Cumbria Security Cleared Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Security Clearance skills within the Cumbria 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 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aldershot Amersham Andover Avon Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Brentwood Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cardigan Carlisle Ceredigion Chatham Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley City of London Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Douglas Dumbarton Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Filton Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochester Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Sherborne Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wells West Drayton West Dunbartonshire West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Wirral Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	1	8
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	18	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	56.25 %	25.00 %
Daily rates quoted	8	2
Average minimum daily rate	£304	£128
Average daily rate	£311	£128
% change on same period last year	+143.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£318	£128
UK excluding London average daily rate	£376	£377
% change on same period last year	-0.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£22.50	£25.00
% change on same period last year	-10.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.00	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.46	£30.34
% change on same period last year	+6.98 %
Processes & Methodologies Cumbria
Matching contract IT job ads	32	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.042 %	0.020 %
Daily rates quoted	9	4
Average minimum daily rate	£294	£185
Average daily rate	£301	£189
% change on same period last year	+59.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£309	£193
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£377
% change on same period last year	+0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.75	£22.67
Average hourly rate	£30.50	£26.75
% change on same period last year	+14.01 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.25	£30.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.30	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.42 %
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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 Cumbria 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 Cumbria region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Security Cleared across the Cumbria region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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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 Cumbria region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Cleared within the Cumbria region over the 3 months to 21 August 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
Barrow-in-Furness	0	5	£283	+77.08 %
Carlisle	-	1	£258	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cumbria 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 28 (90.32 %) SC Cleared 2 13 (41.94 %) SQL 3 12 (38.71 %) UNIX 4 11 (35.48 %) Government 5 10 (32.26 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 8 (25.81 %) Sybase 7 5 (16.13 %) Military 8 3 (9.677 %) Oracle 9 2 (6.452 %) SQL Server 9 2 (6.452 %) MS Access 9 2 (6.452 %) Programme Management 10 1 (3.226 %) VLAN 10 1 (3.226 %) Agile Software Development 10 1 (3.226 %) Software Engineering 10 1 (3.226 %) Management Information System

10 1 (3.226 %) Datawarehouse 10 1 (3.226 %) Data Modelling 10 1 (3.226 %) LAN 10 1 (3.226 %) WAN 10 1 (3.226 %) VPN 10 1 (3.226 %) Business Intelligence 10 1 (3.226 %) Cisco 10 1 (3.226 %) Microsoft 10 1 (3.226 %) SAN 10 1 (3.226 %) Windows 10 1 (3.226 %) Linux 10 1 (3.226 %) UML 10 1 (3.226 %) ASP.NET 10 1 (3.226 %) XML 10 1 (3.226 %) VB.NET

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cumbria 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 (3.226 %) ASP.NET 1 1 (3.226 %) XML 1 1 (3.226 %) .NET	Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.226 %) VLAN 1 1 (3.226 %) LAN 1 1 (3.226 %) WAN 1 1 (3.226 %) VPN 1 1 (3.226 %) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (6.452 %) SQL Server 1 2 (6.452 %) MS Access 2 1 (3.226 %) Datawarehouse	General 1 11 (35.48 %) Government 2 5 (16.13 %) Military
Job Titles 1 8 (25.81 %) Applications Support 1 8 (25.81 %) Administrator 1 8 (25.81 %) Systems Administrator 2 7 (22.58 %) Systems Support 3 6 (19.35 %) Project Engineer 4 4 (12.90 %) Systems Engineer 5 2 (6.452 %) Support Engineer 5 2 (6.452 %) Network Engineer 5 2 (6.452 %) Principal Engineer 5 2 (6.452 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 5 2 (6.452 %) Desktop Engineer 5 2 (6.452 %) UNIX Administrator 5 2 (6.452 %) Principal Systems Engineer 6 1 (3.226 %) Rollout Engineer 6 1 (3.226 %) Systems Support Engineer 6 1 (3.226 %) Deployment Engineer 6 1 (3.226 %) UNIX Support 6 1 (3.226 %) Systems Developer 6 1 (3.226 %) Desktop Support Engineer 6 1 (3.226 %) Design Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.226 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 12 (38.71 %) UNIX 2 1 (3.226 %) Windows 2 1 (3.226 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 28 (90.32 %) SC Cleared 2 10 (32.26 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 2 (6.452 %) Programme Management 4 1 (3.226 %) Agile Software Development 4 1 (3.226 %) Software Engineering 4 1 (3.226 %) Data Modelling 4 1 (3.226 %) Business Intelligence 4 1 (3.226 %) UML
Programming Languages 1 13 (41.94 %) SQL 2 1 (3.226 %) VB.NET 2 1 (3.226 %) Java 2 1 (3.226 %) PHP	Vendors 1 8 (25.81 %) Sybase 2 3 (9.677 %) Oracle 3 1 (3.226 %) Cisco 3 1 (3.226 %) Microsoft