The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Replication in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Replication over the 3 months to 22 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 England 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Replication
Rank 351 274 237
Rank change year-on-year
-77 -37
Contract jobs citing Replication 167 343 415
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.396% 0.632% 0.749%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.472% 2.501% 2.562%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 183 209
Average daily rate £375 £400 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £246 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £525 £515
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 13
Average hourly rate £28.00 £29.25 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.27% -26.87%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £29.25 £42.50
% change year-on-year
- -31.17%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
11343 13713 16199
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 26.87% 25.28% 29.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 6998 8224 9756
Average daily rate £440 £435 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.14% -17.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £258 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 499 636 683
Average hourly rate £23.75 £22.50 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.55% -2.17%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £47.50 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.66
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -12.31%
Replication
UK

Replication
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

England 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 England region.

England Replication Hourly Rate Trend

Replication
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Replication within the England region over the 3 months to 22 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
London -106 69 £375 -11.76%
South East +6 38 £400 +23.07%
North West +12 18 £350 +35.92%
Yorkshire +8 11 £263 -4.54%
East of England -3 10 £300 -7.69%
West Midlands +19 9 £300 -14.28%
South West +24 8 £375 -6.25%
East Midlands -1 1 £300 -
Midlands - 1 - -
Replication
UK

Replication
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

1 174 (48.33%) SQL
2 152 (42.22%) SQL Server
3 105 (29.17%) Windows
4 87 (24.17%) Microsoft
5 80 (22.22%) Linux
6 73 (20.28%) Oracle
7 71 (19.72%) SAN
7 71 (19.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 66 (18.33%) T-SQL
9 62 (17.22%) UNIX
10 61 (16.94%) VMware
11 60 (16.67%) Clustering
11 60 (16.67%) Migration
12 55 (15.28%) SQL Server 2008
13 53 (14.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 46 (12.78%) VMware Infrastructure
15 45 (12.50%) MySQL
15 45 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
16 44 (12.22%) Disaster Recovery
17 43 (11.94%) Oracle RAC
18 41 (11.39%) Finance
19 40 (11.11%) SQL Server 2005
20 39 (10.83%) Cisco
20 39 (10.83%) EMC
20 39 (10.83%) ITIL
21 38 (10.56%) Business Intelligence
21 38 (10.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
22 37 (10.28%) Active Directory
23 35 (9.722%) Security Cleared
23 35 (9.722%) Data Guard

Replication
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 18 (5.000%) XML
2 17 (4.722%) .NET
3 12 (3.333%) Middleware
4 10 (2.778%) J2EE
5 9 (2.500%) HTML
6 5 (1.389%) Hibernate
6 5 (1.389%) Web Services
7 4 (1.111%) JSON
8 3 (0.833%) WSGI
8 3 (0.833%) Django
8 3 (0.833%) .NET Framework
8 3 (0.833%) Windows SharePoint Services
8 3 (0.833%) ASP
8 3 (0.833%) Struts
8 3 (0.833%) JDBC
8 3 (0.833%) JSP
8 3 (0.833%) Servlets
8 3 (0.833%) JMS
8 3 (0.833%) LAMP
9 2 (0.556%) CGI
Application Platforms
1 22 (6.111%) Apache
2 16 (4.444%) SharePoint
2 16 (4.444%) MS Exchange
3 14 (3.889%) WebLogic
4 13 (3.611%) IIS
5 9 (2.500%) Exchange Server 2010
6 5 (1.389%) Tomcat
6 5 (1.389%) Lotus Domino
7 4 (1.111%) Exchange Server 2003
8 3 (0.833%) nginx
8 3 (0.833%) JCAPS
8 3 (0.833%) Gunicorn
8 3 (0.833%) Oracle Coherence
8 3 (0.833%) Lotus Notes
8 3 (0.833%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.556%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.556%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.556%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.556%) Exchange Server 2007
9 2 (0.556%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 29 (8.056%) MS Excel
2 9 (2.500%) MS Office
3 4 (1.111%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.556%) MS Project
5 1 (0.278%) Office 365
5 1 (0.278%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (2.778%) Oracle Applications
2 3 (0.833%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.556%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.556%) PeopleSoft Financials
3 2 (0.556%) RMDS
3 2 (0.556%) SAP CRM
3 2 (0.556%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.278%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.278%) AWD
4 1 (0.278%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.278%) BASE24
Communications & Networking
1 71 (19.72%) SAN
2 23 (6.389%) NAS
3 21 (5.833%) Firewall
4 20 (5.556%) DNS
5 14 (3.889%) HTTP
6 12 (3.333%) VPN
6 12 (3.333%) WAN
7 11 (3.056%) Internet
7 11 (3.056%) LAN
8 10 (2.778%) VoIP
8 10 (2.778%) Fibre Channel
9 8 (2.222%) DHCP
10 6 (1.667%) LDAP
10 6 (1.667%) Network Security
11 5 (1.389%) Wireless
12 4 (1.111%) SSL
13 3 (0.833%) Wireshark
13 3 (0.833%) SMTP
13 3 (0.833%) TCP/IP
13 3 (0.833%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (42.22%) SQL Server
2 71 (19.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 55 (15.28%) SQL Server 2008
4 53 (14.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 45 (12.50%) MySQL
5 45 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
6 40 (11.11%) SQL Server 2005
7 38 (10.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 25 (6.944%) Oracle 10g
9 23 (6.389%) Oracle 11g
10 19 (5.278%) RDBMS
10 19 (5.278%) SQL Server 2000
10 19 (5.278%) Sybase ASE
11 18 (5.000%) Oracle Reports
12 17 (4.722%) DTS
13 13 (3.611%) OLTP
14 12 (3.333%) TOAD
14 12 (3.333%) SQLPlus
14 12 (3.333%) Sybase IQ
15 11 (3.056%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 12 (3.333%) Oracle Forms
2 6 (1.667%) ClearQuest
2 6 (1.667%) ClearCase
2 6 (1.667%) Visual Studio
3 5 (1.389%) Selenium
3 5 (1.389%) CruiseControl
3 5 (1.389%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 5 (1.389%) Ant
3 5 (1.389%) LoadRunner
4 3 (0.833%) JIRA
4 3 (0.833%) NetBeans
5 2 (0.556%) ERwin
5 2 (0.556%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.556%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.278%) Git (software)
6 1 (0.278%) Hudson
6 1 (0.278%) Maven
6 1 (0.278%) Subversion
6 1 (0.278%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 41 (11.39%) Finance
2 24 (6.667%) Banking
3 12 (3.333%) Marketing
4 8 (2.222%) Investment Banking
5 7 (1.944%) Retail
6 6 (1.667%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.111%) Legal
8 2 (0.556%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.556%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.556%) Advertising
8 2 (0.556%) Publishing
8 2 (0.556%) Front Office
8 2 (0.556%) Back Office
8 2 (0.556%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (0.556%) German Language
9 1 (0.278%) International Banking
9 1 (0.278%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.278%) Law
9 1 (0.278%) Games
Job Titles
1 163 (45.28%) DBA
2 90 (25.00%) SQL DBA
3 72 (20.00%) Administrator
4 35 (9.722%) Developer
4 35 (9.722%) SQL Server DBA
5 30 (8.333%) Architect
6 29 (8.056%) Oracle DBA
7 28 (7.778%) Consultant
8 25 (6.944%) Teradata DBA
9 17 (4.722%) MySQL DBA
10 14 (3.889%) Systems Administrator
11 13 (3.611%) Sybase DBA
11 13 (3.611%) Storage Engineer
11 13 (3.611%) Analyst
12 12 (3.333%) SQL Developer
12 12 (3.333%) Storage Consultant
13 10 (2.778%) SQL Server Developer
14 9 (2.500%) Development DBA
14 9 (2.500%) Server Administrator
15 8 (2.222%) Sybase Developer
Miscellaneous
1 60 (16.67%) Clustering
2 18 (5.000%) Management Information System
3 12 (3.333%) CLARiiON
4 8 (2.222%) Blackberry
4 8 (2.222%) Statistics
5 7 (1.944%) Enterprise Storage
6 6 (1.667%) NHS
6 6 (1.667%) Computer Science
6 6 (1.667%) Symmetrix DMX
7 5 (1.389%) Visualisation
7 5 (1.389%) Open Source
7 5 (1.389%) Reference Data
7 5 (1.389%) EMC Centera
8 4 (1.111%) Mainframe
8 4 (1.111%) Firmware
8 4 (1.111%) Symmetrix
8 4 (1.111%) Data Integration
8 4 (1.111%) Celerra
8 4 (1.111%) Digital Media
8 4 (1.111%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 105 (29.17%) Windows
2 80 (22.22%) Linux
3 62 (17.22%) UNIX
4 33 (9.167%) Windows Server 2008
5 31 (8.611%) Windows Server 2003
6 24 (6.667%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 16 (4.444%) AIX
8 13 (3.611%) Solaris
9 10 (2.778%) HPUX
10 5 (1.389%) Windows 7
10 5 (1.389%) Windows 2000 Server
10 5 (1.389%) Ubuntu
11 4 (1.111%) NetWare
11 4 (1.111%) Windows XP
11 4 (1.111%) Android
11 4 (1.111%) Apple iOS
11 4 (1.111%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.833%) Debian
12 3 (0.833%) VMS
13 2 (0.556%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (16.67%) Migration
2 44 (12.22%) Disaster Recovery
3 39 (10.83%) ITIL
4 38 (10.56%) Business Intelligence
5 26 (7.222%) Data Migration
6 21 (5.833%) ETL
7 20 (5.556%) Service Delivery
8 18 (5.000%) Data Modelling
9 12 (3.333%) Change Management
9 12 (3.333%) BCP
9 12 (3.333%) Database Tuning
9 12 (3.333%) High Availability
10 11 (3.056%) Capacity Planning
10 11 (3.056%) E-business
10 11 (3.056%) Project Management
11 10 (2.778%) SOA
11 10 (2.778%) Data Management
11 10 (2.778%) Business Development
11 10 (2.778%) Root Cause Analysis
12 9 (2.500%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 174 (48.33%) SQL
2 66 (18.33%) T-SQL
3 32 (8.889%) Perl
4 30 (8.333%) Shell Script
5 28 (7.778%) Java
6 19 (5.278%) PL/SQL
7 14 (3.889%) C#
8 13 (3.611%) PowerShell
8 13 (3.611%) Korn
9 11 (3.056%) Python
10 10 (2.778%) VB
11 8 (2.222%) PHP
12 6 (1.667%) JavaScript
12 6 (1.667%) C
12 6 (1.667%) C++
13 4 (1.111%) VBScript
13 4 (1.111%) Objective-C
13 4 (1.111%) Bourne shell
13 4 (1.111%) Bash shell
14 2 (0.556%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 35 (9.722%) Security Cleared
2 25 (6.944%) Degree
3 23 (6.389%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (3.889%) SC Cleared
5 12 (3.333%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.500%) MCITP
6 9 (2.500%) MCDBA
6 9 (2.500%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (2.222%) MCSE
7 8 (2.222%) HP ASE
8 7 (1.944%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 7 (1.944%) MCSA
9 6 (1.667%) Oracle Certification
10 5 (1.389%) CCNA
11 3 (0.833%) NCIE
11 3 (0.833%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 3 (0.833%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.833%) MCP
11 3 (0.833%) IBM Certification
11 3 (0.833%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.722%) QA
2 7 (1.944%) SLA
3 3 (0.833%) HL7
3 3 (0.833%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.278%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 46 (12.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 43 (11.94%) Oracle RAC
3 37 (10.28%) Active Directory
4 17 (4.722%) Oracle RMAN
5 14 (3.889%) VMware ESX
6 12 (3.333%) vSphere
7 8 (2.222%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (1.667%) Hyper-V
9 5 (1.389%) SRDF
10 4 (1.111%) DFS Replication
11 3 (0.833%) ISA Server
12 2 (0.556%) Xen
12 2 (0.556%) Squid
12 2 (0.556%) VMware Server
12 2 (0.556%) Forefront TMG
12 2 (0.556%) Varnish
12 2 (0.556%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 1 (0.278%) XenApp
13 1 (0.278%) XenServer
13 1 (0.278%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 35 (9.722%) Data Guard
2 13 (3.611%) EMC NetWorker
3 12 (3.333%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 11 (3.056%) NetBackup
5 10 (2.778%) Puppet
6 9 (2.500%) SCOM
7 8 (2.222%) Nagios
7 8 (2.222%) SCCM
8 6 (1.667%) Tivoli
9 4 (1.111%) EMC Navisphere
9 4 (1.111%) HP Data Protector
9 4 (1.111%) McAfee ePO
10 3 (0.833%) Zenoss
10 3 (0.833%) Backup Exec
10 3 (0.833%) EMC TimeFinder
10 3 (0.833%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (0.833%) Norton AntiVirus
10 3 (0.833%) ARCserve
11 2 (0.556%) Legato
11 2 (0.556%) OpenView
Vendors
1 87 (24.17%) Microsoft
2 73 (20.28%) Oracle
3 61 (16.94%) VMware
4 39 (10.83%) Cisco
4 39 (10.83%) EMC
5 33 (9.167%) HP
6 28 (7.778%) NetApp
7 27 (7.500%) Brocade
8 25 (6.944%) IBM
9 24 (6.667%) Sybase
10 23 (6.389%) SAP
11 22 (6.111%) Citrix
11 22 (6.111%) Red Hat
12 17 (4.722%) Symantec
13 8 (2.222%) Veritas
14 6 (1.667%) Juniper
14 6 (1.667%) Business Objects
14 6 (1.667%) 3PAR
15 5 (1.389%) Veeam
15 5 (1.389%) Tableau
Nottinghamshire
A very exciting opportunity has arisen for a SQL DBA to work within an internationally recognised betting and gaming company... Duties include: *Remotely manage 200 SQL servers. *Have...
Venn Group
Rate: £40000 Per Annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
SQL DBA - Migration / Optimisation / Tuning / Mirroring / Replication - London £350-400pdSQL DBA required for a 6 month contract with my central London based client-The successful candidate will be...
OPUS
Rate: GBP350 to GBP400 per day
Posted: 25 April 2013
Bristol, Avon
Key Skills: SQL Server 2008... Stored procedures, indexes, statistics. Replication, mirroring, transactional, peer-to-peer. Well established financial software house are recruiting for a production SQL Server DBA...
Auburn Rose
Rate: From £250 to £330 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
South East
Windows/Oracle/SQL Server Desirable: - Programming experience (php/Mysql) to assist with understanding the application - Experience of MySQL clustering/replication (would be a huge advantage) This is a...
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Rate: £300 Per Day
Posted: 17 May 2013
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Rate: £18000 - £24000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 2 May 2013
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Rate: £350 - £425 per day
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Windows Server Engineer, AD 2003, MS 2003/2008, EV 8,9,10, Microsoft WSUS, XP... Microsoft Windows Server 2003 \ 2008... Microsoft WSUS. Windows XP... MCITP \ MCSE... Experience working...
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Rate: From £350 to £450 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
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Rate: £300 - £320 per day
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