The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford 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 Oxford 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 - 35 -
Contract jobs citing Clustering 0 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford - 1.205% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category - 7.273% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Average daily rate - £400 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £358 £400 £290
% change year-on-year
-10.62% +37.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
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
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
38 55 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 16.24% 16.57% 19.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 35 7
Average daily rate £375 £325 £190
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% +71.05%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £266 £223 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £570 £475 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 4
Average hourly rate £10.33 £30.00 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-65.58% +114.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Clustering
Oxfordshire

Clustering
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford Clustering Daily Rate Trend

Clustering
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Oxford Clustering Hourly Rate Trend

Clustering
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Solaris
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) NFS
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) Veritas
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) Six Sigma
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) Bash shell
1 2 (100.00%) MarkLogic
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Korn
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Lean Six Sigma
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) C-shell
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) SMTP

Clustering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MarkLogic
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Solaris
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Six Sigma
2 1 (50.00%) Lean Six Sigma
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) Bash shell
2 1 (50.00%) Korn
2 1 (50.00%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) NFS
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Veritas
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) HP