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The table below looks at the demand for Disaster Recovery skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Disaster Recovery over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkDisaster Recovery
Location
3 months to
15 Oct 2008
Same period last year
Rank101128
Rank change on same period last yearUp+27
Matching contract IT job ads2932
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.041 %0.033 %
As % of the category below1.591 %1.385 %
Daily rates quoted713
Average minimum daily rate£454£262
Average daily rate£466£284
% change on same period last year+63.97 %
Average maximum daily rate£479£307
UK excluding London average daily rate£351£355
% change on same period last year-1.28 %
Hourly rates quoted010
Average minimum hourly rate-£30.17
Average hourly rate-£30.96
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate-£31.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate£30.81£30.96
% change on same period last year-0.46 %
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
East of England
Matching contract IT job ads18232310
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled2.598 %2.389 %
Daily rates quoted580764
Average minimum daily rate£358£353
Average daily rate£383£373
% change on same period last year+2.74 %
Average maximum daily rate£409£393
UK excluding London average daily rate£378£370
% change on same period last year+1.93 %
Hourly rates quoted212304
Average minimum hourly rate£27.89£32.08
Average hourly rate£29.32£33.56
% change on same period last year-12.63 %
Average maximum hourly rate£30.75£35.04
UK excluding London average hourly rate£29.30£29.76
% change on same period last year-1.54 %
Disaster Recovery EnglandDisaster Recovery
England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Disaster Recovery
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 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 Demand Trend

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Trend

The 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

The 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 15 October 2008.

East of England Disaster Recovery Daily Rate Histogram

Disaster Recovery
Hourly Rate Trend

The 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 15 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EssexUp+1620£442+42.80 %
HertfordshireUp+216£496+16.66 %
CambridgeshireUp+112£450+143.24 %
East AngliaNew entry-1--
Disaster Recovery EnglandDisaster Recovery
England

Disaster Recovery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, 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.

122 (37.29 %)UNIX
220 (33.90 %)Oracle
319 (32.20 %)Solaris
417 (28.81 %)Windows
417 (28.81 %)SAN
516 (27.12 %)NetApp
516 (27.12 %)Sun
516 (27.12 %)Java
516 (27.12 %)Apache
614 (23.73 %)Linux
614 (23.73 %)Firewall
712 (20.34 %)Cisco
712 (20.34 %)Degree
811 (18.64 %)ITIL
811 (18.64 %)Oracle Application Server
910 (16.95 %)Red Hat
910 (16.95 %)Red Hat Linux
109 (15.25 %)NetScreen
109 (15.25 %)CheckPoint
109 (15.25 %)VPN
109 (15.25 %)LAN
118 (13.56 %)SQL
127 (11.86 %)CCNA
127 (11.86 %)Nortel
127 (11.86 %)Cisco Certification
127 (11.86 %)Mainframe
127 (11.86 %)CCSA
136 (10.17 %)Business Continuity
145 (8.475 %)Education
145 (8.475 %)Windows Server 2003

Disaster Recovery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, 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.

East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
13 (5.085 %)SAP Basis
22 (3.390 %)Middleware
31 (1.695 %)XML
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
116 (27.12 %)Apache
211 (18.64 %)Oracle Application Server
35 (8.475 %)MS Exchange
44 (6.780 %)Exchange Server 2003
52 (3.390 %)Exchange Server 2007
61 (1.695 %)JBoss
61 (1.695 %)Tomcat
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
12 (3.390 %)MS Office
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
117 (28.81 %)SAN
214 (23.73 %)Firewall
39 (15.25 %)VPN
39 (15.25 %)NetScreen
39 (15.25 %)LAN
42 (3.390 %)WAN
42 (3.390 %)IP Telephony
51 (1.695 %)Cisco PIX
51 (1.695 %)FTP
51 (1.695 %)TCP/IP
51 (1.695 %)Intranet
51 (1.695 %)Internet
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
14 (6.780 %)SQL Server
14 (6.780 %)DB2
23 (5.085 %)Oracle 8/8i
32 (3.390 %)Oracle 9i
32 (3.390 %)MS Access
32 (3.390 %)Oracle Discoverer
32 (3.390 %)RDBMS
32 (3.390 %)Oracle 10g
41 (1.695 %)DB2 UDB
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
15 (8.475 %)Education
22 (3.390 %)Government
22 (3.390 %)Health
22 (3.390 %)Finance
31 (1.695 %)Pharmaceutical
31 (1.695 %)Manufacturing
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
114 (23.73 %)Administrator
29 (15.25 %)Consultant
37 (11.86 %)DBA
37 (11.86 %)UNIX Administrator
37 (11.86 %)Implementation Engineer
46 (10.17 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
46 (10.17 %)Systems Administrator
54 (6.780 %)Network Engineer
54 (6.780 %)Systems Engineer
54 (6.780 %)Programmer
54 (6.780 %)Network Technician
54 (6.780 %)Systems Programmer
63 (5.085 %)Senior DBA
63 (5.085 %)UNIX Systems Engineer
63 (5.085 %)UNIX Engineer
63 (5.085 %)Analyst
63 (5.085 %)Oracle DBA
63 (5.085 %)Project Manager
63 (5.085 %)Author
63 (5.085 %)Technical Author
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
17 (11.86 %)Mainframe
25 (8.475 %)Data Extraction
33 (5.085 %)Clustering
42 (3.390 %)Replication
42 (3.390 %)Client/Server
51 (1.695 %)HACMP
51 (1.695 %)Management Information System
51 (1.695 %)Video Conferencing
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
122 (37.29 %)UNIX
219 (32.20 %)Solaris
317 (28.81 %)Windows
414 (23.73 %)Linux
510 (16.95 %)Red Hat Linux
65 (8.475 %)Windows Server 2003
74 (6.780 %)Tru64
74 (6.780 %)zOS
74 (6.780 %)MVS
74 (6.780 %)AIX
81 (1.695 %)HPUX
81 (1.695 %)Windows 2000
81 (1.695 %)Windows NT
81 (1.695 %)Windows XP
81 (1.695 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
111 (18.64 %)ITIL
26 (10.17 %)Business Continuity
34 (6.780 %)Data Security
34 (6.780 %)Security Cleared
43 (5.085 %)Migration
43 (5.085 %)Service Delivery
43 (5.085 %)PRINCE2
43 (5.085 %)Data Modelling
52 (3.390 %)BCP
52 (3.390 %)Configuration Management
52 (3.390 %)Change Management
52 (3.390 %)SC Cleared
52 (3.390 %)Network Design
61 (1.695 %)Systems Analysis
61 (1.695 %)Incident Management
61 (1.695 %)Technical Architecture
61 (1.695 %)Matrix Management
61 (1.695 %)User Acceptance Testing
61 (1.695 %)Test Scripting
61 (1.695 %)BC Cleared
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
116 (27.12 %)Java
28 (13.56 %)SQL
32 (3.390 %)Shell Script
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
112 (20.34 %)Degree
27 (11.86 %)CCNA
27 (11.86 %)Cisco Certification
27 (11.86 %)CCSA
33 (5.085 %)MCSE
33 (5.085 %)Microsoft Certification
41 (1.695 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
15 (8.475 %)SLA
21 (1.695 %)GAMP
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
15 (8.475 %)Active Directory
23 (5.085 %)Oracle RMAN
32 (3.390 %)Citrix Presentation Server
32 (3.390 %)NetBackup
41 (1.695 %)Backup Exec
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
11 (1.695 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
11 (1.695 %)ZENworks
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
120 (33.90 %)Oracle
216 (27.12 %)Sun
216 (27.12 %)NetApp
312 (20.34 %)Cisco
410 (16.95 %)Red Hat
59 (15.25 %)CheckPoint
67 (11.86 %)Nortel
75 (8.475 %)IBM
84 (6.780 %)HP
93 (5.085 %)Sybase
93 (5.085 %)SAP
102 (3.390 %)Microsoft
102 (3.390 %)Citrix
102 (3.390 %)Avaya
102 (3.390 %)VMware
111 (1.695 %)Fujitsu
111 (1.695 %)Novell
111 (1.695 %)VERITAS