The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in IT contracts advertised for the Reading 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 Reading 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 62 76 50
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -26
Contract jobs citing Clustering 8 8 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.958% 0.717% 3.359%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.103% 4.301% 16.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 12
Average daily rate £340 £175 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+94.28% -50.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £175 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £259 £390
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
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
195 186 216
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 23.35% 16.68% 20.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 76 97
Average daily rate £375 £350 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +2.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £214 £235 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £515 £484 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 14 7
Average hourly rate £17.50 £15.79 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.84% +8.87%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £13.53 £11.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.50 £50.00 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Clustering
Berkshire

Clustering
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Clustering Hourly Rate Trend

Clustering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 16 (80.00%) SQL
1 16 (80.00%) Windows
2 13 (65.00%) SAN
3 12 (60.00%) VMware
3 12 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 11 (55.00%) TCP/IP
5 10 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 10 (50.00%) SQL Server
5 10 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (45.00%) IIS
6 9 (45.00%) IBM
6 9 (45.00%) Active Directory
6 9 (45.00%) HP
7 8 (40.00%) DNS
7 8 (40.00%) LAN
8 7 (35.00%) Web Services
8 7 (35.00%) ITIL
8 7 (35.00%) Oracle
8 7 (35.00%) .NET
8 7 (35.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (30.00%) Finance
9 6 (30.00%) IBM HTTP Server
9 6 (30.00%) HP SIM
9 6 (30.00%) Apache
9 6 (30.00%) Tomcat
9 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
9 6 (30.00%) HTTP
9 6 (30.00%) SLA
9 6 (30.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 5 (25.00%) UNIX

Clustering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 7 (35.00%) Web Services
1 7 (35.00%) .NET
2 5 (25.00%) J2EE
3 4 (20.00%) WebSphere
4 1 (5.000%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 9 (45.00%) IIS
2 6 (30.00%) IBM HTTP Server
2 6 (30.00%) Apache
2 6 (30.00%) Tomcat
2 6 (30.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 4 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
3 4 (20.00%) WebLogic
4 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
4 2 (10.00%) MS Exchange
4 2 (10.00%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (5.000%) FileNet
5 1 (5.000%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (5.000%) Lotus Notes
5 1 (5.000%) Lotus Domino
Applications
1 5 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (10.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 13 (65.00%) SAN
2 11 (55.00%) TCP/IP
3 8 (40.00%) DNS
3 8 (40.00%) LAN
4 6 (30.00%) HTTP
5 4 (20.00%) DHCP
6 3 (15.00%) NAS
6 3 (15.00%) Fibre Channel
6 3 (15.00%) LDAP
7 2 (10.00%) SSL
7 2 (10.00%) VPN
7 2 (10.00%) WAN
7 2 (10.00%) Firewall
8 1 (5.000%) Ethernet
8 1 (5.000%) ADSL
8 1 (5.000%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle 10g
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle 8/8i
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (5.000%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
General
1 6 (30.00%) Finance
2 4 (20.00%) Retail
3 3 (15.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.000%) Electronics
4 1 (5.000%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (15.00%) Support Engineer
1 3 (15.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 3 (15.00%) Storage Engineer
1 3 (15.00%) WebSphere Consultant
1 3 (15.00%) Analyst
1 3 (15.00%) Consultant
1 3 (15.00%) DBA
2 2 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle DBA
2 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (5.000%) Applications Support
3 1 (5.000%) Senior Support Analyst
3 1 (5.000%) SQL DBA
3 1 (5.000%) Server Engineer
3 1 (5.000%) Server Support Engineer
3 1 (5.000%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (5.000%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (5.000%) 3rd Line Server Support
3 1 (5.000%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) LPAR
1 3 (15.00%) DLPAR
1 3 (15.00%) HACMP
2 2 (10.00%) CLARiiON
3 1 (5.000%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.000%) Replication
3 1 (5.000%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 16 (80.00%) Windows
2 12 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 10 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (25.00%) UNIX
5 4 (20.00%) Windows XP
5 4 (20.00%) Windows 7
6 3 (15.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (15.00%) AIX
6 3 (15.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) ITIL
1 7 (35.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (20.00%) Problem Management
2 4 (20.00%) Content Management
2 4 (20.00%) Workflow
3 3 (15.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (10.00%) Capacity Management
4 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (10.00%) Incident Management
5 1 (5.000%) ITSM
5 1 (5.000%) PLM
5 1 (5.000%) Performance Management
5 1 (5.000%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 16 (80.00%) SQL
2 2 (10.00%) PL/SQL
2 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.000%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (10.00%) OCP
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle Certification
1 2 (10.00%) MCSE
2 1 (5.000%) MCDBA
2 1 (5.000%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) SLA
2 1 (5.000%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (45.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (15.00%) NLBS
5 2 (10.00%) vSphere
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (10.00%) VMware ESX
6 1 (5.000%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) HP SIM
2 4 (20.00%) Foglight
3 3 (15.00%) Tivoli
3 3 (15.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 2 (10.00%) MOM
4 2 (10.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 12 (60.00%) VMware
2 9 (45.00%) IBM
2 9 (45.00%) HP
3 7 (35.00%) Oracle
4 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
5 4 (20.00%) JBoss
6 3 (15.00%) Red Hat
6 3 (15.00%) EMC
7 2 (10.00%) Citrix
7 2 (10.00%) Dell
7 2 (10.00%) Lotus
7 2 (10.00%) Clearswift
7 2 (10.00%) SolarWinds
8 1 (5.000%) ReadSoft