Merseyside BC Cleared Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Basic Check (BC) Clearance skills within the Merseyside region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited BC Cleared over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Basic Check (BC) Clearance
Location Aldershot Amersham Andover Bath Berkshire Bicester Bootle Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield City of London Corsham Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Dumbarton East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Farnborough Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hampshire Hastings Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Huntingdon Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southend-on-Sea St Albans Stevenage Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Dunbartonshire West Midlands West Wales Wiltshire Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	25	39
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching contract IT job ads	14	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	7.692 %	5.051 %
Daily rates quoted	3	8
Average minimum daily rate	£288	£306
Average daily rate	£313	£308
% change on same period last year	+1.42 %
Average maximum daily rate	£338	£310
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£376
% change on same period last year	-4.32 %
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	£29.53	£27.49
% change on same period last year	+7.41 %
Processes & Methodologies Merseyside
Matching contract IT job ads	182	198
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.246 %	0.195 %
Daily rates quoted	62	78
Average minimum daily rate	£327	£324
Average daily rate	£366	£349
% change on same period last year	+4.77 %
Average maximum daily rate	£406	£375
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£375
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.53	£28.55
Average hourly rate	£23.87	£31.93
% change on same period last year	-25.24 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.20	£35.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.41	£30.41
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
BC Cleared North West

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.

BC Cleared
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing BC Cleared across the Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

BC Cleared
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing BC Cleared across the Merseyside region.

BC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing BC Cleared across the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

BC Cleared
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing BC Cleared across the Merseyside region.

BC Cleared
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BC Cleared within the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Liverpool	+1	10	£300	-2.63 %
Bootle	-	1	£313	-

BC Cleared North West

BC Cleared
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside region citing BC 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 BC Cleared.

1 22 (100.00 %) Security Cleared 2 13 (59.09 %) Government 3 10 (45.45 %) Oracle 4 9 (40.91 %) SQL 5 7 (31.82 %) HTML 5 7 (31.82 %) Java 5 7 (31.82 %) JavaScript 5 7 (31.82 %) XML 5 7 (31.82 %) PRINCE2 6 6 (27.27 %) CRM 6 6 (27.27 %) ISEB 6 6 (27.27 %) SC Cleared 7 4 (18.18 %) Oracle Applications 7 4 (18.18 %) Oracle 10g 7 4 (18.18 %) Oracle 9i

7 4 (18.18 %) UNIX 7 4 (18.18 %) Oracle Forms 7 4 (18.18 %) Oracle Reports 7 4 (18.18 %) PL/SQL 7 4 (18.18 %) C 7 4 (18.18 %) QA 8 3 (13.64 %) C++ 8 3 (13.64 %) SQL Server 8 3 (13.64 %) VB.NET 8 3 (13.64 %) .NET 8 3 (13.64 %) J2EE 8 3 (13.64 %) CSS 8 3 (13.64 %) JSP 8 3 (13.64 %) Servlets 8 3 (13.64 %) Struts

BC Cleared
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside region citing BC 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 BC Cleared. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 7 (31.82 %) HTML 1 7 (31.82 %) XML 2 3 (13.64 %) Spring 2 3 (13.64 %) .NET 2 3 (13.64 %) J2EE 2 3 (13.64 %) CSS 2 3 (13.64 %) JSP 2 3 (13.64 %) Servlets 2 3 (13.64 %) Struts 2 3 (13.64 %) WebServices 3 2 (9.091 %) iBATIS	Application Platforms 1 3 (13.64 %) Oracle Application Server
Applications 1 1 (4.545 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 4 (18.18 %) Oracle Applications 2 3 (13.64 %) Oracle 11i
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (18.18 %) Oracle Reports 1 4 (18.18 %) Oracle 9i 1 4 (18.18 %) Oracle 10g 2 3 (13.64 %) RDBMS 2 3 (13.64 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 3 (13.64 %) SQL Server 3 2 (9.091 %) Crystal Reports 4 1 (4.545 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 4 (18.18 %) Oracle Forms 2 3 (13.64 %) JUnit 3 2 (9.091 %) Visual Studio 3 2 (9.091 %) Ant 4 1 (4.545 %) PowerBuilder
General 1 13 (59.09 %) Government 2 1 (4.545 %) Police 2 1 (4.545 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 11 (50.00 %) Developer 2 5 (22.73 %) Oracle Developer 3 3 (13.64 %) Analyst 3 3 (13.64 %) Risk Manager 3 3 (13.64 %) Java Developer 4 2 (9.091 %) Business Manager 4 2 (9.091 %) Test Analyst 4 2 (9.091 %) Applications Developer 4 2 (9.091 %) Configuration Manager 4 2 (9.091 %) Project Manager 4 2 (9.091 %) .NET Developer 4 2 (9.091 %) VB.NET Developer 4 2 (9.091 %) Change Manager 4 2 (9.091 %) Oracle Applications Developer 5 1 (4.545 %) Project Office Manager 5 1 (4.545 %) Architect 5 1 (4.545 %) Junior Project Manager 5 1 (4.545 %) Project Analyst 5 1 (4.545 %) Junior 5 1 (4.545 %) Project Planner
Operating Systems 1 4 (18.18 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 22 (100.00 %) Security Cleared 2 7 (31.82 %) PRINCE2 3 6 (27.27 %) CRM 3 6 (27.27 %) SC Cleared 4 3 (13.64 %) UML 4 3 (13.64 %) Project Management 4 3 (13.64 %) Quality Management 5 2 (9.091 %) Test Management 5 2 (9.091 %) V-Model 6 1 (4.545 %) Migration 6 1 (4.545 %) RUP 6 1 (4.545 %) SOA 6 1 (4.545 %) PRINCE 6 1 (4.545 %) Configuration Management
Programming Languages 1 9 (40.91 %) SQL 2 7 (31.82 %) Java 2 7 (31.82 %) JavaScript 3 4 (18.18 %) PL/SQL 3 4 (18.18 %) C 4 3 (13.64 %) C++ 4 3 (13.64 %) VB.NET 5 1 (4.545 %) VB	Qualifications 1 6 (27.27 %) ISEB 2 2 (9.091 %) Sun Certification 3 1 (4.545 %) Degree 3 1 (4.545 %) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (18.18 %) QA	Vendors 1 10 (45.45 %) Oracle 2 2 (9.091 %) Sun