The first table below looks at the demand for DFS Replication skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DFS 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 of the System Software category.

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
Microsoft DFS Replication (DFSR)
Rank 522 573 566
Rank change year-on-year
+51 -7
Contract jobs citing DFS Replication 12 13 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.025% 0.022% 0.033%
As % of the System Software category 0.271% 0.278% 0.458%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 13
Average daily rate £388 £338 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.81% +3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £249 £254 £303
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £360 £338
UK excluding London average daily rate £270 £344 £325
% change year-on-year
-21.45% +5.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £22.50 £26.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.09% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 - -
All System Software
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
4421 4683 4368
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 9.381% 7.900% 7.257%
Number of daily rates quoted 2133 2251 1924
Average daily rate £350 £340 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 609 632 645
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -5.40%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.18 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £35.50 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%

DFS Replication
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

DFS Replication Daily Rate Trend

DFS Replication
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DFS Replication within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

DFS Replication Daily Rate Histogram

DFS Replication
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing DFS Replication within the UK.

DFS Replication Hourly Rate Trend

DFS Replication
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DFS Replication within the UK 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
England +55 12 £388 +14.81%
London +36 7 £450 +143.24%
City of London - 5 £450 -
West Midlands - 2 £270 -
South East - 1 - -
North West - 1 - -
Merseyside - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
West Yorkshire - 1 - -
Shropshire - 1 - -
Berkshire - 1 - -
Telford - 1 - -
Reading - 1 - -

DFS Replication
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 23 (92.00%) Active Directory
2 20 (80.00%) Windows
3 17 (68.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 14 (56.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 13 (52.00%) MS Exchange
6 12 (48.00%) DNS
6 12 (48.00%) VMware
7 11 (44.00%) HP
7 11 (44.00%) SAN
8 10 (40.00%) Microsoft
8 10 (40.00%) DHCP
8 10 (40.00%) PowerShell
9 9 (36.00%) Hyper-V
10 8 (32.00%) VMware Infrastructure
10 8 (32.00%) SCCM
10 8 (32.00%) vSphere
10 8 (32.00%) ITIL
10 8 (32.00%) Firewall
11 7 (28.00%) Citrix
11 7 (28.00%) SCOM
12 6 (24.00%) SQL Server
12 6 (24.00%) IIS
12 6 (24.00%) Service Delivery
13 5 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
13 5 (20.00%) Clustering
13 5 (20.00%) Norton AntiVirus
13 5 (20.00%) Symantec
13 5 (20.00%) MS Excel
14 4 (16.00%) Juniper
14 4 (16.00%) Service Management

DFS Replication
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 13 (52.00%) MS Exchange
2 6 (24.00%) IIS
3 4 (16.00%) Exchange Server 2003
4 3 (12.00%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (8.000%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (4.000%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 5 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 12 (48.00%) DNS
2 11 (44.00%) SAN
3 10 (40.00%) DHCP
4 8 (32.00%) Firewall
5 3 (12.00%) TCP/IP
6 2 (8.000%) VPN
6 2 (8.000%) SMTP
6 2 (8.000%) SSL
6 2 (8.000%) WLAN
6 2 (8.000%) VLAN
6 2 (8.000%) Network Security
6 2 (8.000%) NAS
7 1 (4.000%) Wireshark
7 1 (4.000%) EIGRP
7 1 (4.000%) MGCP
7 1 (4.000%) BGP
7 1 (4.000%) WAN
7 1 (4.000%) POP3
7 1 (4.000%) ISDN
7 1 (4.000%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.000%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 3 (12.00%) Finance
1 3 (12.00%) Law
1 3 (12.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (8.000%) Banking
3 1 (4.000%) Marketing
3 1 (4.000%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) Analyst
2 4 (16.00%) Systems Administrator
2 4 (16.00%) Administrator
2 4 (16.00%) Support Analyst
2 4 (16.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
2 4 (16.00%) Windows Administrator
2 4 (16.00%) Senior Windows Administrator
2 4 (16.00%) Windows Systems Administrator
3 3 (12.00%) Server Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Server Support Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Server Support
3 3 (12.00%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (8.000%) Systems Analyst
4 2 (8.000%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (8.000%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (8.000%) Operations Analyst
4 2 (8.000%) Wintel Engineer
4 2 (8.000%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
5 1 (4.000%) 3rd Line Server Support
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Clustering
2 4 (16.00%) Replication
3 2 (8.000%) Blackberry
3 2 (8.000%) SecurID
3 2 (8.000%) PKI
4 1 (4.000%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 20 (80.00%) Windows
2 17 (68.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 14 (56.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (8.000%) Windows 2000
5 1 (4.000%) Windows 7
5 1 (4.000%) Windows 2000 Server
5 1 (4.000%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) ITIL
2 6 (24.00%) Service Delivery
3 5 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (16.00%) Service Management
5 2 (8.000%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (4.000%) Build Automation
6 1 (4.000%) Memory Management
6 1 (4.000%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (12.00%) VBScript
2 3 (12.00%) SQL
3 2 (8.000%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.000%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.000%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (8.000%) MCSE
3 1 (4.000%) MCP
System Software
1 23 (92.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (36.00%) Hyper-V
3 8 (32.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (32.00%) vSphere
4 3 (12.00%) Terminal Server
4 3 (12.00%) Terminal Services
5 1 (4.000%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 8 (32.00%) SCCM
2 7 (28.00%) SCOM
3 5 (20.00%) Norton AntiVirus
4 4 (16.00%) HP Data Protector
4 4 (16.00%) WSUS
5 2 (8.000%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 2 (8.000%) WMI
6 1 (4.000%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (4.000%) MIIS
Vendors
1 12 (48.00%) VMware
2 11 (44.00%) HP
3 10 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 7 (28.00%) Citrix
5 5 (20.00%) Symantec
6 4 (16.00%) Juniper
6 4 (16.00%) Veeam
7 2 (8.000%) Cisco
7 2 (8.000%) CheckPoint
7 2 (8.000%) NetApp
7 2 (8.000%) McAfee
7 2 (8.000%) SolarWinds
8 1 (4.000%) Clearswift
8 1 (4.000%) Dell
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