Essex SC Cleared Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Security Check (SC) Clearance skills within the Essex 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 6 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 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 High Wycombe 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 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	51	58
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	8	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	2.083 %	1.463 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£483	£350
Average daily rate	£483	£368
% change on same period last year	+31.29 %
Average maximum daily rate	£483	£385
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£371
% change on same period last year	-3.26 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.00	£26.00
Average hourly rate	£34.00	£28.00
% change on same period last year	+21.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.00	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.64	£30.47
% change on same period last year	-2.73 %
Processes & Methodologies Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	384	410
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.536 %	0.412 %
Daily rates quoted	134	133
Average minimum daily rate	£379	£363
Average daily rate	£400	£380
% change on same period last year	+5.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£421	£397
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£372
% change on same period last year	+1.69 %
Hourly rates quoted	39	68
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.29	£30.45
Average hourly rate	£30.58	£31.29
% change on same period last year	-2.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.87	£32.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.30	£30.27
% change on same period last year	-3.20 %
SC Cleared East of 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 Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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 Essex region.

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 Essex 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 SC Cleared within the Essex region over the 3 months to 6 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
Chelmsford	+6	1	-	-

SC Cleared East of England

SC Cleared
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 14 (100.00 %) Security Cleared 2 8 (57.14 %) Government 3 7 (50.00 %) Oracle 4 4 (28.57 %) ETL 5 3 (21.43 %) XML Schema 5 3 (21.43 %) XML 5 3 (21.43 %) SQL 5 3 (21.43 %) E-Commerce 5 3 (21.43 %) Client/Server 5 3 (21.43 %) EAI 5 3 (21.43 %) Data Modelling 5 3 (21.43 %) UML 5 3 (21.43 %) Data Analysis 6 2 (14.29 %) LabVIEW 6 2 (14.29 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array

6 2 (14.29 %) WebSphere 6 2 (14.29 %) Project Planning 6 2 (14.29 %) Agilent 6 2 (14.29 %) DSDM 6 2 (14.29 %) LoadRunner 6 2 (14.29 %) PowerDesigner 6 2 (14.29 %) Internet 6 2 (14.29 %) Project Management 6 2 (14.29 %) Java 6 2 (14.29 %) IBM 7 1 (7.143 %) Embedded C 7 1 (7.143 %) BusinessObjects 7 1 (7.143 %) ISEB 7 1 (7.143 %) Citrix 7 1 (7.143 %) TestDirector

SC Cleared
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 3 (21.43 %) XML 1 3 (21.43 %) XML Schema 2 2 (14.29 %) WebSphere	Communications & Networking 1 2 (14.29 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (28.57 %) ETL 2 1 (7.143 %) BusinessObjects 2 1 (7.143 %) BODI 2 1 (7.143 %) Datawarehouse 2 1 (7.143 %) Ingres	Development Applications 1 2 (14.29 %) LoadRunner 1 2 (14.29 %) PowerDesigner 1 2 (14.29 %) LabVIEW 2 1 (7.143 %) PVCS 2 1 (7.143 %) TestDirector
General 1 8 (57.14 %) Government	Job Titles 1 3 (21.43 %) Analyst 1 3 (21.43 %) Data Analyst 2 2 (14.29 %) Project Manager 2 2 (14.29 %) Tester 2 2 (14.29 %) Technical Project Manager 2 2 (14.29 %) Programmer 2 2 (14.29 %) Performance Tester 2 2 (14.29 %) Technical Manager 2 2 (14.29 %) Developer 3 1 (7.143 %) Embedded C Software Engineer 3 1 (7.143 %) Embedded C Engineer 3 1 (7.143 %) C Software Engineer 3 1 (7.143 %) Software Engineer 3 1 (7.143 %) Embedded Software Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (21.43 %) Client/Server 2 2 (14.29 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 3 1 (7.143 %) IBM Mainframe 3 1 (7.143 %) Mainframe	Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (100.00 %) Security Cleared 2 3 (21.43 %) E-Commerce 2 3 (21.43 %) EAI 2 3 (21.43 %) Data Modelling 2 3 (21.43 %) UML 2 3 (21.43 %) Data Analysis 3 2 (14.29 %) DSDM 3 2 (14.29 %) Project Planning 3 2 (14.29 %) Project Management 4 1 (7.143 %) E-business 4 1 (7.143 %) Data Security 4 1 (7.143 %) Migration 4 1 (7.143 %) Information Security 4 1 (7.143 %) Matrix Management 4 1 (7.143 %) Time Management 4 1 (7.143 %) Data Migration 4 1 (7.143 %) Enterprise Architecture 4 1 (7.143 %) PRINCE2
Programming Languages 1 3 (21.43 %) SQL 2 2 (14.29 %) Java 3 1 (7.143 %) C 3 1 (7.143 %) VB 3 1 (7.143 %) Embedded C	Qualifications 1 1 (7.143 %) ISEB
Vendors 1 7 (50.00 %) Oracle 2 2 (14.29 %) IBM 2 2 (14.29 %) Agilent 3 1 (7.143 %) Citrix 3 1 (7.143 %) Xilinx 3 1 (7.143 %) Business Objects