The first table below looks at the demand for Disaster Recovery skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Disaster Recovery over the 3 months to 24 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 Cambridgeshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Disaster Recovery
Rank 46 60 45
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -15
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 4 2 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 0.731% 0.292% 1.134%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.311% 0.508% 1.791%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 5
Average daily rate £225 £213 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.88% -37.03%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £325
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £27.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.25 £29.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year
-26.72% +23.40%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
305 394 335
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 55.76% 57.43% 63.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 196 170
Average daily rate £375 £395 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.06% +5.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £275 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £550 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 33 43
Average hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +54.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £26.50 £12.00 £12.45
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £56.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
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 Cambridgeshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Cambridge +13 2 £225 +5.88%
Peterborough - 1 - -
Disaster Recovery
East of England

Disaster Recovery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 14 (77.78%) Active Directory
2 11 (61.11%) ITIL
2 11 (61.11%) Windows
2 11 (61.11%) Wireless
3 8 (44.44%) Windows Server 2008
4 7 (38.89%) HP
4 7 (38.89%) Windows Server 2003
5 6 (33.33%) Cisco
5 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 6 (33.33%) MS Exchange
5 6 (33.33%) PKI
5 6 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
5 6 (33.33%) Firewall
5 6 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
6 5 (27.78%) Hyper-V
6 5 (27.78%) Exinda
6 5 (27.78%) Altiris
6 5 (27.78%) SQL Server 2008
6 5 (27.78%) Riverbed
6 5 (27.78%) Windows 7
6 5 (27.78%) Lync
6 5 (27.78%) Unified Communications
6 5 (27.78%) SQL Server
6 5 (27.78%) Intranet
6 5 (27.78%) Internet
7 4 (22.22%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (22.22%) ITSM
7 4 (22.22%) Migration
8 3 (16.67%) Finance
8 3 (16.67%) Citrix

Disaster Recovery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 6 (33.33%) MS Exchange
1 6 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
1 6 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
2 5 (27.78%) Lync
Applications
1 1 (5.556%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (61.11%) Wireless
2 6 (33.33%) Firewall
3 5 (27.78%) Unified Communications
3 5 (27.78%) Intranet
3 5 (27.78%) Internet
4 4 (22.22%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (11.11%) DNS
5 2 (11.11%) LAN
5 2 (11.11%) WAN
5 2 (11.11%) DHCP
5 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
6 1 (5.556%) VLAN
6 1 (5.556%) VPN
6 1 (5.556%) HTTP
6 1 (5.556%) VoIP
6 1 (5.556%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) SQL Server 2008
1 5 (27.78%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.11%) DB2
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 3 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (5.556%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (16.67%) Technical Analyst
1 3 (16.67%) Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) DBA
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (5.556%) Network Analyst
3 1 (5.556%) Release Manager
3 1 (5.556%) Change Manager
3 1 (5.556%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (5.556%) Support Engineer
3 1 (5.556%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (5.556%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) PKI
2 2 (11.11%) Clustering
2 2 (11.11%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.556%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 11 (61.11%) Windows
2 8 (44.44%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (38.89%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (27.78%) Windows 7
5 2 (11.11%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) ITIL
2 4 (22.22%) ITSM
2 4 (22.22%) Migration
3 2 (11.11%) BCP
3 2 (11.11%) Data Modelling
3 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (11.11%) Business Continuity
3 2 (11.11%) Service Delivery
3 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (5.556%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (5.556%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.556%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.556%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (77.78%) Active Directory
2 5 (27.78%) Hyper-V
3 2 (11.11%) Terminal Services
3 2 (11.11%) XenApp
4 1 (5.556%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (5.556%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) HP
2 6 (33.33%) Cisco
2 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 5 (27.78%) Exinda
3 5 (27.78%) Altiris
3 5 (27.78%) Riverbed
4 3 (16.67%) Citrix
5 2 (11.11%) Oracle
5 2 (11.11%) AppSense
6 1 (5.556%) VMware
6 1 (5.556%) BT