The first table below looks at the demand for SC Cleared in IT contracts advertised for the Croydon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SC Cleared over the 3 months to 23 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 Croydon 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Check (SC) Clearance
Rank 6 4 5
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +1
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 8 28 43
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Croydon 16.00% 21.05% 22.05%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.10% 56.00% 58.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 16
Average daily rate £450 £450 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £399 £358
10% offered a daily rate of more than £483 £484 £493
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £375 £371
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +1.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £20.00 £24.75
% change year-on-year
+7.50% -19.19%
All Qualifications
Croydon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
21 50 74
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Croydon 42.00% 37.59% 37.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 26 34
Average daily rate £400 £469 £445
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.66% +5.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £128 £396 £340
10% offered a daily rate of more than £490 £600 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
SC Cleared
London

SC Cleared
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Croydon 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 Croydon region.

Croydon SC Cleared Daily Rate Trend

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 Croydon region.

Croydon SC Cleared Hourly Rate Trend

SC Cleared
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Croydon 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 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Resource Management
2 2 (20.00%) Service Management
2 2 (20.00%) WebSphere
2 2 (20.00%) Workflow Management
2 2 (20.00%) Systems Analysis
2 2 (20.00%) Business Analysis
2 2 (20.00%) WebLogic
2 2 (20.00%) MS Office
2 2 (20.00%) ITIL
2 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (20.00%) UML
2 2 (20.00%) JBoss
2 2 (20.00%) RAD
2 2 (20.00%) SSADM
2 2 (20.00%) SOA
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Middleware
2 2 (20.00%) Workflow
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (10.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) RTP
3 1 (10.00%) Operations Management
3 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (10.00%) Data Extraction

SC Cleared
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Croydon 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 2 (20.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (20.00%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) RTP
General
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Business Analyst
1 2 (20.00%) Analyst
1 2 (20.00%) Middleware Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Resource Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Security Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) WebLogic Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Business Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Planning Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Extraction
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Resource Management
1 2 (20.00%) Service Management
1 2 (20.00%) Workflow Management
1 2 (20.00%) Systems Analysis
1 2 (20.00%) Business Analysis
1 2 (20.00%) ITIL
1 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (20.00%) UML
1 2 (20.00%) RAD
1 2 (20.00%) SSADM
1 2 (20.00%) SOA
1 2 (20.00%) Workflow
2 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (10.00%) Operations Management
2 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) JBoss
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) VMware