The first table below looks at the demand for Disaster Recovery skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Disaster Recovery over the 3 months to 20 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 Leeds 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Disaster Recovery
Rank 62 59 55
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -4
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 7 12 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.941% 1.336% 0.164%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.282% 1.863% 0.242%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 0
Average daily rate £413 £250 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+65.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £338 £310
% change year-on-year
+3.70% +8.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £29.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year
-39.65% +18.36%
All Processes & Methodologies
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
546 644 414
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 73.39% 71.71% 67.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 379 207
Average daily rate £310 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.14% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £240 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 16 19
Average hourly rate £34.00 £19.25 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+76.62% +10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.90 £11.70 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £62.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
Disaster Recovery
West Yorkshire

Disaster Recovery
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Disaster Recovery across the Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Disaster Recovery Daily Rate Trend

Disaster Recovery
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Disaster Recovery across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Leeds Disaster Recovery Daily Rate Histogram

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 Leeds region.

Leeds Disaster Recovery Hourly Rate Trend

Disaster Recovery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 (50.00%) VMware
2 5 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (28.57%) Oracle
3 4 (28.57%) Project Management
4 3 (21.43%) HP
4 3 (21.43%) Windows
4 3 (21.43%) Linux
4 3 (21.43%) SLA
4 3 (21.43%) Java
4 3 (21.43%) ITIL
4 3 (21.43%) PRINCE2
4 3 (21.43%) SharePoint
4 3 (21.43%) Finance
4 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
4 3 (21.43%) CMDB
4 3 (21.43%) SharePoint 2010
4 3 (21.43%) Remedy
5 2 (14.29%) REST
5 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (14.29%) Database Security
5 2 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (14.29%) Business Continuity
5 2 (14.29%) RESTful
5 2 (14.29%) CA Wily
5 2 (14.29%) Oracle 11g
5 2 (14.29%) Matrix Management
5 2 (14.29%) VMware Server
5 2 (14.29%) Retail
5 2 (14.29%) ActiveMQ

Disaster Recovery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 (14.29%) .NET
1 2 (14.29%) SOAP
1 2 (14.29%) XML
1 2 (14.29%) JMS
1 2 (14.29%) LAMP
1 2 (14.29%) Java EE
1 2 (14.29%) RESTful
1 2 (14.29%) REST
Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) SharePoint
1 3 (21.43%) SharePoint 2010
2 2 (14.29%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (14.29%) ESB
Applications
1 1 (7.143%) MS Office
1 1 (7.143%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) HTTP
2 1 (7.143%) VPN
2 1 (7.143%) DNS
2 1 (7.143%) SSL
2 1 (7.143%) Intranet
2 1 (7.143%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (7.143%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (7.143%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Retail
3 1 (7.143%) Telecoms
3 1 (7.143%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Project Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle DBA
2 2 (14.29%) DBA
2 2 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (7.143%) Security Consultant
3 1 (7.143%) Change Analyst
3 1 (7.143%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (7.143%) Technical Manager
3 1 (7.143%) Information Security Consultant
3 1 (7.143%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (7.143%) Telephony Analyst
3 1 (7.143%) Tester
3 1 (7.143%) Analyst
3 1 (7.143%) Consultant
3 1 (7.143%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (7.143%) Technical Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) CMDB
2 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) UNIX
3 1 (7.143%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Project Management
1 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (21.43%) ITIL
2 3 (21.43%) PRINCE2
3 2 (14.29%) UML
3 2 (14.29%) E-Commerce
3 2 (14.29%) SOA
3 2 (14.29%) Unified Process
3 2 (14.29%) Business Continuity
3 2 (14.29%) Matrix Management
3 2 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (14.29%) Database Security
4 1 (7.143%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (7.143%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (7.143%) Performance Testing
4 1 (7.143%) Load Testing
4 1 (7.143%) Test Automation
4 1 (7.143%) Information Security
4 1 (7.143%) Change Management
4 1 (7.143%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Java
1 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) PHP
3 1 (7.143%) SQL
3 1 (7.143%) BeanShell
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2 Certification
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (7.143%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (7.143%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Server
3 1 (7.143%) Active Directory
3 1 (7.143%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) OpenView
1 2 (14.29%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) VMware
2 4 (28.57%) Oracle
3 3 (21.43%) HP
3 3 (21.43%) Remedy
4 2 (14.29%) NetApp
5 1 (7.143%) Avaya
5 1 (7.143%) Microsoft