The first table below looks at the demand for Disaster Recovery skills in IT contracts advertised for the Dorset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Disaster Recovery over the 3 months to 23 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 Dorset 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Disaster Recovery
Rank 21 23 38
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +15
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 11 8 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorset 5.238% 2.974% 1.231%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.707% 4.348% 1.702%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 4
Average daily rate £263 £360 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-27.08% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £202 £325 £326
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £360 £390
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £325
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Average hourly rate £17.50 £27.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-36.36% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.25 £29.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year
-26.72% +23.40%
All Processes & Methodologies
Dorset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
164 184 235
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorset 78.10% 68.40% 72.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 110 121
Average daily rate £350 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £290 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £682 £518 £485
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 9
Average hourly rate £32.00 £34.50 £40.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.24% -14.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.75 £27.00 £22.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £48.00 £165.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
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 Dorset region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Dorset 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 Dorset region.

Dorset Disaster Recovery Daily Rate Trend

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Disaster Recovery across the Dorset region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Dorset Disaster Recovery Daily Rate Histogram

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 Dorset region.

Dorset 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 Dorset region over the 3 months to 23 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
Bournemouth +6 10 £263 -27.08%
Weymouth - 1 - -
Disaster Recovery
South West

Disaster Recovery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 8 (61.54%) Windows
2 7 (53.85%) Internet
3 5 (38.46%) Linux
3 5 (38.46%) Oracle
3 5 (38.46%) UNIX
3 5 (38.46%) TCP/IP
3 5 (38.46%) Oracle 11g
4 4 (30.77%) Windows 7
4 4 (30.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (30.77%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (30.77%) OLTP
4 4 (30.77%) Windows XP
4 4 (30.77%) LAN
4 4 (30.77%) VoIP
4 4 (30.77%) Oracle 10g
4 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
4 4 (30.77%) HP
4 4 (30.77%) Citrix
4 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
4 4 (30.77%) Oracle 8/8i
4 4 (30.77%) SharePoint
4 4 (30.77%) Blackberry
4 4 (30.77%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 4 (30.77%) Wireless
4 4 (30.77%) Clustering
5 3 (23.08%) VMware
5 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (23.08%) Management Information System
5 3 (23.08%) Handset
5 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse

Disaster Recovery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 Development
1 2 (15.38%) Middleware
2 1 (7.692%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 4 (30.77%) SharePoint
1 4 (30.77%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (15.38%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (7.692%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 7 (53.85%) Internet
2 5 (38.46%) TCP/IP
3 4 (30.77%) LAN
3 4 (30.77%) VoIP
3 4 (30.77%) Wireless
4 3 (23.08%) VPN
5 2 (15.38%) NAS
5 2 (15.38%) Firewall
6 1 (7.692%) SAN
6 1 (7.692%) DNS
6 1 (7.692%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle 11g
2 4 (30.77%) OLTP
2 4 (30.77%) Oracle 10g
2 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
2 4 (30.77%) Oracle 8/8i
3 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (23.08%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle Forms
General
1 2 (15.38%) Banking
2 1 (7.692%) Finance
2 1 (7.692%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) DBA
1 5 (38.46%) Support Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Desktop Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Desktop Support
3 3 (23.08%) Oracle DBA
4 2 (15.38%) Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Consultant
5 1 (7.692%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Administrator
5 1 (7.692%) Support Technician
5 1 (7.692%) Support Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Technical Support
5 1 (7.692%) Desktop Support Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) IT Support Technician
5 1 (7.692%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Desktop Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Blackberry
1 4 (30.77%) Clustering
2 3 (23.08%) Management Information System
2 3 (23.08%) Handset
3 1 (7.692%) Replication
3 1 (7.692%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) Windows
2 5 (38.46%) Linux
2 5 (38.46%) UNIX
3 4 (30.77%) Windows 7
3 4 (30.77%) Windows XP
4 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (7.692%) Windows 2000
5 1 (7.692%) AIX
5 1 (7.692%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (23.08%) Information Management
2 3 (23.08%) Network Management
2 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (15.38%) Change Control
3 2 (15.38%) Stress Testing
3 2 (15.38%) Time Management
3 2 (15.38%) Data Migration
3 2 (15.38%) ITIL
3 2 (15.38%) Migration
4 1 (7.692%) Configuration Management
4 1 (7.692%) Business Continuity
4 1 (7.692%) Build Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.692%) Shell Script
1 1 (7.692%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) MCDST
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (15.38%) MCSE
1 2 (15.38%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
2 2 (15.38%) VMware Server
2 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.692%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) NetBackup
2 1 (7.692%) Backup Exec
2 1 (7.692%) WSUS
2 1 (7.692%) HP SIM
2 1 (7.692%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle
2 4 (30.77%) HP
2 4 (30.77%) Citrix
3 3 (23.08%) VMware
3 3 (23.08%) Avaya
3 3 (23.08%) Cisco
3 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
4 2 (15.38%) FalconStor
4 2 (15.38%) Symantec
5 1 (7.692%) Juniper
5 1 (7.692%) NetApp
5 1 (7.692%) CheckPoint
5 1 (7.692%) ProCurve