Slough Clustering Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Clustering skills within the Slough region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Clustering over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chorley City of London County Antrim County Londonderry Cumbria Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Penrith Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Renfrewshire Rotherham Scotland Slough Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southall Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	31	36
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	1	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	2.381 %	6.452 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£450
Average daily rate	-	£550
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£650
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£379
% change on same period last year	-7.78 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.00	-
Average hourly rate	£33.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.47	£34.75
% change on same period last year	-6.56 %
Miscellaneous Slough
Matching contract IT job ads	42	31
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.059 %	0.031 %
Daily rates quoted	9	4
Average minimum daily rate	£296	£316
Average daily rate	£307	£366
% change on same period last year	-16.04 %
Average maximum daily rate	£318	£416
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£344
% change on same period last year	+1.42 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.36	£20.46
Average hourly rate	£14.17	£22.69
% change on same period last year	-37.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.97	£24.92
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.09	£26.20
% change on same period last year	-4.24 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Clustering across the Slough region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Clustering across the Slough region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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 1 (33.33 %) JavaScript 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL 1 1 (33.33 %) J2EE 1 1 (33.33 %) WebLogic 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 1 1 (33.33 %) Lotus Notes 1 1 (33.33 %) JMS 1 1 (33.33 %) N-Tier 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (33.33 %) GPRS 1 1 (33.33 %) HTTPS 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 1 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 1 1 (33.33 %) BEA 1 1 (33.33 %) Lotus

1 1 (33.33 %) 3G 1 1 (33.33 %) Wi-Fi 1 1 (33.33 %) Wireless 1 1 (33.33 %) Migration 1 1 (33.33 %) VMware 1 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 1 1 (33.33 %) Network Load Balancing 1 1 (33.33 %) VMware Infrastructure

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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 1 (33.33 %) J2EE 1 1 (33.33 %) JMS	Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) WebLogic 1 1 (33.33 %) Lotus Notes 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003
Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) GPRS 1 1 (33.33 %) HTTPS 1 1 (33.33 %) 3G 1 1 (33.33 %) Wi-Fi 1 1 (33.33 %) Wireless	Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Architect 1 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Technical Architect 1 1 (33.33 %) Server Support 1 1 (33.33 %) Support Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Administrator 1 1 (33.33 %) Server Support Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Applications Architect 1 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Administrator 1 1 (33.33 %) Server Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) N-Tier	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Migration 1 1 (33.33 %) Network Load Balancing	Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) JavaScript 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL
System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 1 1 (33.33 %) VMware Infrastructure	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 1 1 (33.33 %) BEA 1 1 (33.33 %) Lotus 1 1 (33.33 %) VMware