The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in IT contracts advertised for the Cardiff region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Clustering 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 Cardiff 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
Clustering
Rank - 33 32
Contract jobs citing Clustering 0 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff - 0.889% 1.240%
As % of the Miscellaneous category - 4.545% 4.762%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £358 £400 £290
% change year-on-year
-10.62% +37.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £25.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year
+8.00% -19.35%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Cardiff
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
42 44 63
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 22.83% 19.56% 26.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 21 39
Average daily rate £375 £400 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £126 £104
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £489 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
Average hourly rate £11.00 £14.00 £14.78
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% -5.24%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Clustering
South Wales

Clustering
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff Clustering Hourly Rate Trend

Clustering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 7 (100.00%) Finance
2 6 (85.71%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 6 (85.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 6 (85.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 6 (85.71%) SQL Server 2008
2 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 6 (85.71%) T-SQL
2 6 (85.71%) SQL Server
2 6 (85.71%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (85.71%) ETL
2 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 6 (85.71%) SQL Server 2005
2 6 (85.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (71.43%) Cognos Business Intelligence
3 5 (71.43%) AS400
3 5 (71.43%) Kimball Methodology
3 5 (71.43%) SQL Server 2000
3 5 (71.43%) DTS
3 5 (71.43%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (71.43%) OLTP
3 5 (71.43%) Cognos
3 5 (71.43%) Project Management
4 2 (28.57%) Banking
5 1 (14.29%) IBM
5 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (14.29%) OpenUP
5 1 (14.29%) LPAR
5 1 (14.29%) DLPAR
5 1 (14.29%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery

Clustering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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.

Business Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 6 (85.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 6 (85.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 6 (85.71%) SQL Server 2008
1 6 (85.71%) SQL Server
1 6 (85.71%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (85.71%) SQL Server 2005
1 6 (85.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 5 (71.43%) SQL Server 2000
2 5 (71.43%) DTS
2 5 (71.43%) OLTP
General
1 7 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) DBA
2 5 (71.43%) SQL Server DBA
2 5 (71.43%) SQL DBA
3 1 (14.29%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) AS400
2 1 (14.29%) LPAR
2 1 (14.29%) DLPAR
2 1 (14.29%) HACMP
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (14.29%) UNIX
1 1 (14.29%) AIX
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) ETL
2 5 (71.43%) Kimball Methodology
2 5 (71.43%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (71.43%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) OpenUP
3 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
1 6 (85.71%) T-SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Tivoli
1 1 (14.29%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (71.43%) Cognos
3 1 (14.29%) IBM
3 1 (14.29%) EMC
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat