Disaster Recovery Contracts in England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 3 months to 28 June 2017 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 UK / England
Location	3 months to 28 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	291	252	247
Rank change year-on-year	-39	-5
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery	334	465	470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	0.77%	0.94%	0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	0.91%	1.13%	1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted	214	323	284
Median daily rate	£400	£400	£375
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	+6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£250	£275	£275
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£550	£550	£500
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£375	£369
% change year-on-year	-	+1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted	11	8	3
Median hourly rate	£47.50	£19.50	£28.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+143.58%	-30.35%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£17.50	£13.00	£26.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£65.00	£45.60	£37.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£35.50	£43.28	£28.00
% change year-on-year	-17.97%	+54.57%

Disaster Recovery is in the process and methodology skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process and methodology skills.

Contract Process & Methodology Skills England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills	36606	41272	40599
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	84.68%	83.46%	80.86%
Number of daily rates quoted	24006	27689	26589
Median daily rate	£450	£450	£415
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	+8.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£313	£300	£288
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£600	£588
UK excluding London median daily rate	£415	£400	£385
% change year-on-year	+3.75%	+3.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted	948	976	1113
Median hourly rate	£32.50	£27.50	£26.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+18.18%	+5.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.00	£12.83	£12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£52.50	£47.83	£50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£34.75	£28.50	£30.00
% change year-on-year	+21.92%	-5.00%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England citing Disaster Recovery as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Processes & Methodologies category.

Job vacancy trend for Disaster Recovery in England

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate trend for Disaster Recovery in England

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Disaster Recovery in England over the 3 months to 28 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in England

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate trend for Disaster Recovery in England

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in England

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Disaster Recovery in England over the 3 months to 28 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in England

Disaster Recovery
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 3 months to 28 June 2017. 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	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	-80	107	£450	+5.88%	42
South East	-15	53	£393	-1.71%	24
East of England	+19	36	£370	+8.82%	9
East Midlands	+18	36	£375	-6.25%	9
North West	+26	34	£368	-8.12%	10
South West	+10	29	£365	-7.00%	10
West Midlands	+27	23	£256	-30.74%	12
Yorkshire	-3	9	£513	+28.12%	23
North East	+49	4	£368	+47.10%	1
Midlands	-	3	-	-	21
Disaster Recovery UK

Disaster Recovery
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 28 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Disaster Recovery also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for Disaster Recovery.

1	231 (33.72%)	Windows
2	183 (26.72%)	Microsoft
3	165 (24.09%)	Linux
4	162 (23.65%)	ITIL
5	154 (22.48%)	SQL
6	136 (19.85%)	VMware
7	131 (19.12%)	Finance
8	130 (18.98%)	Business Continuity
8	130 (18.98%)	SQL Server
9	128 (18.69%)	Oracle
9	128 (18.69%)	Data Centre
10	126 (18.39%)	Active Directory
11	116 (16.93%)	Windows Server
12	114 (16.64%)	High Availability
13	111 (16.20%)	Unix

13	111 (16.20%)	Firewall
14	103 (15.04%)	Migration
15	98 (14.31%)	SAN
16	95 (13.87%)	Cisco
17	92 (13.43%)	Windows Server 2008
18	91 (13.28%)	PowerShell
19	88 (12.85%)	Replication
20	83 (12.12%)	VMware Infrastructure
21	81 (11.82%)	WAN
22	79 (11.53%)	Security Cleared
23	77 (11.24%)	LAN
24	76 (11.09%)	Windows Server 2012
24	76 (11.09%)	Microsoft Azure
25	75 (10.95%)	DNS
26	74 (10.80%)	Service Management

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring IT Skills in England 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
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	67 (9.78%)	MS Exchange
2	46 (6.72%)	Exchange Server 2010
3	32 (4.67%)	SharePoint
4	29 (4.23%)	IIS
5	28 (4.09%)	Exchange Server 2013
6	18 (2.63%)	Skype for Business
7	13 (1.90%)	Exchange Server 2007
8	10 (1.46%)	BizTalk Server
9	9 (1.31%)	OpenStack
10	8 (1.17%)	WebLogic
11	7 (1.02%)	SAS
12	6 (0.88%)	Apache
12	6 (0.88%)	Blackberry Enterprise Server
12	6 (0.88%)	SharePoint 2010
12	6 (0.88%)	SharePoint 2013
12	6 (0.88%)	Tomcat
13	5 (0.73%)	JBoss
14	4 (0.58%)	Confluence
14	4 (0.58%)	Oracle Coherence
14	4 (0.58%)	WebSphere

Applications
1	23 (3.36%)	Microsoft Office
2	10 (1.46%)	Microsoft Excel
3	5 (0.73%)	Microsoft Project
4	3 (0.44%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
5	2 (0.29%)	MS Visio
6	1 (0.15%)	Shockwave

Business Applications
1	16 (2.34%)	SAP ERP
2	8 (1.17%)	SAP Oil and Gas
3	3 (0.44%)	Staffware
4	2 (0.29%)	Dynamics CRM
4	2 (0.29%)	Northgate Housing
4	2 (0.29%)	Remedy ITSM
4	2 (0.29%)	SAP BPC
4	2 (0.29%)	SAP MII
4	2 (0.29%)	thinkFolio
4	2 (0.29%)	Unit4 Business World
5	1 (0.15%)	BondVision
5	1 (0.15%)	Eikon
5	1 (0.15%)	JDE OneWorld
5	1 (0.15%)	OpenText VIM for SAP
5	1 (0.15%)	Oracle Assets
5	1 (0.15%)	Oracle Cash Management
5	1 (0.15%)	Oracle EBS
5	1 (0.15%)	Oracle Payables
5	1 (0.15%)	Oracle Receivables
5	1 (0.15%)	SAP S/4HANA

Cloud Services
1	76 (11.09%)	Microsoft Azure
2	62 (9.05%)	Amazon AWS
3	39 (5.69%)	Office 365
4	33 (4.82%)	IaaS
5	15 (2.19%)	SaaS
6	13 (1.90%)	Azure Active Directory
7	11 (1.61%)	Cloud Computing
7	11 (1.61%)	PaaS
8	7 (1.02%)	Mimecast
9	5 (0.73%)	Virtual Private Cloud
10	4 (0.58%)	Amazon S3
10	4 (0.58%)	AWS CloudFormation
11	3 (0.44%)	AWS Lambda
11	3 (0.44%)	OneDrive
12	2 (0.29%)	Amazon ELB
12	2 (0.29%)	Amazon SQS
12	2 (0.29%)	Heroku
12	2 (0.29%)	IBM Cloud
13	1 (0.15%)	OpenShift
13	1 (0.15%)	Yammer

Communications & Networking
1	111 (16.20%)	Firewall
2	98 (14.31%)	SAN
3	81 (11.82%)	WAN
4	77 (11.24%)	LAN
5	75 (10.95%)	DNS
6	50 (7.30%)	VPN
7	40 (5.84%)	TCP/IP
8	39 (5.69%)	NAS
9	36 (5.26%)	DHCP
10	32 (4.67%)	Network Security
11	29 (4.23%)	VoIP
12	25 (3.65%)	Unified Communications
13	24 (3.50%)	MPLS
14	23 (3.36%)	BGP
14	23 (3.36%)	Cisco ASA
14	23 (3.36%)	Wireless
15	22 (3.21%)	Internet
16	21 (3.07%)	LDAP
17	16 (2.34%)	Wi-Fi
18	15 (2.19%)	FTP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	130 (18.98%)	SQL Server
2	44 (6.42%)	SQL Server 2012
2	44 (6.42%)	SQL Server Integration Services
3	40 (5.84%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
4	37 (5.40%)	SQL Server 2008
5	36 (5.26%)	Oracle Database
6	32 (4.67%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
7	30 (4.38%)	SQL Server 2014
8	27 (3.94%)	DB2
9	25 (3.65%)	Relational Database
10	20 (2.92%)	MySQL
10	20 (2.92%)	SQL Server 2005
11	18 (2.63%)	RDBMS
12	17 (2.48%)	Data Warehouse
13	15 (2.19%)	Oracle Database 11g
14	12 (1.75%)	Oracle Database 12c
15	11 (1.61%)	BusinessObjects
15	11 (1.61%)	PostgreSQL
16	10 (1.46%)	SQL Server 2016
17	9 (1.31%)	Oracle Database 10g

Development Applications
1	11 (1.61%)	Jenkins
2	10 (1.46%)	JIRA
2	10 (1.46%)	Team Foundation Server
3	9 (1.31%)	TeamCity
4	8 (1.17%)	Git (software)
5	5 (0.73%)	Oracle APEX
5	5 (0.73%)	Oracle Forms
5	5 (0.73%)	Toad
6	3 (0.44%)	AdminStudio
6	3 (0.44%)	Bitbucket
6	3 (0.44%)	ERwin
6	3 (0.44%)	LoadRunner
6	3 (0.44%)	SonarQube
6	3 (0.44%)	Sonatype Nexus
6	3 (0.44%)	Vagrant
6	3 (0.44%)	Visual Studio
7	2 (0.29%)	git-flow
7	2 (0.29%)	NWDI
7	2 (0.29%)	Selenium
7	2 (0.29%)	Subversion

General
1	131 (19.12%)	Finance
2	41 (5.99%)	Banking
3	30 (4.38%)	Legal
4	22 (3.21%)	Retail
4	22 (3.21%)	Telecoms
5	14 (2.04%)	Front Office
6	11 (1.61%)	Investment Banking
7	10 (1.46%)	Automotive
7	10 (1.46%)	Back Office
8	9 (1.31%)	Law
8	9 (1.31%)	Manufacturing
9	7 (1.02%)	Marketing
9	7 (1.02%)	Pharmaceutical
10	6 (0.88%)	Billing
10	6 (0.88%)	Local Government
11	5 (0.73%)	Financial Institution
12	4 (0.58%)	Electronics
12	4 (0.58%)	Retail Banking
13	3 (0.44%)	General Ledger
14	2 (0.29%)	Advertising

Job Titles
1	86 (12.55%)	Analyst
2	78 (11.39%)	Architect
2	78 (11.39%)	DBA
3	71 (10.36%)	Administrator
4	58 (8.47%)	SQL DBA
5	36 (5.26%)	Project Manager
6	33 (4.82%)	Infrastructure Engineer
7	32 (4.67%)	Consultant
8	30 (4.38%)	SQL Server DBA
9	26 (3.80%)	Systems Administrator
10	23 (3.36%)	Support Analyst
11	22 (3.21%)	Unix Administrator
12	21 (3.07%)	Infrastructure Analyst
12	21 (3.07%)	Infrastructure Manager
13	20 (2.92%)	IT Manager
13	20 (2.92%)	Network Engineer
14	19 (2.77%)	Technical Architect
14	19 (2.77%)	Unix Engineer
15	18 (2.63%)	Cloud Architect
15	18 (2.63%)	Infrastructure Architect

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	14 (2.04%)	.NET
1	14 (2.04%)	Middleware
1	14 (2.04%)	Web Services
2	9 (1.31%)	SAP Basis
3	7 (1.02%)	SOAP
4	6 (0.88%)	REST
5	5 (0.73%)	J2EE
5	5 (0.73%)	XML
6	4 (0.58%)	Flash
6	4 (0.58%)	Oracle GoldenGate
6	4 (0.58%)	WSDL
6	4 (0.58%)	XML Messaging
6	4 (0.58%)	XSD
7	3 (0.44%)	Java SE
7	3 (0.44%)	JSON
7	3 (0.44%)	ODBC
7	3 (0.44%)	Oracle Fusion
7	3 (0.44%)	Regular Expression
7	3 (0.44%)	RESTful
7	3 (0.44%)	WAP

Miscellaneous
1	128 (18.69%)	Data Centre
2	88 (12.85%)	Replication
3	58 (8.47%)	Management Information System
4	57 (8.32%)	Clustering
5	47 (6.86%)	Analytical Skills
6	22 (3.21%)	Enterprise Storage
7	15 (2.19%)	Private Cloud
7	15 (2.19%)	Public Cloud
8	13 (1.90%)	Enterprise Software
9	12 (1.75%)	Computer Science
10	10 (1.46%)	Blackberry
11	9 (1.31%)	Hybrid Cloud
11	9 (1.31%)	Virtual Team
12	7 (1.02%)	Derivative
12	7 (1.02%)	iPad
13	6 (0.88%)	Data Protection Act
13	6 (0.88%)	Linux Command Line
13	6 (0.88%)	Mainframe
14	5 (0.73%)	EMC VNX
14	5 (0.73%)	Video Conferencing

Operating Systems
1	231 (33.72%)	Windows
2	165 (24.09%)	Linux
3	116 (16.93%)	Windows Server
4	111 (16.20%)	Unix
5	92 (13.43%)	Windows Server 2008
6	76 (11.09%)	Windows Server 2012
7	65 (9.49%)	Solaris
8	50 (7.30%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9	40 (5.84%)	Windows Server 2003
10	32 (4.67%)	Windows 7
11	20 (2.92%)	CentOS
12	15 (2.19%)	AIX
12	15 (2.19%)	Windows 10
13	9 (1.31%)	HPUX
13	9 (1.31%)	SUSE
14	8 (1.17%)	Data ONTAP
15	7 (1.02%)	zOS
16	4 (0.58%)	Debian
16	4 (0.58%)	Windows Phone
17	3 (0.44%)	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Processes & Methodologies
1	162 (23.65%)	ITIL
2	130 (18.98%)	Business Continuity
3	114 (16.64%)	High Availability
4	103 (15.04%)	Migration
5	74 (10.80%)	Service Management
6	72 (10.51%)	Project Management
7	69 (10.07%)	Change Management
8	68 (9.93%)	Agile Software Development
9	52 (7.59%)	Performance Tuning
10	50 (7.30%)	Information Security
11	49 (7.15%)	DevOps
12	43 (6.28%)	Problem Management
13	40 (5.84%)	Service Delivery
14	39 (5.69%)	Business Intelligence
15	38 (5.55%)	Capacity Planning
16	37 (5.40%)	Load Balancing
16	37 (5.40%)	Stakeholder Management
17	35 (5.11%)	Capacity Management
18	30 (4.38%)	PRINCE2
19	29 (4.23%)	Configuration Management

Programming Languages
1	154 (22.48%)	SQL
2	91 (13.28%)	PowerShell
3	47 (6.86%)	Perl
4	42 (6.13%)	Python
5	33 (4.82%)	T-SQL
6	28 (4.09%)	Korn
7	21 (3.07%)	Java
8	20 (2.92%)	Shell Script
9	19 (2.77%)	Bash Shell
10	15 (2.19%)	VB
11	14 (2.04%)	Ruby
12	13 (1.90%)	PHP
13	12 (1.75%)	VBScript
14	11 (1.61%)	PL/SQL
15	9 (1.31%)	C#
16	6 (0.88%)	JavaScript
17	5 (0.73%)	R
18	4 (0.58%)	AWK
18	4 (0.58%)	VB6
18	4 (0.58%)	VBA

Qualifications
1	79 (11.53%)	Security Cleared
2	66 (9.64%)	SC Cleared
3	47 (6.86%)	Cisco Certification
4	41 (5.99%)	Degree
5	38 (5.55%)	Microsoft Certification
6	31 (4.53%)	CCNA
7	26 (3.80%)	CISSP
8	25 (3.65%)	MCSE
9	22 (3.21%)	CCIE
10	20 (2.92%)	CCNP
11	12 (1.75%)	ITIL Certification
12	11 (1.61%)	BPSS Clearance
13	9 (1.31%)	DV Cleared
13	9 (1.31%)	MCDBA
13	9 (1.31%)	MCITP
13	9 (1.31%)	MCP
14	8 (1.17%)	ISEB
14	8 (1.17%)	Oracle Certification
15	7 (1.02%)	AWS Certification
15	7 (1.02%)	ITIL Foundation Certificate

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	29 (4.23%)	SLA
2	26 (3.80%)	ISO/IEC 27001
3	20 (2.92%)	PCI DSS
4	11 (1.61%)	PMO
4	11 (1.61%)	QA
5	6 (0.88%)	GDPR
5	6 (0.88%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
6	5 (0.73%)	Data Quality
6	5 (0.73%)	Disclosure Scotland
7	4 (0.58%)	ISO 22301
7	4 (0.58%)	ISO/IEC 20000
8	3 (0.44%)	ISO 9001
9	2 (0.29%)	COBIT
9	2 (0.29%)	RMADS
10	1 (0.15%)	BS7799
10	1 (0.15%)	Cyber Essentials
10	1 (0.15%)	Cyber Essentials PLUS
10	1 (0.15%)	HMG Security Policy Framework
10	1 (0.15%)	JSP 440
10	1 (0.15%)	MiFID

System Software
1	126 (18.39%)	Active Directory
2	83 (12.12%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	46 (6.72%)	Hyper-V
4	30 (4.38%)	Veritas Cluster Server
5	23 (3.36%)	Virtual Machines
6	22 (3.21%)	NFS
7	21 (3.07%)	Virtual Servers
7	21 (3.07%)	VMware ESXi
8	16 (2.34%)	vSphere
9	12 (1.75%)	Firmware
9	12 (1.75%)	Veritas File System
10	11 (1.61%)	Oracle RAC
10	11 (1.61%)	XenApp
11	9 (1.31%)	Docker
12	7 (1.02%)	XenDesktop
13	6 (0.88%)	Microsoft App-V
13	6 (0.88%)	Samba
13	6 (0.88%)	Squid
13	6 (0.88%)	Terminal Services
14	5 (0.73%)	Microsoft Virtual Server

Systems Management
1	39 (5.69%)	SCCM
2	30 (4.38%)	SCOM
3	27 (3.94%)	Nagios
4	26 (3.80%)	Puppet
5	25 (3.65%)	NetBackup
6	24 (3.50%)	Opscode Chef
7	21 (3.07%)	Ansible
7	21 (3.07%)	Microsoft Clustering
8	17 (2.48%)	Oracle RMAN
8	17 (2.48%)	Veritas Storage Foundation
9	13 (1.90%)	McAfee ePO
9	13 (1.90%)	WSUS
10	12 (1.75%)	vCenter Server
11	11 (1.61%)	Data Guard
11	11 (1.61%)	EMC Navisphere
12	9 (1.31%)	Webmin
13	8 (1.17%)	Backup Exec
13	8 (1.17%)	Norton AntiVirus
13	8 (1.17%)	Oracle Enterprise Manager
14	7 (1.02%)	FortiGate

Vendors
1	183 (26.72%)	Microsoft
2	136 (19.85%)	VMware
3	128 (18.69%)	Oracle
4	95 (13.87%)	Cisco
5	72 (10.51%)	HP
6	55 (8.03%)	NetApp
7	54 (7.88%)	Citrix
8	49 (7.15%)	Red Hat
9	40 (5.84%)	SAP
10	33 (4.82%)	Sun
10	33 (4.82%)	Veritas
11	30 (4.38%)	EMC
12	21 (3.07%)	Brocade
13	20 (2.92%)	IBM
14	19 (2.77%)	CheckPoint
15	16 (2.34%)	F5
16	15 (2.19%)	Fortinet
16	15 (2.19%)	Symantec
17	14 (2.04%)	McAfee
18	13 (1.90%)	Veeam