The first table below looks at the demand for BC Cleared in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited BC Cleared over the 3 months to 24 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 currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Basic Check (BC) Clearance
Rank 850 882 847
Rank change year-on-year
+32 -35
Permanent jobs citing BC Cleared 12 17 34
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.011% 0.014% 0.027%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.040% 0.051% 0.104%
Number of salaries quoted 7 13 29
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% +11.84%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,900 £28,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £68,500 £55,000 £53,550
UK excluding London average salary £40,250 £41,250 £34,500
% change year-on-year
-2.42% +19.56%
All Qualifications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
29882 33504 32557
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 27.65% 27.76% 26.17%
Number of salaries quoted 24050 28534 27195
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +3.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%

BC Cleared
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing BC Cleared within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

BC Cleared Jobs Demand Trend

BC Cleared
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing BC Cleared within the UK.

BC Cleared Salary Trend

BC Cleared
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing BC Cleared over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

BC Cleared Salary Histogram

BC Cleared
Top 21 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BC Cleared within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +21 10 £40,000 -5.88%
South East +3 4 £67,500 +68.75%
Surrey +8 2 £40,500 +20.89%
South West 0 2 £37,500 -31.81%
County Antrim -5 2 - -
Belfast -6 2 - -
Northern Ireland -7 2 - -
Guildford - 2 £40,500 -
London +50 1 £31,000 -43.63%
West Midlands -19 1 - -
North West - 1 £40,000 -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
West Yorkshire - 1 - -
Somerset - 1 £37,500 -
Shropshire - 1 - -
Cheshire - 1 £40,000 -
Telford - 1 - -
Leeds - 1 - -
Croydon - 1 £31,000 -
Chester - 1 £40,000 -
Bristol - 1 £37,500 -

BC Cleared
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 IT job ads sampled that cited BC Cleared.

1 32 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (40.63%) Finance
3 12 (37.50%) Oracle
3 12 (37.50%) SC Cleared
4 8 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 8 (25.00%) SQL
4 8 (25.00%) SAP
5 7 (21.88%) TCP/IP
6 6 (18.75%) Firewall
6 6 (18.75%) PL/SQL
6 6 (18.75%) Oracle RAC
6 6 (18.75%) Oracle 11g
7 5 (15.63%) Linux
7 5 (15.63%) Project Management
8 4 (12.50%) Manufacturing
8 4 (12.50%) Military
8 4 (12.50%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (12.50%) GIS
8 4 (12.50%) SharePoint
8 4 (12.50%) Windows
8 4 (12.50%) SOA
8 4 (12.50%) .NET
8 4 (12.50%) Web Services
8 4 (12.50%) XML
8 4 (12.50%) SQL Server
8 4 (12.50%) Business Objects
8 4 (12.50%) C
8 4 (12.50%) Cisco
8 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
8 4 (12.50%) Oracle 10g

BC Cleared
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 IT job ads sampled that cited BC Cleared. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (12.50%) .NET
1 4 (12.50%) Web Services
1 4 (12.50%) XML
2 2 (6.250%) Application Packaging
2 2 (6.250%) Silverlight
2 2 (6.250%) Middleware
2 2 (6.250%) CSS
2 2 (6.250%) ASP.NET
2 2 (6.250%) HTML
3 1 (3.125%) EJB
Application Platforms
1 4 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.250%) Lync
2 2 (6.250%) IIS
2 2 (6.250%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 2 (6.250%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (9.375%) SAP FI
1 3 (9.375%) SAP CO
1 3 (9.375%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (6.250%) SAP BPC
2 2 (6.250%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (6.250%) SAP PP
3 1 (3.125%) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.88%) TCP/IP
2 6 (18.75%) Firewall
3 3 (9.375%) VPN
3 3 (9.375%) DNS
3 3 (9.375%) WAN
3 3 (9.375%) DHCP
3 3 (9.375%) Ethernet
4 2 (6.250%) NAS
4 2 (6.250%) IP Telephony
4 2 (6.250%) Cisco IPT
4 2 (6.250%) DMZ
4 2 (6.250%) SAN
5 1 (3.125%) EIGRP
5 1 (3.125%) OSPF
5 1 (3.125%) BGP
5 1 (3.125%) SSL
5 1 (3.125%) HTTP
5 1 (3.125%) SMTP
5 1 (3.125%) LAN
5 1 (3.125%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) Oracle 11g
2 4 (12.50%) GIS
2 4 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 4 (12.50%) Oracle 10g
3 2 (6.250%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (6.250%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.250%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (3.125%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (9.375%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 3 (9.375%) Subversion
2 2 (6.250%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.125%) TestDirector
3 1 (3.125%) eCATT
General
1 13 (40.63%) Finance
2 4 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 4 (12.50%) Military
3 2 (6.250%) Retail
3 2 (6.250%) Telecoms
3 2 (6.250%) Aerospace
3 2 (6.250%) Games
4 1 (3.125%) Automotive
4 1 (3.125%) Law
4 1 (3.125%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Developer
2 5 (15.63%) Consultant
2 5 (15.63%) Software Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) SAP Consultant
3 4 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) SQL Developer
3 4 (12.50%) PL/SQL Developer
3 4 (12.50%) Oracle DBA
3 4 (12.50%) Oracle Developer
3 4 (12.50%) DBA
4 3 (9.375%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 3 (9.375%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
5 2 (6.250%) SAP BPC Consultant
5 2 (6.250%) SAP Support
5 2 (6.250%) Senior Microsoft Developer
5 2 (6.250%) Senior Technical Specialist
5 2 (6.250%) Microsoft Developer
5 2 (6.250%) SAP MM Consultant
5 2 (6.250%) Software Test Engineer
5 2 (6.250%) SAP PP Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.375%) SCADA
1 3 (9.375%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
1 3 (9.375%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (6.250%) Open Source
2 2 (6.250%) PKI
2 2 (6.250%) Fat Client
2 2 (6.250%) Clustering
2 2 (6.250%) IVR
2 2 (6.250%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.250%) Thin Client
2 2 (6.250%) Smartcard
2 2 (6.250%) Blackberry
3 1 (3.125%) CESG
3 1 (3.125%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.63%) Linux
2 4 (12.50%) Windows
3 2 (6.250%) SUSE
4 1 (3.125%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (15.63%) Project Management
2 4 (12.50%) SOA
3 3 (9.375%) ITIL
3 3 (9.375%) GAP Analysis
3 3 (9.375%) Service Delivery
3 3 (9.375%) Business Continuity
3 3 (9.375%) Problem Management
3 3 (9.375%) Software Engineering
4 2 (6.250%) Capacity Management
4 2 (6.250%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (6.250%) Performance Management
4 2 (6.250%) Software Testing
4 2 (6.250%) Network Design
4 2 (6.250%) Automated Testing
4 2 (6.250%) Unit Testing
4 2 (6.250%) Migration
4 2 (6.250%) PDM
4 2 (6.250%) MVC
4 2 (6.250%) OO
4 2 (6.250%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.00%) SQL
2 6 (18.75%) PL/SQL
3 4 (12.50%) C
4 3 (9.375%) Embedded C
5 2 (6.250%) C#
6 1 (3.125%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.125%) Java
Qualifications
1 32 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 8 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (9.375%) HND
4 3 (9.375%) Degree
5 2 (6.250%) CTC Cleared
5 2 (6.250%) CITP
6 1 (3.125%) CISSP
6 1 (3.125%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.375%) ISO 9001
2 1 (3.125%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.125%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (18.75%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (12.50%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (6.250%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.250%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (6.250%) Data Guard
1 2 (6.250%) SCCM
1 2 (6.250%) SCOM
2 1 (3.125%) OpenView
Vendors
1 12 (37.50%) Oracle
2 8 (25.00%) SAP
3 4 (12.50%) Business Objects
3 4 (12.50%) Cisco
3 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 4 (12.50%) Citrix
3 4 (12.50%) CheckPoint
4 2 (6.250%) VMware
4 2 (6.250%) ESRI
4 2 (6.250%) Sun
4 2 (6.250%) Dell
4 2 (6.250%) Salesforce.com
4 2 (6.250%) Juniper
5 1 (3.125%) BMC
5 1 (3.125%) Nokia
5 1 (3.125%) HP
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