Telford SC Cleared Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Security Check (SC) Clearance skills within the Telford 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 8 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Location Aldershot Andover Avon Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bracknell Brentford Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cardigan Carlisle Ceredigion Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chorley City of London Clydebank Corsham Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Filton Glamorgan Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Thatcham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Wells West Dunbartonshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wimbledon Wirral Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	5	14
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	32	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.043 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	18.50 %	12.90 %
Daily rates quoted	12	1
Average minimum daily rate	£470	£100
Average daily rate	£479	£100
% change on same period last year	+379.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£488	£100
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£375
% change on same period last year	-3.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£11.25
Average hourly rate	£25.75	£11.75
% change on same period last year	+119.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.50	£12.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.43	£30.58
% change on same period last year	+6.06 %
Processes & Methodologies Telford
Matching contract IT job ads	173	62
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.234 %	0.061 %
Daily rates quoted	73	11
Average minimum daily rate	£408	£239
Average daily rate	£429	£242
% change on same period last year	+77.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£450	£244
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£375
% change on same period last year	+0.61 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.38	£19.00
Average hourly rate	£25.25	£20.20
% change on same period last year	+25.01 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.13	£21.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.40	£30.42
% change on same period last year	-0.08 %
SC Cleared Shropshire

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 Telford 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 Telford region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SC Cleared across the Telford region over the 3 months to 8 September 2008.

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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 Telford region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Telford 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 58 (100.00 %) Security Cleared 2 23 (39.66 %) Government 3 14 (24.14 %) MS Excel 4 13 (22.41 %) Microsoft 5 11 (18.97 %) SAP 6 10 (17.24 %) ITIL 7 9 (15.52 %) PRINCE2 7 9 (15.52 %) UNIX 7 9 (15.52 %) MS Project 7 9 (15.52 %) Project Management 8 8 (13.79 %) Migration 8 8 (13.79 %) MS PowerPoint 8 8 (13.79 %) RMADS 9 7 (12.07 %) Information Security 10 6 (10.34 %) Risk Management

10 6 (10.34 %) Finance 10 6 (10.34 %) XML 10 6 (10.34 %) Oracle 11 5 (8.621 %) SQL 11 5 (8.621 %) Risk Assessment 12 4 (6.897 %) ISO27001 12 4 (6.897 %) Telecoms 13 3 (5.172 %) LoadRunner 13 3 (5.172 %) Active Directory 13 3 (5.172 %) WebLogic 13 3 (5.172 %) MS Office 13 3 (5.172 %) Windows 13 3 (5.172 %) MS Exchange 13 3 (5.172 %) HTTP 13 3 (5.172 %) Performance Testing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Telford 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 6 (10.34 %) XML 2 2 (3.448 %) XSLT 2 2 (3.448 %) .NET Framework 2 2 (3.448 %) .NET 2 2 (3.448 %) ASP.NET 2 2 (3.448 %) CSS 2 2 (3.448 %) WebServices 3 1 (1.724 %) Advantage:Gen	Application Platforms 1 3 (5.172 %) WebLogic 1 3 (5.172 %) PegaRULES 1 3 (5.172 %) Exchange Server 5.5 1 3 (5.172 %) Exchange Server 2000 1 3 (5.172 %) Exchange Server 2003 1 3 (5.172 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (3.448 %) BizTalk Server 2 2 (3.448 %) IIS 3 1 (1.724 %) Lotus Notes 3 1 (1.724 %) Tuxedo 3 1 (1.724 %) GroupWise
Applications 1 14 (24.14 %) MS Excel 2 9 (15.52 %) MS Project 3 8 (13.79 %) MS PowerPoint 4 3 (5.172 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (1.724 %) assyst
Communications & Networking 1 3 (5.172 %) HTTP 2 2 (3.448 %) LDAP 2 2 (3.448 %) LAN 2 2 (3.448 %) SSL 2 2 (3.448 %) Firewall 2 2 (3.448 %) WAN 3 1 (1.724 %) VLAN 3 1 (1.724 %) VoIP 3 1 (1.724 %) VPN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (3.448 %) SQL Server 1 2 (3.448 %) Data Mining 2 1 (1.724 %) TOAD
Development Applications 1 3 (5.172 %) LoadRunner	General 1 23 (39.66 %) Government 2 6 (10.34 %) Finance 3 4 (6.897 %) Telecoms 4 2 (3.448 %) Auditing 5 1 (1.724 %) Banking 5 1 (1.724 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 17 (29.31 %) Analyst 2 8 (13.79 %) Architect 3 7 (12.07 %) Risk Analyst 4 6 (10.34 %) Project Controller 5 3 (5.172 %) Performance Tester 5 3 (5.172 %) Tester 5 3 (5.172 %) Network Engineer 6 2 (3.448 %) Solutions Architect 6 2 (3.448 %) Support Engineer 6 2 (3.448 %) Process Analyst 6 2 (3.448 %) Technical Architect 6 2 (3.448 %) Developer 6 2 (3.448 %) Migration Engineer 6 2 (3.448 %) Security Architect 6 2 (3.448 %) Risk Manager 6 2 (3.448 %) Security Manager 7 1 (1.724 %) Information Security Analyst 7 1 (1.724 %) Network Design Engineer 7 1 (1.724 %) Information Security Consultant 7 1 (1.724 %) Services Delivery Manager	Miscellaneous 1 8 (13.79 %) RMADS 2 2 (3.448 %) CESG 3 1 (1.724 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 9 (15.52 %) UNIX 2 3 (5.172 %) Windows 3 1 (1.724 %) HPUX 3 1 (1.724 %) Solaris 3 1 (1.724 %) Linux 3 1 (1.724 %) NetWare	Processes & Methodologies 1 58 (100.00 %) Security Cleared 2 10 (17.24 %) ITIL 3 9 (15.52 %) PRINCE2 3 9 (15.52 %) Project Management 4 8 (13.79 %) Migration 5 7 (12.07 %) Information Security 6 6 (10.34 %) Risk Management 7 5 (8.621 %) Risk Assessment 8 3 (5.172 %) Incident Management 8 3 (5.172 %) Performance Testing 8 3 (5.172 %) Unit Testing 8 3 (5.172 %) Test Scripting 9 2 (3.448 %) PRINCE 9 2 (3.448 %) Service Delivery 9 2 (3.448 %) UML 9 2 (3.448 %) Network Design 9 2 (3.448 %) CRAMM 9 2 (3.448 %) Data Migration 10 1 (1.724 %) Business Intelligence 10 1 (1.724 %) E-business
Programming Languages 1 5 (8.621 %) SQL 2 2 (3.448 %) VB 2 2 (3.448 %) VB.NET 2 2 (3.448 %) Java	Qualifications 1 1 (1.724 %) ISEB 1 1 (1.724 %) PRINCE2 Certification 1 1 (1.724 %) PMP 1 1 (1.724 %) PMI Certification 1 1 (1.724 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (6.897 %) ISO27001 2 2 (3.448 %) COBIT 2 2 (3.448 %) HMG Infosec 2 2 (3.448 %) SLA 3 1 (1.724 %) GAAP	System Software 1 3 (5.172 %) Active Directory 2 1 (1.724 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 2 1 (1.724 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 2 (3.448 %) MIIS 2 1 (1.724 %) OpenView 2 1 (1.724 %) BMC PATROL	Vendors 1 13 (22.41 %) Microsoft 2 11 (18.97 %) SAP 3 6 (10.34 %) Oracle 4 3 (5.172 %) Pega 5 1 (1.724 %) Sybase 5 1 (1.724 %) Cisco 5 1 (1.724 %) Adobe 5 1 (1.724 %) HP 5 1 (1.724 %) Nortel 5 1 (1.724 %) Siemens 5 1 (1.724 %) Lotus 5 1 (1.724 %) CheckPoint 5 1 (1.724 %) webMethods 5 1 (1.724 %) Remedy 5 1 (1.724 %) VMware 5 1 (1.724 %) Mitel