The first table below looks at the demand for DFS Replication skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DFS Replication over the 3 months to 17 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 of the System Software category for the Surrey 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft DFS Replication (DFSR)
Rank - - 100
Contract jobs citing DFS Replication 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey - - 0.053%
As % of the System Software category - - 0.565%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £270 £338 £300
% change year-on-year
-20.00% +12.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 - -
All System Software
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
134 124 177
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 11.76% 7.533% 9.440%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 59 69
Average daily rate £305 £375 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.66% +20.96%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £130 £140 £247
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £510 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 20 15
Average hourly rate £15.00 £12.50 £16.17
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -22.67%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.85 £10.50 £11.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £17.50 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
DFS Replication
South East

DFS Replication
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey DFS Replication Jobs Demand Trend

DFS Replication
Daily Rate Trend

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

Surrey DFS Replication Daily Rate Trend

DFS Replication
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region citing DFS 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 DFS Replication.

1 4 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) Clustering
1 4 (100.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (50.00%) DHCP
3 2 (50.00%) DNS
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (25.00%) Back Office

DFS Replication
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region citing DFS 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 DFS Replication. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DHCP
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (25.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Analyst
1 4 (100.00%) Support Analyst
2 3 (75.00%) Server Support
2 3 (75.00%) Server Support Analyst
2 3 (75.00%) Server Analyst
3 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
3 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Server Support
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft