Stevenage SC Cleared Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Security Check (SC) Clearance skills within the Stevenage region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SC Cleared over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Location Aldershot Andover Avon Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley City of London Clydebank Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Filton Gatwick Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Henlow Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Rugby Ruislip Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stirling Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Thatcham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwickshire Waterlooville Wells Welwyn Garden City West Dunbartonshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	2	14
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	17	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.027 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	27.87 %	5.455 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£250	£300
Average daily rate	£275	£400
% change on same period last year	-31.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£374
% change on same period last year	-4.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.75	-
Average hourly rate	£35.03	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.31	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.28	£30.94
% change on same period last year	-5.36 %
Processes & Methodologies Stevenage
Matching contract IT job ads	61	55
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.096 %	0.059 %
Daily rates quoted	6	11
Average minimum daily rate	£284	£311
Average daily rate	£311	£356
% change on same period last year	-12.82 %
Average maximum daily rate	£337	£402
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£370
% change on same period last year	+2.76 %
Hourly rates quoted	38	39
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.79	£34.26
Average hourly rate	£33.88	£34.97
% change on same period last year	-3.12 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.96	£35.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.17	£29.91
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
SC Cleared Hertfordshire

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 SC Cleared across the Stevenage 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 SC Cleared across the Stevenage 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 SC Cleared across the Stevenage region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SC Cleared across the Stevenage region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Stevenage 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 28 (100.00 %) Security Cleared 2 5 (17.86 %) C 2 5 (17.86 %) C++ 2 5 (17.86 %) Java 2 5 (17.86 %) UML 2 5 (17.86 %) BC Cleared 2 5 (17.86 %) QA 3 4 (14.29 %) Cisco 3 4 (14.29 %) Firmware 3 4 (14.29 %) Project Management 3 4 (14.29 %) MATLAB 3 4 (14.29 %) Telelogic 3 4 (14.29 %) Telelogic DOORS 3 4 (14.29 %) VHDL 4 3 (10.71 %) Cisco Certification

4 3 (10.71 %) VPN 4 3 (10.71 %) CCNP 4 3 (10.71 %) LAN 5 2 (7.143 %) Software Engineering 5 2 (7.143 %) WebSphere 5 2 (7.143 %) Cisco PIX 5 2 (7.143 %) Network Security 5 2 (7.143 %) Service Management 5 2 (7.143 %) Cisco ASA 5 2 (7.143 %) UNIX 5 2 (7.143 %) Windows 5 2 (7.143 %) VxWorks 5 2 (7.143 %) CAD 5 2 (7.143 %) Configuration Management 5 2 (7.143 %) Oracle 9i

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Stevenage 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 2 (7.143 %) HTML 1 2 (7.143 %) WebSphere 2 1 (3.571 %) .NET 2 1 (3.571 %) OpenGL 2 1 (3.571 %) DirectX	Applications 1 4 (14.29 %) MATLAB 2 2 (7.143 %) Simulink 2 2 (7.143 %) MS Excel 3 1 (3.571 %) MS Office 3 1 (3.571 %) CATIA
Business Applications 1 2 (7.143 %) Teamcenter	Communications & Networking 1 3 (10.71 %) LAN 1 3 (10.71 %) VPN 2 2 (7.143 %) Cisco PIX 2 2 (7.143 %) Network Security 2 2 (7.143 %) Cisco ASA 2 2 (7.143 %) Firewall 2 2 (7.143 %) IPsec 3 1 (3.571 %) SSH 3 1 (3.571 %) VLAN 3 1 (3.571 %) WAN 3 1 (3.571 %) FTP 3 1 (3.571 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (3.571 %) OSPF 3 1 (3.571 %) TELNET
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (7.143 %) Oracle 9i 1 2 (7.143 %) MS Access	Development Applications 1 4 (14.29 %) Telelogic DOORS
General 1 2 (7.143 %) Government 2 1 (3.571 %) Games 2 1 (3.571 %) Military 2 1 (3.571 %) Electronics 2 1 (3.571 %) Aerospace	Job Titles 1 8 (28.57 %) Software Engineer 2 4 (14.29 %) Quality Engineer 3 3 (10.71 %) Analyst 3 3 (10.71 %) C Software Engineer 4 2 (7.143 %) Support Engineer 4 2 (7.143 %) Network Analyst 4 2 (7.143 %) Data Analyst 4 2 (7.143 %) C++ Software Engineer 4 2 (7.143 %) Security Specialist 4 2 (7.143 %) Network Specialist 4 2 (7.143 %) Network Security Specialist 5 1 (3.571 %) QA Engineer 5 1 (3.571 %) Desktop Engineer 5 1 (3.571 %) 3rd Line Support 5 1 (3.571 %) 2nd Line Support 5 1 (3.571 %) IT Auditor 5 1 (3.571 %) Support Analyst 5 1 (3.571 %) Developer 5 1 (3.571 %) Auditor 5 1 (3.571 %) PMO Manager
Miscellaneous 1 4 (14.29 %) Firmware 1 4 (14.29 %) VHDL	Operating Systems 1 2 (7.143 %) UNIX 1 2 (7.143 %) Windows 1 2 (7.143 %) VxWorks 2 1 (3.571 %) Windows Vista 2 1 (3.571 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 28 (100.00 %) Security Cleared 2 5 (17.86 %) BC Cleared 2 5 (17.86 %) UML 3 4 (14.29 %) Project Management 4 2 (7.143 %) Service Management 4 2 (7.143 %) CAD 4 2 (7.143 %) Configuration Management 4 2 (7.143 %) Software Engineering 5 1 (3.571 %) Incident Management 5 1 (3.571 %) Security Management 5 1 (3.571 %) Risk Management 5 1 (3.571 %) Validation 5 1 (3.571 %) Programme Management 5 1 (3.571 %) Network Design 5 1 (3.571 %) PRINCE2	Programming Languages 1 5 (17.86 %) C++ 1 5 (17.86 %) Java 1 5 (17.86 %) C 2 2 (7.143 %) JavaScript 2 2 (7.143 %) PL/SQL 2 2 (7.143 %) SQL 3 1 (3.571 %) C#
Qualifications 1 3 (10.71 %) CCNP 1 3 (10.71 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (3.571 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (3.571 %) Degree 2 1 (3.571 %) CCNA 2 1 (3.571 %) HNC 2 1 (3.571 %) HND	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (17.86 %) QA
Vendors 1 4 (14.29 %) Cisco 1 4 (14.29 %) Telelogic 2 2 (7.143 %) Oracle 3 1 (3.571 %) Hummingbird 3 1 (3.571 %) IronPort