The first table below looks at the demand for Business Continuity skills in IT contracts advertised for the Dorset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Business Continuity 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 Dorset 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
Rank 31 28 -
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 1 8 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorset 0.461% 2.867% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.595% 4.167% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 0
Average daily rate £263 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-19.23% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £406 £353 £325
% change year-on-year
+15.24% +8.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £27.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £27.25 £33.00
% change year-on-year
-37.61% -17.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
Dorset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
168 192 228
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorset 77.42% 68.82% 72.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 116 118
Average daily rate £350 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £275 £177
10% offered a daily rate of more than £668 £525 £485
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 9
Average hourly rate £32.00 £34.50 £40.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.24% -14.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.75 £27.00 £22.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £48.00 £165.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Business Continuity
South West

Business Continuity
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dorset 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 Dorset region.

Dorset Business Continuity Daily Rate Trend

Business Continuity
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Continuity within the Dorset region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Bournemouth -2 1 £263 -40.00%
Business Continuity
South West

Business Continuity
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (100.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Backup Exec
1 1 (100.00%) WSUS
1 1 (100.00%) ProCurve
1 1 (100.00%) HP SIM

Business Continuity
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 (100.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Backup Exec
1 1 (100.00%) WSUS
1 1 (100.00%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) ProCurve