East Midlands SC Cleared Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Security Check (SC) 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 SC Cleared over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Location Aldershot Andover Avon Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield Chorley City of London Clydebank Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Daventry Derby Derbyshire Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Farnborough Feltham Filton Glamorgan Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Preston Reading Rugby Ruislip Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West Southampton Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stirling Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teddington Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Thatcham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Wells Welwyn Garden City West Dunbartonshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wimbledon Wirral Woking Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	34	60
Rank change on same period last year	+26
Matching contract IT job ads	65	32
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.092 %	0.032 %
As % of the category below	7.174 %	3.390 %
Daily rates quoted	5	7
Average minimum daily rate	£222	£388
Average daily rate	£235	£417
% change on same period last year	-43.58 %
Average maximum daily rate	£248	£445
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£367
% change on same period last year	-2.17 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.88	£32.78
Average hourly rate	£35.71	£35.22
% change on same period last year	+1.39 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.55	£37.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.47	£30.20
% change on same period last year	-2.42 %
Processes & Methodologies East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	906	944
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.288 %	0.953 %
Daily rates quoted	305	191
Average minimum daily rate	£378	£352
Average daily rate	£401	£375
% change on same period last year	+7.04 %
Average maximum daily rate	£424	£398
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£371
% change on same period last year	+1.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	69	120
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.83	£24.39
Average hourly rate	£31.36	£26.52
% change on same period last year	+18.25 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.88	£28.64
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.32	£30.04
% change on same period last year	-2.39 %
SC 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.

SC Cleared
Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SC Cleared across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 7 October 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 SC Cleared across the East Midlands region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SC Cleared across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 7 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 SC Cleared within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 7 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
Derbyshire	+7	30	-	-
Lincolnshire	+11	26	£182	-
Leicestershire	-	3	£315	-
Northamptonshire	+1	2	-	-
Nottinghamshire	-1	2	-	-

SC Cleared England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 72 (100.00 %) Security Cleared 2 20 (27.78 %) Windows 2 20 (27.78 %) Government 3 19 (26.39 %) Manufacturing 4 18 (25.00 %) UNIX 4 18 (25.00 %) Java 5 15 (20.83 %) Microsoft 6 13 (18.06 %) Active Directory 7 12 (16.67 %) Perl 7 12 (16.67 %) MS Excel 8 11 (15.28 %) Telecoms 8 11 (15.28 %) PRINCE2 8 11 (15.28 %) Oracle 8 11 (15.28 %) BC Cleared 9 10 (13.89 %) ITIL

9 10 (13.89 %) Solaris 9 10 (13.89 %) Cisco 10 9 (12.50 %) ISO27001 10 9 (12.50 %) VoIP 10 9 (12.50 %) SQL 10 9 (12.50 %) C++ 10 9 (12.50 %) COBIT 10 9 (12.50 %) Video Conferencing 11 8 (11.11 %) DV Cleared 11 8 (11.11 %) C 11 8 (11.11 %) MS Office 11 8 (11.11 %) LAN 11 8 (11.11 %) Siemens 11 8 (11.11 %) Firewall 12 7 (9.722 %) Requirements Analysis

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 5 (6.944 %) HTML 1 5 (6.944 %) XML 2 3 (4.167 %) J2EE 3 2 (2.778 %) JMS 3 2 (2.778 %) WebSphere 4 1 (1.389 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 7 (9.722 %) MS Exchange 2 6 (8.333 %) Apache 3 1 (1.389 %) IIS 3 1 (1.389 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 12 (16.67 %) MS Excel 2 8 (11.11 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 3 (4.167 %) SAP PS 2 1 (1.389 %) SAP Payroll 2 1 (1.389 %) SAP HR
Communications & Networking 1 9 (12.50 %) VoIP 2 8 (11.11 %) LAN 2 8 (11.11 %) Firewall 3 2 (2.778 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (1.389 %) SAN 4 1 (1.389 %) DSL 4 1 (1.389 %) SMS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (4.167 %) Datawarehouse 1 3 (4.167 %) ETL 1 3 (4.167 %) BusinessObjects 1 3 (4.167 %) SQL Server 1 3 (4.167 %) BODI 1 3 (4.167 %) Data Cleansing 2 2 (2.778 %) Crystal Reports 3 1 (1.389 %) PowerCenter
Development Applications 1 2 (2.778 %) Visual Studio 1 2 (2.778 %) MSI	General 1 20 (27.78 %) Government 2 19 (26.39 %) Manufacturing 3 11 (15.28 %) Telecoms 4 4 (5.556 %) Aerospace 5 3 (4.167 %) Finance 6 2 (2.778 %) Construction 6 2 (2.778 %) Criminal Justice 7 1 (1.389 %) Police 7 1 (1.389 %) Military 7 1 (1.389 %) Marketing 7 1 (1.389 %) Law
Job Titles 1 12 (16.67 %) Developer 2 10 (13.89 %) Technical Lead 3 8 (11.11 %) Project Manager 4 7 (9.722 %) Analyst 4 7 (9.722 %) Architect 5 6 (8.333 %) Helpdesk Support 6 5 (6.944 %) Web Developer 6 5 (6.944 %) Consultant 6 5 (6.944 %) Network Specialist 7 4 (5.556 %) Data Architect 7 4 (5.556 %) Administrator 8 3 (4.167 %) Senior Technical Architect 8 3 (4.167 %) Technical Manager 8 3 (4.167 %) Applications Architect 8 3 (4.167 %) Technical Project Manager 8 3 (4.167 %) Network Consultant 8 3 (4.167 %) Technical Architect 8 3 (4.167 %) Information Analyst 8 3 (4.167 %) Project Analyst 8 3 (4.167 %) Lead Architect	Miscellaneous 1 9 (12.50 %) Video Conferencing 2 6 (8.333 %) PMI 3 4 (5.556 %) Client/Server 4 2 (2.778 %) Economics
Operating Systems 1 20 (27.78 %) Windows 2 18 (25.00 %) UNIX 3 10 (13.89 %) Solaris 4 7 (9.722 %) Windows 2000 5 6 (8.333 %) Windows XP 6 5 (6.944 %) Windows Server 2003 7 3 (4.167 %) Linux 8 1 (1.389 %) Windows CE 8 1 (1.389 %) Red Hat Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 72 (100.00 %) Security Cleared 2 11 (15.28 %) BC Cleared 2 11 (15.28 %) PRINCE2 3 10 (13.89 %) ITIL 4 8 (11.11 %) DV Cleared 5 7 (9.722 %) Requirements Analysis 5 7 (9.722 %) Load Balancing 6 5 (6.944 %) QMS 7 4 (5.556 %) PLM 7 4 (5.556 %) PDM 7 4 (5.556 %) Data Management 7 4 (5.556 %) CAD 8 3 (4.167 %) Data Modelling 8 3 (4.167 %) Project Management 8 3 (4.167 %) Project Planning 9 2 (2.778 %) Business Analysis 10 1 (1.389 %) Performance Testing 10 1 (1.389 %) Integration Testing 10 1 (1.389 %) Service Management 10 1 (1.389 %) Quality Management
Programming Languages 1 18 (25.00 %) Java 2 12 (16.67 %) Perl 3 9 (12.50 %) SQL 3 9 (12.50 %) C++ 4 8 (11.11 %) C 5 2 (2.778 %) PHP 5 2 (2.778 %) VB 5 2 (2.778 %) Python 6 1 (1.389 %) C#	Qualifications 1 6 (8.333 %) ECDL 2 4 (5.556 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 2 (2.778 %) PMP 3 2 (2.778 %) PMI Certification 4 1 (1.389 %) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 9 (12.50 %) ISO27001 1 9 (12.50 %) COBIT 2 1 (1.389 %) ISO9001	System Software 1 13 (18.06 %) Active Directory 2 1 (1.389 %) NetBackup
Systems Management 1 3 (4.167 %) Tivoli 2 2 (2.778 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 15 (20.83 %) Microsoft 2 11 (15.28 %) Oracle 3 10 (13.89 %) Cisco 4 8 (11.11 %) Siemens 5 7 (9.722 %) Tandberg 6 4 (5.556 %) SAP 7 3 (4.167 %) Business Objects 8 2 (2.778 %) webMethods 9 1 (1.389 %) Red Hat 9 1 (1.389 %) BMC 9 1 (1.389 %) Hitachi 9 1 (1.389 %) Informatica