The first table below looks at the demand for Security Cleared in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Security Cleared over the 3 months to 22 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 Manchester 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Clearance
Rank 57 54 31
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -23
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 18 36 42
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 1.911% 2.742% 4.102%
As % of the Qualifications category 14.17% 17.91% 34.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 6
Average daily rate £353 £375 £128
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.00% +194.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £283 £110
10% offered a daily rate of more than £449 £453 £150
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £400 £365
% change year-on-year
-7.50% +9.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 2
Average hourly rate £22.00 £20.75 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.02% +53.70%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.50 £25.00 £32.13
% change year-on-year
+6.00% -22.17%
All Qualifications
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
127 201 122
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 13.48% 15.31% 11.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 78 50
Average daily rate £299 £320 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.64% +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £147 £181 £128
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 15 8
Average hourly rate £22.00 £19.50 £18.40
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.82% +5.97%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.77 £18.00 £12.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.60 £37.00 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
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 Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 22 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
Bolton +2 1 £228 -
Salford - 1 £300 -
Security Cleared
North West

Security Cleared
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 15 (51.72%) SC Cleared
2 8 (27.59%) SQL Server
3 5 (17.24%) T-SQL
3 5 (17.24%) .NET
3 5 (17.24%) JavaScript
3 5 (17.24%) ASP.NET
3 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
3 5 (17.24%) DV Cleared
3 5 (17.24%) TDD
3 5 (17.24%) RavenDB
4 4 (13.79%) Vulnerability Management
4 4 (13.79%) Mobile App
4 4 (13.79%) Penetration Testing
4 4 (13.79%) Information Security
4 4 (13.79%) Security Testing
4 4 (13.79%) Windows
4 4 (13.79%) Oracle
4 4 (13.79%) C#
4 4 (13.79%) Migration
4 4 (13.79%) Scrum
5 3 (10.34%) Shell Script
5 3 (10.34%) PHP
5 3 (10.34%) SQL
5 3 (10.34%) MySQL
5 3 (10.34%) Visual Studio
5 3 (10.34%) CSS
5 3 (10.34%) Web Services
5 3 (10.34%) XML
5 3 (10.34%) Linux
5 3 (10.34%) XHTML

Security Cleared
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 5 (17.24%) .NET
1 5 (17.24%) ASP.NET
2 3 (10.34%) CSS
2 3 (10.34%) Web Services
2 3 (10.34%) XML
2 3 (10.34%) XHTML
2 3 (10.34%) RESTful
2 3 (10.34%) LINQ
2 3 (10.34%) Ajax
3 2 (6.897%) OpenRasta
3 2 (6.897%) Castle Windsor
3 2 (6.897%) NHibernate
3 2 (6.897%) jQuery
3 2 (6.897%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (3.448%) LAMP
4 1 (3.448%) WebCenter
4 1 (3.448%) Regular Expression
Application Platforms
1 2 (6.897%) Orchard CMS
1 2 (6.897%) CMS
2 1 (3.448%) NetWeaver
2 1 (3.448%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.448%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) MS Excel
2 2 (6.897%) MS Office
3 1 (3.448%) MS Visio
3 1 (3.448%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 1 (3.448%) Oracle Payroll
1 1 (3.448%) PeopleSoft HRMS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.448%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (27.59%) SQL Server
2 5 (17.24%) RavenDB
3 3 (10.34%) MySQL
3 3 (10.34%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (10.34%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (6.897%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (6.897%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.448%) SAP BW
5 1 (3.448%) MSDE
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Visual Studio
2 2 (6.897%) MSBuild
2 2 (6.897%) TeamCity
2 2 (6.897%) Git (software)
3 1 (3.448%) Axure RP
3 1 (3.448%) LSMW
General
1 1 (3.448%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) Developer
2 7 (24.14%) Consultant
3 5 (17.24%) Analyst
4 4 (13.79%) IT Security Consultant
4 4 (13.79%) Testing Consultant
4 4 (13.79%) IT Consultant
4 4 (13.79%) Security Consultant
5 3 (10.34%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Data Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) PHP Developer
5 3 (10.34%) .NET Developer
5 3 (10.34%) C# Developer
5 3 (10.34%) ASP.NET Developer
5 3 (10.34%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (6.897%) PHP MySQL Developer
6 2 (6.897%) Support Engineer
7 1 (3.448%) 3rd Line Support
7 1 (3.448%) Technical Architect
7 1 (3.448%) Field Engineer
7 1 (3.448%) Coordinator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.448%) Replication
2 1 (3.448%) NHS
2 1 (3.448%) Wiki
2 1 (3.448%) Cryptography
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Windows
2 3 (10.34%) Linux
3 2 (6.897%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.448%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (3.448%) UNIX
4 1 (3.448%) Windows XP
4 1 (3.448%) Windows 2000 Server
4 1 (3.448%) Windows 7
4 1 (3.448%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (17.24%) TDD
2 4 (13.79%) Vulnerability Management
2 4 (13.79%) Penetration Testing
2 4 (13.79%) Information Security
2 4 (13.79%) Security Testing
2 4 (13.79%) Migration
2 4 (13.79%) Scrum
3 3 (10.34%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (10.34%) Data Migration
4 2 (6.897%) OOP
4 2 (6.897%) OO
4 2 (6.897%) Project Management
4 2 (6.897%) MVC
5 1 (3.448%) Regression Testing
5 1 (3.448%) GAP Analysis
5 1 (3.448%) Validation
5 1 (3.448%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (3.448%) PRINCE2
5 1 (3.448%) Product Management
5 1 (3.448%) Communications Security
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.24%) T-SQL
1 5 (17.24%) JavaScript
2 4 (13.79%) C#
3 3 (10.34%) Shell Script
3 3 (10.34%) PHP
3 3 (10.34%) SQL
4 1 (3.448%) C
4 1 (3.448%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (51.72%) SC Cleared
2 5 (17.24%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.448%) ISEB
3 1 (3.448%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (3.448%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.448%) SLA
1 1 (3.448%) QA
1 1 (3.448%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (6.897%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.448%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 1 (3.448%) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) Oracle
3 2 (6.897%) SAP
3 2 (6.897%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.448%) Remedy
4 1 (3.448%) PeopleSoft
4 1 (3.448%) HP
4 1 (3.448%) Citrix
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