The first table below looks at the demand for High Availability skills in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Chester region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
High Availability
Rank 47 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing High Availability 5 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 1.412% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.678% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Average salary £47,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-11.11% +5.88%
All Processes & Methodologies
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
298 116 169
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 84.18% 72.50% 71.91%
Number of salaries quoted 162 96 164
Average salary £37,750 £37,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.02% -7.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
High Availability
Cheshire

High Availability
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester High Availability Salary Trend

High Availability
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 14 (87.50%) Replication
2 12 (75.00%) Clustering
2 12 (75.00%) SQL
3 10 (62.50%) OLTP
4 8 (50.00%) E-Commerce
4 8 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
5 7 (43.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (43.75%) HTTP
5 7 (43.75%) SQL Server
6 6 (37.50%) ETL
6 6 (37.50%) Finance
6 6 (37.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (31.25%) Migration
7 5 (31.25%) OLAP
8 3 (18.75%) MS Project
8 3 (18.75%) MS Office
8 3 (18.75%) Oracle 9i
8 3 (18.75%) Flash
8 3 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (18.75%) RDBMS
8 3 (18.75%) SLA
8 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
8 3 (18.75%) Oracle 10g
8 3 (18.75%) Sun
8 3 (18.75%) OCP
8 3 (18.75%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (18.75%) Veritas
8 3 (18.75%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (18.75%) Oracle
8 3 (18.75%) MS Visio

High Availability
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 3 (18.75%) Flash
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) MS Project
1 3 (18.75%) MS Office
1 3 (18.75%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 7 (43.75%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (62.50%) OLTP
2 7 (43.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 7 (43.75%) SQL Server
3 6 (37.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (31.25%) OLAP
5 3 (18.75%) Oracle 9i
5 3 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (18.75%) RDBMS
5 3 (18.75%) Oracle 10g
6 2 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
6 2 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
7 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2012
7 1 (6.250%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (6.250%) Hadoop
7 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2000
7 1 (6.250%) DTS
General
1 6 (37.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Developer
1 12 (75.00%) SQL Developer
2 11 (68.75%) DBA
3 8 (50.00%) SQL DBA
4 3 (18.75%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (6.250%) Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Data Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Administrator
5 1 (6.250%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 14 (87.50%) Replication
2 12 (75.00%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 8 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (37.50%) ETL
3 5 (31.25%) Migration
4 3 (18.75%) Release Management
4 3 (18.75%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (18.75%) Capacity Management
4 3 (18.75%) Database Security
5 1 (6.250%) Business Analysis
5 1 (6.250%) Data Transformation
5 1 (6.250%) Data Migration
5 1 (6.250%) Data Validation
5 1 (6.250%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (6.250%) T-SQL
2 1 (6.250%) PowerHouse
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) OCP
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle RMAN
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
1 3 (18.75%) Sun
1 3 (18.75%) Veritas
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle