Herefordshire Business Continuity Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Business Continuity skills within the Herefordshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Business Continuity over the 3 months to 7 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Continuity
Location Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Bracknell Brentwood Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire City of London County Antrim Docklands, London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Gloucestershire Greenford Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Ipswich Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Motherwell Newport Norfolk North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stirling Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	16	38
Rank change on same period last year	+22
Matching contract IT job ads	1	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	1.563 %	0.592 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£421	£378
% change on same period last year	+11.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.50	£37.75
% change on same period last year	-32.45 %
Processes & Methodologies Herefordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	64	169
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.084 %	0.179 %
Daily rates quoted	14	37
Average minimum daily rate	£270	£360
Average daily rate	£287	£367
% change on same period last year	-21.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£304	£375
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.61 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.43	£18.78
Average hourly rate	£29.79	£20.50
% change on same period last year	+45.29 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.14	£22.22
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.47	£30.33
% change on same period last year	-2.84 %
Business Continuity West Midlands

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.

Business Continuity
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Business Continuity across the Herefordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Business Continuity
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Business Continuity across the Herefordshire region.

Business Continuity
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Business Continuity within the Herefordshire region over the 3 months to 7 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Hemel Hempstead	+20	1	-	-

Business Continuity West Midlands

Business Continuity
Top 2 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Herefordshire 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 %) ITIL 1 1 (100.00 %) Service Management

Business Continuity
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Herefordshire 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.

Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Management Consultant 1 1 (100.00 %) Consultant 1 1 (100.00 %) Service Management Consultant

Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (100.00 %) ITIL 1 1 (100.00 %) Service Management