The first table below looks at the demand for High Availability skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited High Availability over the 3 months to 17 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 Kent 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
High Availability
Rank 35 - 44
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing High Availability 3 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 0.980% - 0.313%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.508% - 0.543%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £450 - £363
UK excluding London average daily rate £570 £350 £400
% change year-on-year
+62.85% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 £48.75 £33.00
% change year-on-year
-12.82% +47.72%
All Processes & Methodologies
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
199 181 184
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 65.03% 68.30% 57.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 96 108
Average daily rate £303 £325 £293
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.92% +11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £253 £138 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 15
Average hourly rate £19.39 £17.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.80% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.15 £8.75 £15.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £53.25 £67.50 £49.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
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 Kent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent High Availability Hourly Rate Trend

High Availability
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 4 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) Clustering
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2012
2 3 (75.00%) SRDF
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (75.00%) MS Excel
2 3 (75.00%) Finance
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
4 1 (25.00%) Replication
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft

High Availability
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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.

Applications
1 3 (75.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2012
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) SQL DBA
1 4 (100.00%) DBA
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server DBA
3 1 (25.00%) Senior DBA
3 1 (25.00%) Senior SQL Server DBA
3 1 (25.00%) Senior SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Clustering
2 1 (25.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) SRDF
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft