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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
High Availability
Rank 139 143 161
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +18
Permanent jobs citing High Availability 3 2 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.123% 0.079% 0.176%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.160% 0.108% 0.229%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 5
Average salary £40,000 £47,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-15.78% -5.00%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-11.11% +5.88%
All Processes & Methodologies
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1873 1851 2620
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 76.61% 73.08% 76.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1483 1493 2116
Average salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.26% +5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £31,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £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
East of England

High Availability
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire High Availability Salary Trend

High Availability
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Oracle
2 4 (66.67%) SAN
2 4 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 4 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (50.00%) PowerHA
3 3 (50.00%) SUSE
3 3 (50.00%) Brocade
3 3 (50.00%) WebSphere
3 3 (50.00%) VMware ESX
3 3 (50.00%) Backup Exec
3 3 (50.00%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (50.00%) Solaris
3 3 (50.00%) HP
3 3 (50.00%) Tivoli
3 3 (50.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 3 (50.00%) HACMP
3 3 (50.00%) JBoss
3 3 (50.00%) WebSphere Application Server
3 3 (50.00%) UNIX
3 3 (50.00%) Tomcat
3 3 (50.00%) OS/400
3 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (50.00%) IBM
4 2 (33.33%) DNS
4 2 (33.33%) AIX
4 2 (33.33%) HPUX

High Availability
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 (50.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (16.67%) Apache CXF
2 1 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) SOAP
2 1 (16.67%) Web Services
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 3 (50.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (16.67%) MS Exchange
2 1 (16.67%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) SAN
2 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (33.33%) DNS
4 1 (16.67%) Asterisk PBX
4 1 (16.67%) PABX
4 1 (16.67%) VLAN
4 1 (16.67%) Internet
4 1 (16.67%) VoIP
4 1 (16.67%) WLAN
4 1 (16.67%) WAN
4 1 (16.67%) VPN
4 1 (16.67%) DHCP
4 1 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) Git (software)
1 1 (16.67%) Subversion
1 1 (16.67%) Maven
1 1 (16.67%) Ant
General
1 1 (16.67%) Interactive Media
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Technical Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Technical Support
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) SQL DBA
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DBA
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Support
3 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) HACMP
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
2 1 (16.67%) Blog
2 1 (16.67%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (16.67%) iPhone
2 1 (16.67%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (50.00%) SUSE
3 3 (50.00%) Solaris
3 3 (50.00%) UNIX
3 3 (50.00%) OS/400
4 2 (33.33%) AIX
4 2 (33.33%) HPUX
5 1 (16.67%) Android
5 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (16.67%) CentOS
5 1 (16.67%) Fedora
5 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (16.67%) VMS
5 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (33.33%) CRM
2 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Software Deployment
3 1 (16.67%) Release Management
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (16.67%) Security Management
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash shell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) Perl
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
1 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) MCITP
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (16.67%) CCNA
1 1 (16.67%) MCSE
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (50.00%) PowerHA
2 3 (50.00%) VMware ESX
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (16.67%) Xen
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Workstation
3 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Backup Exec
1 3 (50.00%) Tivoli
1 3 (50.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Nagios
2 2 (33.33%) OpenView
3 1 (16.67%) Puppet
3 1 (16.67%) SCCM
3 1 (16.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle
1 4 (66.67%) Red Hat
1 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 3 (50.00%) Brocade
2 3 (50.00%) HP
2 3 (50.00%) JBoss
2 3 (50.00%) IBM
3 1 (16.67%) Kaseya
3 1 (16.67%) Sybase
Hertfordshire, South East
Main Responsibilities:*Installation, configuration and upgrading of Database server software and related products.*Database tuning and performance monitoring.*Application tuning and performance monitoring including creating monitoring and early-...
Hudson
Salary: £40000 - £47500 per annum + Excellent Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 3 May 2013