The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Replication 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 Replication 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
Replication
Rank 88 102 85
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -17
Contract jobs citing Replication 7 1 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.429% 0.045% 0.899%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.465% 0.274% 5.519%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 13
Average daily rate £325 £350 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £350 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £385 £350 £390
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £53.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £26.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
- -38.82%
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%
Replication
England

Replication
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands Replication Jobs Demand Trend

Replication
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Midlands Replication Daily Rate Trend

Replication
Daily Rate Histogram

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

West Midlands Replication Daily Rate Histogram

Replication
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Midlands Replication Hourly Rate Trend

Replication
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Replication 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 - 6 £338 -
Coventry - 1 £325 -
Replication
England

Replication
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing 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 Replication.

1 9 (56.25%) SQL
1 9 (56.25%) SQL Server
2 6 (37.50%) Windows
3 5 (31.25%) VMware
3 5 (31.25%) OLTP
3 5 (31.25%) RDBMS
3 5 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (31.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (31.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (31.25%) QA
3 5 (31.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (25.00%) SAN
4 4 (25.00%) UNIX
4 4 (25.00%) Symantec
5 3 (18.75%) CLARiiON
5 3 (18.75%) Symmetrix
5 3 (18.75%) Clustering
5 3 (18.75%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 3 (18.75%) IBM
5 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
5 3 (18.75%) HP
5 3 (18.75%) EMC
5 3 (18.75%) Citrix
5 3 (18.75%) T-SQL
5 3 (18.75%) NAS
6 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
6 2 (12.50%) DFS Replication
6 2 (12.50%) vSphere
6 2 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005

Replication
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing 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 Replication. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (6.250%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) MS Exchange
2 1 (6.250%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (6.250%) Lotus Domino
2 1 (6.250%) Apache
2 1 (6.250%) Tomcat
2 1 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (6.250%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) SAN
2 3 (18.75%) NAS
3 2 (12.50%) DHCP
3 2 (12.50%) DNS
4 1 (6.250%) Firewall
4 1 (6.250%) IPsec
4 1 (6.250%) NetScreen
4 1 (6.250%) Ethernet
4 1 (6.250%) FTP
4 1 (6.250%) HTTP
4 1 (6.250%) TCP/IP
4 1 (6.250%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (56.25%) SQL Server
2 5 (31.25%) OLTP
2 5 (31.25%) RDBMS
2 5 (31.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 5 (31.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 5 (31.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.250%) MySQL
General
1 2 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) DBA
1 9 (56.25%) Administrator
2 7 (43.75%) SQL DBA
2 7 (43.75%) Teradata DBA
3 4 (25.00%) Server Administrator
3 4 (25.00%) Consultant
3 4 (25.00%) SQL Server DBA
4 2 (12.50%) Wintel Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Backup Consultant
5 1 (6.250%) Technical Support
5 1 (6.250%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (6.250%) Domino Consultant
5 1 (6.250%) Wintel Support
5 1 (6.250%) Storage Consultant
5 1 (6.250%) Backup Administrator
5 1 (6.250%) MySQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) CLARiiON
1 3 (18.75%) Symmetrix
1 3 (18.75%) Clustering
2 2 (12.50%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Windows
2 4 (25.00%) UNIX
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (12.50%) Linux
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (6.250%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (12.50%) Resource Management
1 2 (12.50%) ETL
1 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (6.250%) Migration
2 1 (6.250%) Business Continuity
2 1 (6.250%) Data Migration
2 1 (6.250%) Data Analysis
2 1 (6.250%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (6.250%) Capacity Management
2 1 (6.250%) Database Tuning
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) SQL
2 3 (18.75%) T-SQL
3 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.250%) Java
4 1 (6.250%) PL/SQL
4 1 (6.250%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (6.250%) MCSE
1 1 (6.250%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (6.250%) OCP
1 1 (6.250%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (6.250%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.250%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) QA
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
3 2 (12.50%) DFS Replication
3 2 (12.50%) vSphere
4 1 (6.250%) Terminal Services
4 1 (6.250%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (6.250%) XenServer
4 1 (6.250%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (6.250%) NetBackup
2 1 (6.250%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (6.250%) SCCM
2 1 (6.250%) WSUS
2 1 (6.250%) McAfee ePO
2 1 (6.250%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) VMware
2 4 (25.00%) Symantec
3 3 (18.75%) IBM
3 3 (18.75%) HP
3 3 (18.75%) EMC
3 3 (18.75%) Citrix
4 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
5 1 (6.250%) McAfee
5 1 (6.250%) Cisco
5 1 (6.250%) Lotus
5 1 (6.250%) Red Hat
5 1 (6.250%) Juniper
5 1 (6.250%) Oracle