The first table below looks at the demand for High Availability skills in IT contracts advertised for the Watford 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 Watford 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 - - -
Contract jobs citing High Availability 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford - - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £375 £395
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -5.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +21.21%
All Processes & Methodologies
Watford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
50 78 59
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford 64.10% 83.87% 59.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 21 22
Average daily rate £450 £350 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.57% -15.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £290 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £450 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
+2.06% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Average hourly rate - £12.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.50 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+22.00% -13.79%
High Availability
Hertfordshire

High Availability
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford 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%) VB
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008

High Availability
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford 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 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior .NET Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) VB
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
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