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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
High Availability
Rank 131 130 118
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -12
Permanent jobs citing High Availability 1 3 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 0.047% 0.132% 0.054%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.071% 0.184% 0.083%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 1
Average salary £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.00% +11.11%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-11.11% +5.88%
All Processes & Methodologies
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1416 1630 1199
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 65.98% 71.65% 64.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1103 1373 936
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
High Availability
Berkshire

High Availability
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading High Availability Salary Trend

High Availability
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) MS Excel
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (60.00%) Internet
3 2 (40.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle Application Server
3 2 (40.00%) HP ASE
3 2 (40.00%) HP MASE
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (40.00%) Data Guard
3 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (40.00%) XenApp
3 2 (40.00%) XenServer
3 2 (40.00%) XenDesktop
3 2 (40.00%) VCDX
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 2 (40.00%) VMware ESX
3 2 (40.00%) CLARiiON
3 2 (40.00%) Clustering
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (40.00%) Celerra
3 2 (40.00%) SCCM
3 2 (40.00%) SCOM
3 2 (40.00%) SCVMM

High Availability
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 (40.00%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (20.00%) Apache
2 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (80.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Internet
2 2 (40.00%) SAN
2 2 (40.00%) Unified Communications
3 1 (20.00%) HTTP
3 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle 11g
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle 10g
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle 8/8i
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle DBA
1 2 (40.00%) Virtualisation Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Team Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) CLARiiON
1 2 (40.00%) Clustering
1 2 (40.00%) Celerra
1 2 (40.00%) EqualLogic
2 1 (20.00%) Social Network
2 1 (20.00%) Social Media
2 1 (20.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (40.00%) UNIX
4 1 (20.00%) Debian
4 1 (20.00%) CentOS
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 2 (40.00%) HP ASE
1 2 (40.00%) HP MASE
1 2 (40.00%) VCDX
1 2 (40.00%) Citrix Certification
1 2 (40.00%) NCDA
1 2 (40.00%) NCIE
1 2 (40.00%) MCITP
1 2 (40.00%) CCEE
1 2 (40.00%) CCIA
2 1 (20.00%) VCAP
2 1 (20.00%) CCEA
2 1 (20.00%) HP AIS
2 1 (20.00%) MCTS
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (40.00%) XenApp
1 2 (40.00%) XenServer
1 2 (40.00%) XenDesktop
1 2 (40.00%) VMware ESX
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle RMAN
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle RAC
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Data Guard
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM
1 2 (40.00%) SCOM
1 2 (40.00%) SCVMM
2 1 (20.00%) Puppet
2 1 (20.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) NetApp
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) HP
2 2 (40.00%) Dell
2 2 (40.00%) EMC
2 2 (40.00%) Citrix
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) JBoss