The first table below looks at the demand for Disaster Recovery skills in IT contracts advertised for the Newcastle upon Tyne region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Disaster Recovery over the 3 months to 21 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 Newcastle upon Tyne 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Disaster Recovery
Rank 17 27 30
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +3
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 6 7 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 4.000% 2.682% 0.513%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.714% 3.804% 0.840%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
Average daily rate £301 £440 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-31.70% -
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 £21.25 £29.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year
-26.72% +18.36%
All Processes & Methodologies
Newcastle upon Tyne
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
105 184 119
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 70.00% 70.50% 61.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 106 50
Average daily rate £350 £350 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £261 £238 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £481 £550 £395
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 3
Average hourly rate £19.00 £14.00 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+35.71% -68.88%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Disaster Recovery
Tyne and Wear

Disaster Recovery
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne Disaster Recovery Hourly Rate Trend

Disaster Recovery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 8 (66.67%) Windows
2 7 (58.33%) Cisco
2 7 (58.33%) Problem Management
3 6 (50.00%) ITIL
4 5 (41.67%) Service Management
4 5 (41.67%) Service Delivery
4 5 (41.67%) Configuration Management
4 5 (41.67%) Asset Management
4 5 (41.67%) Linux
4 5 (41.67%) LDAP
4 5 (41.67%) DNS
4 5 (41.67%) SLA
4 5 (41.67%) Citrix
4 5 (41.67%) SAN
4 5 (41.67%) Data Protection
4 5 (41.67%) Capacity Management
5 4 (33.33%) Red Hat
5 4 (33.33%) Apache
6 3 (25.00%) DHCP
6 3 (25.00%) MySQL
6 3 (25.00%) VPN
6 3 (25.00%) Clustering
6 3 (25.00%) Firewall
6 3 (25.00%) Identity Management
6 3 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (25.00%) CentOS
6 3 (25.00%) XenServer
7 2 (16.67%) SRDF
7 2 (16.67%) RightFax
7 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure

Disaster Recovery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 1 (8.333%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 4 (33.33%) Apache
2 2 (16.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (8.333%) MS Exchange
3 1 (8.333%) WebLogic
3 1 (8.333%) IIS
3 1 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (8.333%) ESB
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) LDAP
1 5 (41.67%) DNS
1 5 (41.67%) SAN
2 3 (25.00%) DHCP
2 3 (25.00%) VPN
2 3 (25.00%) Firewall
3 2 (16.67%) OSPF
3 2 (16.67%) BGP
3 2 (16.67%) FTP
3 2 (16.67%) SNMP
3 2 (16.67%) SMTP
4 1 (8.333%) Internet
4 1 (8.333%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (8.333%) Oracle 10g
General
1 1 (8.333%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Support Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 3 (25.00%) Administrator
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
3 2 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Support
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Support Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (16.67%) Server Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Linux Administrator
4 1 (8.333%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Senior Network Administrator
4 1 (8.333%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Desktop Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Network Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Clustering
2 2 (16.67%) Blackberry
3 1 (8.333%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Windows
2 5 (41.67%) Linux
3 3 (25.00%) CentOS
4 2 (16.67%) UNIX
5 1 (8.333%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (8.333%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (8.333%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Problem Management
2 6 (50.00%) ITIL
3 5 (41.67%) Service Management
3 5 (41.67%) Service Delivery
3 5 (41.67%) Configuration Management
3 5 (41.67%) Asset Management
3 5 (41.67%) Data Protection
3 5 (41.67%) Capacity Management
4 3 (25.00%) Identity Management
4 3 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (16.67%) Project Management
5 2 (16.67%) Validation
6 1 (8.333%) E-Commerce
6 1 (8.333%) RDF
6 1 (8.333%) Load Balancing
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) XenServer
2 2 (16.67%) SRDF
2 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (8.333%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Nagios
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Cisco
2 5 (41.67%) Citrix
3 4 (33.33%) Red Hat
4 2 (16.67%) RightFax
4 2 (16.67%) VMware
4 2 (16.67%) HP
4 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 2 (16.67%) Novell
4 2 (16.67%) McAfee
5 1 (8.333%) JBoss
5 1 (8.333%) Oracle