SC Cleared Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for SC Cleared in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SC Cleared over the 3 months to 23 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 Scotland 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Check (SC) Clearance
Rank 42 44 88
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +44
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 89 71 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 3.646% 2.690% 0.995%
As % of the Qualifications category 22.08% 21.39% 7.955%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 38 8
Average daily rate £360 £388 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.09% -11.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £321 £296
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £450 £514
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £375 £371
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +1.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 4
Average hourly rate £43.25 £20.00 £19.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+116.25% +1.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.65 £16.40 £10.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.85 £36.50 £35.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £20.00 £24.75
% change year-on-year
+7.50% -19.19%
All Qualifications
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 403 332 352
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 16.51% 12.58% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 159 138
Average daily rate £350 £335 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.47% -4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £215 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £430 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 28 20
Average hourly rate £14.75 £27.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-46.36% +44.73%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £13.04 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.85 £37.50 £175.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
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SC Cleared
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Scotland SC Cleared Daily Rate Histogram

SC Cleared
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland SC Cleared Hourly Rate Trend

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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 23 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
Renfrewshire -2 48 £359 -12.50%
Glasgow -12 29 £354 -4.39%
Highlands -1 1 £363 -46.29%
Edinburgh -1 1 - -
Fife -5 1 - -
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SC Cleared
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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.

1 146 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 90 (61.64%) Windows
3 55 (37.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 44 (30.14%) Microsoft
5 38 (26.03%) Windows XP
6 37 (25.34%) Windows Server 2008
7 26 (17.81%) OpenView Configuration Management
8 25 (17.12%) MS Excel
8 25 (17.12%) Security Architecture
9 23 (15.75%) Active Directory
9 23 (15.75%) MS Office
9 23 (15.75%) Telecoms
10 19 (13.01%) HP
11 18 (12.33%) SQL Server
11 18 (12.33%) SAN
12 16 (10.96%) SQL
12 16 (10.96%) Test Scripting
13 15 (10.27%) Windows 7
13 15 (10.27%) VBScript
13 15 (10.27%) Citrix
13 15 (10.27%) Microsoft Certification
14 14 (9.589%) Veritas
14 14 (9.589%) Netcool
14 14 (9.589%) Service Management
14 14 (9.589%) .NET
14 14 (9.589%) Java
14 14 (9.589%) XML
14 14 (9.589%) Lumension
14 14 (9.589%) Clustering
14 14 (9.589%) VMware

SC Cleared
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 14 (9.589%) .NET
1 14 (9.589%) XML
2 11 (7.534%) .NET Framework
2 11 (7.534%) HTML
3 9 (6.164%) XML Schema
4 6 (4.110%) CSS
4 6 (4.110%) JavaBeans
4 6 (4.110%) Hibernate
4 6 (4.110%) JSF
5 5 (3.425%) XSL
6 4 (2.740%) JSP
6 4 (2.740%) Servlets
7 3 (2.055%) ASP.NET
8 2 (1.370%) J2EE
8 2 (1.370%) Facelets
8 2 (1.370%) JPA
9 1 (0.685%) Regular Expression
9 1 (0.685%) Java EE
9 1 (0.685%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 11 (7.534%) SharePoint
2 9 (6.164%) SharePoint Server
3 8 (5.479%) MS Project Server
4 3 (2.055%) IIS
5 2 (1.370%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.370%) MS Exchange
5 2 (1.370%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.370%) GlassFish
6 1 (0.685%) Lync
6 1 (0.685%) Apache
6 1 (0.685%) CMS
6 1 (0.685%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 25 (17.12%) MS Excel
2 23 (15.75%) MS Office
3 8 (5.479%) MS Project
4 1 (0.685%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.685%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 18 (12.33%) SAN
2 5 (3.425%) LDAP
3 4 (2.740%) Internet
3 4 (2.740%) DHCP
4 3 (2.055%) SNMP
4 3 (2.055%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.055%) SSL
4 3 (2.055%) IPsec
5 2 (1.370%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.33%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.110%) SQL Server 2000
2 6 (4.110%) SQL Server 2005
3 5 (3.425%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (2.055%) MySQL
4 3 (2.055%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 13 (8.904%) TestDirector
2 9 (6.164%) StarTeam
3 3 (2.055%) QuickTest Pro
3 3 (2.055%) WinRunner
4 2 (1.370%) JIRA
4 2 (1.370%) CruiseControl
4 2 (1.370%) Subversion
4 2 (1.370%) Bugzilla
4 2 (1.370%) Trac
4 2 (1.370%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.370%) Hudson
5 1 (0.685%) ClearCase
5 1 (0.685%) MSI
General
1 23 (15.75%) Telecoms
2 12 (8.219%) Finance
2 12 (8.219%) Manufacturing
3 5 (3.425%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (8.904%) Author
1 13 (8.904%) Technical Author
2 11 (7.534%) Desktop Engineer
3 10 (6.849%) Tester
3 10 (6.849%) Developer
3 10 (6.849%) Consultant
4 8 (5.479%) Build Engineer
5 7 (4.795%) Test Engineer
6 6 (4.110%) Architect
6 6 (4.110%) Project Planner
6 6 (4.110%) Java Developer
7 5 (3.425%) Senior Build Engineer
7 5 (3.425%) Senior Desktop Engineer
7 5 (3.425%) Security Engineer
7 5 (3.425%) Analyst
7 5 (3.425%) Systems Engineer
8 4 (2.740%) 2nd Line Support
8 4 (2.740%) Implementation Engineer
9 3 (2.055%) Configuration Management Consultant
9 3 (2.055%) Desktop Support
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.589%) Clustering
2 12 (8.219%) SaaS
3 10 (6.849%) Management Information System
4 9 (6.164%) Cryptography
5 7 (4.795%) Taxonomies
6 6 (4.110%) PDA
7 5 (3.425%) PKI
7 5 (3.425%) Smartcard
8 4 (2.740%) Thin Client
8 4 (2.740%) Fat Client
9 3 (2.055%) CMDB
10 2 (1.370%) Computer Science
10 2 (1.370%) CCTV
11 1 (0.685%) Visualisation
11 1 (0.685%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 90 (61.64%) Windows
2 55 (37.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 38 (26.03%) Windows XP
4 37 (25.34%) Windows Server 2008
5 15 (10.27%) Windows 7
6 12 (8.219%) Solaris
7 8 (5.479%) Windows Vista
8 7 (4.795%) AIX
9 5 (3.425%) Linux
10 2 (1.370%) Android
11 1 (0.685%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (17.12%) Security Architecture
2 16 (10.96%) Test Scripting
3 14 (9.589%) Service Management
4 13 (8.904%) QMS
5 12 (8.219%) ERP
6 9 (6.164%) Release Management
6 9 (6.164%) Migration
7 8 (5.479%) Document Management
7 8 (5.479%) Enterprise Architecture
8 7 (4.795%) Information Security
9 6 (4.110%) Workflow
9 6 (4.110%) Change Management
9 6 (4.110%) Scrum
9 6 (4.110%) Extreme Programming
9 6 (4.110%) Agile Software Development
9 6 (4.110%) Performance Management
10 5 (3.425%) Software Deployment
10 5 (3.425%) Load Balancing
10 5 (3.425%) Configuration Management
11 4 (2.740%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 16 (10.96%) SQL
2 15 (10.27%) VBScript
3 14 (9.589%) Java
4 12 (8.219%) PowerShell
5 11 (7.534%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.795%) C
7 6 (4.110%) C#
8 5 (3.425%) Bourne shell
8 5 (3.425%) Korn
8 5 (3.425%) XPath
8 5 (3.425%) Perl
9 4 (2.740%) PL/SQL
9 4 (2.740%) VB.NET
10 3 (2.055%) Jython
11 2 (1.370%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.685%) C++
Qualifications
1 146 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (10.27%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (4.795%) MCP
4 6 (4.110%) MCSE
5 5 (3.425%) MCTS
5 5 (3.425%) Degree
6 4 (2.740%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.055%) BC Cleared
7 3 (2.055%) CIMA
7 3 (2.055%) CISSP
8 2 (1.370%) ISEB
9 1 (0.685%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.685%) MCSA
9 1 (0.685%) CCNP
9 1 (0.685%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.795%) QA
2 5 (3.425%) SLA
3 1 (0.685%) JSP 440
System Software
1 23 (15.75%) Active Directory
2 10 (6.849%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.110%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (2.740%) VMware ESX
5 3 (2.055%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.685%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.685%) vSphere
6 1 (0.685%) XenApp
6 1 (0.685%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (0.685%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 26 (17.81%) OpenView Configuration Management
2 14 (9.589%) Netcool
3 10 (6.849%) HP Quality Center
4 7 (4.795%) Tivoli
5 6 (4.110%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 6 (4.110%) HP Operations Orchestration
6 4 (2.740%) HP SiteScope
6 4 (2.740%) HP UCMDB
6 4 (2.740%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.685%) WMI
7 1 (0.685%) OpenView
7 1 (0.685%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.685%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 44 (30.14%) Microsoft
2 19 (13.01%) HP
3 15 (10.27%) Citrix
4 14 (9.589%) Veritas
4 14 (9.589%) Lumension
4 14 (9.589%) VMware
5 11 (7.534%) McAfee
6 10 (6.849%) Oracle
7 9 (6.164%) Borland
8 8 (5.479%) IBM
9 7 (4.795%) EMC
10 4 (2.740%) Sophos
11 3 (2.055%) Brocade
11 3 (2.055%) SAP
11 3 (2.055%) Business Objects
11 3 (2.055%) Wyse
11 3 (2.055%) CA
11 3 (2.055%) Symantec
12 2 (1.370%) Sybase
12 2 (1.370%) Dell
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