The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in IT contracts advertised for the Chester 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 Chester 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 17 - 23
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Clustering 8 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 5.755% - 0.613%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 23.53% - 3.704%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
34 15 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 24.46% 12.82% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 10
Average daily rate £375 £363 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% +3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £350 £254
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £493 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £14.00 £10.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +40.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Clustering
Cheshire

Clustering
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester Clustering Hourly Rate Trend

Clustering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 11 (100.00%) ITIL
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 9 (81.82%) VMware
3 8 (72.73%) DNS
3 8 (72.73%) Windows Server 2003
3 8 (72.73%) SCCM
3 8 (72.73%) PowerShell
3 8 (72.73%) Windows Server 2008
4 7 (63.64%) Hyper-V
5 6 (54.55%) SCOM
5 6 (54.55%) HP
5 6 (54.55%) Citrix
5 6 (54.55%) Windows 2000
5 6 (54.55%) Windows NT
5 6 (54.55%) DHCP
6 5 (45.45%) SAN
6 5 (45.45%) Migration
7 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (27.27%) MS Office
7 3 (27.27%) Red Hat
7 3 (27.27%) Change Management
7 3 (27.27%) AIX
7 3 (27.27%) Linux
7 3 (27.27%) UNIX
8 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
8 2 (18.18%) Remedy
8 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
8 2 (18.18%) Tru64
8 2 (18.18%) Service Management
8 2 (18.18%) VMware ESX

Clustering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Applications
1 3 (27.27%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) DNS
2 6 (54.55%) DHCP
3 5 (45.45%) SAN
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Wintel Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Analyst
2 5 (45.45%) Wintel Analyst
3 3 (27.27%) Wintel Specialist
4 2 (18.18%) Project Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Server Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) UNIX Specialist
4 2 (18.18%) Wintel Server Engineer
5 1 (9.091%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (9.091%) UNIX Engineer
5 1 (9.091%) UNIX Systems Engineer
5 1 (9.091%) Operations Analyst
5 1 (9.091%) UNIX Systems Administrator
5 1 (9.091%) UNIX Administrator
5 1 (9.091%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (9.091%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (9.091%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (72.73%) Windows Server 2003
2 8 (72.73%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (54.55%) Windows 2000
3 6 (54.55%) Windows NT
4 3 (27.27%) AIX
4 3 (27.27%) Linux
4 3 (27.27%) UNIX
5 2 (18.18%) Tru64
5 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (9.091%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) ITIL
2 5 (45.45%) Migration
3 3 (27.27%) Change Management
4 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
4 2 (18.18%) Service Management
5 1 (9.091%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) PowerShell
2 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Hyper-V
2 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (18.18%) VMware ESX
3 2 (18.18%) PowerHA
4 1 (9.091%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) SCCM
2 6 (54.55%) SCOM
3 2 (18.18%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) VMware
2 6 (54.55%) HP
2 6 (54.55%) Citrix
3 3 (27.27%) Red Hat
4 2 (18.18%) Remedy
5 1 (9.091%) Veritas