The first table below looks at the demand for Disaster Recovery skills in IT contracts advertised for the Middlesex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Disaster Recovery over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Middlesex 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Disaster Recovery
Rank 25 23 -
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1 9 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 0.493% 3.147% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.671% 4.433% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
Average daily rate £450 £375 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
+10.44% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £32.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £23.69 £23.00
% change year-on-year
-26.12% +2.98%
All Processes & Methodologies
Middlesex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
149 203 293
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 73.40% 70.98% 77.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 92 126
Average daily rate £383 £395 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.16% -7.05%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £300 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £540 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 12
Average hourly rate £37.50 £38.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.31% +31.03%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
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 Middlesex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex Disaster Recovery Hourly Rate Trend

Disaster Recovery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 (83.33%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Oracle
2 4 (66.67%) Windows
3 3 (50.00%) TOGAF
3 3 (50.00%) SAN
3 3 (50.00%) Informatica
3 3 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
3 3 (50.00%) High Availability
4 2 (33.33%) Degree
4 2 (33.33%) Mathematics
4 2 (33.33%) Physics
4 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
5 1 (16.67%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (16.67%) SCCM
5 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
5 1 (16.67%) HP SIM
5 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
5 1 (16.67%) CCTV
5 1 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (16.67%) C
5 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
5 1 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (16.67%) Change Management
5 1 (16.67%) ITSM
5 1 (16.67%) Finance
5 1 (16.67%) Migration
5 1 (16.67%) VMware
5 1 (16.67%) VMware ESX

Disaster Recovery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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.

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) SAN
1 3 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (16.67%) DHCP
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle 11g
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (16.67%) DBA
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Mathematics
1 2 (33.33%) Physics
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (16.67%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Windows
3 1 (16.67%) Windows XP
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (16.67%) Fedora
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) TOGAF
1 3 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
2 1 (16.67%) ETL
2 1 (16.67%) Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) ITSM
2 1 (16.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C
1 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) VMware ESX
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) OpenView
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
1 1 (16.67%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle
2 3 (50.00%) Informatica
3 1 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Cognos
3 1 (16.67%) IBM
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) HP