The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Replication in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Replication over the 3 months to 21 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 North West 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Replication
Rank 101 122 103
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -19
Contract jobs citing Replication 18 13 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.762% 0.412% 0.897%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.291% 2.009% 4.334%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 21
Average daily rate £350 £258 £343
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+35.92% -24.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £274 £215 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £307 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £29.25 £41.25
% change year-on-year
- -29.09%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
547 647 623
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 23.17% 20.51% 20.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 315 314
Average daily rate £300 £325 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +4.83%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £201 £203
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £463 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 57 68
Average hourly rate £16.70 £20.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.52% -4.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.67 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.05 £25.00 £38.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-4.34% -13.20%
Replication
England

Replication
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Replication Jobs Demand Trend

Replication
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Replication across the North West region.

North West Replication Daily Rate Trend

Replication
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Replication across the North West region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

North West Replication Daily Rate Histogram

Replication
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West Replication Hourly Rate Trend

Replication
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Replication within the North West region over the 3 months to 21 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
Manchester +19 9 £278 +4.71%
Cheshire +5 7 £400 +23.07%
Merseyside - 2 £275 -
Replication
England

Replication
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Replication 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 Replication.

1 31 (81.58%) SQL
2 30 (78.95%) SQL Server
3 22 (57.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 19 (50.00%) T-SQL
5 15 (39.47%) SQL Server 2008
6 14 (36.84%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (34.21%) Data Modelling
7 13 (34.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 12 (31.58%) SQL Server 2005
8 12 (31.58%) Microsoft
9 11 (28.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 11 (28.95%) Disaster Recovery
10 10 (26.32%) RDBMS
11 9 (23.68%) OLTP
11 9 (23.68%) SQL Server 2000
12 7 (18.42%) Migration
13 6 (15.79%) Finance
13 6 (15.79%) QA
13 6 (15.79%) VLDB
13 6 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
13 6 (15.79%) Linux
13 6 (15.79%) Kimball Methodology
14 5 (13.16%) UNIX
14 5 (13.16%) Windows
14 5 (13.16%) DTS
14 5 (13.16%) OLAP
14 5 (13.16%) VSS/SourceSafe
14 5 (13.16%) SAN
14 5 (13.16%) ERD
14 5 (13.16%) Retail

Replication
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Replication 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 Replication. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (7.895%) HTML
1 3 (7.895%) .NET
1 3 (7.895%) J2EE
1 3 (7.895%) ASP
1 3 (7.895%) JDBC
1 3 (7.895%) JSP
1 3 (7.895%) Servlets
1 3 (7.895%) Struts
1 3 (7.895%) XML
1 3 (7.895%) JMS
1 3 (7.895%) Windows SharePoint Services
1 3 (7.895%) .NET Framework
1 3 (7.895%) Hibernate
2 1 (2.632%) WSH
2 1 (2.632%) MDX
Application Platforms
1 3 (7.895%) JCAPS
1 3 (7.895%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.632%) CICS
2 1 (2.632%) IIS
2 1 (2.632%) ArcSDE
2 1 (2.632%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 3 (7.895%) MS Excel
2 2 (5.263%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.632%) BASE24
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.16%) SAN
2 1 (2.632%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (2.632%) NAS
2 1 (2.632%) Internet
2 1 (2.632%) SMS
2 1 (2.632%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (78.95%) SQL Server
2 22 (57.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 15 (39.47%) SQL Server 2008
4 14 (36.84%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (34.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 12 (31.58%) SQL Server 2005
7 11 (28.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 10 (26.32%) RDBMS
9 9 (23.68%) OLTP
9 9 (23.68%) SQL Server 2000
10 6 (15.79%) VLDB
11 5 (13.16%) DTS
11 5 (13.16%) OLAP
11 5 (13.16%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 4 (10.53%) SQL Server 2012
13 3 (7.895%) NoSQL
13 3 (7.895%) DB2
13 3 (7.895%) MySQL
13 3 (7.895%) Star Schema
13 3 (7.895%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 5 (13.16%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 3 (7.895%) Visual Studio
2 3 (7.895%) NetBeans
General
1 6 (15.79%) Finance
2 5 (13.16%) Retail
3 1 (2.632%) Retail Banking
3 1 (2.632%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.632%) Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (52.63%) DBA
2 15 (39.47%) SQL DBA
3 8 (21.05%) Administrator
4 6 (15.79%) Developer
4 6 (15.79%) Teradata DBA
5 5 (13.16%) SQL Server DBA
6 3 (7.895%) Data Migration Specialist
7 2 (5.263%) Server Administrator
7 2 (5.263%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (5.263%) Software Architect
7 2 (5.263%) Infrastructure Designer
7 2 (5.263%) Architect
7 2 (5.263%) Database Specialist
7 2 (5.263%) Designer
8 1 (2.632%) SCCM Administrator
8 1 (2.632%) MI Developer
8 1 (2.632%) Consultant
8 1 (2.632%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 1 (2.632%) Storage Consultant
8 1 (2.632%) GIS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Clustering
1 4 (10.53%) Data Integration
2 3 (7.895%) NHS
2 3 (7.895%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.263%) Tandem
3 2 (5.263%) Mainframe
3 2 (5.263%) Computer Science
4 1 (2.632%) Celerra
4 1 (2.632%) Statistics
4 1 (2.632%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.79%) Linux
2 5 (13.16%) UNIX
2 5 (13.16%) Windows
3 1 (2.632%) Windows 7
3 1 (2.632%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (34.21%) Data Modelling
2 11 (28.95%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (18.42%) Migration
4 6 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (15.79%) Kimball Methodology
5 5 (13.16%) ERD
6 4 (10.53%) Change Management
6 4 (10.53%) Data Migration
6 4 (10.53%) Load Testing
6 4 (10.53%) Unit Testing
6 4 (10.53%) ITIL
7 3 (7.895%) Data Transformation
7 3 (7.895%) OOP
7 3 (7.895%) OO
7 3 (7.895%) Content Management
7 3 (7.895%) Agile Software Development
8 2 (5.263%) Continuous Improvement
9 1 (2.632%) Test Strategy
9 1 (2.632%) High Availability
9 1 (2.632%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 31 (81.58%) SQL
2 19 (50.00%) T-SQL
3 4 (10.53%) C#
4 3 (7.895%) Java
5 1 (2.632%) Assembly Language
5 1 (2.632%) VBScript
5 1 (2.632%) Python
5 1 (2.632%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (5.263%) Degree
1 2 (5.263%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.632%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.632%) MCDBA
2 1 (2.632%) MCT
2 1 (2.632%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.79%) QA
2 3 (7.895%) HL7
System Software
1 3 (7.895%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (5.263%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (7.895%) Data Guard
1 3 (7.895%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (5.263%) NetBackup
3 1 (2.632%) Tivoli
3 1 (2.632%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.53%) Brocade
2 4 (10.53%) Oracle
3 3 (7.895%) Sybase
3 3 (7.895%) Sage
4 1 (2.632%) Dell
4 1 (2.632%) EMC
4 1 (2.632%) NetApp
4 1 (2.632%) Cisco
4 1 (2.632%) IBM
4 1 (2.632%) Sun
4 1 (2.632%) Teradata
4 1 (2.632%) ESRI
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