The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in IT jobs advertised for the Middlesex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Clustering over the 3 months to 21 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 Middlesex region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Clustering
Rank 50 53 45
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -8
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 9 3 32
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 1.718% 0.600% 4.526%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.663% 1.657% 12.26%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 19
Average salary £45,000 £48,000 £43,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +11.62%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £43,600 £42,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £49,600 £46,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +6.25%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Middlesex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
193 181 261
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 36.83% 36.20% 36.92%
Number of salaries quoted 152 146 196
Average salary £47,500 £45,000 £43,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.55% +3.44%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £37,000 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Clustering
South East

Clustering
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex Clustering Salary Trend

Clustering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (66.67%) Firewall
2 6 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 6 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (55.56%) MySQL
4 4 (44.44%) PHP
4 4 (44.44%) IIS
4 4 (44.44%) Apache
4 4 (44.44%) FTP
4 4 (44.44%) RHCE
4 4 (44.44%) VPN
4 4 (44.44%) DNS
4 4 (44.44%) SSL
4 4 (44.44%) RHCA
4 4 (44.44%) SSH
4 4 (44.44%) LPIC
4 4 (44.44%) qmail
4 4 (44.44%) Postfix
4 4 (44.44%) Sendmail
4 4 (44.44%) Rackspace
5 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
5 3 (33.33%) SQL
6 2 (22.22%) Oracle
6 2 (22.22%) ASP
6 2 (22.22%) XML
6 2 (22.22%) ITIL
6 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
6 2 (22.22%) Client/Server
6 2 (22.22%) MS Exchange
6 2 (22.22%) Cisco

Clustering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 (22.22%) ASP
1 2 (22.22%) XML
Application Platforms
1 4 (44.44%) IIS
1 4 (44.44%) Apache
2 2 (22.22%) MS Exchange
2 2 (22.22%) Lync
2 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Firewall
2 4 (44.44%) FTP
2 4 (44.44%) VPN
2 4 (44.44%) DNS
2 4 (44.44%) SSL
2 4 (44.44%) SSH
3 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
3 2 (22.22%) IPv4
3 2 (22.22%) SAN
3 2 (22.22%) NAS
4 1 (11.11%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) MySQL
2 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2000
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle 8/8i
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Administrator
2 4 (44.44%) Systems Administrator
2 4 (44.44%) Linux Administrator
2 4 (44.44%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 3 (33.33%) Server Administrator
4 2 (22.22%) Architect
4 2 (22.22%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (22.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Senior Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Teradata DBA
5 1 (11.11%) SQL Server DBA
5 1 (11.11%) SQL DBA
5 1 (11.11%) Senior DBA
5 1 (11.11%) Senior SQL Server DBA
5 1 (11.11%) Senior SQL DBA
5 1 (11.11%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Client/Server
2 1 (11.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (22.22%) Windows
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (11.11%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) ITIL
1 2 (22.22%) Load Balancing
2 1 (11.11%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) PHP
2 3 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
4 1 (11.11%) Perl
4 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) RHCE
1 4 (44.44%) RHCA
1 4 (44.44%) LPIC
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) qmail
1 4 (44.44%) Postfix
1 4 (44.44%) Sendmail
2 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 2 (22.22%) vSphere
2 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (22.22%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 4 (44.44%) Rackspace
3 2 (22.22%) Oracle
3 2 (22.22%) Cisco
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) Sun
3 2 (22.22%) HP
3 2 (22.22%) VMware