West Midlands CTC Cleared Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Counter-Terrorist Check (CTC) Clearance skills within the West Midlands region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited CTC Cleared over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Belfast Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff City of London County Antrim Croydon Darlington Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Hampshire Liverpool London Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Newport Norfolk North East North West Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Scotland South East South Wales Southend-on-Sea Surrey Swansea UK Wales West Midlands West Wales Westminster Winchester Worcester Worcestershire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	115	131
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching contract IT job ads	2	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.127 %	0.058 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£410	£366
% change on same period last year	+11.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£14.00
Average hourly rate	-	£14.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£14.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.67	£12.50
% change on same period last year	+153.33 %
Processes & Methodologies West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	1573	1714
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.215 %	1.732 %
Daily rates quoted	437	480
Average minimum daily rate	£329	£310
Average daily rate	£353	£334
% change on same period last year	+5.91 %
Average maximum daily rate	£378	£357
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£370
% change on same period last year	+1.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	140	198
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.45	£24.08
Average hourly rate	£26.17	£25.97
% change on same period last year	+0.79 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.90	£27.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.44	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-1.89 %
CTC Cleared England

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 CTC Cleared across the West Midlands 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 CTC Cleared across the West Midlands region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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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 CTC Cleared within the West Midlands 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
Worcestershire	-	2	-	-

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Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing CTC 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 CTC Cleared.

1 11 (100.00 %) Security Cleared 2 8 (72.73 %) Government 3 4 (36.36 %) Windows 3 4 (36.36 %) Windows 2000 3 4 (36.36 %) HP 3 4 (36.36 %) Criminal Justice 3 4 (36.36 %) Service Delivery 4 3 (27.27 %) Windows XP 5 2 (18.18 %) Microsoft 5 2 (18.18 %) Apple 5 2 (18.18 %) Risk Management 5 2 (18.18 %) Wyse 5 2 (18.18 %) Telecoms 5 2 (18.18 %) SC Cleared 5 2 (18.18 %) Programme Management

6 1 (9.091 %) Korn 6 1 (9.091 %) Degree 6 1 (9.091 %) CA Clarity 6 1 (9.091 %) SCOM 6 1 (9.091 %) Performance Management 6 1 (9.091 %) Change Management 6 1 (9.091 %) Disaster Recovery 6 1 (9.091 %) Police 6 1 (9.091 %) Finance 6 1 (9.091 %) Middleware 6 1 (9.091 %) RUP 6 1 (9.091 %) Perl 6 1 (9.091 %) MS Project 6 1 (9.091 %) MS Office

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing CTC 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 CTC Cleared. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (9.091 %) Middleware	Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) MS Project 1 1 (9.091 %) MS Office 1 1 (9.091 %) CA Clarity
General 1 8 (72.73 %) Government 2 4 (36.36 %) Criminal Justice 3 2 (18.18 %) Telecoms 4 1 (9.091 %) Finance 4 1 (9.091 %) Police	Job Titles 1 5 (45.45 %) Programme Manager 2 4 (36.36 %) Desktop Support 3 1 (9.091 %) Consultant 3 1 (9.091 %) Support Engineer 3 1 (9.091 %) Release Manager 3 1 (9.091 %) Desktop Support Engineer 3 1 (9.091 %) Desktop Engineer 3 1 (9.091 %) Implementation Manager
Operating Systems 1 4 (36.36 %) Windows 1 4 (36.36 %) Windows 2000 2 3 (27.27 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (100.00 %) Security Cleared 2 4 (36.36 %) Service Delivery 3 2 (18.18 %) Risk Management 3 2 (18.18 %) Programme Management 3 2 (18.18 %) SC Cleared 4 1 (9.091 %) RUP 4 1 (9.091 %) Performance Management 4 1 (9.091 %) Change Management 4 1 (9.091 %) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages 1 1 (9.091 %) Perl 1 1 (9.091 %) Korn	Qualifications 1 1 (9.091 %) Degree
Systems Management 1 1 (9.091 %) SCOM	Vendors 1 4 (36.36 %) HP 2 2 (18.18 %) Apple 2 2 (18.18 %) Wyse 2 2 (18.18 %) Microsoft