Uxbridge Security Cleared Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Security Clearance skills within the Uxbridge 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 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Security Clearance
Location Aberdeen Aldershot Andover Avon Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bradford-on-Avon Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clydebank Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Cowes Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Filton Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Henlow Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Wight 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 Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rugby Ruislip Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark Spalding St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stirling Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Thatcham Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Dunbartonshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Whitehaven Wiltshire Winchester Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	1	6
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	90	25
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.142 %	0.027 %
As % of the category below	59.21 %	22.73 %
Daily rates quoted	28	1
Average minimum daily rate	£297	£400
Average daily rate	£322	£525
% change on same period last year	-38.69 %
Average maximum daily rate	£347	£650
UK excluding London average daily rate	£366	£373
% change on same period last year	-1.95 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.20	-
Average hourly rate	£16.75	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.30	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.68	£30.08
% change on same period last year	+1.99 %
Processes & Methodologies Uxbridge
Matching contract IT job ads	152	110
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.239 %	0.118 %
Daily rates quoted	47	28
Average minimum daily rate	£330	£298
Average daily rate	£350	£327
% change on same period last year	+7.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£371	£356
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£370
% change on same period last year	+2.76 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.61	£33.51
Average hourly rate	£19.46	£34.44
% change on same period last year	-43.49 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.31	£35.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.17	£29.91
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
Security Cleared London

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.

Security Cleared
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Security Cleared across the Uxbridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Security Cleared
Daily Rate Trend

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

Security Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Security Cleared
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Security Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Security Cleared
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Uxbridge 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.

1 169 (84.08 %) SC Cleared 2 106 (52.74 %) Government 3 36 (17.91 %) Windows 4 27 (13.43 %) Linux 5 22 (10.95 %) Service Management 6 18 (8.955 %) Red Hat 6 18 (8.955 %) Software Testing 6 18 (8.955 %) MS PowerPoint 7 17 (8.458 %) Windows Server 2003 8 16 (7.960 %) C 8 16 (7.960 %) Citrix 8 16 (7.960 %) Red Hat Linux 9 15 (7.463 %) User Acceptance Testing 9 15 (7.463 %) HP 10 14 (6.965 %) BMC

10 14 (6.965 %) Cisco 10 14 (6.965 %) MS Office 10 14 (6.965 %) Oracle 10 14 (6.965 %) ITIL 11 13 (6.468 %) MS Excel 11 13 (6.468 %) Active Directory 11 13 (6.468 %) Remedy 12 12 (5.970 %) Symantec 12 12 (5.970 %) MS Exchange 12 12 (5.970 %) Altiris 12 12 (5.970 %) PKI 13 11 (5.473 %) NetBackup 14 10 (4.975 %) Exchange Server 2007 14 10 (4.975 %) Windows XP 14 10 (4.975 %) Microsoft

Security Cleared
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Uxbridge 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 7 (3.483 %) J2EE 2 5 (2.488 %) Middleware 3 2 (0.995 %) Oracle Streams 3 2 (0.995 %) Hibernate 3 2 (0.995 %) DAO 3 2 (0.995 %) Spring 4 1 (0.498 %) WebSphere 4 1 (0.498 %) Apache FOP 4 1 (0.498 %) EJB 4 1 (0.498 %) Servlets 4 1 (0.498 %) SOAP 4 1 (0.498 %) Struts 4 1 (0.498 %) WebServices 4 1 (0.498 %) XML 4 1 (0.498 %) HTML 4 1 (0.498 %) MVC	Application Platforms 1 12 (5.970 %) MS Exchange 2 10 (4.975 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 3 (1.493 %) WebLogic 4 2 (0.995 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 1 (0.498 %) ESB 5 1 (0.498 %) CMS 5 1 (0.498 %) Oracle Workflow
Applications 1 18 (8.955 %) MS PowerPoint 2 14 (6.965 %) MS Office 3 13 (6.468 %) MS Excel 4 2 (0.995 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 2 (0.995 %) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking 1 9 (4.478 %) Firewall 2 7 (3.483 %) NetScreen 2 7 (3.483 %) Cisco ASA 3 6 (2.985 %) SAN 3 6 (2.985 %) Internet 4 4 (1.990 %) WAN 4 4 (1.990 %) LDAP 5 2 (0.995 %) LAN 5 2 (0.995 %) VoIP 5 2 (0.995 %) TCP/IP 5 2 (0.995 %) IP Telephony 5 2 (0.995 %) Network Security 5 2 (0.995 %) iSCSI 6 1 (0.498 %) WLAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (4.478 %) Data Mining 2 7 (3.483 %) Oracle 10g 3 6 (2.985 %) BusinessObjects 4 4 (1.990 %) Datawarehouse 5 3 (1.493 %) Crystal Reports 6 2 (0.995 %) SQL Server 6 2 (0.995 %) ETL 6 2 (0.995 %) RDBMS 6 2 (0.995 %) Oracle 9i 7 1 (0.498 %) Star Schema 7 1 (0.498 %) MySQL 7 1 (0.498 %) Oracle Reports
Development Applications 1 4 (1.990 %) QuickTest Pro 2 3 (1.493 %) LoadRunner 3 2 (0.995 %) ClearQuest 3 2 (0.995 %) MSI 3 2 (0.995 %) TestDirector 4 1 (0.498 %) JUnit	General 1 106 (52.74 %) Government 2 7 (3.483 %) Legal 3 4 (1.990 %) Home Office 3 4 (1.990 %) Health 4 3 (1.493 %) Construction 5 2 (0.995 %) Telecoms 5 2 (0.995 %) Finance 6 1 (0.498 %) Military 6 1 (0.498 %) Auditing
Job Titles 1 19 (9.453 %) Architect 1 19 (9.453 %) Author 1 19 (9.453 %) Technical Author 2 16 (7.960 %) Test Manager 3 15 (7.463 %) Analyst 3 15 (7.463 %) Administrator 4 14 (6.965 %) Data Centre Engineer 5 13 (6.468 %) Technical Architect 6 10 (4.975 %) Tester 6 10 (4.975 %) Consultant 7 9 (4.478 %) Developer 7 9 (4.478 %) Training Manager 8 8 (3.980 %) PMO Administrator 8 8 (3.980 %) Rollout Engineer 8 8 (3.980 %) Migration Engineer 9 7 (3.483 %) UAT Test Manager 10 6 (2.985 %) Infrastructure Architect 10 6 (2.985 %) Team Leader 10 6 (2.985 %) Test Coordinator 10 6 (2.985 %) Test Team Leader	Miscellaneous 1 12 (5.970 %) PKI 2 4 (1.990 %) Fat Client 2 4 (1.990 %) Thin Client 3 3 (1.493 %) Clustering 4 2 (0.995 %) Video Conferencing 4 2 (0.995 %) N-Tier
Operating Systems 1 36 (17.91 %) Windows 2 27 (13.43 %) Linux 3 17 (8.458 %) Windows Server 2003 4 16 (7.960 %) Red Hat Linux 5 10 (4.975 %) Windows XP 6 4 (1.990 %) Solaris 7 3 (1.493 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 169 (84.08 %) SC Cleared 2 22 (10.95 %) Service Management 3 18 (8.955 %) Software Testing 4 15 (7.463 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 14 (6.965 %) ITIL 6 10 (4.975 %) PRINCE2 7 9 (4.478 %) Programme Management 8 8 (3.980 %) Migration 9 7 (3.483 %) Integration Testing 9 7 (3.483 %) Test Management 9 7 (3.483 %) Test Scripting 10 6 (2.985 %) Project Management 11 5 (2.488 %) Disaster Recovery 11 5 (2.488 %) Validation 11 5 (2.488 %) Project Planning 12 4 (1.990 %) Penetration Testing 12 4 (1.990 %) ITSM 13 3 (1.493 %) Contact Management 13 3 (1.493 %) UML 13 3 (1.493 %) Data Modelling
Programming Languages 1 16 (7.960 %) C 2 8 (3.980 %) SQL 3 4 (1.990 %) VB 4 3 (1.493 %) PL/SQL 5 2 (0.995 %) VBScript 5 2 (0.995 %) Java 5 2 (0.995 %) JavaScript 6 1 (0.498 %) PHP 6 1 (0.498 %) XQuery 6 1 (0.498 %) XPath	Qualifications 1 4 (1.990 %) RHCE 2 2 (0.995 %) ISEB 3 1 (0.498 %) Cisco Certification 3 1 (0.498 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (0.498 %) MCSE 3 1 (0.498 %) CCNA 3 1 (0.498 %) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (1.493 %) QA 2 1 (0.498 %) SLA	System Software 1 13 (6.468 %) Active Directory 2 11 (5.473 %) NetBackup 3 7 (3.483 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 5 (2.488 %) AquaLogic 5 4 (1.990 %) Oracle RAC 6 1 (0.498 %) Terminal Services 6 1 (0.498 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 2 (0.995 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 2 (0.995 %) BMC Performance Manager 2 1 (0.498 %) OpenView 2 1 (0.498 %) Norton AntiVirus	Vendors 1 18 (8.955 %) Red Hat 2 16 (7.960 %) Citrix 3 15 (7.463 %) HP 4 14 (6.965 %) Oracle 4 14 (6.965 %) Cisco 4 14 (6.965 %) BMC 5 13 (6.468 %) Remedy 6 12 (5.970 %) Symantec 6 12 (5.970 %) Altiris 7 10 (4.975 %) Microsoft 8 7 (3.483 %) Juniper 8 7 (3.483 %) IBM 9 6 (2.985 %) Business Objects 9 6 (2.985 %) SAP 9 6 (2.985 %) BEA 10 2 (0.995 %) AppSense 11 1 (0.498 %) VMware