The first table below looks at the demand for High Availability skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited High Availability over the 3 months to 20 June 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 South East 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
High Availability
Rank 203 224 234
Rank change year-on-year
+21 +10
Contract jobs citing High Availability 14 18 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.172% 0.183% 0.132%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.250% 0.277% 0.206%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 5
Average daily rate £450 £263 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+71.42% -25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £421 £193 £248
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £425 £384
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £375 £395
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -5.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
Average hourly rate - £40.00 £23.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +70.21%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +21.21%
All Processes & Methodologies
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
5604 6490 6784
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 68.87% 66.05% 64.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2911 3097 3144
Average daily rate £375 £370 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.35% -1.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
+2.06% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 310 352
Average hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.35 £12.75 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £47.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.50 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+22.00% -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 South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Berkshire +10 9 £450 +92.51% 2
Surrey +13 2 £460 - 1
Middlesex +6 1 £570 -
West Sussex - 1 £450 -
Hampshire - 1 £500 - 1
Kent - 1 £450 -
Buckinghamshire - - - -
Thames Valley - - - -
Oxfordshire - - - -
High Availability
England

High Availability
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 21 (63.64%) Windows
2 13 (39.39%) Linux
2 13 (39.39%) SAN
3 11 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (33.33%) ITIL
4 10 (30.30%) UNIX
5 9 (27.27%) Degree
6 8 (24.24%) Clustering
6 8 (24.24%) SAP
7 6 (18.18%) AIX
7 6 (18.18%) Solaris
7 6 (18.18%) SQL
7 6 (18.18%) SQL Server
8 5 (15.15%) TCP/IP
8 5 (15.15%) IBM
8 5 (15.15%) Oracle
8 5 (15.15%) Finance
9 4 (12.12%) Agile Software Development
9 4 (12.12%) Management Information System
9 4 (12.12%) SQL Server 2005
9 4 (12.12%) WebSphere
9 4 (12.12%) SQL Server 2008
9 4 (12.12%) DataPower
9 4 (12.12%) MS Excel
9 4 (12.12%) DB2
9 4 (12.12%) SAP Certification
9 4 (12.12%) IBM Certification
9 4 (12.12%) WebSphere MQ
10 3 (9.091%) Informatica
10 3 (9.091%) SMTP

High Availability
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 4 (12.12%) WebSphere
1 4 (12.12%) WebSphere MQ
2 2 (6.061%) Hibernate
2 2 (6.061%) JPA
2 2 (6.061%) JDBC
2 2 (6.061%) Web Services
3 1 (3.030%) Middleware
3 1 (3.030%) ADO.NET
3 1 (3.030%) ASP.NET
3 1 (3.030%) .NET
3 1 (3.030%) EDI
3 1 (3.030%) WF
3 1 (3.030%) LINQ
3 1 (3.030%) SAP PI
3 1 (3.030%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.030%) SAP Basis
3 1 (3.030%) SAP ALE
3 1 (3.030%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (3.030%) LINQ to SQL
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.030%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 4 (12.12%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (6.061%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (3.030%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (3.030%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (3.030%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 13 (39.39%) SAN
2 5 (15.15%) TCP/IP
3 3 (9.091%) SMTP
3 3 (9.091%) HTTP
3 3 (9.091%) Firewall
3 3 (9.091%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (6.061%) FTP
4 2 (6.061%) WAN
4 2 (6.061%) LAN
4 2 (6.061%) DNS
5 1 (3.030%) BGP
5 1 (3.030%) VPN
5 1 (3.030%) Internet
5 1 (3.030%) LDAP
5 1 (3.030%) VoIP
5 1 (3.030%) DHCP
5 1 (3.030%) VLAN
5 1 (3.030%) NAS
5 1 (3.030%) Cisco PIX
5 1 (3.030%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 4 (12.12%) SQL Server 2005
2 4 (12.12%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (12.12%) DB2
3 3 (9.091%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (3.030%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (3.030%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (3.030%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 2 (6.061%) Maven
1 2 (6.061%) Ant
2 1 (3.030%) NWDI
General
1 5 (15.15%) Finance
2 1 (3.030%) Publishing
2 1 (3.030%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (18.18%) DBA
2 5 (15.15%) Architect
2 5 (15.15%) SQL DBA
3 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Manager
3 4 (12.12%) Consultant
4 3 (9.091%) Technical Architect
4 3 (9.091%) SAP Manager
5 2 (6.061%) Designer
5 2 (6.061%) Java Developer
5 2 (6.061%) Oracle DBA
5 2 (6.061%) SQL Server DBA
5 2 (6.061%) Developer
5 2 (6.061%) Operations Manager
6 1 (3.030%) Network Engineer
6 1 (3.030%) Support Engineer
6 1 (3.030%) Administrator
6 1 (3.030%) IT Manager
6 1 (3.030%) Senior Consultant
6 1 (3.030%) SAP Engineer
6 1 (3.030%) Oracle Applications DBA
Miscellaneous
1 8 (24.24%) Clustering
2 4 (12.12%) Management Information System
2 4 (12.12%) DataPower
3 2 (6.061%) Mathematics
3 2 (6.061%) Physics
3 2 (6.061%) Computer Science
3 2 (6.061%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.030%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 21 (63.64%) Windows
2 13 (39.39%) Linux
3 10 (30.30%) UNIX
4 6 (18.18%) AIX
4 6 (18.18%) Solaris
5 2 (6.061%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (3.030%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 11 (33.33%) ITIL
2 4 (12.12%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (9.091%) Migration
3 3 (9.091%) TOGAF
4 2 (6.061%) Multithreading
5 1 (3.030%) Service Delivery
5 1 (3.030%) Change Management
5 1 (3.030%) Project Management
5 1 (3.030%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (3.030%) SOA
5 1 (3.030%) CRM
5 1 (3.030%) E-Commerce
5 1 (3.030%) UML
5 1 (3.030%) OOA/OOD
5 1 (3.030%) OO
5 1 (3.030%) SAP Implementation
5 1 (3.030%) Unit Testing
5 1 (3.030%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (3.030%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.18%) SQL
2 2 (6.061%) Java
3 1 (3.030%) C#
3 1 (3.030%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 9 (27.27%) Degree
2 4 (12.12%) SAP Certification
2 4 (12.12%) IBM Certification
3 1 (3.030%) CCIE
3 1 (3.030%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.030%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.030%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (9.091%) SRDF
2 2 (6.061%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.030%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.030%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (3.030%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.030%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (3.030%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (6.061%) SCVMM
2 1 (3.030%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 8 (24.24%) SAP
2 5 (15.15%) IBM
2 5 (15.15%) Oracle
3 3 (9.091%) Informatica
3 3 (9.091%) VMware
4 2 (6.061%) Cisco
5 1 (3.030%) Business Objects
5 1 (3.030%) Sybase
5 1 (3.030%) F5
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