North West Clustering Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Clustering skills within the North West 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 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basildon 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 Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Penrith Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Renfrewshire Rotherham Scotland Slough Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southall Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	97	128
Rank change on same period last year	+31
Matching contract IT job ads	33	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.046 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	4.688 %	2.368 %
Daily rates quoted	2	5
Average minimum daily rate	£250	£326
Average daily rate	£325	£344
% change on same period last year	-5.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£362
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£370
% change on same period last year	-4.83 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.00	£60.00
Average hourly rate	£26.22	£62.50
% change on same period last year	-58.04 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.44	£65.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.54	£34.62
% change on same period last year	-6.00 %
Miscellaneous North West
Matching contract IT job ads	704	718
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.983 %	0.721 %
Daily rates quoted	176	112
Average minimum daily rate	£289	£301
Average daily rate	£308	£321
% change on same period last year	-4.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£327	£342
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£345
% change on same period last year	+1.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	106	148
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.57	£16.08
Average hourly rate	£22.45	£17.33
% change on same period last year	+29.54 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.33	£18.58
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.83	£26.95
% change on same period last year	-7.89 %
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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 North West 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 North West region.

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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 North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

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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 North West region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Manchester	+2	11	£325	-16.66 %
Cumbria	-	6	-	-
Cheshire	+11	5	-	-
Lancashire	-	4	-	-
Merseyside	-1	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 29 (61.70 %) Windows 2 21 (44.68 %) Windows Server 2003 3 20 (42.55 %) SAN 4 17 (36.17 %) Microsoft Certification 5 16 (34.04 %) SQL 6 13 (27.66 %) MCSE 7 12 (25.53 %) SQL Server 7 12 (25.53 %) Microsoft 7 12 (25.53 %) EMC 8 11 (23.40 %) ITIL 9 10 (21.28 %) Active Directory 10 9 (19.15 %) MS Exchange 10 9 (19.15 %) Exchange Server 2003 11 8 (17.02 %) Replication 12 7 (14.89 %) SQL Server 2005

12 7 (14.89 %) AIX 12 7 (14.89 %) Oracle 12 7 (14.89 %) Citrix 12 7 (14.89 %) SQL Server 2000 13 6 (12.77 %) WebSphere 14 5 (10.64 %) Windows 2000 Server 14 5 (10.64 %) Disaster Recovery 14 5 (10.64 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 14 5 (10.64 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 14 5 (10.64 %) IIS 14 5 (10.64 %) MySQL 14 5 (10.64 %) SMS 15 4 (8.511 %) DTS 15 4 (8.511 %) MCDBA 15 4 (8.511 %) WebSphere Application Server

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 6 (12.77 %) WebSphere 2 4 (8.511 %) Middleware 3 3 (6.383 %) J2EE 3 3 (6.383 %) ODBC 4 2 (4.255 %) XHTML 4 2 (4.255 %) JDBC 5 1 (2.128 %) OLE	Application Platforms 1 9 (19.15 %) MS Exchange 1 9 (19.15 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 5 (10.64 %) IIS 3 4 (8.511 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 3 (6.383 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 2 (4.255 %) SharePoint 5 2 (4.255 %) CICS 6 1 (2.128 %) Exchange Server 5.5
Applications 1 4 (8.511 %) MS Office 2 3 (6.383 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 20 (42.55 %) SAN 2 5 (10.64 %) SMS 3 4 (8.511 %) Extranet 4 3 (6.383 %) SSH 5 2 (4.255 %) SSL 5 2 (4.255 %) HTTP 5 2 (4.255 %) TCP/IP 6 1 (2.128 %) VPN 6 1 (2.128 %) DNS 6 1 (2.128 %) VoIP 6 1 (2.128 %) WAN 6 1 (2.128 %) FTP 6 1 (2.128 %) LAN 6 1 (2.128 %) Firewall 6 1 (2.128 %) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (25.53 %) SQL Server 2 7 (14.89 %) SQL Server 2000 2 7 (14.89 %) SQL Server 2005 3 5 (10.64 %) MySQL 3 5 (10.64 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 4 (8.511 %) DTS 4 4 (8.511 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 1 (2.128 %) ETL 5 1 (2.128 %) RDBMS 5 1 (2.128 %) SQL Server 7 5 1 (2.128 %) SQLPlus	General 1 2 (4.255 %) Finance 2 1 (2.128 %) Education
Job Titles 1 8 (17.02 %) DBA 2 7 (14.89 %) Analyst 2 7 (14.89 %) SQL DBA 3 6 (12.77 %) Support Engineer 3 6 (12.77 %) Support Analyst 4 5 (10.64 %) Consultant 5 4 (8.511 %) 3rd Line Support 5 4 (8.511 %) Server Support 5 4 (8.511 %) SQL Server DBA 5 4 (8.511 %) Server Engineer 5 4 (8.511 %) Server Support Engineer 6 3 (6.383 %) IT Support Engineer 6 3 (6.383 %) Administrator 6 3 (6.383 %) Developer 6 3 (6.383 %) Database Designer 6 3 (6.383 %) SAN Engineer 6 3 (6.383 %) 3rd Line Support Analyst 7 2 (4.255 %) Exchange Engineer 7 2 (4.255 %) Wintel Engineer 7 2 (4.255 %) Windows Server Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 8 (17.02 %) Replication 2 2 (4.255 %) Symmetrix 3 1 (2.128 %) CLARiiON 3 1 (2.128 %) EPoS 3 1 (2.128 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 29 (61.70 %) Windows 2 21 (44.68 %) Windows Server 2003 3 7 (14.89 %) AIX 4 5 (10.64 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 4 (8.511 %) UNIX 6 2 (4.255 %) VMS 6 2 (4.255 %) HPUX 6 2 (4.255 %) Solaris 6 2 (4.255 %) Linux 7 1 (2.128 %) Windows 2000 7 1 (2.128 %) Windows NT 7 1 (2.128 %) Windows XP 7 1 (2.128 %) NetWare	Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (23.40 %) ITIL 2 5 (10.64 %) Disaster Recovery 3 3 (6.383 %) Project Management 3 3 (6.383 %) Service Management 3 3 (6.383 %) E-Commerce 3 3 (6.383 %) Load Balancing 4 2 (4.255 %) Business Continuity 4 2 (4.255 %) Data Analysis 4 2 (4.255 %) SC Cleared 4 2 (4.255 %) Change Management 4 2 (4.255 %) Security Cleared 4 2 (4.255 %) Data Modelling 4 2 (4.255 %) Configuration Management 4 2 (4.255 %) PRINCE2 5 1 (2.128 %) Service Delivery 5 1 (2.128 %) Security Management 5 1 (2.128 %) Migration 5 1 (2.128 %) BC Cleared 5 1 (2.128 %) Problem Management
Programming Languages 1 16 (34.04 %) SQL 2 4 (8.511 %) Shell Script 3 3 (6.383 %) Jython 4 2 (4.255 %) Korn 4 2 (4.255 %) JavaScript 4 2 (4.255 %) PHP 5 1 (2.128 %) PL/SQL 5 1 (2.128 %) Transact-SQL	Qualifications 1 17 (36.17 %) Microsoft Certification 2 13 (27.66 %) MCSE 3 4 (8.511 %) MCDBA 3 4 (8.511 %) MCP 4 3 (6.383 %) ISEB 5 1 (2.128 %) Cisco Certification 5 1 (2.128 %) HNC 5 1 (2.128 %) CCNA
System Software 1 10 (21.28 %) Active Directory 2 1 (2.128 %) MetaFrame 2 1 (2.128 %) ISA Server	Systems Management 1 5 (10.64 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 1 (2.128 %) Tivoli
Vendors 1 12 (25.53 %) Microsoft 1 12 (25.53 %) EMC 2 7 (14.89 %) Citrix 2 7 (14.89 %) Oracle 3 3 (6.383 %) HP 4 2 (4.255 %) VMware 4 2 (4.255 %) Brocade 4 2 (4.255 %) Cisco 5 1 (2.128 %) Sun 5 1 (2.128 %) Siemens 5 1 (2.128 %) VERITAS 5 1 (2.128 %) Fujitsu Siemens 5 1 (2.128 %) Compaq