East of England Clustering Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Clustering skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Clustering over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim County Londonderry Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halesowen Hampshire Harlow Havant Ipswich Johnstone Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire London Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Renfrewshire Rochester Scotland Shropshire Slough South East South Wales South West Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford UK Wales West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	122	129
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	25	24
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.033 %	0.024 %
As % of the category below	3.425 %	3.756 %
Daily rates quoted	4	7
Average minimum daily rate	£383	£331
Average daily rate	£425	£353
% change on same period last year	+20.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£468	£374
UK excluding London average daily rate	£346	£352
% change on same period last year	-1.76 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.13	£27.00
Average hourly rate	£27.30	£31.00
% change on same period last year	-11.93 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.47	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.26	£35.94
% change on same period last year	-10.22 %
Miscellaneous East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	730	639
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.973 %	0.646 %
Daily rates quoted	193	197
Average minimum daily rate	£312	£328
Average daily rate	£343	£343
% change on same period last year	-0.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£373	£358
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£354
% change on same period last year	-0.56 %
Hourly rates quoted	133	106
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.02	£27.95
Average hourly rate	£29.82	£29.39
% change on same period last year	+1.46 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.62	£30.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.44	£29.20
% change on same period last year	-16.30 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Clustering across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Clustering across the East of England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the East of England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Essex	-	10	£300	-
Suffolk	-	8	-	-
Norfolk	+5	6	£538	-
East Anglia	-3	1	£325	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 18 (41.86 %) AIX 2 17 (39.53 %) IBM 3 12 (27.91 %) Oracle 4 11 (25.58 %) SQL 4 11 (25.58 %) SAN 5 10 (23.26 %) VERITAS 5 10 (23.26 %) Microsoft Certification 5 10 (23.26 %) HACMP 5 10 (23.26 %) TCP/IP 5 10 (23.26 %) Oracle 10g 5 10 (23.26 %) Solaris 6 9 (20.93 %) MCSE 6 9 (20.93 %) VMware 7 8 (18.60 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 7 8 (18.60 %) VMware Infrastructure

7 8 (18.60 %) NetApp 7 8 (18.60 %) Linux 8 7 (16.28 %) Windows 8 7 (16.28 %) Perl 8 7 (16.28 %) NFS 8 7 (16.28 %) Active Directory 8 7 (16.28 %) iSCSI 9 6 (13.95 %) Pharmaceutical 9 6 (13.95 %) UNIX 10 5 (11.63 %) Symantec 10 5 (11.63 %) Finance 10 5 (11.63 %) Oracle RAC 10 5 (11.63 %) Oracle 11g 11 4 (9.302 %) Migration 11 4 (9.302 %) HP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 2 (4.651 %) ASP.NET 1 2 (4.651 %) WebServices 1 2 (4.651 %) XML 1 2 (4.651 %) .NET 2 1 (2.326 %) J2EE 2 1 (2.326 %) ASP 2 1 (2.326 %) HTML 2 1 (2.326 %) JRules 2 1 (2.326 %) Application Packaging 2 1 (2.326 %) JDBC 2 1 (2.326 %) JSP 2 1 (2.326 %) Servlets	Application Platforms 1 4 (9.302 %) IIS 2 3 (6.977 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (6.977 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (2.326 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 1 (2.326 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 3 1 (2.326 %) Exchange Server 5.5
Applications 1 1 (2.326 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (2.326 %) Oracle Financials 1 1 (2.326 %) Oracle 11i 1 1 (2.326 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 11 (25.58 %) SAN 2 10 (23.26 %) TCP/IP 3 7 (16.28 %) iSCSI 4 4 (9.302 %) DNS 5 3 (6.977 %) LDAP 6 2 (4.651 %) DHCP 7 1 (2.326 %) Kerberos 7 1 (2.326 %) SNMP 7 1 (2.326 %) L2TP 7 1 (2.326 %) TELNET 7 1 (2.326 %) Firewall 7 1 (2.326 %) IPsec 7 1 (2.326 %) Cisco PIX 7 1 (2.326 %) Network Security	Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (23.26 %) Oracle 10g 2 5 (11.63 %) Oracle 11g 3 4 (9.302 %) SQL Server 4 3 (6.977 %) SQL Server 2000 5 2 (4.651 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 1 (2.326 %) MSI	General 1 6 (13.95 %) Pharmaceutical 2 5 (11.63 %) Finance 3 1 (2.326 %) Chemicals 3 1 (2.326 %) Banking 3 1 (2.326 %) Insurance 3 1 (2.326 %) Music
Job Titles 1 13 (30.23 %) DBA 2 11 (25.58 %) Consultant 3 10 (23.26 %) Oracle DBA 4 7 (16.28 %) Storage Engineer 5 6 (13.95 %) Administrator 6 3 (6.977 %) Developer 7 2 (4.651 %) Analyst 7 2 (4.651 %) Senior Analyst 7 2 (4.651 %) SQL Server DBA 7 2 (4.651 %) .NET Developer 7 2 (4.651 %) SQL DBA 7 2 (4.651 %) AIX Administrator 8 1 (2.326 %) Windows Administrator 8 1 (2.326 %) Desktop Support 8 1 (2.326 %) Senior Network Analyst 8 1 (2.326 %) Senior .NET Developer 8 1 (2.326 %) C# Developer 8 1 (2.326 %) Novell Engineer 8 1 (2.326 %) Windows Systems Administrator 8 1 (2.326 %) Senior Infrastructure Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 10 (23.26 %) HACMP 2 2 (4.651 %) Replication 3 1 (2.326 %) Video Conferencing 3 1 (2.326 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 18 (41.86 %) AIX 2 10 (23.26 %) Solaris 3 8 (18.60 %) Linux 4 7 (16.28 %) Windows 5 6 (13.95 %) UNIX 6 4 (9.302 %) HPUX 6 4 (9.302 %) Windows 2000 7 1 (2.326 %) Windows NT 7 1 (2.326 %) Windows XP 7 1 (2.326 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (9.302 %) Migration 2 2 (4.651 %) ITIL 2 2 (4.651 %) Change Management 3 1 (2.326 %) Disaster Recovery 3 1 (2.326 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (2.326 %) E-Commerce 3 1 (2.326 %) SOA 3 1 (2.326 %) Service Delivery 3 1 (2.326 %) Data Management 3 1 (2.326 %) Network Design 3 1 (2.326 %) Load Balancing 3 1 (2.326 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 11 (25.58 %) SQL 2 7 (16.28 %) Perl 3 2 (4.651 %) C# 4 1 (2.326 %) Java 4 1 (2.326 %) JavaScript 4 1 (2.326 %) C 4 1 (2.326 %) Transact-SQL	Qualifications 1 10 (23.26 %) Microsoft Certification 2 9 (20.93 %) MCSE 3 8 (18.60 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 4 1 (2.326 %) MCSA 4 1 (2.326 %) CNA 4 1 (2.326 %) CNE 4 1 (2.326 %) Novell Certification
System Software 1 8 (18.60 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 7 (16.28 %) NFS 2 7 (16.28 %) Active Directory 3 5 (11.63 %) Oracle RAC 4 1 (2.326 %) Terminal Server 4 1 (2.326 %) VMware ESX 4 1 (2.326 %) NetBackup 4 1 (2.326 %) Oracle RMAN	Systems Management 1 1 (2.326 %) ZENworks 1 1 (2.326 %) WSUS
Vendors 1 17 (39.53 %) IBM 2 12 (27.91 %) Oracle 3 10 (23.26 %) VERITAS 4 9 (20.93 %) VMware 5 8 (18.60 %) NetApp 6 5 (11.63 %) Symantec 7 4 (9.302 %) Microsoft 7 4 (9.302 %) HP 8 2 (4.651 %) Citrix 8 2 (4.651 %) Novell 9 1 (2.326 %) Cisco