The first table below looks at the demand for Disaster Recovery skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Disaster Recovery over the 3 months to 24 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 Kent 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Disaster Recovery
Rank 29 33 28
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -5
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 7 3 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 2.439% 1.136% 3.974%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.784% 1.604% 6.977%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 5
Average daily rate £450 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+50.00% -7.69%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £325
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Average hourly rate £11.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.25 £29.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year
-26.72% +23.40%
All Processes & Methodologies
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
185 187 172
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 64.46% 70.83% 56.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 97 103
Average daily rate £303 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.92% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £138 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 9 15
Average hourly rate £19.39 £17.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.80% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £8.60 £8.75 £15.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.00 £67.50 £49.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Disaster Recovery
South East

Disaster Recovery
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total 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 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 Kent region.

Kent Disaster Recovery Daily Rate Trend

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 Kent region.

Kent 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 Kent region over the 3 months to 24 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
Tonbridge - 1 - -
Disaster Recovery
South East

Disaster Recovery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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.

1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 6 (54.55%) SQL Server
2 6 (54.55%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (45.45%) Clustering
3 5 (45.45%) Windows
3 5 (45.45%) SQL Server 2012
4 4 (36.36%) High Availability
4 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (36.36%) HP
4 4 (36.36%) Hyper-V
5 3 (27.27%) SRDF
5 3 (27.27%) Banking
5 3 (27.27%) SQL Server 2005
5 3 (27.27%) Dell
5 3 (27.27%) SQL
5 3 (27.27%) Replication
5 3 (27.27%) Photoshop
5 3 (27.27%) MS Excel
6 2 (18.18%) MS PowerPoint
7 1 (9.091%) Windows 2000 Server
7 1 (9.091%) Data Guard
7 1 (9.091%) IP Telephony
7 1 (9.091%) Asset Management
7 1 (9.091%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (9.091%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (9.091%) Forefront TMG
7 1 (9.091%) Lync
7 1 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (9.091%) Oracle RMAN

Disaster Recovery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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.

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (9.091%) Lync
1 1 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (9.091%) SharePoint
1 1 (9.091%) MS Exchange
1 1 (9.091%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Photoshop
1 3 (27.27%) MS Excel
2 2 (18.18%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (9.091%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.091%) IP Telephony
1 1 (9.091%) VLAN
1 1 (9.091%) iSCSI
1 1 (9.091%) Firewall
1 1 (9.091%) SAN
1 1 (9.091%) LAN
1 1 (9.091%) WAN
1 1 (9.091%) DHCP
1 1 (9.091%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) SQL Server
1 6 (54.55%) SQL Server 2008
2 5 (45.45%) SQL Server 2012
3 3 (27.27%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (9.091%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (9.091%) SQL Server Analysis Services
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) DBA
2 5 (45.45%) SQL DBA
3 4 (36.36%) SQL Server DBA
4 3 (27.27%) IT Support
5 2 (18.18%) Support Analyst
5 2 (18.18%) IT Support Analyst
5 2 (18.18%) Senior DBA
5 2 (18.18%) Analyst
6 1 (9.091%) Senior SQL DBA
6 1 (9.091%) IT Support Assistant
6 1 (9.091%) IT Assistant
6 1 (9.091%) Senior SQL Server DBA
6 1 (9.091%) Senior Oracle DBA
6 1 (9.091%) Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (9.091%) Desktop Engineer
6 1 (9.091%) Oracle DBA
6 1 (9.091%) Support Assistant
6 1 (9.091%) IT Infrastructure Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Clustering
2 3 (27.27%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Windows
2 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (9.091%) Windows 2000 Server
3 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (9.091%) Windows NT
3 1 (9.091%) Windows XP
3 1 (9.091%) AIX
3 1 (9.091%) Linux
3 1 (9.091%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) High Availability
2 1 (9.091%) Asset Management
2 1 (9.091%) Investment Management
2 1 (9.091%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.091%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Hyper-V
2 3 (27.27%) SRDF
3 1 (9.091%) Forefront TMG
3 1 (9.091%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (9.091%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (9.091%) ISA Server
3 1 (9.091%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (9.091%) Data Guard
1 1 (9.091%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 4 (36.36%) HP
3 3 (27.27%) Dell
4 1 (9.091%) WatchGuard
4 1 (9.091%) VMware
4 1 (9.091%) Oracle
4 1 (9.091%) NetApp
4 1 (9.091%) Cisco