Clustering Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Clustering over the 3 months to 23 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 Scotland 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Clustering
Rank 92 77 88
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +11
Contract jobs citing Clustering 28 31 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 1.147% 1.175% 0.995%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.605% 6.982% 6.931%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 14 12
Average daily rate £358 £325 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% +18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £301 £264 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £411 £320
UK excluding London average daily rate £354 £400 £298
% change year-on-year
-11.56% +34.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Average hourly rate - £26.00 £175.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -85.14%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £25.00 £31.25
% change year-on-year
+8.00% -20.00%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 608 444 404
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 24.91% 16.82% 14.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 188 177
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £197 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £522
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 35 19
Average hourly rate £15.77 £26.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-39.34% -13.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £11.40 £13.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.00 £34.50 £161.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
Clustering
UK

Clustering
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Clustering Hourly Rate Trend

Clustering
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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 23 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
Renfrewshire +5 13 £371 -11.60%
Glasgow -27 7 £354 -9.29%
Edinburgh +1 4 - -
West Lothian -1 2 £350 +9.37%
Clustering
UK

Clustering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 36 (76.60%) Windows
2 28 (59.57%) Windows Server 2003
3 24 (51.06%) Windows Server 2008
4 22 (46.81%) Security Cleared
5 19 (40.43%) Veritas
6 17 (36.17%) Microsoft
6 17 (36.17%) SQL
7 16 (34.04%) DNS
8 14 (29.79%) Citrix
8 14 (29.79%) SC Cleared
9 13 (27.66%) SAN
9 13 (27.66%) DHCP
10 12 (25.53%) SQL Server
10 12 (25.53%) VMware
11 11 (23.40%) AIX
11 11 (23.40%) Linux
11 11 (23.40%) Netcool
12 10 (21.28%) TCP/IP
12 10 (21.28%) Windows XP
13 9 (19.15%) VMware ESX
14 8 (17.02%) Test Automation
15 7 (14.89%) XenApp
15 7 (14.89%) SLA
16 6 (12.77%) EMC
16 6 (12.77%) Configuration Management
16 6 (12.77%) OpenView Configuration Management
16 6 (12.77%) SQL Server 2000
16 6 (12.77%) Tivoli
16 6 (12.77%) Solaris
16 6 (12.77%) IIS

Clustering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 5 (10.64%) Spring
1 5 (10.64%) Web Services
1 5 (10.64%) XML
2 4 (8.511%) Hibernate
3 1 (2.128%) jQuery
3 1 (2.128%) Java EE
3 1 (2.128%) JSON
3 1 (2.128%) Ajax
3 1 (2.128%) JDBC
3 1 (2.128%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 6 (12.77%) IIS
2 5 (10.64%) Tomcat
3 4 (8.511%) Lotus Notes
3 4 (8.511%) WebLogic
4 3 (6.383%) Mule
4 3 (6.383%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (6.383%) Exchange Server 2003
4 3 (6.383%) Exchange Server 2007
4 3 (6.383%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (4.255%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.128%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 16 (34.04%) DNS
2 13 (27.66%) SAN
2 13 (27.66%) DHCP
3 10 (21.28%) TCP/IP
4 6 (12.77%) NAS
5 2 (4.255%) SMS
6 1 (2.128%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (2.128%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (25.53%) SQL Server
2 6 (12.77%) SQL Server 2000
2 6 (12.77%) SQL Server 2005
2 6 (12.77%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (8.511%) Essbase
4 3 (6.383%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (6.383%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (6.383%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.255%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (2.128%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (10.64%) Eclipse
1 5 (10.64%) WinRunner
1 5 (10.64%) TestDirector
1 5 (10.64%) QuickTest Pro
2 4 (8.511%) Maven
2 4 (8.511%) Subversion
2 4 (8.511%) JIRA
3 3 (6.383%) Cucumber
3 3 (6.383%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.383%) Selenium
General
1 6 (12.77%) Finance
2 2 (4.255%) Banking
3 1 (2.128%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.128%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (14.89%) Developer
1 7 (14.89%) Analyst
2 5 (10.64%) Technical Specialist
2 5 (10.64%) Technical Analyst
3 4 (8.511%) Test Engineer
3 4 (8.511%) Java Developer
4 3 (6.383%) SQL Developer
4 3 (6.383%) DBA
5 2 (4.255%) Architect
5 2 (4.255%) Server Support
5 2 (4.255%) Support Analyst
5 2 (4.255%) SQL Server DBA
5 2 (4.255%) SQL DBA
6 1 (2.128%) VMware Specialist
6 1 (2.128%) Wintel Analyst
6 1 (2.128%) Infrastructure Delivery Manager
6 1 (2.128%) Systems Architect
6 1 (2.128%) Server Engineer
6 1 (2.128%) Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (2.128%) Technical Tester
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (8.511%) N-Tier
2 4 (8.511%) PDA
3 3 (6.383%) Replication
4 2 (4.255%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.128%) iSeries
5 1 (2.128%) Open Source
5 1 (2.128%) SaaS
5 1 (2.128%) Fat Client
5 1 (2.128%) Mathematics
5 1 (2.128%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.128%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 36 (76.60%) Windows
2 28 (59.57%) Windows Server 2003
3 24 (51.06%) Windows Server 2008
4 11 (23.40%) AIX
4 11 (23.40%) Linux
5 10 (21.28%) Windows XP
6 6 (12.77%) Solaris
7 5 (10.64%) UNIX
8 2 (4.255%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (17.02%) Test Automation
2 6 (12.77%) Configuration Management
2 6 (12.77%) Change Management
2 6 (12.77%) Network Load Balancing
2 6 (12.77%) Software Distribution
2 6 (12.77%) Performance Management
3 5 (10.64%) Multithreading
3 5 (10.64%) Load Balancing
3 5 (10.64%) Workflow
4 4 (8.511%) Project Management
4 4 (8.511%) Data Modelling
4 4 (8.511%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (8.511%) Product Management
4 4 (8.511%) High Availability
4 4 (8.511%) Unit Testing
4 4 (8.511%) Test Scripting
5 3 (6.383%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (6.383%) Scrum
5 3 (6.383%) Extreme Programming
5 3 (6.383%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 17 (36.17%) SQL
2 6 (12.77%) Java
3 4 (8.511%) C
4 1 (2.128%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 22 (46.81%) Security Cleared
2 14 (29.79%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.64%) MCTS
4 1 (2.128%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.128%) MCSE
4 1 (2.128%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.89%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (19.15%) VMware ESX
2 7 (14.89%) XenApp
3 6 (12.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (10.64%) Active Directory
5 3 (6.383%) Hyper-V
5 3 (6.383%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (6.383%) Terminal Services
6 2 (4.255%) ISA Server
6 2 (4.255%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 1 (2.128%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (2.128%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 11 (23.40%) Netcool
2 6 (12.77%) OpenView Configuration Management
2 6 (12.77%) Tivoli
2 6 (12.77%) SCCM
3 5 (10.64%) McAfee ePO
3 5 (10.64%) HP Quality Center
4 4 (8.511%) MOM
5 3 (6.383%) SCOM
5 3 (6.383%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 1 (2.128%) Backup Exec
6 1 (2.128%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 19 (40.43%) Veritas
2 17 (36.17%) Microsoft
3 14 (29.79%) Citrix
4 12 (25.53%) VMware
5 6 (12.77%) EMC
6 5 (10.64%) McAfee
6 5 (10.64%) HP
7 4 (8.511%) Lotus
7 4 (8.511%) Oracle
7 4 (8.511%) Sybase
8 3 (6.383%) Brocade
8 3 (6.383%) Sophos
9 2 (4.255%) Hyperion
9 2 (4.255%) Informatica
10 1 (2.128%) JBoss
10 1 (2.128%) Symantec
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