Preston SC Cleared Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Security Check (SC) Clearance skills within the Preston 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	17	16
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	1	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	2.273 %	3.226 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£95
Average daily rate	-	£95
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£95
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£366
% change on same period last year	-1.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.00	-
Average hourly rate	£18.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.60	£30.39
% change on same period last year	-2.59 %
Processes & Methodologies Preston
Matching contract IT job ads	44	62
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.062 %	0.063 %
Daily rates quoted	7	5
Average minimum daily rate	£312	£273
Average daily rate	£335	£292
% change on same period last year	+14.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£311
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£370
% change on same period last year	+1.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	19	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.90	£32.08
Average hourly rate	£27.47	£33.52
% change on same period last year	-18.04 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.03	£34.96
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.44	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-1.89 %
SC Cleared Lancashire

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 Preston 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 Preston region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Preston 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 2 (100.00 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (50.00 %) IBM 2 1 (50.00 %) Microsoft 2 1 (50.00 %) HP 2 1 (50.00 %) Dell 2 1 (50.00 %) Toshiba 2 1 (50.00 %) Government

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Preston 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.

General 1 1 (50.00 %) Government	Job Titles 1 1 (50.00 %) Consultant 1 1 (50.00 %) Hardware Engineer 1 1 (50.00 %) Break Fix Engineer
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (100.00 %) Security Cleared	Vendors 1 1 (50.00 %) IBM 1 1 (50.00 %) Microsoft 1 1 (50.00 %) HP 1 1 (50.00 %) Dell 1 1 (50.00 %) Toshiba