BC Cleared Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for BC Cleared in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BC Cleared over the 3 months to 21 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 currently tracked.

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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Basic Check (BC) Clearance
Rank 447 461 492
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +31
Contract jobs citing BC Cleared 93 120 88
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.197% 0.205% 0.146%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.091% 1.189% 0.924%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 73 51
Average daily rate £398 £380 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.60% +16.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £331 £250 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £561 £515 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £398 £388 £330
% change year-on-year
+2.58% +17.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 11
Average hourly rate £13.50 £40.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-66.25% +14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.70 £15.00 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.30 £47.50 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.00 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-67.50% +14.28%
All Qualifications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 8525 10094 9522
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 18.06% 17.27% 15.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4567 5265 4539
Average daily rate £375 £375 £375
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £538 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 461 551 661
Average hourly rate £23.35 £22.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.13% -2.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £42.50 £40.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%

BC Cleared
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing BC Cleared within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

BC Cleared Jobs Demand Trend

BC Cleared
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing BC Cleared within the UK.

BC Cleared Daily Rate Trend

BC Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing BC Cleared within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

BC Cleared Daily Rate Histogram

BC Cleared
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing BC Cleared within the UK.

BC Cleared Hourly Rate Trend

BC Cleared
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BC Cleared within the UK over the 3 months to 21 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
England +26 90 £389 +3.66%
London +41 34 £368 -2.00%
City of London +36 27 £290 -26.58%
North West -17 11 - -
South West +23 10 £426 +12.17%
South East +15 8 £425 +18.05%
East Midlands +6 8 £331 -
Cheshire +8 6 - -
West Midlands +8 6 £559 +59.78%
Yorkshire +6 6 £273 -27.33%
Leicestershire - 6 £331 -
Hinckley - 6 £331 -
Eastleigh +5 5 - -
West Yorkshire +5 5 £273 -45.55%
Somerset +2 5 £426 +7.23%
Warrington +1 5 - -
Taunton -1 5 £426 +7.23%
Hampshire -8 5 - -
Blackpool 0 4 - -
Leeds -5 4 - -
Lancashire -16 4 - -
East of England +12 3 - -
North East +8 3 - -
Essex - 3 - -
Southend-on-Sea - 3 - -
Bristol +12 2 - -
Tyne and Wear +9 2 - -
Newcastle upon Tyne +8 2 - -
Shropshire +3 2 £469 +58.89%
Telford +1 2 £469 +58.89%

BC Cleared
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 204 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 129 (63.24%) SC Cleared
3 38 (18.63%) PRINCE2
3 38 (18.63%) Finance
4 33 (16.18%) Project Management
5 31 (15.20%) Microsoft
6 27 (13.24%) ITIL
7 26 (12.75%) Stakeholder Management
7 26 (12.75%) SQL
8 24 (11.76%) Oracle
9 22 (10.78%) Windows
10 21 (10.29%) Java
11 19 (9.314%) TOGAF
11 19 (9.314%) Enterprise Architecture
12 18 (8.824%) .NET
13 17 (8.333%) SQL Server
13 17 (8.333%) Service Management
14 16 (7.843%) Degree
15 15 (7.353%) MS Excel
16 14 (6.863%) J2EE
17 13 (6.373%) C#
17 13 (6.373%) SharePoint
17 13 (6.373%) Management Information System
18 10 (4.902%) Telecoms
18 10 (4.902%) Migration
18 10 (4.902%) Programme Management
18 10 (4.902%) Mainframe
18 10 (4.902%) Service Delivery
18 10 (4.902%) CRM
18 10 (4.902%) UNIX

BC Cleared
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 18 (8.824%) .NET
2 14 (6.863%) J2EE
3 10 (4.902%) Web Services
4 8 (3.922%) XML
4 8 (3.922%) HTML
5 6 (2.941%) .NET Framework
6 4 (1.961%) XSLT
7 3 (1.471%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 3 (1.471%) JPA
7 3 (1.471%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (1.471%) ASP
7 3 (1.471%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.471%) EJB
7 3 (1.471%) CSS
7 3 (1.471%) JMS
8 2 (0.980%) Hibernate
8 2 (0.980%) Middleware
8 2 (0.980%) JSP
8 2 (0.980%) XSD
8 2 (0.980%) XSL
Application Platforms
1 13 (6.373%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.451%) SharePoint 2010
3 4 (1.961%) IIS
4 3 (1.471%) PowerExchange
5 2 (0.980%) SAS
5 2 (0.980%) Apache
5 2 (0.980%) Lotus Notes
5 2 (0.980%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.490%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (0.490%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.490%) WordPress
6 1 (0.490%) LiveCycle
6 1 (0.490%) WebSphere Process Server
6 1 (0.490%) Drupal
6 1 (0.490%) Tuxedo
6 1 (0.490%) TeamSite
6 1 (0.490%) MS Exchange
6 1 (0.490%) CMS
Applications
1 15 (7.353%) MS Excel
2 9 (4.412%) MS Office
3 6 (2.941%) MS Project
4 5 (2.451%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.961%) MS PowerPoint
6 2 (0.980%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 4 (1.961%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.471%) Oracle Financials
2 3 (1.471%) SAP HR
2 3 (1.471%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.471%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.980%) Oracle CRM
4 1 (0.490%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.490%) Oracle Financial Analyzer
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.451%) Intranet
1 5 (2.451%) Internet
1 5 (2.451%) LAN
1 5 (2.451%) WAN
2 4 (1.961%) Ethernet
2 4 (1.961%) ATM
2 4 (1.961%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.961%) VPN
3 3 (1.471%) RIP
3 3 (1.471%) FTP
3 3 (1.471%) ADSL
3 3 (1.471%) SDH
3 3 (1.471%) Firewall
3 3 (1.471%) Frame Relay
3 3 (1.471%) MPLS
3 3 (1.471%) OSPF
3 3 (1.471%) BGP
3 3 (1.471%) EIGRP
4 2 (0.980%) DSL
4 2 (0.980%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.333%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.941%) SQL Server 2005
2 6 (2.941%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (2.451%) Oracle 11g
3 5 (2.451%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.961%) Oracle 10g
4 4 (1.961%) TOAD
4 4 (1.961%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (1.961%) Oracle BI EE
4 4 (1.961%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (1.471%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (1.471%) MS Access
5 3 (1.471%) Oracle 8/8i
6 2 (0.980%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.980%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (0.490%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.490%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.490%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.490%) MySQL
7 1 (0.490%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 5 (2.451%) Maven
1 5 (2.451%) Ant
2 4 (1.961%) Visual Studio
2 4 (1.961%) JUnit
3 3 (1.471%) Hudson
3 3 (1.471%) FindBugs
3 3 (1.471%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (1.471%) AppScan
3 3 (1.471%) Checkstyle
3 3 (1.471%) MSI
4 2 (0.980%) LoadRunner
4 2 (0.980%) JIRA
4 2 (0.980%) Selenium
4 2 (0.980%) Subversion
4 2 (0.980%) NUnit
4 2 (0.980%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.980%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (0.980%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.980%) MSTest
5 1 (0.490%) Cucumber
General
1 38 (18.63%) Finance
2 10 (4.902%) Telecoms
3 7 (3.431%) Marketing
3 7 (3.431%) Legal
4 4 (1.961%) Back Office
5 2 (0.980%) Manufacturing
5 2 (0.980%) Local Government
6 1 (0.490%) General Ledger
6 1 (0.490%) Retail
6 1 (0.490%) Publishing
6 1 (0.490%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.490%) Military
6 1 (0.490%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 27 (13.24%) Analyst
2 23 (11.27%) Developer
3 22 (10.78%) Project Manager
4 21 (10.29%) Architect
5 16 (7.843%) Consultant
6 9 (4.412%) Business Analyst
7 5 (2.451%) Oracle Consultant
7 5 (2.451%) Delivery Manager
7 5 (2.451%) Data Analyst
7 5 (2.451%) Service Manager
7 5 (2.451%) J2EE Developer
7 5 (2.451%) Commercial Manager
7 5 (2.451%) Test Analyst
7 5 (2.451%) Administrator
7 5 (2.451%) DBA
7 5 (2.451%) Applications Developer
8 4 (1.961%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.961%) Senior Manager
8 4 (1.961%) Support Specialist
8 4 (1.961%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.373%) Management Information System
2 10 (4.902%) Mainframe
3 6 (2.941%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (1.961%) Open Source
5 3 (1.471%) Freedom of Information
5 3 (1.471%) Credit Risk
5 3 (1.471%) Freedom of Information Act
5 3 (1.471%) PMI
6 2 (0.980%) Computer Science
6 2 (0.980%) CESG
6 2 (0.980%) CESG CLAS
6 2 (0.980%) Reference Data
6 2 (0.980%) Social Media
7 1 (0.490%) IaaS
7 1 (0.490%) SaaS
7 1 (0.490%) Statistics
7 1 (0.490%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 22 (10.78%) Windows
2 10 (4.902%) UNIX
3 9 (4.412%) Windows 7
3 9 (4.412%) Windows XP
4 8 (3.922%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (2.941%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (2.451%) Linux
7 3 (1.471%) Solaris
8 2 (0.980%) VME
9 1 (0.490%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.490%) Windows Vista
9 1 (0.490%) AIX
9 1 (0.490%) zOS
9 1 (0.490%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (18.63%) PRINCE2
2 33 (16.18%) Project Management
3 27 (13.24%) ITIL
4 26 (12.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 19 (9.314%) TOGAF
5 19 (9.314%) Enterprise Architecture
6 17 (8.333%) Service Management
7 10 (4.902%) Migration
7 10 (4.902%) Programme Management
7 10 (4.902%) Service Delivery
7 10 (4.902%) CRM
7 10 (4.902%) SOA
7 10 (4.902%) Agile Software Development
8 9 (4.412%) Data Modelling
8 9 (4.412%) Change Management
9 8 (3.922%) Financial Modelling
9 8 (3.922%) Information Assurance
9 8 (3.922%) Data Protection
10 7 (3.431%) Test Scripting
11 6 (2.941%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (12.75%) SQL
2 21 (10.29%) Java
3 13 (6.373%) C#
4 7 (3.431%) PL/SQL
5 6 (2.941%) VB.NET
5 6 (2.941%) C
5 6 (2.941%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.961%) VB
7 2 (0.980%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.980%) VBA
7 2 (0.980%) VBScript
8 1 (0.490%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.490%) Bourne shell
8 1 (0.490%) VB6
8 1 (0.490%) Korn
8 1 (0.490%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.490%) Perl
8 1 (0.490%) PHP
8 1 (0.490%) C++
8 1 (0.490%) VC++
Qualifications
1 204 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 129 (63.24%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.843%) Degree
4 9 (4.412%) ISEB
5 7 (3.431%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 4 (1.961%) APMP
7 3 (1.471%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.471%) CCNA
7 3 (1.471%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.471%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.471%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.980%) CCNP
8 2 (0.980%) MCP
8 2 (0.980%) Postgraduate
8 2 (0.980%) CITP
8 2 (0.980%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.980%) MCTS
8 2 (0.980%) ISEB Practitioner
8 2 (0.980%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.490%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.941%) QA
2 3 (1.471%) BS25999
2 3 (1.471%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.471%) ISO 9000
3 2 (0.980%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.490%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.490%) SLA
4 1 (0.490%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.490%) TickIT
System Software
1 5 (2.451%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.980%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (0.980%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.490%) vSphere
3 1 (0.490%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.490%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 3 (1.471%) SCCM
2 1 (0.490%) WSUS
2 1 (0.490%) OpenView
2 1 (0.490%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (0.490%) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors
1 31 (15.20%) Microsoft
2 24 (11.76%) Oracle
3 7 (3.431%) Cisco
3 7 (3.431%) Primavera
4 5 (2.451%) HP
5 4 (1.961%) Informatica
5 4 (1.961%) CheckPoint
5 4 (1.961%) SAP
6 3 (1.471%) Lumension
6 3 (1.471%) VMware
7 2 (0.980%) Remedy
7 2 (0.980%) IBM
7 2 (0.980%) NetApp
7 2 (0.980%) Hyperion
7 2 (0.980%) Lotus
8 1 (0.490%) Facebook
8 1 (0.490%) Twitter
8 1 (0.490%) Talend
8 1 (0.490%) TippingPoint
8 1 (0.490%) Barracuda Networks
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