Essex Disaster Recovery Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Disaster Recovery skills within the Essex region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Disaster Recovery over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Disaster Recovery
Location Andover Basildon Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Greenford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Reading Romford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Staines Stirling Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	46	57
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	15	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	4.167 %	0.565 %
Daily rates quoted	9	0
Average minimum daily rate	£439	-
Average daily rate	£456	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£472	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£427	£387
% change on same period last year	+10.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£28.50
Average hourly rate	-	£28.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£28.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.17	£29.20
% change on same period last year	-6.96 %
Processes & Methodologies Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	360	354
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.475 %	0.376 %
Daily rates quoted	143	115
Average minimum daily rate	£363	£393
Average daily rate	£380	£417
% change on same period last year	-8.86 %
Average maximum daily rate	£398	£442
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	52	77
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.46	£31.96
Average hourly rate	£35.70	£32.57
% change on same period last year	+9.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.93	£33.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.40	£30.19
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
Disaster Recovery East of 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 Essex 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 Essex region.

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Disaster Recovery across the Essex region over the 3 months to 4 July 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 Essex region.

Disaster Recovery
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Disaster Recovery within the Essex region over the 3 months to 4 July 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
Basildon	+6	1	£450	-
Brentwood	-	1	-	-

Disaster Recovery East of England

Disaster Recovery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 16 (47.06 %) Cisco 2 15 (44.12 %) Active Directory 3 11 (32.35 %) Finance 3 11 (32.35 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 9 (26.47 %) Windows 5 7 (20.59 %) Degree 6 6 (17.65 %) Mainframe 6 6 (17.65 %) Firewall 6 6 (17.65 %) Unix 7 4 (11.76 %) Nortel 7 4 (11.76 %) Cisco Certification 7 4 (11.76 %) SAN 7 4 (11.76 %) NetApp 7 4 (11.76 %) Sun 7 4 (11.76 %) CCNA

7 4 (11.76 %) CheckPoint 7 4 (11.76 %) Solaris 7 4 (11.76 %) Oracle 7 4 (11.76 %) Java 7 4 (11.76 %) Apache 7 4 (11.76 %) LAN 7 4 (11.76 %) VPN 7 4 (11.76 %) Project Management 7 4 (11.76 %) NetScreen 7 4 (11.76 %) CCSA 8 3 (8.824 %) Oracle Application Server 8 3 (8.824 %) Windows Server 2003 9 2 (5.882 %) Red Hat 9 2 (5.882 %) zOS 9 2 (5.882 %) Client/Server

Disaster Recovery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 (5.882 %) J2EE 1 2 (5.882 %) CGI 2 1 (2.941 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 11 (32.35 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 4 (11.76 %) Apache 3 3 (8.824 %) Oracle Application Server 4 2 (5.882 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 1 (2.941 %) iPlanet
Applications 1 1 (2.941 %) MS Project 1 1 (2.941 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 6 (17.65 %) Firewall 2 4 (11.76 %) LAN 2 4 (11.76 %) VPN 2 4 (11.76 %) SAN 2 4 (11.76 %) NetScreen
Development Applications 1 1 (2.941 %) PVCS	General 1 11 (32.35 %) Finance 2 1 (2.941 %) Education
Job Titles 1 8 (23.53 %) Architect 1 8 (23.53 %) Infrastructure Architect 2 6 (17.65 %) Consultant 3 4 (11.76 %) Infrastructure Specialist 4 3 (8.824 %) Exchange Specialist 4 3 (8.824 %) Author 4 3 (8.824 %) Technical Author 4 3 (8.824 %) Analyst 5 2 (5.882 %) Technical Support 5 2 (5.882 %) Systems Administrator 5 2 (5.882 %) Administrator 5 2 (5.882 %) Infrastructure Engineer 5 2 (5.882 %) Wintel Engineer 6 1 (2.941 %) Network Technician 6 1 (2.941 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 6 1 (2.941 %) Network Administrator 6 1 (2.941 %) UNIX Administrator 6 1 (2.941 %) Technical Specialist 6 1 (2.941 %) Programmer 6 1 (2.941 %) Technical Support Specialist	Miscellaneous 1 6 (17.65 %) Mainframe 2 2 (5.882 %) Client/Server 3 1 (2.941 %) Clustering 3 1 (2.941 %) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 9 (26.47 %) Windows 2 6 (17.65 %) Unix 3 4 (11.76 %) Solaris 4 3 (8.824 %) Windows Server 2003 5 2 (5.882 %) zOS 5 2 (5.882 %) Linux 5 2 (5.882 %) Windows 2000 6 1 (2.941 %) Windows NT 6 1 (2.941 %) MVS	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (11.76 %) Project Management 2 2 (5.882 %) Business Continuity 2 2 (5.882 %) Business Analysis 2 2 (5.882 %) BCP 3 1 (2.941 %) Business Development 3 1 (2.941 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (2.941 %) Data Security 3 1 (2.941 %) Migration 3 1 (2.941 %) ITIL 3 1 (2.941 %) PRINCE2
Programming Languages 1 4 (11.76 %) Java 2 2 (5.882 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 7 (20.59 %) Degree 2 4 (11.76 %) CCNA 2 4 (11.76 %) Cisco Certification 2 4 (11.76 %) CCSA 3 1 (2.941 %) MCSE 3 1 (2.941 %) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.941 %) SLA	System Software 1 15 (44.12 %) Active Directory 2 1 (2.941 %) Backup Exec
Vendors 1 16 (47.06 %) Cisco 2 4 (11.76 %) Oracle 2 4 (11.76 %) CheckPoint 2 4 (11.76 %) Sun 2 4 (11.76 %) Nortel 2 4 (11.76 %) NetApp 3 2 (5.882 %) Red Hat 3 2 (5.882 %) IBM 3 2 (5.882 %) Microsoft