Portsmouth Security Cleared Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Security Clearance skills within the Portsmouth region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Security Cleared over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aldershot Amersham Andover Avon Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clydebank Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Cowes Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dumbarton Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Feltham Filton Gateshead Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rugby Ruislip Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark Spalding St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stirling Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teddington Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Thatcham Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Dunbartonshire West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Whitehaven Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Wirral Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	2	2
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	52	34
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.074 %	0.034 %
As % of the category below	36.36 %	32.38 %
Daily rates quoted	9	8
Average minimum daily rate	£340	£262
Average daily rate	£352	£277
% change on same period last year	+26.78 %
Average maximum daily rate	£363	£293
UK excluding London average daily rate	£370	£368
% change on same period last year	+0.36 %
Hourly rates quoted	19	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.42	£25.55
Average hourly rate	£35.05	£26.55
% change on same period last year	+32.04 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.68	£27.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.55	£30.42
% change on same period last year	+3.70 %
Processes & Methodologies Portsmouth
Matching contract IT job ads	143	105
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.202 %	0.106 %
Daily rates quoted	17	13
Average minimum daily rate	£307	£302
Average daily rate	£318	£319
% change on same period last year	-0.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£329	£336
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£371
% change on same period last year	+1.83 %
Hourly rates quoted	70	52
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.14	£26.71
Average hourly rate	£33.70	£27.69
% change on same period last year	+21.68 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.25	£28.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.42	£29.97
% change on same period last year	-1.81 %
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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 Portsmouth 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 Security Cleared across the Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth region over the 3 months to 13 October 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 Security Cleared across the Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth 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 50 (51.02 %) SC Cleared 2 28 (28.57 %) Government 3 17 (17.35 %) Windows 4 14 (14.29 %) Java 5 12 (12.24 %) C++ 5 12 (12.24 %) VMware 6 11 (11.22 %) UNIX 6 11 (11.22 %) Solaris 6 11 (11.22 %) UML 7 10 (10.20 %) Linux 8 9 (9.184 %) Telecoms 8 9 (9.184 %) LDAP 8 9 (9.184 %) Sun 8 9 (9.184 %) Active Directory 8 9 (9.184 %) Windows Server 2003

8 9 (9.184 %) BC Cleared 9 8 (8.163 %) VMware Infrastructure 9 8 (8.163 %) J2SE 9 8 (8.163 %) OO 9 8 (8.163 %) Military 10 6 (6.122 %) Unit Testing 10 6 (6.122 %) DV Cleared 10 6 (6.122 %) CORBA 10 6 (6.122 %) Windows 2000 11 5 (5.102 %) HNC 11 5 (5.102 %) XML 11 5 (5.102 %) Windows XP 11 5 (5.102 %) Citrix 11 5 (5.102 %) HP 11 5 (5.102 %) Electronics

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth 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 8 (8.163 %) J2SE 2 6 (6.122 %) CORBA 3 5 (5.102 %) XML 4 2 (2.041 %) J2EE 5 1 (1.020 %) .NET 5 1 (1.020 %) XML Schema 5 1 (1.020 %) OpenGL 5 1 (1.020 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 2 (2.041 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (1.020 %) Exchange Server 5.5 2 1 (1.020 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 1 (1.020 %) WebSphere Message Broker 2 1 (1.020 %) Apache
Applications 1 2 (2.041 %) MS Project 1 2 (2.041 %) MS Office 2 1 (1.020 %) MS Excel 2 1 (1.020 %) CATIA	Communications & Networking 1 9 (9.184 %) LDAP 2 3 (3.061 %) LAN 3 1 (1.020 %) VPN 3 1 (1.020 %) SAN 3 1 (1.020 %) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (3.061 %) SQL Server 2 1 (1.020 %) Oracle 10g 2 1 (1.020 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 4 (4.082 %) Visual Studio 2 3 (3.061 %) JUnit 3 2 (2.041 %) LabVIEW 3 2 (2.041 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 1 (1.020 %) ClearCase 4 1 (1.020 %) Rational Rose 4 1 (1.020 %) ARTiSAN 4 1 (1.020 %) Rational Robot 4 1 (1.020 %) Telelogic DOORS 4 1 (1.020 %) Ant
General 1 28 (28.57 %) Government 2 9 (9.184 %) Telecoms 3 8 (8.163 %) Military 4 5 (5.102 %) Finance 4 5 (5.102 %) Aerospace 4 5 (5.102 %) Electronics 4 5 (5.102 %) Manufacturing 5 3 (3.061 %) Health 5 3 (3.061 %) Electric 6 2 (2.041 %) Legal 6 2 (2.041 %) Avionics	Job Titles 1 18 (18.37 %) Administrator 2 16 (16.33 %) Software Engineer 3 10 (10.20 %) Systems Administrator 4 9 (9.184 %) Systems Engineer 5 7 (7.143 %) Tester 5 7 (7.143 %) PC Engineer 6 6 (6.122 %) Java Software Engineer 6 6 (6.122 %) UNIX Administrator 7 5 (5.102 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 7 5 (5.102 %) Design Engineer 7 5 (5.102 %) Developer 7 5 (5.102 %) Commercial Manager 7 5 (5.102 %) Data Administrator 8 4 (4.082 %) Principal Software Engineer 8 4 (4.082 %) Principal Engineer 9 3 (3.061 %) Strategy Manager 9 3 (3.061 %) Software Integration Engineer 9 3 (3.061 %) Server Administrator 9 3 (3.061 %) Solaris Administrator 9 3 (3.061 %) Service Manager
Miscellaneous 1 4 (4.082 %) Client/Server 1 4 (4.082 %) Thin Client 1 4 (4.082 %) Physics 1 4 (4.082 %) Fat Client 2 1 (1.020 %) VAX	Operating Systems 1 17 (17.35 %) Windows 2 11 (11.22 %) Solaris 2 11 (11.22 %) UNIX 3 10 (10.20 %) Linux 4 9 (9.184 %) Windows Server 2003 5 6 (6.122 %) Windows 2000 6 5 (5.102 %) Windows XP 7 4 (4.082 %) Windows 2000 Server 8 3 (3.061 %) SUSE 9 1 (1.020 %) Windows Server 2008 9 1 (1.020 %) VMS 9 1 (1.020 %) Windows NT 9 1 (1.020 %) Red Hat Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 50 (51.02 %) SC Cleared 2 11 (11.22 %) UML 3 9 (9.184 %) BC Cleared 4 8 (8.163 %) OO 5 6 (6.122 %) DV Cleared 5 6 (6.122 %) Unit Testing 6 5 (5.102 %) Migration 7 4 (4.082 %) Data Migration 8 3 (3.061 %) ITIL 8 3 (3.061 %) Validation 8 3 (3.061 %) Service Delivery 8 3 (3.061 %) Agile Software Development 9 1 (1.020 %) Asset Management 9 1 (1.020 %) Network Planning 9 1 (1.020 %) Supply Chain Management 9 1 (1.020 %) Software Engineering 9 1 (1.020 %) Enterprise Architecture 9 1 (1.020 %) Requirements Management 9 1 (1.020 %) Requirements Analysis 9 1 (1.020 %) Operations Management	Programming Languages 1 14 (14.29 %) Java 2 12 (12.24 %) C++ 3 4 (4.082 %) VB 4 3 (3.061 %) VBA 4 3 (3.061 %) C# 5 2 (2.041 %) SQL 6 1 (1.020 %) Transact-SQL 6 1 (1.020 %) C 6 1 (1.020 %) Pascal 6 1 (1.020 %) DCL
Qualifications 1 5 (5.102 %) HNC 2 4 (4.082 %) HND 2 4 (4.082 %) MCSE 2 4 (4.082 %) Microsoft Certification 3 3 (3.061 %) Degree 3 3 (3.061 %) Citrix Certification 3 3 (3.061 %) CCEA 4 1 (1.020 %) RHCE	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (2.041 %) QA 2 1 (1.020 %) GMP 2 1 (1.020 %) ISO12207
System Software 1 9 (9.184 %) Active Directory 2 8 (8.163 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 5 (5.102 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 4 (4.082 %) Terminal Server 5 1 (1.020 %) VMware ESX 5 1 (1.020 %) NetBackup	Vendors 1 12 (12.24 %) VMware 2 9 (9.184 %) Sun 3 5 (5.102 %) HP 3 5 (5.102 %) Citrix 4 4 (4.082 %) EMC 4 4 (4.082 %) Symbian 5 1 (1.020 %) Cisco 5 1 (1.020 %) Microsoft 5 1 (1.020 %) Oracle 5 1 (1.020 %) SAP 5 1 (1.020 %) Red Hat 5 1 (1.020 %) Telelogic