Hertfordshire Security Cleared Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Security Clearance skills within the Hertfordshire 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 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aldershot Andover Avon Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bradford-on-Avon Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Cowes Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Filton Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Henlow Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rugby Ruislip Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark Spalding St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stirling Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Thatcham Trowbridge Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Whitehaven Wiltshire Winchester Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	11	30
Rank change on same period last year	+19
Matching contract IT job ads	85	81
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.137 %	0.087 %
As % of the category below	13.67 %	9.226 %
Daily rates quoted	13	27
Average minimum daily rate	£376	£401
Average daily rate	£409	£434
% change on same period last year	-5.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£441	£467
UK excluding London average daily rate	£373	£381
% change on same period last year	-2.28 %
Hourly rates quoted	30	24
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.12	£29.06
Average hourly rate	£33.55	£31.00
% change on same period last year	+8.25 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.99	£32.93
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.97	£29.93
% change on same period last year	+3.47 %
Processes & Methodologies Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	622	878
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.999 %	0.943 %
Daily rates quoted	209	370
Average minimum daily rate	£338	£346
Average daily rate	£364	£369
% change on same period last year	-1.45 %
Average maximum daily rate	£389	£393
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£372
% change on same period last year	+2.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	72	91
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.59	£32.37
Average hourly rate	£32.56	£33.73
% change on same period last year	-3.47 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.53	£35.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.24	£29.63
% change on same period last year	-4.68 %
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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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 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
Stevenage	+14	39	£390	-2.42 %
St Albans	+9	7	£500	+27.65 %
Welwyn Garden City	-	1	£450	-
Watford	+17	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 94 (58.39 %) SC Cleared 2 30 (18.63 %) Government 3 20 (12.42 %) Degree 4 19 (11.80 %) C 5 18 (11.18 %) C++ 5 18 (11.18 %) Firmware 5 18 (11.18 %) Telelogic 5 18 (11.18 %) Telelogic DOORS 6 17 (10.56 %) BC Cleared 7 16 (9.938 %) Aerospace 7 16 (9.938 %) MS Office 8 15 (9.317 %) Windows 8 15 (9.317 %) Java 9 14 (8.696 %) Project Management 9 14 (8.696 %) QA

9 14 (8.696 %) NASTRAN 10 13 (8.075 %) Electronics 10 13 (8.075 %) UML 11 12 (7.453 %) Oracle 12 11 (6.832 %) Cisco Certification 13 10 (6.211 %) Citrix 13 10 (6.211 %) XML 13 10 (6.211 %) Cisco 13 10 (6.211 %) VHDL 14 9 (5.590 %) Telecoms 14 9 (5.590 %) WebSphere 14 9 (5.590 %) Mentor Graphics 14 9 (5.590 %) Linux 14 9 (5.590 %) UNIX 15 8 (4.969 %) MATLAB

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 10 (6.211 %) XML 2 9 (5.590 %) WebSphere 3 6 (3.727 %) J2EE 4 4 (2.484 %) WebServices 5 2 (1.242 %) HTML 5 2 (1.242 %) .NET 5 2 (1.242 %) SOAP 5 2 (1.242 %) JMS 5 2 (1.242 %) Middleware 5 2 (1.242 %) JMX 6 1 (0.621 %) LuciadMap 6 1 (0.621 %) WMI 6 1 (0.621 %) ADSI 6 1 (0.621 %) OpenGL 6 1 (0.621 %) DirectX 6 1 (0.621 %) STL 6 1 (0.621 %) CORBA 6 1 (0.621 %) MFC 6 1 (0.621 %) ADO	Application Platforms 1 4 (2.484 %) Lotus Notes 1 4 (2.484 %) Lotus Domino 2 1 (0.621 %) WebSphere MQ 2 1 (0.621 %) WPS 2 1 (0.621 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 16 (9.938 %) MS Office 2 14 (8.696 %) NASTRAN 3 8 (4.969 %) MATLAB 4 5 (3.106 %) Spreadsheet 5 4 (2.484 %) Simulink 6 3 (1.863 %) CATIA 6 3 (1.863 %) MS Excel 7 2 (1.242 %) InDesign 7 2 (1.242 %) Pro/ENGINEER 8 1 (0.621 %) MS Visio 8 1 (0.621 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 2 (1.242 %) Teamcenter 2 1 (0.621 %) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking 1 7 (4.348 %) SAN 2 6 (3.727 %) Cisco PIX 3 5 (3.106 %) LAN 3 5 (3.106 %) TCP/IP 4 4 (2.484 %) Firewall 4 4 (2.484 %) Cisco ASA 5 3 (1.863 %) VPN 5 3 (1.863 %) WAN 5 3 (1.863 %) OSPF 5 3 (1.863 %) ASN.1 6 2 (1.242 %) BGP 6 2 (1.242 %) Intranet 6 2 (1.242 %) SMS 6 2 (1.242 %) HTTP 6 2 (1.242 %) IPsec 6 2 (1.242 %) Network Security 7 1 (0.621 %) RIP 7 1 (0.621 %) DNS 7 1 (0.621 %) DHCP 7 1 (0.621 %) FTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (3.727 %) MS Access 2 3 (1.863 %) DB2 2 3 (1.863 %) FileMaker 3 2 (1.242 %) SQL Server 3 2 (1.242 %) Oracle 9i 3 2 (1.242 %) RDBMS 4 1 (0.621 %) GIS
Development Applications 1 18 (11.18 %) Telelogic DOORS 2 4 (2.484 %) TestDirector 3 1 (0.621 %) Visual Studio 3 1 (0.621 %) PVCS	General 1 30 (18.63 %) Government 2 16 (9.938 %) Aerospace 3 13 (8.075 %) Electronics 4 9 (5.590 %) Telecoms 5 8 (4.969 %) Publishing 6 6 (3.727 %) Finance 7 4 (2.484 %) Military 8 2 (1.242 %) Law 8 2 (1.242 %) Manufacturing 9 1 (0.621 %) Criminal Justice 9 1 (0.621 %) Games 9 1 (0.621 %) Electric 9 1 (0.621 %) Avionics
Job Titles 1 20 (12.42 %) Software Engineer 2 14 (8.696 %) Developer 3 9 (5.590 %) Electronics Engineer 4 8 (4.969 %) Analyst 4 8 (4.969 %) C Software Engineer 5 7 (4.348 %) Consultant 6 5 (3.106 %) C++ Developer 6 5 (3.106 %) C++ Software Engineer 7 4 (2.484 %) Quality Engineer 7 4 (2.484 %) Architect 7 4 (2.484 %) Project Manager 7 4 (2.484 %) Systems Engineer 8 3 (1.863 %) Author 8 3 (1.863 %) Technical Author 8 3 (1.863 %) Test Analyst 8 3 (1.863 %) Finance Systems Manager 8 3 (1.863 %) Systems Manager 8 3 (1.863 %) Java Developer 8 3 (1.863 %) Embedded Software Engineer 8 3 (1.863 %) QA Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 18 (11.18 %) Firmware 2 10 (6.211 %) VHDL 3 2 (1.242 %) Thin Client 3 2 (1.242 %) Fat Client 4 1 (0.621 %) Multithreading 4 1 (0.621 %) Clustering 4 1 (0.621 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 4 1 (0.621 %) Physics 4 1 (0.621 %) Chemistry 4 1 (0.621 %) German Language
Operating Systems 1 15 (9.317 %) Windows 2 9 (5.590 %) Linux 2 9 (5.590 %) UNIX 3 7 (4.348 %) Windows Server 2003 4 4 (2.484 %) VxWorks 4 4 (2.484 %) AIX 5 3 (1.863 %) Windows 2000 5 3 (1.863 %) Embedded Linux 6 2 (1.242 %) Solaris 7 1 (0.621 %) Windows XP 7 1 (0.621 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 94 (58.39 %) SC Cleared 2 17 (10.56 %) BC Cleared 3 14 (8.696 %) Project Management 4 13 (8.075 %) UML 5 7 (4.348 %) ITIL 6 6 (3.727 %) Validation 7 5 (3.106 %) Configuration Management 7 5 (3.106 %) Test Scripting 8 3 (1.863 %) Software Engineering 8 3 (1.863 %) Performance Testing 8 3 (1.863 %) Test Management 8 3 (1.863 %) Migration 8 3 (1.863 %) Service Management 9 2 (1.242 %) Change Management 9 2 (1.242 %) CAD 9 2 (1.242 %) SOA 9 2 (1.242 %) PRINCE2 9 2 (1.242 %) Risk Management 9 2 (1.242 %) Release Management 9 2 (1.242 %) Incident Management
Programming Languages 1 19 (11.80 %) C 2 18 (11.18 %) C++ 3 15 (9.317 %) Java 4 6 (3.727 %) SQL 5 5 (3.106 %) VB 6 3 (1.863 %) JavaScript 7 2 (1.242 %) PL/SQL 7 2 (1.242 %) VBScript 8 1 (0.621 %) Embedded C 8 1 (0.621 %) Embedded C++ 8 1 (0.621 %) Transact-SQL 8 1 (0.621 %) COBOL 8 1 (0.621 %) C#	Qualifications 1 20 (12.42 %) Degree 2 11 (6.832 %) Cisco Certification 3 6 (3.727 %) CCIE 4 3 (1.863 %) CCNP 4 3 (1.863 %) CCNA 5 1 (0.621 %) ISEB 5 1 (0.621 %) PRINCE2 Certification 5 1 (0.621 %) HNC 5 1 (0.621 %) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 14 (8.696 %) QA 2 1 (0.621 %) ISO9001 2 1 (0.621 %) TickIT 2 1 (0.621 %) ISO27001	System Software 1 6 (3.727 %) Active Directory 2 2 (1.242 %) NetBackup 2 2 (1.242 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (0.621 %) AquaLogic
Systems Management 1 4 (2.484 %) OpenView Configuration Management 2 3 (1.863 %) Tivoli 2 3 (1.863 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 3 2 (1.242 %) Tivoli NetView 3 2 (1.242 %) BMC PATROL	Vendors 1 18 (11.18 %) Telelogic 2 12 (7.453 %) Oracle 3 10 (6.211 %) Cisco 3 10 (6.211 %) Citrix 4 9 (5.590 %) Mentor Graphics 5 6 (3.727 %) Microsoft 6 5 (3.106 %) Adobe 6 5 (3.106 %) Lotus 7 4 (2.484 %) HP 7 4 (2.484 %) Brocade 8 3 (1.863 %) VMware 8 3 (1.863 %) IBM 8 3 (1.863 %) Actuate 9 2 (1.242 %) BMC 9 2 (1.242 %) Hitachi 9 2 (1.242 %) VERITAS 9 2 (1.242 %) Symantec 10 1 (0.621 %) Remedy 10 1 (0.621 %) McAfee Security 10 1 (0.621 %) Primavera