The first table below looks at the demand for Disaster Recovery skills in IT contracts advertised for the Tyne and Wear region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Disaster Recovery over the 3 months to 19 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 Tyne and Wear 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Disaster Recovery
Rank 25 31 32
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +1
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 4 13 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 2.051% 3.377% 0.694%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.878% 4.530% 1.205%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 0
Average daily rate £338 £525 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-35.71% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £344 £345
% change year-on-year
+7.63% -0.36%
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
Tyne and Wear
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
139 287 166
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 71.28% 74.55% 57.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 147 74
Average daily rate £400 £400 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +33.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £250 £162
10% offered a daily rate of more than £750 £550 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 7
Average hourly rate £19.00 £21.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.62% +26.47%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Disaster Recovery
North East

Disaster Recovery
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 19 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +7 4 £338 -35.71% 4
Disaster Recovery
North East

Disaster Recovery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 10 (71.43%) Cisco
2 8 (57.14%) Linux
3 7 (50.00%) Red Hat
4 6 (42.86%) Identity Management
4 6 (42.86%) ITIL
4 6 (42.86%) Windows
5 5 (35.71%) Apache
5 5 (35.71%) Citrix
5 5 (35.71%) VPN
5 5 (35.71%) DNS
5 5 (35.71%) SLA
5 5 (35.71%) Service Management
5 5 (35.71%) Service Delivery
5 5 (35.71%) Firewall
5 5 (35.71%) Configuration Management
5 5 (35.71%) Asset Management
5 5 (35.71%) Problem Management
5 5 (35.71%) Data Protection
5 5 (35.71%) XenServer
5 5 (35.71%) Capacity Management
6 4 (28.57%) CentOS
6 4 (28.57%) Validation
6 4 (28.57%) DHCP
6 4 (28.57%) SAN
6 4 (28.57%) LDAP
6 4 (28.57%) MS Visio
6 4 (28.57%) MySQL
7 3 (21.43%) HP
7 3 (21.43%) Nagios
7 3 (21.43%) OSPF

Disaster Recovery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 (7.143%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 5 (35.71%) Apache
2 1 (7.143%) WebLogic
2 1 (7.143%) IIS
2 1 (7.143%) ESB
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) VPN
1 5 (35.71%) DNS
1 5 (35.71%) Firewall
2 4 (28.57%) DHCP
2 4 (28.57%) SAN
2 4 (28.57%) LDAP
3 3 (21.43%) OSPF
3 3 (21.43%) BGP
4 1 (7.143%) Wireless
4 1 (7.143%) IPsec
4 1 (7.143%) MPLS
4 1 (7.143%) Internet
4 1 (7.143%) TCP/IP
4 1 (7.143%) LAN
4 1 (7.143%) VoIP
4 1 (7.143%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) MySQL
2 1 (7.143%) Oracle 10g
General
1 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
2 1 (7.143%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Administrator
2 5 (35.71%) Systems Administrator
2 5 (35.71%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 5 (35.71%) Linux Administrator
3 4 (28.57%) Analyst
4 3 (21.43%) Support Analyst
4 3 (21.43%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 3 (21.43%) Senior Linux Administrator
4 3 (21.43%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
4 3 (21.43%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (14.29%) Technical Support Analyst
5 2 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (14.29%) Network Administrator
5 2 (14.29%) Technical Support
6 1 (7.143%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 1 (7.143%) Applications Support
6 1 (7.143%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 1 (7.143%) Network Engineer
6 1 (7.143%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (7.143%) Network Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.143%) Clustering
1 1 (7.143%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Linux
2 6 (42.86%) Windows
3 4 (28.57%) CentOS
4 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Identity Management
1 6 (42.86%) ITIL
2 5 (35.71%) Service Management
2 5 (35.71%) Service Delivery
2 5 (35.71%) Configuration Management
2 5 (35.71%) Asset Management
2 5 (35.71%) Problem Management
2 5 (35.71%) Data Protection
2 5 (35.71%) Capacity Management
3 4 (28.57%) Validation
4 1 (7.143%) RDF
4 1 (7.143%) E-Commerce
4 1 (7.143%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (7.143%) High Availability
4 1 (7.143%) Load Balancing
Qualifications
1 1 (7.143%) RHCT
1 1 (7.143%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (7.143%) RHCE
1 1 (7.143%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) XenServer
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Nagios
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) Cisco
2 7 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 5 (35.71%) Citrix
4 3 (21.43%) HP
5 2 (14.29%) VMware
6 1 (7.143%) Oracle
6 1 (7.143%) JBoss
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