Cheshire Security Cleared Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Security Clearance skills within the Cheshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Security Cleared over the 3 months to 14 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aldershot Amersham Andover Avon Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clydebank Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Cowes Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dumbarton Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Feltham Filton Gateshead Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rugby Ruislip Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark Spalding St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stirling Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teddington Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Thatcham Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Dunbartonshire West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Whitehaven Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Wirral Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 14 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	43	39
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	13	29
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.030 %
As % of the category below	2.955 %	5.788 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£260	£95
Average daily rate	£260	£95
% change on same period last year	+173.68 %
Average maximum daily rate	£260	£95
UK excluding London average daily rate	£371	£369
% change on same period last year	+0.51 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.68	£27.50
Average hourly rate	£29.05	£28.75
% change on same period last year	+1.04 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.43	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.43	£29.99
% change on same period last year	+4.77 %
Processes & Methodologies Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	440	501
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.633 %	0.510 %
Daily rates quoted	121	123
Average minimum daily rate	£347	£310
Average daily rate	£355	£322
% change on same period last year	+10.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£364	£335
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£371
% change on same period last year	+1.83 %
Hourly rates quoted	52	28
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.76	£25.22
Average hourly rate	£23.82	£26.47
% change on same period last year	-10.01 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.88	£27.72
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.35	£29.75
% change on same period last year	-1.35 %
Security Cleared North West

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 Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies 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 Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Security Cleared across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 14 October 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Cleared within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 14 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Warrington	0	4	-	-
Crewe	-2	2	£260	-
Chester	+4	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 14 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 11 (36.67 %) SC Cleared 2 7 (23.33 %) Government 3 5 (16.67 %) BC Cleared 4 4 (13.33 %) Asset Management 4 4 (13.33 %) UNIX 4 4 (13.33 %) FTP 5 3 (10.00 %) Windows 5 3 (10.00 %) OpenView 6 2 (6.667 %) HP 6 2 (6.667 %) Java 6 2 (6.667 %) Perl 6 2 (6.667 %) PL/SQL 6 2 (6.667 %) SQL 6 2 (6.667 %) .NET 6 2 (6.667 %) J2EE

6 2 (6.667 %) Oracle 6 2 (6.667 %) Sybase 6 2 (6.667 %) Struts 6 2 (6.667 %) XML 6 2 (6.667 %) ITIL 6 2 (6.667 %) SAS 6 2 (6.667 %) Telecoms 6 2 (6.667 %) Aerospace 6 2 (6.667 %) Hibernate 6 2 (6.667 %) WebSphere 6 2 (6.667 %) DV Cleared 6 2 (6.667 %) Problem Management 7 1 (3.333 %) SNOMED CT 7 1 (3.333 %) ServiceCenter 7 1 (3.333 %) Test Scripting

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 14 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 2 (6.667 %) Struts 1 2 (6.667 %) XML 1 2 (6.667 %) Hibernate 1 2 (6.667 %) WebSphere 1 2 (6.667 %) .NET 1 2 (6.667 %) J2EE 2 1 (3.333 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (3.333 %) Application Packaging	Application Platforms 1 2 (6.667 %) SAS
Applications 1 1 (3.333 %) MS Office 1 1 (3.333 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (3.333 %) SoftGrid
Communications & Networking 1 4 (13.33 %) FTP 2 1 (3.333 %) LAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (3.333 %) SQL Server 1 1 (3.333 %) SQL Server 2000 1 1 (3.333 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 1 (3.333 %) WinRunner 1 1 (3.333 %) Rational Robot 1 1 (3.333 %) MSI 1 1 (3.333 %) InstallShield	General 1 7 (23.33 %) Government 2 2 (6.667 %) Telecoms 2 2 (6.667 %) Aerospace 3 1 (3.333 %) Pharmaceutical 3 1 (3.333 %) Health 3 1 (3.333 %) Manufacturing 3 1 (3.333 %) Banking 3 1 (3.333 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 4 (13.33 %) Developer 2 2 (6.667 %) Software Developer 2 2 (6.667 %) OpenView Specialist 2 2 (6.667 %) Consultant 2 2 (6.667 %) Problem Manager 3 1 (3.333 %) Risk Manager 3 1 (3.333 %) Helpdesk Administrator 3 1 (3.333 %) OpenView Consultant 3 1 (3.333 %) Deployment Engineer 3 1 (3.333 %) Business Manager 3 1 (3.333 %) Java Web Developer 3 1 (3.333 %) Java Applications Developer 3 1 (3.333 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 3 1 (3.333 %) Applications Developer 3 1 (3.333 %) Applications Packager 3 1 (3.333 %) Administrator 3 1 (3.333 %) Java Developer 3 1 (3.333 %) .NET Developer 3 1 (3.333 %) VB.NET Developer 3 1 (3.333 %) Desktop Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.333 %) SCADA
Operating Systems 1 4 (13.33 %) UNIX 2 3 (10.00 %) Windows 3 1 (3.333 %) HPUX 3 1 (3.333 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (3.333 %) Windows NT 3 1 (3.333 %) Windows XP 3 1 (3.333 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (3.333 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (36.67 %) SC Cleared 2 5 (16.67 %) BC Cleared 3 4 (13.33 %) Asset Management 4 2 (6.667 %) Problem Management 4 2 (6.667 %) DV Cleared 4 2 (6.667 %) ITIL 5 1 (3.333 %) PRINCE2 5 1 (3.333 %) UML 5 1 (3.333 %) RAD 5 1 (3.333 %) Configuration Management 5 1 (3.333 %) Project Management 5 1 (3.333 %) Service Management 5 1 (3.333 %) Risk Management 5 1 (3.333 %) Validation 5 1 (3.333 %) Test Scripting 5 1 (3.333 %) Incident Management 5 1 (3.333 %) Web Development
Programming Languages 1 2 (6.667 %) Java 1 2 (6.667 %) Perl 1 2 (6.667 %) PL/SQL 1 2 (6.667 %) SQL 2 1 (3.333 %) VBScript 2 1 (3.333 %) VB 2 1 (3.333 %) VB.NET 2 1 (3.333 %) Shell Script 2 1 (3.333 %) PowerShell 2 1 (3.333 %) C#	Qualifications 1 1 (3.333 %) MCSE 1 1 (3.333 %) ISEB 1 1 (3.333 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (3.333 %) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (3.333 %) SNOMED CT	System Software 1 1 (3.333 %) Active Directory 1 1 (3.333 %) VMware Workstation
Systems Management 1 3 (10.00 %) OpenView 2 1 (3.333 %) Tivoli 2 1 (3.333 %) OpenView Configuration Management 2 1 (3.333 %) ServiceCenter 2 1 (3.333 %) SCCM	Vendors 1 2 (6.667 %) HP 1 2 (6.667 %) Oracle 1 2 (6.667 %) Sybase 2 1 (3.333 %) SAP 2 1 (3.333 %) Citrix 2 1 (3.333 %) CA 2 1 (3.333 %) VMware 2 1 (3.333 %) Wonderware