The first table below looks at the demand for BC Cleared in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BC Cleared over the 3 months to 22 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 for the West Yorkshire region.

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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Basic Check (BC) Clearance
Rank 85 87 -
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -
Contract jobs citing BC Cleared 6 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.471% 0.185% -
As % of the Qualifications category 2.956% 1.304% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
Average daily rate £249 £501 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-50.29% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £396 £380 £350
% change year-on-year
+4.31% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.35 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-66.62% +14.28%
All Qualifications
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
203 230 151
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 15.95% 14.22% 13.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 129 62
Average daily rate £300 £345 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.04% +6.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £213 £177
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 12
Average hourly rate £12.75 £22.50 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-43.33% +2.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.86 £12.00 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £175.00 £50.00 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
BC Cleared
Yorkshire

BC Cleared
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire BC Cleared Daily Rate Trend

BC Cleared
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing BC Cleared across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire BC Cleared Hourly Rate Trend

BC Cleared
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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Leeds +5 5 £225 -55.04%
BC Cleared
Yorkshire

BC Cleared
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region 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 12 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (91.67%) SC Cleared
3 6 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
4 5 (41.67%) SQL
4 5 (41.67%) Oracle
5 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
5 4 (33.33%) .NET
6 3 (25.00%) Web Services
6 3 (25.00%) Windows
6 3 (25.00%) C#
6 3 (25.00%) Automated Testing
6 3 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET
7 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (16.67%) Dependency Injection
7 2 (16.67%) NHibernate
7 2 (16.67%) Web Development
7 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
7 2 (16.67%) Business Analysis
7 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (16.67%) VMware
7 2 (16.67%) Regression Testing
7 2 (16.67%) MVC
7 2 (16.67%) NetApp
7 2 (16.67%) ITIL
7 2 (16.67%) PRINCE2
7 2 (16.67%) JavaScript

BC Cleared
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region 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 4 (33.33%) .NET
2 3 (25.00%) Web Services
3 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (16.67%) NHibernate
3 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
3 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 1 (8.333%) XML
4 1 (8.333%) HTML
4 1 (8.333%) ASP
4 1 (8.333%) Gherkin
4 1 (8.333%) MDX
Application Platforms
1 1 (8.333%) SharePoint
1 1 (8.333%) MS Exchange
1 1 (8.333%) SAS
1 1 (8.333%) IIS
1 1 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (8.333%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 1 (8.333%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (8.333%) Oracle Financial Analyzer
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.333%) SAN
1 1 (8.333%) HTTP
1 1 (8.333%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (8.333%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (8.333%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (8.333%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (8.333%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 1 (8.333%) LoadRunner
1 1 (8.333%) Visual Studio
1 1 (8.333%) MSI
1 1 (8.333%) SpecFlow
1 1 (8.333%) Selenium
1 1 (8.333%) Cucumber
1 1 (8.333%) Talend Open Studio
1 1 (8.333%) TeamCity
1 1 (8.333%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (8.333%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (16.67%) C# ASP.NET Developer
1 2 (16.67%) Development Analyst
1 2 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
1 2 (16.67%) IT Business Analyst
1 2 (16.67%) .NET Developer
1 2 (16.67%) C# Developer
1 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET Developer
1 2 (16.67%) Business Analyst
1 2 (16.67%) Tester
1 2 (16.67%) Developer
1 2 (16.67%) Analyst
1 2 (16.67%) DBA
1 2 (16.67%) Development Manager
2 1 (8.333%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (8.333%) Administrator
2 1 (8.333%) Test Manager
2 1 (8.333%) Consultant
2 1 (8.333%) Project Manager
2 1 (8.333%) SQL DBA
2 1 (8.333%) Hyperion Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.333%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (8.333%) Linux
3 1 (8.333%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (8.333%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (25.00%) Automated Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Dependency Injection
3 2 (16.67%) Web Development
3 2 (16.67%) Business Analysis
3 2 (16.67%) Regression Testing
3 2 (16.67%) MVC
3 2 (16.67%) ITIL
3 2 (16.67%) PRINCE2
3 2 (16.67%) OO
3 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (8.333%) CRM
4 1 (8.333%) Data Modelling
4 1 (8.333%) Project Management
4 1 (8.333%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (8.333%) Scrum
4 1 (8.333%) Test Strategy
4 1 (8.333%) Agile Testing
4 1 (8.333%) Automation Testing
4 1 (8.333%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) C#
3 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.333%) VB
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (91.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.333%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (8.333%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.333%) vSphere
1 1 (8.333%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (8.333%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) VMware
2 2 (16.67%) NetApp
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) HP
3 1 (8.333%) Hyperion
3 1 (8.333%) Informatica
3 1 (8.333%) Cisco
3 1 (8.333%) CheckPoint
3 1 (8.333%) Symantec
3 1 (8.333%) Websense
3 1 (8.333%) Blue Coat
3 1 (8.333%) Talend
3 1 (8.333%) Barracuda Networks
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