The first table below looks at the demand for SC Cleared in IT contracts advertised for the Erskine region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SC Cleared over the 3 months to 21 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 Erskine 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Check (SC) Clearance
Rank 3 1 -
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 44 25 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Erskine 73.33% 100.00% -
As % of the Qualifications category 75.86% 100.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 40 17 0
Average daily rate £358 £410 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.80% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £375 £371
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +1.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £20.00 £24.75
% change year-on-year
+7.50% -19.19%
All Qualifications
Erskine
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
58 25 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Erskine 96.67% 100.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 52 17 0
Average daily rate £365 £410 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.97% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%
SC Cleared
Renfrewshire

SC Cleared
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Erskine 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 Erskine region.

Erskine 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 Erskine region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Erskine SC Cleared Daily Rate Histogram

SC Cleared
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Erskine 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 75 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 53 (70.67%) Windows
3 32 (42.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 26 (34.67%) Microsoft
5 24 (32.00%) Windows XP
5 24 (32.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 21 (28.00%) OpenView Configuration Management
7 18 (24.00%) Telecoms
8 16 (21.33%) Active Directory
9 15 (20.00%) MS Excel
9 15 (20.00%) MS Office
10 13 (17.33%) HP
10 13 (17.33%) Security Architecture
11 12 (16.00%) SAN
11 12 (16.00%) Test Scripting
12 11 (14.67%) Finance
12 11 (14.67%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (13.33%) Citrix
13 10 (13.33%) TestDirector
13 10 (13.33%) XML
13 10 (13.33%) QMS
14 9 (12.00%) Service Management
14 9 (12.00%) VMware
14 9 (12.00%) SQL Server
14 9 (12.00%) VBScript
14 9 (12.00%) Netcool
15 8 (10.67%) McAfee
15 8 (10.67%) Veritas
15 8 (10.67%) ERP
15 8 (10.67%) Manufacturing

SC Cleared
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Erskine 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 10 (13.33%) XML
2 6 (8.000%) .NET
2 6 (8.000%) XML Schema
2 6 (8.000%) .NET Framework
3 4 (5.333%) HTML
3 4 (5.333%) XSL
4 1 (1.333%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 7 (9.333%) SharePoint
2 5 (6.667%) SharePoint Server
3 3 (4.000%) IIS
3 3 (4.000%) MS Project Server
4 1 (1.333%) CMS
Applications
1 15 (20.00%) MS Excel
1 15 (20.00%) MS Office
2 3 (4.000%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 12 (16.00%) SAN
2 4 (5.333%) LDAP
3 3 (4.000%) SSL
3 3 (4.000%) IPsec
4 2 (2.667%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.667%) DHCP
5 1 (1.333%) SNMP
5 1 (1.333%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.000%) MySQL
3 2 (2.667%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (2.667%) SQL Server 2000
3 2 (2.667%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (2.667%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 10 (13.33%) TestDirector
2 7 (9.333%) StarTeam
3 2 (2.667%) WinRunner
3 2 (2.667%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 18 (24.00%) Telecoms
2 11 (14.67%) Finance
3 8 (10.67%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.667%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (13.33%) Author
1 10 (13.33%) Technical Author
2 7 (9.333%) Consultant
2 7 (9.333%) Tester
3 6 (8.000%) Desktop Engineer
3 6 (8.000%) Build Engineer
4 5 (6.667%) Test Engineer
5 4 (5.333%) Senior Desktop Engineer
5 4 (5.333%) Senior Build Engineer
6 3 (4.000%) Management Consultant
6 3 (4.000%) Configuration Management Consultant
6 3 (4.000%) Security Engineer
6 3 (4.000%) Implementation Engineer
7 2 (2.667%) Technical Leader
7 2 (2.667%) Analyst
7 2 (2.667%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (2.667%) Technical Consultant
7 2 (2.667%) Architect
8 1 (1.333%) Verification Engineer
8 1 (1.333%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.67%) SaaS
2 6 (8.000%) Cryptography
2 6 (8.000%) Clustering
3 5 (6.667%) Taxonomies
4 4 (5.333%) PKI
4 4 (5.333%) PDA
4 4 (5.333%) Management Information System
4 4 (5.333%) Smartcard
5 3 (4.000%) Thin Client
5 3 (4.000%) Fat Client
5 3 (4.000%) CMDB
6 1 (1.333%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 53 (70.67%) Windows
2 32 (42.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 24 (32.00%) Windows XP
3 24 (32.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 8 (10.67%) Windows 7
5 7 (9.333%) Solaris
6 6 (8.000%) Windows Vista
7 4 (5.333%) AIX
8 2 (2.667%) Linux
9 1 (1.333%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (17.33%) Security Architecture
2 12 (16.00%) Test Scripting
3 10 (13.33%) QMS
4 9 (12.00%) Service Management
5 8 (10.67%) ERP
6 5 (6.667%) Software Deployment
6 5 (6.667%) Document Management
7 4 (5.333%) Release Management
7 4 (5.333%) Enterprise Architecture
7 4 (5.333%) Migration
7 4 (5.333%) Capacity Management
8 3 (4.000%) Information Assurance
8 3 (4.000%) Software Distribution
8 3 (4.000%) Configuration Management
8 3 (4.000%) Workflow
9 2 (2.667%) Business Development
9 2 (2.667%) Load Balancing
9 2 (2.667%) Information Security
9 2 (2.667%) Quality Management
9 2 (2.667%) CMMI
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.00%) VBScript
2 7 (9.333%) C
3 6 (8.000%) PowerShell
4 4 (5.333%) XPath
4 4 (5.333%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.333%) SQL
5 3 (4.000%) Bourne shell
5 3 (4.000%) Perl
5 3 (4.000%) Java
5 3 (4.000%) Jython
5 3 (4.000%) Korn
6 2 (2.667%) C#
6 2 (2.667%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 75 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (14.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (8.000%) MCP
4 3 (4.000%) MCSE
5 2 (2.667%) MCTS
5 2 (2.667%) CIMA
5 2 (2.667%) CISSP
5 2 (2.667%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.333%) BC Cleared
6 1 (1.333%) MCSA
6 1 (1.333%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.333%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.000%) QA
2 2 (2.667%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (21.33%) Active Directory
2 6 (8.000%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.667%) VMware ESX
3 2 (2.667%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (1.333%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (1.333%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 21 (28.00%) OpenView Configuration Management
2 9 (12.00%) Netcool
3 8 (10.67%) HP Quality Center
4 4 (5.333%) HP Operations Orchestration
5 3 (4.000%) HP SiteScope
5 3 (4.000%) HP UCMDB
5 3 (4.000%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 3 (4.000%) Tivoli
6 2 (2.667%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 26 (34.67%) Microsoft
2 13 (17.33%) HP
3 10 (13.33%) Citrix
4 9 (12.00%) VMware
5 8 (10.67%) McAfee
5 8 (10.67%) Veritas
5 8 (10.67%) Lumension
6 7 (9.333%) Borland
7 4 (5.333%) EMC
8 3 (4.000%) Oracle
8 3 (4.000%) IBM
8 3 (4.000%) CA
8 3 (4.000%) Sophos
8 3 (4.000%) Symantec
8 3 (4.000%) Wyse
9 2 (2.667%) SAP
9 2 (2.667%) Business Objects
10 1 (1.333%) Brocade
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