The first table below looks at the demand for SC Cleared in IT contracts advertised for the Northern Ireland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SC Cleared over the 3 months to 18 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 Northern Ireland 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Check (SC) Clearance
Rank 28 - 31
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 4 0 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northern Ireland 2.094% - 3.254%
As % of the Qualifications category 11.11% - 21.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £375 £370
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
Average hourly rate - - £19.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £20.00 £23.75
% change year-on-year
+7.50% -15.78%
All Qualifications
Northern Ireland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
36 46 51
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northern Ireland 18.85% 23.47% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 12 15
Average daily rate £200 £335 £265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-40.29% +26.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £125 £210 £235
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £400 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 11
Average hourly rate - - £15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%
SC Cleared
UK

SC Cleared
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northern Ireland 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 Northern Ireland region.

Northern Ireland 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 Northern Ireland region.

Northern Ireland SC Cleared Hourly Rate Trend

SC Cleared
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the Northern Ireland region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
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Job
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County Antrim - 4 - -
SC Cleared
UK

SC Cleared
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northern Ireland 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 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) Service Management
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 3 (42.86%) HP
2 3 (42.86%) BMC
2 3 (42.86%) SLA
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (28.57%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (28.57%) Network+ Certification
3 2 (28.57%) Windows
3 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
3 2 (28.57%) SNMP
3 2 (28.57%) C#
3 2 (28.57%) .NET
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
3 2 (28.57%) SolarWinds
3 2 (28.57%) SolarWinds Orion
3 2 (28.57%) Splunk
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (28.57%) Compuware
4 1 (14.29%) Data Guard
4 1 (14.29%) Demand Management
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (14.29%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (14.29%) Data Conversion
4 1 (14.29%) CIPD

SC Cleared
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northern Ireland 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 2 (28.57%) .NET
1 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
1 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (14.29%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) SNMP
2 1 (14.29%) SSH
2 1 (14.29%) LDAP
2 1 (14.29%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Subversion
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle APEX
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Management Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Network Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) DBA
3 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Change Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Remedy Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Conversion
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Service Management
1 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
2 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
2 1 (14.29%) ITSM
2 1 (14.29%) Programme Management
2 1 (14.29%) Data Management
2 1 (14.29%) Demand Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
3 1 (14.29%) VB.NET
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (14.29%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) SolarWinds Orion
1 2 (28.57%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) HP
1 3 (42.86%) BMC
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Compuware
2 2 (28.57%) SolarWinds
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) Remedy
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