The first table below looks at the demand for High Availability skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited High Availability 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Berkshire 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
High Availability
Rank 119 122 132
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +10
Contract jobs citing High Availability 2 16 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.083% 0.508% 0.099%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.126% 0.801% 0.158%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 1
Average daily rate £500 £240 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+108.33% -40.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £570 £370 £398
% change year-on-year
+54.05% -6.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 £42.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- +30.76%
All Processes & Methodologies
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1584 1998 1900
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 65.97% 63.41% 62.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 766 757
Average daily rate £388 £370 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.72% +5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 61 78
Average hourly rate £17.33 £20.00 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.37% -36.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.50 £11.40 £13.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £50.00 £47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
High Availability
South East

High Availability
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing High Availability across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Berkshire High Availability Jobs Demand Trend

High Availability
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing High Availability across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire High Availability Daily Rate Trend

High Availability
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing High Availability across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire High Availability Hourly Rate Trend

High Availability
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing High Availability within the Berkshire 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
Maidenhead - 1 - -
High Availability
South East

High Availability
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing High Availability 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 High Availability.

1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Ant
1 1 (50.00%) JDBC
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (50.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (50.00%) SMTP
1 1 (50.00%) FTP
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (50.00%) JPA
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle EBS R12

High Availability
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing High Availability 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 High Availability. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) JDBC
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (50.00%) JPA
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) SMTP
1 1 (50.00%) FTP
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Ant
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Applications DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle