Cheshire Clustering Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Clustering skills within the Cheshire region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Clustering over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Clustering
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halesowen Hampshire Harlow Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Ipswich Johnstone Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire London Loughborough Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Renfrewshire Rochester Rugby Scotland Shropshire Slough South East South Wales South West Southampton Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford UK Wales Warwickshire West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	75	48
Rank change on same period last year	-27
Matching contract IT job ads	4	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	1.384 %	9.677 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£200	-
Average daily rate	£225	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£250	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£350
% change on same period last year	-3.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	7
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£36.43
Average hourly rate	-	£42.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£48.57
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.25	£34.74
% change on same period last year	-4.30 %
Miscellaneous Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	289	124
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.384 %	0.127 %
Daily rates quoted	80	25
Average minimum daily rate	£367	£344
Average daily rate	£386	£370
% change on same period last year	+4.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£405	£396
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£353
% change on same period last year	+0.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	23
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.47	£17.57
Average hourly rate	£18.08	£18.95
% change on same period last year	-4.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.69	£20.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.49	£28.98
% change on same period last year	-15.50 %
Clustering North West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Clustering
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Clustering across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Clustering
Daily Rate Trend

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

Clustering
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Clustering
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Clustering within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Chester	-5	1	-	-

Clustering North West

Clustering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 12 (75.00 %) AIX 1 12 (75.00 %) WebSphere 2 10 (62.50 %) IBM 3 7 (43.75 %) Finance 3 7 (43.75 %) UNIX 4 5 (31.25 %) WebSphere MQ 4 5 (31.25 %) OMEGAMON 4 5 (31.25 %) MQSI 5 4 (25.00 %) C 5 4 (25.00 %) Java 5 4 (25.00 %) Perl 5 4 (25.00 %) MQSeries 6 3 (18.75 %) Solaris 6 3 (18.75 %) Windows 6 3 (18.75 %) ITIL

7 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2000 7 2 (12.50 %) DTS 7 2 (12.50 %) E-Commerce 7 2 (12.50 %) VMS 7 2 (12.50 %) Replication 7 2 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 7 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server 7 2 (12.50 %) MCDBA 7 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2005 7 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server Integration Services 8 1 (6.250 %) Banking 8 1 (6.250 %) SSH 8 1 (6.250 %) Apache 8 1 (6.250 %) Tomcat

Clustering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 Development 1 12 (75.00 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 5 (31.25 %) WebSphere MQ 1 5 (31.25 %) MQSI 2 4 (25.00 %) MQSeries 3 1 (6.250 %) BizTalk Server 3 1 (6.250 %) IIS 3 1 (6.250 %) Apache 3 1 (6.250 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 1 (6.250 %) MS Office 1 1 (6.250 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 1 (6.250 %) Internet 1 1 (6.250 %) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server 1 2 (12.50 %) DTS 1 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2000 1 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 1 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2005 1 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server Integration Services	General 1 7 (43.75 %) Finance 2 1 (6.250 %) Banking
Job Titles 1 10 (62.50 %) Administrator 2 5 (31.25 %) WebSphere Administrator 3 2 (12.50 %) SQL DBA 3 2 (12.50 %) Systems Support Analyst 3 2 (12.50 %) Server Administrator 3 2 (12.50 %) Analyst 3 2 (12.50 %) Systems Analyst 3 2 (12.50 %) DBA 3 2 (12.50 %) Systems Support 3 2 (12.50 %) Support Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) Technical Support 4 1 (6.250 %) Solaris Administrator 4 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server DBA	Miscellaneous 1 2 (12.50 %) Replication 2 1 (6.250 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 12 (75.00 %) AIX 2 7 (43.75 %) UNIX 3 3 (18.75 %) Windows 3 3 (18.75 %) Solaris 4 2 (12.50 %) VMS 5 1 (6.250 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (18.75 %) ITIL 2 2 (12.50 %) E-Commerce
Programming Languages 1 4 (25.00 %) C 1 4 (25.00 %) Java 1 4 (25.00 %) Perl 2 1 (6.250 %) SQL 2 1 (6.250 %) Python 2 1 (6.250 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 2 (12.50 %) MCDBA 1 2 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (6.250 %) Sun Certification 2 1 (6.250 %) IBM Certification
System Software 1 1 (6.250 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 5 (31.25 %) OMEGAMON
Vendors 1 10 (62.50 %) IBM 2 1 (6.250 %) Microsoft 2 1 (6.250 %) Sun 2 1 (6.250 %) HP 2 1 (6.250 %) Dell 2 1 (6.250 %) StorageTek 2 1 (6.250 %) VERITAS