The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Replication in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Replication over the 3 months to 21 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 Cheshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Replication
Rank 56 61 53
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -8
Contract jobs citing Replication 7 5 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.952% 0.621% 2.364%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.321% 3.378% 11.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 18
Average daily rate £400 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -7.14%
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 £41.25
% change year-on-year
- -29.09%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
162 148 206
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 22.04% 18.39% 21.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 88 122
Average daily rate £350 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £230 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £475 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 9
Average hourly rate £20.00 £14.00 £15.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+42.85% -9.67%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-4.34% -13.20%
Replication
North West

Replication
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire Replication Daily Rate Trend

Replication
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Chester - 6 £425 -
Replication
North West

Replication
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 12 (70.59%) SQL
2 11 (64.71%) SQL Server
2 11 (64.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 8 (47.06%) OLTP
4 7 (41.18%) T-SQL
4 7 (41.18%) Data Modelling
4 7 (41.18%) SQL Server 2000
4 7 (41.18%) SQL Server 2008
4 7 (41.18%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (41.18%) SQL Server 2005
5 6 (35.29%) VLDB
6 4 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (23.53%) RDBMS
6 4 (23.53%) UNIX
6 4 (23.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (23.53%) Retail
6 4 (23.53%) QA
6 4 (23.53%) Data Integration
6 4 (23.53%) Load Testing
6 4 (23.53%) Unit Testing
6 4 (23.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 4 (23.53%) SQL Server 2012
7 3 (17.65%) IDMS
7 3 (17.65%) Brocade
7 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
7 3 (17.65%) Agile Software Development
7 3 (17.65%) Change Management
7 3 (17.65%) Migration
7 3 (17.65%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 3 (17.65%) SAN

Replication
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 (5.882%) ArcSDE
1 1 (5.882%) ArcGIS
1 1 (5.882%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (5.882%) BASE24
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) SAN
2 1 (5.882%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (64.71%) SQL Server
1 11 (64.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 8 (47.06%) OLTP
3 7 (41.18%) SQL Server 2000
3 7 (41.18%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (41.18%) SQL Server 2005
4 6 (35.29%) VLDB
5 4 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (23.53%) RDBMS
5 4 (23.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (23.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (23.53%) SQL Server 2012
6 3 (17.65%) IDMS
6 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
6 3 (17.65%) MySQL
7 2 (11.76%) DB2
8 1 (5.882%) GIS
General
1 4 (23.53%) Retail
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
3 1 (5.882%) Retail Banking
3 1 (5.882%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) DBA
2 6 (35.29%) SQL DBA
3 4 (23.53%) Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Administrator
3 4 (23.53%) Teradata DBA
4 2 (11.76%) SQL Server DBA
4 2 (11.76%) Server Administrator
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Designer
4 2 (11.76%) Designer
5 1 (5.882%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (5.882%) Storage Consultant
5 1 (5.882%) GIS Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Storage Specialist
5 1 (5.882%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Data Integration
2 2 (11.76%) Mainframe
2 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
3 1 (5.882%) Celerra
3 1 (5.882%) Tandem
3 1 (5.882%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) UNIX
2 2 (11.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Data Modelling
1 7 (41.18%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (23.53%) Load Testing
2 4 (23.53%) Unit Testing
3 3 (17.65%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (17.65%) Change Management
3 3 (17.65%) Migration
3 3 (17.65%) ITIL
4 1 (5.882%) Test Strategy
4 1 (5.882%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) SQL
2 7 (41.18%) T-SQL
3 1 (5.882%) Python
3 1 (5.882%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (5.882%) Tivoli
2 1 (5.882%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Brocade
2 1 (5.882%) ESRI
2 1 (5.882%) Cisco
2 1 (5.882%) IBM
2 1 (5.882%) Sun
2 1 (5.882%) EMC