Middlesex SC Cleared Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Security Check (SC) Clearance skills within the Middlesex region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SC Cleared over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Location Aldershot Andover Avon Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield Chorley City of London Clydebank Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Farnborough Feltham Filton Glamorgan Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Rugby Ruislip Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stirling Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teddington Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Thatcham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Wells Welwyn Garden City West Dunbartonshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wimbledon Wirral Woking Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	10	30
Rank change on same period last year	+20
Matching contract IT job ads	59	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.083 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	13.20 %	4.792 %
Daily rates quoted	14	7
Average minimum daily rate	£346	£390
Average daily rate	£379	£390
% change on same period last year	-2.86 %
Average maximum daily rate	£413	£390
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£366
% change on same period last year	-1.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£50.00	-
Average hourly rate	£50.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£50.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.60	£30.39
% change on same period last year	-2.59 %
Processes & Methodologies Middlesex
Matching contract IT job ads	447	313
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.629 %	0.316 %
Daily rates quoted	87	81
Average minimum daily rate	£380	£318
Average daily rate	£403	£335
% change on same period last year	+20.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£426	£351
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£370
% change on same period last year	+1.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	29	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.40	£33.88
Average hourly rate	£29.83	£34.57
% change on same period last year	-13.70 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.26	£35.26
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.44	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-1.89 %
SC Cleared South East

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.

SC Cleared
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SC Cleared across the Middlesex 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 SC Cleared across the Middlesex region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SC Cleared across the Middlesex region over the 3 months to 10 October 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 SC Cleared across the Middlesex region.

SC Cleared
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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.

1 118 (100.00 %) Security Cleared 2 93 (78.81 %) Government 3 36 (30.51 %) Oracle 4 26 (22.03 %) Oracle 10g 5 25 (21.19 %) BusinessObjects 5 25 (21.19 %) Business Objects 6 21 (17.80 %) SQL 6 21 (17.80 %) QA 7 19 (16.10 %) Oracle 9i 7 19 (16.10 %) Service Management 8 17 (14.41 %) Windows 8 17 (14.41 %) PL/SQL 9 16 (13.56 %) Remedy 10 15 (12.71 %) Crystal Reports 10 15 (12.71 %) PRINCE2

11 14 (11.86 %) Linux 12 13 (11.02 %) MS Excel 12 13 (11.02 %) BMC 13 12 (10.17 %) PRINCE 13 12 (10.17 %) Microsoft 14 11 (9.322 %) Data Mining 15 10 (8.475 %) Windows Server 2003 16 9 (7.627 %) ITSM 16 9 (7.627 %) Citrix 16 9 (7.627 %) J2EE 16 9 (7.627 %) Remedy ITSM 17 8 (6.780 %) ITIL 17 8 (6.780 %) Business Intelligence 17 8 (6.780 %) Datawarehouse 17 8 (6.780 %) Active Directory

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 9 (7.627 %) J2EE 2 2 (1.695 %) SOAP 2 2 (1.695 %) Struts 2 2 (1.695 %) WebServices 2 2 (1.695 %) XML 2 2 (1.695 %) JMS 2 2 (1.695 %) Spring 2 2 (1.695 %) Hibernate 3 1 (0.847 %) JRules 3 1 (0.847 %) XMLBeans 3 1 (0.847 %) WebSphere 3 1 (0.847 %) Apache FOP 3 1 (0.847 %) WSDL 3 1 (0.847 %) Middleware 3 1 (0.847 %) EJB 3 1 (0.847 %) JDBC 3 1 (0.847 %) Servlets	Application Platforms 1 4 (3.390 %) WebLogic 2 3 (2.542 %) Exchange Server 2007 2 3 (2.542 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (2.542 %) SAS 3 1 (0.847 %) WebSphere MQ 3 1 (0.847 %) WebLogic Portal 3 1 (0.847 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (0.847 %) ESB 3 1 (0.847 %) MQSeries
Applications 1 13 (11.02 %) MS Excel 2 7 (5.932 %) MS Project 3 6 (5.085 %) MS PowerPoint 4 5 (4.237 %) MS Visio 5 1 (0.847 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 9 (7.627 %) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking 1 6 (5.085 %) Firewall 2 5 (4.237 %) SAN 2 5 (4.237 %) WAN 3 4 (3.390 %) TCP/IP 3 4 (3.390 %) LDAP 4 3 (2.542 %) LAN 5 2 (1.695 %) NetScreen 6 1 (0.847 %) IP Telephony 6 1 (0.847 %) Cisco ASA 6 1 (0.847 %) VoIP 6 1 (0.847 %) VPN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 26 (22.03 %) Oracle 10g 2 25 (21.19 %) BusinessObjects 3 19 (16.10 %) Oracle 9i 4 15 (12.71 %) Crystal Reports 5 11 (9.322 %) Data Mining 6 8 (6.780 %) Datawarehouse 7 7 (5.932 %) ETL 8 6 (5.085 %) Oracle Reports 9 3 (2.542 %) BusinessObjects XI 10 2 (1.695 %) SQL Server 10 2 (1.695 %) RDBMS 11 1 (0.847 %) Data Mart 11 1 (0.847 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Development Applications 1 3 (2.542 %) ClearCase 1 3 (2.542 %) LoadRunner 1 3 (2.542 %) ClearQuest 2 2 (1.695 %) QuickTest Pro 3 1 (0.847 %) ERwin 3 1 (0.847 %) Eclipse	General 1 93 (78.81 %) Government 2 1 (0.847 %) Health 2 1 (0.847 %) Legal 2 1 (0.847 %) Home Office 2 1 (0.847 %) Auditing 2 1 (0.847 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 17 (14.41 %) Developer 2 15 (12.71 %) Analyst 3 9 (7.627 %) Consultant 3 9 (7.627 %) Test Analyst 4 8 (6.780 %) Business Developer 4 8 (6.780 %) Business Objects Developer 4 8 (6.780 %) Tester 4 8 (6.780 %) Author 4 8 (6.780 %) Technical Author 5 6 (5.085 %) Test Engineer 6 5 (4.237 %) Test Manager 6 5 (4.237 %) Senior Technical Author 6 5 (4.237 %) Data Centre Engineer 7 4 (3.390 %) Manual Test Analyst 7 4 (3.390 %) Programme Planner 7 4 (3.390 %) Report Developer 7 4 (3.390 %) Data Consultant 7 4 (3.390 %) Data Mining Consultant 7 4 (3.390 %) Business Objects Specialist 7 4 (3.390 %) Project Manager	Miscellaneous 1 5 (4.237 %) PKI 2 2 (1.695 %) N-Tier 2 2 (1.695 %) PMI 3 1 (0.847 %) Thin Client 3 1 (0.847 %) Blackberry 3 1 (0.847 %) Clustering 3 1 (0.847 %) Computer Science 3 1 (0.847 %) CMDB 3 1 (0.847 %) Fat Client 3 1 (0.847 %) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems 1 17 (14.41 %) Windows 2 14 (11.86 %) Linux 3 10 (8.475 %) Windows Server 2003 4 5 (4.237 %) UNIX 5 2 (1.695 %) Windows XP 5 2 (1.695 %) Red Hat Linux 6 1 (0.847 %) Windows Vista 6 1 (0.847 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 118 (100.00 %) Security Cleared 2 19 (16.10 %) Service Management 3 15 (12.71 %) PRINCE2 4 12 (10.17 %) PRINCE 5 9 (7.627 %) ITSM 6 8 (6.780 %) ITIL 6 8 (6.780 %) Business Intelligence 7 6 (5.085 %) Validation 7 6 (5.085 %) Project Management 8 5 (4.237 %) Programme Management 9 4 (3.390 %) Service Delivery 9 4 (3.390 %) User Acceptance Testing 10 3 (2.542 %) BPR 10 3 (2.542 %) Configuration Management 10 3 (2.542 %) Penetration Testing 11 2 (1.695 %) Software Testing 11 2 (1.695 %) UML 11 2 (1.695 %) SOA 11 2 (1.695 %) Release Management 11 2 (1.695 %) Test Scripting
Programming Languages 1 21 (17.80 %) SQL 2 17 (14.41 %) PL/SQL 3 4 (3.390 %) Java 3 4 (3.390 %) VBScript 3 4 (3.390 %) VB 4 1 (0.847 %) XQuery 4 1 (0.847 %) XPath 4 1 (0.847 %) Perl 4 1 (0.847 %) C	Qualifications 1 4 (3.390 %) ITIL Certification 2 2 (1.695 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 2 (1.695 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (0.847 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (0.847 %) RHCE 3 1 (0.847 %) MCSE 3 1 (0.847 %) ISEB 3 1 (0.847 %) CISSP 3 1 (0.847 %) ISEB Practitioner 3 1 (0.847 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 21 (17.80 %) QA 2 4 (3.390 %) SLA	System Software 1 8 (6.780 %) Active Directory 2 6 (5.085 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 2 (1.695 %) AquaLogic 4 1 (0.847 %) NetBackup
Vendors 1 36 (30.51 %) Oracle 2 25 (21.19 %) Business Objects 3 16 (13.56 %) Remedy 4 13 (11.02 %) BMC 5 12 (10.17 %) Microsoft 6 9 (7.627 %) Citrix 7 4 (3.390 %) Cisco 8 3 (2.542 %) BEA 8 3 (2.542 %) Altiris 9 2 (1.695 %) Red Hat 9 2 (1.695 %) Symantec 9 2 (1.695 %) Juniper 10 1 (0.847 %) Novell 10 1 (0.847 %) IBM 10 1 (0.847 %) NEC 10 1 (0.847 %) VMware