Business Continuity Contracts in Berkshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Business Continuity skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Business Continuity over the 3 months to 23 May 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 Berkshire 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Continuity
Rank 113 133 126
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -7
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 8 5 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.333% 0.159% 0.297%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.505% 0.250% 0.474%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 5
Average daily rate - £450 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.26%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £355 £328
% change year-on-year
+12.67% +8.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £27.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year
-37.03% -18.18%
All Processes & Methodologies
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 1584 1998 1900
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 65.97% 63.41% 62.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 766 757
Average daily rate £388 £370 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.72% +5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 61 78
Average hourly rate £17.33 £20.00 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.37% -36.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.50 £11.40 £13.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £50.00 £47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Business Continuity
South East

Business Continuity
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Business Continuity across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Berkshire Business Continuity Jobs Demand Trend

Business Continuity
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Business Continuity across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Business Continuity Daily Rate Trend

Business Continuity
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Business Continuity across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Business Continuity Hourly Rate Trend

Business Continuity
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Continuity within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 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
Bracknell - 5 - -
Reading +13 1 - -
Business Continuity
South East

Business Continuity
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Business Continuity 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 Business Continuity.

1 13 (76.47%) Windows
2 10 (58.82%) SC Cleared
2 10 (58.82%) Security Cleared
3 9 (52.94%) Oracle
4 8 (47.06%) SQL
4 8 (47.06%) Active Directory
4 8 (47.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (47.06%) VMware
5 7 (41.18%) Migration
5 7 (41.18%) Windows 7
5 7 (41.18%) HP Quality Center
5 7 (41.18%) Windows XP
6 6 (35.29%) HP
6 6 (35.29%) SQL Server
6 6 (35.29%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (35.29%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (29.41%) Regression Testing
7 5 (29.41%) VMware ESX
7 5 (29.41%) Tomcat
7 5 (29.41%) LoadRunner
7 5 (29.41%) IIS
7 5 (29.41%) LAN
7 5 (29.41%) WAN
8 4 (23.53%) NetApp
8 4 (23.53%) Disaster Recovery
9 3 (17.65%) UNIX
9 3 (17.65%) Finance
9 3 (17.65%) GAP Analysis
9 3 (17.65%) CLARiiON
9 3 (17.65%) Symmetrix

Business Continuity
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Business Continuity 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 Business Continuity. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (17.65%) Flash
2 1 (5.882%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 5 (29.41%) Tomcat
1 5 (29.41%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (5.882%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) LAN
1 5 (29.41%) WAN
2 3 (17.65%) SAN
3 2 (11.76%) 3G
4 1 (5.882%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) SQL Server
2 3 (17.65%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) LoadRunner
2 2 (11.76%) InstallShield
2 2 (11.76%) SilkTest
General
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Tester
2 3 (17.65%) Storage Specialist
2 3 (17.65%) Business Continuity Specialist
3 2 (11.76%) Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Test Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Business Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Business Continuity Consultant
4 1 (5.882%) VB Developer
4 1 (5.882%) IBM Storage Specialist
4 1 (5.882%) Applications Architect
4 1 (5.882%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.882%) Project Planner
4 1 (5.882%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) CLARiiON
1 3 (17.65%) Symmetrix
1 3 (17.65%) EMC Centera
1 3 (17.65%) IBM Mainframe
1 3 (17.65%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 13 (76.47%) Windows
2 7 (41.18%) Windows 7
2 7 (41.18%) Windows XP
3 6 (35.29%) Windows Server 2003
3 6 (35.29%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (17.65%) UNIX
4 3 (17.65%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Migration
2 5 (29.41%) Regression Testing
3 4 (23.53%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (17.65%) GAP Analysis
4 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
4 3 (17.65%) Test Scripting
4 3 (17.65%) Non-Functional Testing
5 2 (11.76%) Software Deployment
5 2 (11.76%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (11.76%) Information Security
5 2 (11.76%) Risk Management
5 2 (11.76%) Service Delivery
6 1 (5.882%) Release Management
6 1 (5.882%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) SQL
2 3 (17.65%) Shell Script
3 2 (11.76%) VB
3 2 (11.76%) VB6
Qualifications
1 10 (58.82%) SC Cleared
1 10 (58.82%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.882%) BS25999
System Software
1 8 (47.06%) Active Directory
1 8 (47.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (29.41%) VMware ESX
3 3 (17.65%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (17.65%) Tivoli
2 3 (17.65%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Oracle
2 8 (47.06%) VMware
3 6 (35.29%) HP
4 4 (23.53%) NetApp
5 3 (17.65%) Cisco
5 3 (17.65%) IBM
5 3 (17.65%) EMC
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