Hampshire Security Cleared Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Security Clearance skills within the Hampshire 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 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aldershot Amersham Andover Avon Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clydebank Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Cowes Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dumbarton Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Feltham Filton Gateshead Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rugby Ruislip Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stirling Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teddington Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Thatcham Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Dunbartonshire West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Whitehaven Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Wirral Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	4	7
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	311	300
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.442 %	0.303 %
As % of the category below	27.21 %	21.17 %
Daily rates quoted	80	100
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£351
Average daily rate	£372	£370
% change on same period last year	+0.58 %
Average maximum daily rate	£395	£389
UK excluding London average daily rate	£371	£371
% change on same period last year	+0.03 %
Hourly rates quoted	85	36
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.26	£30.11
Average hourly rate	£35.22	£31.89
% change on same period last year	+10.44 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.17	£33.66
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.23	£30.45
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Processes & Methodologies Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1143	1417
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.624 %	1.431 %
Daily rates quoted	377	452
Average minimum daily rate	£354	£350
Average daily rate	£377	£372
% change on same period last year	+1.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£394
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£371
% change on same period last year	+1.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	224	214
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.90	£28.22
Average hourly rate	£33.07	£30.19
% change on same period last year	+9.51 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.24	£32.17
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.32	£30.04
% change on same period last year	-2.39 %
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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 Hampshire 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 Hampshire 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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 7 October 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 Hampshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Security Cleared across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

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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 Security Cleared within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 7 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
Portsmouth	0	52	£352	+32.76 %
Farnborough	0	44	£361	-6.74 %
Basingstoke	-6	19	£380	-7.67 %
Southampton	+11	10	£398	-1.58 %
Andover	+1	5	£447	+63.39 %
Havant	+3	3	-	-
Aldershot	+3	2	-	-
Waterlooville	0	1	-	-
Gosport	-	1	£380	-
Winchester	0	1	£290	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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.

1 319 (56.96 %) SC Cleared 2 160 (28.57 %) Government 3 115 (20.54 %) Windows 4 65 (11.61 %) BC Cleared 5 58 (10.36 %) SQL 6 53 (9.464 %) Java 7 50 (8.929 %) Military 8 47 (8.393 %) Active Directory 9 46 (8.214 %) Windows Server 2003 10 43 (7.679 %) UNIX 11 42 (7.500 %) Linux 11 42 (7.500 %) UML 12 40 (7.143 %) C++ 12 40 (7.143 %) Oracle 12 40 (7.143 %) Windows XP

13 39 (6.964 %) MS Office 14 34 (6.071 %) .NET 14 34 (6.071 %) MS Excel 15 32 (5.714 %) Microsoft 16 30 (5.357 %) Configuration Management 17 29 (5.179 %) Degree 18 27 (4.821 %) Cisco 18 27 (4.821 %) Solaris 19 26 (4.643 %) PRINCE2 20 25 (4.464 %) WebSphere 20 25 (4.464 %) Finance 21 24 (4.286 %) VMware 22 23 (4.107 %) OO 22 23 (4.107 %) VB.NET 23 22 (3.929 %) C

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 34 (6.071 %) .NET 2 25 (4.464 %) WebSphere 3 21 (3.750 %) XML 4 17 (3.036 %) CORBA 5 14 (2.500 %) ASP.NET 6 12 (2.143 %) J2EE 6 12 (2.143 %) WebServices 7 9 (1.607 %) J2SE 7 9 (1.607 %) AJAX 8 7 (1.250 %) .NET Framework 9 6 (1.071 %) JDBC 10 3 (0.536 %) JSP 10 3 (0.536 %) HTML 11 2 (0.357 %) XSD 11 2 (0.357 %) DOM 11 2 (0.357 %) EJB 11 2 (0.357 %) .NET Remoting 11 2 (0.357 %) SAP ALE 11 2 (0.357 %) Hibernate 11 2 (0.357 %) SAP Smart Forms	Application Platforms 1 20 (3.571 %) MS Exchange 2 18 (3.214 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 10 (1.786 %) Apache 4 9 (1.607 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 8 (1.429 %) CMS 6 6 (1.071 %) WebSphere Message Broker 7 3 (0.536 %) BizTalk Server 7 3 (0.536 %) Exchange Server 2000 7 3 (0.536 %) SharePoint 8 2 (0.357 %) MQSeries 8 2 (0.357 %) Exchange Server 5.5 9 1 (0.179 %) Documentum 9 1 (0.179 %) ESB 9 1 (0.179 %) SharePoint Server 2007 9 1 (0.179 %) Tuxedo 9 1 (0.179 %) WebLogic 9 1 (0.179 %) IIS 9 1 (0.179 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 39 (6.964 %) MS Office 2 34 (6.071 %) MS Excel 3 6 (1.071 %) MS Project 4 5 (0.893 %) MATLAB 5 4 (0.714 %) MS PowerPoint 6 2 (0.357 %) Pro/ENGINEER 6 2 (0.357 %) CA Clarity 6 2 (0.357 %) QuarkXPress 6 2 (0.357 %) MS Visio 7 1 (0.179 %) Acrobat 7 1 (0.179 %) Simulink 7 1 (0.179 %) CATIA 7 1 (0.179 %) NASTRAN	Business Applications 1 3 (0.536 %) LIFE/400 2 1 (0.179 %) SAP PLM 2 1 (0.179 %) SAP FI 2 1 (0.179 %) SAP FI/CO 2 1 (0.179 %) SAP CO
Communications & Networking 1 22 (3.929 %) Firewall 2 21 (3.750 %) VPN 3 18 (3.214 %) LAN 4 15 (2.679 %) Internet 5 13 (2.321 %) LDAP 6 12 (2.143 %) WAN 6 12 (2.143 %) TETRA 6 12 (2.143 %) Cisco PIX 7 9 (1.607 %) Network Security 8 8 (1.429 %) X.400 8 8 (1.429 %) DNS 8 8 (1.429 %) DHCP 9 7 (1.250 %) HTTP 9 7 (1.250 %) ATM 9 7 (1.250 %) Intrusion Detection 10 6 (1.071 %) SAN 10 6 (1.071 %) X.500 11 5 (0.893 %) MPLS 11 5 (0.893 %) VoIP 11 5 (0.893 %) VLAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (2.321 %) Oracle Reports 2 11 (1.964 %) Crystal Reports 3 7 (1.250 %) SQL Server 4 3 (0.536 %) Oracle 10g 4 3 (0.536 %) SQL Server 2005 5 2 (0.357 %) DataStage 5 2 (0.357 %) Data Mining 5 2 (0.357 %) DB2 6 1 (0.179 %) DTS 6 1 (0.179 %) ETL 6 1 (0.179 %) TOAD 6 1 (0.179 %) BusinessObjects 6 1 (0.179 %) Oracle OWB 6 1 (0.179 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 1 (0.179 %) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications 1 12 (2.143 %) Visual Studio 2 11 (1.964 %) JUnit 3 7 (1.250 %) ARTiSAN 4 5 (0.893 %) StarTeam 4 5 (0.893 %) Eclipse 5 4 (0.714 %) TestDirector 5 4 (0.714 %) ClearCase 5 4 (0.714 %) Telelogic DOORS 6 3 (0.536 %) Rational Rose 7 2 (0.357 %) RequisitePro 7 2 (0.357 %) VSS/SourceSafe 7 2 (0.357 %) Rational Robot 7 2 (0.357 %) LabVIEW 8 1 (0.179 %) ClearQuest 8 1 (0.179 %) Subversion 8 1 (0.179 %) FrontPage 8 1 (0.179 %) Telelogic Rhapsody 8 1 (0.179 %) Rational Performance Tester 8 1 (0.179 %) Oracle Forms 8 1 (0.179 %) Ant	General 1 160 (28.57 %) Government 2 50 (8.929 %) Military 3 25 (4.464 %) Finance 4 19 (3.393 %) Telecoms 5 18 (3.214 %) Pensions 6 16 (2.857 %) Electronics 7 14 (2.500 %) Auditing 8 13 (2.321 %) Aerospace 9 12 (2.143 %) Manufacturing 9 12 (2.143 %) Avionics 10 10 (1.786 %) Health 11 8 (1.429 %) Construction 12 7 (1.250 %) Electric 13 6 (1.071 %) Back Office 14 5 (0.893 %) Criminal Justice 15 4 (0.714 %) Law 16 3 (0.536 %) Legal 16 3 (0.536 %) Police 16 3 (0.536 %) Education 16 3 (0.536 %) Billing
Job Titles 1 109 (19.46 %) Developer 2 69 (12.32 %) Analyst 3 43 (7.679 %) Software Engineer 4 33 (5.893 %) Systems Engineer 5 30 (5.357 %) Administrator 6 25 (4.464 %) Consultant 7 23 (4.107 %) Business Analyst 8 18 (3.214 %) Software Developer 8 18 (3.214 %) SQL Developer 9 17 (3.036 %) Tester 10 16 (2.857 %) Project Manager 11 15 (2.679 %) Systems Administrator 11 15 (2.679 %) Applications Developer 12 13 (2.321 %) Architect 13 12 (2.143 %) Integration Engineer 14 11 (1.964 %) UNIX Administrator 14 11 (1.964 %) Support Analyst 14 11 (1.964 %) Design Engineer 15 10 (1.786 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 15 10 (1.786 %) WebSphere Developer	Miscellaneous 1 14 (2.500 %) Physics 2 8 (1.429 %) Client/Server 3 7 (1.250 %) Management Information System 4 6 (1.071 %) Mathematics 4 6 (1.071 %) Thin Client 4 6 (1.071 %) Fat Client 5 5 (0.893 %) PDA 6 3 (0.536 %) Web 2.0 6 3 (0.536 %) N-Tier 7 2 (0.357 %) CESG 7 2 (0.357 %) CESG CLAS 7 2 (0.357 %) Computer Science 8 1 (0.179 %) Taxonomies 8 1 (0.179 %) Data Protection Act 8 1 (0.179 %) Clustering 8 1 (0.179 %) VHDL 8 1 (0.179 %) VAX 8 1 (0.179 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 8 1 (0.179 %) Biometrics 8 1 (0.179 %) ASIC
Operating Systems 1 115 (20.54 %) Windows 2 46 (8.214 %) Windows Server 2003 3 43 (7.679 %) UNIX 4 42 (7.500 %) Linux 5 40 (7.143 %) Windows XP 6 27 (4.821 %) Solaris 7 19 (3.393 %) Windows 2000 8 11 (1.964 %) AIX 9 10 (1.786 %) SUSE 9 10 (1.786 %) Windows Mobile 10 8 (1.429 %) Windows NT 11 7 (1.250 %) Windows 2000 Server 12 4 (0.714 %) Windows Server 2008 13 3 (0.536 %) Windows Vista 14 2 (0.357 %) VMS 15 1 (0.179 %) Red Hat Linux 15 1 (0.179 %) Debian 15 1 (0.179 %) Tru64	Processes & Methodologies 1 319 (56.96 %) SC Cleared 2 65 (11.61 %) BC Cleared 3 42 (7.500 %) UML 4 30 (5.357 %) Configuration Management 5 26 (4.643 %) PRINCE2 6 23 (4.107 %) OO 7 22 (3.929 %) Project Management 8 21 (3.750 %) Migration 8 21 (3.750 %) QMS 9 20 (3.571 %) Business Analysis 10 19 (3.393 %) Quality Management 11 18 (3.214 %) CTC Cleared 12 17 (3.036 %) Software Engineering 13 16 (2.857 %) DV Cleared 14 14 (2.500 %) Data Migration 14 14 (2.500 %) Validation 15 13 (2.321 %) Asset Management 15 13 (2.321 %) Unit Testing 16 12 (2.143 %) Change Management 17 11 (1.964 %) ITIL
Programming Languages 1 58 (10.36 %) SQL 2 53 (9.464 %) Java 3 40 (7.143 %) C++ 4 23 (4.107 %) VB.NET 5 22 (3.929 %) C 5 22 (3.929 %) C# 6 18 (3.214 %) VB 7 17 (3.036 %) PL/SQL 8 15 (2.679 %) Perl 9 13 (2.321 %) Ada 10 9 (1.607 %) JavaScript 10 9 (1.607 %) VB6 11 7 (1.250 %) Shell Script 12 3 (0.536 %) Embedded C++ 12 3 (0.536 %) COBOL 12 3 (0.536 %) VBA 13 2 (0.357 %) VC++ 13 2 (0.357 %) ABAP 13 2 (0.357 %) Assembly Language 13 2 (0.357 %) Embedded C	Qualifications 1 29 (5.179 %) Degree 2 20 (3.571 %) Microsoft Certification 3 14 (2.500 %) HNC 4 12 (2.143 %) HND 4 12 (2.143 %) MCSE 5 10 (1.786 %) MCP 6 8 (1.429 %) Cisco Certification 7 7 (1.250 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 7 7 (1.250 %) CCNP 7 7 (1.250 %) CCNA 8 6 (1.071 %) PRINCE2 Certification 9 5 (0.893 %) ISEB Practitioner 9 5 (0.893 %) ISEB 10 4 (0.714 %) Citrix Certification 10 4 (0.714 %) CCEA 11 1 (0.179 %) CCDP 11 1 (0.179 %) PhD 11 1 (0.179 %) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 13 (2.321 %) QA 2 4 (0.714 %) ISO12207 3 3 (0.536 %) ISO15504 3 3 (0.536 %) ISO9000 3 3 (0.536 %) SLA 3 3 (0.536 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 3 (0.536 %) ISO27001 4 1 (0.179 %) GMP 4 1 (0.179 %) BS7799 4 1 (0.179 %) ISO14001 4 1 (0.179 %) JSP 440	System Software 1 47 (8.393 %) Active Directory 2 19 (3.393 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 6 (1.071 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 5 (0.893 %) Terminal Server 4 5 (0.893 %) NetBackup 5 3 (0.536 %) Backup Exec 6 2 (0.357 %) VMware ESX 7 1 (0.179 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 7 (1.250 %) Tivoli 2 5 (0.893 %) Unicenter 3 4 (0.714 %) MOM 3 4 (0.714 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 4 (0.714 %) Netcool 4 2 (0.357 %) OpenView Configuration Management 4 2 (0.357 %) Norton AntiVirus 4 2 (0.357 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 5 1 (0.179 %) SCCM 5 1 (0.179 %) SCOM	Vendors 1 40 (7.143 %) Oracle 2 32 (5.714 %) Microsoft 3 27 (4.821 %) Cisco 4 24 (4.286 %) VMware 5 18 (3.214 %) Sun 6 17 (3.036 %) SAP 7 15 (2.679 %) HP 8 11 (1.964 %) CheckPoint 9 10 (1.786 %) EMC 10 8 (1.429 %) Tridion 11 7 (1.250 %) VERITAS 11 7 (1.250 %) Novell 11 7 (1.250 %) CA 12 6 (1.071 %) Citrix 13 5 (0.893 %) Telelogic 14 4 (0.714 %) Symbian 14 4 (0.714 %) Borland 15 3 (0.536 %) PeopleSoft 15 3 (0.536 %) Symantec 15 3 (0.536 %) McAfee Security