The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in IT contracts advertised for the West Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Clustering over the 3 months to 23 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 Sussex 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Clustering
Rank 29 47 52
Rank change year-on-year
+18 +5
Contract jobs citing Clustering 10 8 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 2.732% 1.214% 0.221%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 16.13% 7.843% 1.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 1
Average daily rate £585 £325 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+80.00% +30.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £354 £400 £298
% change year-on-year
-11.56% +34.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £25.00 £31.25
% change year-on-year
+8.00% -20.00%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
West Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
62 102 96
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 16.94% 15.48% 21.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 52 47
Average daily rate £400 £313 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £296 £275 £273
10% offered a daily rate of more than £585 £475 £491
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 7
Average hourly rate £21.75 £26.00 £21.79
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.34% +19.32%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
Clustering
South East

Clustering
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Sussex 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 Sussex region.

West Sussex 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 Sussex region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

West Sussex 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 Sussex region.

West Sussex 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 Sussex region over the 3 months to 23 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
Gatwick +15 7 £585 -
Worthing +1 2 £335 +2.68%
Clustering
South East

Clustering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 22 (100.00%) VMware
2 20 (90.91%) Windows
3 19 (86.36%) NetApp
4 13 (59.09%) SAN
5 12 (54.55%) HP
5 12 (54.55%) DHCP
5 12 (54.55%) DNS
6 11 (50.00%) Microsoft
6 11 (50.00%) TCP/IP
6 11 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (50.00%) Juniper
6 11 (50.00%) CheckPoint
6 11 (50.00%) Firewall
6 11 (50.00%) ProCurve
7 10 (45.45%) WSUS
7 10 (45.45%) Backup Exec
7 10 (45.45%) Blackberry
7 10 (45.45%) Active Directory
7 10 (45.45%) SQL Server
8 9 (40.91%) ITIL
8 9 (40.91%) Windows Server 2008
8 9 (40.91%) vSphere
8 9 (40.91%) HP SIM
9 8 (36.36%) SharePoint 2010
9 8 (36.36%) SQL Server 2008
9 8 (36.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (36.36%) Dynamics NAV
9 8 (36.36%) VMware ESX
9 8 (36.36%) PHP
9 8 (36.36%) Linux

Clustering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 6 (27.27%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 8 (36.36%) SharePoint 2010
1 8 (36.36%) Apache
1 8 (36.36%) SharePoint
1 8 (36.36%) OpenEdge
2 5 (22.73%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (4.545%) MS Exchange
Business Applications
1 8 (36.36%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 13 (59.09%) SAN
2 12 (54.55%) DHCP
2 12 (54.55%) DNS
3 11 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 11 (50.00%) Firewall
4 5 (22.73%) LAN
5 4 (18.18%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (9.091%) Wireless
6 2 (9.091%) VLAN
6 2 (9.091%) WAN
6 2 (9.091%) VPN
6 2 (9.091%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (45.45%) SQL Server
2 8 (36.36%) SQL Server 2008
2 8 (36.36%) MySQL
General
1 6 (27.27%) Finance
2 3 (13.64%) Advertising
2 3 (13.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (63.64%) Analyst
2 13 (59.09%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 3 (13.64%) Consultant
5 1 (4.545%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (4.545%) Server Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 10 (45.45%) Blackberry
2 1 (4.545%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 20 (90.91%) Windows
2 9 (40.91%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (36.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (36.36%) Linux
4 4 (18.18%) Windows 7
5 1 (4.545%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) ITIL
2 5 (22.73%) Configuration Management
3 3 (13.64%) Business Continuity
3 3 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (9.091%) Change Management
4 2 (9.091%) Project Management
4 2 (9.091%) Migration
4 2 (9.091%) Load Balancing
4 2 (9.091%) Problem Management
4 2 (9.091%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) PHP
2 2 (9.091%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (22.73%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (22.73%) CCNP
2 5 (22.73%) MCSE
3 1 (4.545%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.545%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (45.45%) Active Directory
2 9 (40.91%) vSphere
3 8 (36.36%) VMware ESX
4 7 (31.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (27.27%) XenApp
6 2 (9.091%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (45.45%) WSUS
1 10 (45.45%) Backup Exec
2 9 (40.91%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 22 (100.00%) VMware
2 19 (86.36%) NetApp
3 12 (54.55%) HP
4 11 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 11 (50.00%) Juniper
4 11 (50.00%) CheckPoint
4 11 (50.00%) ProCurve
5 8 (36.36%) Red Hat
6 6 (27.27%) F5
7 4 (18.18%) Cisco
7 4 (18.18%) Altiris
8 2 (9.091%) Dell
8 2 (9.091%) EMC
8 2 (9.091%) Citrix
9 1 (4.545%) Remedy