The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in IT contracts advertised for the East Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Clustering 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 East Sussex 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
Clustering
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Clustering 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in East Sussex 1.316% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.122% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £375 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £300
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £25.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year
+5.88% -18.40%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
East Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
49 39 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in East Sussex 21.49% 12.11% 14.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 19 14
Average daily rate £425 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+30.76% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £191 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £443 £395
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
Average hourly rate £17.00 £16.00 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.25% +45.45%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-4.34% -13.20%
Clustering
South East

Clustering
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Sussex 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 East Sussex region.

East Sussex Clustering Daily Rate Trend

Clustering
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 Sussex region over the 3 months to 21 May 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
Brighton - 2 £370 -
Lewes - 1 £425 -
Clustering
South East

Clustering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) DHCP
2 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 3 (60.00%) Juniper
2 3 (60.00%) SAN
2 3 (60.00%) NetApp
2 3 (60.00%) CheckPoint
2 3 (60.00%) Blackberry
2 3 (60.00%) HP
2 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) Backup Exec
2 3 (60.00%) ProCurve
3 2 (40.00%) HP SIM
3 2 (40.00%) F5
3 2 (40.00%) Replication
3 2 (40.00%) Altiris
3 2 (40.00%) WebSphere
3 2 (40.00%) WSUS
3 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Change Management
4 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle
4 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (20.00%) Migration

Clustering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 (40.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (20.00%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DHCP
1 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
1 3 (60.00%) SAN
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) SQL DBA
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Teradata DBA
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Blackberry
2 2 (40.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) Release Management
2 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (20.00%) CCNP
1 1 (20.00%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Backup Exec
2 2 (40.00%) HP SIM
2 2 (40.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Juniper
1 3 (60.00%) NetApp
1 3 (60.00%) CheckPoint
1 3 (60.00%) HP
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
1 3 (60.00%) ProCurve
2 2 (40.00%) F5
2 2 (40.00%) Altiris
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft