North West Replication Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Replication skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Replication over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Barnet Basildon Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chertsey Cheshire City of London Clapham Crewe Croydon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glamorgan Glasgow Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Ipswich Isle of Man Iver Kent Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxfordshire Preston Reading Redhill Sale Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwickshire Welwyn Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Woking Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	213	241
Rank change on same period last year	+28
Matching permanent IT job ads	41	39
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	2.765 %	2.249 %
Salaries quoted	40	33
Average minimum salary	£29,400	£31,706
Average salary	£31,288	£37,176
% change on same period last year	-15.84 %
Average maximum salary	£33,175	£42,647
UK excluding London average salary	£40,278	£42,864
% change on same period last year	-6.03 %
Miscellaneous North West
Matching permanent IT job ads	1483	1734
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.858 %	0.746 %
Salaries quoted	1292	1398
Average minimum salary	£32,146	£34,828
Average salary	£35,328	£38,816
% change on same period last year	-8.98 %
Average maximum salary	£38,511	£42,804
UK excluding London average salary	£37,701	£39,528
% change on same period last year	-4.62 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Replication across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Replication across the North West region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Replication across the North West region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Replication within the North West region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cheshire	-7	17	£28,813	-17.74 %
Manchester	+39	16	£36,250	+2.65 %
Merseyside	0	5	£22,500	-43.92 %
Lancashire	+1	2	£33,250	+3.10 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the North West 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Replication.

1 52 (61.90 %) SQL 2 41 (48.81 %) SQL Server 3 34 (40.48 %) SQL Server 2000 3 34 (40.48 %) SQL Server 2005 4 32 (38.10 %) Transact-SQL 5 26 (30.95 %) DTS 6 23 (27.38 %) SQL Server Integration Services 7 21 (25.00 %) Clustering 8 18 (21.43 %) Disaster Recovery 8 18 (21.43 %) Windows 9 17 (20.24 %) Microsoft 10 15 (17.86 %) Migration 11 14 (16.67 %) IBM 11 14 (16.67 %) ITIL 12 13 (15.48 %) Oracle

12 13 (15.48 %) SAN 13 12 (14.29 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 13 12 (14.29 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 14 11 (13.10 %) WAN 15 10 (11.90 %) MS Excel 15 10 (11.90 %) Management Information System 15 10 (11.90 %) Health 16 9 (10.71 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 16 9 (10.71 %) VB 17 8 (9.524 %) C# 17 8 (9.524 %) .NET 17 8 (9.524 %) UNIX 17 8 (9.524 %) AS400 17 8 (9.524 %) Performance Management 17 8 (9.524 %) Release Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the North West 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Replication. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 8 (9.524 %) .NET 2 4 (4.762 %) ASP.NET 2 4 (4.762 %) Spring.NET 2 4 (4.762 %) ODBC 2 4 (4.762 %) Spring 2 4 (4.762 %) WebSphere 2 4 (4.762 %) .NET Framework 3 3 (3.571 %) WebServices 4 1 (1.190 %) HTML 4 1 (1.190 %) MDX	Application Platforms 1 5 (5.952 %) SharePoint Portal Server 2 3 (3.571 %) JBoss 3 2 (2.381 %) Oracle Workflow 4 1 (1.190 %) IIS
Applications 1 10 (11.90 %) MS Excel 2 3 (3.571 %) MS Office 3 1 (1.190 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 13 (15.48 %) SAN 2 11 (13.10 %) WAN 3 7 (8.333 %) LAN 4 5 (5.952 %) Wireless 5 4 (4.762 %) Network Security 5 4 (4.762 %) Firewall 5 4 (4.762 %) FTP 5 4 (4.762 %) VPN 6 3 (3.571 %) TCP/IP 7 1 (1.190 %) DHCP 7 1 (1.190 %) DNS 7 1 (1.190 %) Internet 7 1 (1.190 %) MPLS 7 1 (1.190 %) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence 1 41 (48.81 %) SQL Server 2 34 (40.48 %) SQL Server 2000 2 34 (40.48 %) SQL Server 2005 3 26 (30.95 %) DTS 4 23 (27.38 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 12 (14.29 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 5 12 (14.29 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 7 (8.333 %) MySQL 7 6 (7.143 %) Datawarehouse 8 5 (5.952 %) Oracle 8/8i 9 4 (4.762 %) Oracle 9i 9 4 (4.762 %) Data Mining 9 4 (4.762 %) MSDE 9 4 (4.762 %) SQL Server 2008 9 4 (4.762 %) Oracle 10g 10 3 (3.571 %) ETL 11 2 (2.381 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 12 1 (1.190 %) OLTP 12 1 (1.190 %) Crystal Reports	Development Applications 1 5 (5.952 %) QuickTest Pro
General 1 10 (11.90 %) Health 2 6 (7.143 %) Banking 2 6 (7.143 %) Pensions 3 4 (4.762 %) Law 3 4 (4.762 %) Telecoms 3 4 (4.762 %) Finance 4 2 (2.381 %) Aerospace 4 2 (2.381 %) Education 4 2 (2.381 %) Electronics 4 2 (2.381 %) Marketing 4 2 (2.381 %) Retail 5 1 (1.190 %) Back Office 5 1 (1.190 %) Publishing	Job Titles 1 34 (40.48 %) DBA 2 28 (33.33 %) SQL DBA 3 16 (19.05 %) Developer 4 15 (17.86 %) Analyst 4 15 (17.86 %) SQL Server DBA 5 14 (16.67 %) Administrator 6 8 (9.524 %) SQL Developer 6 8 (9.524 %) Architect 6 8 (9.524 %) Storage Analyst 7 6 (7.143 %) Systems Engineer 7 6 (7.143 %) Systems Architect 7 6 (7.143 %) Infrastructure Engineer 8 5 (5.952 %) Database Developer 8 5 (5.952 %) Test Analyst 9 4 (4.762 %) Applications Support 10 3 (3.571 %) Support Specialist 10 3 (3.571 %) Oracle Developer 10 3 (3.571 %) Operations Analyst 10 3 (3.571 %) Consultant 10 3 (3.571 %) Database Designer
Miscellaneous 1 21 (25.00 %) Clustering 2 10 (11.90 %) Management Information System 3 8 (9.524 %) AS400	Operating Systems 1 18 (21.43 %) Windows 2 8 (9.524 %) UNIX 3 5 (5.952 %) OS/400 4 3 (3.571 %) Windows Server 2003 4 3 (3.571 %) AIX 4 3 (3.571 %) Windows XP 5 2 (2.381 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 2 (2.381 %) Windows 2000 5 2 (2.381 %) Windows NT 6 1 (1.190 %) Windows Vista 6 1 (1.190 %) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies 1 18 (21.43 %) Disaster Recovery 2 15 (17.86 %) Migration 3 14 (16.67 %) ITIL 4 8 (9.524 %) Release Management 4 8 (9.524 %) Performance Management 5 5 (5.952 %) Test Scripting 5 5 (5.952 %) Data Migration 5 5 (5.952 %) Business Continuity 5 5 (5.952 %) Data Modelling 6 4 (4.762 %) Configuration Management 6 4 (4.762 %) Project Management 6 4 (4.762 %) Service Delivery 6 4 (4.762 %) Security Cleared 6 4 (4.762 %) Load Balancing 7 3 (3.571 %) Web Development 7 3 (3.571 %) SC Cleared 7 3 (3.571 %) OO 7 3 (3.571 %) CRM 8 2 (2.381 %) Software Testing 8 2 (2.381 %) Requirements Analysis	Programming Languages 1 52 (61.90 %) SQL 2 32 (38.10 %) Transact-SQL 3 9 (10.71 %) VB 4 8 (9.524 %) C# 5 5 (5.952 %) VB.NET 6 4 (4.762 %) PL/SQL 6 4 (4.762 %) VB6 7 3 (3.571 %) Java 8 2 (2.381 %) VBA 9 1 (1.190 %) RPG
Qualifications 1 6 (7.143 %) MCSE 1 6 (7.143 %) Microsoft Certification 2 5 (5.952 %) ISTQB 2 5 (5.952 %) ISEB 3 4 (4.762 %) Cisco Certification 3 4 (4.762 %) CCNA 3 4 (4.762 %) Security+ Certification 3 4 (4.762 %) ISEB Practitioner 3 4 (4.762 %) MCP 4 1 (1.190 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.190 %) QA
System Software 1 6 (7.143 %) Terminal Services 2 3 (3.571 %) Active Directory 3 1 (1.190 %) Oracle RAC	Systems Management 1 9 (10.71 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 3 (3.571 %) Tivoli
Vendors 1 17 (20.24 %) Microsoft 2 14 (16.67 %) IBM 3 13 (15.48 %) Oracle 4 6 (7.143 %) EMC 4 6 (7.143 %) Citrix 4 6 (7.143 %) Brocade 5 5 (5.952 %) Sun 5 5 (5.952 %) HP 5 5 (5.952 %) Cisco 6 4 (4.762 %) Sybase 6 4 (4.762 %) Mitel 7 1 (1.190 %) Capita