The first table below looks at the demand for High Availability skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited High Availability over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
High Availability
Rank 158 137 156
Rank change year-on-year
-21 +19
Permanent jobs citing High Availability 3 19 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.091% 0.557% 0.056%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.123% 0.770% 0.072%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 1
Average salary £34,000 £42,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% +30.76%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £47,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
-15.78% +15.85%
All Processes & Methodologies
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
2438 2469 2778
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 73.77% 72.40% 77.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1527 1749 2017
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,165
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -2.82%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
High Availability
UK

High Availability
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Glasgow -19 2 £39,250 -
Edinburgh -2 1 £32,500 -25.28% 2
High Availability
UK

High Availability
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 (62.50%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) Oracle
2 3 (37.50%) Windows
3 2 (25.00%) Replication
3 2 (25.00%) Clustering
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (25.00%) UNIX
3 2 (25.00%) Rackspace
3 2 (25.00%) AIX
3 2 (25.00%) Solaris
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 2 (25.00%) MySQL
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2000
3 2 (25.00%) RDBMS
3 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (12.50%) Firewall
4 1 (12.50%) Workflow
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco
4 1 (12.50%) IBM
4 1 (12.50%) SQLPlus
4 1 (12.50%) Symantec
4 1 (12.50%) Active Directory

High Availability
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 1 (12.50%) HTML
1 1 (12.50%) COM
1 1 (12.50%) XML
1 1 (12.50%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (12.50%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) WAN
1 1 (12.50%) HTTP
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
1 1 (12.50%) SAN
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MySQL
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (12.50%) SQLPlus
2 1 (12.50%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle 8/8i
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) DBA
2 2 (25.00%) Data Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Data Centre Manager
3 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) WebSphere Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) UNIX Systems Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) UNIX Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) SQL DBA
3 1 (12.50%) Implementation Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Replication
1 2 (25.00%) Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) PACS
2 1 (12.50%) Fat Client
2 1 (12.50%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) AIX
2 2 (25.00%) Solaris
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (25.00%) UNIX
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (12.50%) Service Management
2 1 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) MCSE
1 1 (12.50%) MCSA
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (12.50%) MCTS
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Workstation
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle
2 2 (25.00%) Rackspace
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix
3 1 (12.50%) Symantec
3 1 (12.50%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Draytek
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) IBM
Edinburgh, Scotland
This role has been created due to expansion and you will be involved in the following duties:*Installing and configuring various IT equipment such as virtual servers using...
Bluefire Consulting
Salary: £30000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 4 June 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
in a variety of VPN and WAN configurations either on site or remotely.*You will be expected to install, configure and support virtual servers using VMWare software.*You...
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 3 June 2013
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