The first table below looks at the demand for SC Cleared in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SC Cleared over the 3 months to 17 May 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 Hertfordshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Check (SC) Clearance
Rank 47 44 41
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -3
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 16 24 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 2.488% 2.479% 2.995%
As % of the Qualifications category 14.04% 13.64% 21.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 5
Average daily rate £360 £313 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.20% +4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £283 £274
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £343 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £375 £370
% change year-on-year
-4.06% +1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 12
Average hourly rate £36.75 £35.00 £38.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% -9.67%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.75 £33.73 £34.23
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.75 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £20.00 £24.75
% change year-on-year
+7.50% -19.19%
All Qualifications
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
114 176 123
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 17.73% 18.18% 14.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 71 32
Average daily rate £400 £325 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £246 £200 £190
10% offered a daily rate of more than £453 £450 £555
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 18 27
Average hourly rate £25.25 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-27.85% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £14.50 £16.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.50 £42.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
SC Cleared
East of England

SC Cleared
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire SC Cleared Daily Rate Trend

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SC Cleared across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Hertfordshire SC Cleared Daily Rate Histogram

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SC Cleared across the Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire SC Cleared Hourly Rate Trend

SC Cleared
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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Stevenage -4 6 £311 -
Hemel Hempstead +8 3 - -
SC Cleared
East of England

SC Cleared
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 66 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 22 (33.33%) Windows
3 17 (25.76%) Oracle
4 13 (19.70%) UML
4 13 (19.70%) Telecoms
5 12 (18.18%) Symantec
5 12 (18.18%) Java
5 12 (18.18%) SQL
6 11 (16.67%) Migration
6 11 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
7 8 (12.12%) NetWeaver
7 8 (12.12%) Hibernate
7 8 (12.12%) J2EE
7 8 (12.12%) SAP
7 8 (12.12%) Web Services
7 8 (12.12%) Microsoft
7 8 (12.12%) Active Directory
7 8 (12.12%) SAP Basis
7 8 (12.12%) Spring
8 7 (10.61%) Maven
8 7 (10.61%) Exchange Server 2010
8 7 (10.61%) MS Exchange
8 7 (10.61%) XML
8 7 (10.61%) Oracle Reports
8 7 (10.61%) SQL Server
8 7 (10.61%) Windows Server 2003
8 7 (10.61%) Blackberry
9 6 (9.091%) Configuration Management
9 6 (9.091%) Change Management
9 6 (9.091%) VMware

SC Cleared
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 8 (12.12%) J2EE
1 8 (12.12%) Web Services
1 8 (12.12%) Hibernate
1 8 (12.12%) SAP Basis
1 8 (12.12%) Spring
2 7 (10.61%) XML
3 6 (9.091%) CSS
3 6 (9.091%) JSP
3 6 (9.091%) DHTML
3 6 (9.091%) JSF
3 6 (9.091%) XML Schema
3 6 (9.091%) Struts2
3 6 (9.091%) Struts
4 2 (3.030%) Middleware
4 2 (3.030%) GWT
4 2 (3.030%) SAP PI
5 1 (1.515%) Application Packaging
5 1 (1.515%) Apache Flex
5 1 (1.515%) .NET
5 1 (1.515%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 8 (12.12%) NetWeaver
2 7 (10.61%) MS Exchange
2 7 (10.61%) Exchange Server 2010
3 6 (9.091%) Apache
3 6 (9.091%) ActiveMQ
4 5 (7.576%) Liferay
4 5 (7.576%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (6.061%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 4 (6.061%) IIS
6 3 (4.545%) Exchange Server 2007
6 3 (4.545%) Exchange Server 2003
7 2 (3.030%) Lotus Notes
7 2 (3.030%) Lotus Domino
8 1 (1.515%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (1.515%) ESB
Applications
1 6 (9.091%) MS Excel
2 2 (3.030%) AutoCAD
2 2 (3.030%) MS Office
3 1 (1.515%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (3.030%) LabWindows
2 1 (1.515%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.576%) DNS
1 5 (7.576%) Firewall
2 4 (6.061%) DHCP
3 3 (4.545%) Wireless
4 2 (3.030%) Wireless Security
4 2 (3.030%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (3.030%) WAN
4 2 (3.030%) LAN
5 1 (1.515%) VoIP
5 1 (1.515%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.515%) SAN
5 1 (1.515%) Intranet
5 1 (1.515%) NAS
5 1 (1.515%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.515%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.61%) SQL Server
1 7 (10.61%) Oracle Reports
2 6 (9.091%) JasperReports
3 4 (6.061%) GIS
4 3 (4.545%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (4.545%) SQL Server 2000
5 1 (1.515%) MySQL
5 1 (1.515%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (1.515%) MS Access
5 1 (1.515%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.515%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 7 (10.61%) Maven
2 5 (7.576%) Rational DOORS
2 5 (7.576%) Rational Rhapsody
3 3 (4.545%) MSI
4 2 (3.030%) LabVIEW
4 2 (3.030%) Subversion
4 2 (3.030%) JUnit
4 2 (3.030%) ClearCase
4 2 (3.030%) ClearQuest
General
1 13 (19.70%) Telecoms
2 2 (3.030%) Billing
3 1 (1.515%) Electronics
3 1 (1.515%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 9 (13.64%) Consultant
2 7 (10.61%) Administrator
3 6 (9.091%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (9.091%) Java Developer
3 6 (9.091%) Developer
3 6 (9.091%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (7.576%) Software Engineer
4 5 (7.576%) SAP Basis Administrator
4 5 (7.576%) SAP Administrator
5 4 (6.061%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (6.061%) Senior Developer
6 3 (4.545%) Applications Packager
6 3 (4.545%) Support Engineer
6 3 (4.545%) 3rd Line Support
6 3 (4.545%) Analyst
6 3 (4.545%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (4.545%) Messaging Specialist
6 3 (4.545%) Cisco Engineer
6 3 (4.545%) Designer
7 2 (3.030%) C Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.61%) Blackberry
2 6 (9.091%) Open Source
3 3 (4.545%) Clustering
4 1 (1.515%) Physics
4 1 (1.515%) Fat Client
4 1 (1.515%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.515%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.515%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.515%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 22 (33.33%) Windows
2 11 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (10.61%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (7.576%) Solaris
4 5 (7.576%) Linux
5 4 (6.061%) UNIX
5 4 (6.061%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (4.545%) Windows 7
6 3 (4.545%) Windows 2000
7 1 (1.515%) AIX
7 1 (1.515%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (19.70%) UML
2 11 (16.67%) Migration
3 6 (9.091%) Change Management
3 6 (9.091%) RUP
3 6 (9.091%) Configuration Management
3 6 (9.091%) Unit Testing
3 6 (9.091%) Capacity Planning
3 6 (9.091%) Change Control
3 6 (9.091%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (7.576%) Integration Testing
4 5 (7.576%) Data Migration
4 5 (7.576%) Workflow
5 4 (6.061%) Requirements Analysis
6 3 (4.545%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (4.545%) Software Engineering
6 3 (4.545%) SOA
7 2 (3.030%) CAD
7 2 (3.030%) OO
7 2 (3.030%) Validation
7 2 (3.030%) SysML
Programming Languages
1 12 (18.18%) Java
1 12 (18.18%) SQL
2 6 (9.091%) JavaScript
3 3 (4.545%) Ada
4 2 (3.030%) Perl
4 2 (3.030%) C
4 2 (3.030%) C++
4 2 (3.030%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.515%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.515%) MATLAB
5 1 (1.515%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 66 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.091%) CCIE
2 6 (9.091%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (7.576%) CTC Cleared
4 4 (6.061%) CCNP
5 3 (4.545%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.545%) Degree
6 2 (3.030%) SAP Certification
7 1 (1.515%) ISEB
7 1 (1.515%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.545%) SLA
1 3 (4.545%) QA
System Software
1 8 (12.12%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.545%) VMware ESX
2 3 (4.545%) Microsoft App-V
2 3 (4.545%) vSphere
3 2 (3.030%) XenApp
4 1 (1.515%) XenDesktop
4 1 (1.515%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.515%) MetaFrame
4 1 (1.515%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 6 (9.091%) NetBackup
1 6 (9.091%) Backup Exec
2 4 (6.061%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 3 (4.545%) Norton AntiVirus
4 2 (3.030%) SCCM
5 1 (1.515%) OVSD
5 1 (1.515%) OpenView
5 1 (1.515%) OpenView Configuration Management
5 1 (1.515%) Nagios
Vendors
1 17 (25.76%) Oracle
2 12 (18.18%) Symantec
3 8 (12.12%) SAP
3 8 (12.12%) Microsoft
4 6 (9.091%) IBM
4 6 (9.091%) VMware
4 6 (9.091%) Serena
5 5 (7.576%) Cisco
5 5 (7.576%) Citrix
5 5 (7.576%) ReadSoft
6 4 (6.061%) Red Hat
6 4 (6.061%) Sophos
6 4 (6.061%) HP
7 3 (4.545%) Lotus
7 3 (4.545%) Acronis
8 2 (3.030%) Twitter
8 2 (3.030%) Remedy
8 2 (3.030%) Sun
8 2 (3.030%) JBoss
9 1 (1.515%) Veritas
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
Working closely with other teams - including the vendors and customers to produce a fit-for-purpose multi-vendor solution providing complex end-to-end services that include the...
Experis IT
Rate: Market Rates
Posted: 13 May 2013
Hertfordshire, South East
You will be working on a UK defence project so you will require eligibility for SC clearance... The role: + Experience with ADA + Experience with Rhapsody + Experience with C++...
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £35 per hour
Posted: 16 May 2013
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
The role involves working closely with other teams - including the vendors and customers to produce a fit-for-purpose multi-vendor solution providing complex end-to-end services...
Experis IT
Posted: 14 May 2013
Hertfordshire
Ideally CCNP/CCIE qualified but MUST be SC Cleared... Skills Required: CCNP - Routing & Switching Cisco Design Implementation - Network Security Voice / Wi-FI (Wireless) Excellent core R&S experience -...
Stott & May
Rate: £300 - £380 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013