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This section looks at the demand for Business Continuity Planning (BCP) skills within the City of London 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkBusiness Continuity Planning (BCP)
Location
3 months to 25 Jul 2008Same period last year
Rank191186
Rank change on same period last yearDown-5
Matching contract IT job ads249
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.032 %0.009 %
As % of the category below0.494 %0.258 %
Daily rates quoted113
Average minimum daily rate£405£433
Average daily rate£440£458
% change on same period last year-4.04 %
Average maximum daily rate£475£483
UK excluding London average daily rate£448£377
% change on same period last year+18.84 %
Hourly rates quoted10
Average minimum hourly rate£25.00-
Average hourly rate£27.50-
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate£30.00-
UK excluding London average hourly rate£45.00-
% change on same period last year-
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
City of London
Matching contract IT job ads48623489
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled6.481 %3.530 %
Daily rates quoted27311590
Average minimum daily rate£426£449
Average daily rate£468£485
% change on same period last year-3.61 %
Average maximum daily rate£509£521
UK excluding London average daily rate£380£376
% change on same period last year+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted10376
Average minimum hourly rate£26.96£25.60
Average hourly rate£29.14£27.96
% change on same period last year+4.19 %
Average maximum hourly rate£31.32£30.32
UK excluding London average hourly rate£29.33£30.16
% change on same period last year-2.72 %
BCP LondonBCP
London

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 City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

City of London BCP Demand Trend

BCP
Daily Rate Trend

The 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
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing BCP across the City of London region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

City of London BCP Daily Rate Histogram

BCP
Hourly Rate Trend

The 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 25 July 2008, 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.

124 (53.33 %)Business Continuity
219 (42.22 %)Finance
219 (42.22 %)Banking
318 (40.00 %)UNIX
415 (33.33 %)Investment Banking
514 (31.11 %)SQL
514 (31.11 %)Sybase
611 (24.44 %)Disaster Recovery
79 (20.00 %)Windows NT
87 (15.56 %)Risk Assessment
87 (15.56 %)Data Modelling
87 (15.56 %)MS Office
87 (15.56 %)Transact-SQL
87 (15.56 %)Windows
87 (15.56 %)Shell Script
87 (15.56 %)Project Management
87 (15.56 %)Degree
87 (15.56 %)Sybase ASE
96 (13.33 %)JUnit
96 (13.33 %)UML
96 (13.33 %)OO
96 (13.33 %)Eclipse
96 (13.33 %)Hibernate
105 (11.11 %)Equities
105 (11.11 %)Publishing
105 (11.11 %)Front Office
105 (11.11 %)RDBMS
114 (8.889 %)WAN
114 (8.889 %)SAN
114 (8.889 %)ITIL

BCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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.

City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
16 (13.33 %)Hibernate
21 (2.222 %)Middleware
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
12 (4.444 %)CMS
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
17 (15.56 %)MS Office
21 (2.222 %)MS Excel
21 (2.222 %)MS PowerPoint
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
14 (8.889 %)WAN
14 (8.889 %)SAN
23 (6.667 %)LAN
31 (2.222 %)Intranet
31 (2.222 %)Firewall
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
17 (15.56 %)Sybase ASE
25 (11.11 %)RDBMS
31 (2.222 %)BusinessObjects
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
16 (13.33 %)JUnit
16 (13.33 %)Eclipse
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
119 (42.22 %)Finance
119 (42.22 %)Banking
215 (33.33 %)Investment Banking
35 (11.11 %)Publishing
35 (11.11 %)Front Office
43 (6.667 %)Financial Institution
52 (4.444 %)Insurance
52 (4.444 %)Telecoms
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
19 (20.00 %)Analyst
28 (17.78 %)Support Analyst
37 (15.56 %)Sybase DBA
37 (15.56 %)Project Manager
37 (15.56 %)DBA
46 (13.33 %)Coordinator
46 (13.33 %)Applications Support
46 (13.33 %)Business Manager
55 (11.11 %)Business Continuity Manager
63 (6.667 %)Project Support Analyst
63 (6.667 %)Project Analyst
63 (6.667 %)Applications Support Analyst
63 (6.667 %)Consultant
72 (4.444 %)Infrastructure Project Manager
72 (4.444 %)Project Coordinator
72 (4.444 %)Senior DBA
72 (4.444 %)Infrastructure Manager
72 (4.444 %)Senior Sybase DBA
72 (4.444 %)Disaster Recovery Manager
81 (2.222 %)Firewall Consultant
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
15 (11.11 %)Equities
22 (4.444 %)Computer Science
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
118 (40.00 %)UNIX
29 (20.00 %)Windows NT
37 (15.56 %)Windows
43 (6.667 %)Solaris
51 (2.222 %)Linux
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
124 (53.33 %)Business Continuity
211 (24.44 %)Disaster Recovery
37 (15.56 %)Risk Assessment
37 (15.56 %)Data Modelling
37 (15.56 %)Project Management
46 (13.33 %)UML
46 (13.33 %)OO
54 (8.889 %)ITIL
63 (6.667 %)PRINCE2
63 (6.667 %)Asset Management
72 (4.444 %)Service Management
81 (2.222 %)Service Delivery
81 (2.222 %)Configuration Management
81 (2.222 %)IT Governance
81 (2.222 %)Operations Management
81 (2.222 %)Problem Management
81 (2.222 %)Data Security
81 (2.222 %)Migration
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
114 (31.11 %)SQL
27 (15.56 %)Transact-SQL
27 (15.56 %)Shell Script
33 (6.667 %)JCL
42 (4.444 %)Java
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
17 (15.56 %)Degree
22 (4.444 %)PRINCE2 Certification
31 (2.222 %)ITIL Certification
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (2.222 %)ISO9000
11 (2.222 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
11 (2.222 %)COBIT
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
114 (31.11 %)Sybase
22 (4.444 %)McAfee Security
22 (4.444 %)Altiris
31 (2.222 %)Business Objects
31 (2.222 %)EMC
31 (2.222 %)VERITAS
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