The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in IT jobs advertised for the Reading 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 Reading region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Clustering
Rank 52 109 110
Rank change year-on-year
+57 +1
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 87 24 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 4.054% 1.055% 0.483%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 13.16% 4.110% 1.775%
Number of salaries quoted 68 22 8
Average salary £37,500 £45,000 £65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-16.66% -30.76%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +6.25%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
661 584 507
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 30.80% 25.67% 27.21%
Number of salaries quoted 544 512 452
Average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £28,900
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Clustering
Berkshire

Clustering
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Clustering Salary Trend

Clustering
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Clustering across the Reading region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Reading Clustering Salary Histogram

Clustering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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.

1 138 (79.31%) SAN
2 134 (77.01%) Windows
3 85 (48.85%) Linux
4 78 (44.83%) Active Directory
5 74 (42.53%) UNIX
6 71 (40.80%) German Language
7 67 (38.51%) VMware
8 65 (37.36%) SQL
9 60 (34.48%) Oracle
10 51 (29.31%) Red Hat
10 51 (29.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 49 (28.16%) French Language
12 44 (25.29%) Solaris
13 43 (24.71%) Sun
14 42 (24.14%) EMC
14 42 (24.14%) Windows Server 2008
15 41 (23.56%) AIX
16 40 (22.99%) Microsoft
16 40 (22.99%) Windows Server 2003
17 39 (22.41%) SharePoint
18 36 (20.69%) Lotus Domino
19 35 (20.11%) Veritas
19 35 (20.11%) Replication
20 34 (19.54%) Hitachi
20 34 (19.54%) SUSE
20 34 (19.54%) HPUX
21 32 (18.39%) VMware Infrastructure
21 32 (18.39%) Data Protection
22 31 (17.82%) Shell Script
23 30 (17.24%) DB2

Clustering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 11 (6.322%) .NET
2 8 (4.598%) .NET Framework
3 5 (2.874%) COM
4 1 (0.575%) Middleware
4 1 (0.575%) CGI
4 1 (0.575%) J2EE
4 1 (0.575%) ASP
4 1 (0.575%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.575%) SOAP
4 1 (0.575%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 39 (22.41%) SharePoint
2 36 (20.69%) Lotus Domino
3 22 (12.64%) MS Exchange
4 16 (9.195%) Exchange Server 2003
5 14 (8.046%) Exchange Server 2007
6 13 (7.471%) IIS
6 13 (7.471%) Apache
7 9 (5.172%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 8 (4.598%) Tomcat
8 8 (4.598%) SharePoint Server
8 8 (4.598%) Exchange Server 2010
9 6 (3.448%) Exchange Server 5.5
9 6 (3.448%) Exchange Server 2000
9 6 (3.448%) Lync
10 3 (1.724%) Oracle Application Server
10 3 (1.724%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.575%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.575%) LiveLink
11 1 (0.575%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 21 (12.07%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (4.598%) BusinessWorks
2 3 (1.724%) Oracle Applications
2 3 (1.724%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.575%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 138 (79.31%) SAN
2 19 (10.92%) DNS
3 16 (9.195%) TCP/IP
3 16 (9.195%) LAN
3 16 (9.195%) WAN
4 15 (8.621%) DHCP
4 15 (8.621%) Ethernet
4 15 (8.621%) ADSL
4 15 (8.621%) VPN
5 12 (6.897%) Internet
6 8 (4.598%) Firewall
7 6 (3.448%) HTTP
7 6 (3.448%) GSM
7 6 (3.448%) 3G
7 6 (3.448%) SMPP
7 6 (3.448%) 2G
7 6 (3.448%) LTE
7 6 (3.448%) XCAP
7 6 (3.448%) 4G
8 5 (2.874%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (17.24%) DB2
2 29 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 8 (4.598%) MySQL
3 8 (4.598%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.724%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (1.724%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (1.724%) Oracle 11g
4 3 (1.724%) SQL Server 2000
4 3 (1.724%) Oracle 10g
4 3 (1.724%) Oracle 9i
5 1 (0.575%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.575%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.575%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.575%) DTS
5 1 (0.575%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 8 (4.598%) Visual Studio
1 8 (4.598%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 71 (40.80%) German Language
2 49 (28.16%) French Language
3 15 (8.621%) Spanish Language
4 13 (7.471%) Telecoms
5 10 (5.747%) Finance
5 10 (5.747%) Russian Language
6 9 (5.172%) Italian Language
7 7 (4.023%) Retail
8 3 (1.724%) Banking
9 2 (1.149%) Local Government
10 1 (0.575%) Czech Language
Job Titles
1 96 (55.17%) Technical Support
2 92 (52.87%) Support Engineer
3 81 (46.55%) Technical Support Engineer
3 81 (46.55%) Technical Engineer
4 57 (32.76%) Administrator
5 56 (32.18%) Systems Administrator
6 40 (22.99%) Technical Administrator
7 18 (10.34%) UNIX Support
8 16 (9.195%) UNIX Engineer
9 15 (8.621%) Analyst
9 15 (8.621%) Consultant
10 13 (7.471%) Technical Consultant
11 12 (6.897%) 3rd Line Support
11 12 (6.897%) UNIX Support Engineer
12 10 (5.747%) Support Specialist
13 9 (5.172%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
13 9 (5.172%) Senior Support Engineer
13 9 (5.172%) Senior Technical Consultant
13 9 (5.172%) Technical Support Consultant
13 9 (5.172%) Senior Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 35 (20.11%) Replication
2 6 (3.448%) Blackberry
3 5 (2.874%) CLARiiON
4 4 (2.299%) HACMP
5 3 (1.724%) LPAR
5 3 (1.724%) DLPAR
5 3 (1.724%) EqualLogic
6 2 (1.149%) Celerra
7 1 (0.575%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 134 (77.01%) Windows
2 85 (48.85%) Linux
3 74 (42.53%) UNIX
4 51 (29.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 44 (25.29%) Solaris
6 42 (24.14%) Windows Server 2008
7 41 (23.56%) AIX
8 40 (22.99%) Windows Server 2003
9 34 (19.54%) SUSE
9 34 (19.54%) HPUX
10 11 (6.322%) Windows XP
11 10 (5.747%) Windows 2000
12 8 (4.598%) Debian
12 8 (4.598%) Ubuntu
12 8 (4.598%) CentOS
13 2 (1.149%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.575%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (18.39%) Data Protection
2 18 (10.34%) Disaster Recovery
3 15 (8.621%) Service Delivery
4 13 (7.471%) ITIL
5 10 (5.747%) Change Management
5 10 (5.747%) Migration
5 10 (5.747%) Performance Management
6 9 (5.172%) Configuration Management
7 8 (4.598%) PRINCE2
7 8 (4.598%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (3.448%) PRINCE
8 6 (3.448%) Time Management
9 3 (1.724%) Change Control
10 2 (1.149%) Project Management
10 2 (1.149%) High Availability
10 2 (1.149%) Release Management
10 2 (1.149%) Load Balancing
11 1 (0.575%) Document Management
11 1 (0.575%) Continuous Improvement
11 1 (0.575%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 65 (37.36%) SQL
2 31 (17.82%) Shell Script
3 28 (16.09%) C
4 9 (5.172%) PowerShell
4 9 (5.172%) Java
4 9 (5.172%) Perl
5 8 (4.598%) Python
5 8 (4.598%) PHP
5 8 (4.598%) Ruby
5 8 (4.598%) Bash shell
6 3 (1.724%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.575%) VBScript
7 1 (0.575%) C++
Qualifications
1 16 (9.195%) Security Cleared
2 13 (7.471%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.172%) MCITP
3 9 (5.172%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (4.598%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (3.448%) MCSE
5 6 (3.448%) Degree
6 4 (2.299%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (1.149%) CCEE
7 2 (1.149%) CCIA
7 2 (1.149%) CCNP
7 2 (1.149%) CCNA
7 2 (1.149%) Citrix Certification
7 2 (1.149%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.149%) NCDA
7 2 (1.149%) NCIE
7 2 (1.149%) VCDX
7 2 (1.149%) HP ASE
7 2 (1.149%) HP MASE
8 1 (0.575%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (14.37%) SLA
2 6 (3.448%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.575%) QA
System Software
1 78 (44.83%) Active Directory
2 32 (18.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (15.52%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 13 (7.471%) VMware ESX
5 12 (6.897%) Oracle RAC
6 10 (5.747%) Hyper-V
6 10 (5.747%) vSphere
7 8 (4.598%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 8 (4.598%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (3.448%) Terminal Server
9 3 (1.724%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (1.149%) XenApp
10 2 (1.149%) XenServer
10 2 (1.149%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 10 (5.747%) SCCM
1 10 (5.747%) SCOM
2 9 (5.172%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 8 (4.598%) OpenView Configuration Management
3 8 (4.598%) Backup Exec
3 8 (4.598%) McAfee ePO
4 6 (3.448%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 6 (3.448%) WSUS
5 5 (2.874%) NetBackup
6 4 (2.299%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 3 (1.724%) Tivoli
7 3 (1.724%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 3 (1.724%) Data Guard
8 2 (1.149%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 67 (38.51%) VMware
2 60 (34.48%) Oracle
3 51 (29.31%) Red Hat
4 43 (24.71%) Sun
5 42 (24.14%) EMC
6 40 (22.99%) Microsoft
7 35 (20.11%) Veritas
8 34 (19.54%) Hitachi
9 27 (15.52%) Sybase
10 19 (10.92%) Citrix
11 12 (6.897%) HP
12 10 (5.747%) Dell
13 9 (5.172%) Cisco
14 8 (4.598%) JBoss
14 8 (4.598%) TIBCO
14 8 (4.598%) McAfee
14 8 (4.598%) LANDesk
15 7 (4.023%) Fujitsu
15 7 (4.023%) Lotus
15 7 (4.023%) IBM
Reading, Berkshire
Well they need Windows Support Engineers now!... They now need Windows Support Engineers to help support their infrastructure! Skills Needed *Superb knowledge of Windows OS *Ability to troubleshoot...
Connections Recruitment Ltd.
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Your storage expertise must be commendable with proficiency particularly SAN with iSCSI and Fibre Channel protocols. A clustering exposure is also required for the role so you will...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: Negotiable
Posted: 17 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Your storage expertise must be commendable with proficiency particularly SAN with iSCSI and Fibre Channel protocols. A clustering exposure is also required for the role so you will...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: Negotiable
Posted: 17 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
You will also hold some virtualisation/clustering knowledge with VMWare and Hyper-V alongside any exposure to SharePoint administration/support... It will be desirable to hold relevant certifications...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: Circa 25-35k plus benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Technical Support Engineer is required for a worldwide household name. This company specialises within the technology sector and provide excellent training and career progression. The Technical Services team...
Coal IT Services
Salary: £35,000 per annum Plus Bens
Posted: 20 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Technical Support Engineer is required for a worldwide household name. This company specialises within the technology sector and provide excellent training and career progression. The Technical Services team...
Coal IT Services
Salary: £35,000 per annum Plus Bens
Posted: 20 May 2013