The first table below looks at the demand for High Availability skills in IT contracts advertised for the 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 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
High Availability
Rank 330 355 372
Rank change year-on-year
+25 +17
Contract jobs citing High Availability 59 50 58
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.268% 0.185% 0.189%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.359% 0.258% 0.265%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 26 31
Average daily rate £475 £350 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+35.71% -30.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £367 £275 £375
10% offered a daily rate of more than £570 £500 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £570 £365 £398
% change year-on-year
+56.16% -8.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £42.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 £48.75 £33.00
% change year-on-year
-12.82% +47.72%
All Processes & Methodologies
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
16430 19385 21875
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 74.58% 71.84% 71.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11280 12741 14396
Average daily rate £450 £450 £483
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £305
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 335 346
Average hourly rate £31.00 £27.50 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.72% -1.78%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £45.00 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
High Availability
England

High Availability
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 London region.

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 London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 21 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
City of London +19 16 £425 +13.33%
Uxbridge - 8 £543 -
Brentford - 1 £475 -
High Availability
England

High Availability
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 58 (46.03%) Windows
2 53 (42.06%) Linux
3 51 (40.48%) UNIX
4 43 (34.13%) SAN
5 37 (29.37%) SQL
6 36 (28.57%) Red Hat
6 36 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 31 (24.60%) SQL Server
8 27 (21.43%) Migration
9 26 (20.63%) Oracle
10 25 (19.84%) ITIL
11 23 (18.25%) HP
11 23 (18.25%) Clustering
12 22 (17.46%) Finance
13 19 (15.08%) Solaris
14 18 (14.29%) Active Directory
14 18 (14.29%) Load Balancing
15 17 (13.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 17 (13.49%) VMware
15 17 (13.49%) Internet
15 17 (13.49%) Disaster Recovery
15 17 (13.49%) SAP
16 16 (12.70%) Web Services
16 16 (12.70%) Microsoft
16 16 (12.70%) Degree
16 16 (12.70%) Security Cleared
16 16 (12.70%) NAS
17 15 (11.90%) VMware Infrastructure
17 15 (11.90%) Shell Script
18 14 (11.11%) Banking

High Availability
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 16 (12.70%) Web Services
2 8 (6.349%) .NET
3 3 (2.381%) ASP.NET
3 3 (2.381%) Middleware
3 3 (2.381%) SAP Basis
4 2 (1.587%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.587%) Flash
5 1 (0.794%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 1 (0.794%) STL
5 1 (0.794%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.794%) FIX Protocol
Application Platforms
1 11 (8.730%) MS Exchange
2 9 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2010
3 7 (5.556%) IIS
4 6 (4.762%) Exchange Server 2003
4 6 (4.762%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 6 (4.762%) SharePoint
4 6 (4.762%) SharePoint 2010
4 6 (4.762%) Lync
5 5 (3.968%) Windows Azure
5 5 (3.968%) Amazon AWS
6 4 (3.175%) WebLogic
7 2 (1.587%) Confluence
8 1 (0.794%) WebSphere Portal
8 1 (0.794%) Apache
8 1 (0.794%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.794%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 1 (0.794%) WebSphere MQ
8 1 (0.794%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.794%) WebSphere Process Server
8 1 (0.794%) ESB
Applications
1 2 (1.587%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.794%) MS Project
2 1 (0.794%) MS Office
2 1 (0.794%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (6.349%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.381%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 43 (34.13%) SAN
2 17 (13.49%) Internet
3 16 (12.70%) NAS
4 13 (10.32%) Firewall
5 12 (9.524%) DNS
6 9 (7.143%) LAN
6 9 (7.143%) WAN
6 9 (7.143%) TCP/IP
6 9 (7.143%) NetScaler
7 6 (4.762%) OSPF
7 6 (4.762%) BGP
7 6 (4.762%) SSL
8 5 (3.968%) S/MIME
9 3 (2.381%) Fibre Channel
9 3 (2.381%) LDAP
9 3 (2.381%) DHCP
9 3 (2.381%) DECnet
10 1 (0.794%) HTTP
10 1 (0.794%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (24.60%) SQL Server
2 17 (13.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 13 (10.32%) Oracle 11g
4 12 (9.524%) Oracle 10g
4 12 (9.524%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (8.730%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 11 (8.730%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (7.143%) SQLPlus
6 9 (7.143%) SQL Server 2008
6 9 (7.143%) SQL Server 2012
7 6 (4.762%) SQL Server 2005
8 5 (3.968%) DTS
8 5 (3.968%) Oracle 9i
8 5 (3.968%) MySQL
9 3 (2.381%) DB2
9 3 (2.381%) Oracle 8/8i
10 2 (1.587%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.794%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (2.381%) Visual Studio
2 2 (1.587%) JIRA
General
1 22 (17.46%) Finance
2 14 (11.11%) Banking
3 9 (7.143%) Investment Banking
4 6 (4.762%) Front Office
5 4 (3.175%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.587%) Retail Banking
6 2 (1.587%) Retail
6 2 (1.587%) Advertising
7 1 (0.794%) Legal
7 1 (0.794%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.794%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (27.78%) DBA
2 16 (12.70%) Oracle DBA
2 16 (12.70%) SQL DBA
3 12 (9.524%) Administrator
3 12 (9.524%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (8.730%) UNIX Engineer
4 11 (8.730%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 11 (8.730%) Linux Engineer
5 7 (5.556%) Architect
5 7 (5.556%) Analyst
6 6 (4.762%) Migration Engineer
7 5 (3.968%) Developer
7 5 (3.968%) Systems Engineer
7 5 (3.968%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 5 (3.968%) ScrumMaster
8 4 (3.175%) Active Directory Specialist
8 4 (3.175%) Messaging Specialist
8 4 (3.175%) SQL Server DBA
8 4 (3.175%) Consultant
8 4 (3.175%) Windows Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 23 (18.25%) Clustering
2 7 (5.556%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (5.556%) Equities
2 7 (5.556%) CLARiiON
2 7 (5.556%) Replication
2 7 (5.556%) Derivative
3 6 (4.762%) Computer Science
3 6 (4.762%) Blackberry
3 6 (4.762%) SaaS
4 3 (2.381%) Mathematics
5 2 (1.587%) Physics
5 2 (1.587%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (1.587%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.794%) HP StorageWorks
6 1 (0.794%) IaaS
6 1 (0.794%) Digital Media
6 1 (0.794%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.794%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.794%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.794%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 58 (46.03%) Windows
2 53 (42.06%) Linux
3 51 (40.48%) UNIX
4 36 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (15.08%) Solaris
6 9 (7.143%) HPUX
7 6 (4.762%) Windows Server 2008
8 4 (3.175%) CentOS
8 4 (3.175%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (3.175%) AIX
9 3 (2.381%) Windows 7
9 3 (2.381%) VMS
9 3 (2.381%) OpenVMS
10 1 (0.794%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.794%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (21.43%) Migration
2 25 (19.84%) ITIL
3 18 (14.29%) Load Balancing
4 17 (13.49%) Disaster Recovery
5 13 (10.32%) Configuration Management
6 10 (7.937%) Data Modelling
6 10 (7.937%) PRINCE2
7 9 (7.143%) E-Commerce
8 8 (6.349%) Change Control
8 8 (6.349%) Information Security
9 6 (4.762%) Problem Management
9 6 (4.762%) Agile Software Development
10 5 (3.968%) Root Cause Analysis
10 5 (3.968%) Network Architecture
10 5 (3.968%) BDD
10 5 (3.968%) SOA
10 5 (3.968%) BCP
10 5 (3.968%) Scrum
10 5 (3.968%) TDD
11 4 (3.175%) OO
Programming Languages
1 37 (29.37%) SQL
2 15 (11.90%) Shell Script
3 9 (7.143%) Java
4 8 (6.349%) Perl
5 3 (2.381%) VB
5 3 (2.381%) DCL
6 2 (1.587%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.587%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.587%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.587%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.587%) C#
7 1 (0.794%) Bash shell
7 1 (0.794%) C++
7 1 (0.794%) C
7 1 (0.794%) Python
7 1 (0.794%) Korn
Qualifications
1 16 (12.70%) Degree
1 16 (12.70%) Security Cleared
2 12 (9.524%) DV Cleared
3 5 (3.968%) CCNP
3 5 (3.968%) CCNA
3 5 (3.968%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (3.968%) OCP
3 5 (3.968%) Oracle Certification
4 3 (2.381%) SAP Certification
4 3 (2.381%) RHCE
4 3 (2.381%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.381%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (2.381%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.587%) CCA
5 2 (1.587%) Citrix Certification
5 2 (1.587%) MCDBA
5 2 (1.587%) CCEE
6 1 (0.794%) VTSP
6 1 (0.794%) Microsoft Certified Master
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.730%) SLA
2 3 (2.381%) QA
System Software
1 18 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 15 (11.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (10.32%) Oracle RMAN
3 13 (10.32%) Oracle RAC
4 9 (7.143%) VMware ESX
5 7 (5.556%) ProxySG
6 5 (3.968%) XenServer
6 5 (3.968%) UAG
7 3 (2.381%) Hyper-V
7 3 (2.381%) vSphere
7 3 (2.381%) NFS
8 2 (1.587%) XenApp
8 2 (1.587%) SRDF
9 1 (0.794%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.794%) Tivoli Directory Server
9 1 (0.794%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 13 (10.32%) Data Guard
2 8 (6.349%) Nagios
3 6 (4.762%) SCCM
3 6 (4.762%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 5 (3.968%) SCOM
5 3 (2.381%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (1.587%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.794%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.794%) Legato
7 1 (0.794%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.794%) Oracle Statspack
7 1 (0.794%) BMC Performance Manager
Vendors
1 36 (28.57%) Red Hat
2 26 (20.63%) Oracle
3 23 (18.25%) HP
4 17 (13.49%) VMware
4 17 (13.49%) SAP
5 16 (12.70%) Microsoft
6 12 (9.524%) Citrix
7 11 (8.730%) Cisco
7 11 (8.730%) EMC
7 11 (8.730%) Sun
7 11 (8.730%) Veritas
8 9 (7.143%) IBM
8 9 (7.143%) Symantec
9 8 (6.349%) F5
10 7 (5.556%) Blue Coat
11 6 (4.762%) Infoblox
12 5 (3.968%) Websense
13 4 (3.175%) Juniper
13 4 (3.175%) CheckPoint
14 2 (1.587%) Informatica