The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Clustering 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 Cambridgeshire 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
Clustering
Rank 45 59 49
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -10
Contract jobs citing Clustering 7 5 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 1.296% 0.728% 0.558%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.344% 3.650% 3.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
Average daily rate £350 £350 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +55.55%
UK excluding London average daily rate £354 £400 £298
% change year-on-year
-11.56% +34.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £27.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £25.00 £31.25
% change year-on-year
+8.00% -20.00%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
131 137 97
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 24.26% 19.94% 18.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 71 27
Average daily rate £275 £300 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% +4.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £170 £225 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £429 £400 £355
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 22 25
Average hourly rate £36.50 £42.50 £17.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.11% +139.43%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.00 £15.00 £10.27
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £50.00 £36.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
Clustering
East of England

Clustering
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire Clustering Jobs Demand Trend

Clustering
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridgeshire Clustering Daily Rate Trend

Clustering
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridgeshire Clustering Hourly Rate Trend

Clustering
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Cambridge +10 5 - -
Peterborough - 2 £350 -
Clustering
East of England

Clustering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing Clustering 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 Clustering.

1 8 (80.00%) Windows
1 8 (80.00%) Active Directory
1 8 (80.00%) Citrix
1 8 (80.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 8 (80.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 7 (70.00%) SQL
2 7 (70.00%) Oracle
3 6 (60.00%) MS Exchange
3 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (60.00%) XenApp
3 6 (60.00%) SCOM
3 6 (60.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 5 (50.00%) NetScaler
4 5 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (50.00%) Linux
4 5 (50.00%) Red Hat
4 5 (50.00%) ITIL
4 5 (50.00%) Blackberry
4 5 (50.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 5 (50.00%) PKI
5 4 (40.00%) Oracle RMAN
5 4 (40.00%) SCCM
6 3 (30.00%) Windows 7
6 3 (30.00%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (30.00%) WSUS
7 2 (20.00%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (20.00%) AppSense
7 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (20.00%) Terminal Services
7 2 (20.00%) HP

Clustering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing Clustering 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 Clustering. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 6 (60.00%) MS Exchange
1 6 (60.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 5 (50.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (20.00%) Lync
4 1 (10.00%) IIS
4 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2007
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) NetScaler
2 1 (10.00%) Internet
2 1 (10.00%) NAS
2 1 (10.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
1 5 (50.00%) Administrator
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server DBA
2 2 (20.00%) SQL DBA
2 2 (20.00%) DBA
3 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Blackberry
1 5 (50.00%) PKI
2 1 (10.00%) Thin Client
2 1 (10.00%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
1 8 (80.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 8 (80.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (50.00%) Linux
3 3 (30.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (60.00%) XenApp
3 4 (40.00%) Oracle RMAN
4 3 (30.00%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (20.00%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (20.00%) Terminal Services
6 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (10.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) SCOM
2 4 (40.00%) SCCM
3 3 (30.00%) WSUS
4 1 (10.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Citrix
2 7 (70.00%) Oracle
3 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
4 5 (50.00%) Red Hat
5 2 (20.00%) AppSense
5 2 (20.00%) HP
6 1 (10.00%) Symantec
6 1 (10.00%) VMware