Milton Keynes Clustering Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Clustering skills within the Milton Keynes region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Clustering over the 3 months to 4 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chorley City of London County Antrim County Londonderry Cumbria Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Ipswich Johnstone Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Penrith Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Renfrewshire Rotherham Scotland Shropshire Slough Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	48	61
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	18	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	13.53 %	6.557 %
Daily rates quoted	7	1
Average minimum daily rate	£290	£180
Average daily rate	£305	£190
% change on same period last year	+60.34 %
Average maximum daily rate	£320	£200
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£353
% change on same period last year	+0.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£39.73	£37.00
Average hourly rate	£40.14	£37.70
% change on same period last year	+6.47 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.56	£38.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.13	£35.21
% change on same period last year	-3.08 %
Miscellaneous Milton Keynes
Matching contract IT job ads	133	122
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.179 %	0.122 %
Daily rates quoted	45	31
Average minimum daily rate	£306	£264
Average daily rate	£319	£301
% change on same period last year	+6.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£332	£338
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£350
% change on same period last year	+0.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	22	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.74	£26.96
Average hourly rate	£33.86	£28.60
% change on same period last year	+18.38 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.97	£30.24
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.28	£28.14
% change on same period last year	-10.15 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Clustering across the Milton Keynes region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Clustering across the Milton Keynes region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Clustering across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 4 September 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Clustering across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 4 September 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 21 (65.63 %) SAN 2 20 (62.50 %) SQL 2 20 (62.50 %) Transact-SQL 3 19 (59.38 %) SQL Server 3 19 (59.38 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 15 (46.88 %) Security Cleared 5 14 (43.75 %) OLAP 5 14 (43.75 %) DTS 5 14 (43.75 %) Business Intelligence 6 10 (31.25 %) ITIL 7 9 (28.13 %) ITSM 7 9 (28.13 %) UNIX 7 9 (28.13 %) MCDBA 7 9 (28.13 %) Microsoft Certification 8 8 (25.00 %) Sun

9 7 (21.88 %) FreeBSD 9 7 (21.88 %) Solaris 9 7 (21.88 %) Linux 10 6 (18.75 %) SC Cleared 11 4 (12.50 %) Telecoms 11 4 (12.50 %) NetBackup 12 3 (9.375 %) Government 12 3 (9.375 %) C 13 2 (6.250 %) MCSE 13 2 (6.250 %) Windows 13 2 (6.250 %) IIS 13 2 (6.250 %) Windows Server 2003 13 2 (6.250 %) Active Directory 13 2 (6.250 %) CNE 13 2 (6.250 %) Novell Certification

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 Platforms 1 2 (6.250 %) IIS	Communications & Networking 1 21 (65.63 %) SAN 2 1 (3.125 %) Internet 2 1 (3.125 %) LDAP 2 1 (3.125 %) DHCP 2 1 (3.125 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (3.125 %) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 19 (59.38 %) SQL Server 1 19 (59.38 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 2 14 (43.75 %) OLAP 2 14 (43.75 %) DTS	General 1 4 (12.50 %) Telecoms 2 3 (9.375 %) Government 3 1 (3.125 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 10 (31.25 %) Database Specialist 2 9 (28.13 %) Administrator 3 8 (25.00 %) Systems Administrator 4 7 (21.88 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 4 7 (21.88 %) UNIX Administrator 5 5 (15.63 %) SQL DBA 5 5 (15.63 %) Database Developer 5 5 (15.63 %) SQL Developer 5 5 (15.63 %) Developer 5 5 (15.63 %) DBA 5 5 (15.63 %) SQL Database Developer 6 4 (12.50 %) Senior UNIX Administrator 6 4 (12.50 %) Senior UNIX Systems Administrator 6 4 (12.50 %) Senior Systems Administrator 7 2 (6.250 %) Systems Support Engineer 7 2 (6.250 %) Systems Support 7 2 (6.250 %) Support Engineer 7 2 (6.250 %) Systems Engineer 8 1 (3.125 %) Database Designer 8 1 (3.125 %) Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.125 %) IPTV
Operating Systems 1 9 (28.13 %) UNIX 2 7 (21.88 %) Solaris 2 7 (21.88 %) Linux 2 7 (21.88 %) FreeBSD 3 2 (6.250 %) Windows NT 3 2 (6.250 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (6.250 %) Windows 3 2 (6.250 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 1 (3.125 %) Red Hat Linux 4 1 (3.125 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (3.125 %) Windows Server 2008	Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (46.88 %) Security Cleared 2 14 (43.75 %) Business Intelligence 3 10 (31.25 %) ITIL 4 9 (28.13 %) ITSM 5 6 (18.75 %) SC Cleared
Programming Languages 1 20 (62.50 %) SQL 1 20 (62.50 %) Transact-SQL 2 3 (9.375 %) C	Qualifications 1 9 (28.13 %) MCDBA 1 9 (28.13 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (6.250 %) CNE 2 2 (6.250 %) Novell Certification 2 2 (6.250 %) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (3.125 %) SLA	System Software 1 4 (12.50 %) NetBackup 2 2 (6.250 %) Active Directory 3 1 (3.125 %) Terminal Services 3 1 (3.125 %) ISA Server 3 1 (3.125 %) Microsoft Virtual Server
Vendors 1 8 (25.00 %) Sun 2 2 (6.250 %) Cisco 2 2 (6.250 %) Microsoft 3 1 (3.125 %) Citrix 3 1 (3.125 %) VERITAS 3 1 (3.125 %) Red Hat