The first table below looks at the demand for Disaster Recovery skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Disaster Recovery over the 3 months to 20 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 Bristol 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Disaster Recovery
Rank 47 57 49
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -8
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 2 5 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 0.379% 0.596% 0.484%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.639% 0.885% 0.732%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 3
Average daily rate £306 £365 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.09% +4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £291 £343 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £321 £523 £390
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £338 £310
% change year-on-year
+3.70% +8.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £29.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year
-39.65% +18.36%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
313 565 410
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 59.28% 67.34% 66.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 384 234
Average daily rate £325 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £238 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 21 21
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £36.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -4.10%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.40 £17.80 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £39.25 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
Disaster Recovery
South West

Disaster Recovery
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol Disaster Recovery Hourly Rate Trend

Disaster Recovery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 6 (60.00%) Windows
1 6 (60.00%) Configuration Management
2 5 (50.00%) Service Management
2 5 (50.00%) SLA
2 5 (50.00%) Asset Management
3 4 (40.00%) Incident Management
3 4 (40.00%) Information Assurance
3 4 (40.00%) Budget Control
3 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 4 (40.00%) Windows XP
3 4 (40.00%) PRINCE2
3 4 (40.00%) Change Management
3 4 (40.00%) Change Control
4 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (30.00%) Internet
4 3 (30.00%) Blackberry
4 3 (30.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 3 (30.00%) ITIL
4 3 (30.00%) LAN
4 3 (30.00%) VoIP
4 3 (30.00%) HP
4 3 (30.00%) Wireless
4 3 (30.00%) Finance
4 3 (30.00%) Windows 7
5 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (20.00%) Management Information System

Disaster Recovery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 3 (30.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (10.00%) MS Exchange
3 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (30.00%) LAN
2 3 (30.00%) VoIP
2 3 (30.00%) Internet
2 3 (30.00%) Wireless
3 2 (20.00%) DHCP
3 2 (20.00%) VPN
3 2 (20.00%) DNS
3 2 (20.00%) SAN
4 1 (10.00%) Firewall
4 1 (10.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Project Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Data Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Data Centre Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Data Centre Project Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Desktop Support
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Desktop Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Blackberry
2 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (20.00%) Handset
3 1 (10.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) Windows XP
3 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (30.00%) Windows 7
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Configuration Management
2 5 (50.00%) Service Management
2 5 (50.00%) Asset Management
3 4 (40.00%) Change Control
3 4 (40.00%) Change Management
3 4 (40.00%) PRINCE2
3 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (40.00%) Incident Management
3 4 (40.00%) Information Assurance
3 4 (40.00%) Budget Control
4 3 (30.00%) ITIL
5 2 (20.00%) Network Management
5 2 (20.00%) ITIL V3
6 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (10.00%) Project Planning
6 1 (10.00%) Problem Management
6 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
6 1 (10.00%) Business Continuity
6 1 (10.00%) Security Management
6 1 (10.00%) Migration
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) MCSE
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) MCP
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (10.00%) MCDST
2 1 (10.00%) MCTS
2 1 (10.00%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) SLA
2 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Backup Exec
1 1 (10.00%) WSUS
1 1 (10.00%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) HP
2 2 (20.00%) Citrix
2 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) ProCurve
3 1 (10.00%) Avaya
3 1 (10.00%) Juniper
3 1 (10.00%) NetApp
3 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (10.00%) Dell
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft