The first table below looks at the demand for BCP skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BCP over the 3 months to 22 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 City of London 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
Rank 203 194 220
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +26
Contract jobs citing BCP 2 21 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.031% 0.263% 0.217%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.042% 0.368% 0.302%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 18 17
Average daily rate £415 £450 £470
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.77% -4.25%
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £365 £380
% change year-on-year
+23.28% -3.94%
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
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
4709 5713 6944
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 73.25% 71.60% 71.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3551 4136 5135
Average daily rate £450 £460 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 96 98
Average hourly rate £41.50 £24.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+72.91% -4.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.00 £15.00 £14.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £47.50 £50.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
BCP
London

BCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London BCP Daily Rate Trend

BCP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing BCP across the City of London region.

City of London BCP Hourly Rate Trend

BCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 7 (77.78%) Business Continuity
2 6 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (33.33%) Finance
3 3 (33.33%) Migration
3 3 (33.33%) Oracle
3 3 (33.33%) NAS
4 2 (22.22%) Symmetrix DMX
4 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
4 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
4 2 (22.22%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (22.22%) Data Guard
4 2 (22.22%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (22.22%) Banking
4 2 (22.22%) Windows
4 2 (22.22%) Linux
4 2 (22.22%) MS Excel
4 2 (22.22%) Oracle Discoverer
4 2 (22.22%) Cisco
4 2 (22.22%) Oracle 10g
4 2 (22.22%) EMC
4 2 (22.22%) SAN
4 2 (22.22%) CommVault
4 2 (22.22%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (22.22%) EMC Centera
4 2 (22.22%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (22.22%) Project Management
5 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
5 1 (11.11%) Change Management
5 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
5 1 (11.11%) MySQL

BCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

Applications
1 2 (22.22%) MS Excel
2 1 (11.11%) MS Office
2 1 (11.11%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) NAS
2 2 (22.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle 11g
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle Discoverer
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) DB2
2 1 (11.11%) DB2 UDB
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) DBA
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle DBA
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle Applications DBA
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Service Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Business Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Storage Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Services Delivery Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Audit Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Storage Architect
3 1 (11.11%) EMC Storage Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Symmetrix DMX
1 2 (22.22%) EMC Centera
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Business Continuity
2 6 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (33.33%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Project Management
5 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
5 1 (11.11%) Change Management
5 1 (11.11%) ITSM
5 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
5 1 (11.11%) ERP
5 1 (11.11%) ITIL
5 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
5 1 (11.11%) Problem Management
5 1 (11.11%) Time Management
5 1 (11.11%) Performance Management
5 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
5 1 (11.11%) Capacity Management
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
1 1 (11.11%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco
2 2 (22.22%) EMC
2 2 (22.22%) CommVault
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Sybase
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