The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Clustering over the 3 months to 23 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 Gloucestershire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Clustering
Rank 25 32 44
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +12
Contract jobs citing Clustering 12 39 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 4.412% 5.936% 1.131%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 23.08% 25.16% 6.849%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 25 0
Average daily rate £413 £500 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.50% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £354 £400 £298
% change year-on-year
-11.56% +34.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £25.00 £31.25
% change year-on-year
+8.00% -20.00%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
52 155 73
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 19.12% 23.59% 16.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 87 36
Average daily rate £400 £500 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +61.29%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £300 £214
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £575 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 1
Average hourly rate £42.00 £10.70 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+292.52% -69.42%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
Clustering
South West

Clustering
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire Clustering Daily Rate Trend

Clustering
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Clustering across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Gloucestershire Clustering Daily Rate Histogram

Clustering
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Gloucestershire Clustering Hourly 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 Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Gloucester +7 1 £330 -34.00%
Clustering
South West

Clustering
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 23 (100.00%) Linux
1 23 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 22 (95.65%) DV Cleared
2 22 (95.65%) DHCP
2 22 (95.65%) C
2 22 (95.65%) Perl
2 22 (95.65%) UNIX
2 22 (95.65%) DNS
2 22 (95.65%) Red Hat
2 22 (95.65%) Shell Script
3 20 (86.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (8.696%) Service Management
4 2 (8.696%) SAN
4 2 (8.696%) HPUX
4 2 (8.696%) Solaris
4 2 (8.696%) NFS
4 2 (8.696%) TCP/IP
5 1 (4.348%) MySQL
5 1 (4.348%) SQL Server
5 1 (4.348%) Migration
5 1 (4.348%) Replication
5 1 (4.348%) Database Tuning
5 1 (4.348%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (4.348%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.348%) Information Management

Clustering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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.

Communications & Networking
1 22 (95.65%) DHCP
1 22 (95.65%) DNS
2 2 (8.696%) SAN
2 2 (8.696%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.348%) MySQL
1 1 (4.348%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 22 (95.65%) UNIX Engineer
1 22 (95.65%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (4.348%) Administrator
2 1 (4.348%) Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.348%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 23 (100.00%) Linux
2 22 (95.65%) UNIX
3 20 (86.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (8.696%) HPUX
4 2 (8.696%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (8.696%) Service Management
2 1 (4.348%) Migration
2 1 (4.348%) Database Tuning
2 1 (4.348%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (4.348%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (95.65%) C
1 22 (95.65%) Perl
1 22 (95.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 22 (95.65%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.348%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (8.696%) NFS
Vendors
1 22 (95.65%) Red Hat
Gloucester, South West
Infrastructure Engineer, 3rd Line Engineer,- Contract - GloucesterOur client, has an urgent requirement for an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to join their team-The postholder will be responsible for the...
OPUS
Rate: GBP250 to GBP350 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
Gloucester, Gloucestershire
Key skills: - Windows Server 2008 R2 - AD - Exchange 2010 - MS Clustering - WSUS - Networking technologies - TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP - VMWare Experience of HP/Cisco Networking technologies is an advantage...
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Rate: £250 to £350 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013