The first table below looks at the demand for BCP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BCP over the 3 months to 17 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 Cambridge 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing BCP 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge - - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £475 £365 £378
% change year-on-year
+30.13% -3.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £53.75 £27.00
% change year-on-year
- +99.07%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
190 225 143
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 55.56% 53.83% 57.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 113 86
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £275 £268
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £564 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 19 20
Average hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +34.92%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.00 £37.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £57.20 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
BCP
Cambridgeshire

BCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge BCP Jobs Demand Trend

BCP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridge BCP Daily Rate Trend

BCP
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing BCP 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 BCP.

1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) DB2
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Reports
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 3 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 3 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle 11g
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Exadata
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement

BCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing BCP 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 BCP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) DB2
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Reports
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle 11g
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Exadata
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) DBA
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle DBA
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 3 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle