Gloucestershire SC Cleared Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Security Check (SC) Clearance skills within the Gloucestershire 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 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Location Aldershot Andover Avon Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cardigan Carlisle Ceredigion Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chorley City of London Corsham Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Filton Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochester Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wimbledon Wirral Wokingham Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	11	7
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	63	82
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.083 %	0.082 %
As % of the category below	14.75 %	21.93 %
Daily rates quoted	31	25
Average minimum daily rate	£359	£354
Average daily rate	£367	£380
% change on same period last year	-3.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£406
UK excluding London average daily rate	£369	£373
% change on same period last year	-1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.96	£28.00
Average hourly rate	£30.51	£28.38
% change on same period last year	+7.48 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.05	£28.77
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.76	£30.52
% change on same period last year	+7.32 %
Processes & Methodologies Gloucestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	427	374
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.563 %	0.372 %
Daily rates quoted	134	137
Average minimum daily rate	£375	£387
Average daily rate	£386	£399
% change on same period last year	-3.35 %
Average maximum daily rate	£396	£411
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£377
% change on same period last year	+0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	32	47
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.17	£28.97
Average hourly rate	£31.51	£29.66
% change on same period last year	+6.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.85	£30.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.34	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.55 %
SC Cleared South West

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 Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SC Cleared across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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 Gloucestershire region.

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SC Cleared across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

SC Cleared
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Cheltenham	+14	38	£385	-
Gloucester	-1	8	£312	-21.29 %
Filton	+1	4	£475	-

SC Cleared South West

SC Cleared
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 88 (100.00 %) Security Cleared 2 32 (36.36 %) DV Cleared 3 21 (23.86 %) Government 4 19 (21.59 %) Windows 5 14 (15.91 %) PRINCE2 6 12 (13.64 %) C 6 12 (13.64 %) Configuration Management 7 11 (12.50 %) Project Management 7 11 (12.50 %) Finance 8 10 (11.36 %) Windows Server 2008 9 9 (10.23 %) Windows Vista 9 9 (10.23 %) Legal 9 9 (10.23 %) Active Directory 9 9 (10.23 %) DMZ 9 9 (10.23 %) Oracle

9 9 (10.23 %) SQL Server 10 8 (9.091 %) VMware 10 8 (9.091 %) Service Delivery 11 7 (7.955 %) ISEB 11 7 (7.955 %) VMware Infrastructure 12 6 (6.818 %) Exchange Server 2007 12 6 (6.818 %) Solaris 12 6 (6.818 %) MS Exchange 12 6 (6.818 %) VMware ESX 13 5 (5.682 %) Telecoms 13 5 (5.682 %) Service Management 13 5 (5.682 %) Linux 13 5 (5.682 %) UML 13 5 (5.682 %) UNIX 13 5 (5.682 %) Microsoft

SC Cleared
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 4 (4.545 %) .NET 1 4 (4.545 %) J2EE 2 3 (3.409 %) ASP.NET 2 3 (3.409 %) EJB 3 2 (2.273 %) Application Packaging 4 1 (1.136 %) Java EE 5 4 1 (1.136 %) WebSphere 4 1 (1.136 %) Java EE 4 1 (1.136 %) JMS 4 1 (1.136 %) SOAP 4 1 (1.136 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 6 (6.818 %) Exchange Server 2007 1 6 (6.818 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (3.409 %) JBoss 2 3 (3.409 %) WebLogic 3 2 (2.273 %) Apache 4 1 (1.136 %) Oracle Application Server 4 1 (1.136 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 1 (1.136 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 1 (1.136 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 1 (1.136 %) ColdFusion
Communications & Networking 1 9 (10.23 %) DMZ 2 2 (2.273 %) SMS 3 1 (1.136 %) NGN 3 1 (1.136 %) SMTP 3 1 (1.136 %) X.400 3 1 (1.136 %) Intranet 3 1 (1.136 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (10.23 %) SQL Server 2 4 (4.545 %) SQL Server 2005 3 3 (3.409 %) SQL Server 2000 4 2 (2.273 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 2 (2.273 %) RDBMS 5 1 (1.136 %) Oracle 9i 5 1 (1.136 %) Oracle 10g
Development Applications 1 2 (2.273 %) NUnit	General 1 21 (23.86 %) Government 2 11 (12.50 %) Finance 3 9 (10.23 %) Legal 4 5 (5.682 %) Telecoms 5 2 (2.273 %) Law 5 2 (2.273 %) Avionics 6 1 (1.136 %) Electronics 6 1 (1.136 %) Home Office 6 1 (1.136 %) Military 6 1 (1.136 %) Criminal Justice
Job Titles 1 30 (34.09 %) Consultant 2 8 (9.091 %) Developer 2 8 (9.091 %) Technical Consultant 3 5 (5.682 %) Project Support Officer 3 5 (5.682 %) Project Officer 4 4 (4.545 %) Test Engineer 5 3 (3.409 %) Java/J2EE Developer 5 3 (3.409 %) Software Engineer 5 3 (3.409 %) Desktop Engineer 5 3 (3.409 %) Java Developer 5 3 (3.409 %) Exchange Specialist 5 3 (3.409 %) Server Specialist 5 3 (3.409 %) Project Manager 6 2 (2.273 %) Management Consultant 6 2 (2.273 %) Service Management Consultant 6 2 (2.273 %) Microsoft Consultant 6 2 (2.273 %) Oracle DBA 6 2 (2.273 %) .NET Developer 6 2 (2.273 %) Junior Project Manager 6 2 (2.273 %) Integration Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 4 (4.545 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 2 2 (2.273 %) Client/Server 3 1 (1.136 %) PKI 3 1 (1.136 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 19 (21.59 %) Windows 2 10 (11.36 %) Windows Server 2008 3 9 (10.23 %) Windows Vista 4 6 (6.818 %) Solaris 5 5 (5.682 %) Linux 5 5 (5.682 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 88 (100.00 %) Security Cleared 2 32 (36.36 %) DV Cleared 3 14 (15.91 %) PRINCE2 4 12 (13.64 %) Configuration Management 5 11 (12.50 %) Project Management 6 8 (9.091 %) Service Delivery 7 5 (5.682 %) Service Management 7 5 (5.682 %) UML 8 4 (4.545 %) RUP 9 2 (2.273 %) Software Engineering 9 2 (2.273 %) Validation 9 2 (2.273 %) Stakeholder Management 9 2 (2.273 %) Change Management 9 2 (2.273 %) Regression Testing 10 1 (1.136 %) V-Model 10 1 (1.136 %) Use Case 10 1 (1.136 %) Test Scripting 10 1 (1.136 %) BC Cleared 10 1 (1.136 %) Business Continuity 10 1 (1.136 %) Migration
Programming Languages 1 12 (13.64 %) C 2 3 (3.409 %) Korn 2 3 (3.409 %) Java 2 3 (3.409 %) Perl 3 2 (2.273 %) VBScript 3 2 (2.273 %) Shell Script 3 2 (2.273 %) C# 3 2 (2.273 %) C++ 4 1 (1.136 %) PL/SQL 4 1 (1.136 %) SQL 4 1 (1.136 %) Embedded C 4 1 (1.136 %) Assembly Language	Qualifications 1 7 (7.955 %) ISEB 2 3 (3.409 %) Sun Certification 3 2 (2.273 %) Cisco Certification 3 2 (2.273 %) CCNP 3 2 (2.273 %) CCNA 4 1 (1.136 %) Degree 4 1 (1.136 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.136 %) SLA	System Software 1 9 (10.23 %) Active Directory 2 7 (7.955 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 6 (6.818 %) VMware ESX 4 5 (5.682 %) ISA Server 5 3 (3.409 %) MailMarshal
Vendors 1 9 (10.23 %) Oracle 2 8 (9.091 %) VMware 3 5 (5.682 %) Microsoft 4 4 (4.545 %) Cisco 4 4 (4.545 %) Sophos 5 3 (3.409 %) Clearswift 5 3 (3.409 %) Sun 5 3 (3.409 %) BEA 6 2 (2.273 %) Remedy 7 1 (1.136 %) IBM 7 1 (1.136 %) Dell