The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in IT contracts advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Clustering over the 3 months to 24 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 Wales 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Clustering
Rank - 52 48
Contract jobs citing Clustering 0 2 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales - 0.351% 1.970%
As % of the Miscellaneous category - 1.869% 9.220%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
Average daily rate - - £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £358 £400 £290
% change year-on-year
-10.62% +37.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £25.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year
+8.00% -19.35%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
84 107 141
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 19.72% 18.77% 21.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 39 74
Average daily rate £310 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.42% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £180 £200 £266
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £525 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 9
Average hourly rate £15.00 £14.00 £18.21
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -23.09%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £13.10 £7.96
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £16.10 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Clustering
UK

Clustering
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wales 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 Wales region.

Wales Clustering Daily Rate Trend

Clustering
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Wales Clustering Hourly Rate Trend

Clustering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 8 (72.73%) SQL
2 7 (63.64%) Finance
3 6 (54.55%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 6 (54.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (54.55%) SQL Server 2005
3 6 (54.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (54.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 6 (54.55%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (54.55%) T-SQL
3 6 (54.55%) SQL Server
3 6 (54.55%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (54.55%) ETL
3 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
4 5 (45.45%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (45.45%) SQL Server 2000
4 5 (45.45%) OLTP
4 5 (45.45%) Cognos
4 5 (45.45%) DTS
4 5 (45.45%) AIX
4 5 (45.45%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 5 (45.45%) AS400
4 5 (45.45%) Kimball Methodology
4 5 (45.45%) Project Management
5 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
6 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
6 3 (27.27%) UNIX
7 2 (18.18%) Windows
7 2 (18.18%) ClearCase
7 2 (18.18%) Ant
7 2 (18.18%) Web Services

Clustering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 2 (18.18%) Web Services
1 2 (18.18%) XML
1 2 (18.18%) XSD
1 2 (18.18%) XSLT
1 2 (18.18%) WSDL
2 1 (9.091%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) WebSphere Message Broker
1 1 (9.091%) WebSphere MQ
Business Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) SSL
1 2 (18.18%) HTTPS
2 1 (9.091%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (9.091%) DNS
2 1 (9.091%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 6 (54.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 6 (54.55%) SQL Server 2005
1 6 (54.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 6 (54.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 6 (54.55%) SQL Server 2008
1 6 (54.55%) SQL Server
1 6 (54.55%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (45.45%) SQL Server 2000
2 5 (45.45%) OLTP
2 5 (45.45%) DTS
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) ClearCase
1 2 (18.18%) Ant
1 2 (18.18%) ClearQuest
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) DBA
2 5 (45.45%) SQL Server DBA
2 5 (45.45%) SQL DBA
3 2 (18.18%) AIX Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Support Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) WebSphere Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) AS400
2 2 (18.18%) DataPower
3 1 (9.091%) LPAR
3 1 (9.091%) DLPAR
3 1 (9.091%) HACMP
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) AIX
2 3 (27.27%) UNIX
3 2 (18.18%) Windows
4 1 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (9.091%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) ETL
2 5 (45.45%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (45.45%) Kimball Methodology
2 5 (45.45%) Project Management
3 1 (9.091%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (9.091%) OpenUP
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) SQL
2 6 (54.55%) T-SQL
3 2 (18.18%) Korn
4 1 (9.091%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (9.091%) Tivoli
1 1 (9.091%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 5 (45.45%) Cognos
3 1 (9.091%) EMC
3 1 (9.091%) Red Hat
3 1 (9.091%) IBM
Newport, Wales, Gwent
Microsoft System Integration Engineer (Microsoft Infrastructure) with current active SC security clearance required for a 3 - 6 month contract in Newport-Working as a member of the System...
GSA Techsource
Rate: GBP350-400 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
Newport, Gwent
My client is looking for a System Integration Engineer to work on the implementation of Clustered Windows Server 2008, Exchange 2007 and Hyper-V (the projects might be...
Sanderson
Rate: £375 - £450 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013