Leeds Security Cleared Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Security Clearance skills within the Leeds 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 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Rank	55	63
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	22	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.029 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	2.853 %	1.431 %
Daily rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum daily rate	£260	£400
Average daily rate	£285	£406
% change on same period last year	-29.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£310	£413
UK excluding London average daily rate	£376	£377
% change on same period last year	-0.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£18.00
Average hourly rate	-	£18.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.44	£30.34
% change on same period last year	+6.94 %
Processes & Methodologies Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	771	629
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.017 %	0.626 %
Daily rates quoted	237	118
Average minimum daily rate	£334	£355
Average daily rate	£358	£382
% change on same period last year	-6.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£382	£409
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£377
% change on same period last year	+0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	42
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.24	£26.49
Average hourly rate	£25.76	£27.76
% change on same period last year	-7.20 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.28	£29.02
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.34	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.55 %
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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 Leeds 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 Leeds 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 Leeds region over the 3 months to 20 August 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 Leeds region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 28 (62.22 %) SC Cleared 2 25 (55.56 %) Government 3 24 (53.33 %) Java 4 21 (46.67 %) Banking 5 15 (33.33 %) SOA 6 6 (13.33 %) Scrum 6 6 (13.33 %) Auditing 7 5 (11.11 %) Internet 7 5 (11.11 %) Shell Script 7 5 (11.11 %) UML 7 5 (11.11 %) Perl 7 5 (11.11 %) C 7 5 (11.11 %) UNIX 7 5 (11.11 %) Firewall 7 5 (11.11 %) GAP Analysis

8 4 (8.889 %) Business Analysis 8 4 (8.889 %) Windows 8 4 (8.889 %) J2EE 8 4 (8.889 %) RUP 8 4 (8.889 %) HTTP 8 4 (8.889 %) TCP/IP 8 4 (8.889 %) DNS 8 4 (8.889 %) MSI 8 4 (8.889 %) Microsoft 9 3 (6.667 %) Windows Server 2003 9 3 (6.667 %) ITIL 9 3 (6.667 %) Incident Management 9 3 (6.667 %) Document Management 9 3 (6.667 %) Change Management 9 3 (6.667 %) Telecoms

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 4 (8.889 %) J2EE 2 2 (4.444 %) Spring 2 2 (4.444 %) Hibernate 2 2 (4.444 %) Application Packaging 3 1 (2.222 %) Struts 3 1 (2.222 %) WebServices	Applications 1 1 (2.222 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 5 (11.11 %) Internet 1 5 (11.11 %) Firewall 2 4 (8.889 %) HTTP 2 4 (8.889 %) TCP/IP 2 4 (8.889 %) DNS 3 1 (2.222 %) SAN 3 1 (2.222 %) Intranet	Development Applications 1 4 (8.889 %) MSI 2 2 (4.444 %) JUnit 3 1 (2.222 %) TestDirector
General 1 25 (55.56 %) Government 2 21 (46.67 %) Banking 3 6 (13.33 %) Auditing 4 3 (6.667 %) Telecoms 5 1 (2.222 %) Education 5 1 (2.222 %) Health	Job Titles 1 7 (15.56 %) Developer 2 6 (13.33 %) Analyst 2 6 (13.33 %) Solutions Architect 2 6 (13.33 %) Architect 3 5 (11.11 %) Business Analyst 3 5 (11.11 %) Java Developer 4 4 (8.889 %) Consultant 4 4 (8.889 %) Systems Integrator 4 4 (8.889 %) Tester 5 2 (4.444 %) Applications Packager 5 2 (4.444 %) Service Management Consultant 5 2 (4.444 %) Microstrategy Developer 5 2 (4.444 %) Management Consultant 6 1 (2.222 %) Desktop Support 6 1 (2.222 %) Service Manager 6 1 (2.222 %) UML Business Analyst 6 1 (2.222 %) Data Centre Engineer 6 1 (2.222 %) Support Engineer 6 1 (2.222 %) Support Consultant 6 1 (2.222 %) Field Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (2.222 %) NHS 1 1 (2.222 %) Informatics	Operating Systems 1 5 (11.11 %) UNIX 2 4 (8.889 %) Windows 3 3 (6.667 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (2.222 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 28 (62.22 %) SC Cleared 2 15 (33.33 %) SOA 3 6 (13.33 %) Scrum 4 5 (11.11 %) UML 4 5 (11.11 %) GAP Analysis 5 4 (8.889 %) Business Analysis 5 4 (8.889 %) RUP 6 3 (6.667 %) ITIL 6 3 (6.667 %) Incident Management 6 3 (6.667 %) Document Management 6 3 (6.667 %) Change Management 6 3 (6.667 %) BC Cleared 7 2 (4.444 %) Test Scripting 7 2 (4.444 %) Manual Testing 7 2 (4.444 %) Service Management 7 2 (4.444 %) Automated Testing 8 1 (2.222 %) Data Modelling 8 1 (2.222 %) Use Case 8 1 (2.222 %) Test Management 8 1 (2.222 %) CTC Cleared	Programming Languages 1 24 (53.33 %) Java 2 5 (11.11 %) Shell Script 2 5 (11.11 %) Perl 2 5 (11.11 %) C
Qualifications 1 1 (2.222 %) ISEB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (6.667 %) BS15000 2 1 (2.222 %) SLA
System Software 1 1 (2.222 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 2 (4.444 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 1 (2.222 %) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors 1 4 (8.889 %) Microsoft 2 2 (4.444 %) MicroStrategy 2 2 (4.444 %) Macromedia 3 1 (2.222 %) Apple