Tyne and Wear Security Cleared Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Security Clearance skills within the Tyne and Wear region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Security Cleared over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aldershot Amersham Andover Avon Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clydebank Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Cowes Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dumbarton Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Feltham Filton Gateshead Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rugby Ruislip Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stirling Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teddington Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Thatcham Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Dunbartonshire West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Whitehaven Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Wirral Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	7	16
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	39	38
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.055 %	0.038 %
As % of the category below	27.46 %	14.39 %
Daily rates quoted	12	13
Average minimum daily rate	£233	£325
Average daily rate	£243	£353
% change on same period last year	-31.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£252	£380
UK excluding London average daily rate	£371	£370
% change on same period last year	+0.26 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.25	£14.00
Average hourly rate	£24.00	£14.75
% change on same period last year	+62.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.75	£15.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.43	£30.47
% change on same period last year	+3.15 %
Processes & Methodologies Tyne and Wear
Matching contract IT job ads	142	264
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.200 %	0.267 %
Daily rates quoted	38	88
Average minimum daily rate	£334	£361
Average daily rate	£343	£375
% change on same period last year	-8.46 %
Average maximum daily rate	£353	£389
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£370
% change on same period last year	+1.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.74	£49.04
Average hourly rate	£22.82	£53.00
% change on same period last year	-56.94 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.90	£56.96
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.44	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-1.89 %
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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 Security Cleared across the Tyne and Wear 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 Security Cleared across the Tyne and Wear region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Security Cleared across the Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 10 October 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 Security Cleared across the Tyne and Wear region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Security Cleared across the Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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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 Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Newcastle	+16	24	£238	-31.63 %
Newcastle Upon Tyne	+2	12	£258	-27.46 %
Gateshead	-4	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 64 (70.33 %) SC Cleared 2 38 (41.76 %) Government 3 31 (34.07 %) Windows 4 20 (21.98 %) Oracle 5 16 (17.58 %) Telecoms 6 15 (16.48 %) Active Directory 6 15 (16.48 %) Windows Server 2003 7 13 (14.29 %) Cisco 8 12 (13.19 %) Oracle 10g 9 10 (10.99 %) CLARiiON 10 9 (9.890 %) J2EE 11 8 (8.791 %) MS Excel 11 8 (8.791 %) VoIP 11 8 (8.791 %) Microsoft 12 7 (7.692 %) HP

12 7 (7.692 %) DNS 12 7 (7.692 %) Windows 2000 12 7 (7.692 %) ITIL 13 6 (6.593 %) IVR 13 6 (6.593 %) Service Management 13 6 (6.593 %) SAP 13 6 (6.593 %) Oracle 8/8i 13 6 (6.593 %) Windows XP 13 6 (6.593 %) Genesys 13 6 (6.593 %) LoadRunner 14 5 (5.495 %) Shell Script 14 5 (5.495 %) Oracle 9i 14 5 (5.495 %) XML 14 5 (5.495 %) Java 14 5 (5.495 %) BC Cleared

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 9 (9.890 %) J2EE 2 5 (5.495 %) XML 3 3 (3.297 %) WebSphere 3 3 (3.297 %) OC4J	Application Platforms 1 3 (3.297 %) Oracle Application Server 2 2 (2.198 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 2 (2.198 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (2.198 %) Oracle 10gAS 3 1 (1.099 %) SharePoint 3 1 (1.099 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 8 (8.791 %) MS Excel 2 3 (3.297 %) MS PowerPoint 2 3 (3.297 %) MS Office 3 2 (2.198 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 2 (2.198 %) SAP SD 2 1 (1.099 %) Oracle Applications 2 1 (1.099 %) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking 1 8 (8.791 %) VoIP 2 7 (7.692 %) DNS 3 4 (4.396 %) HTTP 3 4 (4.396 %) IPCC 4 3 (3.297 %) SAN 4 3 (3.297 %) DHCP 5 2 (2.198 %) Firewall 6 1 (1.099 %) SNMP 6 1 (1.099 %) TCP/IP 6 1 (1.099 %) VPN 6 1 (1.099 %) Network Security	Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (13.19 %) Oracle 10g 2 6 (6.593 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 5 (5.495 %) Oracle 9i 4 2 (2.198 %) BusinessObjects 4 2 (2.198 %) Oracle OWB 5 1 (1.099 %) Oracle Reports 5 1 (1.099 %) Datawarehouse 5 1 (1.099 %) TOAD
Development Applications 1 6 (6.593 %) LoadRunner 2 3 (3.297 %) TestDirector	General 1 38 (41.76 %) Government 2 16 (17.58 %) Telecoms 3 2 (2.198 %) Aerospace 3 2 (2.198 %) Law 4 1 (1.099 %) Police
Job Titles 1 15 (16.48 %) Administrator 2 9 (9.890 %) Consultant 2 9 (9.890 %) Analyst 3 7 (7.692 %) Support Engineer 3 7 (7.692 %) Oracle Consultant 3 7 (7.692 %) Storage Administrator 3 7 (7.692 %) Storage Engineer 3 7 (7.692 %) J2EE Consultant 4 6 (6.593 %) Tester 5 5 (5.495 %) Systems Administrator 5 5 (5.495 %) Performance Tester 6 4 (4.396 %) Server Support 6 4 (4.396 %) Desktop Support 6 4 (4.396 %) Java Consultant 7 3 (3.297 %) Developer 7 3 (3.297 %) 3rd Line Support 7 3 (3.297 %) DBA 7 3 (3.297 %) Test Team Leader 7 3 (3.297 %) Oracle DBA 7 3 (3.297 %) Team Leader	Miscellaneous 1 10 (10.99 %) CLARiiON 2 6 (6.593 %) IVR 3 3 (3.297 %) RMADS 4 1 (1.099 %) Statistics
Operating Systems 1 31 (34.07 %) Windows 2 15 (16.48 %) Windows Server 2003 3 7 (7.692 %) Windows 2000 4 6 (6.593 %) Windows XP 5 4 (4.396 %) Windows Vista 6 3 (3.297 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 3 (3.297 %) Windows NT 6 3 (3.297 %) Solaris 6 3 (3.297 %) Linux 7 1 (1.099 %) AIX 7 1 (1.099 %) HPUX 7 1 (1.099 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 64 (70.33 %) SC Cleared 2 7 (7.692 %) ITIL 3 6 (6.593 %) Service Management 4 5 (5.495 %) BC Cleared 4 5 (5.495 %) Performance Testing 4 5 (5.495 %) Test Scripting 5 4 (4.396 %) Information Security 6 3 (3.297 %) Incident Management 6 3 (3.297 %) E-business 6 3 (3.297 %) Risk Management 6 3 (3.297 %) Validation 7 2 (2.198 %) Configuration Management 7 2 (2.198 %) Project Management 7 2 (2.198 %) Project Planning 7 2 (2.198 %) Risk Analysis 7 2 (2.198 %) Information Management 7 2 (2.198 %) Security Testing 7 2 (2.198 %) Test Management 7 2 (2.198 %) Penetration Testing 7 2 (2.198 %) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages 1 5 (5.495 %) Java 1 5 (5.495 %) Shell Script 2 3 (3.297 %) PL/SQL 2 3 (3.297 %) SQL 3 1 (1.099 %) C 3 1 (1.099 %) C#	Qualifications 1 4 (4.396 %) MCSE 1 4 (4.396 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (3.297 %) HND 2 3 (3.297 %) Degree 3 1 (1.099 %) CCVP 3 1 (1.099 %) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (5.495 %) ISO27001 2 2 (2.198 %) COBIT	System Software 1 15 (16.48 %) Active Directory 2 1 (1.099 %) Backup Exec 2 1 (1.099 %) Oracle RMAN 2 1 (1.099 %) Oracle RAC
Systems Management 1 1 (1.099 %) OpenView Configuration Management	Vendors 1 20 (21.98 %) Oracle 2 13 (14.29 %) Cisco 3 8 (8.791 %) Microsoft 4 7 (7.692 %) HP 5 6 (6.593 %) Genesys 5 6 (6.593 %) SAP 6 3 (3.297 %) McAfee Security 6 3 (3.297 %) Dell 6 3 (3.297 %) IBM 7 2 (2.198 %) Business Objects 7 2 (2.198 %) CheckPoint 8 1 (1.099 %) Siemens 8 1 (1.099 %) VERITAS 8 1 (1.099 %) Citrix 8 1 (1.099 %) Compuware