Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the 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 22 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications for the East of England region.

 Security Check (SC) Clearance
Location
3 months to
22 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank584288
Rank change year-on-year
Down-16Up+46
Matching contract IT job ads297070
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England1.730 %3.244 %1.593 %
As % of the Qualifications category12.39 %19.89 %10.54 %
Daily rates quoted102420
Average daily rate£298£258£355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.53 %-27.46 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£159£172£263
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£343£447£470
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£375£375
% change year-on-year
-6.660 %-
Hourly rates quoted12146
Average hourly rate£29.25£23.50£28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+24.46 %-16.07 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£10.50£14.88£22.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.05£32.98£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£27.50£32.00£33.83
% change year-on-year
-14.06 %-5.400 %
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryAll Qualifications
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
234352664
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England13.96 %16.31 %15.11 %
Daily rates quoted77139239
Average daily rate£303£255£335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.62 %-23.88 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£85£145£140
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£450£425£450
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£350£350
% change year-on-year
-7.140 %-
Hourly rates quoted5945118
Average hourly rate£25.50£23.00£21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.86 %+6.970 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£12.30£14.89£15.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£36.70£33.40£37.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate£21.00£25.00£25.00
% change year-on-year
-16.00 %-
SC Cleared EnglandSC Cleared
England

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.

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 of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

East of England SC Cleared Demand Trend

SC Cleared
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 of England region.

East of England SC Cleared Daily Rate Trend

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram

The 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 22 March 2010.

East of England SC Cleared Daily Rate Histogram

SC Cleared
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 of England region.

East of England SC Cleared Hourly Rate Trend

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SC Cleared across the East of England region over the 3 months to 22 March 2010.

East of England SC Cleared Hourly Rate Histogram

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 22 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
HertfordshireUp+1020£305+35.55 %
EssexDown-45£344-20.05 %
SuffolkDown-132£275+41.02 %
NorfolkUp+41£290-
BedfordshireDown-61--
SC Cleared EnglandSC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, 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.

171 (100.00 %)Security Cleared
218 (25.35 %)Government
317 (23.94 %)Oracle
412 (16.90 %)Windows
510 (14.08 %)UNIX
69 (12.68 %)Cisco
78 (11.27 %)Active Directory
87 (9.859 %)Cisco Certification
87 (9.859 %)Microsoft
87 (9.859 %)SQL
96 (8.451 %)SQL Server
96 (8.451 %)LAN
96 (8.451 %)Military
105 (7.042 %)HP
105 (7.042 %)CMMI
105 (7.042 %)MS Excel
105 (7.042 %)MS Office
105 (7.042 %)VB
105 (7.042 %)Java
114 (5.634 %)AIX
114 (5.634 %)ITIL
114 (5.634 %)CCIE
114 (5.634 %)SQL Server 2000
114 (5.634 %)Configuration Management
114 (5.634 %)SQL Server 2005
114 (5.634 %)Test Scripting
114 (5.634 %)SCCM
123 (4.225 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
123 (4.225 %)QA
123 (4.225 %)Agile Software Development

SC Cleared
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, 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.

East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
13 (4.225 %)J2EE
22 (2.817 %).NET
22 (2.817 %)ASP.NET
22 (2.817 %)XML
22 (2.817 %)JMS
22 (2.817 %)JavaBeans
31 (1.408 %)EJB 3.0
31 (1.408 %)MyFaces
31 (1.408 %)RichFaces
31 (1.408 %)Java EE
31 (1.408 %)LINQ
31 (1.408 %)Oracle Streams
31 (1.408 %)JSF
31 (1.408 %)TopLink
31 (1.408 %)WinForms
31 (1.408 %)JMX
31 (1.408 %)XSD
31 (1.408 %)EJB
31 (1.408 %)Servlets
31 (1.408 %)Struts
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
12 (2.817 %)Lotus Domino
21 (1.408 %)Oracle 10gAS
21 (1.408 %)Oracle Application Server
21 (1.408 %)ESB
21 (1.408 %)SharePoint
21 (1.408 %)Apache
21 (1.408 %)WebLogic
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
15 (7.042 %)MS Excel
15 (7.042 %)MS Office
22 (2.817 %)CATIA
31 (1.408 %)MS PowerPoint
31 (1.408 %)InfoPath
31 (1.408 %)MATLAB
31 (1.408 %)Simulink
31 (1.408 %)MS Project
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
13 (4.225 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
13 (4.225 %)Oracle Applications
22 (2.817 %)ENOVIA
22 (2.817 %)Oracle HRMS
31 (1.408 %)Oracle Financials
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
16 (8.451 %)LAN
23 (4.225 %)Firewall
23 (4.225 %)WAN
32 (2.817 %)LDAP
32 (2.817 %)Wireless
41 (1.408 %)Cisco ASA
41 (1.408 %)Cisco ICM
41 (1.408 %)C7
41 (1.408 %)H.323
41 (1.408 %)X.400
41 (1.408 %)X.500
41 (1.408 %)Internet
41 (1.408 %)VoIP
41 (1.408 %)Kerberos
41 (1.408 %)VPN
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
16 (8.451 %)SQL Server
24 (5.634 %)SQL Server 2000
24 (5.634 %)SQL Server 2005
33 (4.225 %)Oracle 9i
33 (4.225 %)Datawarehouse
42 (2.817 %)MySQL
42 (2.817 %)Oracle 10g
51 (1.408 %)SQL Server 2008
51 (1.408 %)EDRMS
51 (1.408 %)Oracle Discoverer
51 (1.408 %)RDBMS
51 (1.408 %)ETL
51 (1.408 %)Oracle Reports
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
13 (4.225 %)ClearQuest
13 (4.225 %)ClearCase
22 (2.817 %)Visual Studio
31 (1.408 %)JDeveloper
31 (1.408 %)Oracle Forms
31 (1.408 %)Ant
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
118 (25.35 %)Government
26 (8.451 %)Military
33 (4.225 %)Aerospace
42 (2.817 %)Legal
42 (2.817 %)Publishing
42 (2.817 %)Telecoms
42 (2.817 %)Finance
42 (2.817 %)Auditing
51 (1.408 %)Multimedia
51 (1.408 %)Electric
51 (1.408 %)Police
51 (1.408 %)Home Office
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
18 (11.27 %)Analyst
27 (9.859 %)Consultant
36 (8.451 %)Developer
36 (8.451 %)Tester
45 (7.042 %)Team Leader
53 (4.225 %)Active Directory Consultant
53 (4.225 %)Applications Tester
53 (4.225 %)Network Team Leader
53 (4.225 %)Network Engineer
53 (4.225 %)Systems Engineer
53 (4.225 %)DBA
53 (4.225 %)Technical Consultant
62 (2.817 %)Senior Systems Engineer
62 (2.817 %)Helpdesk Analyst
62 (2.817 %)Project Manager
62 (2.817 %)Support Engineer
62 (2.817 %)Senior Manager
62 (2.817 %)Security Analyst
62 (2.817 %)Test Team Leader
62 (2.817 %)Infrastructure Engineer
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11 (1.408 %)Fat Client
11 (1.408 %)CMDB
11 (1.408 %)E-Learning
11 (1.408 %)Thin Client
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
112 (16.90 %)Windows
210 (14.08 %)UNIX
34 (5.634 %)AIX
43 (4.225 %)Windows Server 2003
43 (4.225 %)Linux
52 (2.817 %)HPUX
52 (2.817 %)Windows Vista
61 (1.408 %)Windows XP
61 (1.408 %)NetWare
61 (1.408 %)Windows 2000
61 (1.408 %)Solaris
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
15 (7.042 %)CMMI
24 (5.634 %)ITIL
24 (5.634 %)Configuration Management
24 (5.634 %)Test Scripting
33 (4.225 %)Agile Software Development
33 (4.225 %)Network Design
33 (4.225 %)CAD
33 (4.225 %)Change Management
33 (4.225 %)Migration
33 (4.225 %)Service Management
33 (4.225 %)Business Intelligence
42 (2.817 %)Validation
42 (2.817 %)Project Management
42 (2.817 %)DoDAF
42 (2.817 %)MODAF
42 (2.817 %)Incident Management
42 (2.817 %)Automated Testing
42 (2.817 %)Software Engineering
42 (2.817 %)Requirements Management
42 (2.817 %)Image Processing
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
17 (9.859 %)SQL
25 (7.042 %)VB
25 (7.042 %)Java
33 (4.225 %)PL/SQL
42 (2.817 %)C#
42 (2.817 %)VBA
42 (2.817 %)T-SQL
51 (1.408 %)VB6
51 (1.408 %)Shell Script
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
171 (100.00 %)Security Cleared
27 (9.859 %)Cisco Certification
34 (5.634 %)CCIE
43 (4.225 %)CCNA
52 (2.817 %)CTC Cleared
61 (1.408 %)DV Cleared
61 (1.408 %)ISEB
61 (1.408 %)CCNP
61 (1.408 %)HND
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
13 (4.225 %)QA
13 (4.225 %)SLA
21 (1.408 %)TickIT
21 (1.408 %)ISO9001
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
18 (11.27 %)Active Directory
22 (2.817 %)Citrix Presentation Server
22 (2.817 %)VMware Infrastructure
31 (1.408 %)Oracle RMAN
31 (1.408 %)Terminal Services
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
14 (5.634 %)SCCM
23 (4.225 %)OpenView Configuration Management
31 (1.408 %)CiscoWorks
31 (1.408 %)MOM
31 (1.408 %)OpenView
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
117 (23.94 %)Oracle
29 (12.68 %)Cisco
37 (9.859 %)Microsoft
45 (7.042 %)HP
53 (4.225 %)Cognos
62 (2.817 %)IBM
62 (2.817 %)Sun
62 (2.817 %)Red Hat
62 (2.817 %)Citrix
62 (2.817 %)VMware
71 (1.408 %)Serena
71 (1.408 %)Veritas
71 (1.408 %)Nortel
71 (1.408 %)Remedy
71 (1.408 %)Open Text