The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Replication in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Replication 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Berkshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Replication
Rank 108 116 100
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -16
Contract jobs citing Replication 12 19 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.501% 0.604% 0.974%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.679% 3.140% 5.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 12
Average daily rate £480 £288 £326
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+66.95% -11.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £263 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £555 £585 £535
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £26.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
- -38.82%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
448 605 569
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 18.71% 19.24% 19.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 253 230
Average daily rate £375 £325 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -4.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £225 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £545 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 31 34
Average hourly rate £18.00 £22.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.18% +10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £14.48 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.00 £50.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Replication
South East

Replication
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Replication across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Berkshire Replication Jobs Demand Trend

Replication
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Replication across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Replication Daily Rate Trend

Replication
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Replication across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Berkshire Replication Daily Rate Histogram

Replication
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Replication across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Replication Hourly Rate Trend

Replication
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Replication within the Berkshire region 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Reading +11 4 £550 +61.76%
Maidenhead - 3 £480 -
Bracknell -17 2 - -
Slough - 1 £450 -
Replication
South East

Replication
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Replication 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited Replication.

1 9 (47.37%) Windows
2 8 (42.11%) SQL Server
3 7 (36.84%) SQL
3 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
3 7 (36.84%) Windows Server 2003
3 7 (36.84%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (31.58%) Clustering
5 5 (26.32%) Migration
6 4 (21.05%) Active Directory
7 3 (15.79%) Oracle
7 3 (15.79%) GIS
7 3 (15.79%) Service Delivery
7 3 (15.79%) ITSM
7 3 (15.79%) Management Information System
7 3 (15.79%) Technical Architecture
7 3 (15.79%) Data Migration
7 3 (15.79%) Wireshark
7 3 (15.79%) Information Architecture
8 2 (10.53%) Apple iOS
8 2 (10.53%) soapUI
8 2 (10.53%) REST
8 2 (10.53%) Test Strategy
8 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
8 2 (10.53%) Analytics
8 2 (10.53%) Mathematics
8 2 (10.53%) Chemistry
8 2 (10.53%) Computer Science
8 2 (10.53%) QA
8 2 (10.53%) Selenium
8 2 (10.53%) Stress Testing

Replication
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Replication also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Replication. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (10.53%) soapUI
1 2 (10.53%) REST
1 2 (10.53%) JSON
1 2 (10.53%) SOAP
1 2 (10.53%) Web Services
1 2 (10.53%) XML
1 2 (10.53%) .NET
1 2 (10.53%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.263%) Lotus Domino
1 1 (5.263%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) Wireshark
2 2 (10.53%) VoIP
2 2 (10.53%) HTTP
3 1 (5.263%) LDAP
3 1 (5.263%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) SQL Server
2 3 (15.79%) GIS
3 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
3 2 (10.53%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (10.53%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (10.53%) MySQL
3 2 (10.53%) Oracle 10g
3 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (10.53%) Oracle 9i
3 2 (10.53%) Data Mining
4 1 (5.263%) MSDE
4 1 (5.263%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Selenium
1 2 (10.53%) LoadRunner
General
1 1 (5.263%) Telecoms
1 1 (5.263%) Finance
1 1 (5.263%) Legal
1 1 (5.263%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) SQL DBA
1 6 (31.58%) DBA
2 4 (21.05%) Administrator
2 4 (21.05%) Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Teradata DBA
4 2 (10.53%) Server Administrator
4 2 (10.53%) Oracle Developer
4 2 (10.53%) SQL Server DBA
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Analyst
5 1 (5.263%) Tester
5 1 (5.263%) Data Architect
5 1 (5.263%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Senior Tester
5 1 (5.263%) Team Leader
5 1 (5.263%) SQL Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Product Analyst
5 1 (5.263%) Windows Server Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Clustering
2 3 (15.79%) Management Information System
3 2 (10.53%) Mathematics
3 2 (10.53%) Chemistry
3 2 (10.53%) Computer Science
4 1 (5.263%) PKI
4 1 (5.263%) Smartphone
4 1 (5.263%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 9 (47.37%) Windows
2 7 (36.84%) Windows Server 2003
2 7 (36.84%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (10.53%) Apple iOS
3 2 (10.53%) Windows 2000 Server
3 2 (10.53%) Android
3 2 (10.53%) UNIX
4 1 (5.263%) Windows XP
4 1 (5.263%) Windows Vista
4 1 (5.263%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) Migration
2 3 (15.79%) Service Delivery
2 3 (15.79%) ITSM
2 3 (15.79%) Technical Architecture
2 3 (15.79%) Data Migration
2 3 (15.79%) Information Architecture
3 2 (10.53%) Test Strategy
3 2 (10.53%) Analytics
3 2 (10.53%) Stress Testing
3 2 (10.53%) Time Management
3 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (10.53%) TOGAF
3 2 (10.53%) Bioinformatics
4 1 (5.263%) ETL
4 1 (5.263%) Data Modelling
4 1 (5.263%) ITIL
4 1 (5.263%) Project Management
4 1 (5.263%) Identity Management
4 1 (5.263%) Change Management
4 1 (5.263%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) SQL
2 2 (10.53%) Objective-C
2 2 (10.53%) T-SQL
2 2 (10.53%) VB
2 2 (10.53%) C#
2 2 (10.53%) C++
2 2 (10.53%) Java
2 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
2 2 (10.53%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.263%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (10.53%) MCSE
2 1 (5.263%) MCP
2 1 (5.263%) MCITP
2 1 (5.263%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.263%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) QA
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.263%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (5.263%) DFS Replication
2 1 (5.263%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 1 (5.263%) MIIS
1 1 (5.263%) NetBackup
1 1 (5.263%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle
3 1 (5.263%) Lotus
3 1 (5.263%) Mapinfo
3 1 (5.263%) ESRI
3 1 (5.263%) hybris