The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Replication in IT contracts advertised for the Reading 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Replication
Rank 69 74 60
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -14
Contract jobs citing Replication 4 7 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.467% 0.633% 1.845%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.970% 3.825% 8.756%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 10
Average daily rate £550 £340 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+61.76% -12.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £530 £280 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £570 £435 £550
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
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
203 183 217
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 23.71% 16.56% 21.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 75 101
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 £215 £235 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 6
Average hourly rate £17.50 £15.79 £15.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.84% +3.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £13.53 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.50 £50.00 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-4.34% -13.20%
Replication
Berkshire

Replication
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Replication Daily Rate Trend

Replication
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading Replication Hourly Rate Trend

Replication
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (50.00%) GIS
1 3 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 3 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
1 3 (50.00%) Information Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (33.33%) TOGAF
2 2 (33.33%) Time Management
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (16.67%) MCSE
3 1 (16.67%) LDAP
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) ETL
3 1 (16.67%) Kerberos
3 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (16.67%) MCP
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (16.67%) Mapinfo
3 1 (16.67%) MSDE
3 1 (16.67%) MIIS
3 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) PKI

Replication
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) ArcGIS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) LDAP
1 1 (16.67%) Kerberos
1 1 (16.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) GIS
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) MSDE
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) DBA
2 2 (33.33%) SQL DBA
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Teradata DBA
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) PKI
2 1 (16.67%) Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 2000 Server
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 3 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
1 3 (50.00%) Information Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) TOGAF
2 2 (33.33%) Time Management
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) ETL
3 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Data Management
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) ITSM
3 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) MCSE
1 1 (16.67%) MCP
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) DFS Replication
2 1 (16.67%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) MIIS
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Mapinfo
2 1 (16.67%) ESRI