on-Sea Spalding St Albans Stamford Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Torpoint Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warminster Warrington Warwickshire Waterlooville Wells West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weymouth Whitehaven Wiltshire Winchester Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£383	£399
% change on same period last year	-4.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.11	£30.92
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Qualifications Blackburn
Matching contract IT job ads	1	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.005 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£350	-
Average daily rate	£375	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£400	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£364
% change on same period last year	-3.34 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.36	£27.11
% change on same period last year	+4.60 %
Security Cleared Lancashire

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 Security Cleared across the Blackburn region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications 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 Security Cleared across the Blackburn 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 Security Cleared across the Blackburn region.

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Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Blackburn region citing Security 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 Security Cleared.

1 1 (33.33 %) C 1 1 (33.33 %) C++ 1 1 (33.33 %) Java 1 1 (33.33 %) Photoshop 1 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 1 1 (33.33 %) Linux 1 1 (33.33 %) Flash 1 1 (33.33 %) VoIP 1 1 (33.33 %) Assembly Language 1 1 (33.33 %) MATLAB 1 1 (33.33 %) Aerospace 1 1 (33.33 %) Manufacturing 1 1 (33.33 %) Military 1 1 (33.33 %) E-Learning 1 1 (33.33 %) Adobe Illustrator

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Blackburn region citing Security 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 Security Cleared. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (33.33 %) Flash	Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) Photoshop 1 1 (33.33 %) MATLAB 1 1 (33.33 %) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) VoIP	General 1 1 (33.33 %) Aerospace 1 1 (33.33 %) Manufacturing 1 1 (33.33 %) Military
Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Software Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Developer 1 1 (33.33 %) Java Developer 1 1 (33.33 %) C++ Developer 1 1 (33.33 %) Web Designer 1 1 (33.33 %) DSP Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) DSP Software Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) C++/Java Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) E-Learning
Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 1 1 (33.33 %) Linux	Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) C 1 1 (33.33 %) C++ 1 1 (33.33 %) Java 1 1 (33.33 %) Assembly Language