The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Clustering over the 3 months to 17 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 Glasgow 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Clustering
Rank 73 54 59
Rank change year-on-year
-19 +5
Contract jobs citing Clustering 7 6 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.743% 0.777% 0.571%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.703% 4.478% 4.211%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 2
Average daily rate £354 - £363
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 - £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £368 - £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £413 £300
% change year-on-year
-12.72% +37.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Average hourly rate - £26.00 £175.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -85.14%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £25.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year
+5.88% -17.74%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
259 134 95
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 27.49% 17.36% 13.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 65 61
Average daily rate £357 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.07% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £268 £207 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £425 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 14 5
Average hourly rate £14.00 £24.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-41.66% -40.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.89 £12.50 £23.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.20 £26.00 £121.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
Clustering
Scotland

Clustering
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow Clustering Hourly Rate Trend

Clustering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 7 (50.00%) Java
1 7 (50.00%) SQL
1 7 (50.00%) Windows
1 7 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 7 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (42.86%) UNIX
2 6 (42.86%) SQL Server
3 5 (35.71%) Web Services
3 5 (35.71%) XML
3 5 (35.71%) Tomcat
3 5 (35.71%) Eclipse
3 5 (35.71%) Spring
3 5 (35.71%) Multithreading
3 5 (35.71%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 4 (28.57%) Product Management
4 4 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (28.57%) Maven
4 4 (28.57%) JIRA
4 4 (28.57%) Unit Testing
4 4 (28.57%) Veritas
4 4 (28.57%) Hibernate
4 4 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (28.57%) Subversion
4 4 (28.57%) N-Tier
4 4 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 4 (28.57%) Sybase
5 3 (21.43%) Oracle
5 3 (21.43%) SLA

Clustering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 5 (35.71%) Web Services
1 5 (35.71%) XML
1 5 (35.71%) Spring
2 4 (28.57%) Hibernate
3 2 (14.29%) JDBC
3 2 (14.29%) Java EE
4 1 (7.143%) JSON
4 1 (7.143%) jQuery
4 1 (7.143%) Ajax
4 1 (7.143%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 5 (35.71%) Tomcat
2 3 (21.43%) Mule
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) SAN
2 2 (14.29%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 3 (21.43%) SQL Server 2000
2 3 (21.43%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (21.43%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (14.29%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Eclipse
2 4 (28.57%) Subversion
2 4 (28.57%) Maven
2 4 (28.57%) JIRA
3 3 (21.43%) Selenium
3 3 (21.43%) Cucumber
3 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
4 1 (7.143%) WinRunner
4 1 (7.143%) TestDirector
4 1 (7.143%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 3 (21.43%) SQL Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Architect
5 1 (7.143%) Test Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (28.57%) N-Tier
3 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
3 2 (14.29%) Open Source
4 1 (7.143%) Client/Server
4 1 (7.143%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Windows
1 7 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 6 (42.86%) UNIX
3 4 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (7.143%) AIX
4 1 (7.143%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Multithreading
2 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
2 4 (28.57%) Product Management
2 4 (28.57%) Unit Testing
2 4 (28.57%) Data Modelling
2 4 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (21.43%) Workflow
3 3 (21.43%) Scrum
3 3 (21.43%) Extreme Programming
3 3 (21.43%) Change Management
3 3 (21.43%) Load Balancing
3 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (21.43%) Performance Management
4 2 (14.29%) MVC
4 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (7.143%) SOA
5 1 (7.143%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Java
1 7 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (7.143%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 1 (7.143%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) MOM
2 1 (7.143%) Netcool
2 1 (7.143%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (7.143%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Sybase
1 4 (28.57%) Veritas
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle
2 3 (21.43%) HP
2 3 (21.43%) EMC
3 2 (14.29%) JBoss
3 2 (14.29%) Brocade
4 1 (7.143%) McAfee
4 1 (7.143%) VMware
4 1 (7.143%) Citrix