The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Replication in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Replication over the 3 months to 23 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 Birmingham 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Replication
Rank 38 - 42
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Replication 6 0 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 1.373% - 1.354%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.818% - 7.955%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
Average daily rate £338 - £255
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £29.25 £42.50
% change year-on-year
- -31.17%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
88 84 88
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 20.14% 13.42% 17.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 36 43
Average daily rate £340 £310 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.58% +3.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £175 £159
10% offered a daily rate of more than £459 £523 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 7
Average hourly rate £32.50 £14.25 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+128.07% +9.61%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £11.15 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £92.20 £19.15 £61.51
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
Replication
West Midlands

Replication
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham Replication Hourly Rate Trend

Replication
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) SAN
2 3 (50.00%) IBM
2 3 (50.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 3 (50.00%) Symantec
2 3 (50.00%) UNIX
2 3 (50.00%) HP
2 3 (50.00%) EMC
2 3 (50.00%) CLARiiON
2 3 (50.00%) Symmetrix
2 3 (50.00%) NAS
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 2 (33.33%) Linux
4 1 (16.67%) Lotus Domino
4 1 (16.67%) Apache
4 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
4 1 (16.67%) MS Exchange
4 1 (16.67%) Ethernet
4 1 (16.67%) FTP
4 1 (16.67%) HTTP
4 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (16.67%) VPN
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco
4 1 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (16.67%) MySQL
4 1 (16.67%) Citrix
4 1 (16.67%) Juniper
4 1 (16.67%) NetScreen
4 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft

Replication
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Lotus Domino
1 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
1 1 (16.67%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) SAN
2 3 (50.00%) NAS
3 1 (16.67%) Ethernet
3 1 (16.67%) FTP
3 1 (16.67%) HTTP
3 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (16.67%) VPN
3 1 (16.67%) NetScreen
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall
3 1 (16.67%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) MySQL
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Backup Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) DBA
3 1 (16.67%) Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Backup Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Storage Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Domino Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) MySQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) CLARiiON
1 3 (50.00%) Symmetrix
2 1 (16.67%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) UNIX
3 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Migration
1 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (16.67%) Capacity Management
1 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
1 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
1 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
1 1 (16.67%) Database Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
1 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
1 1 (16.67%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) XenServer
1 1 (16.67%) XenDesktop
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (16.67%) NetBackup
2 1 (16.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) IBM
1 3 (50.00%) Symantec
1 3 (50.00%) HP
1 3 (50.00%) EMC
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix
2 1 (16.67%) Juniper
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Lotus
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) VMware