The first table below looks at the demand for Disaster Recovery skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Disaster Recovery over the 3 months to 24 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 Reading 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Disaster Recovery
Rank 52 74 55
Rank change year-on-year
+22 -19
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 18 10 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 2.156% 0.897% 2.879%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.261% 1.425% 4.335%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 16
Average daily rate £373 £305 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+22.13% -26.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £282 £303
10% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £325 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £325
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.25 £29.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year
-26.72% +23.40%
All Processes & Methodologies
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
552 702 692
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 66.11% 62.96% 66.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 270 310
Average daily rate £390 £370 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.40% +5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £264 £235 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 24 18
Average hourly rate £16.00 £14.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.34% -47.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.20 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £23.80 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Disaster Recovery
Berkshire

Disaster Recovery
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Disaster Recovery Hourly Rate Trend

Disaster Recovery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 21 (63.64%) SQL
2 20 (60.61%) Oracle
2 20 (60.61%) Windows
3 16 (48.48%) UNIX
4 13 (39.39%) ITIL
4 13 (39.39%) Finance
5 12 (36.36%) Linux
6 10 (30.30%) SQL Server
6 10 (30.30%) IBM
6 10 (30.30%) SAN
7 9 (27.27%) .NET
8 8 (24.24%) Oracle 11g
8 8 (24.24%) TCP/IP
9 7 (21.21%) LAN
9 7 (21.21%) Microsoft
9 7 (21.21%) EMC
9 7 (21.21%) Citrix
9 7 (21.21%) Active Directory
9 7 (21.21%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 7 (21.21%) VMware
9 7 (21.21%) Clustering
10 6 (18.18%) Tivoli
10 6 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
10 6 (18.18%) PL/SQL
10 6 (18.18%) SharePoint
11 5 (15.15%) Red Hat
11 5 (15.15%) Oracle 10g
11 5 (15.15%) SLA
11 5 (15.15%) CLARiiON
11 5 (15.15%) Telecoms

Disaster Recovery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 9 (27.27%) .NET
2 4 (12.12%) WebSphere
2 4 (12.12%) Middleware
2 4 (12.12%) Web Services
3 3 (9.091%) J2EE
3 3 (9.091%) ASP.NET
3 3 (9.091%) Flash
4 2 (6.061%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 6 (18.18%) SharePoint
2 3 (9.091%) IIS
2 3 (9.091%) Apache
2 3 (9.091%) Tomcat
2 3 (9.091%) MS Exchange
2 3 (9.091%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 3 (9.091%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (6.061%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (6.061%) WebLogic
3 2 (6.061%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (6.061%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (6.061%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (3.030%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (3.030%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 4 (12.12%) MS Office
2 2 (6.061%) MS Visio
2 2 (6.061%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (6.061%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (6.061%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 10 (30.30%) SAN
2 8 (24.24%) TCP/IP
3 7 (21.21%) LAN
4 4 (12.12%) Intranet
4 4 (12.12%) Internet
5 3 (9.091%) Fibre Channel
5 3 (9.091%) Radio Access Network
5 3 (9.091%) LTE
5 3 (9.091%) ATM
5 3 (9.091%) 3G
5 3 (9.091%) WAN
5 3 (9.091%) HTTP
5 3 (9.091%) DNS
5 3 (9.091%) IPv4
5 3 (9.091%) 2G
5 3 (9.091%) Firewall
6 1 (3.030%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (30.30%) SQL Server
2 8 (24.24%) Oracle 11g
3 5 (15.15%) Oracle 10g
4 4 (12.12%) Oracle 8/8i
5 3 (9.091%) Big Data
5 3 (9.091%) NoSQL
5 3 (9.091%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
5 3 (9.091%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (6.061%) IDOL
6 2 (6.061%) Oracle Exadata
General
1 13 (39.39%) Finance
2 5 (15.15%) Telecoms
2 5 (15.15%) Banking
3 3 (9.091%) Retail
4 1 (3.030%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) DBA
1 9 (27.27%) Oracle DBA
2 5 (15.15%) Applications Support
3 4 (12.12%) Storage Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Applications Support Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Support Engineer
4 3 (9.091%) Administrator
4 3 (9.091%) Storage Specialist
5 2 (6.061%) WebSphere Consultant
5 2 (6.061%) Technical Leader
5 2 (6.061%) Consultant
5 2 (6.061%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (3.030%) IT Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (3.030%) Middleware Administrator
6 1 (3.030%) Middleware Analyst
6 1 (3.030%) IBM Storage Specialist
6 1 (3.030%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (3.030%) 2nd Line Support
6 1 (3.030%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (3.030%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Clustering
2 5 (15.15%) CLARiiON
3 4 (12.12%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (9.091%) LPAR
4 3 (9.091%) DLPAR
4 3 (9.091%) Open Source
4 3 (9.091%) Symmetrix
4 3 (9.091%) EMC Centera
4 3 (9.091%) HACMP
4 3 (9.091%) Mainframe
4 3 (9.091%) IBM Mainframe
5 2 (6.061%) Management Information System
5 2 (6.061%) Oracle Exalogic
Operating Systems
1 20 (60.61%) Windows
2 16 (48.48%) UNIX
3 12 (36.36%) Linux
4 6 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (12.12%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (12.12%) AIX
6 3 (9.091%) Windows XP
6 3 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (6.061%) Windows 2000
7 2 (6.061%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (39.39%) ITIL
2 4 (12.12%) Knowledge Management
2 4 (12.12%) Service Delivery
3 3 (9.091%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (9.091%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (9.091%) Network Management
3 3 (9.091%) ETL
3 3 (9.091%) Business Continuity
3 3 (9.091%) eTOM
4 2 (6.061%) Content Management
4 2 (6.061%) Incident Management
4 2 (6.061%) System Testing
4 2 (6.061%) Performance Management
4 2 (6.061%) Fault Management
4 2 (6.061%) Problem Management
4 2 (6.061%) Information Security
4 2 (6.061%) Workflow
4 2 (6.061%) Data Modelling
4 2 (6.061%) SOA
5 1 (3.030%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 21 (63.64%) SQL
2 6 (18.18%) PL/SQL
3 4 (12.12%) Shell Script
3 4 (12.12%) Java
4 3 (9.091%) Perl
4 3 (9.091%) C
5 2 (6.061%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.061%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (6.061%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (3.030%) MCP
2 1 (3.030%) HNC
2 1 (3.030%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.030%) OCP
2 1 (3.030%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (3.030%) Degree
2 1 (3.030%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (21.21%) Active Directory
2 5 (15.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (9.091%) SRDF
4 2 (6.061%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (6.061%) ISA Server
4 2 (6.061%) VMware ESX
4 2 (6.061%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (3.030%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 1 (3.030%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (21.21%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 6 (18.18%) Tivoli
3 3 (9.091%) HP SIM
4 2 (6.061%) SCCM
4 2 (6.061%) SCOM
4 2 (6.061%) Foglight
4 2 (6.061%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (6.061%) Data Guard
5 1 (3.030%) MOM
Vendors
1 20 (60.61%) Oracle
2 10 (30.30%) IBM
3 7 (21.21%) Microsoft
3 7 (21.21%) EMC
3 7 (21.21%) Citrix
3 7 (21.21%) VMware
4 5 (15.15%) Red Hat
5 4 (12.12%) Hummingbird
5 4 (12.12%) Sitecore
6 3 (9.091%) Nokia Siemens Networks
6 3 (9.091%) Business Objects
6 3 (9.091%) Ericsson
6 3 (9.091%) HP
6 3 (9.091%) Cisco
6 3 (9.091%) NEC
6 3 (9.091%) Greenplum
6 3 (9.091%) Huawei
7 2 (6.061%) Clearswift
7 2 (6.061%) JBoss
8 1 (3.030%) Verint