Thames Valley Clustering Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Clustering skills within the Thames Valley region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Clustering over the 3 months to 8 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chorley City of London County Antrim County Londonderry Cumbria Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Penrith Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Renfrewshire Rotherham Scotland Shropshire Slough Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	39	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	1.667 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.34 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.71	£35.08
% change on same period last year	-3.88 %
Miscellaneous Thames Valley
Matching contract IT job ads	60	71
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.081 %	0.070 %
Daily rates quoted	5	2
Average minimum daily rate	£258	£300
Average daily rate	£286	£313
% change on same period last year	-8.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£313	£325
UK excluding London average daily rate	£351	£350
% change on same period last year	+0.22 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£37.08	£31.28
Average hourly rate	£39.79	£35.00
% change on same period last year	+13.69 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£42.50	£38.72
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.10	£28.12
% change on same period last year	-10.72 %
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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 Clustering across the Thames Valley region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

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Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Thames Valley 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 (100.00 %) DB2 1 1 (100.00 %) UNIX 1 1 (100.00 %) AIX 1 1 (100.00 %) Tivoli 1 1 (100.00 %) CONTROL-M 1 1 (100.00 %) Load Testing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Thames Valley 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.

Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (100.00 %) DB2	Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Analyst 1 1 (100.00 %) Test Analyst
Operating Systems 1 1 (100.00 %) UNIX 1 1 (100.00 %) AIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (100.00 %) Load Testing
Systems Management 1 1 (100.00 %) Tivoli 1 1 (100.00 %) CONTROL-M