The first table below looks at the demand for DV Cleared in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DV 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 Cheshire 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
Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
Rank 59 62 66
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +4
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 4 1 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.552% 0.125% 0.619%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.381% 0.629% 3.727%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £450 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £450 £395
% change year-on-year
-11.11% +13.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £41.50 £25.00 £35.98
% change year-on-year
+66.00% -30.50%
All Qualifications
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
168 159 161
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 23.20% 19.90% 16.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 74 55
Average daily rate £345 £330 £265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.54% +24.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £208 £177 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £517 £456 £363
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 5
Average hourly rate £40.00 £29.00 £12.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+37.93% +127.45%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.75 £29.00 £12.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £30.60 £22.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
DV Cleared
North West

DV Cleared
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire DV Cleared Jobs Demand Trend

DV Cleared
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cheshire DV Cleared Daily Rate Trend

DV Cleared
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cheshire DV Cleared Hourly Rate Trend

DV Cleared
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DV Cleared within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Warrington - 4 £450 -
DV Cleared
North West

DV Cleared
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing DV 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 DV Cleared.

1 17 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (94.12%) SC Cleared
3 13 (76.47%) C
3 13 (76.47%) Windows
3 13 (76.47%) Windows NT
3 13 (76.47%) MS Exchange
3 13 (76.47%) ISO 9000
3 13 (76.47%) VPN
3 13 (76.47%) SLA
3 13 (76.47%) Microsoft
3 13 (76.47%) Active Directory
3 13 (76.47%) Citrix
3 13 (76.47%) MS Excel
3 13 (76.47%) Incident Management
3 13 (76.47%) Statistics
3 13 (76.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (23.53%) UNIX
5 3 (17.65%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (17.65%) PL/SQL
5 3 (17.65%) SQL
5 3 (17.65%) Oracle
5 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (17.65%) Finance
5 3 (17.65%) Oracle Applications
5 3 (17.65%) Oracle Payroll
5 3 (17.65%) CRM
5 3 (17.65%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (5.882%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (5.882%) Rational Functional Tester
6 1 (5.882%) Test Scripting

DV Cleared
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing DV 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 DV Cleared. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (5.882%) XML
Application Platforms
1 13 (76.47%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 13 (76.47%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.882%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle Financials
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle Payroll
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 13 (76.47%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (5.882%) Rational Functional Tester
General
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (76.47%) Help Desk Support
2 10 (58.82%) Analyst
2 10 (58.82%) Help Desk Analyst
2 10 (58.82%) IT Support
3 3 (17.65%) Consultant
3 3 (17.65%) Business Consultant
3 3 (17.65%) Oracle Consultant
3 3 (17.65%) Oracle Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Architect
4 1 (5.882%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
4 1 (5.882%) Payroll Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 13 (76.47%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 13 (76.47%) Windows
1 13 (76.47%) Windows NT
2 4 (23.53%) UNIX
3 1 (5.882%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.882%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) Incident Management
2 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (17.65%) CRM
3 1 (5.882%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 13 (76.47%) C
2 3 (17.65%) PL/SQL
2 3 (17.65%) SQL
3 1 (5.882%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (94.12%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (76.47%) ISO 9000
1 13 (76.47%) SLA
1 13 (76.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (76.47%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 13 (76.47%) Microsoft
1 13 (76.47%) Citrix
2 3 (17.65%) Oracle
3 1 (5.882%) Red Hat