Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 20 October 2018

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Disaster Recovery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Disaster Recovery over the 6 months to 20 October 2018 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Disaster Recovery
South East > Berkshire
6 months to
20 Oct 2018		 Same period 2017 Same period 2016
Rank 131 123 134
Rank change year-on-year -8 +11 -2
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery 36 39 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.92% 0.98% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 1.16% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 27 18
Berkshire median daily rate £425 £550 £448
Median daily rate % change year-on-year -22.73% +22.91% +5.29%
10th Percentile £378 £265 £273
90th Percentile £510 £650 £570
South East median daily rate £429 £375 £418
% change year-on-year +14.27% -10.18% +19.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Berkshire median hourly rate - - £43.28
South East median hourly rate £52.50 - £43.28

Disaster Recovery is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire
Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,290 3,360 3,674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 84.47% 84.38% 82.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,624 1,719 1,998
Berkshire median daily rate £425 £425 £400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year - +6.25% +3.23%
10th Percentile £225 £263 £250
90th Percentile £575 £588 £569
South East median daily rate £435 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +2.35% +6.25% +3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 110 143
Berkshire median hourly rate £20.00 £15.75 £17.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +26.98% -10.00% -30.00%
10th Percentile £11.20 £11.25 £12.00
90th Percentile £47.95 £39.53 £43.28
South East median hourly rate £27.00 £22.25 £22.50
% change year-on-year +21.35% -1.11% -2.17%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Disaster Recovery as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery in Berkshire

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery in Berkshire.

Contractor daily rate trend for Disaster Recovery in Berkshire

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Disaster Recovery in Berkshire over the 6 months to 20 October 2018.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in Berkshire

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Disaster Recovery in Berkshire.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Disaster Recovery in Berkshire

Disaster Recovery
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Disaster Recovery within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 20 October 2018. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Job
Vacancies
Reading -4 21 £475 -13.64% 7
Slough 0 9 £425 +41.67% 3
Bracknell -6 1 - - 2
Wokingham - 1 £400 - 1
Disaster Recovery
South East

For the 6 months to 20 October 2018, IT contractor jobs citing Disaster Recovery also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Berkshire region with a requirement for Disaster Recovery.

1 15 (41.67%) Windows
1 15 (41.67%) Microsoft Azure
2 14 (38.89%) Microsoft
3 10 (27.78%) ITIL
3 10 (27.78%) VMware
3 10 (27.78%) PowerShell
4 9 (25.00%) Oracle
4 9 (25.00%) SQL
4 9 (25.00%) Active Directory
5 8 (22.22%) Migration
6 7 (19.44%) Project Management
6 7 (19.44%) DNS
6 7 (19.44%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (19.44%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (19.44%) Power BI
7 6 (16.67%) SOA
7 6 (16.67%) Linux
8 5 (13.89%) HP
8 5 (13.89%) Replication
8 5 (13.89%) Service Management
8 5 (13.89%) Veeam
8 5 (13.89%) Degree
8 5 (13.89%) Windows Server
8 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (13.89%) Office 365
9 4 (11.11%) OpenStack
9 4 (11.11%) Functional Testing
9 4 (11.11%) Software Licensing
9 4 (11.11%) Azure Active Directory
9 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure Transformation

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring IT Skills in Berkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (11.11%) OpenStack
2 3 (8.33%) Apache Spark
3 2 (5.56%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (5.56%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (5.56%) Exchange Server 2013
3 2 (5.56%) MS Exchange
3 2 (5.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 15 (41.67%) Microsoft Azure
2 5 (13.89%) Office 365
3 4 (11.11%) Azure Active Directory
4 3 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (5.56%) IaaS
5 2 (5.56%) PaaS
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon AWS
6 1 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (19.44%) DNS
2 4 (11.11%) SAN
3 3 (8.33%) Firewall
3 3 (8.33%) Internet
3 3 (8.33%) NAS
3 3 (8.33%) Reverse Proxy
3 3 (8.33%) TCP/IP
3 3 (8.33%) VPN
4 2 (5.56%) DHCP
4 2 (5.56%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) Power BI
2 3 (8.33%) Big Data
2 3 (8.33%) Cosmos DB
2 3 (8.33%) Data Lake
2 3 (8.33%) Hadoop
2 3 (8.33%) HDInsight
2 3 (8.33%) Oracle Database
2 3 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 3 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Visual Studio
1 3 (8.33%) Visual Studio Team System
2 2 (5.56%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (8.33%) Retail
1 3 (8.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (2.78%) Banking
2 1 (2.78%) Finance
2 1 (2.78%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 8 (22.22%) Architect
2 4 (11.11%) Consultant
2 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure Team Leader
2 4 (11.11%) Project Manager
2 4 (11.11%) Team Leader
2 4 (11.11%) Technical Manager
2 4 (11.11%) Technical Project Manager
2 4 (11.11%) TIBCO Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) Active Directory Consultant
3 3 (8.33%) Azure Architect
3 3 (8.33%) Backup Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Azure Consultant
4 2 (5.56%) BizTalk Architect
4 2 (5.56%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
4 2 (5.56%) Incident Manager
4 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 2 (5.56%) Lead Architect
4 2 (5.56%) Major Incident Manager
4 2 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.56%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) .NET
1 3 (8.33%) Kafka
1 3 (8.33%) Web Services
2 2 (5.56%) EDI
2 2 (5.56%) Middleware
2 2 (5.56%) OAuth
2 2 (5.56%) REST
2 2 (5.56%) SOAP
2 2 (5.56%) WCF
2 2 (5.56%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Replication
2 4 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 4 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Licensing
3 3 (8.33%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Client/Server
4 2 (5.56%) Computer Science
4 2 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) HACMP
5 1 (2.78%) LPAR
5 1 (2.78%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (41.67%) Windows
2 6 (16.67%) Linux
3 5 (13.89%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.56%) Windows 7
5 1 (2.78%) AIX
5 1 (2.78%) Solaris
5 1 (2.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (27.78%) ITIL
2 8 (22.22%) Migration
3 7 (19.44%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (19.44%) Project Management
4 6 (16.67%) SOA
5 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (13.89%) Service Management
6 4 (11.11%) Business Continuity
6 4 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (11.11%) Functional Testing
6 4 (11.11%) High Availability
6 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure Transformation
6 4 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
6 4 (11.11%) Software Licensing
7 3 (8.33%) Analytics
7 3 (8.33%) Critical Thinking
7 3 (8.33%) Data Mapping
7 3 (8.33%) ITSM
7 3 (8.33%) Use Case
8 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.78%) PowerShell
2 9 (25.00%) SQL
3 3 (8.33%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.78%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (13.89%) Degree
2 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (8.33%) DV Cleared
3 3 (8.33%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (5.56%) MCITP
4 2 (5.56%) MCTS
5 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) QA
2 2 (5.56%) SLA
3 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (19.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.56%) Hyper-V
3 2 (5.56%) VMware Server
4 1 (2.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) SCCM
1 4 (11.11%) SCOM
2 2 (5.56%) Forefront Identity Manager
3 1 (2.78%) Ansible
3 1 (2.78%) NetBackup
3 1 (2.78%) Opscode Chef
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle ZFS
3 1 (2.78%) Puppet
3 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 10 (27.78%) VMware
3 9 (25.00%) Oracle
4 5 (13.89%) HP
4 5 (13.89%) Veeam
5 4 (11.11%) TIBCO
6 2 (5.56%) BMC
6 2 (5.56%) Fiorano
6 2 (5.56%) MuleSoft
6 2 (5.56%) Remedy
7 1 (2.78%) Asigra
7 1 (2.78%) Brocade
7 1 (2.78%) CommVault
7 1 (2.78%) IBM
7 1 (2.78%) Sun