The first table below looks at the demand for High Availability skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London 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 City of London 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 184 207 239
Rank change year-on-year
+23 +32
Contract jobs citing High Availability 15 12 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.236% 0.152% 0.060%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.322% 0.213% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 3
Average daily rate £425 £375 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% -21.05%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £363 £250 £327
10% offered a daily rate of more than £485 £503 £615
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
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
4658 5642 7164
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 73.33% 71.67% 71.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3513 4087 5301
Average daily rate £450 £460 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 94 100
Average hourly rate £41.50 £22.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+84.44% -10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.90 £15.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £47.50 £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
High Availability
London

High Availability
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London High Availability Daily Rate Trend

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing High Availability across the City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London High Availability Daily Rate Histogram

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 City of London region.

City of London High Availability Hourly Rate Trend

High Availability
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 13 (50.00%) SQL
1 13 (50.00%) Linux
2 12 (46.15%) Red Hat
2 12 (46.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (42.31%) Oracle
4 9 (34.62%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (34.62%) Oracle 10g
4 9 (34.62%) Oracle RAC
4 9 (34.62%) Oracle 11g
4 9 (34.62%) Security Cleared
4 9 (34.62%) Oracle RMAN
5 8 (30.77%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (30.77%) Data Guard
5 8 (30.77%) DV Cleared
5 8 (30.77%) Shell Script
5 8 (30.77%) Nagios
5 8 (30.77%) Java
6 7 (26.92%) SQL Server
6 7 (26.92%) UNIX
6 7 (26.92%) Finance
7 6 (23.08%) Windows
8 5 (19.23%) VMware
9 4 (15.38%) Migration
9 4 (15.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (15.38%) Load Balancing
9 4 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
9 4 (15.38%) SAN
9 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
9 4 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
10 3 (11.54%) Configuration Management

High Availability
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 3 (11.54%) .NET
2 1 (3.846%) Middleware
2 1 (3.846%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 3 (11.54%) MS Exchange
1 3 (11.54%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (7.692%) Lync
2 2 (7.692%) SharePoint 2010
2 2 (7.692%) IIS
2 2 (7.692%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.692%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 1 (3.846%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (30.77%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (3.846%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) SAN
2 3 (11.54%) DNS
3 2 (7.692%) NetScaler
3 2 (7.692%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.846%) Firewall
4 1 (3.846%) OSPF
4 1 (3.846%) BGP
4 1 (3.846%) S/MIME
4 1 (3.846%) Internet
4 1 (3.846%) LAN
4 1 (3.846%) WAN
4 1 (3.846%) DHCP
4 1 (3.846%) SNMP
4 1 (3.846%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (34.62%) Data Warehouse
1 9 (34.62%) Oracle 10g
1 9 (34.62%) Oracle 11g
2 7 (26.92%) SQL Server
3 4 (15.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (11.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (11.54%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (11.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (7.692%) SQLPlus
5 2 (7.692%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (7.692%) SQL Server 2012
6 1 (3.846%) DTS
6 1 (3.846%) MySQL
General
1 7 (26.92%) Finance
2 3 (11.54%) Banking
3 2 (7.692%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.846%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.846%) Advertising
4 1 (3.846%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (53.85%) DBA
2 7 (26.92%) Oracle DBA
3 5 (19.23%) SQL DBA
4 3 (11.54%) Administrator
5 2 (7.692%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 2 (7.692%) Architect
6 1 (3.846%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 1 (3.846%) Analyst
6 1 (3.846%) Consultant
6 1 (3.846%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (3.846%) Teradata DBA
6 1 (3.846%) Business Intelligence Architect
6 1 (3.846%) UNIX Engineer
6 1 (3.846%) Citrix Engineer
6 1 (3.846%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (3.846%) SQL Server DBA
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Clustering
2 2 (7.692%) Blackberry
3 1 (3.846%) SaaS
3 1 (3.846%) HP StorageWorks
3 1 (3.846%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 13 (50.00%) Linux
2 12 (46.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (26.92%) UNIX
4 6 (23.08%) Windows
5 2 (7.692%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (7.692%) Solaris
6 1 (3.846%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (3.846%) HPUX
6 1 (3.846%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (15.38%) Migration
1 4 (15.38%) Load Balancing
1 4 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (11.54%) Configuration Management
2 3 (11.54%) Data Modelling
2 3 (11.54%) ITIL
3 2 (7.692%) Asset Management
3 2 (7.692%) Network Load Balancing
3 2 (7.692%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (7.692%) PRINCE2
4 1 (3.846%) Project Management
4 1 (3.846%) E-Commerce
4 1 (3.846%) ERP
4 1 (3.846%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (3.846%) ETL
4 1 (3.846%) CRM
4 1 (3.846%) Dimensional Modelling
4 1 (3.846%) Data Migration
4 1 (3.846%) Data Architecture
4 1 (3.846%) Database Security
Programming Languages
1 13 (50.00%) SQL
2 8 (30.77%) Shell Script
2 8 (30.77%) Java
3 2 (7.692%) Perl
3 2 (7.692%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.846%) Python
4 1 (3.846%) Bash shell
4 1 (3.846%) Korn
Qualifications
1 9 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 8 (30.77%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.846%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.846%) Microsoft Certified Master
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.692%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (34.62%) Oracle RAC
1 9 (34.62%) Oracle RMAN
2 4 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
3 3 (11.54%) VMware ESX
4 1 (3.846%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.846%) vSphere
4 1 (3.846%) UAG
4 1 (3.846%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) Data Guard
1 8 (30.77%) Nagios
2 2 (7.692%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 2 (7.692%) SCCM
3 1 (3.846%) Legato
3 1 (3.846%) SCOM
3 1 (3.846%) BMC Performance Manager
Vendors
1 12 (46.15%) Red Hat
2 11 (42.31%) Oracle
3 5 (19.23%) VMware
4 3 (11.54%) Symantec
4 3 (11.54%) HP
4 3 (11.54%) Citrix
4 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.846%) Websense
5 1 (3.846%) Sun
5 1 (3.846%) EMC
5 1 (3.846%) BMC
5 1 (3.846%) Veritas
5 1 (3.846%) Cisco
5 1 (3.846%) SAP
5 1 (3.846%) Infoblox
5 1 (3.846%) F5
5 1 (3.846%) Netezza
5 1 (3.846%) Blue Coat
5 1 (3.846%) Ab Initio