The first table below looks at the demand for SC Cleared in IT contracts advertised for the Renfrewshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SC Cleared over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications for the Renfrewshire region.

Note that 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.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Check (SC) Clearance
Rank 3 1 -
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 47 27 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Renfrewshire 74.60% 75.00% -
As % of the Qualifications category 77.05% 87.10% -
Number of daily rates quoted 43 18 0
Average daily rate £358 £410 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.80% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £375 £371
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +1.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £20.00 £24.75
% change year-on-year
+7.50% -19.19%
All Qualifications
Renfrewshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
61 31 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Renfrewshire 96.83% 86.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 55 19 0
Average daily rate £370 £405 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.64% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
SC Cleared
Scotland

SC Cleared
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SC Cleared across the Renfrewshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Renfrewshire SC Cleared Jobs Demand Trend

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Trend

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

Renfrewshire SC Cleared Daily Rate Trend

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SC Cleared across the Renfrewshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Renfrewshire SC Cleared Daily Rate Histogram

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 Renfrewshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. 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
(Click each for more statistics)
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
Erskine -2 46 £359 -12.50%
SC Cleared
Scotland

SC Cleared
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Renfrewshire 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 81 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 59 (72.84%) Windows
3 37 (45.68%) Windows Server 2003
4 29 (35.80%) Microsoft
5 28 (34.57%) Windows XP
6 26 (32.10%) Windows Server 2008
7 23 (28.40%) OpenView Configuration Management
8 20 (24.69%) Telecoms
9 16 (19.75%) Active Directory
9 16 (19.75%) MS Office
9 16 (19.75%) Security Architecture
10 15 (18.52%) MS Excel
11 14 (17.28%) HP
12 13 (16.05%) Test Scripting
13 12 (14.81%) SAN
14 11 (13.58%) TestDirector
14 11 (13.58%) Microsoft Certification
14 11 (13.58%) Finance
15 10 (12.35%) Manufacturing
15 10 (12.35%) Service Management
15 10 (12.35%) Netcool
15 10 (12.35%) Citrix
15 10 (12.35%) ERP
15 10 (12.35%) XML
15 10 (12.35%) VBScript
15 10 (12.35%) QMS
15 10 (12.35%) Lumension
15 10 (12.35%) Windows 7
15 10 (12.35%) SaaS
16 9 (11.11%) HP Quality Center

SC Cleared
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Renfrewshire 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 10 (12.35%) XML
2 6 (7.407%) .NET Framework
2 6 (7.407%) .NET
2 6 (7.407%) XML Schema
3 4 (4.938%) XSL
3 4 (4.938%) HTML
4 1 (1.235%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 7 (8.642%) SharePoint
2 5 (6.173%) SharePoint Server
3 3 (3.704%) IIS
3 3 (3.704%) MS Project Server
4 1 (1.235%) CMS
Applications
1 16 (19.75%) MS Office
2 15 (18.52%) MS Excel
3 3 (3.704%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 12 (14.81%) SAN
2 4 (4.938%) LDAP
3 3 (3.704%) DHCP
3 3 (3.704%) TCP/IP
3 3 (3.704%) SSL
3 3 (3.704%) IPsec
4 1 (1.235%) SNMP
4 1 (1.235%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.704%) MySQL
3 2 (2.469%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (2.469%) SQL Server 2000
3 2 (2.469%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (2.469%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 11 (13.58%) TestDirector
2 9 (11.11%) StarTeam
3 2 (2.469%) QuickTest Pro
3 2 (2.469%) WinRunner
General
1 20 (24.69%) Telecoms
2 11 (13.58%) Finance
3 10 (12.35%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.469%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (12.35%) Author
1 10 (12.35%) Technical Author
2 8 (9.877%) Tester
3 7 (8.642%) Consultant
4 6 (7.407%) Build Engineer
4 6 (7.407%) Desktop Engineer
5 5 (6.173%) Test Engineer
6 4 (4.938%) Senior Build Engineer
6 4 (4.938%) Architect
6 4 (4.938%) Implementation Engineer
6 4 (4.938%) Senior Desktop Engineer
7 3 (3.704%) Configuration Management Consultant
7 3 (3.704%) Security Engineer
7 3 (3.704%) Management Consultant
7 3 (3.704%) Systems Engineer
8 2 (2.469%) Technical Consultant
8 2 (2.469%) Analyst
8 2 (2.469%) Technical Leader
9 1 (1.235%) Technical Engineer
9 1 (1.235%) Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.35%) SaaS
2 6 (7.407%) Clustering
2 6 (7.407%) Cryptography
3 5 (6.173%) Taxonomies
3 5 (6.173%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.938%) PKI
4 4 (4.938%) PDA
4 4 (4.938%) Smartcard
5 3 (3.704%) Thin Client
5 3 (3.704%) CMDB
5 3 (3.704%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.235%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 59 (72.84%) Windows
2 37 (45.68%) Windows Server 2003
3 28 (34.57%) Windows XP
4 26 (32.10%) Windows Server 2008
5 10 (12.35%) Windows 7
6 9 (11.11%) Solaris
7 6 (7.407%) Windows Vista
8 4 (4.938%) Linux
8 4 (4.938%) AIX
9 1 (1.235%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (19.75%) Security Architecture
2 13 (16.05%) Test Scripting
3 10 (12.35%) Service Management
3 10 (12.35%) ERP
3 10 (12.35%) QMS
4 5 (6.173%) Document Management
4 5 (6.173%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (6.173%) Software Deployment
4 5 (6.173%) Release Management
5 4 (4.938%) Capacity Management
5 4 (4.938%) Migration
5 4 (4.938%) Information Security
6 3 (3.704%) Configuration Management
6 3 (3.704%) Workflow
6 3 (3.704%) Software Distribution
6 3 (3.704%) Information Assurance
7 2 (2.469%) Test Automation
7 2 (2.469%) Performance Management
7 2 (2.469%) Earned Value Management
7 2 (2.469%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.35%) VBScript
2 7 (8.642%) C
2 7 (8.642%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.938%) Bourne shell
3 4 (4.938%) Korn
3 4 (4.938%) XPath
3 4 (4.938%) Java
3 4 (4.938%) JavaScript
3 4 (4.938%) Perl
3 4 (4.938%) SQL
4 3 (3.704%) C#
4 3 (3.704%) Jython
5 2 (2.469%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 81 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.58%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (7.407%) MCP
4 3 (3.704%) MCSE
5 2 (2.469%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.469%) CIMA
5 2 (2.469%) MCTS
5 2 (2.469%) CISSP
6 1 (1.235%) MCSA
6 1 (1.235%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.235%) CCNP
6 1 (1.235%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.704%) QA
2 2 (2.469%) SLA
3 1 (1.235%) JSP 440
System Software
1 16 (19.75%) Active Directory
2 6 (7.407%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.469%) VMware ESX
3 2 (2.469%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (1.235%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (1.235%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 23 (28.40%) OpenView Configuration Management
2 10 (12.35%) Netcool
3 9 (11.11%) HP Quality Center
4 5 (6.173%) Tivoli
5 4 (4.938%) HP Operations Orchestration
5 4 (4.938%) Netcool/OMNIbus
6 3 (3.704%) HP SiteScope
6 3 (3.704%) HP UCMDB
7 2 (2.469%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (1.235%) OpenView
8 1 (1.235%) Tivoli Monitoring
8 1 (1.235%) WMI
Vendors
1 29 (35.80%) Microsoft
2 14 (17.28%) HP
3 10 (12.35%) Citrix
3 10 (12.35%) Lumension
4 9 (11.11%) McAfee
4 9 (11.11%) Borland
4 9 (11.11%) VMware
5 8 (9.877%) Veritas
6 5 (6.173%) IBM
7 4 (4.938%) Sophos
7 4 (4.938%) EMC
8 3 (3.704%) Oracle
8 3 (3.704%) CA
8 3 (3.704%) Symantec
8 3 (3.704%) Wyse
9 2 (2.469%) SAP
9 2 (2.469%) Business Objects
10 1 (1.235%) Brocade
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