England SC Cleared Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Security Check (SC) Clearance skills within the England region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SC Cleared over the 3 months to 8 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Location Aldershot Altrincham Andover Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire Camberley Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham Chorley City of London Corsham Crawley Crewe Croydon Cwmbran Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Gwent Hampshire Harlow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horley Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Rochester Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staines Stevenage Surrey Swindon Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Torfaen Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwickshire Wells Welwyn Garden City West Malling West Midlands West Sussex Weybridge Wiltshire Woking Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	278	404
Rank change on same period last year	+126
Matching permanent IT job ads	1109	827
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.616 %	0.348 %
As % of the category below	1.106 %	0.670 %
Salaries quoted	869	675
Average minimum salary	£38,819	£42,383
Average salary	£43,235	£45,994
% change on same period last year	-5.99 %
Average maximum salary	£47,652	£49,606
UK excluding London average salary	£41,273	£44,613
% change on same period last year	-7.48 %
Processes & Methodologies England
Matching permanent IT job ads	100308	123422
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	55.70 %	51.99 %
Salaries quoted	82791	98988
Average minimum salary	£42,904	£44,370
Average salary	£46,943	£48,393
% change on same period last year	-2.99 %
Average maximum salary	£50,982	£52,416
UK excluding London average salary	£42,569	£44,378
% change on same period last year	-4.07 %
SC Cleared UK

SC Cleared
Demand Trend

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

SC Cleared
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SC Cleared across the England region.

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SC Cleared across the England region over the 3 months to 8 September 2008.

SC Cleared
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the England region over the 3 months to 8 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 Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
South East	+41	372	£42,784	-6.40 %
London	+177	286	£51,037	+5.24 %
South West	+30	173	£35,332	-13.64 %
North West	+53	75	£44,705	-23.43 %
East Midlands	+55	62	£32,651	-10.81 %
West Midlands	+45	62	£46,907	-5.59 %
East of England	+10	49	£38,177	-3.37 %
North East	-	14	£26,000	-
Yorkshire	+13	4	£22,000	-53.09 %
Midlands	+23	4	£57,500	+14.54 %

SC Cleared UK

SC Cleared
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT jobs across the England region citing SC 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 IT job ads sampled that cited SC Cleared.

1 2215 (100.00 %) Security Cleared 2 775 (34.99 %) Government 3 421 (19.01 %) Oracle 4 384 (17.34 %) Windows 5 312 (14.09 %) Java 6 277 (12.51 %) SQL 7 258 (11.65 %) UNIX 8 253 (11.42 %) J2EE 9 210 (9.481 %) DV Cleared 10 205 (9.255 %) Microsoft 11 188 (8.488 %) Linux 12 186 (8.397 %) C 12 186 (8.397 %) Cisco 13 181 (8.172 %) Degree 14 178 (8.036 %) .NET

15 175 (7.901 %) XML 15 175 (7.901 %) Firewall 16 155 (6.998 %) PRINCE2 17 153 (6.907 %) Cisco Certification 18 151 (6.817 %) ITIL 19 146 (6.591 %) C++ 19 146 (6.591 %) UML 20 139 (6.275 %) Active Directory 21 126 (5.688 %) Windows Server 2003 22 124 (5.598 %) SQL Server 23 119 (5.372 %) Telecoms 24 116 (5.237 %) CCNA 25 115 (5.192 %) Service Management 26 114 (5.147 %) Finance 26 114 (5.147 %) MS Office

SC Cleared
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT jobs across the England region citing SC 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 IT job ads sampled that cited SC Cleared. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 253 (11.42 %) J2EE 2 178 (8.036 %) .NET 3 175 (7.901 %) XML 4 110 (4.966 %) WebServices 5 75 (3.386 %) JSP 6 62 (2.799 %) Spring 7 56 (2.528 %) EJB 8 54 (2.438 %) Hibernate 9 52 (2.348 %) Middleware 9 52 (2.348 %) HTML 10 48 (2.167 %) WebSphere 11 39 (1.761 %) Struts 12 33 (1.490 %) Servlets 13 30 (1.354 %) ASP.NET 14 29 (1.309 %) ASP 15 21 (0.948 %) jBPM 16 17 (0.767 %) XSL 17 16 (0.722 %) SOAP 17 16 (0.722 %) MFC 18 14 (0.632 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 99 (4.470 %) WebLogic 2 82 (3.702 %) MS Exchange 3 55 (2.483 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 42 (1.896 %) Apache 5 41 (1.851 %) Oracle Application Server 6 37 (1.670 %) Tomcat 7 30 (1.354 %) SAS 8 28 (1.264 %) ESB 9 25 (1.129 %) Lotus Notes 10 24 (1.084 %) SharePoint 11 21 (0.948 %) WebSphere Application Server 11 21 (0.948 %) Exchange Server 2000 12 16 (0.722 %) JBoss 13 15 (0.677 %) BizTalk Server 14 14 (0.632 %) Lotus Domino 15 13 (0.587 %) IIS 16 10 (0.451 %) WebSphere MQ 16 10 (0.451 %) MQSeries 17 9 (0.406 %) Exchange Server 5.5 17 9 (0.406 %) WebSphere Message Broker
Applications 1 114 (5.147 %) MS Office 2 101 (4.560 %) MS Excel 3 37 (1.670 %) MS Project 4 29 (1.309 %) MS PowerPoint 5 12 (0.542 %) SPSS 6 8 (0.361 %) Spreadsheet 7 6 (0.271 %) AutoCAD 8 5 (0.226 %) MATLAB 8 5 (0.226 %) Simulink 8 5 (0.226 %) MS Visio 9 4 (0.181 %) Windchill 10 2 (0.090 %) Photoshop 10 2 (0.090 %) SmartSuite 10 2 (0.090 %) InfoPath 11 1 (0.045 %) NASTRAN 11 1 (0.045 %) CA Clarity	Business Applications 1 56 (2.528 %) Oracle Applications 2 30 (1.354 %) Oracle EBS 3 19 (0.858 %) Oracle 11i 4 14 (0.632 %) SAP R/3 5 11 (0.497 %) SAP EBP 6 9 (0.406 %) Remedy ITSM 6 9 (0.406 %) SAP WM 7 7 (0.316 %) Oracle HRMS 8 6 (0.271 %) Oracle Financials 8 6 (0.271 %) SAP ERP 8 6 (0.271 %) assyst 9 4 (0.181 %) Remedy AR System 9 4 (0.181 %) SAP FI 9 4 (0.181 %) Oracle ERP 10 3 (0.135 %) Oracle Payroll 10 3 (0.135 %) SAP FI/CO 10 3 (0.135 %) SAP CO 10 3 (0.135 %) SAP QM 11 2 (0.090 %) SAP CRM 11 2 (0.090 %) SAP MM
Communications & Networking 1 175 (7.901 %) Firewall 2 108 (4.876 %) SAN 3 101 (4.560 %) TCP/IP 3 101 (4.560 %) Network Security 4 78 (3.521 %) LAN 5 66 (2.980 %) WAN 6 63 (2.844 %) VPN 7 62 (2.799 %) VoIP 8 52 (2.348 %) DNS 8 52 (2.348 %) Cisco PIX 9 46 (2.077 %) NetScreen 10 45 (2.032 %) DHCP 11 44 (1.986 %) Intrusion Detection 12 42 (1.896 %) Internet 13 31 (1.400 %) ATM 14 24 (1.084 %) PPP 15 21 (0.948 %) MPLS 16 19 (0.858 %) FTP 17 17 (0.767 %) Wireless 17 17 (0.767 %) Cisco ASA	Database & Business Intelligence 1 124 (5.598 %) SQL Server 2 95 (4.289 %) Oracle 10g 3 72 (3.251 %) RDBMS 4 48 (2.167 %) BusinessObjects 5 45 (2.032 %) Oracle Reports 6 44 (1.986 %) Oracle 9i 7 38 (1.716 %) DB2 8 37 (1.670 %) Datawarehouse 9 29 (1.309 %) GIS 10 26 (1.174 %) Oracle 8/8i 11 23 (1.038 %) Data Mining 11 23 (1.038 %) SQL Server 2005 12 18 (0.813 %) SAP BW 12 18 (0.813 %) ETL 13 14 (0.632 %) SQL Server 2000 14 13 (0.587 %) DataStage 14 13 (0.587 %) Text Mining 14 13 (0.587 %) OLAP 15 12 (0.542 %) Oracle OLAP 16 10 (0.451 %) Crystal Reports
Development Applications 1 57 (2.573 %) Ant 2 45 (2.032 %) Eclipse 3 31 (1.400 %) Rational Rose 4 28 (1.264 %) Oracle Forms 5 27 (1.219 %) JUnit 6 23 (1.038 %) ClearCase 7 21 (0.948 %) Visual Studio 8 18 (0.813 %) ClearQuest 9 16 (0.722 %) LoadRunner 10 12 (0.542 %) JDeveloper 11 10 (0.451 %) TestDirector 11 10 (0.451 %) QuickTest Pro 12 8 (0.361 %) PVCS 13 7 (0.316 %) WinRunner 13 7 (0.316 %) InstallShield 14 6 (0.271 %) MSI 15 5 (0.226 %) ProC 16 4 (0.181 %) Telelogic DOORS 16 4 (0.181 %) Subversion 17 3 (0.135 %) ARTiSAN	General 1 775 (34.99 %) Government 2 119 (5.372 %) Telecoms 3 114 (5.147 %) Finance 4 83 (3.747 %) Health 5 77 (3.476 %) Pensions 6 69 (3.115 %) Military 7 55 (2.483 %) Aerospace 8 51 (2.302 %) Education 9 37 (1.670 %) Electronics 10 29 (1.309 %) Police 11 17 (0.767 %) Auditing 12 14 (0.632 %) Marketing 12 14 (0.632 %) Manufacturing 13 13 (0.587 %) Insurance 14 9 (0.406 %) Law 15 8 (0.361 %) Banking 16 6 (0.271 %) Legal 17 5 (0.226 %) Home Office 17 5 (0.226 %) Retail 18 3 (0.135 %) Electric
Job Titles 1 297 (13.41 %) Consultant 2 267 (12.05 %) Analyst 3 225 (10.16 %) Developer 4 151 (6.817 %) Architect 5 127 (5.734 %) Project Manager 6 110 (4.966 %) Java Developer 7 96 (4.334 %) Software Engineer 8 95 (4.289 %) Support Engineer 9 93 (4.199 %) Network Engineer 10 88 (3.973 %) Security Consultant 11 61 (2.754 %) Technical Architect 12 60 (2.709 %) DBA 13 59 (2.664 %) Administrator 14 56 (2.528 %) Support Analyst 15 54 (2.438 %) Java/J2EE Developer 16 53 (2.393 %) Tester 17 48 (2.167 %) Systems Engineer 18 46 (2.077 %) Design Engineer 19 42 (1.896 %) Oracle DBA 20 41 (1.851 %) Network Support	Miscellaneous 1 62 (2.799 %) Biometrics 2 39 (1.761 %) Client/Server 2 39 (1.761 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 3 34 (1.535 %) Clustering 3 34 (1.535 %) VHDL 4 32 (1.445 %) Management Information System 5 28 (1.264 %) CESG 6 27 (1.219 %) PKI 7 18 (0.813 %) Computer Science 8 15 (0.677 %) Mathematics 8 15 (0.677 %) Replication 9 12 (0.542 %) Cryptography 10 11 (0.497 %) Thin Client 10 11 (0.497 %) HACMP 10 11 (0.497 %) Fat Client 11 10 (0.451 %) N-Tier 12 9 (0.406 %) SecurID 13 8 (0.361 %) PDA 13 8 (0.361 %) Firmware 13 8 (0.361 %) Remote Sensing
Operating Systems 1 384 (17.34 %) Windows 2 258 (11.65 %) UNIX 3 188 (8.488 %) Linux 4 126 (5.688 %) Windows Server 2003 5 93 (4.199 %) Windows XP 6 92 (4.153 %) Windows 2000 7 82 (3.702 %) Solaris 8 30 (1.354 %) AIX 8 30 (1.354 %) Red Hat Linux 9 28 (1.264 %) Windows Vista 10 23 (1.038 %) HPUX 11 20 (0.903 %) Windows 2000 Server 12 17 (0.767 %) Windows NT 13 13 (0.587 %) SUSE 14 7 (0.316 %) Windows Server 2008 15 4 (0.181 %) MVS 15 4 (0.181 %) Windows Mobile 16 3 (0.135 %) NetWare 17 2 (0.090 %) Debian 17 2 (0.090 %) VMS	Processes & Methodologies 1 2215 (100.00 %) Security Cleared 2 210 (9.481 %) DV Cleared 3 155 (6.998 %) PRINCE2 4 151 (6.817 %) ITIL 5 146 (6.591 %) UML 6 115 (5.192 %) Service Management 7 106 (4.786 %) Information Security 8 104 (4.695 %) Project Management 9 79 (3.567 %) Penetration Testing 10 76 (3.431 %) OO 11 67 (3.025 %) Unit Testing 12 65 (2.935 %) BC Cleared 13 61 (2.754 %) Security Testing 14 60 (2.709 %) SOA 15 53 (2.393 %) Risk Management 15 53 (2.393 %) Software Engineering 16 52 (2.348 %) Service Delivery 17 51 (2.302 %) Configuration Management 18 50 (2.257 %) RUP 19 49 (2.212 %) Identity Management
Programming Languages 1 312 (14.09 %) Java 2 277 (12.51 %) SQL 3 186 (8.397 %) C 4 146 (6.591 %) C++ 5 94 (4.244 %) PL/SQL 6 83 (3.747 %) C# 7 60 (2.709 %) JavaScript 8 58 (2.619 %) Perl 9 46 (2.077 %) VB 10 36 (1.625 %) Embedded C 11 28 (1.264 %) Shell Script 11 28 (1.264 %) VB.NET 12 15 (0.677 %) Assembly Language 13 13 (0.587 %) Python 13 13 (0.587 %) ABAP 14 11 (0.497 %) AWK 15 10 (0.451 %) Ada 16 9 (0.406 %) Transact-SQL 17 8 (0.361 %) VB6 18 6 (0.271 %) DHTML	Qualifications 1 181 (8.172 %) Degree 2 153 (6.907 %) Cisco Certification 3 116 (5.237 %) CCNA 4 79 (3.567 %) Microsoft Certification 5 47 (2.122 %) MCSE 6 46 (2.077 %) CCNP 7 39 (1.761 %) CISSP 8 36 (1.625 %) ISEB 9 34 (1.535 %) MCP 9 34 (1.535 %) ITIL Certification 10 31 (1.400 %) CCIE 11 29 (1.309 %) CISM 12 24 (1.084 %) CCSA 12 24 (1.084 %) CCSE 13 20 (0.903 %) PRINCE2 Certification 14 19 (0.858 %) CISA 15 18 (0.813 %) CCDA 16 17 (0.767 %) CCDP 16 17 (0.767 %) CCSP 17 15 (0.677 %) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 103 (4.650 %) SLA 2 49 (2.212 %) ISO27001 3 47 (2.122 %) QA 4 22 (0.993 %) BS7799 5 21 (0.948 %) JSP 440 6 17 (0.767 %) HMG Infosec 7 14 (0.632 %) ISO9001 8 10 (0.451 %) ISO17799 9 4 (0.181 %) JTAG 10 3 (0.135 %) WAI 11 2 (0.090 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 11 2 (0.090 %) ISO14001 11 2 (0.090 %) PCI QSA 11 2 (0.090 %) ISO/IEC 20000 12 1 (0.045 %) PCI DSS 12 1 (0.045 %) ISO9000	System Software 1 139 (6.275 %) Active Directory 2 54 (2.438 %) Oracle RAC 3 28 (1.264 %) NetBackup 4 15 (0.677 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 15 (0.677 %) Oracle RMAN 5 9 (0.406 %) Citrix Presentation Server 6 7 (0.316 %) NFS 6 7 (0.316 %) Backup Exec 7 6 (0.271 %) ISA Server 7 6 (0.271 %) AquaLogic 8 4 (0.181 %) MetaFrame 9 3 (0.135 %) Terminal Server 9 3 (0.135 %) Terminal Services 9 3 (0.135 %) VMware ESX 9 3 (0.135 %) MailMarshal 9 3 (0.135 %) ProxySG 10 2 (0.090 %) VMware Workstation
Systems Management 1 34 (1.535 %) Tivoli 2 23 (1.038 %) BMC PATROL 3 16 (0.722 %) MOM 4 14 (0.632 %) OpenView 5 11 (0.497 %) OpenView Configuration Management 6 10 (0.451 %) Netcool 7 9 (0.406 %) Unicenter 7 9 (0.406 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 8 8 (0.361 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 9 7 (0.316 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 9 7 (0.316 %) Norton AntiVirus 10 6 (0.271 %) BMC Performance Manager 11 4 (0.181 %) Nagios 11 4 (0.181 %) Tivoli Identity Manager 12 3 (0.135 %) Legato 12 3 (0.135 %) Novell Identity Manager 12 3 (0.135 %) MIIS 12 3 (0.135 %) SCOM 12 3 (0.135 %) EMC NetWorker 13 2 (0.090 %) MAILsweeper	Vendors 1 421 (19.01 %) Oracle 2 205 (9.255 %) Microsoft 3 186 (8.397 %) Cisco 4 68 (3.070 %) CheckPoint 5 65 (2.935 %) HP 6 60 (2.709 %) Citrix 7 55 (2.483 %) Nortel 7 55 (2.483 %) SAP 8 51 (2.302 %) IBM 9 48 (2.167 %) Business Objects 10 42 (1.896 %) BMC 11 40 (1.806 %) Sun 11 40 (1.806 %) Remedy 12 39 (1.761 %) BEA 13 38 (1.716 %) Juniper 13 38 (1.716 %) 3Com 14 31 (1.400 %) VMware 15 30 (1.354 %) Red Hat 16 26 (1.174 %) Lotus 17 21 (0.948 %) VERITAS