Oxfordshire SC Cleared Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Security Check (SC) Clearance skills within the Oxfordshire 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	29	44
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	33	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.046 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	9.621 %	4.583 %
Daily rates quoted	6	3
Average minimum daily rate	£394	£163
Average daily rate	£417	£163
% change on same period last year	+155.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£439	£163
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£366
% change on same period last year	-1.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.33	£18.50
Average hourly rate	£34.83	£19.25
% change on same period last year	+80.95 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.33	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.60	£30.39
% change on same period last year	-2.59 %
Processes & Methodologies Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	343	240
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.483 %	0.243 %
Daily rates quoted	119	49
Average minimum daily rate	£306	£290
Average daily rate	£324	£309
% change on same period last year	+4.74 %
Average maximum daily rate	£342	£329
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£370
% change on same period last year	+1.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	46	36
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.86	£19.33
Average hourly rate	£28.71	£21.11
% change on same period last year	+35.97 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.55	£22.89
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 Oxfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SC Cleared across the Oxfordshire region.

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SC Cleared across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SC Cleared across the Oxfordshire region.

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SC Cleared across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Bicester	-2	17	£438	+173.43 %
Oxford	-	2	£450	-

SC Cleared South East

SC Cleared
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 59 (100.00 %) Security Cleared 2 25 (42.37 %) SQL 3 17 (28.81 %) UNIX 4 15 (25.42 %) Government 5 13 (22.03 %) Ingres 6 12 (20.34 %) Unit Testing 7 10 (16.95 %) Oracle 8 8 (13.56 %) Logistics 9 6 (10.17 %) Oracle Fusion 9 6 (10.17 %) HP 9 6 (10.17 %) Java 9 6 (10.17 %) XML 9 6 (10.17 %) Windows 9 6 (10.17 %) PRINCE2 9 6 (10.17 %) EAI

9 6 (10.17 %) SOA 10 5 (8.475 %) Shell Script 10 5 (8.475 %) Active Directory 10 5 (8.475 %) BC Cleared 10 5 (8.475 %) Matrix Management 10 5 (8.475 %) Economics 10 5 (8.475 %) Project Planning 10 5 (8.475 %) QA 11 4 (6.780 %) Service Management 11 4 (6.780 %) Project Management 11 4 (6.780 %) ISEB 11 4 (6.780 %) Oracle 9i 11 4 (6.780 %) DHCP 11 4 (6.780 %) DNS 11 4 (6.780 %) ITIL

SC Cleared
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 6 (10.17 %) XML 1 6 (10.17 %) Oracle Fusion	Application Platforms 1 1 (1.695 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (1.695 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 1 (1.695 %) MS Office 1 1 (1.695 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 4 (6.780 %) DHCP 1 4 (6.780 %) DNS 2 3 (5.085 %) LAN 2 3 (5.085 %) VoIP 2 3 (5.085 %) Firewall 2 3 (5.085 %) Cisco IOS 3 2 (3.390 %) Cisco PIX 3 2 (3.390 %) RIP 3 2 (3.390 %) OSPF 3 2 (3.390 %) EIGRP 4 1 (1.695 %) H.323 4 1 (1.695 %) IPv4 4 1 (1.695 %) WAN 4 1 (1.695 %) PPP 4 1 (1.695 %) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (22.03 %) Ingres 2 4 (6.780 %) Oracle 9i 3 3 (5.085 %) Oracle Reports 4 2 (3.390 %) Oracle 10g 5 1 (1.695 %) BusinessObjects 5 1 (1.695 %) SQL Server 2008 5 1 (1.695 %) ETL 5 1 (1.695 %) Oracle Discoverer 5 1 (1.695 %) SQL Server 5 1 (1.695 %) Datawarehouse	Development Applications 1 2 (3.390 %) Oracle Forms
General 1 15 (25.42 %) Government 2 1 (1.695 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 18 (30.51 %) Developer 2 10 (16.95 %) Test Manager 3 6 (10.17 %) Analyst 4 4 (6.780 %) Architect 4 4 (6.780 %) Consultant 4 4 (6.780 %) Project Manager 4 4 (6.780 %) Oracle Developer 4 4 (6.780 %) Project Analyst 5 3 (5.085 %) SOA Architect 6 2 (3.390 %) Infrastructure Specialist 6 2 (3.390 %) Cisco Specialist 6 2 (3.390 %) Network Specialist 6 2 (3.390 %) Analyst Developer 6 2 (3.390 %) Design Engineer 6 2 (3.390 %) Support Engineer 6 2 (3.390 %) Senior Consultant 7 1 (1.695 %) Network Engineer 7 1 (1.695 %) Support Analyst 7 1 (1.695 %) Integration Architect 7 1 (1.695 %) Support Specialist
Miscellaneous 1 5 (8.475 %) Economics	Operating Systems 1 17 (28.81 %) UNIX 2 6 (10.17 %) Windows 3 3 (5.085 %) HPUX 4 2 (3.390 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1 (1.695 %) Windows Server 2008 5 1 (1.695 %) Solaris 5 1 (1.695 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 59 (100.00 %) Security Cleared 2 12 (20.34 %) Unit Testing 3 8 (13.56 %) Logistics 4 6 (10.17 %) PRINCE2 4 6 (10.17 %) EAI 4 6 (10.17 %) SOA 5 5 (8.475 %) Project Planning 5 5 (8.475 %) Matrix Management 5 5 (8.475 %) BC Cleared 6 4 (6.780 %) ITIL 6 4 (6.780 %) Project Management 6 4 (6.780 %) Service Management 7 3 (5.085 %) PRINCE 7 3 (5.085 %) Supplier Management 7 3 (5.085 %) Asset Management 8 2 (3.390 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 2 (3.390 %) Test Scripting 8 2 (3.390 %) System Testing 9 1 (1.695 %) DV Cleared 9 1 (1.695 %) Data Architecture	Programming Languages 1 25 (42.37 %) SQL 2 6 (10.17 %) Java 3 5 (8.475 %) Shell Script 4 3 (5.085 %) PL/SQL 5 1 (1.695 %) C
Qualifications 1 4 (6.780 %) ISEB 2 2 (3.390 %) Cisco Certification 2 2 (3.390 %) CCNP 2 2 (3.390 %) CCNA 3 1 (1.695 %) MCSE 3 1 (1.695 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (1.695 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (1.695 %) ITIL Certification 3 1 (1.695 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (8.475 %) QA
System Software 1 5 (8.475 %) Active Directory 2 1 (1.695 %) Backup Exec	Systems Management 1 1 (1.695 %) Unicenter
Vendors 1 10 (16.95 %) Oracle 2 6 (10.17 %) HP 3 3 (5.085 %) Cisco 4 2 (3.390 %) Microsoft 4 2 (3.390 %) Sybase 5 1 (1.695 %) Business Objects 5 1 (1.695 %) Citrix 5 1 (1.695 %) CA 5 1 (1.695 %) VERITAS