The first table below looks at the demand for SC Cleared in IT contracts advertised for the Doncaster region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SC 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 Doncaster 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
Security Check (SC) Clearance
Rank 3 2 5
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +3
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 6 13 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Doncaster 18.75% 56.52% 21.43%
As % of the Qualifications category 60.00% 81.25% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 1
Average daily rate £395 £310 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+27.41% -31.11%
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £375 £371
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +1.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
Average hourly rate - £23.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.22%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £20.00 £24.75
% change year-on-year
+7.50% -19.19%
All Qualifications
Doncaster
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
10 16 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Doncaster 31.25% 69.57% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 2
Average daily rate £425 £310 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+37.09% -31.11%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 2
Average hourly rate £12.00 £23.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-47.82% +2.22%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
SC Cleared
South Yorkshire

SC Cleared
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Doncaster 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 Doncaster region.

Doncaster 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 Doncaster region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Doncaster 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 Doncaster region.

Doncaster SC Cleared Hourly Rate Trend

SC Cleared
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Doncaster 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 16 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (62.50%) MS Excel
2 10 (62.50%) Microsoft
3 7 (43.75%) Windows Server 2003
3 7 (43.75%) MS Exchange
3 7 (43.75%) Windows
4 5 (31.25%) ITIL
4 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
4 5 (31.25%) Citrix
5 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (25.00%) CA
5 4 (25.00%) DNS
5 4 (25.00%) Linux
5 4 (25.00%) VMware
5 4 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (18.75%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (18.75%) Incident Management
6 3 (18.75%) Windows NT
6 3 (18.75%) Windows XP
6 3 (18.75%) MS Office
6 3 (18.75%) NetApp
6 3 (18.75%) CISSP
7 2 (12.50%) SAN
7 2 (12.50%) HP
7 2 (12.50%) Sun
7 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
7 2 (12.50%) IIS
7 2 (12.50%) MCP
7 2 (12.50%) UNIX

SC Cleared
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Doncaster 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 Platforms
1 7 (43.75%) MS Exchange
2 2 (12.50%) IIS
2 2 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 10 (62.50%) MS Excel
2 3 (18.75%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) DNS
2 2 (12.50%) SAN
2 2 (12.50%) LAN
2 2 (12.50%) Network Security
3 1 (6.250%) WAN
3 1 (6.250%) DHCP
3 1 (6.250%) TCP/IP
3 1 (6.250%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (6.250%) Back Office
1 1 (6.250%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Service Desk Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Service Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Administrator
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Specialist
3 2 (12.50%) Support Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Security Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Server Specialist
3 2 (12.50%) Storage Specialist
3 2 (12.50%) Server Administrator
4 1 (6.250%) Operations Support Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Senior Server Specialist
4 1 (6.250%) Senior Security Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Senior Storage Specialist
4 1 (6.250%) UNIX Support
4 1 (6.250%) Senior Network Security Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Auditor
4 1 (6.250%) Senior Technical Specialist
4 1 (6.250%) Change Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) CESG
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Windows Server 2003
1 7 (43.75%) Windows
2 4 (25.00%) Linux
2 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (18.75%) Windows NT
3 3 (18.75%) Windows XP
4 2 (12.50%) UNIX
4 2 (12.50%) Solaris
5 1 (6.250%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (6.250%) Fedora
5 1 (6.250%) SUSE
5 1 (6.250%) VMS
5 1 (6.250%) AIX
5 1 (6.250%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) ITIL
2 3 (18.75%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (18.75%) Incident Management
3 2 (12.50%) Service Delivery
3 2 (12.50%) Information Security
3 2 (12.50%) Asset Management
3 2 (12.50%) SIEM
3 2 (12.50%) Cyber Security
4 1 (6.250%) Data Cleansing
4 1 (6.250%) Matrix Management
4 1 (6.250%) Network Architecture
4 1 (6.250%) Network Design
4 1 (6.250%) Knowledge Management
4 1 (6.250%) Problem Management
4 1 (6.250%) Service Management
4 1 (6.250%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.250%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (18.75%) CISSP
4 2 (12.50%) MCP
4 2 (12.50%) MCSE
4 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
5 1 (6.250%) CCSE
5 1 (6.250%) JNCIS
5 1 (6.250%) Degree
5 1 (6.250%) CCSP
5 1 (6.250%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.250%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 4 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (12.50%) Terminal Server
3 2 (12.50%) VMware ESX
3 2 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (12.50%) Hyper-V
3 2 (12.50%) XenApp
4 1 (6.250%) Samba
4 1 (6.250%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Unicenter
1 2 (12.50%) WSUS
1 2 (12.50%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) Citrix
3 4 (25.00%) CA
3 4 (25.00%) VMware
4 3 (18.75%) NetApp
5 2 (12.50%) HP
5 2 (12.50%) Sun
5 2 (12.50%) McAfee
5 2 (12.50%) Red Hat
5 2 (12.50%) Blue Coat
5 2 (12.50%) SolarWinds
6 1 (6.250%) IronPort
6 1 (6.250%) CheckPoint
6 1 (6.250%) Websense
6 1 (6.250%) Dell
6 1 (6.250%) Cisco
6 1 (6.250%) IBM
6 1 (6.250%) BMC
6 1 (6.250%) Nokia
6 1 (6.250%) Juniper