The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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 92 97 91
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -6
Contract jobs citing Clustering 20 13 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 1.075% 0.579% 0.646%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.102% 4.088% 3.217%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 2
Average daily rate £363 £288 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+26.08% -39.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £248 £200 £415
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £535
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
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
392 318 373
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 21.08% 14.15% 20.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 170 155
Average daily rate £310 £338 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.14% +12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £203 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £466 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 9 30
Average hourly rate £12.50 £21.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-40.47% +5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.05 £11.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.00 £30.00 £47.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
Clustering
England

Clustering
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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
West Yorkshire +4 11 £350 +16.66%
North Yorkshire - 4 £363 -
South Yorkshire +1 2 £235 +17.50%
Clustering
England

Clustering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 17 (60.71%) Windows
2 15 (53.57%) VMware
3 12 (42.86%) Windows Server 2008
4 11 (39.29%) vSphere
5 9 (32.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (32.14%) Oracle
6 8 (28.57%) Linux
6 8 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
7 7 (25.00%) Project Management
7 7 (25.00%) Apache
7 7 (25.00%) UNIX
8 6 (21.43%) SQL Server
8 6 (21.43%) XML
8 6 (21.43%) ITIL
8 6 (21.43%) SQL
8 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
9 5 (17.86%) Active Directory
9 5 (17.86%) Citrix
9 5 (17.86%) JDBC
9 5 (17.86%) JMS
9 5 (17.86%) Oracle 11g
10 4 (14.29%) CentOS
10 4 (14.29%) Hyper-V
10 4 (14.29%) NAS
10 4 (14.29%) Puppet
10 4 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (14.29%) F5
10 4 (14.29%) Debian
10 4 (14.29%) Firewall

Clustering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 (21.43%) XML
2 5 (17.86%) JDBC
2 5 (17.86%) JMS
3 2 (7.143%) EJB
4 1 (3.571%) Web Services
4 1 (3.571%) .NET
4 1 (3.571%) J2EE
4 1 (3.571%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 7 (25.00%) Apache
2 4 (14.29%) Tomcat
2 4 (14.29%) IIS
3 3 (10.71%) WebLogic
3 3 (10.71%) Oracle Service Bus
3 3 (10.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (7.143%) MS Exchange
5 1 (3.571%) SharePoint
5 1 (3.571%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (3.571%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (7.143%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.571%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.571%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.571%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) NAS
1 4 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
1 4 (14.29%) Firewall
1 4 (14.29%) BIG-IP
2 3 (10.71%) DNS
2 3 (10.71%) Internet
2 3 (10.71%) iSCSI
2 3 (10.71%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (3.571%) SAN
3 1 (3.571%) LDAP
3 1 (3.571%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) SQL Server
2 5 (17.86%) Oracle 11g
3 3 (10.71%) MySQL
3 3 (10.71%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (7.143%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (7.143%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (7.143%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (7.143%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.571%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (3.571%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.571%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (3.571%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 1 (3.571%) Visual Studio
1 1 (3.571%) Maven
1 1 (3.571%) CruiseControl
General
1 3 (10.71%) Games
1 3 (10.71%) Online Betting
2 1 (3.571%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.571%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (17.86%) Administrator
2 4 (14.29%) Build Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) SQL DBA
2 4 (14.29%) DBA
3 3 (10.71%) Architect
3 3 (10.71%) Project Manager
3 3 (10.71%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (10.71%) SQL Server DBA
3 3 (10.71%) Virtualisation Specialist
3 3 (10.71%) VMware Specialist
4 2 (7.143%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.143%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (7.143%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (3.571%) Support Consultant
5 1 (3.571%) Server Support
5 1 (3.571%) Support Technician
5 1 (3.571%) Analyst
5 1 (3.571%) Consultant
5 1 (3.571%) UNIX Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.143%) Replication
2 1 (3.571%) Blackberry
2 1 (3.571%) NHS
2 1 (3.571%) CLARiiON
2 1 (3.571%) EqualLogic
2 1 (3.571%) Celerra
Operating Systems
1 17 (60.71%) Windows
2 12 (42.86%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (28.57%) Linux
3 8 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
4 7 (25.00%) UNIX
5 4 (14.29%) CentOS
5 4 (14.29%) Debian
5 4 (14.29%) Ubuntu
6 1 (3.571%) HPUX
6 1 (3.571%) Windows XP
6 1 (3.571%) Windows 2000 Server
6 1 (3.571%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.00%) Project Management
2 6 (21.43%) ITIL
3 4 (14.29%) SOA
4 3 (10.71%) E-Commerce
4 3 (10.71%) Technical Architecture
4 3 (10.71%) Network Load Balancing
4 3 (10.71%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (10.71%) Content Management
4 3 (10.71%) Migration
5 1 (3.571%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (3.571%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (3.571%) ETL
5 1 (3.571%) CRM
5 1 (3.571%) Incident Management
5 1 (3.571%) Load Balancing
5 1 (3.571%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 6 (21.43%) SQL
2 4 (14.29%) PHP
3 3 (10.71%) Java
3 3 (10.71%) T-SQL
4 2 (7.143%) PowerShell
4 2 (7.143%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
5 1 (3.571%) VBScript
5 1 (3.571%) VB.NET
5 1 (3.571%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (3.571%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.571%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) QA
System Software
1 11 (39.29%) vSphere
2 9 (32.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (17.86%) Active Directory
4 4 (14.29%) Hyper-V
4 4 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (3.571%) Terminal Services
5 1 (3.571%) XenApp
5 1 (3.571%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Puppet
1 4 (14.29%) Nagios
2 3 (10.71%) Cacti
3 2 (7.143%) SCCM
4 1 (3.571%) WSUS
4 1 (3.571%) CA Wily
4 1 (3.571%) SCOM
Vendors
1 15 (53.57%) VMware
2 9 (32.14%) Oracle
3 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
4 5 (17.86%) Citrix
5 4 (14.29%) F5
5 4 (14.29%) Juniper
5 4 (14.29%) EMC
5 4 (14.29%) Red Hat
5 4 (14.29%) Cisco
5 4 (14.29%) CheckPoint
6 3 (10.71%) HP
7 1 (3.571%) Dell
7 1 (3.571%) Intel
7 1 (3.571%) Tangosol
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