The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Disaster Recovery skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Disaster Recovery over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category.

Disaster Recovery
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank194197208
Rank change year-on-year
Up+3Up+11
Matching permanent IT job ads159814891002
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK1.319 %1.220 %1.052 %
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category1.788 %1.676 %1.487 %
Number of salaries quoted13661191868
Average salary£43,500£42,500£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.35 %+6.25 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£30,000£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£72,500£67,500
UK excluding London average salary£41,000£40,000£36,500
% change year-on-year
+2.50 %+9.58 %
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryAll Processes & Methodologies
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
893688884467380
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK73.74 %72.81 %70.76 %
Number of salaries quoted759367435255206
Average salary£47,000£47,500£47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.05 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£30,000£29,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£75,000£77,500£75,000
UK excluding London average salary£41,000£40,000£40,000
% change year-on-year
+2.50 %-

Disaster Recovery
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Disaster Recovery within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Disaster Recovery Demand Trend

Disaster Recovery
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Disaster Recovery within the UK.

Disaster Recovery Salary Trend

Disaster Recovery
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Disaster Recovery over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 within the UK.

Disaster Recovery Salary Histogram

Disaster Recovery
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Disaster Recovery within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-11517£43,500+2.35 %
LondonUp+7638£47,500-5.00 %
South EastDown-11328£42,500-0.55 %
East of EnglandUp+32174£42,500+6.25 %
City of LondonUp+1143£52,500-12.50 %
SurreyUp+22116£43,000-0.57 %
North WestDown-27102£40,000+3.22 %
YorkshireDown-885£40,000+21.21 %
South WestUp+674£37,500+7.14 %
HampshireUp+363£42,500+13.33 %
West MidlandsDown-862£45,000+23.28 %
ManchesterDown-2561£38,500-9.41 %
West YorkshireDown-3654£40,250+21.96 %
BerkshireDown-1651£50,000+17.64 %
HertfordshireDown-1545£45,000+6.50 %
CambridgeshireUp+3443£35,000-
EssexUp+1437£47,500+15.15 %
East MidlandsDown-1836£40,000-
WiltshireUp+1634£35,000-
LeedsDown-2934£41,000+24.24 %
SouthamptonUp+832£42,500+41.66 %
BuckinghamshireDown-3328£40,000-11.11 %
BedfordshireUp+324£42,500+6.25 %
SuffolkUp+2923£32,500-27.77 %
ScotlandUp+523£29,000-35.55 %
BirminghamDown-2123£52,500-6.66 %
IpswichNew entry-23£32,500-
StainesUp+1822£55,000+25.00 %
CheshireDown-1621£41,750+11.33 %
CambridgeUp+1620£34,000+0.74 %

Disaster Recovery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Disaster Recovery.

11333 (42.44 %)Windows
21035 (32.95 %)Microsoft
31027 (32.70 %)SQL
4931 (29.64 %)SQL Server
5804 (25.60 %)VMware
6721 (22.95 %)Active Directory
7668 (21.27 %)Finance
8649 (20.66 %)Linux
9594 (18.91 %)Business Continuity
10564 (17.96 %)ITIL
11552 (17.57 %)VMware Infrastructure
12544 (17.32 %)Windows Server 2008
13541 (17.22 %)Windows Server 2003
14523 (16.65 %)SAN
15508 (16.17 %)Firewall
16502 (15.98 %)UNIX
17493 (15.70 %)Oracle
18465 (14.80 %)Cisco
19464 (14.77 %)MS Exchange
20437 (13.91 %)MS Excel
21417 (13.28 %)Degree
22408 (12.99 %)Replication
23372 (11.84 %)Microsoft Certification
24365 (11.62 %)Citrix
25362 (11.52 %)Clustering
26341 (10.86 %)SQL Server 2008
27322 (10.25 %)SQL Server 2005
28318 (10.12 %)LAN
29307 (9.774 %)DNS
30293 (9.328 %)SharePoint

Disaster Recovery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Disaster Recovery. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1202 (6.431 %).NET
2101 (3.216 %)Middleware
398 (3.120 %)ASP.NET
493 (2.961 %)Web Services
570 (2.229 %)WebSphere
653 (1.687 %)HTML
750 (1.592 %)J2EE
846 (1.465 %)ASP
940 (1.273 %)CSS
1038 (1.210 %)XML
1137 (1.178 %)jQuery
1232 (1.019 %)XSLT
1324 (0.764 %)LAMP
1420 (0.637 %)Ajax
1420 (0.637 %)SAP Basis
1518 (0.573 %)EJB
1518 (0.573 %)Java EE
1615 (0.478 %)iBATIS
1714 (0.446 %)WSH
1812 (0.382 %)WCF
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1464 (14.77 %)MS Exchange
2293 (9.328 %)SharePoint
3243 (7.736 %)IIS
4203 (6.463 %)Exchange Server 2010
5144 (4.585 %)Exchange Server 2007
6137 (4.362 %)Apache
7128 (4.075 %)Exchange Server 2003
870 (2.229 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
967 (2.133 %)SharePoint 2010
1054 (1.719 %)WebLogic
1151 (1.624 %)SharePoint Server
1247 (1.496 %)Tomcat
1345 (1.433 %)BizTalk Server
1434 (1.082 %)CMS
1532 (1.019 %)NetWeaver
1624 (0.764 %)Oracle Service Bus
1722 (0.700 %)Tuxedo
1722 (0.700 %)Lync
1818 (0.573 %)Resin
1917 (0.541 %)Umbraco
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1437 (13.91 %)MS Excel
2187 (5.954 %)MS Office
3134 (4.266 %)MS Visio
417 (0.541 %)MS PowerPoint
59 (0.287 %)Google Apps
59 (0.287 %)MS Project
67 (0.223 %)Office 365
74 (0.127 %)Photoshop
83 (0.096 %)PowerPivot
92 (0.064 %)AutoCAD
101 (0.032 %)Vectorworks
101 (0.032 %)CATIA
101 (0.032 %)InDesign
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
133 (1.051 %)Dynamics CRM
222 (0.700 %)Oracle Applications
318 (0.573 %)Remedy ITSM
416 (0.509 %)SAP Retail
515 (0.478 %)SunGard AvantGard
614 (0.446 %)Oracle EBS
614 (0.446 %)Dynamics NAV
713 (0.414 %)RMDS
713 (0.414 %)Oracle 11i
810 (0.318 %)SAP ERP
99 (0.287 %)Oracle Financials
106 (0.191 %)Summit
106 (0.191 %)Oracle EBS R12
114 (0.127 %)Agresso
114 (0.127 %)Bankmaster
123 (0.096 %)Sage 200
123 (0.096 %)ION MarketView
123 (0.096 %)FLEXCUBE
123 (0.096 %)SAP CRM
132 (0.064 %)Movex
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1523 (16.65 %)SAN
2508 (16.17 %)Firewall
3318 (10.12 %)LAN
4307 (9.774 %)DNS
5291 (9.265 %)WAN
6233 (7.418 %)Internet
7222 (7.068 %)TCP/IP
8203 (6.463 %)VPN
9145 (4.616 %)DHCP
10139 (4.425 %)VoIP
11134 (4.266 %)NAS
12126 (4.011 %)Network Security
1397 (3.088 %)Wireless
1488 (2.802 %)MPLS
1587 (2.770 %)SSL
1682 (2.611 %)VLAN
1767 (2.133 %)Cisco ASA
1864 (2.038 %)iSCSI
1961 (1.942 %)Intranet
2060 (1.910 %)LDAP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1931 (29.64 %)SQL Server
2341 (10.86 %)SQL Server 2008
3322 (10.25 %)SQL Server 2005
4289 (9.201 %)SQL Server Integration Services
5195 (6.208 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
6167 (5.317 %)Data Warehouse
7144 (4.585 %)MySQL
8139 (4.425 %)DTS
9130 (4.139 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
10113 (3.598 %)SQL Server 2000
1193 (2.961 %)DB2
1276 (2.420 %)Oracle 11g
1369 (2.197 %)RDBMS
1459 (1.878 %)ETL
1554 (1.719 %)Oracle 8/8i
1554 (1.719 %)Oracle 10g
1631 (0.987 %)OLTP
1728 (0.891 %)TOAD
1823 (0.732 %)Crystal Reports
1823 (0.732 %)Data Mining
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
128 (0.891 %)Visual Studio
217 (0.541 %)Subversion
313 (0.414 %)JIRA
313 (0.414 %)LoadRunner
412 (0.382 %)ClearCase
510 (0.318 %)SilkPerformer
67 (0.223 %)VSS/SourceSafe
76 (0.191 %)ERwin
76 (0.191 %)Team Foundation Server
76 (0.191 %)NWDI
85 (0.159 %)Oracle Forms
85 (0.159 %)MSI
93 (0.096 %)Maven
93 (0.096 %)TestDirector
93 (0.096 %)QuickTest Pro
102 (0.064 %)InstallShield
102 (0.064 %)PVCS
102 (0.064 %)Ant
102 (0.064 %)JDeveloper
102 (0.064 %)CruiseControl
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1668 (21.27 %)Finance
2171 (5.444 %)Telecoms
3143 (4.553 %)Banking
4120 (3.820 %)Retail
585 (2.706 %)Legal
683 (2.642 %)Back Office
769 (2.197 %)Financial Institution
868 (2.165 %)Law
959 (1.878 %)Investment Banking
1047 (1.496 %)Marketing
1142 (1.337 %)Advertising
1231 (0.987 %)Games
1231 (0.987 %)French Language
1231 (0.987 %)German Language
1328 (0.891 %)Publishing
1421 (0.669 %)Spanish Language
1518 (0.573 %)Italian Language
1617 (0.541 %)Front Office
1716 (0.509 %)Manufacturing
187 (0.223 %)Billing
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1574 (18.27 %)DBA
2547 (17.41 %)Administrator
3487 (15.50 %)Analyst
4365 (11.62 %)SQL DBA
5252 (8.023 %)Systems Administrator
6249 (7.927 %)SQL Server DBA
7224 (7.131 %)Consultant
8220 (7.004 %)Architect
9212 (6.749 %)Support Analyst
10146 (4.648 %)Support Engineer
11120 (3.820 %)Infrastructure Engineer
11120 (3.820 %)Teradata DBA
12105 (3.343 %)Developer
13102 (3.247 %)Server Administrator
1491 (2.897 %)Technical Support
1590 (2.865 %)Infrastructure Manager
1689 (2.833 %)Network Engineer
1788 (2.802 %)Senior DBA
1879 (2.515 %)Team Leader
1978 (2.483 %)Systems Engineer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1408 (12.99 %)Replication
2362 (11.52 %)Clustering
3178 (5.667 %)Management Information System
4118 (3.757 %)Computer Science
581 (2.579 %)Blackberry
677 (2.451 %)Hedge funds
755 (1.751 %)SaaS
846 (1.465 %)Statistics
846 (1.465 %)Client/Server
939 (1.242 %)Fat Client
939 (1.242 %)Thin Client
1037 (1.178 %)CLARiiON
1136 (1.146 %)Mainframe
1229 (0.923 %)Cloud Computing
1327 (0.860 %)AS400
1426 (0.828 %)Data Protection Act
1523 (0.732 %)Taxonomies
1622 (0.700 %)Video Conferencing
1622 (0.700 %)Open Source
1721 (0.669 %)Firmware
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11333 (42.44 %)Windows
2649 (20.66 %)Linux
3544 (17.32 %)Windows Server 2008
4541 (17.22 %)Windows Server 2003
5502 (15.98 %)UNIX
6178 (5.667 %)Windows 7
7156 (4.967 %)Windows XP
8147 (4.680 %)Solaris
9143 (4.553 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1086 (2.738 %)AIX
1151 (1.624 %)Windows Vista
1247 (1.496 %)Windows 2000
1342 (1.337 %)Windows 2000 Server
1437 (1.178 %)HPUX
1532 (1.019 %)Windows NT
1617 (0.541 %)CentOS
1716 (0.509 %)SUSE
1716 (0.509 %)Debian
1813 (0.414 %)VMS
198 (0.255 %)Ubuntu
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1594 (18.91 %)Business Continuity
2564 (17.96 %)ITIL
3275 (8.755 %)Migration
4257 (8.182 %)Project Management
5212 (6.749 %)Capacity Planning
6205 (6.527 %)Change Management
7204 (6.495 %)Service Delivery
8201 (6.399 %)Information Security
9179 (5.699 %)Service Management
10177 (5.635 %)High Availability
11173 (5.508 %)Load Balancing
12132 (4.202 %)E-Commerce
13125 (3.980 %)BCP
14117 (3.725 %)CRM
15116 (3.693 %)Data Management
16111 (3.534 %)Change Control
17108 (3.438 %)Security Management
18107 (3.407 %)Business Intelligence
18107 (3.407 %)Problem Management
19103 (3.279 %)Risk Management
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11027 (32.70 %)SQL
2292 (9.296 %)T-SQL
3182 (5.794 %)Perl
4158 (5.030 %)Shell Script
5154 (4.903 %)Java
6115 (3.661 %)C#
7114 (3.629 %)PowerShell
863 (2.006 %)C
956 (1.783 %)JavaScript
1048 (1.528 %)VBScript
1144 (1.401 %)VB
1242 (1.337 %)PHP
1242 (1.337 %)PL/SQL
1338 (1.210 %)Python
1432 (1.019 %)Bash shell
1526 (0.828 %)VB.NET
1526 (0.828 %)C++
1625 (0.796 %)ABAP
1715 (0.478 %)VBA
1715 (0.478 %)AWK
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1417 (13.28 %)Degree
2372 (11.84 %)Microsoft Certification
3195 (6.208 %)MCSE
4190 (6.049 %)Cisco Certification
5152 (4.839 %)MCITP
6134 (4.266 %)MCP
7129 (4.107 %)CCNA
8102 (3.247 %)Security Cleared
988 (2.802 %)CCNP
1084 (2.674 %)CISSP
1084 (2.674 %)SC Cleared
1172 (2.292 %)MCSA
1270 (2.229 %)ITIL Certification
1365 (2.069 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1450 (1.592 %)MCDBA
1542 (1.337 %)CISA
1638 (1.210 %)CISM
1737 (1.178 %)MCTS
1832 (1.019 %)CCIE
1928 (0.891 %)ISEB
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1211 (6.718 %)SLA
2141 (4.489 %)ISO/IEC 27001
3102 (3.247 %)PCI DSS
451 (1.624 %)QA
540 (1.273 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
540 (1.273 %)ISO 9001
638 (1.210 %)COBIT
714 (0.446 %)Data Quality
813 (0.414 %)BS25999
910 (0.318 %)ISO 9000
109 (0.287 %)BS7799
117 (0.223 %)ISO/IEC 17799
125 (0.159 %)COSO
132 (0.064 %)HIPAA
141 (0.032 %)ISO/IEC 20000
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1721 (22.95 %)Active Directory
2552 (17.57 %)VMware Infrastructure
3188 (5.985 %)VMware ESX
4170 (5.412 %)vSphere
5136 (4.330 %)Hyper-V
683 (2.642 %)XenApp
759 (1.878 %)Oracle RAC
853 (1.687 %)VMware ESXi
946 (1.465 %)Terminal Services
1044 (1.401 %)NFS
1142 (1.337 %)XenDesktop
1240 (1.273 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1338 (1.210 %)Oracle RMAN
1432 (1.019 %)Veritas Cluster Server
1530 (0.955 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1627 (0.860 %)XenServer
1717 (0.541 %)Xen
1814 (0.446 %)Veritas File System
1913 (0.414 %)VMware Server
1913 (0.414 %)Samba
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
182 (2.611 %)Backup Exec
280 (2.547 %)SCOM
378 (2.483 %)Nagios
378 (2.483 %)SCCM
461 (1.942 %)NetBackup
545 (1.433 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
642 (1.337 %)Tivoli
730 (0.955 %)EMC NetWorker
827 (0.860 %)Norton AntiVirus
926 (0.828 %)Data Guard
1020 (0.637 %)CiscoWorks
1119 (0.605 %)vCenter
1119 (0.605 %)EMC Navisphere
1119 (0.605 %)OpenView
1218 (0.573 %)HP SIM
1315 (0.478 %)Legato
1414 (0.446 %)WSUS
1414 (0.446 %)Munin
1513 (0.414 %)ARCserve
1612 (0.382 %)Puppet
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11035 (32.95 %)Microsoft
2804 (25.60 %)VMware
3493 (15.70 %)Oracle
4465 (14.80 %)Cisco
5365 (11.62 %)Citrix
6268 (8.532 %)HP
7194 (6.176 %)IBM
8181 (5.762 %)EMC
9177 (5.635 %)Red Hat
1099 (3.152 %)SAP
1195 (3.025 %)NetApp
1283 (2.642 %)Symantec
1370 (2.229 %)Sun
1370 (2.229 %)Veritas
1467 (2.133 %)Intel
1467 (2.133 %)Dell
1559 (1.878 %)Avaya
1657 (1.815 %)Veeam
1754 (1.719 %)Sybase
1851 (1.624 %)Remedy