Essex Security Cleared Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Security 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 Security Cleared over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aldershot Amersham Andover Avon Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Brentwood Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cardigan Carlisle Ceredigion Chatham Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley City of London Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Douglas Dumbarton Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Filton Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochester Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Sherborne Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wells West Drayton West Dunbartonshire West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Wirral Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	38	43
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	20	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.026 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	5.076 %	4.087 %
Daily rates quoted	9	8
Average minimum daily rate	£452	£374
Average daily rate	£475	£403
% change on same period last year	+17.82 %
Average maximum daily rate	£498	£433
UK excluding London average daily rate	£376	£377
% change on same period last year	-0.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£31.50
Average hourly rate	£32.50	£32.13
% change on same period last year	+1.16 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£32.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.46	£30.34
% change on same period last year	+6.98 %
Processes & Methodologies Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	394	416
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.520 %	0.414 %
Daily rates quoted	144	133
Average minimum daily rate	£381	£360
Average daily rate	£399	£383
% change on same period last year	+4.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£418	£406
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£377
% change on same period last year	+0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	43	84
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.02	£31.94
Average hourly rate	£33.87	£32.47
% change on same period last year	+4.31 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.72	£32.99
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.30	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.42 %
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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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Security Cleared across the Essex region over the 3 months to 21 August 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 Security Cleared across the Essex region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Cleared within the Essex region over the 3 months to 21 August 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
Southend-on-Sea	-7	6	£525	+25.00 %
Brentwood	-	2	£375	-
Harlow	-	2	£350	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing Security 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 Security Cleared.

1 21 (58.33 %) Government 2 17 (47.22 %) SC Cleared 3 12 (33.33 %) Oracle 4 10 (27.78 %) Client/Server 5 9 (25.00 %) UML 6 7 (19.44 %) XML 6 7 (19.44 %) DSDM 6 7 (19.44 %) E-Commerce 7 6 (16.67 %) Data Modelling 7 6 (16.67 %) Windows 7 6 (16.67 %) Java 8 5 (13.89 %) J2EE 8 5 (13.89 %) UNIX 8 5 (13.89 %) ETL 8 5 (13.89 %) Microsoft

8 5 (13.89 %) Project Management 9 4 (11.11 %) Migration 9 4 (11.11 %) Enterprise Architecture 9 4 (11.11 %) Internet 9 4 (11.11 %) XML Schema 9 4 (11.11 %) OO 9 4 (11.11 %) SQL 10 3 (8.333 %) MS Office 10 3 (8.333 %) PRINCE2 10 3 (8.333 %) Tuxedo 10 3 (8.333 %) Ingres 10 3 (8.333 %) BEA 10 3 (8.333 %) EAI 10 3 (8.333 %) BC Cleared 10 3 (8.333 %) Telecoms

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing Security 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 Security Cleared. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 7 (19.44 %) XML 2 5 (13.89 %) J2EE 3 4 (11.11 %) XML Schema 4 2 (5.556 %) WebSphere 4 2 (5.556 %) Servlets 5 1 (2.778 %) HTML 5 1 (2.778 %) CSS 5 1 (2.778 %) JSP	Application Platforms 1 3 (8.333 %) Tuxedo 2 2 (5.556 %) WebLogic 3 1 (2.778 %) Oracle Application Server
Applications 1 3 (8.333 %) MS Office 2 2 (5.556 %) Spreadsheet 2 2 (5.556 %) MS Visio 2 2 (5.556 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 4 (11.11 %) Internet 2 2 (5.556 %) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (13.89 %) ETL 2 3 (8.333 %) Ingres 3 2 (5.556 %) BODI 3 2 (5.556 %) BusinessObjects 4 1 (2.778 %) Datawarehouse	Development Applications 1 2 (5.556 %) LoadRunner 1 2 (5.556 %) PowerDesigner 1 2 (5.556 %) Eclipse 1 2 (5.556 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 1 (2.778 %) PVCS 2 1 (2.778 %) TestDirector
General 1 21 (58.33 %) Government 2 3 (8.333 %) Telecoms 3 2 (5.556 %) Military 4 1 (2.778 %) Local Government	Job Titles 1 7 (19.44 %) Project Manager 1 7 (19.44 %) Developer 1 7 (19.44 %) Analyst 2 5 (13.89 %) Technical Project Manager 2 5 (13.89 %) Technical Manager 3 4 (11.11 %) Data Analyst 4 3 (8.333 %) Architect 5 2 (5.556 %) Storage Consultant 5 2 (5.556 %) Performance Tester 5 2 (5.556 %) Systems Engineer 5 2 (5.556 %) Technical Analyst 5 2 (5.556 %) Tester 5 2 (5.556 %) Systems Analyst 5 2 (5.556 %) Technical Architect 5 2 (5.556 %) Consultant 6 1 (2.778 %) Test Analyst 6 1 (2.778 %) 2nd Line Support Engineer 6 1 (2.778 %) Support Engineer 6 1 (2.778 %) 2nd Line Support 6 1 (2.778 %) Implementation Manager
Miscellaneous 1 10 (27.78 %) Client/Server 2 2 (5.556 %) Replication 2 2 (5.556 %) CLARiiON 2 2 (5.556 %) Celerra 2 2 (5.556 %) N-Tier	Operating Systems 1 6 (16.67 %) Windows 2 5 (13.89 %) UNIX 3 2 (5.556 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (2.778 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (47.22 %) SC Cleared 2 9 (25.00 %) UML 3 7 (19.44 %) DSDM 3 7 (19.44 %) E-Commerce 4 6 (16.67 %) Data Modelling 5 5 (13.89 %) Project Management 6 4 (11.11 %) Migration 6 4 (11.11 %) Enterprise Architecture 6 4 (11.11 %) OO 7 3 (8.333 %) PRINCE2 7 3 (8.333 %) EAI 7 3 (8.333 %) BC Cleared 7 3 (8.333 %) Data Analysis 8 2 (5.556 %) HOOD 8 2 (5.556 %) Project Planning 8 2 (5.556 %) Configuration Management 8 2 (5.556 %) RUP 9 1 (2.778 %) RAD 9 1 (2.778 %) Six Sigma 9 1 (2.778 %) Unit Testing	Programming Languages 1 6 (16.67 %) Java 2 4 (11.11 %) SQL 3 2 (5.556 %) C 4 1 (2.778 %) C++ 4 1 (2.778 %) VB 4 1 (2.778 %) JavaScript 4 1 (2.778 %) Perl 4 1 (2.778 %) PL/SQL 4 1 (2.778 %) VC++ 4 1 (2.778 %) Shell Script 4 1 (2.778 %) Korn
Qualifications 1 1 (2.778 %) HNC 1 1 (2.778 %) ISEB 1 1 (2.778 %) Degree 1 1 (2.778 %) ISEB Practitioner	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.778 %) QA
System Software 1 2 (5.556 %) NetBackup	Vendors 1 12 (33.33 %) Oracle 2 5 (13.89 %) Microsoft 3 3 (8.333 %) BEA 4 2 (5.556 %) Brocade 4 2 (5.556 %) VERITAS 4 2 (5.556 %) EMC 4 2 (5.556 %) Nortel 4 2 (5.556 %) Cisco 4 2 (5.556 %) Business Objects 5 1 (2.778 %) IBM 5 1 (2.778 %) Citrix 5 1 (2.778 %) Dell 5 1 (2.778 %) NEC