The first table below looks at the demand for SC Cleared in IT contracts advertised for the Hemel Hempstead region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SC Cleared over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Hemel Hempstead 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Check (SC) Clearance
Rank 10 16 9
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -7
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 3 5 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hemel Hempstead 6.250% 5.319% 7.273%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.27% 71.43% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £270 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £375 £370
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £20.00 £23.75
% change year-on-year
+7.50% -15.78%
All Qualifications
Hemel Hempstead
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
11 7 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hemel Hempstead 22.92% 7.447% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 2
Average daily rate £350 £270 £105
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+29.62% +157.14%
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 £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%
SC Cleared
Hertfordshire

SC Cleared
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hemel Hempstead 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 Hemel Hempstead region.

Hemel Hempstead SC Cleared Daily Rate Trend

SC Cleared
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hemel Hempstead 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 11 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (72.73%) Telecoms
3 5 (45.45%) Windows
4 3 (27.27%) MS Excel
4 3 (27.27%) DHCP
4 3 (27.27%) DNS
4 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
4 3 (27.27%) Citrix
4 3 (27.27%) Symantec
4 3 (27.27%) Sophos
4 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (27.27%) Firewall
4 3 (27.27%) VMware
5 2 (18.18%) Network Management
5 2 (18.18%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (18.18%) Acronis
5 2 (18.18%) vSphere
5 2 (18.18%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (18.18%) VMware ESX
5 2 (18.18%) Clustering
5 2 (18.18%) Change Management
5 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (18.18%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (18.18%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (18.18%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (18.18%) Blackberry
5 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
5 2 (18.18%) Norton AntiVirus
5 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (18.18%) SQL Server 2000

SC Cleared
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hemel Hempstead 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 Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Lotus Domino
1 2 (18.18%) MS Exchange
1 2 (18.18%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (18.18%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (18.18%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (18.18%) IIS
2 1 (9.091%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) DHCP
1 3 (27.27%) DNS
1 3 (27.27%) Firewall
2 1 (9.091%) NAS
2 1 (9.091%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (9.091%) MS Access
General
1 8 (72.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Designer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Network Designer
2 2 (18.18%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Data Analyst
3 1 (9.091%) Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) Support Analyst
3 1 (9.091%) Support Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (9.091%) Rollout Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Data Migration Analyst
3 1 (9.091%) Services Director
3 1 (9.091%) Domino Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) Service Delivery Director
3 1 (9.091%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
3 1 (9.091%) Storage Architect
3 1 (9.091%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Blackberry
1 2 (18.18%) Clustering
2 1 (9.091%) Reference Data
2 1 (9.091%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (9.091%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Windows
2 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (18.18%) Windows 2000
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (18.18%) Change Management
1 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (18.18%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (18.18%) Network Management
2 1 (9.091%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (9.091%) Change Control
2 1 (9.091%) ITIL
2 1 (9.091%) Project Management
2 1 (9.091%) Service Delivery
2 1 (9.091%) Validation
2 1 (9.091%) Migration
2 1 (9.091%) Data Analysis
2 1 (9.091%) Supplier Management
2 1 (9.091%) Data Migration
2 1 (9.091%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.091%) PL/SQL
1 1 (9.091%) SQL
1 1 (9.091%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.091%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) VMware ESX
2 2 (18.18%) vSphere
3 1 (9.091%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (9.091%) NetBackup
2 1 (9.091%) Backup Exec
2 1 (9.091%) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Citrix
1 3 (27.27%) Symantec
1 3 (27.27%) Sophos
1 3 (27.27%) VMware
2 2 (18.18%) Acronis
2 2 (18.18%) Lotus
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.091%) HP
3 1 (9.091%) IBM
3 1 (9.091%) McAfee
3 1 (9.091%) Oracle
3 1 (9.091%) Brocade