The first table below looks at the demand for SC Cleared in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SC Cleared over the 3 months to 21 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 Leeds 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Check (SC) Clearance
Rank 49 49 40
Rank change year-on-year
0 -9
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 23 17 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 3.038% 1.910% 2.463%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.42% 10.56% 15.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 11
Average daily rate £275 £515 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-46.60% +47.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £154 £369 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £346 £610 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £375 £371
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +1.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £50.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £20.00 £24.75
% change year-on-year
+7.50% -19.19%
All Qualifications
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
132 161 99
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 17.44% 18.09% 16.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 101 44
Average daily rate £300 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £248 £213 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £501 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 11
Average hourly rate £13.58 £12.00 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.12% -45.45%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.65 £12.00 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.75 £50.00 £26.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%
SC Cleared
West Yorkshire

SC Cleared
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds 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 Leeds region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds SC Cleared Hourly Rate Trend

SC Cleared
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 44 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (29.55%) .NET
3 10 (22.73%) Oracle
3 10 (22.73%) BC Cleared
4 9 (20.45%) Java
5 8 (18.18%) Windows
5 8 (18.18%) Firewall
6 7 (15.91%) C#
6 7 (15.91%) SQL
7 6 (13.64%) Web Services
7 6 (13.64%) Agile Software Development
8 5 (11.36%) SQL Server
8 5 (11.36%) Cisco
8 5 (11.36%) Microsoft
8 5 (11.36%) Test Strategy
9 4 (9.091%) HP Quality Center
9 4 (9.091%) F5
9 4 (9.091%) RDBMS
9 4 (9.091%) JavaScript
9 4 (9.091%) ITIL
9 4 (9.091%) MVC
10 3 (6.818%) Scrum
10 3 (6.818%) VMware
10 3 (6.818%) Regression Testing
10 3 (6.818%) ASP.NET
10 3 (6.818%) SharePoint
10 3 (6.818%) C++
10 3 (6.818%) J2EE
10 3 (6.818%) Active Directory
10 3 (6.818%) SAS

SC Cleared
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 13 (29.55%) .NET
2 6 (13.64%) Web Services
3 3 (6.818%) ASP.NET
3 3 (6.818%) J2EE
3 3 (6.818%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (4.545%) jQuery
4 2 (4.545%) Ajax
4 2 (4.545%) NHibernate
4 2 (4.545%) .NET Framework
4 2 (4.545%) HTML5
4 2 (4.545%) CSS3
4 2 (4.545%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 2 (4.545%) CSS
5 1 (2.273%) XML
5 1 (2.273%) ASP
5 1 (2.273%) HTML
5 1 (2.273%) Gherkin
5 1 (2.273%) MDX
Application Platforms
1 3 (6.818%) SharePoint
1 3 (6.818%) SAS
2 2 (4.545%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.273%) Apache
3 1 (2.273%) MS Exchange
3 1 (2.273%) IIS
3 1 (2.273%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (2.273%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 2 (4.545%) MS Office
2 1 (2.273%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.273%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.273%) Oracle Financial Analyzer
Communications & Networking
1 8 (18.18%) Firewall
2 2 (4.545%) Network Security
2 2 (4.545%) Internet
2 2 (4.545%) SAN
2 2 (4.545%) LAN
2 2 (4.545%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.273%) BIG-IP
3 1 (2.273%) WAN
3 1 (2.273%) SMTP
3 1 (2.273%) VPN
3 1 (2.273%) DNS
3 1 (2.273%) NetScreen
3 1 (2.273%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (2.273%) NAS
3 1 (2.273%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (2.273%) WAAS
3 1 (2.273%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.36%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.091%) RDBMS
3 3 (6.818%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (4.545%) Oracle 8/8i
4 2 (4.545%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 2 (4.545%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.273%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.273%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (2.273%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (4.545%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.273%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.273%) LoadRunner
2 1 (2.273%) MSI
2 1 (2.273%) Talend Open Studio
2 1 (2.273%) TeamCity
2 1 (2.273%) WebDriver
2 1 (2.273%) SpecFlow
2 1 (2.273%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.273%) JIRA
2 1 (2.273%) Selenium
General
1 1 (2.273%) Telecoms
1 1 (2.273%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (22.73%) Developer
2 6 (13.64%) Java Developer
3 5 (11.36%) Analyst
3 5 (11.36%) Architect
4 3 (6.818%) Consultant
4 3 (6.818%) Test Analyst
4 3 (6.818%) .NET Developer
4 3 (6.818%) C# Developer
4 3 (6.818%) Design Engineer
4 3 (6.818%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 2 (4.545%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 2 (4.545%) IT Business Analyst
5 2 (4.545%) Senior Design Engineer
5 2 (4.545%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (4.545%) Development Analyst
5 2 (4.545%) ASP.NET Developer
5 2 (4.545%) Technical Architect
5 2 (4.545%) Project Manager
5 2 (4.545%) Business Analyst
5 2 (4.545%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.545%) Open Source
2 1 (2.273%) Client/Server
2 1 (2.273%) NHS
2 1 (2.273%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 8 (18.18%) Windows
2 2 (4.545%) Windows 7
2 2 (4.545%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (4.545%) Solaris
2 2 (4.545%) Linux
2 2 (4.545%) UNIX
3 1 (2.273%) Windows XP
3 1 (2.273%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (13.64%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (11.36%) Test Strategy
3 4 (9.091%) ITIL
3 4 (9.091%) MVC
4 3 (6.818%) Scrum
4 3 (6.818%) Regression Testing
4 3 (6.818%) Project Management
4 3 (6.818%) Automated Testing
4 3 (6.818%) Problem Management
4 3 (6.818%) Integration Testing
5 2 (4.545%) Performance Testing
5 2 (4.545%) Load Balancing
5 2 (4.545%) Business Analysis
5 2 (4.545%) Web Development
5 2 (4.545%) Dependency Injection
5 2 (4.545%) BDD
5 2 (4.545%) CRM
5 2 (4.545%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (4.545%) UML
5 2 (4.545%) OO
Programming Languages
1 9 (20.45%) Java
2 7 (15.91%) C#
2 7 (15.91%) SQL
3 4 (9.091%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.818%) C++
5 2 (4.545%) VB
6 1 (2.273%) C
6 1 (2.273%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.273%) Perl
6 1 (2.273%) PHP
6 1 (2.273%) Python
6 1 (2.273%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 44 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (22.73%) BC Cleared
3 2 (4.545%) Degree
3 2 (4.545%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.273%) ISEB
4 1 (2.273%) CCNP
4 1 (2.273%) CCNA
4 1 (2.273%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.273%) QA
System Software
1 3 (6.818%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.273%) Sendmail
2 1 (2.273%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.273%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (9.091%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (2.273%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (22.73%) Oracle
2 5 (11.36%) Cisco
2 5 (11.36%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.091%) F5
4 3 (6.818%) VMware
4 3 (6.818%) Juniper
4 3 (6.818%) NetApp
4 3 (6.818%) CheckPoint
5 2 (4.545%) hybris
5 2 (4.545%) McAfee
5 2 (4.545%) TIBCO
5 2 (4.545%) HP
5 2 (4.545%) Blue Coat
6 1 (2.273%) Perforce
6 1 (2.273%) Sun
6 1 (2.273%) Hyperion
6 1 (2.273%) Informatica
6 1 (2.273%) Symantec
6 1 (2.273%) Websense
6 1 (2.273%) Barracuda Networks
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