Midlands SC Cleared Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Security Check (SC) Clearance skills within the Midlands 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 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Location Aldershot Andover Avon Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cardigan Carlisle Ceredigion Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chorley City of London Corsham Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Filton Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochester Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wimbledon Wirral Wokingham Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	47	66
Rank change on same period last year	+19
Matching contract IT job ads	23	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.030 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	3.533 %	1.923 %
Daily rates quoted	12	0
Average minimum daily rate	£454	-
Average daily rate	£471	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£488	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£369	£373
% change on same period last year	-1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.00	£26.00
Average hourly rate	£33.00	£26.00
% change on same period last year	+26.92 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.00	£26.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.76	£30.52
% change on same period last year	+7.32 %
Processes & Methodologies Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	651	884
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.859 %	0.880 %
Daily rates quoted	149	166
Average minimum daily rate	£386	£381
Average daily rate	£406	£407
% change on same period last year	-0.13 %
Average maximum daily rate	£426	£432
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£377
% change on same period last year	+0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	54
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.17	£26.28
Average hourly rate	£26.00	£27.49
% change on same period last year	-5.39 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.84	£28.69
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.34	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.55 %
SC Cleared England

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 SC Cleared across the Midlands 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 Midlands 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 Midlands 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 SC Cleared across the Midlands region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, 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 79 (100.00 %) Security Cleared 2 33 (41.77 %) Government 3 27 (34.18 %) Electric 4 11 (13.92 %) ISO27001 5 9 (11.39 %) Finite Element Analysis 5 9 (11.39 %) Degree 5 9 (11.39 %) Project Planning 5 9 (11.39 %) Aerospace 5 9 (11.39 %) Project Management 5 9 (11.39 %) Pro/ENGINEER 5 9 (11.39 %) SolidWorks 5 9 (11.39 %) ITIL 5 9 (11.39 %) EMC 6 8 (10.13 %) DV Cleared 7 7 (8.861 %) UNIX

7 7 (8.861 %) Windows 8 6 (7.595 %) PRINCE2 8 6 (7.595 %) MS Project 8 6 (7.595 %) Migration 9 5 (6.329 %) Oracle 9 5 (6.329 %) PMI 9 5 (6.329 %) Data Mining 9 5 (6.329 %) RMADS 9 5 (6.329 %) Information Security 9 5 (6.329 %) COBIT 10 4 (5.063 %) BC Cleared 10 4 (5.063 %) PMI Certification 10 4 (5.063 %) Linux 10 4 (5.063 %) MS Office 10 4 (5.063 %) .NET

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, 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.

Application Development 1 4 (5.063 %) .NET 2 3 (3.797 %) XML 3 1 (1.266 %) SAP XI 3 1 (1.266 %) Hibernate 3 1 (1.266 %) Spring 3 1 (1.266 %) MVC 3 1 (1.266 %) J2EE 3 1 (1.266 %) ASP 3 1 (1.266 %) EJB 3 1 (1.266 %) SOAP 3 1 (1.266 %) WebServices 3 1 (1.266 %) JMS 3 1 (1.266 %) XBRL 3 1 (1.266 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 1 (1.266 %) WebLogic 1 1 (1.266 %) WebLogic Portal 1 1 (1.266 %) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications 1 9 (11.39 %) Pro/ENGINEER 2 6 (7.595 %) MS Project 3 4 (5.063 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (1.266 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 3 (3.797 %) SSL 2 2 (2.532 %) VPN 2 2 (2.532 %) Firewall 3 1 (1.266 %) HTTPS 3 1 (1.266 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (6.329 %) Data Mining 2 3 (3.797 %) SQL Server 3 2 (2.532 %) ETL 3 2 (2.532 %) BusinessObjects 4 1 (1.266 %) Oracle Reports 4 1 (1.266 %) Oracle 9i 4 1 (1.266 %) Ingres 4 1 (1.266 %) TOAD 4 1 (1.266 %) Oracle Discoverer 4 1 (1.266 %) RDBMS 4 1 (1.266 %) Oracle 10g 4 1 (1.266 %) Oracle 11g
Development Applications 1 2 (2.532 %) LoadRunner 2 1 (1.266 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (1.266 %) Oracle Forms 2 1 (1.266 %) XMLSpy 2 1 (1.266 %) ProC 2 1 (1.266 %) JDeveloper 2 1 (1.266 %) HttpUnit	General 1 33 (41.77 %) Government 2 27 (34.18 %) Electric 3 9 (11.39 %) Aerospace 4 4 (5.063 %) Education 5 2 (2.532 %) Health 6 1 (1.266 %) Banking 6 1 (1.266 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 9 (11.39 %) Mechanical Design Engineer 1 9 (11.39 %) Mechanical Engineer 1 9 (11.39 %) Radio Access Network Engineer 1 9 (11.39 %) Design Engineer 2 8 (10.13 %) Project Manager 3 5 (6.329 %) Architect 3 5 (6.329 %) Analyst 3 5 (6.329 %) Consultant 4 4 (5.063 %) Security Manager 4 4 (5.063 %) Developer 4 4 (5.063 %) Security Analyst 4 4 (5.063 %) Risk Analyst 5 3 (3.797 %) Solutions Architect 6 2 (2.532 %) Risk Manager 6 2 (2.532 %) Business Objects Specialist 6 2 (2.532 %) Security Consultant 6 2 (2.532 %) Lead Developer 6 2 (2.532 %) Administrator 7 1 (1.266 %) Functional Consultant 7 1 (1.266 %) Performance Tester	Miscellaneous 1 5 (6.329 %) PMI 1 5 (6.329 %) RMADS 2 3 (3.797 %) CESG 2 3 (3.797 %) CESG CLAS 3 2 (2.532 %) PKI
Operating Systems 1 7 (8.861 %) UNIX 1 7 (8.861 %) Windows 2 4 (5.063 %) Linux 3 3 (3.797 %) Red Hat Linux 4 2 (2.532 %) Windows CE 5 1 (1.266 %) HPUX 5 1 (1.266 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1 (1.266 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 1 (1.266 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 1 (1.266 %) Embedded Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 79 (100.00 %) Security Cleared 2 9 (11.39 %) Finite Element Analysis 2 9 (11.39 %) Project Planning 2 9 (11.39 %) Project Management 2 9 (11.39 %) ITIL 3 8 (10.13 %) DV Cleared 4 6 (7.595 %) PRINCE2 4 6 (7.595 %) Migration 5 5 (6.329 %) Information Security 6 4 (5.063 %) BC Cleared 6 4 (5.063 %) Risk Management 7 3 (3.797 %) E-business 7 3 (3.797 %) Data Migration 7 3 (3.797 %) Technical Architecture 8 2 (2.532 %) Performance Testing 8 2 (2.532 %) Supplier Management 8 2 (2.532 %) Performance Management 8 2 (2.532 %) Risk Assessment 9 1 (1.266 %) Penetration Testing 9 1 (1.266 %) Logistics
Programming Languages 1 3 (3.797 %) Java 2 2 (2.532 %) SQL 3 1 (1.266 %) VB 3 1 (1.266 %) ABAP 3 1 (1.266 %) C 3 1 (1.266 %) C++ 3 1 (1.266 %) Embedded C 3 1 (1.266 %) Embedded C++	Qualifications 1 9 (11.39 %) Degree 2 4 (5.063 %) PMI Certification 3 1 (1.266 %) CCSE 3 1 (1.266 %) Cisco Certification 3 1 (1.266 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (1.266 %) Check Point Certification 3 1 (1.266 %) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 11 (13.92 %) ISO27001 2 5 (6.329 %) COBIT 3 2 (2.532 %) CESG Infosec 3 2 (2.532 %) ISO17799 3 2 (2.532 %) BS7799 4 1 (1.266 %) QA	System Software 1 3 (3.797 %) VMware Infrastructure 1 3 (3.797 %) Microsoft Virtual Server
Vendors 1 9 (11.39 %) SolidWorks 1 9 (11.39 %) EMC 2 5 (6.329 %) Oracle 3 3 (3.797 %) VMware 3 3 (3.797 %) Red Hat 3 3 (3.797 %) Microsoft 4 2 (2.532 %) Cisco 4 2 (2.532 %) Business Objects 5 1 (1.266 %) SAP 5 1 (1.266 %) IBM 5 1 (1.266 %) BMC 5 1 (1.266 %) CheckPoint 5 1 (1.266 %) Remedy 5 1 (1.266 %) Adobe