South East Security Cleared Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Security Clearance skills within the South East 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aldershot Andover Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bracknell Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham Chorley City of London Corsham County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Droitwich East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Essex Fareham Farnborough Farnham Flintshire Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Guildford Gwent Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horley Horsham Ipswich Kent Kidderminster Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Malvern Manchester Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Powys Preston Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Sale Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Torfaen Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Wareham Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Woking Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	69	69
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching permanent IT job ads	1082	1382
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.571 %	0.566 %
As % of the category below	5.022 %	5.257 %
Salaries quoted	814	886
Average minimum salary	£37,498	£38,467
Average salary	£41,476	£42,162
% change on same period last year	-1.62 %
Average maximum salary	£45,453	£45,857
UK excluding London average salary	£40,956	£41,915
% change on same period last year	-2.28 %
Processes & Methodologies South East
Matching permanent IT job ads	21545	26287
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	11.37 %	10.76 %
Salaries quoted	17194	21112
Average minimum salary	£40,358	£41,997
Average salary	£44,230	£45,432
% change on same period last year	-2.64 %
Average maximum salary	£48,103	£48,866
UK excluding London average salary	£42,567	£44,524
% change on same period last year	-4.39 %
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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 South East 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 South East region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Security Cleared across the South East region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Cleared within the South East region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Hampshire	+4	393	£39,589	+1.33 %
Berkshire	-19	243	£39,451	-4.23 %
Surrey	+7	198	£42,075	-7.02 %
Buckinghamshire	-6	108	£46,286	-3.07 %
Middlesex	+39	49	£55,902	+60.60 %
Kent	-4	28	£34,673	-8.07 %
West Sussex	+17	28	£38,273	-9.57 %
Oxfordshire	-7	27	£40,429	-0.39 %
Thames Valley	+32	2	£52,500	+31.25 %
M4 Corridor	+3	2	£52,500	-4.54 %
East Sussex	-52	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the South East 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.

1 889 (39.32 %) SC Cleared 2 637 (28.17 %) Government 3 485 (21.45 %) Windows 4 465 (20.57 %) Oracle 5 396 (17.51 %) Java 6 350 (15.48 %) SQL 7 276 (12.21 %) Microsoft 8 275 (12.16 %) .NET 9 268 (11.85 %) C++ 10 267 (11.81 %) Degree 11 226 (9.996 %) XML 12 220 (9.730 %) C 13 216 (9.553 %) J2EE 14 214 (9.465 %) UNIX 15 212 (9.376 %) Cisco

16 211 (9.332 %) Linux 17 208 (9.199 %) UML 18 193 (8.536 %) Active Directory 19 164 (7.253 %) SQL Server 20 155 (6.855 %) C# 20 155 (6.855 %) Oracle 10g 20 155 (6.855 %) Military 21 148 (6.546 %) Cisco Certification 22 147 (6.502 %) PL/SQL 23 146 (6.457 %) Project Management 24 135 (5.971 %) PRINCE2 25 134 (5.927 %) Firewall 26 128 (5.661 %) WebLogic 26 128 (5.661 %) DV Cleared 27 126 (5.573 %) Telecoms

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the South East 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 1 275 (12.16 %) .NET 2 226 (9.996 %) XML 3 216 (9.553 %) J2EE 4 71 (3.140 %) Hibernate 5 70 (3.096 %) Spring 6 64 (2.831 %) WebServices 7 63 (2.786 %) HTML 8 60 (2.654 %) ASP.NET 8 60 (2.654 %) EJB 9 52 (2.300 %) ASP 9 52 (2.300 %) J2SE 10 46 (2.034 %) JSP 10 46 (2.034 %) .NET Framework 11 44 (1.946 %) Middleware 12 38 (1.681 %) SOAP 13 35 (1.548 %) Struts 14 28 (1.238 %) WebSphere 15 20 (0.885 %) CSS 16 19 (0.840 %) Swing 17 14 (0.619 %) Java EE 5	Application Platforms 1 128 (5.661 %) WebLogic 2 87 (3.848 %) MS Exchange 3 63 (2.786 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 41 (1.813 %) SharePoint 5 34 (1.504 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 29 (1.283 %) Apache 7 26 (1.150 %) Oracle 10gAS 8 25 (1.106 %) JBoss 9 23 (1.017 %) Tomcat 10 21 (0.929 %) Exchange Server 5.5 10 21 (0.929 %) Exchange Server 2000 11 14 (0.619 %) BizTalk Server 12 12 (0.531 %) SAS 13 11 (0.487 %) IIS 14 9 (0.398 %) iFIX 15 8 (0.354 %) WebLogic Integration 16 7 (0.310 %) ArcIMS 16 7 (0.310 %) Oracle Collaboration Suite 16 7 (0.310 %) ArcSDE 16 7 (0.310 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 120 (5.307 %) MS Excel 2 85 (3.759 %) MS Office 3 20 (0.885 %) MS Project 4 17 (0.752 %) MATLAB 5 15 (0.663 %) Simulink 5 15 (0.663 %) AutoCAD 6 12 (0.531 %) MS Visio 7 10 (0.442 %) MS PowerPoint 8 9 (0.398 %) Spreadsheet 9 6 (0.265 %) InfoPath 10 2 (0.088 %) ArcInfo 11 1 (0.044 %) CA Clarity	Business Applications 1 79 (3.494 %) Oracle Applications 2 40 (1.769 %) Oracle 11i 3 31 (1.371 %) Oracle EBS 4 13 (0.575 %) SAP R/3 5 12 (0.531 %) SAP HR 5 12 (0.531 %) SAP EBP 6 11 (0.487 %) SAP WM 7 8 (0.354 %) PeopleSoft HRMS 7 8 (0.354 %) Siebel Analytics 8 7 (0.310 %) Oracle Financials 9 5 (0.221 %) Dynamics CRM 10 3 (0.133 %) Oracle Payroll 10 3 (0.133 %) SAP FI/CO 10 3 (0.133 %) SAP CO 10 3 (0.133 %) SAP SD 10 3 (0.133 %) SAP FI 11 2 (0.088 %) Oracle HRMS 12 1 (0.044 %) Dynamics AX 12 1 (0.044 %) SAP MM 12 1 (0.044 %) SAP PP
Communications & Networking 1 134 (5.927 %) Firewall 2 118 (5.219 %) LAN 3 105 (4.644 %) WAN 4 89 (3.936 %) SAN 4 89 (3.936 %) Internet 5 80 (3.538 %) VPN 6 71 (3.140 %) Network Security 7 66 (2.919 %) TCP/IP 8 60 (2.654 %) VoIP 9 46 (2.034 %) Wireless 10 45 (1.990 %) MPLS 11 37 (1.636 %) DNS 12 36 (1.592 %) ATM 12 36 (1.592 %) NetScreen 12 36 (1.592 %) Cisco PIX 13 35 (1.548 %) SMS 14 33 (1.460 %) ISDN 15 31 (1.371 %) BGP 16 30 (1.327 %) DSL 17 28 (1.238 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 164 (7.253 %) SQL Server 2 155 (6.855 %) Oracle 10g 3 45 (1.990 %) Oracle 9i 4 43 (1.902 %) BusinessObjects 5 41 (1.813 %) Oracle Reports 6 39 (1.725 %) RDBMS 7 35 (1.548 %) SQLPlus 8 34 (1.504 %) Oracle Discoverer 9 26 (1.150 %) TOAD 10 25 (1.106 %) SQL Server 2005 11 22 (0.973 %) Datawarehouse 12 21 (0.929 %) Crystal Reports 12 21 (0.929 %) GIS 13 14 (0.619 %) DB2 14 13 (0.575 %) Oracle 8/8i 14 13 (0.575 %) ETL 15 12 (0.531 %) OLAP 15 12 (0.531 %) SQL Server 2000 15 12 (0.531 %) SAP BW 15 12 (0.531 %) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications 1 82 (3.627 %) Eclipse 2 63 (2.786 %) Ant 3 50 (2.211 %) JUnit 4 47 (2.079 %) ClearCase 5 44 (1.946 %) Rational Rose 6 32 (1.415 %) ClearQuest 7 30 (1.327 %) Visual Studio 8 24 (1.061 %) TestDirector 9 19 (0.840 %) Oracle Forms 10 14 (0.619 %) VSS/SourceSafe 11 11 (0.487 %) Subversion 12 9 (0.398 %) MSI 12 9 (0.398 %) QuickTest Pro 13 8 (0.354 %) LoadRunner 14 7 (0.310 %) WinRunner 14 7 (0.310 %) PeopleTools 14 7 (0.310 %) Telelogic DOORS 14 7 (0.310 %) FrontPage 14 7 (0.310 %) StarTeam 14 7 (0.310 %) QARun	General 1 637 (28.17 %) Government 2 155 (6.855 %) Military 3 126 (5.573 %) Telecoms 4 120 (5.307 %) Finance 5 95 (4.202 %) Pensions 6 73 (3.229 %) Aerospace 6 73 (3.229 %) Health 7 53 (2.344 %) Electronics 8 40 (1.769 %) Education 9 28 (1.238 %) Police 10 17 (0.752 %) Auditing 10 17 (0.752 %) Law 11 16 (0.708 %) Manufacturing 11 16 (0.708 %) Insurance 12 15 (0.663 %) Retail 13 14 (0.619 %) Legal 13 14 (0.619 %) Electric 14 13 (0.575 %) Marketing 15 5 (0.221 %) Banking 15 5 (0.221 %) Construction
Job Titles 1 333 (14.73 %) Developer 2 303 (13.40 %) Analyst 3 206 (9.111 %) Consultant 4 178 (7.873 %) Architect 5 121 (5.352 %) Java Developer 6 114 (5.042 %) Project Manager 6 114 (5.042 %) DBA 7 102 (4.511 %) Software Engineer 8 94 (4.157 %) Network Engineer 9 87 (3.848 %) Support Analyst 10 85 (3.759 %) Oracle DBA 11 81 (3.582 %) Design Engineer 12 65 (2.875 %) Support Engineer 13 62 (2.742 %) Systems Engineer 14 60 (2.654 %) Graduate 15 58 (2.565 %) Junior 16 56 (2.477 %) Team Leader 17 55 (2.433 %) Software Developer 17 55 (2.433 %) Security Consultant 18 53 (2.344 %) Technical Architect	Miscellaneous 1 45 (1.990 %) Clustering 2 43 (1.902 %) Computer Science 3 39 (1.725 %) VHDL 4 34 (1.504 %) Mathematics 5 25 (1.106 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 6 22 (0.973 %) PKI 7 20 (0.885 %) Management Information System 8 18 (0.796 %) N-Tier 9 14 (0.619 %) Client/Server 10 13 (0.575 %) Replication 10 13 (0.575 %) Economics 10 13 (0.575 %) SCADA 11 12 (0.531 %) CESG 11 12 (0.531 %) PMI 11 12 (0.531 %) Physics 11 12 (0.531 %) Remote Sensing 12 11 (0.487 %) Device Driver 13 9 (0.398 %) SecurID 13 9 (0.398 %) PDA 13 9 (0.398 %) Human Factors
Operating Systems 1 485 (21.45 %) Windows 2 214 (9.465 %) UNIX 3 211 (9.332 %) Linux 4 99 (4.379 %) Windows NT 5 92 (4.069 %) Windows Server 2003 6 80 (3.538 %) Windows 2000 7 69 (3.052 %) Windows XP 8 61 (2.698 %) Solaris 9 24 (1.061 %) Windows Mobile 10 21 (0.929 %) AIX 11 20 (0.885 %) HPUX 12 12 (0.531 %) VxWorks 13 8 (0.354 %) SUSE 14 4 (0.177 %) Tru64 15 3 (0.133 %) Debian 16 2 (0.088 %) MVS	Processes & Methodologies 1 889 (39.32 %) SC Cleared 2 208 (9.199 %) UML 3 146 (6.457 %) Project Management 4 135 (5.971 %) PRINCE2 5 128 (5.661 %) DV Cleared 6 114 (5.042 %) OO 7 107 (4.732 %) ITIL 8 104 (4.600 %) RUP 9 100 (4.423 %) Service Management 10 90 (3.981 %) BC Cleared 11 78 (3.450 %) Service Delivery 12 72 (3.184 %) Configuration Management 13 71 (3.140 %) SOA 14 68 (3.008 %) Validation 15 65 (2.875 %) Software Engineering 16 53 (2.344 %) Logistics 17 52 (2.300 %) Risk Management 17 52 (2.300 %) Information Security 18 45 (1.990 %) Content Management 19 43 (1.902 %) Migration
Programming Languages 1 396 (17.51 %) Java 2 350 (15.48 %) SQL 3 268 (11.85 %) C++ 4 220 (9.730 %) C 5 155 (6.855 %) C# 6 147 (6.502 %) PL/SQL 7 85 (3.759 %) VB.NET 8 83 (3.671 %) VB 9 60 (2.654 %) JavaScript 10 49 (2.167 %) Perl 11 36 (1.592 %) VB6 12 35 (1.548 %) Embedded C++ 13 32 (1.415 %) VC++ 14 30 (1.327 %) Ada 15 24 (1.061 %) Transact-SQL 16 21 (0.929 %) Embedded C 17 17 (0.752 %) VBScript 18 14 (0.619 %) ABAP 18 14 (0.619 %) Shell Script 19 13 (0.575 %) DHTML	Qualifications 1 267 (11.81 %) Degree 2 148 (6.546 %) Cisco Certification 3 124 (5.484 %) CCNA 4 87 (3.848 %) Microsoft Certification 5 78 (3.450 %) CCNP 6 46 (2.034 %) MCSE 7 44 (1.946 %) ISEB 8 41 (1.813 %) MCP 8 41 (1.813 %) CISSP 9 40 (1.769 %) CISM 10 29 (1.283 %) CCDA 11 28 (1.238 %) CISA 12 27 (1.194 %) OCP 12 27 (1.194 %) Oracle Certification 13 25 (1.106 %) CCSE 14 20 (0.885 %) CCIE 15 16 (0.708 %) HND 15 16 (0.708 %) PRINCE2 Certification 15 16 (0.708 %) CISMP 16 15 (0.663 %) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 68 (3.008 %) SLA 2 34 (1.504 %) QA 3 21 (0.929 %) ISO27001 4 16 (0.708 %) BS7799 5 13 (0.575 %) ISO9001 6 10 (0.442 %) ISO17799 7 8 (0.354 %) HMG Infosec 8 6 (0.265 %) JSP 440 9 4 (0.177 %) ISO9000 10 3 (0.133 %) HL7 11 2 (0.088 %) ISO14001 11 2 (0.088 %) BS15000 12 1 (0.044 %) TickIT 12 1 (0.044 %) GAAP	System Software 1 193 (8.536 %) Active Directory 2 45 (1.990 %) Oracle RAC 3 37 (1.636 %) Oracle RMAN 4 30 (1.327 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 14 (0.619 %) NetBackup 6 12 (0.531 %) VMware ESX 6 12 (0.531 %) AquaLogic 7 6 (0.265 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 8 3 (0.133 %) ProxySG 8 3 (0.133 %) Terminal Server 9 2 (0.088 %) VMware Server 10 1 (0.044 %) Squid 10 1 (0.044 %) ISA Server 10 1 (0.044 %) VMware GSX 10 1 (0.044 %) VMware Workstation 10 1 (0.044 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 34 (1.504 %) MOM 2 23 (1.017 %) OpenView Configuration Management 3 21 (0.929 %) OpenView 4 16 (0.708 %) Tivoli 5 14 (0.619 %) Netcool 6 8 (0.354 %) Unicenter 7 5 (0.221 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 8 4 (0.177 %) WSUS 8 4 (0.177 %) Oracle Statspack 9 3 (0.133 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 9 3 (0.133 %) MIIS 9 3 (0.133 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 10 2 (0.088 %) Legato 10 2 (0.088 %) Netcool/OMNIbus 10 2 (0.088 %) ARCserve 10 2 (0.088 %) Netcool/Webtop 11 1 (0.044 %) EMC NetWorker 11 1 (0.044 %) ServiceCenter 11 1 (0.044 %) AssetCenter 11 1 (0.044 %) Norton AntiVirus	Vendors 1 465 (20.57 %) Oracle 2 276 (12.21 %) Microsoft 3 212 (9.376 %) Cisco 4 70 (3.096 %) CheckPoint 5 67 (2.963 %) BEA 6 59 (2.609 %) SAP 7 46 (2.034 %) VMware 8 45 (1.990 %) HP 9 44 (1.946 %) Juniper 10 43 (1.902 %) Business Objects 11 29 (1.283 %) Nokia 12 25 (1.106 %) PeopleSoft 12 25 (1.106 %) Sun 13 19 (0.840 %) Remedy 14 18 (0.796 %) VERITAS 14 18 (0.796 %) EMC 14 18 (0.796 %) IBM 15 16 (0.708 %) Cognos 16 15 (0.663 %) Finjan 17 14 (0.619 %) Citrix