The first table below looks at the demand for Business Continuity skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Business Continuity over the 3 months to 24 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 Birmingham 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Continuity
Rank 42 53 48
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -5
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 1 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.228% 0.483% 0.195%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.338% 0.756% 0.337%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Average daily rate £400 £150 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+166.66% -64.70%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £363 £330
% change year-on-year
+10.34% +9.84%
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
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
296 397 297
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 67.43% 63.93% 57.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 214 183
Average daily rate £358 £340 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.14% -2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £525 £493
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 20 10
Average hourly rate £34.75 £15.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+131.66% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.28 £12.00 £10.99
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £133.60 £39.00 £127.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Business Continuity
West Midlands

Business Continuity
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham Business Continuity Daily Rate Trend

Business Continuity
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Replication
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) WSUS
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) XenServer
2 1 (50.00%) XenDesktop
2 1 (50.00%) Bash shell
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (50.00%) FTP
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat

Business Continuity
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (50.00%) FTP
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) NetScreen
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) BCP
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash shell
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) XenServer
1 1 (50.00%) XenDesktop
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) VMware
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) Juniper
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat