The first table below looks at the demand for Disaster Recovery skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West 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 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 North West 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Disaster Recovery
Rank 101 111 69
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -42
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 25 21 54
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 1.033% 0.703% 1.808%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.475% 1.110% 2.841%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 30
Average daily rate £400 £375 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £315 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £525 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £335 £350
% change year-on-year
+10.44% -4.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £23.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year
-23.91% -
All Processes & Methodologies
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1695 1892 1901
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 70.01% 63.36% 63.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 826 974 1013
Average daily rate £350 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £485 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
+2.06% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 85 89
Average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £22.51
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% -11.15%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.50 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £37.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.50 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+22.00% -13.79%
Disaster Recovery
England

Disaster Recovery
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Cheshire +6 13 £394 +5.00% 1
Manchester +18 10 £414 -5.42% 5
Lancashire - - - - 2
Merseyside - - - -
Disaster Recovery
England

Disaster Recovery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 18 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 15 (33.33%) SQL
2 15 (33.33%) Windows
3 14 (31.11%) ITIL
4 13 (28.89%) Microsoft
5 12 (26.67%) MS Exchange
6 10 (22.22%) Active Directory
6 10 (22.22%) Project Management
6 10 (22.22%) SQL Server 2005
6 10 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
7 9 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 9 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 9 (20.00%) Change Management
7 9 (20.00%) SQL Server 2000
7 9 (20.00%) Data Modelling
7 9 (20.00%) T-SQL
8 8 (17.78%) Oracle
8 8 (17.78%) VLDB
8 8 (17.78%) Replication
9 7 (15.56%) Service Delivery
9 7 (15.56%) Migration
9 7 (15.56%) SharePoint
9 7 (15.56%) PRINCE2
10 6 (13.33%) OLTP
10 6 (13.33%) VPN
10 6 (13.33%) Windows Server 2003
10 6 (13.33%) Citrix
10 6 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (13.33%) Data Integration
10 6 (13.33%) Oracle RAC

Disaster Recovery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 3 (6.667%) Middleware
2 2 (4.444%) COM
2 2 (4.444%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (4.444%) Software Packaging
3 1 (2.222%) Application Packaging
3 1 (2.222%) Windows SharePoint Services
3 1 (2.222%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.222%) Hibernate
3 1 (2.222%) JMS
3 1 (2.222%) HTML
3 1 (2.222%) .NET
3 1 (2.222%) J2EE
3 1 (2.222%) JDBC
3 1 (2.222%) JSP
3 1 (2.222%) Servlets
3 1 (2.222%) Struts
3 1 (2.222%) XML
3 1 (2.222%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 12 (26.67%) MS Exchange
2 7 (15.56%) SharePoint
3 5 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2003
4 4 (8.889%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (4.444%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (2.222%) JCAPS
6 1 (2.222%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 3 (6.667%) MS Office
2 1 (2.222%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Oracle EBS R12
1 5 (11.11%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (4.444%) CSG Singleview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.33%) VPN
2 5 (11.11%) Internet
3 4 (8.889%) NetScreen
4 3 (6.667%) WAN
4 3 (6.667%) TCP/IP
5 2 (4.444%) SAN
5 2 (4.444%) LAN
6 1 (2.222%) IP Telephony
6 1 (2.222%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (2.222%) DHCP
6 1 (2.222%) Ethernet
6 1 (2.222%) DNS
6 1 (2.222%) ADSL
6 1 (2.222%) Firewall
6 1 (2.222%) MPLS
6 1 (2.222%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 10 (22.22%) SQL Server 2005
2 10 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 9 (20.00%) SQL Server 2000
4 8 (17.78%) VLDB
5 6 (13.33%) OLTP
6 5 (11.11%) IDMS
6 5 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (8.889%) SQL Server 2012
8 3 (6.667%) NoSQL
8 3 (6.667%) Oracle BI EE
8 3 (6.667%) Oracle OWB
8 3 (6.667%) MySQL
9 2 (4.444%) Oracle 11g
9 2 (4.444%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (2.222%) Oracle 8/8i
10 1 (2.222%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (2.222%) Visual Studio
1 1 (2.222%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 1 (2.222%) MSI
1 1 (2.222%) NetBeans
General
1 4 (8.889%) Retail
1 4 (8.889%) Local Government
2 3 (6.667%) Finance
3 2 (4.444%) Billing
3 2 (4.444%) Banking
4 1 (2.222%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.222%) Law
4 1 (2.222%) Legal
4 1 (2.222%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (28.89%) DBA
2 4 (8.889%) Oracle DBA
2 4 (8.889%) SQL DBA
2 4 (8.889%) Project Manager
2 4 (8.889%) Head of Service Delivery
3 3 (6.667%) Developer
3 3 (6.667%) Analyst
4 2 (4.444%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (4.444%) Architect
4 2 (4.444%) Administrator
4 2 (4.444%) Test Analyst
4 2 (4.444%) Server Support
4 2 (4.444%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (4.444%) Server Specialist
4 2 (4.444%) Implementation Manager
4 2 (4.444%) Head of ICT
4 2 (4.444%) SCCM Specialist
5 1 (2.222%) 3rd Line Server Support
5 1 (2.222%) 3rd Line Technical Support
5 1 (2.222%) SCCM Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.78%) Replication
2 6 (13.33%) Data Integration
3 5 (11.11%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.667%) NHS
5 2 (4.444%) Clustering
5 2 (4.444%) Blackberry
5 2 (4.444%) Mainframe
5 2 (4.444%) Computer Science
5 2 (4.444%) Oracle Exalogic
6 1 (2.222%) Fat Client
6 1 (2.222%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.222%) PMI
6 1 (2.222%) Thin Client
6 1 (2.222%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 15 (33.33%) Windows
2 9 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (13.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (8.889%) Linux
4 4 (8.889%) VMS
5 3 (6.667%) UNIX
6 1 (2.222%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (2.222%) Windows 7
6 1 (2.222%) Windows 2000 Server
6 1 (2.222%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.11%) ITIL
2 10 (22.22%) Project Management
3 9 (20.00%) Change Management
3 9 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 7 (15.56%) Service Delivery
4 7 (15.56%) Migration
4 7 (15.56%) PRINCE2
5 6 (13.33%) Unit Testing
6 5 (11.11%) Data Migration
6 5 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
6 5 (11.11%) Business Continuity
7 4 (8.889%) Risk Management
7 4 (8.889%) Release Management
7 4 (8.889%) Load Testing
8 3 (6.667%) Security Architecture
8 3 (6.667%) Asset Management
8 3 (6.667%) E-Commerce
8 3 (6.667%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (6.667%) Information Security
9 2 (4.444%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (33.33%) SQL
2 9 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 3 (6.667%) VB
4 2 (4.444%) VBScript
5 1 (2.222%) C#
5 1 (2.222%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (11.11%) Degree
3 4 (8.889%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 2 (4.444%) ISEB
4 2 (4.444%) MCSE
5 1 (2.222%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.222%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.222%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.667%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.222%) HL7
2 1 (2.222%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.222%) BS7799
System Software
1 10 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 6 (13.33%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (8.889%) XenServer
4 2 (4.444%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.222%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.222%) XenDesktop
5 1 (2.222%) vSphere
5 1 (2.222%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.222%) XenApp
5 1 (2.222%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 5 (11.11%) SCCM
1 5 (11.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 3 (6.667%) Norton AntiVirus
3 2 (4.444%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (4.444%) SCOM
4 1 (2.222%) HP SIM
4 1 (2.222%) Data Guard
4 1 (2.222%) WSUS
4 1 (2.222%) Tivoli
4 1 (2.222%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 13 (28.89%) Microsoft
2 8 (17.78%) Oracle
3 6 (13.33%) Citrix
4 4 (8.889%) Symantec
4 4 (8.889%) Veritas
4 4 (8.889%) HP
5 3 (6.667%) Kaspersky
6 2 (4.444%) VMware
6 2 (4.444%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.444%) Dell
6 2 (4.444%) Cisco
7 1 (2.222%) NETGEAR
7 1 (2.222%) Huawei
7 1 (2.222%) EMC
7 1 (2.222%) Intel
7 1 (2.222%) Websense
7 1 (2.222%) Remedy
7 1 (2.222%) Sophos
7 1 (2.222%) BT
7 1 (2.222%) NEC
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