The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Replication in IT contracts advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Replication 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 Staffordshire 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
Replication
Rank - 36 34
Contract jobs citing Replication 0 1 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire - 0.455% 2.857%
As % of the Miscellaneous category - 3.030% 16.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 5
Average daily rate - £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £29.25 £42.50
% change year-on-year
- -31.17%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Staffordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
24 33 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 27.59% 15.00% 17.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 22 17
Average daily rate £330 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £229 £275 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £367 £457
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
Average hourly rate £15.21 £40.00 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-61.98% +175.86%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.66
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -12.31%
Replication
West Midlands

Replication
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire Replication Jobs Demand Trend

Replication
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Replication across the Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire Replication Daily Rate Trend

Replication
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 7 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (71.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 5 (71.43%) QA
2 5 (71.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 5 (71.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 5 (71.43%) OLTP
2 5 (71.43%) RDBMS
3 3 (42.86%) T-SQL
4 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (28.57%) ETL
4 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (28.57%) VMware
4 2 (28.57%) Resource Management
4 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (14.29%) Clustering

Replication
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (71.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 5 (71.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 5 (71.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 5 (71.43%) OLTP
2 5 (71.43%) RDBMS
3 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) DBA
1 7 (100.00%) Administrator
1 7 (100.00%) SQL DBA
1 7 (100.00%) Teradata DBA
2 4 (57.14%) Server Administrator
2 4 (57.14%) SQL Server DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) ETL
1 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) VMware