The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Replication 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 Replication over the 3 months to 23 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Replication
Rank 185 160 162
Rank change year-on-year
-25 +2
Contract jobs citing Replication 14 59 83
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.220% 0.749% 0.832%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.697% 2.291% 2.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 39 43
Average daily rate £343 £438 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.71% -7.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £293 £320 £380
10% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £525 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Average hourly rate £28.00 - £21.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £29.25 £42.50
% change year-on-year
- -31.17%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
2008 2575 4008
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 31.61% 32.71% 40.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1491 1993 3106
Average daily rate £500 £500 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £315 £300 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £650 £675
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 66 54
Average hourly rate £24.00 £21.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.62% +2.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £13.39 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £45.00 £44.03
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
Replication
London

Replication
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Replication Daily Rate Trend

Replication
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Replication across the City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London Replication Daily Rate Histogram

Replication
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Replication Hourly Rate Trend

Replication
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 18 (51.43%) SQL
2 15 (42.86%) Windows
3 14 (40.00%) SQL Server
4 12 (34.29%) Linux
5 9 (25.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (22.86%) SQL Server 2008
6 8 (22.86%) Service Delivery
6 8 (22.86%) SAN
6 8 (22.86%) Oracle
6 8 (22.86%) Microsoft
7 7 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
8 6 (17.14%) Statistics
8 6 (17.14%) MCITP
8 6 (17.14%) HTTP
8 6 (17.14%) ITIL
8 6 (17.14%) T-SQL
8 6 (17.14%) MS Excel
8 6 (17.14%) Windows Server 2003
8 6 (17.14%) Migration
8 6 (17.14%) VMware
8 6 (17.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (14.29%) Clustering
9 5 (14.29%) Finance
9 5 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (14.29%) UNIX
9 5 (14.29%) MySQL
9 5 (14.29%) DNS
9 5 (14.29%) ETL
9 5 (14.29%) IBM
9 5 (14.29%) Active Directory

Replication
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 Development
1 2 (5.714%) XML
1 2 (5.714%) .NET
2 1 (2.857%) LAMP
2 1 (2.857%) WSGI
2 1 (2.857%) Django
Application Platforms
1 4 (11.43%) MS Exchange
2 3 (8.571%) IIS
2 3 (8.571%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (5.714%) Lync
3 2 (5.714%) Office Communications Server
3 2 (5.714%) Apache
4 1 (2.857%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (2.857%) MQSeries
4 1 (2.857%) nginx
4 1 (2.857%) lighttpd
4 1 (2.857%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (2.857%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (2.857%) Confluence
4 1 (2.857%) Gunicorn
4 1 (2.857%) RabbitMQ
Applications
1 6 (17.14%) MS Excel
2 3 (8.571%) MS Office
3 1 (2.857%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 1 (2.857%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (22.86%) SAN
2 6 (17.14%) HTTP
3 5 (14.29%) DNS
4 3 (8.571%) SSL
5 2 (5.714%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (5.714%) LAN
5 2 (5.714%) WAN
5 2 (5.714%) SMTP
6 1 (2.857%) Firewall
6 1 (2.857%) Wireless
6 1 (2.857%) Internet
6 1 (2.857%) DHCP
6 1 (2.857%) PBX
6 1 (2.857%) VoIP
6 1 (2.857%) ADSL
6 1 (2.857%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.857%) VPN
6 1 (2.857%) SNA
6 1 (2.857%) NAS
6 1 (2.857%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (25.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 8 (22.86%) SQL Server 2008
4 6 (17.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (14.29%) MySQL
6 4 (11.43%) Oracle 11g
6 4 (11.43%) SQL Server 2005
6 4 (11.43%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (8.571%) Oracle 8/8i
7 3 (8.571%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (5.714%) RDBMS
8 2 (5.714%) DTS
8 2 (5.714%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (2.857%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (2.857%) Sybase IQ
9 1 (2.857%) InterBase
9 1 (2.857%) Data Mining
9 1 (2.857%) OLAP
9 1 (2.857%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 1 (2.857%) Visual Studio
1 1 (2.857%) JIRA
1 1 (2.857%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 5 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (5.714%) Banking
2 2 (5.714%) Publishing
3 1 (2.857%) Back Office
3 1 (2.857%) Law
3 1 (2.857%) Legal
3 1 (2.857%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 17 (48.57%) DBA
2 11 (31.43%) Administrator
3 10 (28.57%) SQL DBA
4 4 (11.43%) SQL Server DBA
5 3 (8.571%) Oracle DBA
5 3 (8.571%) Storage Specialist
6 2 (5.714%) Linux Administrator
6 2 (5.714%) Messaging Engineer
6 2 (5.714%) Developer
6 2 (5.714%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (5.714%) SQL Developer
6 2 (5.714%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 2 (5.714%) SQL Server Developer
7 1 (2.857%) Applications Support Specialist
7 1 (2.857%) Senior DBA
7 1 (2.857%) Sybase DBA
7 1 (2.857%) Senior SQL DBA
7 1 (2.857%) Storage Engineer
7 1 (2.857%) Data Centre Engineer
7 1 (2.857%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Statistics
2 5 (14.29%) Clustering
3 2 (5.714%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (5.714%) SaaS
3 2 (5.714%) Visualisation
3 2 (5.714%) Blackberry
4 1 (2.857%) CLARiiON
4 1 (2.857%) AS400
4 1 (2.857%) Firmware
4 1 (2.857%) Open Source
4 1 (2.857%) Digital Media
4 1 (2.857%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 15 (42.86%) Windows
2 12 (34.29%) Linux
3 7 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (17.14%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (14.29%) UNIX
6 4 (11.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (5.714%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (5.714%) Windows Mobile
7 2 (5.714%) HPUX
8 1 (2.857%) Ubuntu
8 1 (2.857%) Debian
8 1 (2.857%) Solaris
8 1 (2.857%) AIX
8 1 (2.857%) VMS
8 1 (2.857%) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (22.86%) Service Delivery
2 6 (17.14%) ITIL
2 6 (17.14%) Migration
3 5 (14.29%) ETL
4 4 (11.43%) E-Commerce
4 4 (11.43%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (8.571%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (5.714%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (5.714%) Performance Management
6 2 (5.714%) Load Balancing
6 2 (5.714%) Risk Analysis
6 2 (5.714%) Data Management
6 2 (5.714%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (5.714%) Change Control
6 2 (5.714%) Information Assurance
6 2 (5.714%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (5.714%) Service Management
6 2 (5.714%) Scrum
7 1 (2.857%) Data Analysis
7 1 (2.857%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 18 (51.43%) SQL
2 6 (17.14%) T-SQL
3 4 (11.43%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.714%) C#
4 2 (5.714%) PHP
4 2 (5.714%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.857%) Python
5 1 (2.857%) C
5 1 (2.857%) Perl
5 1 (2.857%) VB.NET
5 1 (2.857%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 6 (17.14%) MCITP
2 4 (11.43%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (8.571%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.714%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (5.714%) CCNA
4 2 (5.714%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (5.714%) IBM Certification
4 2 (5.714%) MCSE
5 1 (2.857%) MCSA
5 1 (2.857%) MCP
5 1 (2.857%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.857%) HP ASE
5 1 (2.857%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.714%) QA
2 1 (2.857%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 5 (14.29%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (8.571%) ISA Server
2 3 (8.571%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.714%) vSphere
3 2 (5.714%) Forefront TMG
4 1 (2.857%) NFS
4 1 (2.857%) NDS
Systems Management
1 3 (8.571%) Nagios
1 3 (8.571%) Puppet
2 2 (5.714%) HP Data Protector
2 2 (5.714%) Data Guard
2 2 (5.714%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (2.857%) NetBackup
3 1 (2.857%) Zenoss
3 1 (2.857%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 8 (22.86%) Oracle
1 8 (22.86%) Microsoft
2 6 (17.14%) VMware
3 5 (14.29%) IBM
3 5 (14.29%) HP
4 4 (11.43%) Brocade
5 3 (8.571%) Red Hat
5 3 (8.571%) EMC
5 3 (8.571%) Cisco
5 3 (8.571%) Veeam
6 2 (5.714%) Tableau
6 2 (5.714%) Dell
6 2 (5.714%) Juniper
7 1 (2.857%) CommVault
7 1 (2.857%) Websense
7 1 (2.857%) TIBCO
7 1 (2.857%) Sybase
7 1 (2.857%) Avaya
7 1 (2.857%) Citrix
7 1 (2.857%) Sun
City of London
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Claremont Consulting
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Posted: 2 May 2013