England Security Cleared Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Security 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 Security Cleared over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Andover Ascot Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Billingham Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Bridgwater Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckingham Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clevedon Coatbridge Corsham County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Daresbury Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Droitwich Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hartlepool Hastings Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horley Horsham Ipswich Kent Kidderminster Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Ledbury Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Maidstone Malvern Manchester Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Powys Preston Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Rochdale Rochester Romsey Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Telford Tewkesbury Torfaen Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Wareham Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Woking Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	97	156
Rank change on same period last year	+59
Matching permanent IT job ads	3494	2794
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.023 %	1.202 %
As % of the category below	3.630 %	2.311 %
Salaries quoted	2687	2248
Average minimum salary	£37,431	£39,299
Average salary	£41,081	£44,109
% change on same period last year	-6.86 %
Average maximum salary	£44,732	£48,918
UK excluding London average salary	£40,627	£41,956
% change on same period last year	-3.16 %
Processes & Methodologies England
Matching permanent IT job ads	96242	120916
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	55.71 %	52.03 %
Salaries quoted	80108	97246
Average minimum salary	£42,968	£44,074
Average salary	£47,012	£48,088
% change on same period last year	-2.23 %
Average maximum salary	£51,055	£52,102
UK excluding London average salary	£42,675	£44,216
% change on same period last year	-3.48 %
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Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Security Cleared across the England region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Cleared within the England 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 Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
South East	+28	1300	£40,613	-4.93 %
South West	+16	739	£37,952	-0.16 %
London	+94	700	£46,774	-7.49 %
West Midlands	+56	219	£41,889	+6.04 %
North West	+30	160	£40,452	-27.90 %
East of England	+46	148	£39,389	+0.56 %
East Midlands	+81	114	£35,693	-15.07 %
North East	+70	65	£27,052	-25.88 %
Yorkshire	+34	39	£30,941	-19.10 %
Midlands	-12	15	£54,682	+5.90 %
South Coast	+9	12	£57,917	+54.44 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the England 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Security Cleared.

1 2324 (35.81 %) SC Cleared 2 1755 (27.05 %) Government 3 1114 (17.17 %) Oracle 4 1108 (17.08 %) Windows 5 979 (15.09 %) Java 6 722 (11.13 %) Degree 7 709 (10.93 %) SQL 8 667 (10.28 %) UNIX 9 645 (9.940 %) J2EE 10 578 (8.907 %) DV Cleared 11 573 (8.830 %) C++ 12 549 (8.460 %) UML 13 545 (8.399 %) Microsoft 14 518 (7.983 %) .NET 15 498 (7.675 %) C

16 497 (7.659 %) Linux 17 492 (7.582 %) XML 18 464 (7.151 %) ITIL 19 459 (7.074 %) Cisco 20 406 (6.257 %) Project Management 21 373 (5.748 %) Windows Server 2003 22 372 (5.733 %) PRINCE2 23 363 (5.594 %) SQL Server 24 347 (5.348 %) Active Directory 25 344 (5.301 %) MS Excel 26 342 (5.270 %) Cisco Certification 27 341 (5.255 %) Firewall 28 340 (5.240 %) Telecoms 29 328 (5.055 %) Finance 30 325 (5.008 %) MS Office

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the England 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Security Cleared. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 645 (9.940 %) J2EE 2 518 (7.983 %) .NET 3 492 (7.582 %) XML 4 191 (2.943 %) WebServices 5 138 (2.127 %) WebSphere 6 137 (2.111 %) Middleware 7 126 (1.942 %) ASP.NET 8 122 (1.880 %) HTML 9 120 (1.849 %) JSP 10 111 (1.711 %) EJB 11 101 (1.556 %) XSL 12 89 (1.372 %) Struts 13 85 (1.310 %) Spring 14 69 (1.063 %) Hibernate 15 57 (0.878 %) CSS 16 53 (0.817 %) ASP 17 51 (0.786 %) .NET Framework 18 50 (0.771 %) SOAP 19 45 (0.693 %) AJAX 20 42 (0.647 %) OC4J	Application Platforms 1 271 (4.176 %) WebLogic 2 222 (3.421 %) MS Exchange 3 129 (1.988 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 97 (1.495 %) Tomcat 5 83 (1.279 %) Apache 6 79 (1.217 %) SAS 7 77 (1.187 %) SharePoint 8 67 (1.033 %) Oracle Application Server 9 59 (0.909 %) ESB 10 56 (0.863 %) Oracle 10gAS 11 40 (0.616 %) Lotus Notes 12 36 (0.555 %) WebSphere Application Server 13 34 (0.524 %) IIS 13 34 (0.524 %) Exchange Server 2000 14 33 (0.509 %) JBoss 15 30 (0.462 %) Oracle Workflow 16 26 (0.401 %) Exchange Server 2007 17 24 (0.370 %) Exchange Server 5.5 17 24 (0.370 %) Lotus Domino 18 20 (0.308 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 344 (5.301 %) MS Excel 2 325 (5.008 %) MS Office 3 131 (2.019 %) MS Project 4 78 (1.202 %) MS Visio 5 67 (1.033 %) MS PowerPoint 6 46 (0.709 %) MATLAB 7 29 (0.447 %) Simulink 8 17 (0.262 %) Spreadsheet 9 11 (0.170 %) SPSS 10 6 (0.092 %) AutoCAD 10 6 (0.092 %) ArcInfo 11 3 (0.046 %) Windchill 11 3 (0.046 %) RoboHelp 12 2 (0.031 %) Photoshop 12 2 (0.031 %) InfoPath 13 1 (0.015 %) NASTRAN 13 1 (0.015 %) S-PLUS	Business Applications 1 159 (2.450 %) Oracle Applications 2 129 (1.988 %) Oracle EBS 3 73 (1.125 %) Oracle 11i 4 23 (0.354 %) SAP R/3 5 18 (0.277 %) MAXIMO 6 15 (0.231 %) SAP CO 6 15 (0.231 %) SAP FI/CO 6 15 (0.231 %) SAP FI 6 15 (0.231 %) SAP WM 7 14 (0.216 %) SAP HR 8 13 (0.200 %) PeopleSoft HRMS 9 12 (0.185 %) Oracle Financials 9 12 (0.185 %) SoftGrid 9 12 (0.185 %) Remedy ITSM 10 11 (0.170 %) SAP EBP 10 11 (0.170 %) Oracle HRMS 11 10 (0.154 %) SAP MM 11 10 (0.154 %) Oracle Payroll 11 10 (0.154 %) SAP ERP 12 9 (0.139 %) assyst
Communications & Networking 1 341 (5.255 %) Firewall 2 259 (3.991 %) LAN 3 247 (3.806 %) WAN 4 201 (3.098 %) SAN 5 187 (2.882 %) TCP/IP 6 175 (2.697 %) Network Security 7 135 (2.080 %) VoIP 8 127 (1.957 %) VPN 9 110 (1.695 %) Internet 10 107 (1.649 %) DNS 11 99 (1.526 %) Wireless 11 99 (1.526 %) Cisco PIX 12 82 (1.264 %) DHCP 13 73 (1.125 %) MPLS 14 59 (0.909 %) ATM 15 53 (0.817 %) TETRA 16 52 (0.801 %) Intrusion Detection 17 50 (0.771 %) NetScreen 18 48 (0.740 %) DSL 19 45 (0.693 %) ISDN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 363 (5.594 %) SQL Server 2 275 (4.238 %) Oracle 10g 3 145 (2.235 %) Oracle 9i 4 144 (2.219 %) Oracle Reports 5 129 (1.988 %) RDBMS 6 98 (1.510 %) Datawarehouse 7 97 (1.495 %) BusinessObjects 8 95 (1.464 %) DB2 9 86 (1.325 %) Oracle 8/8i 10 59 (0.909 %) Oracle Discoverer 11 53 (0.817 %) SQL Server 2005 12 51 (0.786 %) GIS 13 36 (0.555 %) ETL 14 34 (0.524 %) OLAP 14 34 (0.524 %) SQLPlus 15 33 (0.509 %) Crystal Reports 16 31 (0.478 %) SQL Server 2000 17 29 (0.447 %) TOAD 18 27 (0.416 %) MySQL 18 27 (0.416 %) Data Mining
Development Applications 1 109 (1.680 %) Oracle Forms 2 96 (1.479 %) Ant 3 80 (1.233 %) Eclipse 4 76 (1.171 %) ClearCase 5 62 (0.955 %) LoadRunner 6 56 (0.863 %) ClearQuest 7 52 (0.801 %) QuickTest Pro 8 50 (0.771 %) Visual Studio 9 39 (0.601 %) WinRunner 10 36 (0.555 %) JUnit 11 30 (0.462 %) TestDirector 12 24 (0.370 %) Rational Rose 13 23 (0.354 %) QALoad 14 17 (0.262 %) MSI 15 16 (0.247 %) VSS/SourceSafe 16 15 (0.231 %) Oracle APEX 17 14 (0.216 %) TestPartner 18 13 (0.200 %) JDeveloper 18 13 (0.200 %) PVCS 19 12 (0.185 %) InstallShield	General 1 1755 (27.05 %) Government 2 340 (5.240 %) Telecoms 3 328 (5.055 %) Finance 4 273 (4.207 %) Aerospace 5 261 (4.022 %) Military 6 237 (3.652 %) Pensions 7 233 (3.591 %) Health 8 211 (3.252 %) Electronics 9 129 (1.988 %) Education 10 94 (1.449 %) Manufacturing 11 67 (1.033 %) Insurance 12 66 (1.017 %) Electric 13 55 (0.848 %) Avionics 14 47 (0.724 %) Police 15 41 (0.632 %) Auditing 16 36 (0.555 %) Automotive 17 33 (0.509 %) Banking 18 30 (0.462 %) Law 18 30 (0.462 %) Marketing 19 17 (0.262 %) Legal
Job Titles 1 744 (11.47 %) Consultant 2 736 (11.34 %) Developer 3 715 (11.02 %) Analyst 4 388 (5.979 %) Architect 5 358 (5.517 %) Software Engineer 6 333 (5.132 %) Project Manager 7 251 (3.868 %) DBA 8 248 (3.822 %) Java Developer 9 233 (3.591 %) Support Engineer 10 218 (3.360 %) Systems Engineer 11 208 (3.205 %) Oracle DBA 12 183 (2.820 %) Security Consultant 13 166 (2.558 %) Network Engineer 14 161 (2.481 %) Administrator 15 158 (2.435 %) Technical Architect 16 150 (2.312 %) Support Analyst 17 143 (2.204 %) Tester 18 127 (1.957 %) Software Developer 19 125 (1.926 %) Design Engineer 20 96 (1.479 %) Applications Developer	Miscellaneous 1 134 (2.065 %) Biometrics 2 112 (1.726 %) Mathematics 3 110 (1.695 %) Computer Science 4 84 (1.294 %) PKI 5 81 (1.248 %) CESG 6 74 (1.140 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 7 72 (1.110 %) VHDL 8 63 (0.971 %) Management Information System 9 59 (0.909 %) Client/Server 9 59 (0.909 %) Clustering 10 38 (0.586 %) Physics 11 34 (0.524 %) PDA 12 33 (0.509 %) Replication 13 32 (0.493 %) Human Factors 14 30 (0.462 %) N-Tier 15 25 (0.385 %) Firmware 16 23 (0.354 %) SCADA 17 22 (0.339 %) PMI 18 21 (0.324 %) Thin Client 18 21 (0.324 %) Statistics
Operating Systems 1 1108 (17.08 %) Windows 2 667 (10.28 %) UNIX 3 497 (7.659 %) Linux 4 373 (5.748 %) Windows Server 2003 5 276 (4.253 %) Windows XP 6 211 (3.252 %) Windows 2000 7 174 (2.681 %) Solaris 8 90 (1.387 %) Windows Vista 9 75 (1.156 %) Windows 2000 Server 10 64 (0.986 %) AIX 11 57 (0.878 %) Windows NT 12 48 (0.740 %) Red Hat Linux 13 36 (0.555 %) HPUX 14 33 (0.509 %) Windows Mobile 15 27 (0.416 %) Windows Server 2008 16 26 (0.401 %) VxWorks 17 13 (0.200 %) NetWare 18 10 (0.154 %) SUSE 19 5 (0.077 %) VMS 20 4 (0.062 %) Tru64	Processes & Methodologies 1 2324 (35.81 %) SC Cleared 2 578 (8.907 %) DV Cleared 3 549 (8.460 %) UML 4 464 (7.151 %) ITIL 5 406 (6.257 %) Project Management 6 372 (5.733 %) PRINCE2 7 287 (4.423 %) Service Management 8 255 (3.930 %) Information Security 9 203 (3.128 %) OO 10 197 (3.036 %) Software Engineering 11 166 (2.558 %) SOA 12 165 (2.543 %) Validation 13 160 (2.466 %) Configuration Management 14 154 (2.373 %) Service Delivery 15 152 (2.342 %) Programme Management 16 148 (2.281 %) Risk Management 17 145 (2.235 %) Test Scripting 18 143 (2.204 %) Unit Testing 19 138 (2.127 %) BC Cleared 20 122 (1.880 %) Change Management
Programming Languages 1 979 (15.09 %) Java 2 709 (10.93 %) SQL 3 573 (8.830 %) C++ 4 498 (7.675 %) C 5 298 (4.592 %) C# 6 277 (4.269 %) PL/SQL 7 156 (2.404 %) VB 8 127 (1.957 %) Perl 9 126 (1.942 %) JavaScript 10 107 (1.649 %) Ada 11 104 (1.603 %) VB.NET 12 52 (0.801 %) Embedded C 12 52 (0.801 %) Shell Script 13 39 (0.601 %) Embedded C++ 14 38 (0.586 %) VC++ 15 32 (0.493 %) Python 16 31 (0.478 %) VB6 16 31 (0.478 %) VBA 17 27 (0.416 %) Transact-SQL 18 26 (0.401 %) ABAP	Qualifications 1 722 (11.13 %) Degree 2 342 (5.270 %) Cisco Certification 3 250 (3.853 %) CCNA 4 243 (3.745 %) Microsoft Certification 5 175 (2.697 %) MCSE 6 148 (2.281 %) CCNP 7 144 (2.219 %) ISEB 8 114 (1.757 %) CISSP 9 94 (1.449 %) MCP 10 77 (1.187 %) CISM 11 60 (0.925 %) CCIE 12 58 (0.894 %) PRINCE2 Certification 13 54 (0.832 %) CISA 14 52 (0.801 %) Oracle Certification 15 50 (0.771 %) CCSA 16 45 (0.693 %) MCSA 17 44 (0.678 %) CCDP 18 43 (0.663 %) CCSP 19 38 (0.586 %) HNC 19 38 (0.586 %) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 191 (2.943 %) SLA 2 166 (2.558 %) QA 3 110 (1.695 %) ISO27001 4 60 (0.925 %) ISO9001 5 51 (0.786 %) BS7799 6 38 (0.586 %) JSP 440 7 22 (0.339 %) HMG Infosec 8 15 (0.231 %) BS15000 9 14 (0.216 %) ISO17799 10 12 (0.185 %) ISO9000 11 11 (0.170 %) PCI DSS 12 9 (0.139 %) PCI QSA 12 9 (0.139 %) CESG Infosec 13 8 (0.123 %) TickIT 14 6 (0.092 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 14 6 (0.092 %) ISO/IEC 20000 15 4 (0.062 %) JTAG 16 3 (0.046 %) WAI 17 1 (0.015 %) ISO14001 17 1 (0.015 %) BS25999	System Software 1 347 (5.348 %) Active Directory 2 158 (2.435 %) Oracle RAC 3 81 (1.248 %) Oracle RMAN 4 66 (1.017 %) NetBackup 5 51 (0.786 %) VMware Infrastructure 6 42 (0.647 %) VMware ESX 7 32 (0.493 %) Backup Exec 8 23 (0.354 %) AquaLogic 9 14 (0.216 %) Citrix Presentation Server 10 13 (0.200 %) MetaFrame 11 11 (0.170 %) Terminal Services 12 6 (0.092 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 13 4 (0.062 %) NFS 13 4 (0.062 %) ISA Server 14 3 (0.046 %) ProxySG 15 2 (0.031 %) VMware Server 15 2 (0.031 %) Nmap 16 1 (0.015 %) Snort 16 1 (0.015 %) VMware Workstation 16 1 (0.015 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management 1 51 (0.786 %) OpenView Configuration Management 2 47 (0.724 %) OpenView 3 43 (0.663 %) MOM 4 38 (0.586 %) Tivoli 5 23 (0.354 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 5 23 (0.354 %) Netcool 6 22 (0.339 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 7 16 (0.247 %) BMC PATROL 7 16 (0.247 %) ZENworks 8 13 (0.200 %) Unicenter 9 9 (0.139 %) Norton AntiVirus 10 8 (0.123 %) MIIS 11 7 (0.108 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 11 7 (0.108 %) ARCserve 12 6 (0.092 %) BMC Marimba 13 5 (0.077 %) MAILsweeper 13 5 (0.077 %) Legato 14 4 (0.062 %) Tivoli Identity Manager 14 4 (0.062 %) Nagios 14 4 (0.062 %) Oracle Statspack	Vendors 1 1114 (17.17 %) Oracle 2 545 (8.399 %) Microsoft 3 459 (7.074 %) Cisco 4 216 (3.329 %) HP 5 152 (2.342 %) SAP 6 145 (2.235 %) BEA 7 143 (2.204 %) Citrix 8 131 (2.019 %) CheckPoint 9 106 (1.634 %) VMware 10 97 (1.495 %) Business Objects 11 92 (1.418 %) Sun 11 92 (1.418 %) Nortel 12 86 (1.325 %) IBM 13 72 (1.110 %) Juniper 14 62 (0.955 %) Nokia 15 57 (0.878 %) Remedy 15 57 (0.878 %) EMC 16 48 (0.740 %) Red Hat 17 44 (0.678 %) VERITAS 17 44 (0.678 %) BMC