Oxfordshire Security Cleared Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Security Clearance in IT contracts within the Oxfordshire region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Security Cleared over the 3 months to 9 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aldershot Andover Banbury Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Blandford Forum Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bradford-on-Avon Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham City of London Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Filton Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Hendon Henlow Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lanarkshire Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shefford Shropshire Sleaford Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton Southend-on-Sea Spalding St Albans Stamford Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Torpoint Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warminster Warrington Warwickshire Waterlooville Wells West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weymouth Whitehaven Wiltshire Winchester Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 9 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	5	38
Rank change on same period last year	+33
Matching contract IT job ads	63	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.127 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	54.78 %	13.58 %
Daily rates quoted	16	2
Average minimum daily rate	£282	£290
Average daily rate	£294	£300
% change on same period last year	-2.03 %
Average maximum daily rate	£306	£310
UK excluding London average daily rate	£385	£399
% change on same period last year	-3.51 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£36.67	£24.50
Average hourly rate	£38.33	£27.00
% change on same period last year	+41.97 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£29.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.81	£30.78
% change on same period last year	+0.09 %
Qualifications Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	115	81
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.232 %	0.099 %
Daily rates quoted	35	15
Average minimum daily rate	£317	£306
Average daily rate	£339	£318
% change on same period last year	+6.60 %
Average maximum daily rate	£362	£331
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£363
% change on same period last year	-3.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	24
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.84	£20.33
Average hourly rate	£28.25	£22.33
% change on same period last year	+26.52 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.66	£24.32
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.17	£26.87
% change on same period last year	+4.86 %
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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 Security Cleared across the Oxfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications 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 Security Cleared across the Oxfordshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Security Cleared across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 9 January 2009.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Security Cleared across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 9 January 2009.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Cleared within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 9 January 2009. 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	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
Bicester	+2	27	£330	-34.00 %
Oxford	+9	6	-	-
Banbury	-	1	£238	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 83 (72.81 %) SC Cleared 2 44 (38.60 %) SQL 3 39 (34.21 %) Oracle 4 35 (30.70 %) UNIX 5 25 (21.93 %) Java 6 23 (20.18 %) XML 7 22 (19.30 %) EAI 7 22 (19.30 %) SOA 8 20 (17.54 %) Government 9 18 (15.79 %) Oracle Fusion 10 17 (14.91 %) Project Management 11 15 (13.16 %) BC Cleared 12 13 (11.40 %) Logistics 12 13 (11.40 %) Oracle 9i 13 12 (10.53 %) PL/SQL

14 10 (8.772 %) ITIL 14 10 (8.772 %) Project Planning 15 9 (7.895 %) Economics 15 9 (7.895 %) Oracle Forms 15 9 (7.895 %) Oracle Reports 15 9 (7.895 %) Cognos 15 9 (7.895 %) ISEB 16 8 (7.018 %) PRINCE2 16 8 (7.018 %) QA 16 8 (7.018 %) Matrix Management 17 7 (6.140 %) Windows 17 7 (6.140 %) HPUX 17 7 (6.140 %) Oracle Discoverer 17 7 (6.140 %) Cisco 17 7 (6.140 %) HP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 Development 1 23 (20.18 %) XML 2 18 (15.79 %) Oracle Fusion	Application Platforms 1 2 (1.754 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (0.877 %) Exchange Server 5.5 2 1 (0.877 %) Apache
Applications 1 4 (3.509 %) MS Office 1 4 (3.509 %) MS Excel 2 3 (2.632 %) MS Visio 2 3 (2.632 %) MS Project 3 1 (0.877 %) MS PowerPoint	Communications & Networking 1 6 (5.263 %) LAN 2 5 (4.386 %) VoIP 2 5 (4.386 %) Firewall 2 5 (4.386 %) Cisco IOS 3 4 (3.509 %) OSPF 3 4 (3.509 %) EIGRP 3 4 (3.509 %) DHCP 3 4 (3.509 %) RIP 3 4 (3.509 %) DNS 4 3 (2.632 %) IPv4 4 3 (2.632 %) PPP 4 3 (2.632 %) WAN 4 3 (2.632 %) H.323 4 3 (2.632 %) VLAN 5 2 (1.754 %) Cisco PIX 5 2 (1.754 %) BGP 6 1 (0.877 %) DSL 6 1 (0.877 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (11.40 %) Oracle 9i 2 9 (7.895 %) Oracle Reports 3 7 (6.140 %) Oracle Discoverer 4 4 (3.509 %) Ingres 4 4 (3.509 %) Oracle OWB 5 3 (2.632 %) Oracle 10g 6 1 (0.877 %) SQL Server 6 1 (0.877 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 1 (0.877 %) Datawarehouse 6 1 (0.877 %) SQL Server 2008	Development Applications 1 9 (7.895 %) Oracle Forms 2 2 (1.754 %) TestDirector 2 2 (1.754 %) QuickTest Pro 3 1 (0.877 %) Subversion
General 1 20 (17.54 %) Government 2 3 (2.632 %) Military 3 2 (1.754 %) Police 4 1 (0.877 %) Pharmaceutical 4 1 (0.877 %) Chemicals	Job Titles 1 33 (28.95 %) Developer 2 26 (22.81 %) Analyst 3 19 (16.67 %) Project Manager 4 15 (13.16 %) Test Manager 5 11 (9.649 %) Oracle Developer 5 11 (9.649 %) Analyst Developer 6 8 (7.018 %) Integration Analyst 7 5 (4.386 %) Cognos Developer 7 5 (4.386 %) Test Analyst 8 4 (3.509 %) Architect 8 4 (3.509 %) COBOL Developer 8 4 (3.509 %) Infrastructure Specialist 8 4 (3.509 %) Network Specialist 9 3 (2.632 %) SOA Architect 9 3 (2.632 %) Oracle Architect 9 3 (2.632 %) Programme Manager 9 3 (2.632 %) Project Analyst 9 3 (2.632 %) Security Analyst 9 3 (2.632 %) Consultant 9 3 (2.632 %) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 9 (7.895 %) Economics 2 1 (0.877 %) PMI 2 1 (0.877 %) Blackberry 2 1 (0.877 %) Management Information System	Operating Systems 1 35 (30.70 %) UNIX 2 7 (6.140 %) Windows 2 7 (6.140 %) HPUX 3 2 (1.754 %) Windows XP 3 2 (1.754 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (0.877 %) Windows Server 2008 4 1 (0.877 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 1 (0.877 %) Red Hat Linux 4 1 (0.877 %) Linux 4 1 (0.877 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 22 (19.30 %) EAI 1 22 (19.30 %) SOA 2 17 (14.91 %) Project Management 3 13 (11.40 %) Logistics 4 10 (8.772 %) ITIL 4 10 (8.772 %) Project Planning 5 8 (7.018 %) PRINCE2 5 8 (7.018 %) Matrix Management 6 4 (3.509 %) Supplier Management 6 4 (3.509 %) Test Scripting 6 4 (3.509 %) Service Management 6 4 (3.509 %) CMMI 6 4 (3.509 %) Asset Management 7 3 (2.632 %) Network Design 7 3 (2.632 %) System Testing 8 2 (1.754 %) Test Management 8 2 (1.754 %) PRINCE 8 2 (1.754 %) Data Modelling 9 1 (0.877 %) Regression Testing 9 1 (0.877 %) Risk Management	Programming Languages 1 44 (38.60 %) SQL 2 25 (21.93 %) Java 3 12 (10.53 %) PL/SQL 4 4 (3.509 %) COBOL 5 3 (2.632 %) VBA 6 1 (0.877 %) Python 6 1 (0.877 %) Shell Script 6 1 (0.877 %) Perl 6 1 (0.877 %) C 6 1 (0.877 %) C++
Qualifications 1 83 (72.81 %) SC Cleared 2 15 (13.16 %) BC Cleared 3 9 (7.895 %) ISEB 4 4 (3.509 %) Cisco Certification 4 4 (3.509 %) CCNP 4 4 (3.509 %) CCNA 5 2 (1.754 %) Microsoft Certification 5 2 (1.754 %) CTC Cleared 5 2 (1.754 %) DV Cleared 6 1 (0.877 %) ITIL Certification 6 1 (0.877 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 6 1 (0.877 %) MCP 6 1 (0.877 %) MCSE	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 8 (7.018 %) QA
System Software 1 5 (4.386 %) Active Directory 2 2 (1.754 %) Backup Exec	Systems Management 1 1 (0.877 %) Unicenter 1 1 (0.877 %) Nagios
Vendors 1 39 (34.21 %) Oracle 2 9 (7.895 %) Cognos 3 7 (6.140 %) Cisco 3 7 (6.140 %) HP 4 5 (4.386 %) Microsoft 5 2 (1.754 %) Sun 5 2 (1.754 %) Citrix 5 2 (1.754 %) VERITAS 6 1 (0.877 %) Red Hat 6 1 (0.877 %) Sophos 6 1 (0.877 %) CA 6 1 (0.877 %) Dell