The first table below looks at the demand for Disaster Recovery skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Disaster Recovery over the 3 months to 18 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 Yorkshire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Disaster Recovery
Rank 84 82 71
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -11
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 11 13 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.794% 0.763% 0.256%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.120% 1.028% 0.376%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 1
Average daily rate £204 £305 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-33.19% +22.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
+10.44% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £23.69 £23.00
% change year-on-year
-26.12% +2.98%
All Processes & Methodologies
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
982 1264 797
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 70.90% 74.22% 67.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 541 721 395
Average daily rate £320 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.57% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £219 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 25 34
Average hourly rate £29.25 £15.00 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+95.00% -31.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.35 £11.64 £7.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.60 £62.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Disaster Recovery
Yorkshire

Disaster Recovery
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 18 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
Bradford - 4 £213 - 1
Leeds -7 2 - - 4
Pontefract - - - -
Wakefield - - - - 1
Disaster Recovery
Yorkshire

Disaster Recovery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 13 (46.43%) Finance
2 11 (39.29%) Windows
3 10 (35.71%) Business Continuity
4 9 (32.14%) UNIX
4 9 (32.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (28.57%) Project Management
6 7 (25.00%) PRINCE2
7 6 (21.43%) Oracle
7 6 (21.43%) Internet
7 6 (21.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 5 (17.86%) Firewall
8 5 (17.86%) CCNA
8 5 (17.86%) ITIL
8 5 (17.86%) VPN
8 5 (17.86%) DNS
8 5 (17.86%) SSL
8 5 (17.86%) LAN
8 5 (17.86%) VoIP
8 5 (17.86%) WAN
8 5 (17.86%) DHCP
8 5 (17.86%) Information Security
8 5 (17.86%) Load Balancing
8 5 (17.86%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (17.86%) Matrix Management
9 4 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
9 4 (14.29%) VLAN
9 4 (14.29%) VMware
9 4 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (14.29%) Cisco
9 4 (14.29%) MPLS

Disaster Recovery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 (7.143%) .NET
1 2 (7.143%) SOAP
1 2 (7.143%) XML
1 2 (7.143%) JMS
1 2 (7.143%) LAMP
1 2 (7.143%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (7.143%) Java EE
1 2 (7.143%) RESTful
1 2 (7.143%) REST
2 1 (3.571%) FIX Protocol
Application Platforms
1 2 (7.143%) IIS
1 2 (7.143%) ESB
2 1 (3.571%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (3.571%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.571%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (21.43%) Internet
2 5 (17.86%) Firewall
2 5 (17.86%) LAN
2 5 (17.86%) VoIP
2 5 (17.86%) WAN
2 5 (17.86%) DHCP
2 5 (17.86%) VPN
2 5 (17.86%) DNS
2 5 (17.86%) SSL
3 4 (14.29%) VLAN
3 4 (14.29%) MPLS
4 2 (7.143%) HTTP
5 1 (3.571%) ATM
5 1 (3.571%) DVB
5 1 (3.571%) RTSP
5 1 (3.571%) Intranet
5 1 (3.571%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.143%) SQL Server
1 2 (7.143%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (3.571%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (3.571%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.571%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (3.571%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 13 (46.43%) Finance
2 2 (7.143%) Retail
3 1 (3.571%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.571%) Advertising
3 1 (3.571%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Project Manager
2 6 (21.43%) Analyst
3 4 (14.29%) Consultant
3 4 (14.29%) Security Consultant
4 3 (10.71%) Information Security Consultant
4 3 (10.71%) DBA
4 3 (10.71%) Communications Analyst
5 2 (7.143%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.143%) Architect
5 2 (7.143%) Network Engineer
5 2 (7.143%) Oracle DBA
6 1 (3.571%) Test Engineer
6 1 (3.571%) SQL DBA
6 1 (3.571%) Change Analyst
6 1 (3.571%) Cisco Engineer
6 1 (3.571%) Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (3.571%) Technical Manager
6 1 (3.571%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (3.571%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 1 (3.571%) Technical Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.143%) Computer Science
1 2 (7.143%) Data Integration
1 2 (7.143%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.571%) Video on Demand
2 1 (3.571%) Client/Server
2 1 (3.571%) Clustering
2 1 (3.571%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 11 (39.29%) Windows
2 9 (32.14%) UNIX
3 3 (10.71%) Linux
4 1 (3.571%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (35.71%) Business Continuity
2 9 (32.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (28.57%) Project Management
4 7 (25.00%) PRINCE2
5 5 (17.86%) ITIL
5 5 (17.86%) Information Security
5 5 (17.86%) Load Balancing
5 5 (17.86%) Matrix Management
6 4 (14.29%) BCP
7 3 (10.71%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 3 (10.71%) Penetration Testing
7 3 (10.71%) Capacity Planning
7 3 (10.71%) Risk Management
8 2 (7.143%) Database Security
8 2 (7.143%) Performance Management
8 2 (7.143%) Unified Process
8 2 (7.143%) UML
8 2 (7.143%) E-Commerce
8 2 (7.143%) SOA
9 1 (3.571%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.143%) Java
1 2 (7.143%) PHP
2 1 (3.571%) SQL
2 1 (3.571%) C
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 5 (17.86%) CCNA
2 5 (17.86%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (7.143%) Degree
5 1 (3.571%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (3.571%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) SLA
2 1 (3.571%) QA
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (7.143%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 2 (7.143%) OpenView
1 2 (7.143%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Oracle
2 4 (14.29%) Cisco
2 4 (14.29%) VMware
3 2 (7.143%) NetApp
3 2 (7.143%) HP
4 1 (3.571%) Intel
4 1 (3.571%) Avaya
4 1 (3.571%) Microsoft
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