The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Security Cleared in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Security Cleared over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the 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.

Security Clearance
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank242620
Rank change year-on-year
Up+2Down-6
Matching contract IT job ads334430603393
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK5.721 %5.087 %6.148 %
As % of the Qualifications category33.13 %32.14 %39.83 %
Number of daily rates quoted166411751328
Average daily rate£400£375£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66 %+7.14 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£220£213£215
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£525£513£475
UK excluding London average daily rate£400£365£330
% change year-on-year
+9.58 %+10.60 %
Number of hourly rates quoted212234217
Average hourly rate£25.00£30.63£17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.38 %+80.19 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£12.50£12.10£12.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£50.00£41.40£37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.00£32.00£17.60
% change year-on-year
-21.87 %+81.81 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryAll Qualifications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
1009495218518
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK17.27 %15.83 %15.43 %
Number of daily rates quoted526545393846
Average daily rate£375£375£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-+7.14 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£215£225£203
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£550£525
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£350£325
% change year-on-year
-+7.69 %
Number of hourly rates quoted551661657
Average hourly rate£22.00£22.50£19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.22 %+15.38 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£12.50£12.00£11.58
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.50£40.30£37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£22.50£25.00£18.00
% change year-on-year
-10.00 %+38.88 %

Security Cleared
Demand Trend

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

Security Cleared Demand Trend

Security Cleared
Daily Rate Trend

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

Security Cleared Daily Rate Trend

Security Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Security Cleared within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012.

Security Cleared Daily Rate Histogram

Security Cleared
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Security Cleared Hourly Rate Trend

Security Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Security Cleared within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012.

Security Cleared Hourly Rate Histogram

Security 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 Security Cleared within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandUp+33052£400+6.66 %
South EastDown-1848£360+2.85 %
LondonUp+13727£425+6.25 %
South WestUp+2690£425+13.18 %
North WestUp+15334£430+15.82 %
HampshireNo change0321£380+5.55 %
GloucestershireNo change0306£475+18.75 %
BerkshireDown-4268£358-4.66 %
City of LondonUp+35202£394+5.00 %
CheltenhamUp+1185£475+41.79 %
LancashireUp+2156£433+33.07 %
ReadingDown-2154£365-2.66 %
WalesNo change0149£410+8.75 %
GloucesterNo change0135£475+58.33 %
East of EnglandUp+6131£325-7.14 %
WiltshireUp+11120£375+2.04 %
BuckinghamshireNo change0103£210-39.13 %
PrestonNo change096£425-
StroudNew entry-93£500-
ScotlandUp+3390£400+10.34 %
Milton KeynesNo change090£199-33.75 %
North EastUp+586£250-41.17 %
TewkesburyNo change085£475+13.09 %
SurreyUp+3483£375+20.96 %
CheshireUp+783£425+6.25 %
YorkshireDown-1278£310-11.42 %
West MidlandsDown-1575£325+16.07 %
Tyne and WearUp+1169£255-23.30 %
East MidlandsDown-1068£410+9.33 %
DevonUp+166£325-23.07 %

Security Cleared
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

14341 (64.06 %)SC Cleared
21587 (23.42 %)DV Cleared
31541 (22.74 %)Windows
41210 (17.86 %)Oracle
5972 (14.34 %)Microsoft
6833 (12.29 %)SQL
7755 (11.14 %)C
8674 (9.947 %)Java
9659 (9.726 %)UNIX
10569 (8.397 %)Linux
11565 (8.338 %)Finance
12536 (7.910 %)ITIL
13521 (7.689 %)HP
14504 (7.438 %)Active Directory
15502 (7.409 %)Cisco
16497 (7.335 %)Project Management
17481 (7.099 %)MS Excel
18469 (6.921 %)SQL Server
19459 (6.774 %)VMware
20438 (6.464 %).NET
21429 (6.331 %)PRINCE2
22417 (6.154 %)Windows Server 2003
23404 (5.962 %)Windows Server 2008
24394 (5.815 %)XML
25391 (5.770 %)Firewall
26374 (5.519 %)Migration
27365 (5.387 %)C#
28359 (5.298 %)Telecoms
29349 (5.151 %)SAN
30315 (4.649 %)MS Office

Security Cleared
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1438 (6.464 %).NET
2394 (5.815 %)XML
3296 (4.368 %)Web Services
4253 (3.734 %)J2EE
5232 (3.424 %)HTML
6214 (3.158 %)ASP.NET
7173 (2.553 %)CSS
8134 (1.978 %)WebSphere
9117 (1.727 %)Middleware
10114 (1.682 %)jQuery
11107 (1.579 %).NET Framework
1284 (1.240 %)SOAP
1382 (1.210 %)Ajax
1479 (1.166 %)XSLT
1559 (0.871 %)Spring
1647 (0.694 %)JMS
1647 (0.694 %)JSP
1745 (0.664 %)Hibernate
1844 (0.649 %)ASP
1943 (0.635 %)WCF
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1280 (4.132 %)SharePoint
2205 (3.025 %)MS Exchange
3186 (2.745 %)WebLogic
4119 (1.756 %)IIS
599 (1.461 %)Apache
684 (1.240 %)Exchange Server 2003
778 (1.151 %)SharePoint Server
865 (0.959 %)Exchange Server 2010
962 (0.915 %)Exchange Server 2007
1061 (0.900 %)Oracle Workflow
1158 (0.856 %)Documentum
1158 (0.856 %)SharePoint 2010
1256 (0.826 %)Oracle Application Server
1340 (0.590 %)Office Project Server
1340 (0.590 %)WebSphere Application Server
1439 (0.576 %)Tomcat
1534 (0.502 %)Oracle Service Bus
1632 (0.472 %)Oracle 10gAS
1731 (0.457 %)CMS
1830 (0.443 %)Oracle SOA Suite
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1481 (7.099 %)MS Excel
2315 (4.649 %)MS Office
3216 (3.188 %)MS Project
4115 (1.697 %)MS Visio
551 (0.753 %)MS PowerPoint
623 (0.339 %)Photoshop
722 (0.325 %)MATLAB
814 (0.207 %)Simulink
913 (0.192 %)AutoCAD
1011 (0.162 %)Fireworks
1110 (0.148 %)Acrobat
129 (0.133 %)Spreadsheet
138 (0.118 %)InDesign
146 (0.089 %)Adobe Illustrator
153 (0.044 %)InfoPath
153 (0.044 %)CATIA
153 (0.044 %)Pro/ENGINEER
153 (0.044 %)FrameMaker
162 (0.030 %)RoboHelp
162 (0.030 %)Windchill
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1187 (2.760 %)Oracle EBS
2178 (2.627 %)Oracle EBS R12
3106 (1.564 %)Oracle Applications
485 (1.254 %)Oracle 11i
541 (0.605 %)Oracle Financials
639 (0.576 %)Oracle Payroll
731 (0.457 %)Teamcenter
825 (0.369 %)Oracle BPM
921 (0.310 %)Maximo
921 (0.310 %)SAP SD
1017 (0.251 %)Oracle HRMS
1116 (0.236 %)Oracle ERP
1213 (0.192 %)Oracle iProcurement
1213 (0.192 %)Hyperion Planning
1312 (0.177 %)Dynamics CRM
1312 (0.177 %)Remedy ITSM
1411 (0.162 %)LabWindows
1411 (0.162 %)SAP MM
1510 (0.148 %)SAP BPC
169 (0.133 %)Oracle CRM
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1391 (5.770 %)Firewall
2349 (5.151 %)SAN
3241 (3.557 %)DNS
4207 (3.055 %)TCP/IP
5190 (2.804 %)LAN
6186 (2.745 %)WAN
7170 (2.509 %)DHCP
8140 (2.066 %)Internet
995 (1.402 %)Network Security
1079 (1.166 %)VoIP
1175 (1.107 %)VPN
1258 (0.856 %)Cisco ASA
1353 (0.782 %)NAS
1450 (0.738 %)Wireless
1450 (0.738 %)HTTP
1545 (0.664 %)SMTP
1643 (0.635 %)VLAN
1742 (0.620 %)Ethernet
1840 (0.590 %)Cisco Nexus
1939 (0.576 %)SMS
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1469 (6.921 %)SQL Server
2260 (3.837 %)Oracle 11g
3192 (2.834 %)Oracle 10g
4177 (2.612 %)SQL Server 2005
5146 (2.155 %)Oracle 8/8i
6131 (1.933 %)SQL Server 2008
7115 (1.697 %)ETL
8104 (1.535 %)Data Warehouse
9101 (1.491 %)Oracle BI EE
1082 (1.210 %)Oracle Reports
1176 (1.122 %)RDBMS
1273 (1.077 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1366 (0.974 %)SQL Server 2000
1465 (0.959 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1564 (0.945 %)MySQL
1646 (0.679 %)EDRMS
1740 (0.590 %)DB2
1839 (0.576 %)Oracle OWB
1932 (0.472 %)Oracle Discoverer
1932 (0.472 %)DTS
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1123 (1.815 %)Visual Studio
2102 (1.505 %)MSI
385 (1.254 %)ClearCase
471 (1.048 %)Eclipse
563 (0.930 %)Subversion
647 (0.694 %)ClearQuest
746 (0.679 %)InstallShield
845 (0.664 %)LoadRunner
845 (0.664 %)Team Foundation Server
943 (0.635 %)StarTeam
1040 (0.590 %)LabVIEW
1138 (0.561 %)Oracle Forms
1233 (0.487 %)Rational DOORS
1330 (0.443 %)Oracle APEX
1428 (0.413 %)TestDirector
1428 (0.413 %)QuickTest Pro
1428 (0.413 %)Maven
1527 (0.398 %)Ant
1621 (0.310 %)JUnit
1712 (0.177 %)VSS/SourceSafe
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1565 (8.338 %)Finance
2359 (5.298 %)Telecoms
3128 (1.889 %)Military
475 (1.107 %)Manufacturing
555 (0.812 %)Banking
650 (0.738 %)Electronics
747 (0.694 %)Aerospace
842 (0.620 %)Billing
925 (0.369 %)Legal
1024 (0.354 %)Back Office
1120 (0.295 %)Law
1120 (0.295 %)Marketing
1218 (0.266 %)Publishing
1218 (0.266 %)General Ledger
1315 (0.221 %)Avionics
1413 (0.192 %)Multimedia
159 (0.133 %)Local Government
159 (0.133 %)Automotive
168 (0.118 %)Retail
177 (0.103 %)Financial Institution
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11051 (15.51 %)Developer
2683 (10.08 %)Analyst
3629 (9.283 %)Architect
4617 (9.106 %)Consultant
5340 (5.018 %)Project Manager
6197 (2.907 %)Administrator
7177 (2.612 %)Network Engineer
8170 (2.509 %)Test Analyst
9168 (2.479 %)Support Engineer
10163 (2.406 %)Designer
11162 (2.391 %)Tester
12161 (2.376 %)Oracle Developer
13154 (2.273 %)Technical Architect
14130 (1.919 %)Java Developer
15122 (1.800 %)DBA
15122 (1.800 %)Oracle Consultant
16119 (1.756 %)Support Analyst
16119 (1.756 %)Business Analyst
1798 (1.446 %).NET Developer
1897 (1.432 %)Software Engineer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1199 (2.937 %)Clustering
2174 (2.568 %)Management Information System
3120 (1.771 %)CESG
489 (1.313 %)PKI
586 (1.269 %)CESG CLAS
677 (1.136 %)Client/Server
756 (0.826 %)Computer Science
854 (0.797 %)Blackberry
854 (0.797 %)Thin Client
854 (0.797 %)Replication
854 (0.797 %)Fat Client
951 (0.753 %)DataPower
1043 (0.635 %)RMADS
1135 (0.517 %)Mathematics
1232 (0.472 %)Video Conferencing
1328 (0.413 %)Economics
1328 (0.413 %)CMDB
1427 (0.398 %)Cryptography
1526 (0.384 %)Open Source
1624 (0.354 %)CLARiiON
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11541 (22.74 %)Windows
2659 (9.726 %)UNIX
3569 (8.397 %)Linux
4417 (6.154 %)Windows Server 2003
5404 (5.962 %)Windows Server 2008
6261 (3.852 %)Windows 7
7206 (3.040 %)Windows XP
8205 (3.025 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9204 (3.011 %)Solaris
10161 (2.376 %)AIX
11111 (1.638 %)HPUX
1271 (1.048 %)Windows Vista
1342 (0.620 %)Windows 2000
1439 (0.576 %)Windows NT
1530 (0.443 %)Windows 2000 Server
1626 (0.384 %)Oracle Linux
1719 (0.280 %)CentOS
1719 (0.280 %)Windows Mobile
1817 (0.251 %)Android
1817 (0.251 %)Ubuntu
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1536 (7.910 %)ITIL
2497 (7.335 %)Project Management
3429 (6.331 %)PRINCE2
4374 (5.519 %)Migration
5247 (3.645 %)UML
6243 (3.586 %)Service Delivery
7236 (3.483 %)Configuration Management
8225 (3.321 %)Agile Software Development
9222 (3.276 %)Test Scripting
9222 (3.276 %)Service Management
10214 (3.158 %)SOA
11190 (2.804 %)Stakeholder Management
12175 (2.583 %)Business Intelligence
13148 (2.184 %)Information Security
14144 (2.125 %)Risk Management
15138 (2.037 %)Change Management
16134 (1.978 %)Workflow
17125 (1.845 %)Change Control
18124 (1.830 %)Unit Testing
19119 (1.756 %)Security Architecture
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1833 (12.29 %)SQL
2755 (11.14 %)C
3674 (9.947 %)Java
4365 (5.387 %)C#
5299 (4.413 %)C++
6216 (3.188 %)PL/SQL
7210 (3.099 %)JavaScript
8191 (2.819 %)Shell Script
9187 (2.760 %)VB
10149 (2.199 %)Perl
11118 (1.741 %)VBScript
12115 (1.697 %)PowerShell
13108 (1.594 %)VB.NET
1497 (1.432 %)T-SQL
1572 (1.063 %)Python
1661 (0.900 %)PHP
1732 (0.472 %)VB6
1823 (0.339 %)VBA
1919 (0.280 %)COBOL
2017 (0.251 %)Bash shell
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
14341 (64.06 %)SC Cleared
21587 (23.42 %)DV Cleared
3284 (4.191 %)Degree
4250 (3.689 %)Cisco Certification
5223 (3.291 %)BC Cleared
6165 (2.435 %)ISEB
7147 (2.169 %)Microsoft Certification
8144 (2.125 %)CCNP
9123 (1.815 %)CTC Cleared
10120 (1.771 %)CCNA
11104 (1.535 %)CISSP
1282 (1.210 %)MCSE
1363 (0.930 %)PRINCE2 Certification
1451 (0.753 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
1451 (0.753 %)MCP
1549 (0.723 %)HND
1643 (0.635 %)ITIL Certification
1740 (0.590 %)CCIE
1833 (0.487 %)ISTQB
1931 (0.457 %)RHCE
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1264 (3.896 %)QA
2139 (2.051 %)ISO 9001
3120 (1.771 %)SLA
460 (0.885 %)ISO/IEC 27001
526 (0.384 %)JSP 440
624 (0.354 %)BS7799
717 (0.251 %)DO-178B
815 (0.221 %)COBIT
912 (0.177 %)Data Quality
109 (0.133 %)ISO 9000
117 (0.103 %)PCI DSS
126 (0.089 %)HL7
126 (0.089 %)DO-254
134 (0.059 %)TickIT
143 (0.044 %)BS25999
143 (0.044 %)BS15000
143 (0.044 %)GxP
152 (0.030 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
152 (0.030 %)ISO 14001
152 (0.030 %)JTAG
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1504 (7.438 %)Active Directory
2233 (3.439 %)VMware Infrastructure
397 (1.432 %)VMware ESX
496 (1.417 %)Hyper-V
587 (1.284 %)vSphere
662 (0.915 %)Oracle RAC
741 (0.605 %)VMware ESXi
836 (0.531 %)Oracle RMAN
934 (0.502 %)Terminal Services
1033 (0.487 %)XenApp
1121 (0.310 %)XenDesktop
1218 (0.266 %)Xen
1317 (0.251 %)Samba
1414 (0.207 %)EMC RecoverPoint
1513 (0.192 %)MailMarshal
1513 (0.192 %)VMware Workstation
1612 (0.177 %)Nmap
1710 (0.148 %)ISA Server
1710 (0.148 %)Snort
188 (0.118 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1174 (2.568 %)OpenView Configuration Management
2128 (1.889 %)HP Quality Center
393 (1.372 %)SCCM
490 (1.328 %)Tivoli
560 (0.885 %)NetBackup
650 (0.738 %)Netcool
747 (0.694 %)Data Guard
846 (0.679 %)OpenView
944 (0.649 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
1038 (0.561 %)HP SIM
1133 (0.487 %)HP Data Protector
1232 (0.472 %)McAfee ePO
1330 (0.443 %)EMC NetWorker
1427 (0.398 %)SCOM
1523 (0.339 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1620 (0.295 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
1620 (0.295 %)Backup Exec
1620 (0.295 %)WSUS
1716 (0.236 %)CiscoWorks
1716 (0.236 %)OVSD
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11210 (17.86 %)Oracle
2972 (14.34 %)Microsoft
3521 (7.689 %)HP
4502 (7.409 %)Cisco
5459 (6.774 %)VMware
6288 (4.250 %)Citrix
7220 (3.247 %)Red Hat
8182 (2.686 %)IBM
9153 (2.258 %)SAP
10138 (2.037 %)EMC
11124 (1.830 %)Juniper
12104 (1.535 %)CheckPoint
1396 (1.417 %)JBoss
1477 (1.136 %)Sun
1576 (1.122 %)McAfee
1675 (1.107 %)NetApp
1771 (1.048 %)Symantec
1864 (0.945 %)Veritas
1864 (0.945 %)Business Objects
1947 (0.694 %)Dell