Scotland BC Cleared Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Basic Check (BC) Clearance skills within the Scotland region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited BC Cleared over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Basic Check (BC) Clearance
Location Aldershot Andover Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield Chorley City of London County Antrim Crawley Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Farnborough Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Huntingdon Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West Northern Ireland Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Scotland Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West Southampton Southend-on-Sea Stevenage Surrey Swindon Taunton Teddington Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Waterlooville West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Whitehaven Wiltshire Worcestershire Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	114
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.729 %
Daily rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum daily rate	-	£153
Average daily rate	-	£153
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£153
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£350
% change on same period last year	+2.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£45.00
Average hourly rate	-	£45.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.46	£26.16
% change on same period last year	+12.60 %
Processes & Methodologies Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	1037	1372
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.666 %	1.473 %
Daily rates quoted	246	340
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£331
Average daily rate	£364	£344
% change on same period last year	+5.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£393	£358
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£372
% change on same period last year	+2.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	78	91
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.04	£18.09
Average hourly rate	£22.17	£19.19
% change on same period last year	+15.55 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.31	£20.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.24	£29.63
% change on same period last year	-4.68 %
BC Cleared UK

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 BC Cleared across the Scotland 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 BC Cleared across the Scotland 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 BC Cleared across the Scotland region.

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Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing BC 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 BC Cleared.

1 2 (100.00 %) VB.NET 1 2 (100.00 %) .NET 1 2 (100.00 %) Windows 1 2 (100.00 %) OOA/OOD 1 2 (100.00 %) OO 1 2 (100.00 %) ERP 1 2 (100.00 %) MVC 1 2 (100.00 %) NUnit 1 2 (100.00 %) Security Cleared

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing BC 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 BC Cleared. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (100.00 %) .NET 1 2 (100.00 %) MVC	Development Applications 1 2 (100.00 %) NUnit
Job Titles 1 2 (100.00 %) Software Developer 1 2 (100.00 %) Developer	Operating Systems 1 2 (100.00 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (100.00 %) OOA/OOD 1 2 (100.00 %) OO 1 2 (100.00 %) ERP 1 2 (100.00 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 2 (100.00 %) VB.NET