The first table below looks at the demand for High Availability skills in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited High Availability over the 3 months to 22 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 Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
High Availability
Rank 183 193 186
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -7
Permanent jobs citing High Availability 34 28 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.651% 0.447% 0.058%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.937% 0.638% 0.085%
Number of salaries quoted 7 20 3
Average salary £47,500 £55,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.63% +22.22%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,600 £45,000 £39,400
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £55,000 £57,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-11.11% +5.88%
All Processes & Methodologies
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
3629 4386 3517
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 69.49% 70.08% 68.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2775 3701 2926
Average salary £47,000 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.44% -
90% offered a salary of more than £32,000 £31,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
High Availability
South East

High Availability
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire High Availability Jobs Demand Trend

High Availability
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing High Availability across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire High Availability Salary Trend

High Availability
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing High Availability across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Berkshire High Availability Salary Histogram

High Availability
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing High Availability within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Bracknell +4 30 £47,500 -
Reading -2 1 £47,500 -5.00%
Slough - 1 £45,000 -
High Availability
South East

High Availability
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited High Availability.

1 95 (97.94%) Windows
2 90 (92.78%) Microsoft
3 86 (88.66%) SC Cleared
3 86 (88.66%) Security Cleared
4 85 (87.63%) Retail
4 85 (87.63%) Active Directory
4 85 (87.63%) Finance
5 84 (86.60%) Telecoms
5 84 (86.60%) MS Exchange
6 81 (83.51%) Fujitsu
7 75 (77.32%) Clustering
8 72 (74.23%) Replication
9 63 (64.95%) Exchange Server 2003
9 63 (64.95%) Exchange Server 2010
10 61 (62.89%) Windows XP
11 59 (60.82%) Incident Management
12 57 (58.76%) MS Excel
13 51 (52.58%) ITIL
14 50 (51.55%) Blackberry
14 50 (51.55%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 50 (51.55%) Live Communications Server
15 49 (50.52%) Enterprise Software
16 41 (42.27%) NetBackup
16 41 (42.27%) Veritas
17 35 (36.08%) Windows Server 2003
18 31 (31.96%) SAN
19 27 (27.84%) NAS
20 25 (25.77%) CLARiiON
20 25 (25.77%) EMC
20 25 (25.77%) Cisco

High Availability
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited High Availability. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (13.40%) Windows SharePoint Services
2 2 (2.062%) Middleware
3 1 (1.031%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 84 (86.60%) MS Exchange
2 63 (64.95%) Exchange Server 2003
2 63 (64.95%) Exchange Server 2010
3 50 (51.55%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 50 (51.55%) Live Communications Server
4 14 (14.43%) Apache
5 13 (13.40%) SharePoint
5 13 (13.40%) IIS
6 2 (2.062%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (1.031%) Tomcat
Applications
1 57 (58.76%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.062%) Oracle 11i
1 2 (2.062%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (2.062%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 31 (31.96%) SAN
2 27 (27.84%) NAS
3 13 (13.40%) DNS
4 12 (12.37%) DHCP
5 6 (6.186%) LAN
5 6 (6.186%) WAN
6 3 (3.093%) Internet
7 2 (2.062%) Unified Communications
8 1 (1.031%) HTTP
8 1 (1.031%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.062%) Oracle 10g
1 2 (2.062%) Oracle 8/8i
1 2 (2.062%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (1.031%) SQL Server
General
1 85 (87.63%) Retail
1 85 (87.63%) Finance
2 84 (86.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (51.55%) Support Engineer
2 36 (37.11%) Messaging Engineer
3 22 (22.68%) Storage Engineer
3 22 (22.68%) Storage Support Engineer
4 21 (21.65%) Security Engineer
5 20 (20.62%) Senior Security Engineer
6 13 (13.40%) Exchange Engineer
7 9 (9.278%) Messaging Support Engineer
8 8 (8.247%) Consultant
9 6 (6.186%) Junior
9 6 (6.186%) Trainee
9 6 (6.186%) Junior Support Engineer
10 3 (3.093%) DBA
11 2 (2.062%) Solutions Architect
11 2 (2.062%) Architect
11 2 (2.062%) Exchange Specialist
11 2 (2.062%) Infrastructure Architect
11 2 (2.062%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 2 (2.062%) Design Engineer
11 2 (2.062%) Oracle DBA
Miscellaneous
1 75 (77.32%) Clustering
2 72 (74.23%) Replication
3 50 (51.55%) Blackberry
4 49 (50.52%) Enterprise Software
5 25 (25.77%) CLARiiON
6 23 (23.71%) Symmetrix
7 12 (12.37%) Statistics
8 2 (2.062%) Celerra
8 2 (2.062%) EqualLogic
9 1 (1.031%) Social Media
9 1 (1.031%) Open Source
9 1 (1.031%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 95 (97.94%) Windows
2 61 (62.89%) Windows XP
3 35 (36.08%) Windows Server 2003
4 9 (9.278%) Linux
5 8 (8.247%) UNIX
6 6 (6.186%) Solaris
7 2 (2.062%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (2.062%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (1.031%) CentOS
8 1 (1.031%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (60.82%) Incident Management
2 51 (52.58%) ITIL
3 11 (11.34%) Time Management
4 7 (7.216%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (6.186%) Migration
5 6 (6.186%) Data Protection
5 6 (6.186%) Load Balancing
6 1 (1.031%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 24 (24.74%) SQL
2 2 (2.062%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.031%) C#
3 1 (1.031%) Java
3 1 (1.031%) Perl
3 1 (1.031%) T-SQL
3 1 (1.031%) VB.NET
3 1 (1.031%) Python
Qualifications
1 86 (88.66%) SC Cleared
1 86 (88.66%) Security Cleared
2 13 (13.40%) DV Cleared
3 8 (8.247%) NCDA
3 8 (8.247%) NCIE
4 2 (2.062%) Citrix Certification
4 2 (2.062%) MCITP
4 2 (2.062%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (2.062%) HP ASE
4 2 (2.062%) HP MASE
4 2 (2.062%) VCDX
4 2 (2.062%) CCEE
4 2 (2.062%) CCIA
5 1 (1.031%) VCAP
5 1 (1.031%) HP AIS
5 1 (1.031%) MCTS
5 1 (1.031%) CCEA
System Software
1 85 (87.63%) Active Directory
2 22 (22.68%) SRDF
3 19 (19.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (13.40%) ISA Server
5 8 (8.247%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.062%) VMware ESX
6 2 (2.062%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (2.062%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (2.062%) XenApp
6 2 (2.062%) XenServer
6 2 (2.062%) XenDesktop
6 2 (2.062%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (42.27%) NetBackup
2 22 (22.68%) EMC TimeFinder
3 13 (13.40%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 2 (2.062%) SCCM
4 2 (2.062%) SCOM
4 2 (2.062%) SCVMM
4 2 (2.062%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.031%) Puppet
5 1 (1.031%) Nagios
Vendors
1 90 (92.78%) Microsoft
2 81 (83.51%) Fujitsu
3 41 (42.27%) Veritas
4 25 (25.77%) EMC
4 25 (25.77%) Cisco
5 23 (23.71%) HP
5 23 (23.71%) Dell
6 21 (21.65%) Citrix
6 21 (21.65%) StorageTek
6 21 (21.65%) Symantec
7 20 (20.62%) VMware
8 8 (8.247%) NetApp
9 3 (3.093%) Red Hat
10 2 (2.062%) Oracle
11 1 (1.031%) JBoss
Slough, Thames Valley
Good working knowledge of T-SQL and SQL management tools Experience in troubleshooting and resolving database problems... Knowledge of High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) Experience in...
Brightred Resourcing
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + bonus and benefits
Posted: 11 May 2013
Slough, Berkshire
Maintain healthy High Availability database operations within clustered, mirrored, log shipping, replication or other HA solution... Good working knowledge of T-SQL and SQL management tools... Knowledge of...
Brightred Resourcing Limited
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + bonus and benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013