The first table below looks at the demand for High Availability skills in IT jobs advertised for the Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
High Availability
Rank 57 62 -
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -
Permanent jobs citing High Availability 2 17 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 0.435% 2.537% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.532% 3.393% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 0
Average salary £27,500 £47,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-42.10% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-11.11% +5.88%
All Processes & Methodologies
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
376 501 317
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 81.74% 74.78% 69.67%
Number of salaries quoted 315 443 256
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £29,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,750 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
High Availability
North West

High Availability
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside High Availability Salary Trend

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 Merseyside region over the 3 months to 21 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
Liverpool -3 1 - -
Southport - 1 £27,500 -
High Availability
North West

High Availability
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 8 (80.00%) Oracle
2 7 (70.00%) SQL Server
3 5 (50.00%) Oracle 8/8i
3 5 (50.00%) SLA
3 5 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (50.00%) Degree
3 5 (50.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (40.00%) SQL
5 3 (30.00%) PL/SQL
5 3 (30.00%) RDBMS
5 3 (30.00%) UNIX
5 3 (30.00%) Middleware
5 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (30.00%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (30.00%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (20.00%) Clustering
6 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
6 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
6 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
6 2 (20.00%) Change Control
6 2 (20.00%) Database Security
7 1 (10.00%) Digital Media
7 1 (10.00%) CCEE
7 1 (10.00%) CCIA
7 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
7 1 (10.00%) HP
7 1 (10.00%) Dell
7 1 (10.00%) EMC
7 1 (10.00%) Citrix

High Availability
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 (30.00%) Middleware
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) SAN
1 1 (10.00%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (50.00%) Oracle 8/8i
2 5 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 5 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (30.00%) RDBMS
4 1 (10.00%) OLTP
4 1 (10.00%) OLAP
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) DBA
2 5 (50.00%) Junior
2 5 (50.00%) Junior DBA
3 3 (30.00%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server DBA
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Developer
4 1 (10.00%) SQL DBA
4 1 (10.00%) Server Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Teradata DBA
4 1 (10.00%) VMware Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Virtualisation Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Junior SQL Server DBA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) Digital Media
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
2 1 (10.00%) CLARiiON
2 1 (10.00%) Celerra
2 1 (10.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (10.00%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) UNIX
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (20.00%) Change Control
2 2 (20.00%) Database Security
3 1 (10.00%) B2C
3 1 (10.00%) Service Management
3 1 (10.00%) Logistics
3 1 (10.00%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
3 3 (30.00%) PL/SQL
4 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) CCEE
2 1 (10.00%) CCIA
2 1 (10.00%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (10.00%) MCTS
2 1 (10.00%) MCITP
2 1 (10.00%) VCDX
2 1 (10.00%) NCDA
2 1 (10.00%) NCIE
2 1 (10.00%) VCAP
2 1 (10.00%) HP AIS
2 1 (10.00%) HP ASE
2 1 (10.00%) HP MASE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) VMware ESX
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (10.00%) XenApp
2 1 (10.00%) XenServer
2 1 (10.00%) XenDesktop
2 1 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) SCCM
1 1 (10.00%) SCOM
1 1 (10.00%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) HP
3 1 (10.00%) Dell
3 1 (10.00%) EMC
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix
3 1 (10.00%) NetApp
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) VMware