Scotland Disaster Recovery Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Disaster Recovery skills within the Scotland 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 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Disaster Recovery
Location Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry 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 Peterborough Plymouth Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rotherham Scotland Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire 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 Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	97	82
Rank change on same period last year	-15
Matching contract IT job ads	6	41
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.041 %
As % of the category below	0.517 %	2.603 %
Daily rates quoted	0	6
Average minimum daily rate	-	£337
Average daily rate	-	£356
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£375
UK excluding London average daily rate	£392	£377
% change on same period last year	+3.83 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.09	£27.97
% change on same period last year	+0.42 %
Processes & Methodologies Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	1161	1575
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.547 %	1.571 %
Daily rates quoted	301	364
Average minimum daily rate	£297	£325
Average daily rate	£320	£343
% change on same period last year	-6.70 %
Average maximum daily rate	£343	£362
UK excluding London average daily rate	£379	£376
% change on same period last year	+0.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	60	60
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.44	£26.26
Average hourly rate	£25.02	£27.59
% change on same period last year	-9.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.61	£28.91
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.35	£30.32
% change on same period last year	+0.10 %
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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 Scotland 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 Scotland region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Disaster Recovery across the Scotland region.

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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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
Glasgow	+1	4	-	-
Edinburgh	+1	2	-	-

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Disaster Recovery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 7 (29.17 %) PRINCE2 1 7 (29.17 %) Windows 2 6 (25.00 %) Windows Server 2003 2 6 (25.00 %) Finance 2 6 (25.00 %) ITIL 2 6 (25.00 %) Active Directory 3 5 (20.83 %) UNIX 3 5 (20.83 %) IIS 3 5 (20.83 %) Symantec 3 5 (20.83 %) Project Management 4 4 (16.67 %) Change Management 4 4 (16.67 %) SAN 4 4 (16.67 %) NetBackup 4 4 (16.67 %) Business Continuity 5 3 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2003

5 3 (12.50 %) VERITAS 5 3 (12.50 %) Cisco 5 3 (12.50 %) Microsoft 5 3 (12.50 %) Citrix 5 3 (12.50 %) HP 5 3 (12.50 %) MS Exchange 5 3 (12.50 %) MCSE 5 3 (12.50 %) MCSA 5 3 (12.50 %) MS Excel 5 3 (12.50 %) BS7799 5 3 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 6 2 (8.333 %) PRINCE 6 2 (8.333 %) Service Management 6 2 (8.333 %) Clustering 6 2 (8.333 %) Windows 2000

Disaster Recovery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 2 (8.333 %) WebSphere 2 1 (4.167 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 5 (20.83 %) IIS 2 3 (12.50 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (4.167 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 3 (12.50 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 4 (16.67 %) SAN 2 2 (8.333 %) LAN 2 2 (8.333 %) WAN 3 1 (4.167 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (4.167 %) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (8.333 %) SQL Server 1 2 (8.333 %) SQL Server 2005	General 1 6 (25.00 %) Finance 2 2 (8.333 %) Banking 2 2 (8.333 %) Investment Banking 3 1 (4.167 %) Marketing 3 1 (4.167 %) Financial Institution 3 1 (4.167 %) Retail 3 1 (4.167 %) Construction 3 1 (4.167 %) Health
Job Titles 1 7 (29.17 %) Project Manager 2 4 (16.67 %) IT Manager 2 4 (16.67 %) Administrator 3 3 (12.50 %) Systems Administrator 3 3 (12.50 %) Infrastructure Manager 4 2 (8.333 %) UNIX Administrator 4 2 (8.333 %) Server Engineer 4 2 (8.333 %) Security Manager 4 2 (8.333 %) IT Security Manager 4 2 (8.333 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 4 2 (8.333 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 4 2 (8.333 %) Consultant 4 2 (8.333 %) Analyst 5 1 (4.167 %) IT Consultant 5 1 (4.167 %) Business Analyst 5 1 (4.167 %) Management Consultant 5 1 (4.167 %) Author 5 1 (4.167 %) Technical Author 5 1 (4.167 %) WebSphere Administrator 5 1 (4.167 %) IT Project Manager	Miscellaneous 1 2 (8.333 %) Clustering 2 1 (4.167 %) Equities 2 1 (4.167 %) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems 1 7 (29.17 %) Windows 2 6 (25.00 %) Windows Server 2003 3 5 (20.83 %) UNIX 4 2 (8.333 %) Solaris 4 2 (8.333 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (4.167 %) NetWare 5 1 (4.167 %) Linux 5 1 (4.167 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 1 (4.167 %) Red Hat Linux 5 1 (4.167 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (29.17 %) PRINCE2 2 6 (25.00 %) ITIL 3 5 (20.83 %) Project Management 4 4 (16.67 %) Business Continuity 4 4 (16.67 %) Change Management 5 2 (8.333 %) PRINCE 5 2 (8.333 %) Service Management 5 2 (8.333 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 2 (8.333 %) Asset Management 6 1 (4.167 %) Fund Management 6 1 (4.167 %) Problem Management 6 1 (4.167 %) Investment Management 6 1 (4.167 %) ISMS 6 1 (4.167 %) Data Protection 6 1 (4.167 %) Information Security 6 1 (4.167 %) ERP 6 1 (4.167 %) Information Security Management 6 1 (4.167 %) Security Management 6 1 (4.167 %) Workflow
Programming Languages 1 2 (8.333 %) SQL 2 1 (4.167 %) Shell Script 2 1 (4.167 %) Korn 2 1 (4.167 %) Perl	Qualifications 1 3 (12.50 %) MCSE 1 3 (12.50 %) MCSA 1 3 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (8.333 %) Degree 3 1 (4.167 %) Cisco Certification 3 1 (4.167 %) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (12.50 %) BS7799 2 1 (4.167 %) SLA	System Software 1 6 (25.00 %) Active Directory 2 4 (16.67 %) NetBackup 3 1 (4.167 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 1 (4.167 %) VMware ESX
Systems Management 1 1 (4.167 %) Tivoli 1 1 (4.167 %) Norton AntiVirus	Vendors 1 5 (20.83 %) Symantec 2 3 (12.50 %) Cisco 2 3 (12.50 %) Microsoft 2 3 (12.50 %) HP 2 3 (12.50 %) Citrix 2 3 (12.50 %) VERITAS 3 1 (4.167 %) Red Hat 3 1 (4.167 %) CommVault 3 1 (4.167 %) EMC 3 1 (4.167 %) Intel 3 1 (4.167 %) Sophos 3 1 (4.167 %) VMware