The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Clustering over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Hertfordshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Clustering
Rank 45 66 57
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -9
Contract jobs citing Clustering 13 13 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 2.034% 1.305% 1.739%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.924% 6.132% 9.581%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 1
Average daily rate £375 £278 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+35.13% -7.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £358 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
+10.00% +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year
-1.96% -16.39%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
131 212 167
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 20.50% 21.29% 18.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 94 82
Average daily rate £350 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £246 £144
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £438 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £328
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 19 12
Average hourly rate £35.00 £27.00 £37.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+29.62% -27.02%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.03 £9.43 £13.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £47.65 £38.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.63 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-3.88% -10.00%
Clustering
East of England

Clustering
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Hemel Hempstead - 4 - -
Rickmansworth - - - -
St Albans - - - -
Welwyn Garden City - - - - 1
Clustering
East of England

Clustering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 10 (62.50%) SQL
1 10 (62.50%) SQL Server
1 10 (62.50%) Windows
1 10 (62.50%) VMware
2 8 (50.00%) VMware ESX
3 7 (43.75%) Linux
3 7 (43.75%) ITIL
3 7 (43.75%) Capacity Planning
4 6 (37.50%) Hyper-V
4 6 (37.50%) SQL Server 2012
4 6 (37.50%) UNIX
4 6 (37.50%) DNS
4 6 (37.50%) Red Hat
5 5 (31.25%) DHCP
5 5 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (31.25%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
6 4 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (25.00%) SAN
6 4 (25.00%) Veritas
6 4 (25.00%) TCP/IP
7 3 (18.75%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
7 3 (18.75%) Apache
7 3 (18.75%) E-Commerce
7 3 (18.75%) Telecoms
7 3 (18.75%) Retail
7 3 (18.75%) SQL Server 2008
8 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (12.50%) Network Load Balancing

Clustering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 2 (12.50%) WebSphere
1 2 (12.50%) WebSphere MQ
1 2 (12.50%) Middleware
2 1 (6.250%) Gearman
2 1 (6.250%) Memcached
Application Platforms
1 3 (18.75%) Apache
2 2 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (12.50%) Tomcat
2 2 (12.50%) MS Exchange
2 2 (12.50%) IIS
2 2 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) DNS
2 5 (31.25%) DHCP
3 4 (25.00%) SAN
3 4 (25.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (12.50%) iSCSI
4 2 (12.50%) Firewall
4 2 (12.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (62.50%) SQL Server
2 6 (37.50%) SQL Server 2012
3 3 (18.75%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (12.50%) SQL Server 2000
5 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1 (6.250%) Subversion
General
1 3 (18.75%) Telecoms
1 3 (18.75%) Retail
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (6.250%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Administrator
2 4 (25.00%) Linux Administrator
2 4 (25.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 4 (25.00%) Consultant
2 4 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (18.75%) SQL Server Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) DBA
4 2 (12.50%) Network Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) SQL DBA
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Build Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Blackberry
2 1 (6.250%) SaaS
2 1 (6.250%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (62.50%) Windows
2 7 (43.75%) Linux
3 6 (37.50%) UNIX
4 5 (31.25%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (12.50%) Windows 2000
7 1 (6.250%) Debian
7 1 (6.250%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) ITIL
1 7 (43.75%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (18.75%) E-Commerce
3 2 (12.50%) Network Load Balancing
3 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (6.250%) Capacity Management
4 1 (6.250%) Network Architecture
4 1 (6.250%) ERP
4 1 (6.250%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) SQL
2 1 (6.250%) Bash shell
2 1 (6.250%) Shell Script
2 1 (6.250%) T-SQL
2 1 (6.250%) Perl
2 1 (6.250%) Korn
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.250%) Degree
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) VMware ESX
2 6 (37.50%) Hyper-V
3 5 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
4 2 (12.50%) vSphere
5 1 (6.250%) Varnish
5 1 (6.250%) Postfix
5 1 (6.250%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (6.250%) YUM
2 1 (6.250%) Puppet
2 1 (6.250%) Nagios
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) VMware
2 6 (37.50%) Red Hat
3 4 (25.00%) Veritas
4 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
5 2 (12.50%) HP
5 2 (12.50%) EMC
5 2 (12.50%) Citrix
5 2 (12.50%) IBM
5 2 (12.50%) Symantec
5 2 (12.50%) Sophos
5 2 (12.50%) Acronis
6 1 (6.250%) Oracle