The first table below looks at the demand for Security Cleared in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Security Cleared over the 3 months to 24 May 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 Nottingham 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Clearance
Rank 34 25 14
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -11
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 2 7 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 0.699% 3.139% 6.383%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.452% 28.00% 41.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 4
Average daily rate £280 £410 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-31.70% +24.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £400 £366
% change year-on-year
-7.50% +9.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £12.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.00 £25.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+16.00% -23.07%
All Qualifications
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
31 25 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 10.84% 11.21% 15.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 9
Average daily rate £323 £350 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.85% +4.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £213 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £410 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 6
Average hourly rate £12.50 £17.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-28.57% -30.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.68 £10.00 £20.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.80 £22.50 £27.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
Security Cleared
Nottinghamshire

Security Cleared
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham Security Cleared Jobs Demand Trend

Security Cleared
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Security Cleared across the Nottingham region.

Nottingham Security Cleared Daily Rate Trend

Security Cleared
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Security Cleared across the Nottingham region.

Nottingham Security Cleared Hourly Rate Trend

Security Cleared
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham region citing Security 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 Security Cleared.

1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 4 (40.00%) BC Cleared
3 3 (30.00%) Marketing
3 3 (30.00%) BS25999
3 3 (30.00%) Problem Management
3 3 (30.00%) Credit Risk
3 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (30.00%) Business Continuity
3 3 (30.00%) Project Management
3 3 (30.00%) PRINCE2
3 3 (30.00%) MS Excel
3 3 (30.00%) SharePoint
4 2 (20.00%) Windows
5 1 (10.00%) AIX
5 1 (10.00%) Linux
5 1 (10.00%) Windows XP
5 1 (10.00%) UNIX
5 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (10.00%) MS Office
5 1 (10.00%) HND
5 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
5 1 (10.00%) SAN
5 1 (10.00%) NetApp
5 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (10.00%) Software Testing
5 1 (10.00%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (10.00%) MCITP
5 1 (10.00%) Brocade
5 1 (10.00%) Migration

Security Cleared
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham region citing Security 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 Security Cleared. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (10.00%) Lync
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (10.00%) MS Office
2 1 (10.00%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) SAN
1 1 (10.00%) NAS
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) TestComplete
General
1 3 (30.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) SharePoint Administrator
1 3 (30.00%) Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Trainer
2 1 (10.00%) Desktop Support
2 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Support
2 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) IT Trainer
2 1 (10.00%) Software Test Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) ScrumMaster
2 1 (10.00%) Storage Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Credit Risk
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) AIX
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (10.00%) UNIX
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Problem Management
1 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (30.00%) Business Continuity
1 3 (30.00%) Project Management
1 3 (30.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (10.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (10.00%) Migration
2 1 (10.00%) Scrum
2 1 (10.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
1 4 (40.00%) BC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) HND
2 1 (10.00%) MCITP
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) BS25999
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) NetApp
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (10.00%) Brocade
2 1 (10.00%) VMware