The first table below looks at the demand for Disaster Recovery skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Disaster Recovery over the 3 months to 17 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 West Midlands 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
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Disaster Recovery
Rank 89 98 82
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -16
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 8 14 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.469% 0.619% 1.000%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.729% 0.952% 1.573%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 4
Average daily rate £220 £200 £150
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% +33.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £368 £344 £325
% change year-on-year
+6.90% +5.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
Average hourly rate £9.73 - £25.50
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.51 - £22.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.95 - £28.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.25 £23.69 £23.00
% change year-on-year
-10.29% +2.98%
All Processes & Methodologies
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1097 1471 1208
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 64.38% 65.00% 63.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 544 702 512
Average daily rate £350 £341 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.79% -2.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 65 75
Average hourly rate £37.80 £20.26 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+86.62% -18.98%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -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 West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 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
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Vacancies
Birmingham +5 1 - - 3
Coventry +5 1 - - 1
Solihull - - - - 2
Staffordshire - - - -
Warwickshire - - - -
Worcestershire - - - -
Disaster Recovery
England

Disaster Recovery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 (40.00%) SAP
1 10 (40.00%) SAP Basis
2 9 (36.00%) ITIL
3 8 (32.00%) NetWeaver
4 7 (28.00%) Oracle
5 6 (24.00%) Business Continuity
5 6 (24.00%) German Language
5 6 (24.00%) QA
5 6 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (24.00%) CRM
5 6 (24.00%) SLA
6 5 (20.00%) SAP BW
6 5 (20.00%) Six Sigma
6 5 (20.00%) Internet
6 5 (20.00%) NWDI
6 5 (20.00%) Incident Management
7 4 (16.00%) Problem Management
7 4 (16.00%) BCP
7 4 (16.00%) Service Management
7 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
8 3 (12.00%) C#
8 3 (12.00%) .NET
8 3 (12.00%) PRINCE2
8 3 (12.00%) UNIX
8 3 (12.00%) E-Commerce
8 3 (12.00%) ASP.NET
8 3 (12.00%) Web Services
8 3 (12.00%) Linux
8 3 (12.00%) UML
8 3 (12.00%) OO

Disaster Recovery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 10 (40.00%) SAP Basis
2 3 (12.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (12.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 3 (12.00%) ASP.NET MVC 2
2 3 (12.00%) .NET
2 3 (12.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (12.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 8 (32.00%) NetWeaver
2 3 (12.00%) CMS
3 1 (4.000%) MS Exchange
3 1 (4.000%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 1 (4.000%) MS Office
1 1 (4.000%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.000%) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.00%) Internet
2 2 (8.000%) Firewall
2 2 (8.000%) LAN
3 1 (4.000%) VoIP
3 1 (4.000%) WAN
3 1 (4.000%) DHCP
3 1 (4.000%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.000%) VPN
3 1 (4.000%) DNS
3 1 (4.000%) SAN
3 1 (4.000%) Wireless
3 1 (4.000%) Cisco PIX
3 1 (4.000%) Network Security
3 1 (4.000%) Wireless Security
3 1 (4.000%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) SAP BW
2 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (12.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (4.000%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (4.000%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) NWDI
2 1 (4.000%) LoadRunner
General
1 6 (24.00%) German Language
2 1 (4.000%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.000%) Finance
2 1 (4.000%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Consultant
1 7 (28.00%) SAP Consultant
2 6 (24.00%) SAP Basis Consultant
3 3 (12.00%) Operations Manager
3 3 (12.00%) Service Manager
3 3 (12.00%) Developer
4 2 (8.000%) Analyst
4 2 (8.000%) Test Analyst
4 2 (8.000%) Web Developer
4 2 (8.000%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.000%) Support Engineer
4 2 (8.000%) .NET Developer
4 2 (8.000%) SAP Basis Administrator
4 2 (8.000%) Service Operations Manager
5 1 (4.000%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
5 1 (4.000%) .NET Web Developer
5 1 (4.000%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 1 (4.000%) Incident Manager
5 1 (4.000%) Technical Leader
5 1 (4.000%) Senior SAP Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) N-Tier
2 1 (4.000%) Blackberry
2 1 (4.000%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.000%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) UNIX
1 3 (12.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.000%) Windows
2 2 (8.000%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) ITIL
2 6 (24.00%) CRM
2 6 (24.00%) Business Continuity
2 6 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 5 (20.00%) Six Sigma
4 4 (16.00%) BCP
4 4 (16.00%) Service Management
4 4 (16.00%) Problem Management
5 3 (12.00%) Operations Management
5 3 (12.00%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (12.00%) Content Management
5 3 (12.00%) Web Analytics
5 3 (12.00%) SEO
5 3 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (12.00%) Migration
5 3 (12.00%) E-Commerce
5 3 (12.00%) PRINCE2
5 3 (12.00%) UML
5 3 (12.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (4.000%) CCNP
1 1 (4.000%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (4.000%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (4.000%) MCTS
1 1 (4.000%) MCITP
1 1 (4.000%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) SLA
1 6 (24.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.000%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.000%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.000%) OpenView
1 1 (4.000%) ARCserve
1 1 (4.000%) Backup Exec
1 1 (4.000%) WSUS
1 1 (4.000%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (4.000%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 10 (40.00%) SAP
2 7 (28.00%) Oracle
3 2 (8.000%) VMware
3 2 (8.000%) IBM
3 2 (8.000%) HP
4 1 (4.000%) Juniper
4 1 (4.000%) CA
4 1 (4.000%) NetApp
4 1 (4.000%) CheckPoint
4 1 (4.000%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.000%) Cisco
4 1 (4.000%) ProCurve
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