The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in IT jobs advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Lancashire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Clustering
Rank 54 58 34
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -24
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 5 3 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 1.037% 0.543% 4.663%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.319% 2.326% 18.75%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 18
Average salary £22,250 £37,500 £44,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-40.66% -15.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,650 £35,500 £37,500
10% offered a salary of more than £31,250 £39,500 £47,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +6.25%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Lancashire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
94 129 96
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 19.50% 23.37% 24.87%
Number of salaries quoted 79 122 79
Average salary £30,000 £30,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.63% -6.15%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £20,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £43,500 £47,000 £46,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Clustering
North West

Clustering
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire Clustering Jobs Demand Trend

Clustering
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Clustering across the Lancashire region.

Lancashire Clustering Salary Trend

Clustering
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Clustering across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Lancashire Clustering Salary Histogram

Clustering
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the Lancashire 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Blackpool - 3 £22,000 -
Colne - 1 - -
Clustering
North West

Clustering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Clustering.

1 15 (88.24%) SQL Server
1 15 (88.24%) Windows
1 15 (88.24%) Windows Server 2008
2 13 (76.47%) SAN
3 12 (70.59%) SQL
3 12 (70.59%) T-SQL
3 12 (70.59%) SQL Server 2008
3 12 (70.59%) SQL Server 2005
4 11 (64.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 11 (64.71%) Replication
4 11 (64.71%) Capacity Planning
4 11 (64.71%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (64.71%) DTS
4 11 (64.71%) VLDB
5 5 (29.41%) Wireless
5 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
6 4 (23.53%) MS Excel
7 3 (17.65%) WLAN
7 3 (17.65%) TCP/IP
8 2 (11.76%) VPN
8 2 (11.76%) DNS
8 2 (11.76%) SLA
8 2 (11.76%) Cisco
8 2 (11.76%) C
8 2 (11.76%) Change Management
8 2 (11.76%) Firewall
8 2 (11.76%) NetApp
8 2 (11.76%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (11.76%) CheckPoint
8 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2003

Clustering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Clustering. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (11.76%) COM
Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
1 2 (11.76%) MS Exchange
1 2 (11.76%) IIS
1 2 (11.76%) Lync
1 2 (11.76%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (11.76%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (11.76%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 4 (23.53%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (76.47%) SAN
2 5 (29.41%) Wireless
3 3 (17.65%) WLAN
3 3 (17.65%) TCP/IP
4 2 (11.76%) VPN
4 2 (11.76%) DNS
4 2 (11.76%) Firewall
4 2 (11.76%) Internet
4 2 (11.76%) WAN
4 2 (11.76%) DHCP
4 2 (11.76%) LAN
4 2 (11.76%) VoIP
4 2 (11.76%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (88.24%) SQL Server
2 12 (70.59%) SQL Server 2008
2 12 (70.59%) SQL Server 2005
3 11 (64.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 11 (64.71%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (64.71%) DTS
3 11 (64.71%) VLDB
4 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 2 (11.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (70.59%) DBA
1 12 (70.59%) SQL DBA
2 11 (64.71%) Administrator
3 10 (58.82%) Teradata DBA
4 2 (11.76%) Field Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Storage Systems Administrator
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) SQL Server DBA
5 1 (5.882%) Server Administrator
5 1 (5.882%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (64.71%) Replication
2 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 15 (88.24%) Windows
1 15 (88.24%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (11.76%) Solaris
2 2 (11.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (11.76%) Change Management
2 2 (11.76%) E-Commerce
2 2 (11.76%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) SQL
1 12 (70.59%) T-SQL
2 2 (11.76%) C
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) XenApp
1 2 (11.76%) vSphere
1 2 (11.76%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 1 (5.882%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) WhatsUp Gold
1 2 (11.76%) HP SIM
1 2 (11.76%) SCCM
1 2 (11.76%) SCOM
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Cisco
2 2 (11.76%) NetApp
2 2 (11.76%) CheckPoint
2 2 (11.76%) SolarWinds
2 2 (11.76%) VMware
2 2 (11.76%) HP
2 2 (11.76%) Citrix
2 2 (11.76%) Juniper