SC Cleared Contracts in Wiltshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 3 months to 25 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Security Check (SC) Clearance South West / Wiltshire
Location	3 months to 25 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	3	3	5
Rank change year-on-year	0	+2
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared	151	148	85
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire	22.88%	22.77%	13.45%
As % of the Qualifications category	58.53%	57.36%	45.21%
Number of daily rates quoted	105	105	59
Median daily rate	£420	£410	£350
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.43%	+17.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£275	£284	£240
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£583	£552	£475
UK excluding London median daily rate	£411	£375	£388
% change year-on-year	+9.60%	-3.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted	6	3	1
Median hourly rate	£35.00	£23.00	£17.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+52.17%	+31.42%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£39.50	£35.00	£36.00
% change year-on-year	+12.85%	-2.77%

SC Cleared is in the academic qualifications and professional certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all academic qualifications and professional certifications cited in contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire.

Academic & Professional Certification Wiltshire
Contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications	258	258	188
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire	39.09%	39.69%	29.75%
Number of daily rates quoted	155	177	123
Median daily rate	£440	£375	£375
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+17.33%	-
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£325	£275	£256
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£650	£550	£500
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£375
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	10	4	2
Median hourly rate	£42.00	£27.50	£17.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+52.72%	+57.14%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£33.00	£30.00	£24.12
% change year-on-year	+10.00%	+24.37%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in Wiltshire citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Qualifications category.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Wiltshire

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing SC Cleared in Wiltshire.

Contractor daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Wiltshire

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing SC Cleared in Wiltshire over the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Wiltshire

SC Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared in Wiltshire.

Contractor hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Wiltshire

SC Cleared
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 25 June 2017. 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	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
Corsham	0	56	£488	+9.55%	3
Salisbury	0	12	£400	+6.66%	1
Swindon	-10	11	£350	-3.44%
Marlborough	-	3	£325	-
Chippenham	-3	2	£348	-9.74%
SC Cleared South West

SC Cleared
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in Wiltshire

For the 6 months to 25 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing SC Cleared also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the Wiltshire region with a requirement for SC Cleared.

1	280 (100.00%)	Security Cleared
2	85 (30.36%)	Agile Software Development
3	80 (28.57%)	Project Management
4	69 (24.64%)	Finance
5	51 (18.21%)	Microsoft Project
6	47 (16.79%)	Programme Management
7	41 (14.64%)	PRINCE2
8	37 (13.21%)	Telecoms
9	36 (12.86%)	Project Planning
10	35 (12.50%)	Business Intelligence
11	32 (11.43%)	SAP
11	32 (11.43%)	Manufacturing
12	31 (11.07%)	Electronics
12	31 (11.07%)	Marketing
12	31 (11.07%)	SAP Oil and Gas

12	31 (11.07%)	Digital Marketing
12	31 (11.07%)	DV Cleared
13	30 (10.71%)	Risk Management
14	28 (10.00%)	ITIL
15	26 (9.29%)	Microsoft Office
16	24 (8.57%)	SharePoint Server
17	23 (8.21%)	SharePoint
17	23 (8.21%)	PMO
18	22 (7.86%)	Windows
18	22 (7.86%)	Migration
19	21 (7.50%)	Oracle
19	21 (7.50%)	Microsoft
19	21 (7.50%)	Office 365
20	20 (7.14%)	Work Breakdown Structure
21	19 (6.79%)	Product Breakdown Structure

SC Cleared
Co-occurring IT Skills in Wiltshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	24 (8.57%)	SharePoint Server
2	23 (8.21%)	SharePoint
3	17 (6.07%)	Confluence
4	5 (1.79%)	Elasticsearch
5	2 (0.71%)	OpenStack
6	1 (0.36%)	Apache
6	1 (0.36%)	Blackberry Enterprise Server
6	1 (0.36%)	CMS
6	1 (0.36%)	GeoServer
6	1 (0.36%)	MS Project Server
6	1 (0.36%)	Oracle SOA Suite
6	1 (0.36%)	SAS
6	1 (0.36%)	SharePoint 2013
6	1 (0.36%)	WebLogic

Applications
1	51 (18.21%)	Microsoft Project
2	26 (9.29%)	Microsoft Office
3	6 (2.14%)	Microsoft Excel
4	1 (0.36%)	S-PLUS
4	1 (0.36%)	Spreadsheet
4	1 (0.36%)	SPSS

Business Applications
1	31 (11.07%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	17 (6.07%)	Oracle EBS R12
3	11 (3.93%)	Oracle Financials
4	4 (1.43%)	Oracle EBS
5	1 (0.36%)	Remedy ITSM

Cloud Services
1	21 (7.50%)	Office 365
2	8 (2.86%)	Amazon AWS
2	8 (2.86%)	Microsoft Azure
3	2 (0.71%)	Azure Data Factory
4	1 (0.36%)	Azure Active Directory
4	1 (0.36%)	GitHub

Communications & Networking
1	14 (5.00%)	Firewall
2	13 (4.64%)	LAN
3	11 (3.93%)	WAN
4	10 (3.57%)	TCP/IP
5	6 (2.14%)	TACACS
6	5 (1.79%)	Cisco Nexus
6	5 (1.79%)	DNS
6	5 (1.79%)	LDAP
7	4 (1.43%)	MPLS
8	3 (1.07%)	Internet
8	3 (1.07%)	NetScaler
8	3 (1.07%)	SSL
8	3 (1.07%)	VPN
8	3 (1.07%)	Wireless
9	2 (0.71%)	ATM
9	2 (0.71%)	Cisco ASA
9	2 (0.71%)	Network Security
9	2 (0.71%)	Structured Cabling
9	2 (0.71%)	Wi-Fi
9	2 (0.71%)	WLAN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	11 (3.93%)	SQL Server
2	5 (1.79%)	Power BI
2	5 (1.79%)	SQL Server 2012
3	4 (1.43%)	Data Warehouse
3	4 (1.43%)	Relational Database
4	3 (1.07%)	Oracle Database
4	3 (1.07%)	SQL Server 2016
4	3 (1.07%)	Star Schema
5	2 (0.71%)	Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5	2 (0.71%)	BusinessObjects
5	2 (0.71%)	Microsoft Analysis Services
5	2 (0.71%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
6	1 (0.36%)	Crystal Reports
6	1 (0.36%)	Data Mining
6	1 (0.36%)	Electronic Patient Records
6	1 (0.36%)	Oracle Database 10g
6	1 (0.36%)	Oracle Discoverer
6	1 (0.36%)	RDBMS
6	1 (0.36%)	Spatial Data
6	1 (0.36%)	Text Mining

Development Applications
1	17 (6.07%)	JIRA
2	9 (3.21%)	Bitbucket
3	5 (1.79%)	Team Foundation Server
4	3 (1.07%)	Rational DOORS
5	2 (0.71%)	Hudson
5	2 (0.71%)	Jenkins
5	2 (0.71%)	LoadRunner
5	2 (0.71%)	TestPartner
6	1 (0.36%)	Git (software)
6	1 (0.36%)	Maven
6	1 (0.36%)	Oracle APEX
6	1 (0.36%)	TeamCity

General
1	69 (24.64%)	Finance
2	37 (13.21%)	Telecoms
3	32 (11.43%)	Manufacturing
4	31 (11.07%)	Electronics
4	31 (11.07%)	Marketing
5	16 (5.71%)	Military
6	4 (1.43%)	Aerospace
7	1 (0.36%)	Avionics
7	1 (0.36%)	Billing
7	1 (0.36%)	Retail

Job Titles
1	33 (11.79%)	Project Manager
2	27 (9.64%)	Architect
3	25 (8.93%)	Consultant
4	24 (8.57%)	Project Planner
5	18 (6.43%)	SC Cleared Project Manager
6	17 (6.07%)	Analyst
7	16 (5.71%)	Oracle Consultant
8	15 (5.36%)	Coordinator
9	12 (4.29%)	Developer
9	12 (4.29%)	Programme Manager
10	11 (3.93%)	Project Coordinator
11	10 (3.57%)	Network Engineer
11	10 (3.57%)	Support Officer
12	9 (3.21%)	Administrator
12	9 (3.21%)	Security Engineer
12	9 (3.21%)	Solutions Architect
13	8 (2.86%)	Project Officer
13	8 (2.86%)	Project Support Officer
14	7 (2.50%)	Business Analyst
15	6 (2.14%)	Test Manager

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	14 (5.00%)	Web Services
2	12 (4.29%)	REST
3	8 (2.86%)	HTML
3	8 (2.86%)	JFC
4	7 (2.50%)	CSS
4	7 (2.50%)	HTML5
5	6 (2.14%)	.NET
5	6 (2.14%)	Ajax
5	6 (2.14%)	ASP.NET
6	5 (1.79%)	AngularJS
6	5 (1.79%)	ASP.NET MVC
6	5 (1.79%)	Lucene
7	4 (1.43%)	ASP.NET MVC 4
7	4 (1.43%)	JSON
7	4 (1.43%)	Twitter Bootstrap
7	4 (1.43%)	WSDL
7	4 (1.43%)	XML
7	4 (1.43%)	XSD
8	2 (0.71%)	.NET Framework
8	2 (0.71%)	Entity Framework

Miscellaneous
1	18 (6.43%)	Data Centre
2	17 (6.07%)	Management Information System
3	15 (5.36%)	PMI
4	14 (5.00%)	Analytical Skills
4	14 (5.00%)	NHS
5	9 (3.21%)	CESG
5	9 (3.21%)	Computer Science
6	8 (2.86%)	PKI
7	6 (2.14%)	CESG CLAS
8	5 (1.79%)	VxBlock/Vblock
9	2 (0.71%)	BYOD
9	2 (0.71%)	Cyber Defence
9	2 (0.71%)	Enterprise Software
9	2 (0.71%)	Private Cloud
9	2 (0.71%)	Reference Data
10	1 (0.36%)	Blackberry
10	1 (0.36%)	EPoS
10	1 (0.36%)	Mainframe
10	1 (0.36%)	Mobile App
10	1 (0.36%)	Smartphone

Operating Systems
1	22 (7.86%)	Windows
2	11 (3.93%)	Linux
3	7 (2.50%)	Unix
4	4 (1.43%)	Solaris
4	4 (1.43%)	Windows Server
5	1 (0.36%)	Android
5	1 (0.36%)	CentOS
5	1 (0.36%)	Oracle Linux
5	1 (0.36%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5	1 (0.36%)	Ubuntu
5	1 (0.36%)	Windows Server 2012

Processes & Methodologies
1	85 (30.36%)	Agile Software Development
2	80 (28.57%)	Project Management
3	47 (16.79%)	Programme Management
4	41 (14.64%)	PRINCE2
5	36 (12.86%)	Project Planning
6	35 (12.50%)	Business Intelligence
7	31 (11.07%)	Digital Marketing
8	30 (10.71%)	Risk Management
9	28 (10.00%)	ITIL
10	22 (7.86%)	Migration
11	20 (7.14%)	Work Breakdown Structure
12	19 (6.79%)	Product Breakdown Structure
13	17 (6.07%)	Stakeholder Management
14	16 (5.71%)	TOGAF
15	14 (5.00%)	Risk Analysis
16	13 (4.64%)	DevOps
16	13 (4.64%)	Scrum
16	13 (4.64%)	Service Delivery
17	12 (4.29%)	Critical Path Analysis
18	11 (3.93%)	Service Management

Programming Languages
1	16 (5.71%)	C
2	14 (5.00%)	SQL
3	8 (2.86%)	JavaScript
4	6 (2.14%)	C#
5	5 (1.79%)	PowerShell
6	3 (1.07%)	PL/SQL
7	2 (0.71%)	Shell Script
7	2 (0.71%)	T-SQL
8	1 (0.36%)	Python
8	1 (0.36%)	R
8	1 (0.36%)	Ruby
8	1 (0.36%)	TypeScript

Qualifications
1	280 (100.00%)	Security Cleared
2	31 (11.07%)	DV Cleared
3	17 (6.07%)	Degree
3	17 (6.07%)	PMI Certification
4	15 (5.36%)	Cisco Certification
5	12 (4.29%)	CCNP
6	9 (3.21%)	Chartered Engineer
6	9 (3.21%)	CITP
6	9 (3.21%)	ITIL Foundation Certificate
6	9 (3.21%)	MBCS
6	9 (3.21%)	PMP
7	6 (2.14%)	APMP
7	6 (2.14%)	CCNA
7	6 (2.14%)	CLAS
8	5 (1.79%)	PRINCE2 Certification
9	4 (1.43%)	ITIL Certification
10	3 (1.07%)	CCIE
10	3 (1.07%)	CESG Certified Professional
10	3 (1.07%)	SANS
11	2 (0.71%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	23 (8.21%)	PMO
2	7 (2.50%)	QA
3	6 (2.14%)	Def Stans
3	6 (2.14%)	DO-178B
3	6 (2.14%)	IEC 61508
4	5 (1.79%)	Data Quality
4	5 (1.79%)	JSP 440
5	3 (1.07%)	HL7
5	3 (1.07%)	HMG Security Policy Framework
5	3 (1.07%)	ISO/IEC 27001
5	3 (1.07%)	RMADS
6	1 (0.36%)	NEBOSH
6	1 (0.36%)	SLA

System Software
1	12 (4.29%)	Active Directory
1	12 (4.29%)	VMware Infrastructure
2	7 (2.50%)	ProxySG
3	5 (1.79%)	vSphere
4	4 (1.43%)	Docker
5	3 (1.07%)	Virtual Machines
6	2 (0.71%)	Firmware
6	2 (0.71%)	VMware ESXi
7	1 (0.36%)	Xen

Systems Management
1	8 (2.86%)	vCenter Server
2	7 (2.50%)	Ansible
2	7 (2.50%)	Puppet
3	5 (1.79%)	SCCM
4	3 (1.07%)	McAfee ePO
5	1 (0.36%)	Kubernetes
5	1 (0.36%)	Microsoft Intune
5	1 (0.36%)	Red Hat Satellite
5	1 (0.36%)	vRealize

Vendors
1	32 (11.43%)	SAP
2	21 (7.50%)	Microsoft
2	21 (7.50%)	Oracle
3	19 (6.79%)	Cisco
4	16 (5.71%)	VMware
5	9 (3.21%)	Citrix
6	8 (2.86%)	Atlassian
7	7 (2.50%)	Blue Coat
7	7 (2.50%)	Juniper
8	6 (2.14%)	CheckPoint
8	6 (2.14%)	SolarWinds
9	5 (1.79%)	ArcSight
9	5 (1.79%)	Nokia
9	5 (1.79%)	Pegasus
9	5 (1.79%)	Red Hat
10	4 (1.43%)	F5
10	4 (1.43%)	McAfee
10	4 (1.43%)	Remedy
11	3 (1.07%)	Aruba
12	2 (0.71%)	HP