The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands 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 East Midlands 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 77 73 80
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +7
Contract jobs citing Clustering 6 9 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.469% 0.674% 0.337%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.317% 4.737% 2.427%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 0
Average daily rate £350 £316 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.67% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £358 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
+10.00% +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £57.50 -
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
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
259 190 206
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 20.23% 14.22% 13.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 72 90
Average daily rate £338 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.57% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £158 £200 £190
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £328
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 21 18
Average hourly rate £18.75 £20.00 £23.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% -13.97%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.78 £9.34 £11.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £57.50 £49.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.63 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-3.88% -10.00%
Clustering
England

Clustering
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands Clustering Jobs Demand Trend

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Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Clustering across the East Midlands region.

East Midlands Clustering Daily Rate Trend

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

East Midlands Clustering Hourly Rate Trend

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Nottinghamshire - 5 £350 - 4
Derbyshire +6 1 - -
Leicestershire - - - - 2
Northamptonshire - - - - 4
Clustering
England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 14 (82.35%) Windows
1 14 (82.35%) Microsoft
2 13 (76.47%) VMware
3 10 (58.82%) Windows Server 2008
3 10 (58.82%) Active Directory
4 9 (52.94%) Windows Server 2003
5 8 (47.06%) HP
6 6 (35.29%) Citrix
6 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (35.29%) SQL
6 6 (35.29%) SQL Server
6 6 (35.29%) MCSE
6 6 (35.29%) TCP/IP
6 6 (35.29%) vSphere
6 6 (35.29%) SCOM
7 5 (29.41%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (29.41%) PowerShell
7 5 (29.41%) MS Excel
7 5 (29.41%) Linux
7 5 (29.41%) MS Exchange
8 4 (23.53%) DNS
8 4 (23.53%) IIS
8 4 (23.53%) VBScript
8 4 (23.53%) MCP
8 4 (23.53%) Change Management
8 4 (23.53%) ISA Server
8 4 (23.53%) Blackberry
8 4 (23.53%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 4 (23.53%) EMC
8 4 (23.53%) NetScaler

Clustering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 1 (5.882%) COM
Application Platforms
1 5 (29.41%) MS Exchange
2 4 (23.53%) IIS
2 4 (23.53%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 3 (17.65%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (11.76%) Office Communications Server
4 2 (11.76%) Lync
4 2 (11.76%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (11.76%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (5.882%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (5.882%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (29.41%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.882%) Office 365
2 1 (5.882%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.882%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (5.882%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) TCP/IP
2 4 (23.53%) DNS
2 4 (23.53%) NetScaler
3 3 (17.65%) SAN
4 2 (11.76%) WAN
4 2 (11.76%) DHCP
4 2 (11.76%) iSCSI
5 1 (5.882%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (5.882%) Internet
5 1 (5.882%) Firewall
5 1 (5.882%) Wireless
5 1 (5.882%) VoIP
5 1 (5.882%) HTTP
5 1 (5.882%) Kerberos
5 1 (5.882%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (5.882%) Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (11.76%) Banking
1 2 (11.76%) Finance
2 1 (5.882%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Support Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Systems Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Systems Support
2 4 (23.53%) Systems Support Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Administrator
4 2 (11.76%) Data Centre Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) UNIX Systems Administrator
5 1 (5.882%) UNIX Administrator
5 1 (5.882%) SQL DBA
5 1 (5.882%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Design Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) SharePoint Administrator
5 1 (5.882%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (5.882%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Blackberry
2 1 (5.882%) Replication
2 1 (5.882%) EMC Centera
2 1 (5.882%) Celerra
2 1 (5.882%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (82.35%) Windows
2 10 (58.82%) Windows Server 2008
3 9 (52.94%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (29.41%) Linux
5 3 (17.65%) HPUX
6 2 (11.76%) UNIX
6 2 (11.76%) Windows 2000
6 2 (11.76%) Windows 2000 Server
6 2 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (5.882%) Windows 7
7 1 (5.882%) Solaris
7 1 (5.882%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) Change Management
2 3 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (11.76%) Mobile Device Management
3 2 (11.76%) WAN Optimisation
3 2 (11.76%) Load Balancing
4 1 (5.882%) Business Continuity
4 1 (5.882%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (5.882%) Content Management
4 1 (5.882%) Information Management
4 1 (5.882%) Change Control
4 1 (5.882%) BCP
4 1 (5.882%) Risk Management
4 1 (5.882%) ETL
4 1 (5.882%) CRM
4 1 (5.882%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (5.882%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) SQL
2 5 (29.41%) PowerShell
3 4 (23.53%) VBScript
4 1 (5.882%) C
4 1 (5.882%) Java
4 1 (5.882%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Certification
1 6 (35.29%) MCSE
2 4 (23.53%) MCP
3 2 (11.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (5.882%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.882%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (58.82%) Active Directory
2 6 (35.29%) vSphere
3 5 (29.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (23.53%) ISA Server
5 3 (17.65%) Hyper-V
6 2 (11.76%) NFS
6 2 (11.76%) XenApp
6 2 (11.76%) Forefront TMG
7 1 (5.882%) VMware ESX
7 1 (5.882%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) SCOM
2 4 (23.53%) WSUS
3 3 (17.65%) SCCM
3 3 (17.65%) Tivoli
3 3 (17.65%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Control-M
4 2 (11.76%) Norton AntiVirus
4 2 (11.76%) McAfee ePO
4 2 (11.76%) SolarWinds Orion
4 2 (11.76%) NetBackup
4 2 (11.76%) Backup Exec
5 1 (5.882%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 14 (82.35%) Microsoft
2 13 (76.47%) VMware
3 8 (47.06%) HP
4 6 (35.29%) Citrix
5 4 (23.53%) EMC
5 4 (23.53%) Altiris
6 3 (17.65%) Cisco
6 3 (17.65%) NetApp
6 3 (17.65%) Veritas
7 2 (11.76%) Symantec
7 2 (11.76%) McAfee
7 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
7 2 (11.76%) Riverbed
7 2 (11.76%) SolarWinds
7 2 (11.76%) MobileIron
8 1 (5.882%) Veeam
8 1 (5.882%) Sun
8 1 (5.882%) Intel
8 1 (5.882%) Hitachi
8 1 (5.882%) Cognos
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