The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset 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 Somerset 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 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Clustering 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 0.588% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.041% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £300 - -
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
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
49 24 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 28.82% 14.12% 14.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 11
Average daily rate £301 £295 £270
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.03% +9.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £204 £235 £131
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £425 £324
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 5
Average hourly rate £10.00 £22.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-54.54% +46.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Clustering
South West

Clustering
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset Clustering Daily 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 Somerset region over the 3 months to 24 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
Street - 1 £300 -
Clustering
South West

Clustering
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 (50.00%) MCITP
1 1 (50.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
1 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) NetApp
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
1 1 (50.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (50.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (50.00%) VMware
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESX

Clustering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Server Support Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Server Support
2 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Network Load Balancing
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) MCITP
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESX
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) NetApp
1 1 (50.00%) VMware