The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in IT contracts advertised for the South Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Clustering over the 3 months to 22 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 South Yorkshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Clustering
Rank 30 29 36
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +7
Contract jobs citing Clustering 2 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 0.766% 1.124% 0.347%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.255% 8.108% 1.786%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
Average daily rate £235 £200 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.50% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £295
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +35.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £25.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year
+5.88% -18.40%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
South Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
47 37 56
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 18.01% 13.86% 19.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 18 29
Average daily rate £300 £250 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £188 £175 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £375 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 8
Average hourly rate £170.00 £27.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+529.62% -22.85%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.66
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -12.31%
Clustering
Yorkshire

Clustering
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire Clustering Daily Rate Trend

Clustering
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Clustering across the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

South Yorkshire Clustering Daily Rate Histogram

Clustering
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Sheffield - 2 £235 -
Clustering
Yorkshire

Clustering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 3 (75.00%) SQL
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (50.00%) SCCM
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) SCOM
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 2000 Server
3 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (25.00%) XenApp
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (25.00%) vSphere
3 1 (25.00%) SQL CLR
3 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (25.00%) WSUS
3 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing

Clustering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 (25.00%) WCF
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (25.00%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) SQL CLR
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DBA
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server DBA
1 2 (50.00%) SQL DBA
1 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 2000 Server
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (25.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (25.00%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) VBScript
3 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) XenApp
2 1 (25.00%) vSphere
2 1 (25.00%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (25.00%) SCOM
2 1 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix