The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands 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 West Midlands 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 88 98 96
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -2
Contract jobs citing Clustering 7 5 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.429% 0.223% 0.317%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.465% 1.370% 1.948%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
Average daily rate £325 £260 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £358 £400 £290
% change year-on-year
-10.62% +37.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £23.00 -
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
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
284 365 308
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 17.39% 16.28% 16.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 168 124
Average daily rate £325 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £209 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 33 41
Average hourly rate £28.50 £16.63 £21.79
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+71.42% -23.70%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.80 £10.82 £10.45
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.80 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Clustering
England

Clustering
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands Clustering Daily Rate Trend

Clustering
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Clustering across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

West Midlands Clustering Daily Rate Histogram

Clustering
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Midlands Clustering Hourly Rate Trend

Clustering
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 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
Birmingham +13 2 £400 -
Herefordshire - 2 £228 -
Clustering
England

Clustering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 21 (77.78%) Windows
2 17 (62.96%) Windows Server 2008
3 16 (59.26%) Microsoft
4 15 (55.56%) Windows Server 2003
4 15 (55.56%) SQL
5 10 (37.04%) VMware
6 9 (33.33%) Citrix
6 9 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
7 8 (29.63%) Cognos Business Intelligence
7 8 (29.63%) Intel
7 8 (29.63%) Active Directory
7 8 (29.63%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (29.63%) SQL Server
7 8 (29.63%) Linux
7 8 (29.63%) Cognos
8 7 (25.93%) Finance
8 7 (25.93%) MS Exchange
8 7 (25.93%) HP
9 6 (22.22%) DNS
9 6 (22.22%) DHCP
9 6 (22.22%) SAN
9 6 (22.22%) Firewall
10 5 (18.52%) NetApp
10 5 (18.52%) Cisco
10 5 (18.52%) TCP/IP
11 4 (14.81%) HTTP
11 4 (14.81%) MS Excel
11 4 (14.81%) Windows 2000
11 4 (14.81%) ITIL
11 4 (14.81%) C

Clustering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 (7.407%) Application Packaging
2 1 (3.704%) WebSphere
2 1 (3.704%) COM
Application Platforms
1 7 (25.93%) MS Exchange
2 3 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2003
2 3 (11.11%) SharePoint 2010
2 3 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (11.11%) SharePoint
3 2 (7.407%) Apache
3 2 (7.407%) Tomcat
3 2 (7.407%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (3.704%) Lync
4 1 (3.704%) Office Communications Server
4 1 (3.704%) CMS
4 1 (3.704%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (3.704%) WebLogic
4 1 (3.704%) MSMQ
4 1 (3.704%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 4 (14.81%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.704%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 8 (29.63%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 1 (3.704%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 6 (22.22%) DNS
1 6 (22.22%) DHCP
1 6 (22.22%) SAN
1 6 (22.22%) Firewall
2 5 (18.52%) TCP/IP
3 4 (14.81%) HTTP
4 3 (11.11%) VPN
5 2 (7.407%) LAN
5 2 (7.407%) VoIP
5 2 (7.407%) Wireless
5 2 (7.407%) NAS
6 1 (3.704%) Junos
6 1 (3.704%) VLAN
6 1 (3.704%) IPsec
6 1 (3.704%) NetScreen
6 1 (3.704%) MPLS
6 1 (3.704%) WAN
6 1 (3.704%) Ethernet
6 1 (3.704%) FTP
6 1 (3.704%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (29.63%) SQL Server
2 3 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (7.407%) SQL Server 2000
3 2 (7.407%) RDBMS
3 2 (7.407%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (7.407%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (7.407%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (3.704%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (3.704%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (3.704%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 2 (7.407%) MSI
General
1 7 (25.93%) Finance
2 4 (14.81%) Banking
2 4 (14.81%) Investment Banking
2 4 (14.81%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (3.704%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Administrator
2 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) DBA
4 2 (7.407%) Analyst
4 2 (7.407%) Consultant
4 2 (7.407%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (7.407%) SQL DBA
4 2 (7.407%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (7.407%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 2 (7.407%) Cognos Administrator
5 1 (3.704%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (3.704%) Business Intelligence Specialist
5 1 (3.704%) Technical Infrastructure Consultant
5 1 (3.704%) Teradata DBA
5 1 (3.704%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (3.704%) Firewall Support
5 1 (3.704%) WebSphere Engineer
5 1 (3.704%) Implementation Specialist
5 1 (3.704%) Siebel Administrator
5 1 (3.704%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Replication
2 2 (7.407%) Blackberry
3 1 (3.704%) Equities
3 1 (3.704%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 21 (77.78%) Windows
2 17 (62.96%) Windows Server 2008
3 15 (55.56%) Windows Server 2003
4 8 (29.63%) Linux
5 4 (14.81%) Windows 2000
6 3 (11.11%) UNIX
7 1 (3.704%) Windows 7
7 1 (3.704%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (3.704%) Windows Vista
7 1 (3.704%) OpenVMS
7 1 (3.704%) Windows XP
7 1 (3.704%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (29.63%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (14.81%) ITIL
2 4 (14.81%) Wealth Management
2 4 (14.81%) Problem Management
2 4 (14.81%) Fund Management
2 4 (14.81%) Business Transformation
3 3 (11.11%) Business Continuity
4 2 (7.407%) Change Control
5 1 (3.704%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (3.704%) Load Balancing
5 1 (3.704%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (3.704%) Incident Management
5 1 (3.704%) Migration
5 1 (3.704%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (3.704%) E-business
5 1 (3.704%) Project Management
5 1 (3.704%) Configuration Management
5 1 (3.704%) SOA
5 1 (3.704%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 15 (55.56%) SQL
2 4 (14.81%) C
3 3 (11.11%) VB
3 3 (11.11%) Java
4 2 (7.407%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.704%) Bash shell
5 1 (3.704%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.704%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.704%) PowerHouse
5 1 (3.704%) C++
5 1 (3.704%) COBOL
5 1 (3.704%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 2 (7.407%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (7.407%) CCNP
2 1 (3.704%) VCP5
2 1 (3.704%) MCITP
2 1 (3.704%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.407%) SLA
2 1 (3.704%) QA
System Software
1 9 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (29.63%) Active Directory
3 2 (7.407%) ISA Server
4 1 (3.704%) XenApp
4 1 (3.704%) XenServer
4 1 (3.704%) XenDesktop
4 1 (3.704%) DFS Replication
4 1 (3.704%) vSphere
4 1 (3.704%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.704%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (3.704%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (3.704%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 4 (14.81%) SCCM
2 2 (7.407%) Backup Exec
2 2 (7.407%) SCOM
2 2 (7.407%) WSUS
3 1 (3.704%) HP SIM
3 1 (3.704%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (3.704%) Data Guard
3 1 (3.704%) Norton AntiVirus
3 1 (3.704%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 16 (59.26%) Microsoft
2 10 (37.04%) VMware
3 9 (33.33%) Citrix
4 8 (29.63%) Intel
4 8 (29.63%) Cognos
5 7 (25.93%) HP
6 5 (18.52%) NetApp
6 5 (18.52%) Cisco
7 3 (11.11%) Teradata
7 3 (11.11%) Juniper
8 2 (7.407%) CheckPoint
8 2 (7.407%) Red Hat
8 2 (7.407%) Dell
9 1 (3.704%) WatchGuard
9 1 (3.704%) ProCurve
9 1 (3.704%) Altiris
9 1 (3.704%) Blue Coat
9 1 (3.704%) Symantec
9 1 (3.704%) McAfee
9 1 (3.704%) Oracle
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