The first table below looks at the demand for SC Cleared in IT contracts advertised for the Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SC Cleared over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Midlands 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Check (SC) Clearance
Rank 21 30 28
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -2
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 5 2 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands 2.688% 0.810% 1.935%
As % of the Qualifications category 21.74% 9.524% 20.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
Average daily rate £450 £500 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.00% +5.26%
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £375 £367
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +2.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £20.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+7.50% -23.07%
All Qualifications
Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
23 21 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands 12.37% 8.502% 9.355%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 8
Average daily rate £425 £400 £455
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.25% -12.08%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £145 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £505 £510 £520
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 7
Average hourly rate £32.00 - £33.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £21.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -14.00%
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Midlands SC Cleared Daily Rate Trend

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 Midlands region.

Midlands SC Cleared Hourly Rate Trend

SC Cleared
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 11 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
3 4 (36.36%) MS Excel
4 3 (27.27%) Windows 7
4 3 (27.27%) Windows
5 2 (18.18%) Information Security
5 2 (18.18%) Migration
5 2 (18.18%) MS Office
5 2 (18.18%) DV Cleared
5 2 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Test Management
5 2 (18.18%) Test Scripting
5 2 (18.18%) Time Management
6 1 (9.091%) Data Migration
6 1 (9.091%) BC Cleared
6 1 (9.091%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (9.091%) Database Tuning
6 1 (9.091%) Network Security
6 1 (9.091%) Blue Coat
6 1 (9.091%) ProxySG
6 1 (9.091%) Sourcefire
6 1 (9.091%) Data Analysis
6 1 (9.091%) FWSM
6 1 (9.091%) Capacity Management
6 1 (9.091%) Windows XP
6 1 (9.091%) TCP/IP
6 1 (9.091%) SSL
6 1 (9.091%) Cisco
6 1 (9.091%) SQL
6 1 (9.091%) MySQL

SC Cleared
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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.

Applications
1 4 (36.36%) MS Excel
2 2 (18.18%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.091%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (9.091%) Network Security
1 1 (9.091%) FWSM
1 1 (9.091%) TCP/IP
1 1 (9.091%) SSL
1 1 (9.091%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) MySQL
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Security Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Help Desk Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Author
2 3 (27.27%) Technical Author
2 3 (27.27%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Help Desk Support
3 2 (18.18%) Support Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Desktop Support
3 2 (18.18%) Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Test Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Help Desk Support Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) UAT Test Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Security Support Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) UAT Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Implementation Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) MySQL DBA
4 1 (9.091%) Network Implementation Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Network Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Windows 7
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
2 1 (9.091%) Windows XP
2 1 (9.091%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (18.18%) Information Security
1 2 (18.18%) Migration
1 2 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (18.18%) Test Management
1 2 (18.18%) Test Scripting
1 2 (18.18%) Time Management
2 1 (9.091%) Data Migration
2 1 (9.091%) Database Tuning
2 1 (9.091%) Data Analysis
2 1 (9.091%) Capacity Management
2 1 (9.091%) Network Security Management
2 1 (9.091%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.091%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) DV Cleared
3 1 (9.091%) BC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (9.091%) ProxySG
1 1 (9.091%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.091%) Blue Coat
2 1 (9.091%) Sourcefire
2 1 (9.091%) Cisco
2 1 (9.091%) Business Objects
2 1 (9.091%) Juniper
2 1 (9.091%) CheckPoint
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