Home Counties DV Cleared Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance skills within the Home Counties region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited DV Cleared over the 3 months to 20 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
Location Avon Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham Cirencester City of London Colchester County Antrim Croydon Cumbria Derbyshire Dorset East Midlands East of England England Essex Farnborough Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hereford Herefordshire Home Counties Kent Lincoln Lincolnshire London Milton Keynes Newbury Newport North West Northern Ireland Portsmouth Reading South East South Wales South West Surrey Swansea Thames Valley UK Wales West Midlands West Wales Westminster Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	5	4
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	9	35
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.038 %
As % of the category below	19.15 %	33.98 %
Daily rates quoted	6	0
Average minimum daily rate	£500	-
Average daily rate	£500	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£500	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£399	£390
% change on same period last year	+2.36 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.45	£33.19
% change on same period last year	-14.27 %
Processes & Methodologies Home Counties
Matching contract IT job ads	47	103
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.074 %	0.112 %
Daily rates quoted	14	9
Average minimum daily rate	£434	£339
Average daily rate	£438	£351
% change on same period last year	+24.89 %
Average maximum daily rate	£442	£362
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£369
% change on same period last year	+2.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£29.20
Average hourly rate	-	£29.20
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£29.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.09	£29.91
% change on same period last year	-6.09 %
DV Cleared South East

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 DV Cleared across the Home Counties 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 DV Cleared across the Home Counties region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DV Cleared across the Home Counties region over the 3 months to 20 November 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 DV Cleared across the Home Counties region.

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Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties region citing DV 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 DV Cleared.

1 9 (100.00 %) Security Cleared 2 7 (77.78 %) SQL Server 3 6 (66.67 %) XML 3 6 (66.67 %) C# 3 6 (66.67 %) .NET 4 3 (33.33 %) C 5 2 (22.22 %) PRINCE2 5 2 (22.22 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 1 (11.11 %) OpenView Configuration Management 6 1 (11.11 %) Change Management 6 1 (11.11 %) Release Management 6 1 (11.11 %) SC Cleared 6 1 (11.11 %) Microsoft 6 1 (11.11 %) ASP 6 1 (11.11 %) SQL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties region citing DV 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 DV Cleared. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 6 (66.67 %) .NET 1 6 (66.67 %) XML 2 1 (11.11 %) ASP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (77.78 %) SQL Server
Job Titles 1 6 (66.67 %) Software Developer 1 6 (66.67 %) Developer 2 2 (22.22 %) Project Manager	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (100.00 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (22.22 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (11.11 %) Change Management 3 1 (11.11 %) Release Management 3 1 (11.11 %) SC Cleared
Programming Languages 1 6 (66.67 %) C# 2 3 (33.33 %) C 3 1 (11.11 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 2 (22.22 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Systems Management 1 1 (11.11 %) OpenView Configuration Management	Vendors 1 1 (11.11 %) Microsoft