West Yorkshire Security Cleared Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Security Clearance skills within the West Yorkshire 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 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aldershot Amersham Andover Avon Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cardigan Carlisle Ceredigion Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley City of London Clydebank Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Douglas Dumbarton Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Filton Gateshead Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Sherborne Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wells West Dunbartonshire West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wimbledon Wirral Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	73	85
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	20	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.027 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	1.896 %	1.367 %
Daily rates quoted	4	7
Average minimum daily rate	£290	£389
Average daily rate	£312	£393
% change on same period last year	-20.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£334	£396
UK excluding London average daily rate	£371	£377
% change on same period last year	-1.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.64	£30.59
% change on same period last year	+6.69 %
Processes & Methodologies West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1055	1024
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.426 %	1.010 %
Daily rates quoted	307	201
Average minimum daily rate	£339	£347
Average daily rate	£365	£370
% change on same period last year	-1.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£391	£394
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£375
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	36	61
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.49	£24.74
Average hourly rate	£25.46	£25.90
% change on same period last year	-1.69 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.43	£27.06
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.41	£30.41
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
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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 Security Cleared across the West Yorkshire 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 Security Cleared across the West Yorkshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Security Cleared across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Security Cleared across the West Yorkshire 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 Security Cleared within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
Leeds	+4	18	£285	-29.84 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 28 (59.57 %) SC Cleared 2 26 (55.32 %) Government 3 24 (51.06 %) Java 4 21 (44.68 %) Banking 5 15 (31.91 %) SOA 6 7 (14.89 %) UML 7 6 (12.77 %) Scrum 7 6 (12.77 %) Auditing 8 5 (10.64 %) Internet 8 5 (10.64 %) Shell Script 8 5 (10.64 %) Perl 8 5 (10.64 %) C 8 5 (10.64 %) UNIX 8 5 (10.64 %) Firewall 8 5 (10.64 %) GAP Analysis

9 4 (8.511 %) Windows 9 4 (8.511 %) J2EE 9 4 (8.511 %) RUP 9 4 (8.511 %) HTTP 9 4 (8.511 %) TCP/IP 9 4 (8.511 %) DNS 9 4 (8.511 %) MSI 9 4 (8.511 %) Microsoft 9 4 (8.511 %) Business Analysis 10 3 (6.383 %) Incident Management 10 3 (6.383 %) BC Cleared 10 3 (6.383 %) Windows Server 2003 10 3 (6.383 %) ITIL 10 3 (6.383 %) Telecoms 10 3 (6.383 %) Change Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 4 (8.511 %) J2EE 2 2 (4.255 %) Hibernate 2 2 (4.255 %) Spring 2 2 (4.255 %) Application Packaging 3 1 (2.128 %) Struts 3 1 (2.128 %) WebServices	Applications 1 1 (2.128 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 5 (10.64 %) Internet 1 5 (10.64 %) Firewall 2 4 (8.511 %) HTTP 2 4 (8.511 %) TCP/IP 2 4 (8.511 %) DNS 3 1 (2.128 %) Intranet	Development Applications 1 4 (8.511 %) MSI 2 2 (4.255 %) JUnit 3 1 (2.128 %) TestDirector
General 1 26 (55.32 %) Government 2 21 (44.68 %) Banking 3 6 (12.77 %) Auditing 4 3 (6.383 %) Telecoms 5 2 (4.255 %) Health 6 1 (2.128 %) Education	Job Titles 1 7 (14.89 %) Developer 1 7 (14.89 %) Analyst 2 6 (12.77 %) Architect 2 6 (12.77 %) Business Analyst 2 6 (12.77 %) Solutions Architect 3 5 (10.64 %) Java Developer 4 4 (8.511 %) Tester 4 4 (8.511 %) Systems Integrator 4 4 (8.511 %) Consultant 5 2 (4.255 %) Microstrategy Developer 5 2 (4.255 %) Management Consultant 5 2 (4.255 %) Project Manager 5 2 (4.255 %) Service Management Consultant 5 2 (4.255 %) Applications Packager 6 1 (2.128 %) Support Engineer 6 1 (2.128 %) Support Consultant 6 1 (2.128 %) Field Engineer 6 1 (2.128 %) Service Manager 6 1 (2.128 %) Senior Project Manager 6 1 (2.128 %) UML Business Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 2 (4.255 %) NHS 2 1 (2.128 %) Informatics	Operating Systems 1 5 (10.64 %) UNIX 2 4 (8.511 %) Windows 3 3 (6.383 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (2.128 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 28 (59.57 %) SC Cleared 2 15 (31.91 %) SOA 3 7 (14.89 %) UML 4 6 (12.77 %) Scrum 5 5 (10.64 %) GAP Analysis 6 4 (8.511 %) Business Analysis 6 4 (8.511 %) RUP 7 3 (6.383 %) ITIL 7 3 (6.383 %) Incident Management 7 3 (6.383 %) Document Management 7 3 (6.383 %) Change Management 7 3 (6.383 %) BC Cleared 8 2 (4.255 %) Use Case 8 2 (4.255 %) Test Scripting 8 2 (4.255 %) Manual Testing 8 2 (4.255 %) Automated Testing 8 2 (4.255 %) Service Management 9 1 (2.128 %) Business Intelligence 9 1 (2.128 %) Project Management 9 1 (2.128 %) Data Modelling	Programming Languages 1 24 (51.06 %) Java 2 5 (10.64 %) Perl 2 5 (10.64 %) Shell Script 2 5 (10.64 %) C
Qualifications 1 1 (2.128 %) ISEB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (6.383 %) BS15000 2 1 (2.128 %) SLA
System Software 1 1 (2.128 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 2 (4.255 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 1 (2.128 %) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors 1 4 (8.511 %) Microsoft 2 2 (4.255 %) Macromedia 2 2 (4.255 %) MicroStrategy 3 1 (2.128 %) Apple