The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Replication in IT contracts advertised for the Chester 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Replication
Rank 19 - 20
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Replication 6 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 4.225% - 1.863%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 17.14% - 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
Average daily rate £425 - £350
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
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
35 16 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 24.65% 13.68% 16.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 11
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 £259
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 1 2 1
Average hourly rate £9.00 £14.00 £10.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.71% +40.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-4.34% -13.20%
Replication
Cheshire

Replication
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester Replication Daily Rate Trend

Replication
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 6 (100.00%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 6 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 6 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 5 (83.33%) VLDB
3 4 (66.67%) Data Integration
3 4 (66.67%) Load Testing
3 4 (66.67%) Unit Testing
3 4 (66.67%) SQL Server 2012
3 4 (66.67%) OLTP
3 4 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (50.00%) ITIL
4 3 (50.00%) MySQL
4 3 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (50.00%) Change Management
4 3 (50.00%) NoSQL
4 3 (50.00%) IDMS
5 2 (33.33%) Degree
5 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
5 2 (33.33%) Retail
6 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce

Replication
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 5 (83.33%) VLDB
3 4 (66.67%) SQL Server 2012
3 4 (66.67%) OLTP
3 4 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (50.00%) MySQL
4 3 (50.00%) NoSQL
4 3 (50.00%) IDMS
General
1 2 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) DBA
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Data Integration
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 6 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (66.67%) Load Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Unit Testing
3 3 (50.00%) ITIL
3 3 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (50.00%) Change Management
4 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree