The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Clustering over the 3 months to 24 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 Edinburgh 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Clustering
Rank 53 51 52
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +1
Contract jobs citing Clustering 4 12 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.480% 1.104% 1.236%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.632% 8.219% 8.247%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 7 6
Average daily rate - £325 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +16.07%
UK excluding London average daily rate £358 £400 £290
% change year-on-year
-10.62% +37.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £25.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year
+8.00% -19.35%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
152 146 194
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 18.25% 13.43% 14.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 62 73
Average daily rate £375 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £170 £200 £221
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £527
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 5
Average hourly rate £12.42 £40.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-68.95% +196.29%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Clustering
Scotland

Clustering
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Clustering Daily Rate Trend

Clustering
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Clustering Hourly Rate Trend

Clustering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 6 (54.55%) Windows
2 5 (45.45%) Linux
3 4 (36.36%) Essbase
3 4 (36.36%) Finance
3 4 (36.36%) WebLogic
3 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
3 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (36.36%) High Availability
4 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
4 3 (27.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (27.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (27.27%) Network Load Balancing
4 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (27.27%) IIS
4 3 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (27.27%) Replication
5 2 (18.18%) Hyperion
5 2 (18.18%) Informatica
5 2 (18.18%) Veritas
5 2 (18.18%) MS Excel
5 2 (18.18%) Oracle
5 2 (18.18%) Citrix
5 2 (18.18%) Oracle BI EE
5 2 (18.18%) Banking
6 1 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (9.091%) Change Control
6 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (9.091%) iSeries
6 1 (9.091%) XenApp
6 1 (9.091%) Fibre Channel

Clustering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 Platforms
1 4 (36.36%) WebLogic
2 3 (27.27%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.091%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (9.091%) SAN
1 1 (9.091%) TCP/IP
1 1 (9.091%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Essbase
2 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 3 (27.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (27.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2000
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Technical Specialist
2 3 (27.27%) Technical Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) DBA
2 3 (27.27%) Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Server DBA
3 2 (18.18%) SQL DBA
4 1 (9.091%) Infrastructure Delivery Manager
4 1 (9.091%) VMware Specialist
4 1 (9.091%) Wintel Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Architect
4 1 (9.091%) Project Manager
4 1 (9.091%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (9.091%) Delivery Project Manager
4 1 (9.091%) Systems Architect
4 1 (9.091%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (9.091%) Delivery Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Replication
2 1 (9.091%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Windows
2 5 (45.45%) Linux
3 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) High Availability
2 3 (27.27%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (9.091%) Change Control
3 1 (9.091%) Performance Management
3 1 (9.091%) Project Planning
3 1 (9.091%) Project Management
3 1 (9.091%) Change Management
3 1 (9.091%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.091%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (9.091%) XenApp
1 1 (9.091%) VMware ESX
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Hyperion
2 2 (18.18%) Informatica
2 2 (18.18%) Veritas
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 2 (18.18%) Citrix
3 1 (9.091%) HP
3 1 (9.091%) VMware