East of England Disaster Recovery Contracts

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.

Disaster Recovery
Location Abingdon Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Bracknell Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle North East North West Northern Ireland Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rotherham Scotland Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southall Staffordshire Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Woking Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	101	128
Rank change on same period last year	+27
Matching contract IT job ads	29	32
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.041 %	0.033 %
As % of the category below	1.591 %	1.385 %
Daily rates quoted	7	13
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 quoted	0	10
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 %
Processes & Methodologies East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	1823	2310
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.598 %	2.389 %
Daily rates quoted	580	764
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 quoted	212	304
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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Location	Rank 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
Essex	+16	20	£442	+42.80 %
Hertfordshire	+21	6	£496	+16.66 %
Cambridgeshire	+11	2	£450	+143.24 %
East Anglia	-	1	-	-

Disaster 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.

1 22 (37.29 %) UNIX 2 20 (33.90 %) Oracle 3 19 (32.20 %) Solaris 4 17 (28.81 %) Windows 4 17 (28.81 %) SAN 5 16 (27.12 %) NetApp 5 16 (27.12 %) Sun 5 16 (27.12 %) Java 5 16 (27.12 %) Apache 6 14 (23.73 %) Linux 6 14 (23.73 %) Firewall 7 12 (20.34 %) Cisco 7 12 (20.34 %) Degree 8 11 (18.64 %) ITIL 8 11 (18.64 %) Oracle Application Server

9 10 (16.95 %) Red Hat 9 10 (16.95 %) Red Hat Linux 10 9 (15.25 %) NetScreen 10 9 (15.25 %) CheckPoint 10 9 (15.25 %) VPN 10 9 (15.25 %) LAN 11 8 (13.56 %) SQL 12 7 (11.86 %) CCNA 12 7 (11.86 %) Nortel 12 7 (11.86 %) Cisco Certification 12 7 (11.86 %) Mainframe 12 7 (11.86 %) CCSA 13 6 (10.17 %) Business Continuity 14 5 (8.475 %) Education 14 5 (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.

Application Development 1 3 (5.085 %) SAP Basis 2 2 (3.390 %) Middleware 3 1 (1.695 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 16 (27.12 %) Apache 2 11 (18.64 %) Oracle Application Server 3 5 (8.475 %) MS Exchange 4 4 (6.780 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 2 (3.390 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 1 (1.695 %) JBoss 6 1 (1.695 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 2 (3.390 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 17 (28.81 %) SAN 2 14 (23.73 %) Firewall 3 9 (15.25 %) VPN 3 9 (15.25 %) NetScreen 3 9 (15.25 %) LAN 4 2 (3.390 %) WAN 4 2 (3.390 %) IP Telephony 5 1 (1.695 %) Cisco PIX 5 1 (1.695 %) FTP 5 1 (1.695 %) TCP/IP 5 1 (1.695 %) Intranet 5 1 (1.695 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (6.780 %) SQL Server 1 4 (6.780 %) DB2 2 3 (5.085 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 2 (3.390 %) Oracle 9i 3 2 (3.390 %) MS Access 3 2 (3.390 %) Oracle Discoverer 3 2 (3.390 %) RDBMS 3 2 (3.390 %) Oracle 10g 4 1 (1.695 %) DB2 UDB	General 1 5 (8.475 %) Education 2 2 (3.390 %) Government 2 2 (3.390 %) Health 2 2 (3.390 %) Finance 3 1 (1.695 %) Pharmaceutical 3 1 (1.695 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 14 (23.73 %) Administrator 2 9 (15.25 %) Consultant 3 7 (11.86 %) DBA 3 7 (11.86 %) UNIX Administrator 3 7 (11.86 %) Implementation Engineer 4 6 (10.17 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 4 6 (10.17 %) Systems Administrator 5 4 (6.780 %) Network Engineer 5 4 (6.780 %) Systems Engineer 5 4 (6.780 %) Programmer 5 4 (6.780 %) Network Technician 5 4 (6.780 %) Systems Programmer 6 3 (5.085 %) Senior DBA 6 3 (5.085 %) UNIX Systems Engineer 6 3 (5.085 %) UNIX Engineer 6 3 (5.085 %) Analyst 6 3 (5.085 %) Oracle DBA 6 3 (5.085 %) Project Manager 6 3 (5.085 %) Author 6 3 (5.085 %) Technical Author	Miscellaneous 1 7 (11.86 %) Mainframe 2 5 (8.475 %) Data Extraction 3 3 (5.085 %) Clustering 4 2 (3.390 %) Replication 4 2 (3.390 %) Client/Server 5 1 (1.695 %) HACMP 5 1 (1.695 %) Management Information System 5 1 (1.695 %) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems 1 22 (37.29 %) UNIX 2 19 (32.20 %) Solaris 3 17 (28.81 %) Windows 4 14 (23.73 %) Linux 5 10 (16.95 %) Red Hat Linux 6 5 (8.475 %) Windows Server 2003 7 4 (6.780 %) Tru64 7 4 (6.780 %) zOS 7 4 (6.780 %) MVS 7 4 (6.780 %) AIX 8 1 (1.695 %) HPUX 8 1 (1.695 %) Windows 2000 8 1 (1.695 %) Windows NT 8 1 (1.695 %) Windows XP 8 1 (1.695 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (18.64 %) ITIL 2 6 (10.17 %) Business Continuity 3 4 (6.780 %) Data Security 3 4 (6.780 %) Security Cleared 4 3 (5.085 %) Migration 4 3 (5.085 %) Service Delivery 4 3 (5.085 %) PRINCE2 4 3 (5.085 %) Data Modelling 5 2 (3.390 %) BCP 5 2 (3.390 %) Configuration Management 5 2 (3.390 %) Change Management 5 2 (3.390 %) SC Cleared 5 2 (3.390 %) Network Design 6 1 (1.695 %) Systems Analysis 6 1 (1.695 %) Incident Management 6 1 (1.695 %) Technical Architecture 6 1 (1.695 %) Matrix Management 6 1 (1.695 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 1 (1.695 %) Test Scripting 6 1 (1.695 %) BC Cleared
Programming Languages 1 16 (27.12 %) Java 2 8 (13.56 %) SQL 3 2 (3.390 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 12 (20.34 %) Degree 2 7 (11.86 %) CCNA 2 7 (11.86 %) Cisco Certification 2 7 (11.86 %) CCSA 3 3 (5.085 %) MCSE 3 3 (5.085 %) Microsoft Certification 4 1 (1.695 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (8.475 %) SLA 2 1 (1.695 %) GAMP	System Software 1 5 (8.475 %) Active Directory 2 3 (5.085 %) Oracle RMAN 3 2 (3.390 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 2 (3.390 %) NetBackup 4 1 (1.695 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 1 (1.695 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 1 1 (1.695 %) ZENworks	Vendors 1 20 (33.90 %) Oracle 2 16 (27.12 %) Sun 2 16 (27.12 %) NetApp 3 12 (20.34 %) Cisco 4 10 (16.95 %) Red Hat 5 9 (15.25 %) CheckPoint 6 7 (11.86 %) Nortel 7 5 (8.475 %) IBM 8 4 (6.780 %) HP 9 3 (5.085 %) Sybase 9 3 (5.085 %) SAP 10 2 (3.390 %) Microsoft 10 2 (3.390 %) Citrix 10 2 (3.390 %) Avaya 10 2 (3.390 %) VMware 11 1 (1.695 %) Fujitsu 11 1 (1.695 %) Novell 11 1 (1.695 %) VERITAS