The first table below looks at the demand for Security 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 Security 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 Clearance
Rank 1 1 -
Rank change year-on-year
0 -
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 61 27 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Renfrewshire 96.83% 75.00% -
As % of the Qualifications category 100.00% 87.10% -
Number of daily rates quoted 55 18 0
Average daily rate £370 £410 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.75% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £400 £366
% change year-on-year
-7.50% +9.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.00 £25.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+16.00% -23.07%
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%
Security Cleared
Scotland

Security Cleared
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Renfrewshire Security Cleared Jobs Demand Trend

Security Cleared
Daily Rate Trend

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

Renfrewshire Security Cleared Daily Rate Trend

Security Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Renfrewshire Security Cleared Daily Rate Histogram

Security Cleared
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 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 0 60 £370 -9.75%
Security Cleared
Scotland

Security Cleared
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Renfrewshire 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 81 (84.38%) SC Cleared
2 73 (76.04%) Windows
3 50 (52.08%) Windows Server 2003
4 38 (39.58%) Microsoft
5 37 (38.54%) Windows Server 2008
6 36 (37.50%) Windows XP
7 34 (35.42%) OpenView Configuration Management
8 20 (20.83%) Telecoms
9 18 (18.75%) Netcool
9 18 (18.75%) SAN
10 17 (17.71%) Security Architecture
11 16 (16.67%) Veritas
11 16 (16.67%) Active Directory
11 16 (16.67%) MS Excel
11 16 (16.67%) MS Office
12 15 (15.63%) Solaris
12 15 (15.63%) Citrix
13 14 (14.58%) HP
13 14 (14.58%) Clustering
13 14 (14.58%) Windows 7
13 14 (14.58%) Test Scripting
14 13 (13.54%) VMware
14 13 (13.54%) McAfee
14 13 (13.54%) TestDirector
14 13 (13.54%) XML
15 12 (12.50%) AIX
15 12 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (12.50%) Lumension
16 11 (11.46%) HP Quality Center
16 11 (11.46%) Tivoli

Security Cleared
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Renfrewshire 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 13 (13.54%) XML
2 9 (9.375%) .NET
3 7 (7.292%) .NET Framework
3 7 (7.292%) XML Schema
4 4 (4.167%) XSL
4 4 (4.167%) HTML
5 2 (2.083%) XSLT
5 2 (2.083%) Ajax
5 2 (2.083%) MooTools
6 1 (1.042%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 11 (11.46%) SharePoint
2 10 (10.42%) SharePoint Server
3 3 (3.125%) MS Project Server
3 3 (3.125%) IIS
4 2 (2.083%) Apache
4 2 (2.083%) MS Exchange
5 1 (1.042%) CMS
Applications
1 16 (16.67%) MS Excel
1 16 (16.67%) MS Office
2 4 (4.167%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 18 (18.75%) SAN
2 9 (9.375%) DHCP
2 9 (9.375%) TCP/IP
3 6 (6.250%) DNS
3 6 (6.250%) NAS
4 4 (4.167%) LDAP
5 3 (3.125%) IPsec
5 3 (3.125%) Internet
5 3 (3.125%) SSL
6 1 (1.042%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.46%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.167%) SQL Server 2005
2 4 (4.167%) SQL Server 2000
3 3 (3.125%) MySQL
4 2 (2.083%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (2.083%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 13 (13.54%) TestDirector
2 10 (10.42%) StarTeam
3 4 (4.167%) WinRunner
3 4 (4.167%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 20 (20.83%) Telecoms
2 11 (11.46%) Finance
3 10 (10.42%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.083%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (10.42%) Author
1 10 (10.42%) Technical Author
2 9 (9.375%) Tester
3 7 (7.292%) Build Engineer
3 7 (7.292%) Consultant
3 7 (7.292%) Desktop Engineer
4 6 (6.250%) Test Engineer
5 5 (5.208%) Senior Build Engineer
5 5 (5.208%) Senior Desktop Engineer
6 4 (4.167%) Architect
6 4 (4.167%) Implementation Engineer
7 3 (3.125%) Management Consultant
7 3 (3.125%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (3.125%) Security Engineer
7 3 (3.125%) Configuration Management Consultant
8 2 (2.083%) Technical Leader
8 2 (2.083%) Design Engineer
8 2 (2.083%) Technical Consultant
8 2 (2.083%) Analyst
9 1 (1.042%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.58%) Clustering
2 10 (10.42%) SaaS
3 7 (7.292%) Cryptography
4 6 (6.250%) Management Information System
4 6 (6.250%) Taxonomies
5 5 (5.208%) PDA
6 4 (4.167%) PKI
6 4 (4.167%) Smartcard
7 3 (3.125%) Fat Client
7 3 (3.125%) CMDB
7 3 (3.125%) Thin Client
8 1 (1.042%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 73 (76.04%) Windows
2 50 (52.08%) Windows Server 2003
3 37 (38.54%) Windows Server 2008
4 36 (37.50%) Windows XP
5 15 (15.63%) Solaris
6 14 (14.58%) Windows 7
7 12 (12.50%) AIX
8 10 (10.42%) Linux
9 6 (6.250%) Windows Vista
10 2 (2.083%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (17.71%) Security Architecture
2 14 (14.58%) Test Scripting
3 10 (10.42%) Service Management
3 10 (10.42%) ERP
3 10 (10.42%) QMS
4 9 (9.375%) Software Distribution
4 9 (9.375%) Configuration Management
5 6 (6.250%) Document Management
6 5 (5.208%) Software Deployment
6 5 (5.208%) Release Management
6 5 (5.208%) Migration
6 5 (5.208%) Information Security
6 5 (5.208%) Enterprise Architecture
7 4 (4.167%) Test Automation
7 4 (4.167%) Capacity Management
8 3 (3.125%) Information Assurance
8 3 (3.125%) Workflow
9 2 (2.083%) Business Intelligence
9 2 (2.083%) ITIL
9 2 (2.083%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (11.46%) VBScript
2 8 (8.333%) PowerShell
3 7 (7.292%) C
4 6 (6.250%) C#
4 6 (6.250%) Java
4 6 (6.250%) JavaScript
4 6 (6.250%) SQL
5 4 (4.167%) Perl
5 4 (4.167%) XPath
5 4 (4.167%) Korn
5 4 (4.167%) Bourne shell
6 3 (3.125%) Jython
6 3 (3.125%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 81 (84.38%) SC Cleared
2 12 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (7.292%) MCP
4 4 (4.167%) MCSE
5 3 (3.125%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.125%) CISSP
6 2 (2.083%) MCTS
6 2 (2.083%) CIMA
7 1 (1.042%) BC Cleared
7 1 (1.042%) MCSA
7 1 (1.042%) CCNP
7 1 (1.042%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.125%) QA
2 2 (2.083%) SLA
3 1 (1.042%) JSP 440
System Software
1 16 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.250%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.167%) VMware ESX
4 3 (3.125%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (2.083%) vSphere
6 1 (1.042%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (1.042%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 34 (35.42%) OpenView Configuration Management
2 18 (18.75%) Netcool
3 11 (11.46%) HP Quality Center
3 11 (11.46%) Tivoli
4 6 (6.250%) McAfee ePO
5 4 (4.167%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 4 (4.167%) HP Operations Orchestration
6 3 (3.125%) HP SiteScope
6 3 (3.125%) HP UCMDB
7 1 (1.042%) WMI
7 1 (1.042%) OpenView
7 1 (1.042%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 38 (39.58%) Microsoft
2 16 (16.67%) Veritas
3 15 (15.63%) Citrix
4 14 (14.58%) HP
5 13 (13.54%) VMware
5 13 (13.54%) McAfee
6 12 (12.50%) Lumension
7 10 (10.42%) Borland
8 5 (5.208%) IBM
9 4 (4.167%) EMC
9 4 (4.167%) Sophos
10 3 (3.125%) Symantec
10 3 (3.125%) Wyse
10 3 (3.125%) Oracle
10 3 (3.125%) CA
11 2 (2.083%) Business Objects
11 2 (2.083%) SAP
12 1 (1.042%) Brocade
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