The first table below looks at the demand for High Availability skills in IT jobs advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited High Availability over the 3 months to 24 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 Leeds region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
High Availability
Rank 139 121 115
Rank change year-on-year
-18 -6
Permanent jobs citing High Availability 9 13 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 0.346% 0.623% 0.270%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.437% 0.785% 0.370%
Number of salaries quoted 5 5 0
Average salary £32,500 £42,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-22.61% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-11.11% +5.88%
All Processes & Methodologies
Leeds
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
2058 1657 1350
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 79.21% 79.43% 72.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1628 1411 1150
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £49,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
High Availability
West Yorkshire

High Availability
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds High Availability Salary Trend

High Availability
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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 27 (84.38%) Linux
2 24 (75.00%) Oracle
2 24 (75.00%) Oracle 10g
2 24 (75.00%) Oracle RAC
2 24 (75.00%) Oracle 11g
2 24 (75.00%) Data Guard
3 17 (53.13%) Disaster Recovery
4 16 (50.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 16 (50.00%) UNIX
5 15 (46.88%) Windows
6 14 (43.75%) SQL
7 10 (31.25%) SAN
8 9 (28.13%) Finance
8 9 (28.13%) SQL Server
9 8 (25.00%) AIX
9 8 (25.00%) Oracle 9i
9 8 (25.00%) Oracle RMAN
9 8 (25.00%) Shell Script
9 8 (25.00%) PL/SQL
9 8 (25.00%) Database Security
10 6 (18.75%) Windows Server 2008
10 6 (18.75%) ITIL
11 5 (15.63%) Perl
11 5 (15.63%) Windows Server 2003
11 5 (15.63%) VMware
11 5 (15.63%) Oracle APEX
12 4 (12.50%) vSphere
12 4 (12.50%) XenServer
12 4 (12.50%) MCITP
12 4 (12.50%) Clustering

High Availability
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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 2 (6.250%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (9.375%) SharePoint
1 3 (9.375%) MS Exchange
1 3 (9.375%) SharePoint Server
2 2 (6.250%) IIS
3 1 (3.125%) Lync
Applications
1 2 (6.250%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (31.25%) SAN
2 4 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 4 (12.50%) DNS
3 3 (9.375%) SMTP
3 3 (9.375%) DHCP
3 3 (9.375%) FTP
3 3 (9.375%) HTTP
3 3 (9.375%) SSH
4 2 (6.250%) Unified Communications
4 2 (6.250%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (6.250%) BIG-IP
5 1 (3.125%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (75.00%) Oracle 10g
1 24 (75.00%) Oracle 11g
2 9 (28.13%) SQL Server
3 8 (25.00%) Oracle 9i
4 3 (9.375%) RDBMS
4 3 (9.375%) Informix
4 3 (9.375%) DB2
5 2 (6.250%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (6.250%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (6.250%) SQL Server 2000
6 1 (3.125%) MySQL
6 1 (3.125%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (3.125%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (3.125%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (3.125%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (3.125%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Oracle APEX
General
1 9 (28.13%) Finance
Job Titles
1 26 (81.25%) DBA
2 24 (75.00%) Oracle DBA
3 19 (59.38%) Consultant
4 16 (50.00%) Oracle Consultant
5 9 (28.13%) Administrator
6 3 (9.375%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (6.250%) Windows Systems Engineer
7 2 (6.250%) Virtualisation Consultant
7 2 (6.250%) Windows Server Engineer
7 2 (6.250%) SQL Server DBA
7 2 (6.250%) SQL DBA
7 2 (6.250%) Server Engineer
8 1 (3.125%) Server Administrator
8 1 (3.125%) Software Consultant
8 1 (3.125%) VMware Consultant
8 1 (3.125%) Teradata DBA
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Clustering
2 2 (6.250%) EqualLogic
2 2 (6.250%) Celerra
2 2 (6.250%) CLARiiON
2 2 (6.250%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 27 (84.38%) Linux
2 16 (50.00%) UNIX
3 15 (46.88%) Windows
4 8 (25.00%) AIX
5 6 (18.75%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (15.63%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (9.375%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (53.13%) Disaster Recovery
2 8 (25.00%) Database Security
3 6 (18.75%) ITIL
4 3 (9.375%) Project Management
5 1 (3.125%) Configuration Management
5 1 (3.125%) Service Management
5 1 (3.125%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (3.125%) ITIL V3
Programming Languages
1 14 (43.75%) SQL
2 8 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 8 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 5 (15.63%) Perl
4 2 (6.250%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.125%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) MCITP
2 2 (6.250%) CCEE
2 2 (6.250%) CCIA
2 2 (6.250%) NCDA
2 2 (6.250%) NCIE
2 2 (6.250%) HP ASE
2 2 (6.250%) HP MASE
2 2 (6.250%) VCDX
2 2 (6.250%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (6.250%) Citrix Certification
2 2 (6.250%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (6.250%) MCSE
2 2 (6.250%) MCP
3 1 (3.125%) CCEA
3 1 (3.125%) MCTS
3 1 (3.125%) HP AIS
3 1 (3.125%) VCAP
System Software
1 24 (75.00%) Oracle RAC
2 8 (25.00%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (12.50%) vSphere
3 4 (12.50%) XenServer
3 4 (12.50%) Active Directory
4 3 (9.375%) Hyper-V
4 3 (9.375%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (6.250%) XenApp
5 2 (6.250%) XenDesktop
5 2 (6.250%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 24 (75.00%) Data Guard
2 16 (50.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (9.375%) Oracle Statspack
3 3 (9.375%) HP SiteScope
4 2 (6.250%) SCCM
4 2 (6.250%) SCOM
4 2 (6.250%) SCVMM
5 1 (3.125%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 24 (75.00%) Oracle
2 5 (15.63%) VMware
3 4 (12.50%) NetApp
3 4 (12.50%) Cisco
3 4 (12.50%) Citrix
4 3 (9.375%) HP
4 3 (9.375%) Microsoft
5 2 (6.250%) F5
5 2 (6.250%) Brocade
5 2 (6.250%) Juniper
5 2 (6.250%) Dell
5 2 (6.250%) EMC
6 1 (3.125%) Symantec