The first table below looks at the demand for Disaster Recovery skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Disaster Recovery over the 3 months to 22 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 Bedfordshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Disaster Recovery
Rank 23 - 41
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 6 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 3.141% - 0.685%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.922% - 0.935%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £335 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £355 £344 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.27% +5.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.25 £29.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year
-26.72% +23.40%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
153 201 214
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 80.10% 72.04% 73.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 107 110
Average daily rate £363 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £238 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £488 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 8
Average hourly rate £32.75 £41.50 £47.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.08% -12.63%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Disaster Recovery
East of England

Disaster Recovery
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Disaster Recovery across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Bedfordshire Disaster Recovery Jobs Demand Trend

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Disaster Recovery Daily Rate Trend

Disaster Recovery
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Disaster Recovery across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Disaster Recovery Hourly Rate Trend

Disaster Recovery
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Disaster Recovery within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Luton - 2 £335 -
Bedford - 1 £350 -
Disaster Recovery
East of England

Disaster Recovery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Disaster Recovery 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited Disaster Recovery.

1 5 (71.43%) Windows
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (57.14%) ITIL
3 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (42.86%) Management Information System
4 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
4 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
4 2 (28.57%) Publishing
4 2 (28.57%) VMware
4 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
4 2 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (28.57%) SCOM
4 2 (28.57%) IIS
4 2 (28.57%) Citrix
4 2 (28.57%) MCSE
4 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
4 2 (28.57%) MS Exchange
4 2 (28.57%) DHCP
4 2 (28.57%) FTP
4 2 (28.57%) DNS
4 2 (28.57%) SLA
5 1 (14.29%) LAN
5 1 (14.29%) VoIP
5 1 (14.29%) WAN
5 1 (14.29%) ERP
5 1 (14.29%) MCSA
5 1 (14.29%) HND
5 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
5 1 (14.29%) SQL

Disaster Recovery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Disaster Recovery also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Disaster Recovery. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) IIS
1 2 (28.57%) MS Exchange
2 1 (14.29%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (14.29%) Lync
2 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Agresso
1 1 (14.29%) ResourceLink
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DHCP
1 2 (28.57%) FTP
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) LAN
2 1 (14.29%) VoIP
2 1 (14.29%) WAN
2 1 (14.29%) Intranet
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 2 (28.57%) Publishing
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Delivery Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Web Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) ICT Technician
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Server Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Web Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) NHS
2 1 (14.29%) Firmware
2 1 (14.29%) Blackberry
2 1 (14.29%) Clustering
2 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
2 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
2 2 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (14.29%) ERP
3 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
3 1 (14.29%) Quality Management
3 1 (14.29%) Change Control
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
3 1 (14.29%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (28.57%) MCSE
3 1 (14.29%) MCSA
3 1 (14.29%) HND
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (14.29%) ECDL
3 1 (14.29%) MCITP
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) SLA
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) XenApp
2 1 (14.29%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) SCOM
2 1 (14.29%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) Citrix
3 1 (14.29%) Symantec
3 1 (14.29%) NorthgateArinso