The first table below looks at the demand for Security Cleared in IT contracts advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Security 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 Lancashire 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 Clearance
Rank 6 1 3
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +2
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 28 162 45
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 14.29% 37.50% 20.09%
As % of the Qualifications category 54.90% 82.23% 72.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 104 21
Average daily rate £390 £425 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.23% +30.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £323 £317 £235
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £548 £408
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £400 £370
% change year-on-year
-7.50% +8.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 11
Average hourly rate £19.04 £16.00 £36.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.00% -55.86%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £14.40 £22.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £26.50 £26.80 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.00 £25.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year
+16.00% -21.87%
All Qualifications
Lancashire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
51 197 62
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 26.02% 45.60% 27.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 120 30
Average daily rate £331 £416 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.34% +38.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £90 £275 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £533 £404
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 15
Average hourly rate £19.04 £22.75 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.30% -36.80%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £14.00 £21.94
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £29.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
Security Cleared
North West

Security Cleared
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire Security Cleared Jobs Demand Trend

Security Cleared
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Security Cleared across the Lancashire region.

Lancashire Security Cleared Daily Rate Trend

Security Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Lancashire Security Cleared Daily Rate Histogram

Security Cleared
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Lancashire Security Cleared Hourly Rate Trend

Security Cleared
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 Lancashire 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
Blackpool +1 11 £338 -36.32%
Preston -3 10 £390 -7.69%
Lytham St Annes +6 3 - -
Security Cleared
North West

Security Cleared
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 33 (43.42%) BC Cleared
2 30 (39.47%) SC Cleared
3 14 (18.42%) Oracle
3 14 (18.42%) Windows
4 13 (17.11%) Microsoft
5 11 (14.47%) MS Office
6 9 (11.84%) J2EE
6 9 (11.84%) Active Directory
6 9 (11.84%) CA
6 9 (11.84%) Finance
7 8 (10.53%) Citrix
7 8 (10.53%) SQL
7 8 (10.53%) SCCM
7 8 (10.53%) Windows 7
8 7 (9.211%) Windows Vista
8 7 (9.211%) Windows XP
8 7 (9.211%) Informatica
8 7 (9.211%) PowerExchange
8 7 (9.211%) Blackberry
9 6 (7.895%) Shell Script
9 6 (7.895%) Migration
9 6 (7.895%) Microsoft App-V
9 6 (7.895%) UNIX
9 6 (7.895%) Curam
9 6 (7.895%) Software Deployment
10 5 (6.579%) Lumension
10 5 (6.579%) Maven
10 5 (6.579%) Web Services
10 5 (6.579%) Java
10 5 (6.579%) Ant

Security Cleared
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 9 (11.84%) J2EE
2 5 (6.579%) Web Services
3 4 (5.263%) EJB
3 4 (5.263%) JMS
4 3 (3.947%) WebSphere
4 3 (3.947%) XML
5 2 (2.632%) XSL
5 2 (2.632%) JSP
5 2 (2.632%) SOAP
5 2 (2.632%) HTML
5 2 (2.632%) WSDL
5 2 (2.632%) Middleware
5 2 (2.632%) JAAS
5 2 (2.632%) Hibernate
5 2 (2.632%) JNDI
5 2 (2.632%) JPA
6 1 (1.316%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (1.316%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 1 (1.316%) Ajax
6 1 (1.316%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 7 (9.211%) PowerExchange
2 3 (3.947%) MS Exchange
2 3 (3.947%) WebSphere Process Server
2 3 (3.947%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (2.632%) WebSphere MQ
3 2 (2.632%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (1.316%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.316%) IIS
4 1 (1.316%) Apache
4 1 (1.316%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (14.47%) MS Office
2 4 (5.263%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (6.579%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (3.947%) Oracle iProcurement
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.632%) TCP/IP
1 2 (2.632%) Internet
2 1 (1.316%) Intranet
2 1 (1.316%) ATM
2 1 (1.316%) ISDN
2 1 (1.316%) VoIP
2 1 (1.316%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.947%) Oracle 8/8i
1 3 (3.947%) RDBMS
1 3 (3.947%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (2.632%) DB2
3 1 (1.316%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.316%) Oracle Discoverer
3 1 (1.316%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (1.316%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 5 (6.579%) Ant
1 5 (6.579%) Maven
2 3 (3.947%) Checkstyle
2 3 (3.947%) Hudson
2 3 (3.947%) FindBugs
2 3 (3.947%) JUnit
2 3 (3.947%) AppScan
3 1 (1.316%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.316%) LoadRunner
General
1 9 (11.84%) Finance
2 2 (2.632%) Aerospace
3 1 (1.316%) Banking
3 1 (1.316%) Marketing
3 1 (1.316%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (17.11%) Architect
2 12 (15.79%) Developer
3 9 (11.84%) Consultant
4 8 (10.53%) 2nd Line Support
4 8 (10.53%) Support Engineer
4 8 (10.53%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 7 (9.211%) Analyst
6 6 (7.895%) Technical Consultant
7 5 (6.579%) J2EE Developer
7 5 (6.579%) Informatica Specialist
8 4 (5.263%) Exchange Specialist
8 4 (5.263%) Java Developer
8 4 (5.263%) Senior Developer
8 4 (5.263%) Applications Developer
8 4 (5.263%) Project Manager
9 3 (3.947%) Security Architect
9 3 (3.947%) J2EE Applications Developer
10 2 (2.632%) Performance Test Manager
10 2 (2.632%) Senior Architect
10 2 (2.632%) Build Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.211%) Blackberry
2 3 (3.947%) RMADS
3 2 (2.632%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.316%) CESG
4 1 (1.316%) CESG CLAS
4 1 (1.316%) PKI
4 1 (1.316%) Computer Science
4 1 (1.316%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 14 (18.42%) Windows
2 8 (10.53%) Windows 7
3 7 (9.211%) Windows Vista
3 7 (9.211%) Windows XP
4 6 (7.895%) UNIX
5 4 (5.263%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (3.947%) AIX
6 3 (3.947%) HPUX
6 3 (3.947%) Solaris
6 3 (3.947%) Linux
6 3 (3.947%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (3.947%) Apple iOS
6 3 (3.947%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.316%) Windows 2000 Server
7 1 (1.316%) VME
7 1 (1.316%) zOS
7 1 (1.316%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (7.895%) Migration
1 6 (7.895%) Software Deployment
2 4 (5.263%) Performance Testing
3 3 (3.947%) Data Migration
3 3 (3.947%) Information Assurance
3 3 (3.947%) Change Data Capture
3 3 (3.947%) Information Security
3 3 (3.947%) TQM
3 3 (3.947%) E-business
3 3 (3.947%) TOGAF
3 3 (3.947%) ETL
3 3 (3.947%) Code Coverage
3 3 (3.947%) Service Management
4 2 (2.632%) Project Management
4 2 (2.632%) ITIL
4 2 (2.632%) OOA/OOD
4 2 (2.632%) OO
4 2 (2.632%) SOA
4 2 (2.632%) Use Case
4 2 (2.632%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (10.53%) SQL
2 6 (7.895%) Shell Script
3 5 (6.579%) Java
4 3 (3.947%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.632%) C
6 1 (1.316%) C#
6 1 (1.316%) C++
6 1 (1.316%) VBA
6 1 (1.316%) VC++
Qualifications
1 33 (43.42%) BC Cleared
2 30 (39.47%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.947%) CISSP
4 2 (2.632%) ISEB
5 1 (1.316%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.316%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.316%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.579%) SLA
2 2 (2.632%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (2.632%) GAAP
2 2 (2.632%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.632%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.316%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.316%) QA
System Software
1 9 (11.84%) Active Directory
2 6 (7.895%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (2.632%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 8 (10.53%) SCCM
2 3 (3.947%) Unicenter
2 3 (3.947%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 14 (18.42%) Oracle
2 13 (17.11%) Microsoft
3 9 (11.84%) CA
4 8 (10.53%) Citrix
5 7 (9.211%) Informatica
6 6 (7.895%) Curam
7 5 (6.579%) AppSense
7 5 (6.579%) Lumension
8 3 (3.947%) F5
8 3 (3.947%) IronPort
8 3 (3.947%) Red Hat
8 3 (3.947%) HP
9 2 (2.632%) SAP
10 1 (1.316%) Siebel
10 1 (1.316%) Primavera
10 1 (1.316%) Websense
10 1 (1.316%) TippingPoint
10 1 (1.316%) Blue Coat
10 1 (1.316%) Hyperion
10 1 (1.316%) ArcSight