The first table below looks at the demand for PowerHA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PowerHA over the 3 months to 24 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 System Software category for the Chester 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM PowerHA
Rank 23 - 23
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing PowerHA 2 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 1.439% - 0.613%
As % of the System Software category 6.452% - 7.692%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £215 - £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All System Software
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
31 6 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 22.30% 5.128% 7.975%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 3
Average daily rate £358 £390 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% -2.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 0
Average hourly rate £44.90 £14.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+220.71% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
PowerHA
Cheshire

PowerHA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing PowerHA across the Chester region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

Chester PowerHA Jobs Demand Trend

PowerHA
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing PowerHA 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 PowerHA.

1 2 (100.00%) MS Office
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) AIX
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Tru64
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESX
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management

PowerHA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing PowerHA 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 PowerHA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) AIX
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Tru64
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESX
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) VMware