The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Clustering over the 3 months to 24 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 London 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Clustering
Rank 227 166 204
Rank change year-on-year
-61 +38
Contract jobs citing Clustering 163 303 279
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.753% 1.125% 0.898%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.267% 3.502% 2.370%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 191 174
Average daily rate £400 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £560 £600 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £358 £400 £290
% change year-on-year
-10.62% +37.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 5
Average hourly rate £28.00 £33.00 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.15% +50.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £25.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year
+8.00% -19.35%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
7191 8651 11771
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 33.20% 32.11% 37.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4968 5870 7935
Average daily rate £475 £475 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -13.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £283 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 209 196
Average hourly rate £23.00 £22.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.22% +7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £13.49 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £52.40 £52.50 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Clustering
England

Clustering
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 24 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
City of London -32 30 £375 -11.76%
Uxbridge +9 5 £538 -
Greenwich - 2 £403 -
Surbiton - 2 - -
Southwark - 1 - -
Wembley - 1 - -
Clustering
England

Clustering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

1 184 (58.04%) Windows
2 127 (40.06%) SAN
2 127 (40.06%) VMware
3 115 (36.28%) Linux
4 105 (33.12%) UNIX
5 98 (30.91%) VMware Infrastructure
6 96 (30.28%) Microsoft
6 96 (30.28%) Active Directory
7 89 (28.08%) HP
8 88 (27.76%) Red Hat
9 87 (27.44%) Veritas
10 80 (25.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 78 (24.61%) Windows Server 2008
12 77 (24.29%) EMC
13 72 (22.71%) SQL
14 71 (22.40%) Windows Server 2003
15 68 (21.45%) Finance
16 65 (20.50%) NAS
17 63 (19.87%) SQL Server
18 61 (19.24%) ITIL
19 60 (18.93%) Solaris
20 59 (18.61%) Citrix
21 51 (16.09%) IIS
21 51 (16.09%) VMware ESX
22 49 (15.46%) NetApp
23 48 (15.14%) Oracle
23 48 (15.14%) Banking
24 47 (14.83%) SCOM
24 47 (14.83%) Apache
25 46 (14.51%) Cisco

Clustering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 29 (9.148%) .NET
2 19 (5.994%) Web Services
3 17 (5.363%) Middleware
4 15 (4.732%) ADSI
4 15 (4.732%) ASP.NET
5 11 (3.470%) LAMP
5 11 (3.470%) WebSphere
6 8 (2.524%) Application Packaging
7 6 (1.893%) JDBC
8 4 (1.262%) Spring
9 3 (0.946%) JSP
9 3 (0.946%) Servlets
10 2 (0.631%) Oracle Fusion
10 2 (0.631%) jQuery
10 2 (0.631%) JMS
10 2 (0.631%) Struts
10 2 (0.631%) ASP
10 2 (0.631%) J2EE
10 2 (0.631%) Hibernate
11 1 (0.315%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 51 (16.09%) IIS
2 47 (14.83%) Apache
3 34 (10.73%) MS Exchange
4 21 (6.625%) SharePoint
5 19 (5.994%) Exchange Server 2010
6 15 (4.732%) Exchange Server 2007
7 14 (4.416%) Tomcat
8 13 (4.101%) SharePoint 2010
9 10 (3.155%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 9 (2.839%) Lync
10 9 (2.839%) Oracle Application Server
11 6 (1.893%) Exchange Server 2003
12 4 (1.262%) WebLogic
12 4 (1.262%) BizTalk Server
12 4 (1.262%) CloudStack
13 3 (0.946%) Office Communications Server
14 2 (0.631%) OpenEdge
14 2 (0.631%) WebSphere Application Server
14 2 (0.631%) Commerce Server
15 1 (0.315%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 12 (3.785%) MS Excel
2 4 (1.262%) MS Office
3 3 (0.946%) Office 365
4 2 (0.631%) MS PowerPoint
4 2 (0.631%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.315%) MS Project
5 1 (0.315%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.631%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (0.631%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.315%) WebTrends
2 1 (0.315%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 127 (40.06%) SAN
2 65 (20.50%) NAS
3 37 (11.67%) DNS
4 28 (8.833%) Firewall
5 20 (6.309%) Internet
5 20 (6.309%) DHCP
6 19 (5.994%) TCP/IP
7 18 (5.678%) LDAP
8 15 (4.732%) FTP
9 14 (4.416%) VPN
10 13 (4.101%) SMTP
11 11 (3.470%) BIG-IP
12 9 (2.839%) HTTP
13 8 (2.524%) Cisco ASA
13 8 (2.524%) LAN
13 8 (2.524%) Fibre Channel
14 7 (2.208%) Ethernet
14 7 (2.208%) SSL
14 7 (2.208%) Network Security
15 6 (1.893%) Gigabit Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (19.87%) SQL Server
2 30 (9.464%) SQL Server 2008
3 26 (8.202%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 25 (7.886%) SQL Server 2005
5 22 (6.940%) MySQL
6 21 (6.625%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 11 (3.470%) Oracle 11g
8 7 (2.208%) SQL Server 2012
8 7 (2.208%) SAP BW
8 7 (2.208%) Oracle 8/8i
8 7 (2.208%) BusinessObjects
8 7 (2.208%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 6 (1.893%) OLAP
9 6 (1.893%) SQL Server 2000
10 5 (1.577%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.577%) Ingres
10 5 (1.577%) Oracle OLAP
11 4 (1.262%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (0.946%) SAP HANA
13 2 (0.631%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 5 (1.577%) JIRA
2 4 (1.262%) MSI
3 3 (0.946%) InstallShield
4 2 (0.631%) Git (software)
5 1 (0.315%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.315%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.315%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.315%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.315%) Subversion
5 1 (0.315%) AppScan
5 1 (0.315%) Hudson
General
1 68 (21.45%) Finance
2 48 (15.14%) Banking
3 21 (6.625%) Investment Banking
4 16 (5.047%) Financial Institution
5 11 (3.470%) Advertising
6 5 (1.577%) Law
6 5 (1.577%) Retail
6 5 (1.577%) French Language
7 2 (0.631%) Retail Banking
7 2 (0.631%) Marketing
7 2 (0.631%) Telecoms
7 2 (0.631%) Military
8 1 (0.315%) Publishing
8 1 (0.315%) Legal
Job Titles
1 50 (15.77%) Administrator
2 42 (13.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 38 (11.99%) DBA
4 31 (9.779%) Analyst
5 29 (9.148%) SQL DBA
6 25 (7.886%) Wintel Engineer
7 24 (7.571%) Linux Engineer
8 21 (6.625%) Systems Administrator
9 20 (6.309%) UNIX Engineer
10 19 (5.994%) Consultant
10 19 (5.994%) Architect
11 15 (4.732%) SQL Server DBA
12 14 (4.416%) Senior Linux Engineer
13 13 (4.101%) Wintel Analyst
14 11 (3.470%) Systems Engineer
14 11 (3.470%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
15 10 (3.155%) Developer
16 9 (2.839%) Linux Systems Administrator
17 8 (2.524%) Storage Engineer
17 8 (2.524%) UNIX Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 22 (6.940%) Replication
1 22 (6.940%) CLARiiON
2 14 (4.416%) Hedge funds
3 12 (3.785%) Blackberry
4 9 (2.839%) Computer Science
5 8 (2.524%) Open Source
6 5 (1.577%) Symmetrix DMX
7 4 (1.262%) Celerra
7 4 (1.262%) iSeries
7 4 (1.262%) Symmetrix
8 3 (0.946%) Mainframe
8 3 (0.946%) PKI
8 3 (0.946%) Cryptography
8 3 (0.946%) EqualLogic
9 2 (0.631%) iPhone
9 2 (0.631%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (0.631%) Web 2.0
9 2 (0.631%) HACMP
9 2 (0.631%) NHS
9 2 (0.631%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 184 (58.04%) Windows
2 115 (36.28%) Linux
3 105 (33.12%) UNIX
4 80 (25.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 78 (24.61%) Windows Server 2008
6 71 (22.40%) Windows Server 2003
7 60 (18.93%) Solaris
8 26 (8.202%) AIX
9 21 (6.625%) Windows XP
10 19 (5.994%) HPUX
10 19 (5.994%) Windows 2000
11 16 (5.047%) Windows NT
12 11 (3.470%) Windows 7
13 6 (1.893%) VMS
13 6 (1.893%) Windows Server 2012
14 5 (1.577%) Windows 2000 Server
15 4 (1.262%) Windows Mobile
16 2 (0.631%) CentOS
17 1 (0.315%) zOS
17 1 (0.315%) Tru64
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (19.24%) ITIL
2 35 (11.04%) Migration
3 30 (9.464%) Change Management
3 30 (9.464%) Load Balancing
4 26 (8.202%) Incident Management
5 25 (7.886%) Disaster Recovery
5 25 (7.886%) Change Control
6 24 (7.571%) Capacity Management
7 23 (7.256%) High Availability
8 18 (5.678%) Problem Management
9 16 (5.047%) Data Management
10 15 (4.732%) Project Management
11 14 (4.416%) Data Migration
11 14 (4.416%) Capacity Planning
11 14 (4.416%) Data Analysis
12 12 (3.785%) Configuration Management
13 11 (3.470%) Validation
13 11 (3.470%) Service Delivery
14 10 (3.155%) Root Cause Analysis
15 9 (2.839%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 72 (22.71%) SQL
2 43 (13.56%) PowerShell
3 42 (13.25%) Perl
4 34 (10.73%) Shell Script
5 31 (9.779%) VB
6 29 (9.148%) VBScript
7 25 (7.886%) T-SQL
8 17 (5.363%) PHP
9 15 (4.732%) Bash shell
10 11 (3.470%) Java
11 9 (2.839%) C#
11 9 (2.839%) Python
12 5 (1.577%) R
13 4 (1.262%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.946%) sed
14 3 (0.946%) AWK
14 3 (0.946%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.631%) Groovy
15 2 (0.631%) Korn
15 2 (0.631%) C
Qualifications
1 26 (8.202%) Microsoft Certification
2 23 (7.256%) Degree
3 17 (5.363%) Security Cleared
4 14 (4.416%) MCSE
4 14 (4.416%) NCDA
5 9 (2.839%) RHCE
5 9 (2.839%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.208%) Oracle Certification
6 7 (2.208%) SC Cleared
7 6 (1.893%) OCA
7 6 (1.893%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 5 (1.577%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (0.946%) SAP Certification
9 3 (0.946%) Citrix Certification
10 2 (0.631%) MCITP
10 2 (0.631%) CCA
10 2 (0.631%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.631%) MCDBA
11 1 (0.315%) CCAA
11 1 (0.315%) CCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.047%) SLA
2 8 (2.524%) QA
System Software
1 98 (30.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 96 (30.28%) Active Directory
3 51 (16.09%) VMware ESX
4 34 (10.73%) vSphere
5 31 (9.779%) XenApp
6 24 (7.571%) Hyper-V
6 24 (7.571%) SRDF
7 19 (5.994%) Citrix Presentation Server
8 16 (5.047%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 16 (5.047%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 13 (4.101%) Oracle RAC
10 11 (3.470%) XenServer
11 7 (2.208%) ProxySG
11 7 (2.208%) VMware ESXi
12 6 (1.893%) Samba
12 6 (1.893%) vCloud
13 5 (1.577%) NFS
13 5 (1.577%) Veritas Volume Manager
13 5 (1.577%) Veritas File System
14 4 (1.262%) Cronacle
Systems Management
1 47 (14.83%) SCOM
2 44 (13.88%) SCCM
3 43 (13.56%) NetBackup
4 24 (7.571%) EMC NetWorker
5 21 (6.625%) Backup Exec
6 20 (6.309%) Legato
7 15 (4.732%) Puppet
8 13 (4.101%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 12 (3.785%) WSUS
9 12 (3.785%) Nagios
10 8 (2.524%) Data Guard
11 7 (2.208%) WMI
11 7 (2.208%) Zenoss
12 6 (1.893%) Cobbler
13 5 (1.577%) HP SIM
14 4 (1.262%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
15 3 (0.946%) Tivoli
15 3 (0.946%) Cacti
15 3 (0.946%) OpenNMS
16 2 (0.631%) OpenView
Vendors
1 127 (40.06%) VMware
2 96 (30.28%) Microsoft
3 89 (28.08%) HP
4 88 (27.76%) Red Hat
5 87 (27.44%) Veritas
6 77 (24.29%) EMC
7 59 (18.61%) Citrix
8 49 (15.46%) NetApp
9 48 (15.14%) Oracle
10 46 (14.51%) Cisco
11 45 (14.20%) IBM
12 41 (12.93%) Dell
13 27 (8.517%) Sun
13 27 (8.517%) F5
14 26 (8.202%) Altiris
15 19 (5.994%) McAfee
16 15 (4.732%) BMC
16 15 (4.732%) SAP
16 15 (4.732%) Sophos
16 15 (4.732%) Leostream
City of London
Responsible for all business exchange servers Part of an on-call rota to provide out of hours support to apply patches, fixes and upgrades Key Deliverables Assisting users...
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £300 - £500 per day
Posted: 27 April 2013
London
For this role you will have demonstrable experience in SQL Server Database Administration including managing, clustering, monitoring and tuning multiple large MS SQL 2000, 2005 & 2008 RDBMS... Keywords -...
Gonnadoo
Rate: From £300 to £400 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
City, London
A large financial services client is looking for a production support SQL server DBA with the following experience: - Extensive experience in MS SQL server 2000, 2005 and 2008... -...
Aston Carter
Rate: market rate
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
This is an excellent opportunity to join a fast moving NHS organisation which is at the forefront of patient services. This role focuses on the aspect of how...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £375.00 per day
Posted: 1 May 2013
London
For our client, a huge global consultancy company, we are looking for a Citrix Senior Engineer to work on a 3 month (possibly rolling) paying up to £425...
Computer Futures
Rate: £400 - £425 per day
Posted: 18 May 2013
City of London
infrastructure, windows server, network, exchange, cisco, active directory, windows server, sql, citrix, lyncA leading investment firm require two Windows Infrastructure Analysts with different technical focuses for a minimum...
Hudson IT London
Rate: £350 - £465 per day
Posted: 19 May 2013
London
They are looking for someone with the following experience: - Linux system administration - Experience in CentOS - Experience with DNS, Wifi products, load balancing - VMware - Clustering and high availability network...
Nicoll Curtin
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
City of London
Experience in the financial sector VMware HP Hardware & HP Health monitoring tools Scripting experience in one or more of Python/Shell/Perl/Ruby languages Network build/management systems,...
Orgtel
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
Critical business partner role alongside Systems Engineering, Problem Management, Change Management, Network Operations and Service Operations. 3-5+ Years Linux/Unix support or engineering, capable of providing 2nd/...
Orgtel
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
Cisco UCS Engineer (VMware, Red Hat, EMC) - Our client, a leading financial services company is looking for a Cisco UCS Engineer (VMware, Red Hat, EMC) to work onsite...
Salt
Rate: negotiable
Posted: 21 May 2013