The first table below looks at the demand for Business Continuity skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Business Continuity over the 3 months to 24 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 Leeds 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Continuity
Rank 71 66 49
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -17
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 3 1 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.406% 0.115% 0.786%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.556% 0.162% 1.166%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 4
Average daily rate £325 £140 £245
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+132.14% -42.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £140 £167
10% offered a daily rate of more than £445 £140 £460
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £363 £330
% change year-on-year
+10.34% +9.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £27.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year
-37.03% -18.18%
All Processes & Methodologies
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
540 617 429
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 73.07% 71.00% 67.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 367 208
Average daily rate £310 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.14% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £243 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £453 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 23
Average hourly rate £34.00 £13.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+151.85% -22.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.20 £11.40 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £62.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Business Continuity
West Yorkshire

Business Continuity
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Business Continuity Daily Rate Trend

Business Continuity
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Continuity across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Leeds Business Continuity Daily Rate Histogram

Business Continuity
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leeds Business Continuity Hourly Rate Trend

Business Continuity
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 4 (50.00%) Project Management
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) PRINCE2
3 2 (25.00%) Internet
3 2 (25.00%) BCP
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco
3 2 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (25.00%) Information Security
3 2 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds
4 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (12.50%) ITSM
4 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
4 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
4 1 (12.50%) Service Management
4 1 (12.50%) Change Management
4 1 (12.50%) Regression Testing
4 1 (12.50%) QA
4 1 (12.50%) CMDB
4 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
4 1 (12.50%) Release Management
4 1 (12.50%) Advertising
4 1 (12.50%) VMware
4 1 (12.50%) Retail
4 1 (12.50%) Information Management
4 1 (12.50%) Document Management

Business Continuity
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 (12.50%) SharePoint
1 1 (12.50%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) InfoPath
1 1 (12.50%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (12.50%) Advertising
3 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Business Consultant
1 2 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 2 (25.00%) Consultant
1 2 (25.00%) Business Continuity Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Telephony Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Project Coordinator
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Programme Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Business Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Change Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Contracts Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Business Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Coordinator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 1 (12.50%) CMDB
1 1 (12.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Project Management
2 3 (37.50%) PRINCE2
3 2 (25.00%) BCP
3 2 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (25.00%) Information Security
3 2 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (12.50%) ITSM
4 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
4 1 (12.50%) Service Management
4 1 (12.50%) Change Management
4 1 (12.50%) Regression Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
4 1 (12.50%) Release Management
4 1 (12.50%) Information Management
4 1 (12.50%) Document Management
4 1 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Supplier Management
4 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C#
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 1 (12.50%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds
2 1 (12.50%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Avaya