The first table below looks at the demand for Disaster Recovery skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey 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 Surrey 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 79 86 88
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +2
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 1 11 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 0.086% 0.678% 0.823%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.120% 0.992% 1.136%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 8
Average daily rate £350 £410 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.52% +12.96%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £338 £310
% change year-on-year
+3.70% +8.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.25 £29.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year
-26.72% +18.36%
All Processes & Methodologies
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
836 1109 1321
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 71.94% 68.33% 72.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 621 683
Average daily rate £415 £350 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.57% -15.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £250 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £525 £520
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 56 36
Average hourly rate £37.50 £31.50 £33.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.04% -6.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £15.55 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £55.12 £41.35 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
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 Surrey region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 21 May 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
Woking - 1 £350 -
Disaster Recovery
South East

Disaster Recovery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 9 (64.29%) SQL
2 7 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (50.00%) SAN
3 6 (42.86%) TCP/IP
3 6 (42.86%) Oracle
3 6 (42.86%) Perl
3 6 (42.86%) Windows
3 6 (42.86%) Shell Script
3 6 (42.86%) VMware
3 6 (42.86%) Clustering
3 6 (42.86%) AWK
3 6 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (35.71%) NAS
5 4 (28.57%) Liferay
5 4 (28.57%) Bash shell
5 4 (28.57%) Memory Management
5 4 (28.57%) tcpdump
5 4 (28.57%) Puppet
5 4 (28.57%) Hudson
5 4 (28.57%) Jenkins
5 4 (28.57%) sed
5 4 (28.57%) iSCSI
5 4 (28.57%) Git (software)
5 4 (28.57%) Postfix
5 4 (28.57%) Load Balancing
5 4 (28.57%) Cryptography
5 4 (28.57%) Nmap
5 4 (28.57%) Banking
5 4 (28.57%) Squid
5 4 (28.57%) PostgreSQL

Disaster Recovery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 4 (28.57%) JDBC
2 2 (14.29%) .NET
3 1 (7.143%) Web Services
3 1 (7.143%) XML
3 1 (7.143%) XSD
3 1 (7.143%) XSL
3 1 (7.143%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 4 (28.57%) Liferay
1 4 (28.57%) Apache
1 4 (28.57%) Tomcat
2 3 (21.43%) MS Exchange
3 2 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (7.143%) SharePoint
4 1 (7.143%) CMS
4 1 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 1 (7.143%) MS Excel
1 1 (7.143%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (7.143%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (7.143%) SalesLogix
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) SAN
2 6 (42.86%) TCP/IP
3 5 (35.71%) NAS
4 4 (28.57%) tcpdump
4 4 (28.57%) iSCSI
4 4 (28.57%) TELNET
4 4 (28.57%) LDAP
4 4 (28.57%) SMTP
4 4 (28.57%) DHCP
4 4 (28.57%) HTTP
4 4 (28.57%) SNMP
4 4 (28.57%) DNS
4 4 (28.57%) SSL
5 2 (14.29%) 2G
5 2 (14.29%) 3G
5 2 (14.29%) IPv4
5 2 (14.29%) VPN
5 2 (14.29%) LAN
5 2 (14.29%) VoIP
5 2 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (28.57%) MySQL
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (14.29%) VLDB
3 2 (14.29%) OLTP
4 1 (7.143%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (7.143%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Hudson
1 4 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 4 (28.57%) Git (software)
General
1 4 (28.57%) Banking
2 1 (7.143%) Back Office
2 1 (7.143%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Administrator
2 4 (28.57%) Linux Administrator
3 3 (21.43%) Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) UNIX Administrator
4 2 (14.29%) Support Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Database Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Support Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Applications Support
5 1 (7.143%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (7.143%) Architect
5 1 (7.143%) Network Manager
5 1 (7.143%) Support Manager
5 1 (7.143%) IT Support Manager
5 1 (7.143%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (7.143%) Systems Manager
5 1 (7.143%) Applications Support Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) IT Support Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (7.143%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.143%) OSS Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Clustering
2 4 (28.57%) Cryptography
3 2 (14.29%) Mathematics
3 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 1 (7.143%) Client/Server
4 1 (7.143%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Windows
2 4 (28.57%) Linux
3 3 (21.43%) UNIX
3 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (14.29%) HPUX
4 2 (14.29%) Solaris
5 1 (7.143%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (7.143%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Memory Management
1 4 (28.57%) Load Balancing
2 3 (21.43%) ITIL
2 3 (21.43%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (14.29%) Business Continuity
3 2 (14.29%) Benchmarking
3 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2
4 1 (7.143%) CRM
4 1 (7.143%) Configuration Management
4 1 (7.143%) Migration
4 1 (7.143%) Incident Management
4 1 (7.143%) eTOM
4 1 (7.143%) Document Management
4 1 (7.143%) Fault Management
4 1 (7.143%) Resource Management
4 1 (7.143%) Database Tuning
4 1 (7.143%) Data Migration
4 1 (7.143%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (7.143%) Network Management
4 1 (7.143%) Database Security
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) SQL
2 6 (42.86%) Perl
2 6 (42.86%) Shell Script
2 6 (42.86%) AWK
3 4 (28.57%) Bash shell
3 4 (28.57%) sed
3 4 (28.57%) Java
4 2 (14.29%) Bourne shell
4 2 (14.29%) Korn
5 1 (7.143%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.143%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (21.43%) MCSE
1 3 (21.43%) MCITP
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (14.29%) CCNA
2 2 (14.29%) Sun Certification
3 1 (7.143%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (7.143%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (7.143%) MCP
3 1 (7.143%) MCSA
3 1 (7.143%) MCDST
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (28.57%) Postfix
2 4 (28.57%) Nmap
2 4 (28.57%) Squid
2 4 (28.57%) NFS
3 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
4 2 (14.29%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 2 (14.29%) Veritas File System
5 1 (7.143%) VMware ESX
5 1 (7.143%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (7.143%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Puppet
1 4 (28.57%) Nagios
2 2 (14.29%) BMC PATROL
2 2 (14.29%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Oracle
1 6 (42.86%) VMware
2 4 (28.57%) JBoss
2 4 (28.57%) SAP
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) NetApp
2 4 (28.57%) Red Hat
2 4 (28.57%) EMC
3 3 (21.43%) Sun
3 3 (21.43%) Veritas
4 2 (14.29%) Cisco
4 2 (14.29%) Sage
4 2 (14.29%) BMC
5 1 (7.143%) Novell
5 1 (7.143%) CheckPoint
5 1 (7.143%) HP
5 1 (7.143%) Citrix
5 1 (7.143%) Alterian
5 1 (7.143%) PlateSpin