The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Clustering over the 3 months to 19 June 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 City of London 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Clustering
Rank 180 141 160
Rank change year-on-year
-39 +19
Contract jobs citing Clustering 30 74 92
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.442% 0.956% 0.919%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.390% 2.956% 2.336%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 53 65
Average daily rate £375 £413 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.09% -13.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £279 £287 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £595 £545 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £358 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
+10.00% +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
Average hourly rate - - £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year
-1.96% -16.39%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
2159 2503 3939
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 31.84% 32.33% 39.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1610 1949 3091
Average daily rate £500 £500 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £632 £650 £675
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £328
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 51 57
Average hourly rate £22.50 £21.00 £21.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -1.17%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.30 £12.70 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £38.30 £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.63 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-3.88% -10.00%
Clustering
London

Clustering
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Clustering Daily Rate Trend

Clustering
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Clustering across the City of London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

City of London Clustering Daily Rate Histogram

Clustering
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Clustering across the City of London region.

City of London Clustering Hourly Rate Trend

Clustering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 30 (54.55%) Windows
2 29 (52.73%) VMware
3 20 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (36.36%) SAN
4 19 (34.55%) Windows Server 2003
5 18 (32.73%) Windows Server 2008
6 17 (30.91%) SQL
7 15 (27.27%) HP
8 14 (25.45%) Microsoft
8 14 (25.45%) Red Hat
8 14 (25.45%) Linux
9 13 (23.64%) SQL Server
9 13 (23.64%) Active Directory
9 13 (23.64%) Citrix
10 12 (21.82%) Finance
10 12 (21.82%) EMC
10 12 (21.82%) IIS
10 12 (21.82%) Cisco
10 12 (21.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 12 (21.82%) Banking
11 10 (18.18%) VMware ESX
11 10 (18.18%) UNIX
12 9 (16.36%) NetApp
12 9 (16.36%) Load Balancing
12 9 (16.36%) SQL Server 2008
12 9 (16.36%) vSphere
13 8 (14.55%) Replication
13 8 (14.55%) Veritas
13 8 (14.55%) IBM
13 8 (14.55%) Oracle

Clustering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 8 (14.55%) .NET
2 3 (5.455%) ASP.NET
2 3 (5.455%) CSS
2 3 (5.455%) HTML
3 2 (3.636%) REST
3 2 (3.636%) HTML5
3 2 (3.636%) OSGi
3 2 (3.636%) RESTful
3 2 (3.636%) ADSI
3 2 (3.636%) J2EE
3 2 (3.636%) Servlets
3 2 (3.636%) Web Services
3 2 (3.636%) LAMP
4 1 (1.818%) Middleware
4 1 (1.818%) CGI
4 1 (1.818%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 12 (21.82%) IIS
2 6 (10.91%) Apache
3 5 (9.091%) MS Exchange
4 4 (7.273%) SharePoint
5 3 (5.455%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 3 (5.455%) Exchange Server 2003
5 3 (5.455%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (5.455%) CloudStack
6 2 (3.636%) Adobe CQ
6 2 (3.636%) SharePoint 2010
6 2 (3.636%) Office Communications Server
6 2 (3.636%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (1.818%) Lotus Domino
7 1 (1.818%) WebLogic
7 1 (1.818%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (1.818%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 2 (3.636%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.818%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 2 (3.636%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 20 (36.36%) SAN
2 7 (12.73%) HTTP
2 7 (12.73%) DNS
3 5 (9.091%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (7.273%) NAS
4 4 (7.273%) BIG-IP
4 4 (7.273%) LDAP
5 3 (5.455%) Firewall
5 3 (5.455%) Internet
5 3 (5.455%) TCP/IP
5 3 (5.455%) DHCP
5 3 (5.455%) FTP
5 3 (5.455%) FWSM
6 2 (3.636%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (3.636%) FCoE
6 2 (3.636%) WAN
6 2 (3.636%) SMTP
6 2 (3.636%) LAN
7 1 (1.818%) Wireless
7 1 (1.818%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (23.64%) SQL Server
2 9 (16.36%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (12.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (10.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (10.91%) MySQL
5 5 (9.091%) SQL Server 2005
6 4 (7.273%) Oracle 11g
6 4 (7.273%) Oracle 8/8i
7 3 (5.455%) SQL Server 2000
7 3 (5.455%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (3.636%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (3.636%) Oracle 9i
8 2 (3.636%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (1.818%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.818%) SAP BW
9 1 (1.818%) Oracle 10g
9 1 (1.818%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (1.818%) OLAP
9 1 (1.818%) Data Mining
9 1 (1.818%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 2 (3.636%) Maven
2 1 (1.818%) Oracle Forms
General
1 12 (21.82%) Finance
1 12 (21.82%) Banking
2 6 (10.91%) Investment Banking
3 4 (7.273%) Advertising
4 2 (3.636%) Retail Banking
4 2 (3.636%) Financial Institution
4 2 (3.636%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (23.64%) DBA
2 9 (16.36%) Administrator
3 8 (14.55%) Architect
4 7 (12.73%) SQL DBA
5 5 (9.091%) Analyst
6 4 (7.273%) Developer
7 3 (5.455%) SQL Server DBA
7 3 (5.455%) Wintel Analyst
7 3 (5.455%) Virtualisation Specialist
8 2 (3.636%) Server Technician
8 2 (3.636%) Wintel Engineer
8 2 (3.636%) Windows Engineer
8 2 (3.636%) Oracle DBA
8 2 (3.636%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (3.636%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (3.636%) Cisco Engineer
8 2 (3.636%) Messaging Specialist
8 2 (3.636%) Technical Architect
8 2 (3.636%) Systems Administrator
8 2 (3.636%) Server Support
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.55%) Replication
2 4 (7.273%) Open Source
2 4 (7.273%) CLARiiON
2 4 (7.273%) Blackberry
3 3 (5.455%) iSeries
4 1 (1.818%) Firmware
4 1 (1.818%) Symmetrix DMX
4 1 (1.818%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 30 (54.55%) Windows
2 19 (34.55%) Windows Server 2003
3 18 (32.73%) Windows Server 2008
4 14 (25.45%) Linux
5 12 (21.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (18.18%) UNIX
7 5 (9.091%) AIX
8 4 (7.273%) Windows 2000
9 3 (5.455%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (3.636%) Windows XP
10 2 (3.636%) Windows NT
10 2 (3.636%) Solaris
11 1 (1.818%) HPUX
11 1 (1.818%) Windows Mobile
11 1 (1.818%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (16.36%) Load Balancing
2 6 (10.91%) Configuration Management
3 4 (7.273%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (7.273%) ITIL
4 3 (5.455%) Migration
4 3 (5.455%) Service Delivery
4 3 (5.455%) High Availability
4 3 (5.455%) Change Control
4 3 (5.455%) Database Security
5 2 (3.636%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (3.636%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (3.636%) Database Tuning
5 2 (3.636%) Web Development
5 2 (3.636%) E-Commerce
5 2 (3.636%) CRM
5 2 (3.636%) GAP Analysis
6 1 (1.818%) Security Management
6 1 (1.818%) Risk Management
6 1 (1.818%) Change Management
6 1 (1.818%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (30.91%) SQL
2 7 (12.73%) T-SQL
3 6 (10.91%) Perl
4 5 (9.091%) Shell Script
4 5 (9.091%) PHP
4 5 (9.091%) PowerShell
5 4 (7.273%) VBScript
5 4 (7.273%) Java
6 3 (5.455%) VB
7 2 (3.636%) Bash shell
7 2 (3.636%) Python
7 2 (3.636%) C#
7 2 (3.636%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.818%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.818%) Ruby
8 1 (1.818%) Korn
Qualifications
1 4 (7.273%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 3 (5.455%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (3.636%) VCP4
3 2 (3.636%) MCSE
4 1 (1.818%) CCNA
4 1 (1.818%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (1.818%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.818%) HNC
4 1 (1.818%) MCTS
4 1 (1.818%) MCITP
4 1 (1.818%) Degree
4 1 (1.818%) VCDX
4 1 (1.818%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.818%) VCP5
4 1 (1.818%) CCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.636%) QA
2 1 (1.818%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (23.64%) Active Directory
3 10 (18.18%) VMware ESX
4 9 (16.36%) vSphere
5 6 (10.91%) XenApp
6 4 (7.273%) Hyper-V
7 3 (5.455%) vCloud
8 2 (3.636%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (3.636%) Citrix Presentation Server
8 2 (3.636%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (3.636%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 2 (3.636%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (1.818%) ISA Server
9 1 (1.818%) MetaFrame
9 1 (1.818%) ProxySG
9 1 (1.818%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (1.818%) Veritas File System
Systems Management
1 7 (12.73%) SCCM
2 6 (10.91%) NetBackup
3 5 (9.091%) SCOM
4 4 (7.273%) WSUS
5 3 (5.455%) Nagios
5 3 (5.455%) Legato
5 3 (5.455%) Zenoss
5 3 (5.455%) Data Guard
6 2 (3.636%) HP SIM
6 2 (3.636%) Puppet
6 2 (3.636%) Backup Exec
6 2 (3.636%) Tivoli
6 2 (3.636%) Norton AntiVirus
7 1 (1.818%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (1.818%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (1.818%) WMI
7 1 (1.818%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (1.818%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 29 (52.73%) VMware
2 15 (27.27%) HP
3 14 (25.45%) Microsoft
3 14 (25.45%) Red Hat
4 13 (23.64%) Citrix
5 12 (21.82%) EMC
5 12 (21.82%) Cisco
6 9 (16.36%) NetApp
7 8 (14.55%) Veritas
7 8 (14.55%) IBM
7 8 (14.55%) Oracle
8 5 (9.091%) Dell
8 5 (9.091%) F5
9 4 (7.273%) Brocade
9 4 (7.273%) Altiris
9 4 (7.273%) Symantec
9 4 (7.273%) McAfee
10 3 (5.455%) CheckPoint
11 2 (3.636%) Leostream
11 2 (3.636%) IronPort
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