The first table below looks at the demand for High Availability skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West 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 North West 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 - 111 123
Contract jobs citing High Availability 0 18 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West - 0.577% 0.129%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 0.935% 0.199%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 12 2
Average daily rate - £375 £348
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.91%
UK excluding London average daily rate £570 £370 £398
% change year-on-year
+54.05% -6.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 £42.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- +30.76%
All Processes & Methodologies
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1664 1925 2014
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 70.99% 61.66% 64.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 821 991 1044
Average daily rate £350 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £238 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 84 96
Average hourly rate £21.00 £18.25 £20.30
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.06% -10.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.25 £13.35 £12.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £52.47 £37.50 £38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
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 North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region.

North West High Availability Hourly Rate Trend

High Availability
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Management

High Availability
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
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