The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Clustering over the 3 months to 20 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 Gloucester 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Clustering
Rank 16 19 18
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -1
Contract jobs citing Clustering 1 26 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucester 1.449% 9.665% 1.136%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.667% 38.81% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 20 0
Average daily rate £330 £500 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-34.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £400 £300
% change year-on-year
-10.00% +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
Gloucester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
15 67 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucester 21.74% 24.91% 10.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 40 6
Average daily rate £353 £500 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-29.50% +33.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £300 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £575 £447
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £343 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.18% +0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Average hourly rate £18.90 £10.70 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+76.63% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £24.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year
-8.16% -9.25%
Clustering
Gloucestershire

Clustering
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucester 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 Gloucester region.

Gloucester Clustering Daily Rate Trend

Clustering
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucester 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 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
1 1 (100.00%) Information Management
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Database Tuning

Clustering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucester 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.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Information Management
1 1 (100.00%) Database Tuning
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared