South East Replication Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Replication skills within the South East region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Replication over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentford Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chorley City of London Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Hartlepool Hertfordshire Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Oxfordshire Paddington Poole Portsmouth Reading Redhill Scotland Sheffield Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southall Southampton Stratford-upon-Avon Surrey Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	175	200
Rank change on same period last year	+25
Matching contract IT job ads	75	92
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.107 %	0.095 %
As % of the category below	4.409 %	3.832 %
Daily rates quoted	21	34
Average minimum daily rate	£299	£410
Average daily rate	£314	£427
% change on same period last year	-26.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£329	£444
UK excluding London average daily rate	£334	£377
% change on same period last year	-11.29 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	£18.00
Average hourly rate	£41.88	£20.25
% change on same period last year	+106.79 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£43.75	£22.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.60	£23.86
% change on same period last year	+53.40 %
Miscellaneous South East
Matching contract IT job ads	1701	2401
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.424 %	2.483 %
Daily rates quoted	431	504
Average minimum daily rate	£330	£314
Average daily rate	£352	£337
% change on same period last year	+4.36 %
Average maximum daily rate	£374	£360
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£341
% change on same period last year	+2.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	278	403
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.57	£27.29
Average hourly rate	£25.10	£28.92
% change on same period last year	-13.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.63	£30.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.03	£26.04
% change on same period last year	-3.88 %
Replication England

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 Replication across the South East 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 Replication across the South East region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Replication across the South East region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Replication across the South East region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Replication within the South East region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Berkshire	+52	37	£326	-21.64 %
Buckinghamshire	+23	12	£299	-21.88 %
Surrey	-5	8	£318	-28.94 %
Hampshire	+6	5	£305	-20.75 %
Middlesex	-	5	-	-
Oxfordshire	-5	4	-	-
Thames Valley	-	3	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 40 (31.50 %) Clustering 2 36 (28.35 %) Load Balancing 2 36 (28.35 %) Security Cleared 2 36 (28.35 %) SQL 3 33 (25.98 %) Windows 4 30 (23.62 %) SC Cleared 5 26 (20.47 %) Microsoft 6 25 (19.69 %) SQL Server 6 25 (19.69 %) UNIX 7 24 (18.90 %) IIS 8 20 (15.75 %) DNS 9 19 (14.96 %) Oracle 9 19 (14.96 %) Disaster Recovery 10 18 (14.17 %) Government 10 18 (14.17 %) MySQL

10 18 (14.17 %) Linux 10 18 (14.17 %) Active Directory 11 17 (13.39 %) AIX 12 16 (12.60 %) Solaris 12 16 (12.60 %) SQL Server 2005 13 15 (11.81 %) .NET 14 14 (11.02 %) Firewall 14 14 (11.02 %) Migration 15 12 (9.449 %) PHP 15 12 (9.449 %) N-Tier 16 11 (8.661 %) BizTalk Server 16 11 (8.661 %) Windows Server 2003 16 11 (8.661 %) Apache 16 11 (8.661 %) LAMP 16 11 (8.661 %) Debian

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 Development 1 15 (11.81 %) .NET 2 11 (8.661 %) LAMP 3 9 (7.087 %) HTML 4 8 (6.299 %) XML 4 8 (6.299 %) WCF 5 7 (5.512 %) WebServices 5 7 (5.512 %) ASP 5 7 (5.512 %) ASP.NET 5 7 (5.512 %) WebSphere 5 7 (5.512 %) .NET Framework 6 6 (4.724 %) AJAX 7 5 (3.937 %) Windows SharePoint Services 7 5 (3.937 %) J2EE 7 5 (3.937 %) Oracle Streams 7 5 (3.937 %) Drupal 8 4 (3.150 %) SOAP 8 4 (3.150 %) UDDI 9 3 (2.362 %) ODBC 10 1 (0.787 %) CGI 10 1 (0.787 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 24 (18.90 %) IIS 2 11 (8.661 %) Apache 2 11 (8.661 %) BizTalk Server 3 7 (5.512 %) ESB 3 7 (5.512 %) SharePoint 4 6 (4.724 %) SharePoint Portal Server 5 5 (3.937 %) WebSphere Application Server 5 5 (3.937 %) WebLogic 5 5 (3.937 %) Content Management Server 5 5 (3.937 %) CMS 6 4 (3.150 %) Oracle Application Server 6 4 (3.150 %) WebLogic Portal 7 2 (1.575 %) Lotus Notes 7 2 (1.575 %) Lotus Domino 8 1 (0.787 %) MS Exchange 8 1 (0.787 %) CICS 8 1 (0.787 %) SharePoint Server 2007 8 1 (0.787 %) Live Communications Server 8 1 (0.787 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 6 (4.724 %) MS Excel 2 4 (3.150 %) MS PowerPoint 3 3 (2.362 %) MS Project 4 1 (0.787 %) MS Office 4 1 (0.787 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 1 (0.787 %) SAP FI 1 1 (0.787 %) Oracle EBS 1 1 (0.787 %) Oracle Applications 1 1 (0.787 %) SAP CRM 1 1 (0.787 %) SAP FI/CO 1 1 (0.787 %) SAP CO
Communications & Networking 1 20 (15.75 %) DNS 2 14 (11.02 %) Firewall 3 8 (6.299 %) SAN 4 6 (4.724 %) DMZ 4 6 (4.724 %) HTTP 4 6 (4.724 %) TCP/IP 5 2 (1.575 %) DHCP 5 2 (1.575 %) CTI 5 2 (1.575 %) Intranet 5 2 (1.575 %) Internet 6 1 (0.787 %) 3G 6 1 (0.787 %) SMS 6 1 (0.787 %) SNA 6 1 (0.787 %) 2G 6 1 (0.787 %) VLAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 25 (19.69 %) SQL Server 2 18 (14.17 %) MySQL 3 16 (12.60 %) SQL Server 2005 4 9 (7.087 %) Oracle 9i 4 9 (7.087 %) DTS 5 8 (6.299 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 7 (5.512 %) DB2 7 6 (4.724 %) SQL Server 2000 7 6 (4.724 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 6 (4.724 %) Oracle 10g 8 5 (3.937 %) Crystal Reports 8 5 (3.937 %) Oracle 11g 9 3 (2.362 %) BusinessObjects 10 1 (0.787 %) SQL Server 7 10 1 (0.787 %) SQLPlus 10 1 (0.787 %) PostgreSQL 10 1 (0.787 %) SQL Server Integration Services 10 1 (0.787 %) Oracle Reports 10 1 (0.787 %) Oracle Discoverer 10 1 (0.787 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 7 (5.512 %) TestDirector 2 5 (3.937 %) Visual Studio 3 1 (0.787 %) ProC 3 1 (0.787 %) Oracle Designer 10g	General 1 18 (14.17 %) Government 2 9 (7.087 %) Finance 3 4 (3.150 %) Telecoms 3 4 (3.150 %) Marketing 3 4 (3.150 %) Auditing 4 2 (1.575 %) Military 4 2 (1.575 %) Retail 4 2 (1.575 %) Billing
Job Titles 1 23 (18.11 %) DBA 2 18 (14.17 %) Developer 3 13 (10.24 %) SQL DBA 4 12 (9.449 %) Active Directory Specialist 4 12 (9.449 %) Consultant 4 12 (9.449 %) Administrator 5 11 (8.661 %) PHP Developer 5 11 (8.661 %) LAMP Developer 6 10 (7.874 %) Analyst 7 9 (7.087 %) SQL Server DBA 7 9 (7.087 %) Oracle DBA 8 6 (4.724 %) Tester 8 6 (4.724 %) Systems Administrator 8 6 (4.724 %) Support Analyst 8 6 (4.724 %) Technical Designer 9 5 (3.937 %) SQL Developer 9 5 (3.937 %) Infrastructure Designer 9 5 (3.937 %) Architect 10 4 (3.150 %) Analyst Programmer 10 4 (3.150 %) Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 40 (31.50 %) Clustering 2 12 (9.449 %) N-Tier 3 4 (3.150 %) Client/Server 3 4 (3.150 %) HACMP 4 2 (1.575 %) EMC Centera 5 1 (0.787 %) Firmware 5 1 (0.787 %) Mainframe 5 1 (0.787 %) Management Information System 5 1 (0.787 %) CLARiiON 5 1 (0.787 %) Celerra
Operating Systems 1 33 (25.98 %) Windows 2 25 (19.69 %) UNIX 3 18 (14.17 %) Linux 4 17 (13.39 %) AIX 5 16 (12.60 %) Solaris 6 11 (8.661 %) Windows Server 2003 6 11 (8.661 %) Debian 7 8 (6.299 %) HPUX 8 5 (3.937 %) Red Hat Linux 8 5 (3.937 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 4 (3.150 %) Windows Vista 10 1 (0.787 %) Windows Mobile 10 1 (0.787 %) Windows 2000 10 1 (0.787 %) zOS	Processes & Methodologies 1 36 (28.35 %) Load Balancing 1 36 (28.35 %) Security Cleared 2 30 (23.62 %) SC Cleared 3 19 (14.96 %) Disaster Recovery 4 14 (11.02 %) Migration 5 10 (7.874 %) B2B 6 8 (6.299 %) SOA 6 8 (6.299 %) Technical Architecture 7 7 (5.512 %) Web Development 8 6 (4.724 %) Operations Management 8 6 (4.724 %) Business Intelligence 9 5 (3.937 %) UML 9 5 (3.937 %) RUP 9 5 (3.937 %) Validation 10 4 (3.150 %) Business Development 11 3 (2.362 %) Project Planning 11 3 (2.362 %) Data Migration 11 3 (2.362 %) Service Management 12 2 (1.575 %) Project Management 12 2 (1.575 %) Test Scripting
Programming Languages 1 36 (28.35 %) SQL 2 12 (9.449 %) PHP 3 7 (5.512 %) C# 3 7 (5.512 %) Transact-SQL 3 7 (5.512 %) VB 3 7 (5.512 %) VB6 4 3 (2.362 %) C 5 2 (1.575 %) PL/SQL 5 2 (1.575 %) Shell Script 6 1 (0.787 %) VB.NET 6 1 (0.787 %) REXX 6 1 (0.787 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 4 (3.150 %) MCSE 1 4 (3.150 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (1.575 %) MCSA 2 2 (1.575 %) Degree 3 1 (0.787 %) MCP 3 1 (0.787 %) ISEB 3 1 (0.787 %) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (2.362 %) ISO8583 2 2 (1.575 %) QA 3 1 (0.787 %) JSP 440	System Software 1 18 (14.17 %) Active Directory 2 7 (5.512 %) MSMQ 2 7 (5.512 %) Oracle RAC 3 6 (4.724 %) ISA Server 4 4 (3.150 %) Oracle RMAN 5 2 (1.575 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 2 (1.575 %) Terminal Services 6 1 (0.787 %) RACF 6 1 (0.787 %) NetBackup
Systems Management 1 7 (5.512 %) CONTROL-M 2 6 (4.724 %) OVOW 2 6 (4.724 %) OVPI 3 4 (3.150 %) Tivoli 4 2 (1.575 %) CA SiteMinder 4 2 (1.575 %) EMC NetWorker 5 1 (0.787 %) MOM 5 1 (0.787 %) DiskXtender 5 1 (0.787 %) OMEGAMON	Vendors 1 26 (20.47 %) Microsoft 2 19 (14.96 %) Oracle 3 9 (7.087 %) HP 4 7 (5.512 %) IBM 5 5 (3.937 %) Sun 6 4 (3.150 %) EMC 6 4 (3.150 %) VMware 7 3 (2.362 %) Business Objects 7 3 (2.362 %) SAP 8 2 (1.575 %) Dell 8 2 (1.575 %) CA 8 2 (1.575 %) Lotus 8 2 (1.575 %) Altiris 8 2 (1.575 %) MicroStrategy 9 1 (0.787 %) NetApp 9 1 (0.787 %) Red Hat 9 1 (0.787 %) Symantec 9 1 (0.787 %) McAfee Security 9 1 (0.787 %) Websense 9 1 (0.787 %) Hitachi