The first table below looks at the demand for SC Cleared in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SC Cleared over the 3 months to 17 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 East of England 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Check (SC) Clearance
Rank 94 73 78
Rank change year-on-year
-21 +5
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 21 59 54
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.975% 2.002% 2.055%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.722% 10.75% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 17 16
Average daily rate £350 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £251 £290 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £448 £435 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £375 £370
% change year-on-year
-4.06% +1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 16 16
Average hourly rate £36.75 £37.50 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.75 £17.34 £13.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.75 £47.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £20.00 £24.75
% change year-on-year
+7.50% -19.19%
All Qualifications
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
367 549 414
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 17.04% 18.63% 15.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 274 142
Average daily rate £325 £320 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.56% +16.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £173 £130 £80
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 58 78
Average hourly rate £26.25 £35.00 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +45.83%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £12.75 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.30 £47.50 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England 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 East of England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England SC Cleared Hourly Rate Trend

SC Cleared
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 of England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Hertfordshire -3 16 £360 +15.20%
Suffolk -7 3 £265 -18.46%
Bedfordshire +4 1 - -
Essex -8 1 - -
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 85 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 30 (35.29%) Windows
3 18 (21.18%) Oracle
4 14 (16.47%) UML
5 13 (15.29%) SQL
5 13 (15.29%) Java
5 13 (15.29%) Telecoms
6 12 (14.12%) Migration
6 12 (14.12%) Windows Server 2008
6 12 (14.12%) Microsoft
6 12 (14.12%) Symantec
7 9 (10.59%) Windows Server 2003
7 9 (10.59%) Active Directory
7 9 (10.59%) MS Excel
7 9 (10.59%) J2EE
7 9 (10.59%) Web Services
7 9 (10.59%) Hibernate
7 9 (10.59%) Spring
8 8 (9.412%) Maven
8 8 (9.412%) VMware
8 8 (9.412%) SAP Basis
8 8 (9.412%) SAP
8 8 (9.412%) UNIX
8 8 (9.412%) SQL Server
8 8 (9.412%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (9.412%) NetWeaver
9 7 (8.235%) Blackberry
9 7 (8.235%) XML
9 7 (8.235%) MS Exchange
9 7 (8.235%) Linux

SC Cleared
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 9 (10.59%) J2EE
1 9 (10.59%) Web Services
1 9 (10.59%) Hibernate
1 9 (10.59%) Spring
2 8 (9.412%) SAP Basis
3 7 (8.235%) XML
4 6 (7.059%) DHTML
4 6 (7.059%) XML Schema
4 6 (7.059%) CSS
4 6 (7.059%) JSP
4 6 (7.059%) JSF
4 6 (7.059%) Struts2
4 6 (7.059%) Struts
5 3 (3.529%) GWT
6 2 (2.353%) SAP PI
6 2 (2.353%) REST
6 2 (2.353%) SOAP
6 2 (2.353%) Middleware
6 2 (2.353%) .NET
6 2 (2.353%) Swing
Application Platforms
1 8 (9.412%) NetWeaver
2 7 (8.235%) MS Exchange
2 7 (8.235%) Exchange Server 2010
3 6 (7.059%) Apache
3 6 (7.059%) ActiveMQ
4 5 (5.882%) Liferay
4 5 (5.882%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (4.706%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 4 (4.706%) IIS
6 3 (3.529%) Exchange Server 2007
6 3 (3.529%) Exchange Server 2003
7 2 (2.353%) ESB
7 2 (2.353%) Lotus Notes
7 2 (2.353%) Lotus Domino
8 1 (1.176%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (1.176%) Lync
8 1 (1.176%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 9 (10.59%) MS Excel
2 2 (2.353%) AutoCAD
2 2 (2.353%) MS Office
3 1 (1.176%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (2.353%) LabWindows
2 1 (1.176%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.882%) DNS
1 5 (5.882%) Firewall
2 4 (4.706%) LAN
2 4 (4.706%) DHCP
3 3 (3.529%) Wireless
4 2 (2.353%) VLAN
4 2 (2.353%) Wireless Security
4 2 (2.353%) NAS
4 2 (2.353%) SAN
4 2 (2.353%) WAN
4 2 (2.353%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (1.176%) Intranet
5 1 (1.176%) Internet
5 1 (1.176%) VPN
5 1 (1.176%) VoIP
5 1 (1.176%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.176%) Cisco IPT
5 1 (1.176%) Network Security
5 1 (1.176%) IP Telephony
5 1 (1.176%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.412%) SQL Server
2 7 (8.235%) Oracle Reports
3 6 (7.059%) JasperReports
4 4 (4.706%) GIS
5 3 (3.529%) SQL Server 2008
5 3 (3.529%) SQL Server 2000
6 1 (1.176%) MySQL
6 1 (1.176%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (1.176%) MS Access
6 1 (1.176%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.176%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 8 (9.412%) Maven
2 5 (5.882%) Rational DOORS
2 5 (5.882%) Rational Rhapsody
3 3 (3.529%) MSI
3 3 (3.529%) JUnit
3 3 (3.529%) ClearCase
4 2 (2.353%) ClearQuest
4 2 (2.353%) LabVIEW
4 2 (2.353%) Subversion
5 1 (1.176%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (15.29%) Telecoms
2 2 (2.353%) Billing
3 1 (1.176%) Electronics
3 1 (1.176%) Aerospace
3 1 (1.176%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (12.94%) Consultant
2 9 (10.59%) Administrator
3 7 (8.235%) Java Developer
3 7 (8.235%) Developer
4 6 (7.059%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (7.059%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (7.059%) Software Engineer
5 5 (5.882%) SAP Administrator
5 5 (5.882%) SAP Basis Administrator
6 4 (4.706%) Senior Developer
6 4 (4.706%) Rollout Engineer
6 4 (4.706%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (3.529%) Messaging Specialist
7 3 (3.529%) Designer
7 3 (3.529%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (3.529%) Applications Packager
7 3 (3.529%) Support Engineer
7 3 (3.529%) 3rd Line Support
7 3 (3.529%) Analyst
7 3 (3.529%) Cisco Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.235%) Blackberry
2 6 (7.059%) Open Source
3 3 (3.529%) Client/Server
3 3 (3.529%) Clustering
4 1 (1.176%) Cryptography
4 1 (1.176%) Physics
4 1 (1.176%) Fat Client
4 1 (1.176%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.176%) Thin Client
4 1 (1.176%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.176%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 30 (35.29%) Windows
2 12 (14.12%) Windows Server 2008
3 9 (10.59%) Windows Server 2003
4 8 (9.412%) UNIX
5 7 (8.235%) Linux
6 6 (7.059%) Solaris
6 6 (7.059%) Windows 7
7 4 (4.706%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (3.529%) Windows 2000
8 3 (3.529%) Windows XP
9 1 (1.176%) Windows CE
9 1 (1.176%) AIX
9 1 (1.176%) HPUX
9 1 (1.176%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (16.47%) UML
2 12 (14.12%) Migration
3 6 (7.059%) Unit Testing
3 6 (7.059%) RUP
3 6 (7.059%) Configuration Management
3 6 (7.059%) Change Management
3 6 (7.059%) Capacity Planning
3 6 (7.059%) Change Control
3 6 (7.059%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (5.882%) Workflow
4 5 (5.882%) OO
4 5 (5.882%) Integration Testing
4 5 (5.882%) Data Migration
5 4 (4.706%) Requirements Analysis
5 4 (4.706%) SOA
5 4 (4.706%) ITIL
6 3 (3.529%) Validation
6 3 (3.529%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (3.529%) Software Engineering
7 2 (2.353%) SysML
Programming Languages
1 13 (15.29%) Java
1 13 (15.29%) SQL
2 6 (7.059%) JavaScript
2 6 (7.059%) C++
3 5 (5.882%) C
4 3 (3.529%) Ada
5 2 (2.353%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.353%) C#
5 2 (2.353%) Perl
6 1 (1.176%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.176%) VC++
6 1 (1.176%) Python
6 1 (1.176%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.176%) MATLAB
6 1 (1.176%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 85 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.412%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (7.059%) CCIE
3 6 (7.059%) CCNP
4 5 (5.882%) CTC Cleared
5 4 (4.706%) Degree
6 3 (3.529%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.353%) SAP Certification
8 1 (1.176%) ISEB
8 1 (1.176%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.706%) QA
2 3 (3.529%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (10.59%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.706%) VMware ESX
3 3 (3.529%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (3.529%) vSphere
4 2 (2.353%) Terminal Services
4 2 (2.353%) XenApp
5 1 (1.176%) XenDesktop
5 1 (1.176%) MetaFrame
5 1 (1.176%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.176%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (7.059%) NetBackup
1 6 (7.059%) Backup Exec
2 4 (4.706%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 3 (3.529%) Norton AntiVirus
3 3 (3.529%) SCCM
4 1 (1.176%) SCOM
4 1 (1.176%) SCVMM
4 1 (1.176%) OVSD
4 1 (1.176%) OpenView
4 1 (1.176%) OpenView Configuration Management
4 1 (1.176%) Nagios
Vendors
1 18 (21.18%) Oracle
2 12 (14.12%) Microsoft
2 12 (14.12%) Symantec
3 8 (9.412%) SAP
3 8 (9.412%) VMware
4 7 (8.235%) Cisco
5 6 (7.059%) IBM
5 6 (7.059%) Citrix
5 6 (7.059%) Serena
6 5 (5.882%) ReadSoft
6 5 (5.882%) HP
7 4 (4.706%) Red Hat
7 4 (4.706%) Sophos
8 3 (3.529%) Lotus
8 3 (3.529%) Sun
8 3 (3.529%) JBoss
8 3 (3.529%) Acronis
9 2 (2.353%) Twitter
9 2 (2.353%) Perforce
9 2 (2.353%) Remedy
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
Working closely with other teams - including the vendors and customers to produce a fit-for-purpose multi-vendor solution providing complex end-to-end services that include the...
Experis IT
Rate: Market Rates
Posted: 13 May 2013
Hertfordshire, South East
You will be working on a UK defence project so you will require eligibility for SC clearance... The role: + Experience with ADA + Experience with Rhapsody + Experience with C++...
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £35 per hour
Posted: 16 May 2013
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
The role involves working closely with other teams - including the vendors and customers to produce a fit-for-purpose multi-vendor solution providing complex end-to-end services...
Experis IT
Posted: 14 May 2013
Southend-On-Sea, South East
Good communication and inter-personal skills *Possess an understanding of the systems development lifecycle and of internal standards *Appreciate Quality Assurance and Configuration Management *Must be able to...
Capita Resourcing
Posted: 16 May 2013
Southend-On-Sea, South East
Good communication and inter-personal skills* Possess an understanding of the systems development lifecycle and of internal standards.* Appreciate Quality Assurance and Configuration Management* Must be able to...
Capita Resourcing
Posted: 16 May 2013
Hertfordshire
Ideally CCNP/CCIE qualified but MUST be SC Cleared... Skills Required: CCNP - Routing & Switching Cisco Design Implementation - Network Security Voice / Wi-FI (Wireless) Excellent core R&S experience -...
Stott & May
Rate: £300 - £380 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013