Reading DV Cleared Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for DV Cleared in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DV Cleared over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications for the Reading region.

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
Location Aldershot Berkshire Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Bude Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Cornwall Devon Docklands, London Dorset East of England England Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Home Counties Kent Liverpool London Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Norfolk North West Norwich Reading Romsey South East South West Surrey UK Wiltshire	3 months to 19 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	46	35	60
Rank change year-on-year	-11 +25
Matching contract IT job ads	6	18	6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading	0.974 %	2.769 %	0.703 %
As % of the Qualifications category	3.030 %	9.524 %	3.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	3	3
Average daily rate	-	£413	£433
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	- -4.730 %
UK excluding London average daily rate	£375	£400	£429
% change year-on-year	-6.250 % -6.750 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	6	0
Average hourly rate	£14.50	£12.00	-
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	+20.83 % -
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.50	£12.58	£30.75
% change year-on-year	+55.06 % -59.10 %
All Qualifications Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Qualifications category	198	189	200
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading	32.14 %	29.08 %	23.45 %
Daily rates quoted	63	44	81
Average daily rate	£375	£400	£375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	-6.250 % +6.660 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£275	£300	£190
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£450	£500	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£350	£350
% change year-on-year	-7.140 % -
Hourly rates quoted	21	15	17
Average hourly rate	£23.13	£25.00	£32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	-7.500 % -23.07 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£14.50	£12.00	£18.90
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£42.50	£50.00	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.00	£25.00	£25.00
% change year-on-year	-16.00 % -
DV Cleared Berkshire

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing DV Cleared across the Reading 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 DV Cleared across the Reading 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 DV Cleared across the Reading region.

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Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing DV 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 DV Cleared.

1 12 (100.00 %) Security Cleared 2 6 (50.00 %) SC Cleared 3 3 (25.00 %) Government 4 2 (16.67 %) Penetration Testing 4 2 (16.67 %) Technical Architecture 4 2 (16.67 %) UNIX 5 1 (8.333 %) Service Management 5 1 (8.333 %) Windows 5 1 (8.333 %) Microsoft 5 1 (8.333 %) HP 5 1 (8.333 %) OpenView Configuration Management 5 1 (8.333 %) Configuration Management 5 1 (8.333 %) MSI 5 1 (8.333 %) Web Development 5 1 (8.333 %) QA

5 1 (8.333 %) Security Testing 5 1 (8.333 %) Unit Testing 5 1 (8.333 %) Statistics 5 1 (8.333 %) VBScript 5 1 (8.333 %) VB 5 1 (8.333 %) Visual Studio 5 1 (8.333 %) VMware

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing DV 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 DV Cleared. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Development Applications 1 1 (8.333 %) Visual Studio	General 1 3 (25.00 %) Government
Job Titles 1 4 (33.33 %) IMAC Engineer 2 2 (16.67 %) Architect 3 1 (8.333 %) Tester 3 1 (8.333 %) Developer 3 1 (8.333 %) Consultant 3 1 (8.333 %) Applications Developer 3 1 (8.333 %) Applications Packager 3 1 (8.333 %) Security Consultant 3 1 (8.333 %) Software Developer 3 1 (8.333 %) Team Leader 3 1 (8.333 %) Penetration Tester	Miscellaneous 1 1 (8.333 %) Statistics
Operating Systems 1 2 (16.67 %) UNIX 2 1 (8.333 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (16.67 %) Penetration Testing 1 2 (16.67 %) Technical Architecture 2 1 (8.333 %) Service Management 2 1 (8.333 %) Configuration Management 2 1 (8.333 %) Web Development 2 1 (8.333 %) Security Testing 2 1 (8.333 %) Unit Testing
Programming Languages 1 1 (8.333 %) VBScript 1 1 (8.333 %) VB	Qualifications 1 12 (100.00 %) Security Cleared 2 6 (50.00 %) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (8.333 %) QA	Systems Management 1 1 (8.333 %) OpenView Configuration Management 1 1 (8.333 %) MSI
Vendors 1 1 (8.333 %) Microsoft 1 1 (8.333 %) HP 1 1 (8.333 %) VMware