The first table below looks at the demand for Disaster Recovery skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England 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 East of England 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 93 120 101
Rank change year-on-year
+27 -19
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 23 14 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 1.085% 0.475% 0.784%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.621% 0.736% 1.204%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 9
Average daily rate £225 £375 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-40.00% +11.11%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £325
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
Average hourly rate £25.00 £29.00 £27.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.79% +7.40%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.25 £29.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year
-26.72% +23.40%
All Processes & Methodologies
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1419 1903 1744
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 66.93% 64.51% 65.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 804 915 788
Average daily rate £375 £363 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 155 189
Average hourly rate £35.14 £31.00 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% -3.12%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.12 £12.50 £13.98
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.00 £49.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Disaster Recovery
England

Disaster Recovery
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England 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 East of England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England 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 East of England 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
Norfolk +6 6 £225 -
Bedfordshire - 6 £335 -
Cambridgeshire +14 4 £225 +5.88%
Suffolk - 3 £350 -
Essex +2 2 - -
Hertfordshire +2 2 £325 -13.33%
Disaster Recovery
England

Disaster Recovery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 33 (66.00%) Active Directory
2 30 (60.00%) Windows
3 24 (48.00%) Microsoft
4 23 (46.00%) ITIL
5 22 (44.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 21 (42.00%) MS Exchange
7 19 (38.00%) Exchange Server 2010
8 17 (34.00%) HP
9 14 (28.00%) SQL Server
9 14 (28.00%) VMware
9 14 (28.00%) SQL Server 2008
10 13 (26.00%) Exchange Server 2003
10 13 (26.00%) DNS
11 12 (24.00%) SQL
11 12 (24.00%) IIS
11 12 (24.00%) Wireless
11 12 (24.00%) Exchange Server 2007
12 11 (22.00%) Hyper-V
12 11 (22.00%) Firewall
13 10 (20.00%) Clustering
13 10 (20.00%) Forefront TMG
14 9 (18.00%) Citrix
15 8 (16.00%) Windows Server 2003
16 7 (14.00%) SQL Server 2000
16 7 (14.00%) Microsoft Certification
16 7 (14.00%) ITIL Certification
16 7 (14.00%) Cisco
16 7 (14.00%) PRINCE2
16 7 (14.00%) DHCP
16 7 (14.00%) VCP5

Disaster Recovery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 (4.000%) Web Services
2 1 (2.000%) ASP.NET
2 1 (2.000%) .NET
2 1 (2.000%) Gearman
2 1 (2.000%) Memcached
Application Platforms
1 21 (42.00%) MS Exchange
2 19 (38.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 13 (26.00%) Exchange Server 2003
4 12 (24.00%) IIS
4 12 (24.00%) Exchange Server 2007
5 6 (12.00%) Lync
6 1 (2.000%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (2.000%) SharePoint
6 1 (2.000%) Apache
6 1 (2.000%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 5 (10.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.000%) Agresso
1 1 (2.000%) ResourceLink
Communications & Networking
1 13 (26.00%) DNS
2 12 (24.00%) Wireless
3 11 (22.00%) Firewall
4 7 (14.00%) DHCP
5 6 (12.00%) TCP/IP
5 6 (12.00%) Intranet
6 5 (10.00%) Internet
6 5 (10.00%) SAN
6 5 (10.00%) Unified Communications
7 4 (8.000%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (6.000%) WAN
8 3 (6.000%) FTP
8 3 (6.000%) LAN
9 2 (4.000%) VoIP
9 2 (4.000%) VPN
10 1 (2.000%) DMZ
10 1 (2.000%) SMTP
10 1 (2.000%) HTTP
10 1 (2.000%) SNMP
10 1 (2.000%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (28.00%) SQL Server
1 14 (28.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 7 (14.00%) SQL Server 2000
2 7 (14.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (4.000%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (4.000%) Oracle Exadata
3 2 (4.000%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (4.000%) DB2
4 1 (2.000%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.000%) Subversion
1 1 (2.000%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (12.00%) Finance
2 4 (8.000%) Telecoms
3 2 (4.000%) Publishing
4 1 (2.000%) Local Government
4 1 (2.000%) German Language
Job Titles
1 12 (24.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (22.00%) Analyst
3 5 (10.00%) Consultant
4 4 (8.000%) Technical Analyst
5 3 (6.000%) Business Analyst
5 3 (6.000%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.000%) Security Analyst
6 2 (4.000%) Oracle DBA
6 2 (4.000%) IT Security Analyst
6 2 (4.000%) DBA
6 2 (4.000%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (4.000%) Technical Consultant
6 2 (4.000%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 2 (4.000%) Administrator
6 2 (4.000%) Systems Administrator
7 1 (2.000%) IT Auditor
7 1 (2.000%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (2.000%) Senior Developer
7 1 (2.000%) Support Engineer
7 1 (2.000%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.00%) Clustering
2 6 (12.00%) PKI
3 4 (8.000%) PACS
3 4 (8.000%) Blackberry
4 3 (6.000%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.000%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.000%) Replication
6 1 (2.000%) NHS
6 1 (2.000%) Firmware
6 1 (2.000%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 30 (60.00%) Windows
2 22 (44.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (16.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (10.00%) Windows XP
4 5 (10.00%) Windows 8
4 5 (10.00%) Windows 7
5 3 (6.000%) Windows 2000
6 2 (4.000%) UNIX
6 2 (4.000%) Linux
7 1 (2.000%) Debian
7 1 (2.000%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.000%) GCOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (46.00%) ITIL
2 7 (14.00%) PRINCE2
3 6 (12.00%) PRINCE
4 5 (10.00%) Migration
4 5 (10.00%) Configuration Management
4 5 (10.00%) Business Continuity
5 4 (8.000%) Performance Management
5 4 (8.000%) ITSM
5 4 (8.000%) Service Delivery
6 3 (6.000%) Change Management
6 3 (6.000%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (4.000%) Enterprise Architecture
7 2 (4.000%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (4.000%) Change Control
7 2 (4.000%) Data Modelling
7 2 (4.000%) Project Management
7 2 (4.000%) BCP
8 1 (2.000%) Quality Management
8 1 (2.000%) Network Design
8 1 (2.000%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (24.00%) SQL
2 5 (10.00%) VB
3 4 (8.000%) VBScript
4 3 (6.000%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.000%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (14.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 7 (14.00%) ITIL Certification
1 7 (14.00%) VCP5
1 7 (14.00%) MCITP
2 6 (12.00%) MCSE
2 6 (12.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 3 (6.000%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.000%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.000%) Degree
4 2 (4.000%) CISA
5 1 (2.000%) ECDL
5 1 (2.000%) HND
5 1 (2.000%) MCSA
5 1 (2.000%) NCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.000%) SLA
2 2 (4.000%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 33 (66.00%) Active Directory
2 11 (22.00%) Hyper-V
3 10 (20.00%) Forefront TMG
4 5 (10.00%) UAG
5 4 (8.000%) XenApp
5 4 (8.000%) ISA Server
5 4 (8.000%) VMware ESX
6 3 (6.000%) vSphere
7 2 (4.000%) Terminal Services
8 1 (2.000%) Samba
8 1 (2.000%) NFS
8 1 (2.000%) XenDesktop
8 1 (2.000%) Varnish
8 1 (2.000%) Postfix
8 1 (2.000%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (10.00%) Backup Exec
2 3 (6.000%) Norton AntiVirus
2 3 (6.000%) NetBackup
3 2 (4.000%) SCOM
4 1 (2.000%) Nagios
4 1 (2.000%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 1 (2.000%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (48.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (34.00%) HP
3 14 (28.00%) VMware
4 9 (18.00%) Citrix
5 7 (14.00%) Cisco
6 6 (12.00%) Oracle
7 5 (10.00%) Altiris
7 5 (10.00%) Veritas
7 5 (10.00%) Symantec
7 5 (10.00%) Exinda
7 5 (10.00%) Riverbed
8 4 (8.000%) ADIC
8 4 (8.000%) CommVault
8 4 (8.000%) Compaq
8 4 (8.000%) Dell
9 3 (6.000%) Sophos
9 3 (6.000%) Acronis
10 2 (4.000%) NetApp
10 2 (4.000%) AppSense
11 1 (2.000%) BT
Essex
This position will be providing BAU support on a Disaster Recovery remediation programme, with some on call support required... The SQL Server DBA will also need to be...
Lorien Resourcing
Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013