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The table below looks at the demand for Disaster Recovery skills within the Kent 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkDisaster Recovery
Location
3 months to
10 Oct 2008
Same period last year
Rank42-
Rank change on same period last yearNew entry-
Matching contract IT job ads30
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.004 %0.000 %
As % of the category below1.523 %0.000 %
Daily rates quoted00
Average minimum daily rate--
Average daily rate--
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum daily rate--
UK excluding London average daily rate£353£358
% change on same period last year-1.51 %
Hourly rates quoted00
Average minimum hourly rate--
Average hourly rate--
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate--
UK excluding London average hourly rate£30.32£30.89
% change on same period last year-1.83 %
Kent IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
Kent
Matching contract IT job ads197317
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.277 %0.320 %
Daily rates quoted5469
Average minimum daily rate£316£340
Average daily rate£328£356
% change on same period last year-7.81 %
Average maximum daily rate£340£372
UK excluding London average daily rate£377£370
% change on same period last year+1.87 %
Hourly rates quoted2147
Average minimum hourly rate£24.78£29.56
Average hourly rate£27.87£32.25
% change on same period last year-13.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate£30.96£34.94
UK excluding London average hourly rate£29.44£30.00
% change on same period last year-1.89 %
Disaster Recovery South EastDisaster Recovery
South East

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 Kent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent Disaster Recovery Daily Rate Trend

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 Kent region.

Kent Disaster Recovery Hourly Rate Trend

Disaster Recovery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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.

12 (66.67 %)Windows
12 (66.67 %)Intel
21 (33.33 %)Finance
21 (33.33 %)VMware
21 (33.33 %)VMware ESX
21 (33.33 %)NetBackup
21 (33.33 %)Banking
21 (33.33 %)Asset Management
21 (33.33 %)Altiris
21 (33.33 %)Investment Banking
21 (33.33 %)SQL Server 2005
21 (33.33 %)Brocade
21 (33.33 %)Korn
21 (33.33 %)WSUS
21 (33.33 %)Fund Management
21 (33.33 %)Citrix Presentation Server
21 (33.33 %)Investment Management
21 (33.33 %)Citrix
21 (33.33 %)SAN
21 (33.33 %)NetApp
21 (33.33 %)VERITAS
21 (33.33 %)Windows Server 2003
21 (33.33 %)SQL Server 2000
21 (33.33 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
21 (33.33 %)Shell Script
21 (33.33 %)Project Management
21 (33.33 %)AIX
21 (33.33 %)Solaris
21 (33.33 %)Linux
21 (33.33 %)Windows 2000

Disaster Recovery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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.

Kent IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
11 (33.33 %)SAN
Kent IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
11 (33.33 %)SQL Server
11 (33.33 %)SQL Server 2000
11 (33.33 %)SQL Server 2005
Kent IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
11 (33.33 %)Finance
11 (33.33 %)Banking
11 (33.33 %)Investment Banking
Kent IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
12 (66.67 %)Analyst
21 (33.33 %)Infrastructure Analyst
21 (33.33 %)Administrator
21 (33.33 %)Senior Analyst
21 (33.33 %)Storage Administrator
21 (33.33 %)Senior Infrastructure Analyst
Kent IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
12 (66.67 %)Windows
21 (33.33 %)AIX
21 (33.33 %)Solaris
21 (33.33 %)Linux
21 (33.33 %)Windows 2000
21 (33.33 %)Windows Server 2003
21 (33.33 %)UNIX
Kent IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
11 (33.33 %)Project Management
11 (33.33 %)Asset Management
11 (33.33 %)Fund Management
11 (33.33 %)Investment Management
Kent IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
11 (33.33 %)SQL
11 (33.33 %)Shell Script
11 (33.33 %)Korn
Kent IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
11 (33.33 %)Active Directory
11 (33.33 %)VMware ESX
11 (33.33 %)NetBackup
11 (33.33 %)Citrix Presentation Server
Kent IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
11 (33.33 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
11 (33.33 %)WSUS
Kent IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
12 (66.67 %)Intel
21 (33.33 %)Citrix
21 (33.33 %)NetApp
21 (33.33 %)VERITAS
21 (33.33 %)VMware
21 (33.33 %)Altiris
21 (33.33 %)Brocade
21 (33.33 %)Cisco
21 (33.33 %)IBM
21 (33.33 %)HP
21 (33.33 %)EMC