The first table below looks at the demand for SC Cleared in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SC Cleared over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Buckinghamshire 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Check (SC) Clearance
Rank 15 12 22
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +10
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 87 94 74
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 9.375% 10.05% 6.789%
As % of the Qualifications category 40.09% 40.52% 31.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 54 35
Average daily rate £340 £300 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% -11.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £236 £113 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £412 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £375 £367
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +2.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
Average hourly rate £38.00 - £22.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £20.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+7.50% -23.07%
All Qualifications
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
217 232 237
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 23.38% 24.81% 21.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 103 111
Average daily rate £315 £275 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.54% -15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £148 £142
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £414 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 27
Average hourly rate £22.50 £15.00 £12.30
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+50.00% +21.95%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.00 £10.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £19.10 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £21.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -14.00%
SC Cleared
South East

SC Cleared
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire SC Cleared Hourly Rate Trend

SC Cleared
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Milton Keynes -2 77 £320 +6.66%
Aylesbury - - - -
SC Cleared
South East

SC Cleared
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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.

1 196 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 81 (41.33%) DV Cleared
3 57 (29.08%) Windows
4 54 (27.55%) Microsoft
5 47 (23.98%) PRINCE2
6 39 (19.90%) ITIL
7 38 (19.39%) MS Project
8 35 (17.86%) Windows Server 2008
9 29 (14.80%) Project Management
10 27 (13.78%) Finance
10 27 (13.78%) MS Excel
11 26 (13.27%) HP
12 24 (12.24%) Citrix
12 24 (12.24%) MS Office
13 22 (11.22%) Hyper-V
14 21 (10.71%) Windows Server 2003
15 20 (10.20%) SQL Server
15 20 (10.20%) SharePoint
16 19 (9.694%) Windows 7
17 17 (8.673%) Microsoft App-V
17 17 (8.673%) Service Delivery
17 17 (8.673%) MSI
17 17 (8.673%) SQL
17 17 (8.673%) Oracle
18 16 (8.163%) MS Exchange
18 16 (8.163%) Service Management
19 15 (7.653%) VMware
19 15 (7.653%) XenApp
20 14 (7.143%) Windows Vista
20 14 (7.143%) Scrum

SC Cleared
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 10 (5.102%) CSS
1 10 (5.102%) HTML
1 10 (5.102%) .NET
2 7 (3.571%) .NET Framework
2 7 (3.571%) Web Services
2 7 (3.571%) XML
3 6 (3.061%) XSL
3 6 (3.061%) LINQ
3 6 (3.061%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 3 (1.531%) SOAP
4 3 (1.531%) ASP.NET
4 3 (1.531%) JMS
5 2 (1.020%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.020%) Application Packaging
6 1 (0.510%) Software Packaging
Application Platforms
1 20 (10.20%) SharePoint
2 16 (8.163%) MS Exchange
3 8 (4.082%) IIS
3 8 (4.082%) Lync
4 7 (3.571%) Exchange Server 2003
5 4 (2.041%) SharePoint 2013
6 3 (1.531%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (1.020%) Exchange Server 2007
7 2 (1.020%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 38 (19.39%) MS Project
2 27 (13.78%) MS Excel
3 24 (12.24%) MS Office
4 12 (6.122%) MS Visio
5 6 (3.061%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (2.041%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (3.061%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.020%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.020%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.143%) Firewall
2 6 (3.061%) SAN
2 6 (3.061%) NAS
3 3 (1.531%) iSCSI
3 3 (1.531%) SMTP
3 3 (1.531%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.531%) Internet
4 2 (1.020%) ICMP
4 2 (1.020%) DHCP
4 2 (1.020%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.020%) Network Security
5 1 (0.510%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.20%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.082%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (1.020%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (0.510%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.510%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (0.510%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (0.510%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (0.510%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 17 (8.673%) MSI
2 12 (6.122%) AdminStudio
3 6 (3.061%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (1.531%) Visual Studio Team System
4 3 (1.531%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.020%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.510%) Talend Open Studio
6 1 (0.510%) InstallShield
General
1 27 (13.78%) Finance
2 2 (1.020%) Billing
3 1 (0.510%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (24.49%) Analyst
2 24 (12.24%) Project Manager
3 19 (9.694%) Architect
4 15 (7.653%) Applications Packager
4 15 (7.653%) Project Support Officer
4 15 (7.653%) Project Officer
5 14 (7.143%) Support Analyst
6 12 (6.122%) Technical Architect
7 11 (5.612%) Developer
8 10 (5.102%) Consultant
9 9 (4.592%) Business Analyst
10 8 (4.082%) 3rd Line Support
10 8 (4.082%) Security Analyst
11 7 (3.571%) .NET Developer
11 7 (3.571%) Administrator
12 6 (3.061%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
12 6 (3.061%) Project Administrator
12 6 (3.061%) Team Leader
13 5 (2.551%) Change Analyst
14 4 (2.041%) Service Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.122%) Cryptography
2 10 (5.102%) CESG
2 10 (5.102%) Clustering
3 5 (2.551%) PKI
4 4 (2.041%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (1.531%) RMADS
5 3 (1.531%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.020%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.020%) Thin Client
6 2 (1.020%) Fat Client
7 1 (0.510%) Statistics
7 1 (0.510%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 57 (29.08%) Windows
2 35 (17.86%) Windows Server 2008
3 21 (10.71%) Windows Server 2003
4 19 (9.694%) Windows 7
5 14 (7.143%) Windows Vista
6 13 (6.633%) Linux
7 9 (4.592%) UNIX
8 8 (4.082%) Windows XP
9 5 (2.551%) CentOS
10 4 (2.041%) Windows NT
11 2 (1.020%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (23.98%) PRINCE2
2 39 (19.90%) ITIL
3 29 (14.80%) Project Management
4 17 (8.673%) Service Delivery
5 16 (8.163%) Service Management
6 14 (7.143%) Scrum
7 13 (6.633%) Change Management
7 13 (6.633%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (5.102%) ITIL V3
9 9 (4.592%) Requirements Engineering
9 9 (4.592%) Business Analysis
9 9 (4.592%) CRM
10 8 (4.082%) Migration
11 7 (3.571%) Web Development
12 6 (3.061%) MVC
12 6 (3.061%) Configuration Management
12 6 (3.061%) DNA
12 6 (3.061%) UML
12 6 (3.061%) Time Management
12 6 (3.061%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 17 (8.673%) SQL
2 10 (5.102%) C#
3 9 (4.592%) PowerShell
3 9 (4.592%) JavaScript
4 6 (3.061%) T-SQL
4 6 (3.061%) C
5 2 (1.020%) VB
5 2 (1.020%) Java
6 1 (0.510%) VB6
6 1 (0.510%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.510%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 196 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 81 (41.33%) DV Cleared
3 12 (6.122%) ISEB
4 11 (5.612%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 10 (5.102%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (5.102%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 10 (5.102%) MCP
6 8 (4.082%) CISSP
6 8 (4.082%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (4.082%) CCSP
7 7 (3.571%) MCSE
7 7 (3.571%) Citrix Certification
8 4 (2.041%) HNC
8 4 (2.041%) HND
9 3 (1.531%) GSAE
9 3 (1.531%) MCTS
9 3 (1.531%) MCITP
9 3 (1.531%) MCPD
9 3 (1.531%) MCAD
9 3 (1.531%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.571%) SLA
2 6 (3.061%) QA
3 2 (1.020%) ISO 14001
4 1 (0.510%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (11.22%) Hyper-V
2 17 (8.673%) Microsoft App-V
3 15 (7.653%) XenApp
4 11 (5.612%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (5.102%) XenDesktop
6 7 (3.571%) Active Directory
7 5 (2.551%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (7.143%) OpenView
2 11 (5.612%) OVSD
3 10 (5.102%) SCCM
4 8 (4.082%) OpenView Configuration Management
5 7 (3.571%) SCOM
6 6 (3.061%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 6 (3.061%) Opalis
6 6 (3.061%) Backup Exec
6 6 (3.061%) AppDNA
7 1 (0.510%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.510%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 54 (27.55%) Microsoft
2 26 (13.27%) HP
3 24 (12.24%) Citrix
4 17 (8.673%) Oracle
5 15 (7.653%) VMware
6 7 (3.571%) AppSense
7 6 (3.061%) StorageTek
7 6 (3.061%) Sun
8 5 (2.551%) Cisco
9 2 (1.020%) SAP
10 1 (0.510%) Talend
10 1 (0.510%) Autodesk
10 1 (0.510%) NetApp