The first table below looks at the demand for BCP skills in IT contracts advertised for the England 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 England 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 473 471 452
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -19
Contract jobs citing BCP 37 87 120
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.089% 0.163% 0.213%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.125% 0.239% 0.312%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 56 73
Average daily rate £400 £450 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.11% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £304 £371
10% offered a daily rate of more than £513 £565 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £475 £365 £378
% change year-on-year
+30.13% -3.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Average hourly rate - £53.75 £27.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +99.07%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £53.75 £27.00
% change year-on-year
- +99.07%
All Processes & Methodologies
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
29662 36423 38448
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 71.36% 68.27% 68.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 18133 21396 22256
Average daily rate £425 £410 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.53% -8.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £588 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 916 1186 1394
Average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.99 £13.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
BCP
UK

BCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England BCP Daily Rate Trend

BCP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing BCP across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England BCP Daily Rate Histogram

BCP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England BCP Hourly Rate Trend

BCP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BCP within the England region over the 3 months to 17 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
London -38 15 £400 -11.11%
Yorkshire +1 6 £475 -13.63%
South East +26 5 £375 +25.00%
West Midlands - 5 - -
East of England +15 3 £513 +34.42%
East Midlands +3 2 £400 -
BCP
UK

BCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 49 (47.12%) Business Continuity
2 46 (44.23%) Disaster Recovery
3 38 (36.54%) ITIL
4 27 (25.96%) Project Management
5 25 (24.04%) Service Delivery
6 24 (23.08%) Finance
7 22 (21.15%) Windows
8 20 (19.23%) SQL
9 19 (18.27%) Oracle
10 18 (17.31%) Microsoft
10 18 (17.31%) Risk Management
11 17 (16.35%) Cisco
12 14 (13.46%) SQL Server
12 14 (13.46%) Service Management
13 13 (12.50%) UNIX
14 12 (11.54%) Linux
14 12 (11.54%) T-SQL
14 12 (11.54%) SLA
14 12 (11.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 12 (11.54%) Problem Management
15 11 (10.58%) VMware
15 11 (10.58%) PRINCE2
15 11 (10.58%) WebLogic
15 11 (10.58%) Oracle Reports
16 10 (9.615%) Oracle 10g
16 10 (9.615%) EMC
16 10 (9.615%) Replication
16 10 (9.615%) Migration
16 10 (9.615%) SAN
16 10 (9.615%) Data Guard

BCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

Application Development
1 6 (5.769%) Middleware
2 5 (4.808%) XML
3 1 (0.962%) VXML
Application Platforms
1 11 (10.58%) WebLogic
2 6 (5.769%) MS Exchange
3 5 (4.808%) Apache
4 4 (3.846%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 2 (1.923%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 9 (8.654%) MS Excel
2 7 (6.731%) MS Office
3 3 (2.885%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.885%) MS PowerPoint
4 2 (1.923%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 8 (7.692%) Oracle Applications
2 3 (2.885%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.615%) SAN
2 9 (8.654%) Firewall
3 7 (6.731%) LAN
4 6 (5.769%) Internet
4 6 (5.769%) NAS
5 4 (3.846%) IP Telephony
5 4 (3.846%) MPLS
5 4 (3.846%) Broadband
5 4 (3.846%) WAN
6 3 (2.885%) DHCP
6 3 (2.885%) VoIP
6 3 (2.885%) LDAP
6 3 (2.885%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.885%) DSL
6 3 (2.885%) BIG-IP
6 3 (2.885%) Wireless
6 3 (2.885%) DNS
7 2 (1.923%) Network Security
7 2 (1.923%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (0.962%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (13.46%) SQL Server
2 12 (11.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 11 (10.58%) Oracle Reports
4 10 (9.615%) Oracle 10g
4 10 (9.615%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (8.654%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 8 (7.692%) Oracle Discoverer
7 7 (6.731%) SQLPlus
7 7 (6.731%) DTS
7 7 (6.731%) TOAD
8 6 (5.769%) Oracle 11g
9 5 (4.808%) Oracle 8/8i
10 4 (3.846%) DB2
10 4 (3.846%) SQL Server 2005
11 3 (2.885%) Oracle 9i
11 3 (2.885%) Oracle Exadata
12 2 (1.923%) Data Mart
12 2 (1.923%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.962%) MySQL
13 1 (0.962%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 7 (6.731%) Oracle Forms
General
1 24 (23.08%) Finance
2 8 (7.692%) Banking
2 8 (7.692%) Telecoms
3 6 (5.769%) Investment Banking
4 2 (1.923%) Law
5 1 (0.962%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.962%) Financial Institution
5 1 (0.962%) Back Office
5 1 (0.962%) Local Government
5 1 (0.962%) French Language
Job Titles
1 33 (31.73%) Analyst
2 20 (19.23%) DBA
3 16 (15.38%) Oracle DBA
4 13 (12.50%) Service Analyst
5 11 (10.58%) Service Continuity Analyst
6 10 (9.615%) Service Manager
7 7 (6.731%) SQL DBA
7 7 (6.731%) Administrator
8 6 (5.769%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 6 (5.769%) Oracle Applications DBA
9 5 (4.808%) Services Delivery Manager
9 5 (4.808%) Operations Manager
9 5 (4.808%) Project Manager
9 5 (4.808%) Delivery Manager
10 4 (3.846%) Storage Engineer
10 4 (3.846%) Business Manager
10 4 (3.846%) Programme Manager
10 4 (3.846%) Architect
10 4 (3.846%) SQL Server DBA
11 3 (2.885%) Systems Manager
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.615%) Replication
2 7 (6.731%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.769%) Blackberry
4 5 (4.808%) NHS
4 5 (4.808%) Thin Client
4 5 (4.808%) Fat Client
5 4 (3.846%) Symmetrix DMX
5 4 (3.846%) EMC Centera
6 3 (2.885%) Mainframe
6 3 (2.885%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (1.923%) Video on Demand
7 2 (1.923%) SWIFT
7 2 (1.923%) New Media
7 2 (1.923%) Clustering
7 2 (1.923%) IVR
8 1 (0.962%) CMDB
8 1 (0.962%) Grid Computing
8 1 (0.962%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 22 (21.15%) Windows
2 13 (12.50%) UNIX
3 12 (11.54%) Linux
4 5 (4.808%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (3.846%) Windows 7
5 4 (3.846%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (3.846%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (47.12%) Business Continuity
2 46 (44.23%) Disaster Recovery
3 38 (36.54%) ITIL
4 27 (25.96%) Project Management
5 25 (24.04%) Service Delivery
6 18 (17.31%) Risk Management
7 14 (13.46%) Service Management
8 12 (11.54%) Problem Management
9 11 (10.58%) PRINCE2
10 10 (9.615%) Migration
11 8 (7.692%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (6.731%) Performance Management
12 7 (6.731%) Business Intelligence
13 5 (4.808%) SOA
13 5 (4.808%) E-business
13 5 (4.808%) ITSM
13 5 (4.808%) Stakeholder Management
13 5 (4.808%) Change Management
13 5 (4.808%) Root Cause Analysis
13 5 (4.808%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 20 (19.23%) SQL
2 12 (11.54%) T-SQL
3 7 (6.731%) Perl
3 7 (6.731%) PL/SQL
3 7 (6.731%) Shell Script
3 7 (6.731%) Korn
4 6 (5.769%) Java
5 1 (0.962%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (5.769%) CISSP
2 5 (4.808%) ITIL Certification
2 5 (4.808%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.846%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.846%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 3 (2.885%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (2.885%) CCNP
4 3 (2.885%) CCNA
4 3 (2.885%) Degree
4 3 (2.885%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 2 (1.923%) CCIE
5 2 (1.923%) CISM
6 1 (0.962%) CCVP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.54%) SLA
2 9 (8.654%) QA
3 4 (3.846%) BS25999
4 3 (2.885%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.923%) COBIT
5 2 (1.923%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.962%) Solvency II
System Software
1 10 (9.615%) Oracle RMAN
2 9 (8.654%) Oracle RAC
3 6 (5.769%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (4.808%) Hyper-V
4 5 (4.808%) Active Directory
5 4 (3.846%) Xen
6 3 (2.885%) NLBS
6 3 (2.885%) VMware ESX
6 3 (2.885%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 3 (2.885%) NFS
7 1 (0.962%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.962%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 10 (9.615%) Data Guard
2 4 (3.846%) WSUS
3 3 (2.885%) NetBackup
3 3 (2.885%) Cisco CUCM
4 2 (1.923%) Cisco UCCE
5 1 (0.962%) Cisco UCCX
5 1 (0.962%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 19 (18.27%) Oracle
2 18 (17.31%) Microsoft
3 17 (16.35%) Cisco
4 11 (10.58%) VMware
5 10 (9.615%) EMC
6 6 (5.769%) Citrix
7 4 (3.846%) CommVault
7 4 (3.846%) 3PAR
8 3 (2.885%) Sun
8 3 (2.885%) HP
8 3 (2.885%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.923%) Reuters
9 2 (1.923%) Bloomberg
9 2 (1.923%) Remedy
9 2 (1.923%) Altiris
9 2 (1.923%) Brocade
9 2 (1.923%) IBM
9 2 (1.923%) Riverbed
10 1 (0.962%) Sybase
10 1 (0.962%) NetApp
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