Merseyside Disaster Recovery Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Disaster Recovery skills within the Merseyside 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Disaster Recovery
Location Andover Basildon Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Jersey Kent 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 Pontefract Poole Reading Romford Scotland Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West Staines Stirling 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 Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	35	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	3	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	1.554 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£420	£388
% change on same period last year	+8.03 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	-
Average hourly rate	£23.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.16	£24.56
% change on same period last year	+14.64 %
Processes & Methodologies Merseyside
Matching contract IT job ads	193	141
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.257 %	0.143 %
Daily rates quoted	59	44
Average minimum daily rate	£349	£313
Average daily rate	£374	£340
% change on same period last year	+10.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£399	£366
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.40	£23.90
Average hourly rate	£20.67	£27.17
% change on same period last year	-23.92 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.93	£30.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
Disaster Recovery North West

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 Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

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 Merseyside region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Disaster Recovery across the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Disaster Recovery within the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 25 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
Liverpool	-	2	-	-

Disaster Recovery North West

Disaster Recovery
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 5 (62.50 %) Linux 1 5 (62.50 %) HP 1 5 (62.50 %) Novell 1 5 (62.50 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 1 5 (62.50 %) VoIP 1 5 (62.50 %) VLAN 2 2 (25.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 2 (25.00 %) Active Directory 2 2 (25.00 %) Blackberry 2 2 (25.00 %) UNIX 3 1 (12.50 %) Windows 3 1 (12.50 %) HPUX 3 1 (12.50 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (12.50 %) VERITAS 3 1 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003

3 1 (12.50 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 3 1 (12.50 %) Law 3 1 (12.50 %) Banking 3 1 (12.50 %) Test Scripting 3 1 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 5.5 3 1 (12.50 %) SLA

Disaster Recovery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 2 (25.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (12.50 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (12.50 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 2 1 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 5.5	Communications & Networking 1 5 (62.50 %) VoIP 1 5 (62.50 %) VLAN
General 1 1 (12.50 %) Law 1 1 (12.50 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 5 (62.50 %) Network Engineer 2 1 (12.50 %) Support Analyst 2 1 (12.50 %) VERITAS Engineer 2 1 (12.50 %) Exchange Engineer 2 1 (12.50 %) Tester 2 1 (12.50 %) Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 2 (25.00 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 5 (62.50 %) Linux 2 2 (25.00 %) UNIX 3 1 (12.50 %) Windows 3 1 (12.50 %) HPUX 3 1 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (12.50 %) Test Scripting	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (12.50 %) SLA
System Software 1 2 (25.00 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 5 (62.50 %) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors 1 5 (62.50 %) HP 1 5 (62.50 %) Novell 2 1 (12.50 %) VERITAS