Birmingham BCP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Business Continuity Planning (BCP) skills within the Birmingham region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited BCP over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
Location Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire City of London County Antrim Crawley East Midlands East of England England Essex Gatwick Hampshire Lancashire Leeds London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Middlesex Midlands Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North West Northern Ireland Norwich Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West Thames Valley UK Wales Warrington West Sussex West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£370
% change on same period last year	+2.76 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£45.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Processes & Methodologies Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	393	499
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.519 %	0.497 %
Daily rates quoted	103	139
Average minimum daily rate	£302	£348
Average daily rate	£335	£370
% change on same period last year	-9.64 %
Average maximum daily rate	£368	£393
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£377
% change on same period last year	+0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	51
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.77	£16.38
Average hourly rate	£32.91	£17.89
% change on same period last year	+83.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.05	£19.39
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.34	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.55 %
BCP West Midlands

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

BCP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing BCP across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

BCP
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing BCP across the Birmingham region.