East Midlands BC Cleared Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Basic Check (BC) Clearance skills within the East Midlands region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited BC Cleared over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Basic Check (BC) Clearance
Location Aldershot Andover Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield Chorley City of London County Antrim Crawley Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Durham East Midlands East of England England Essex Farnborough Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Huntingdon Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West Northern Ireland Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West Southampton Southend-on-Sea Stevenage Surrey Swindon Taunton Teddington Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Waterlooville West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Whitehaven Wiltshire Worcestershire Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	82	70
Rank change on same period last year	-12
Matching contract IT job ads	5	24
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.026 %
As % of the category below	0.674 %	2.362 %
Daily rates quoted	0	9
Average minimum daily rate	-	£320
Average daily rate	-	£342
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£343	£357
% change on same period last year	-3.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£14.75
Average hourly rate	-	£15.88
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£17.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.03	£25.93
% change on same period last year	+11.95 %
Processes & Methodologies East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	742	1016
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.169 %	1.089 %
Daily rates quoted	199	238
Average minimum daily rate	£373	£344
Average daily rate	£394	£364
% change on same period last year	+8.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£414	£385
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£370
% change on same period last year	+2.76 %
Hourly rates quoted	72	103
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.69	£25.40
Average hourly rate	£27.50	£27.85
% change on same period last year	-1.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.30	£30.31
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.17	£29.91
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
BC Cleared England

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.

BC Cleared
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing BC Cleared across the East Midlands 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 BC Cleared across the East Midlands 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 BC Cleared across the East Midlands region.

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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 BC Cleared within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 November 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
Derbyshire	-3	4	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing BC 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 BC Cleared.

1 26 (100.00 %) Security Cleared 2 12 (46.15 %) SC Cleared 3 8 (30.77 %) Java 3 8 (30.77 %) UNIX 4 6 (23.08 %) Windows 4 6 (23.08 %) C 4 6 (23.08 %) Microsoft 4 6 (23.08 %) Manufacturing 5 5 (19.23 %) MS Excel 6 4 (15.38 %) Informatica 6 4 (15.38 %) PowerCenter 7 3 (11.54 %) CAD 7 3 (11.54 %) SAP 7 3 (11.54 %) Client/Server 7 3 (11.54 %) C++

7 3 (11.54 %) Perl 7 3 (11.54 %) SQL 7 3 (11.54 %) Oracle 7 3 (11.54 %) PDM 7 3 (11.54 %) Data Management 8 2 (7.692 %) WebSphere 8 2 (7.692 %) Risk Management 8 2 (7.692 %) Finance 8 2 (7.692 %) Government 8 2 (7.692 %) J2EE 8 2 (7.692 %) MS Office 8 2 (7.692 %) JMS 8 2 (7.692 %) webMethods 8 2 (7.692 %) SAP PS 9 1 (3.846 %) SAP HR

BC Cleared
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing BC 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 BC Cleared. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (7.692 %) J2EE 1 2 (7.692 %) JMS 1 2 (7.692 %) WebSphere 2 1 (3.846 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 1 (3.846 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 5 (19.23 %) MS Excel 2 2 (7.692 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 2 (7.692 %) SAP PS 2 1 (3.846 %) SAP Payroll 2 1 (3.846 %) Infinys 2 1 (3.846 %) SAP HR
Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.846 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (15.38 %) PowerCenter 2 1 (3.846 %) SQL Server 2 1 (3.846 %) ETL 2 1 (3.846 %) BusinessObjects
General 1 6 (23.08 %) Manufacturing 2 2 (7.692 %) Finance 2 2 (7.692 %) Government 3 1 (3.846 %) Health 3 1 (3.846 %) Billing	Job Titles 1 5 (19.23 %) Developer 1 5 (19.23 %) Technical Lead 2 3 (11.54 %) Lead Architect 2 3 (11.54 %) Applications Architect 2 3 (11.54 %) Senior Technical Architect 2 3 (11.54 %) Analyst 2 3 (11.54 %) Technical Architect 2 3 (11.54 %) Consultant 2 3 (11.54 %) Architect 3 2 (7.692 %) Java Developer 3 2 (7.692 %) Project Analyst 3 2 (7.692 %) Desktop Engineer 3 2 (7.692 %) webMethods Developer 4 1 (3.846 %) Information Analyst 4 1 (3.846 %) Storage Consultant 4 1 (3.846 %) Delivery Manager 4 1 (3.846 %) Storage Administrator 4 1 (3.846 %) Performance Engineer 4 1 (3.846 %) Business Objects Consultant 4 1 (3.846 %) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (11.54 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 8 (30.77 %) UNIX 2 6 (23.08 %) Windows 3 1 (3.846 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 26 (100.00 %) Security Cleared 2 12 (46.15 %) SC Cleared 3 3 (11.54 %) CAD 3 3 (11.54 %) PDM 3 3 (11.54 %) Data Management 4 2 (7.692 %) Risk Management 5 1 (3.846 %) PRINCE2 5 1 (3.846 %) Project Management 5 1 (3.846 %) Change Management 5 1 (3.846 %) Project Planning 5 1 (3.846 %) Performance Testing 5 1 (3.846 %) Integration Testing	Programming Languages 1 8 (30.77 %) Java 2 6 (23.08 %) C 3 3 (11.54 %) C++ 3 3 (11.54 %) Perl 3 3 (11.54 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 1 (3.846 %) MCDST	System Software 1 1 (3.846 %) Active Directory 1 1 (3.846 %) NetBackup
Vendors 1 6 (23.08 %) Microsoft 2 4 (15.38 %) Informatica 3 3 (11.54 %) Oracle 3 3 (11.54 %) SAP 4 2 (7.692 %) webMethods 5 1 (3.846 %) Convergys 5 1 (3.846 %) Hitachi 5 1 (3.846 %) Cisco 5 1 (3.846 %) Business Objects