Disaster Recovery Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 26 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
Location	3 months to 26 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	301	263	239
Rank change year-on-year	-38	-24
Contract jobs citing Disaster Recovery	355	501	525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.76%	0.94%	0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	0.89%	1.13%	1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted	224	351	318
Median daily rate	£383	£400	£370
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-4.37%	+8.10%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£250	£244	£275
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£550	£550	£500
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£375	£363
% change year-on-year	-	+3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted	14	7	4
Median hourly rate	£35.50	£19.00	£27.25
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+86.84%	-30.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.75	£13.00	£18.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£60.50	£46.37	£36.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£35.50	£43.28	£27.25
% change year-on-year	-17.97%	+58.82%

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 with a requirement for process and methodology skills.

Contract Process & Methodology Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills	39704	44234	45146
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	84.45%	83.33%	80.72%
Number of daily rates quoted	25886	29348	28980
Median daily rate	£450	£438	£413
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.85%	+6.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£313	£300	£285
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£600	£575
UK excluding London median daily rate	£415	£400	£380
% change year-on-year	+3.75%	+5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1051	1071	1257
Median hourly rate	£32.50	£27.50	£27.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+18.18%	-
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.00	£12.58	£12.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£53.00	£48.65	£50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£34.00	£28.50	£30.00
% change year-on-year	+19.29%	-5.00%

Disaster Recovery
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised 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 the UK

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate trend for Disaster Recovery in the UK

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Disaster Recovery over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in the UK

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate trend for Disaster Recovery in the UK

Disaster Recovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Disaster Recovery over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Disaster Recovery in the UK

Disaster Recovery
Top 30 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 3 months to 26 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
England	-35	335	£386	-3.43%	132
London	-94	106	£450	+5.88%	34
South East	-6	56	£400	-	29
East of England	+18	38	£373	+9.55%	9
East Midlands	+20	36	£375	-6.25%	7
North West	+26	34	£350	-12.50%	8
South West	+16	27	£365	-5.19%	12
West Midlands	+24	22	£238	-35.81%	10
City of London	-14	17	£493	+11.29%	7
Cambridgeshire	+6	16	£375	+10.29%	2
Northamptonshire	+15	15	£300	-	2
Derbyshire	-	15	£388	-	4
Derby	-	15	£388	-	4
West Sussex	+18	14	£338	-7.53%	1
Northampton	+16	14	£269	-	2
Manchester	+14	14	£313	-28.57%	3
Berkshire	+19	12	£550	+22.22%	9
Dorset	+17	10	£300	-	3
Scotland	+15	10	£275	-31.25%	3
Hampshire	+9	10	£325	-29.72%	9
Cheshire	+28	9	£420	-1.17%	5
Bournemouth	+14	9	£300	-	3
Bristol	+3	9	£389	-2.81%	4
Yorkshire	+5	8	£513	+28.12%	22
Surrey	-14	8	£386	-3.43%	3
Lancashire	+10	7	£373	-
West Yorkshire	+2	7	£513	+20.58%	19
Hertfordshire	+2	7	£320	-	3
Gatwick	0	7	£250	-31.50%
Peterborough	-	7	£375	-

Disaster Recovery
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 26 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 with a requirement for Disaster Recovery.

1	257 (34.82%)	Windows
2	201 (27.24%)	Microsoft
3	182 (24.66%)	ITIL
4	170 (23.04%)	Linux
5	161 (21.82%)	SQL
5	161 (21.82%)	VMware
6	148 (20.05%)	Active Directory
7	140 (18.97%)	Business Continuity
8	139 (18.83%)	Data Centre
9	136 (18.43%)	Finance
10	135 (18.29%)	SQL Server
11	134 (18.16%)	Oracle
12	123 (16.67%)	Windows Server
13	118 (15.99%)	High Availability
14	117 (15.85%)	Unix

15	116 (15.72%)	Migration
16	114 (15.45%)	Firewall
17	108 (14.63%)	SAN
18	98 (13.28%)	Windows Server 2008
19	96 (13.01%)	Cisco
20	95 (12.87%)	Replication
20	95 (12.87%)	VMware Infrastructure
20	95 (12.87%)	PowerShell
21	86 (11.65%)	Service Management
21	86 (11.65%)	WAN
22	82 (11.11%)	MS Exchange
23	81 (10.98%)	LAN
23	81 (10.98%)	Security Cleared
23	81 (10.98%)	Windows Server 2012
24	80 (10.84%)	Microsoft Azure

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring IT Skills 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	82 (11.11%)	MS Exchange
2	58 (7.86%)	Exchange Server 2010
3	33 (4.47%)	SharePoint
4	29 (3.93%)	Exchange Server 2013
4	29 (3.93%)	IIS
5	21 (2.85%)	Skype for Business
6	15 (2.03%)	Exchange Server 2007
7	10 (1.36%)	BizTalk Server
8	9 (1.22%)	OpenStack
9	8 (1.08%)	WebLogic
10	7 (0.95%)	Blackberry Enterprise Server
10	7 (0.95%)	SAS
11	6 (0.81%)	Apache
11	6 (0.81%)	SharePoint 2010
11	6 (0.81%)	SharePoint 2013
11	6 (0.81%)	Tomcat
12	5 (0.68%)	IBM Notes
12	5 (0.68%)	JBoss
13	4 (0.54%)	Confluence
13	4 (0.54%)	Oracle Coherence

Applications
1	26 (3.52%)	Microsoft Office
2	11 (1.49%)	Microsoft Excel
3	6 (0.81%)	Microsoft Project
4	3 (0.41%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
5	2 (0.27%)	MS Visio
6	1 (0.14%)	Shockwave

Business Applications
1	16 (2.17%)	SAP ERP
2	6 (0.81%)	SAP Oil and Gas
3	4 (0.54%)	SAP BPC
3	4 (0.54%)	SAP MII
4	3 (0.41%)	Maximo
4	3 (0.41%)	Staffware
5	2 (0.27%)	Dynamics CRM
5	2 (0.27%)	Northgate Housing
5	2 (0.27%)	Remedy ITSM
5	2 (0.27%)	thinkFolio
5	2 (0.27%)	Unit4 Business World
6	1 (0.14%)	BondVision
6	1 (0.14%)	Eikon
6	1 (0.14%)	OpenText VIM for SAP
6	1 (0.14%)	Oracle Assets
6	1 (0.14%)	Oracle Cash Management
6	1 (0.14%)	Oracle General Ledger
6	1 (0.14%)	Oracle Payables
6	1 (0.14%)	Oracle Receivables
6	1 (0.14%)	SAP S/4HANA

Cloud Services
1	80 (10.84%)	Microsoft Azure
2	63 (8.54%)	Amazon AWS
3	41 (5.56%)	Office 365
4	33 (4.47%)	IaaS
5	17 (2.30%)	SaaS
6	14 (1.90%)	Azure Active Directory
7	11 (1.49%)	Cloud Computing
8	10 (1.36%)	PaaS
9	7 (0.95%)	Mimecast
10	5 (0.68%)	Virtual Private Cloud
11	4 (0.54%)	Amazon S3
11	4 (0.54%)	AWS CloudFormation
12	3 (0.41%)	AWS Lambda
12	3 (0.41%)	OneDrive
13	2 (0.27%)	Amazon ELB
13	2 (0.27%)	Amazon SQS
13	2 (0.27%)	IBM Cloud
14	1 (0.14%)	Amazon Glacier
14	1 (0.14%)	Heroku
14	1 (0.14%)	Yammer

Communications & Networking
1	114 (15.45%)	Firewall
2	108 (14.63%)	SAN
3	86 (11.65%)	WAN
4	81 (10.98%)	LAN
5	79 (10.70%)	DNS
6	53 (7.18%)	VPN
7	48 (6.50%)	TCP/IP
8	44 (5.96%)	NAS
9	40 (5.42%)	DHCP
10	35 (4.74%)	Network Security
11	29 (3.93%)	VoIP
12	26 (3.52%)	Internet
13	25 (3.39%)	MPLS
13	25 (3.39%)	Unified Communications
14	24 (3.25%)	Wireless
15	23 (3.12%)	BGP
15	23 (3.12%)	Cisco ASA
16	21 (2.85%)	LDAP
17	16 (2.17%)	SMTP
17	16 (2.17%)	SSL

Database & Business Intelligence
1	135 (18.29%)	SQL Server
2	44 (5.96%)	SQL Server Integration Services
3	43 (5.83%)	SQL Server 2012
4	40 (5.42%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
5	36 (4.88%)	SQL Server 2008
6	34 (4.61%)	Oracle Database
7	32 (4.34%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
8	30 (4.07%)	SQL Server 2014
9	27 (3.66%)	DB2
10	25 (3.39%)	Relational Database
11	20 (2.71%)	MySQL
12	19 (2.57%)	SQL Server 2005
13	18 (2.44%)	RDBMS
14	16 (2.17%)	Data Warehouse
15	13 (1.76%)	BusinessObjects
16	11 (1.49%)	PostgreSQL
17	10 (1.36%)	Oracle Database 11g
17	10 (1.36%)	SQL Server 2016
18	8 (1.08%)	Oracle Database 10g
18	8 (1.08%)	Oracle9i Database

Development Applications
1	12 (1.63%)	Jenkins
2	10 (1.36%)	JIRA
2	10 (1.36%)	Team Foundation Server
3	9 (1.22%)	TeamCity
4	8 (1.08%)	Git (software)
5	5 (0.68%)	Oracle APEX
5	5 (0.68%)	Oracle Forms
6	4 (0.54%)	NWDI
7	3 (0.41%)	AdminStudio
7	3 (0.41%)	Bitbucket
7	3 (0.41%)	ERwin
7	3 (0.41%)	LoadRunner
7	3 (0.41%)	SonarQube
7	3 (0.41%)	Sonatype Nexus
7	3 (0.41%)	Vagrant
7	3 (0.41%)	Visual Studio
8	2 (0.27%)	git-flow
8	2 (0.27%)	Selenium
8	2 (0.27%)	Subversion
8	2 (0.27%)	Toad

General
1	136 (18.43%)	Finance
2	47 (6.37%)	Banking
3	35 (4.74%)	Legal
4	27 (3.66%)	Telecoms
5	23 (3.12%)	Retail
6	15 (2.03%)	Front Office
7	13 (1.76%)	Law
8	12 (1.63%)	Investment Banking
9	11 (1.49%)	Manufacturing
10	10 (1.36%)	Back Office
11	9 (1.22%)	Automotive
11	9 (1.22%)	Pharmaceutical
12	7 (0.95%)	Local Government
13	6 (0.81%)	Billing
14	5 (0.68%)	Electronics
14	5 (0.68%)	Financial Institution
14	5 (0.68%)	Marketing
14	5 (0.68%)	Retail Banking
15	3 (0.41%)	General Ledger
16	2 (0.27%)	German Language

Job Titles
1	99 (13.41%)	Analyst
2	84 (11.38%)	Architect
3	77 (10.43%)	DBA
4	74 (10.03%)	Administrator
5	57 (7.72%)	SQL DBA
6	42 (5.69%)	Infrastructure Engineer
7	40 (5.42%)	Project Manager
8	35 (4.74%)	Consultant
9	30 (4.07%)	SQL Server DBA
10	28 (3.79%)	Support Analyst
11	26 (3.52%)	Systems Administrator
12	25 (3.39%)	IT Manager
13	24 (3.25%)	Infrastructure Manager
14	23 (3.12%)	Infrastructure Analyst
15	22 (2.98%)	Technical Architect
16	21 (2.85%)	Cloud Architect
16	21 (2.85%)	Unix Administrator
17	20 (2.71%)	Network Engineer
17	20 (2.71%)	Senior Analyst
17	20 (2.71%)	Solutions Architect

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	14 (1.90%)	.NET
1	14 (1.90%)	Middleware
1	14 (1.90%)	Web Services
2	11 (1.49%)	SAP Basis
3	7 (0.95%)	SOAP
4	6 (0.81%)	REST
5	5 (0.68%)	J2EE
5	5 (0.68%)	XML
6	4 (0.54%)	Flash
6	4 (0.54%)	WSDL
6	4 (0.54%)	XML Messaging
6	4 (0.54%)	XSD
7	3 (0.41%)	Java SE
7	3 (0.41%)	ODBC
7	3 (0.41%)	Oracle Fusion
7	3 (0.41%)	Regular Expression
7	3 (0.41%)	RESTful
7	3 (0.41%)	WAP
8	2 (0.27%)	.NET Framework
8	2 (0.27%)	JSON

Miscellaneous
1	139 (18.83%)	Data Centre
2	95 (12.87%)	Replication
3	65 (8.81%)	Management Information System
4	61 (8.27%)	Clustering
5	57 (7.72%)	Analytical Skills
6	25 (3.39%)	Enterprise Storage
7	16 (2.17%)	Private Cloud
7	16 (2.17%)	Public Cloud
8	15 (2.03%)	Computer Science
9	13 (1.76%)	Enterprise Software
10	12 (1.63%)	Blackberry
11	10 (1.36%)	Hybrid Cloud
12	9 (1.22%)	Virtual Team
13	8 (1.08%)	Video Conferencing
14	7 (0.95%)	Derivative
14	7 (0.95%)	iPad
14	7 (0.95%)	PKI
15	6 (0.81%)	Data Protection Act
15	6 (0.81%)	NHS
16	5 (0.68%)	Mainframe

Operating Systems
1	257 (34.82%)	Windows
2	170 (23.04%)	Linux
3	123 (16.67%)	Windows Server
4	117 (15.85%)	Unix
5	98 (13.28%)	Windows Server 2008
6	81 (10.98%)	Windows Server 2012
7	69 (9.35%)	Solaris
8	55 (7.45%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9	41 (5.56%)	Windows Server 2003
10	35 (4.74%)	Windows 7
11	23 (3.12%)	CentOS
12	18 (2.44%)	AIX
13	13 (1.76%)	Windows 10
14	9 (1.22%)	HPUX
14	9 (1.22%)	SUSE
15	8 (1.08%)	Data ONTAP
16	6 (0.81%)	zOS
17	4 (0.54%)	Debian
17	4 (0.54%)	Windows 8
17	4 (0.54%)	Windows Phone

Processes & Methodologies
1	182 (24.66%)	ITIL
2	140 (18.97%)	Business Continuity
3	118 (15.99%)	High Availability
4	116 (15.72%)	Migration
5	86 (11.65%)	Service Management
6	79 (10.70%)	Change Management
7	78 (10.57%)	Project Management
8	67 (9.08%)	Agile Software Development
9	58 (7.86%)	Performance Tuning
10	53 (7.18%)	Capacity Planning
11	49 (6.64%)	DevOps
11	49 (6.64%)	Information Security
12	43 (5.83%)	Problem Management
13	42 (5.69%)	Business Intelligence
13	42 (5.69%)	Service Delivery
14	38 (5.15%)	Load Balancing
14	38 (5.15%)	Stakeholder Management
15	37 (5.01%)	Capacity Management
16	35 (4.74%)	Configuration Management
17	33 (4.47%)	PRINCE2

Programming Languages
1	161 (21.82%)	SQL
2	95 (12.87%)	PowerShell
3	52 (7.05%)	Perl
4	46 (6.23%)	Python
5	33 (4.47%)	T-SQL
6	31 (4.20%)	Korn
7	22 (2.98%)	Bash Shell
8	21 (2.85%)	Java
9	17 (2.30%)	Shell Script
10	15 (2.03%)	PHP
10	15 (2.03%)	VB
11	14 (1.90%)	Ruby
12	13 (1.76%)	VBScript
13	10 (1.36%)	C#
14	7 (0.95%)	PL/SQL
15	6 (0.81%)	JavaScript
16	5 (0.68%)	AWK
16	5 (0.68%)	C
16	5 (0.68%)	R
17	4 (0.54%)	VB6

Qualifications
1	81 (10.98%)	Security Cleared
2	69 (9.35%)	SC Cleared
3	50 (6.78%)	Degree
4	48 (6.50%)	Cisco Certification
5	40 (5.42%)	Microsoft Certification
6	32 (4.34%)	CCNA
7	28 (3.79%)	CISSP
8	27 (3.66%)	MCSE
9	23 (3.12%)	CCIE
10	21 (2.85%)	CCNP
11	13 (1.76%)	ITIL Certification
12	11 (1.49%)	BPSS Clearance
13	10 (1.36%)	ISEB
13	10 (1.36%)	MCITP
13	10 (1.36%)	MCP
14	9 (1.22%)	MCDBA
15	8 (1.08%)	Computer Science Degree
15	8 (1.08%)	DV Cleared
16	7 (0.95%)	AWS Certification
16	7 (0.95%)	ITIL Foundation Certificate

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	33 (4.47%)	SLA
2	27 (3.66%)	ISO/IEC 27001
3	20 (2.71%)	PCI DSS
4	11 (1.49%)	PMO
4	11 (1.49%)	QA
5	7 (0.95%)	Disclosure Scotland
6	6 (0.81%)	Data Quality
6	6 (0.81%)	GDPR
6	6 (0.81%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
7	4 (0.54%)	COBIT
7	4 (0.54%)	ISO 22301
7	4 (0.54%)	ISO/IEC 20000
8	3 (0.41%)	ISO 9001
9	2 (0.27%)	RMADS
10	1 (0.14%)	BS7799
10	1 (0.14%)	Cyber Essentials
10	1 (0.14%)	Cyber Essentials PLUS
10	1 (0.14%)	HMG Security Policy Framework
10	1 (0.14%)	JSP 440
10	1 (0.14%)	MiFID

System Software
1	148 (20.05%)	Active Directory
2	95 (12.87%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	55 (7.45%)	Hyper-V
4	30 (4.07%)	Veritas Cluster Server
5	24 (3.25%)	Virtual Machines
5	24 (3.25%)	VMware ESXi
6	23 (3.12%)	Virtual Servers
6	23 (3.12%)	vSphere
7	22 (2.98%)	NFS
8	20 (2.71%)	XenApp
9	12 (1.63%)	Firmware
9	12 (1.63%)	Veritas File System
10	9 (1.22%)	Docker
10	9 (1.22%)	Microsoft Virtual Server
11	8 (1.08%)	Microsoft App-V
11	8 (1.08%)	Terminal Services
12	7 (0.95%)	Oracle RAC
12	7 (0.95%)	XenDesktop
13	6 (0.81%)	Samba
13	6 (0.81%)	Squid

Systems Management
1	40 (5.42%)	SCCM
2	35 (4.74%)	SCOM
3	31 (4.20%)	NetBackup
4	30 (4.07%)	Nagios
5	29 (3.93%)	Puppet
6	27 (3.66%)	Opscode Chef
7	22 (2.98%)	Ansible
8	21 (2.85%)	Microsoft Clustering
9	17 (2.30%)	Veritas Storage Foundation
10	14 (1.90%)	McAfee ePO
10	14 (1.90%)	Oracle RMAN
10	14 (1.90%)	vCenter Server
10	14 (1.90%)	WSUS
11	13 (1.76%)	Backup Exec
11	13 (1.76%)	Norton AntiVirus
12	11 (1.49%)	EMC Navisphere
13	9 (1.22%)	Tivoli Storage Manager
13	9 (1.22%)	Webmin
14	8 (1.08%)	Control-M
15	7 (0.95%)	Data Guard

Vendors
1	201 (27.24%)	Microsoft
2	161 (21.82%)	VMware
3	134 (18.16%)	Oracle
4	96 (13.01%)	Cisco
5	77 (10.43%)	HP
6	70 (9.49%)	Citrix
7	65 (8.81%)	NetApp
8	50 (6.78%)	Red Hat
9	42 (5.69%)	SAP
10	40 (5.42%)	EMC
11	35 (4.74%)	Veritas
12	33 (4.47%)	Sun
13	27 (3.66%)	IBM
14	21 (2.85%)	Brocade
15	20 (2.71%)	Symantec
16	19 (2.57%)	CheckPoint
16	19 (2.57%)	CommVault
17	17 (2.30%)	Veeam
18	16 (2.17%)	F5
18	16 (2.17%)	McAfee