The first table below looks at the demand for BCP skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BCP over the 3 months to 21 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 London 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
Rank 372 330 349
Rank change year-on-year
-42 +19
Contract jobs citing BCP 17 75 81
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.077% 0.278% 0.264%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.103% 0.387% 0.370%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 51 58
Average daily rate £400 £450 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.11% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £309 £325 £425
10% offered a daily rate of more than £491 £580 £675
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £406 £378
% change year-on-year
+10.76% +7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £53.75 £27.00
% change year-on-year
- +99.07%
All Processes & Methodologies
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
16430 19385 21875
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 74.58% 71.84% 71.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11280 12741 14396
Average daily rate £450 £450 £483
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £305
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 335 346
Average hourly rate £31.00 £27.50 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.72% -1.78%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £45.00 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
BCP
England

BCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 21 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
City of London -4 2 £415 -7.77%
Uxbridge - 1 £470 -
BCP
England

BCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

1 30 (45.45%) Disaster Recovery
1 30 (45.45%) Business Continuity
2 25 (37.88%) ITIL
3 22 (33.33%) Project Management
4 17 (25.76%) Service Delivery
5 14 (21.21%) Cisco
6 13 (19.70%) Windows
6 13 (19.70%) Finance
7 12 (18.18%) Risk Management
8 11 (16.67%) Linux
9 9 (13.64%) Banking
9 9 (13.64%) EMC
9 9 (13.64%) SAN
10 8 (12.12%) UNIX
10 8 (12.12%) Oracle
10 8 (12.12%) Migration
10 8 (12.12%) VMware
11 7 (10.61%) Firewall
11 7 (10.61%) SLA
11 7 (10.61%) Internet
11 7 (10.61%) Investment Banking
12 6 (9.091%) NAS
12 6 (9.091%) Microsoft
12 6 (9.091%) SQL
12 6 (9.091%) DTS
13 5 (7.576%) MS Excel
13 5 (7.576%) LAN
13 5 (7.576%) MS Office
13 5 (7.576%) Problem Management
13 5 (7.576%) Performance Management

BCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

Application Development
1 1 (1.515%) VXML
1 1 (1.515%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 4 (6.061%) WebLogic
2 3 (4.545%) MS Exchange
3 2 (3.030%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 5 (7.576%) MS Excel
1 5 (7.576%) MS Office
2 2 (3.030%) MS PowerPoint
2 2 (3.030%) MS Project
2 2 (3.030%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.545%) Oracle Applications
1 3 (4.545%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.64%) SAN
2 7 (10.61%) Firewall
2 7 (10.61%) Internet
3 6 (9.091%) NAS
4 5 (7.576%) LAN
5 3 (4.545%) Wireless
5 3 (4.545%) VoIP
5 3 (4.545%) DHCP
5 3 (4.545%) TCP/IP
5 3 (4.545%) DNS
5 3 (4.545%) LDAP
6 2 (3.030%) Network Security
6 2 (3.030%) IP Telephony
6 2 (3.030%) WAN
6 2 (3.030%) MPLS
7 1 (1.515%) OSPF
7 1 (1.515%) DSL
7 1 (1.515%) EIGRP
7 1 (1.515%) PBX
7 1 (1.515%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.091%) DTS
2 4 (6.061%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (6.061%) Oracle 8/8i
2 4 (6.061%) Oracle 9i
3 3 (4.545%) Oracle 10g
3 3 (4.545%) Oracle Discoverer
3 3 (4.545%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.545%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (3.030%) Data Mart
4 2 (3.030%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (1.515%) MySQL
5 1 (1.515%) DB2
5 1 (1.515%) DB2 UDB
General
1 13 (19.70%) Finance
2 9 (13.64%) Banking
3 7 (10.61%) Investment Banking
4 3 (4.545%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.030%) Financial Institution
5 2 (3.030%) Law
6 1 (1.515%) Back Office
6 1 (1.515%) Local Government
6 1 (1.515%) French Language
Job Titles
1 26 (39.39%) Analyst
2 12 (18.18%) Service Analyst
3 10 (15.15%) Service Continuity Analyst
4 8 (12.12%) DBA
5 7 (10.61%) Oracle DBA
6 6 (9.091%) Administrator
7 4 (6.061%) Business Manager
7 4 (6.061%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 4 (6.061%) Architect
8 3 (4.545%) Oracle Applications DBA
8 3 (4.545%) Systems Engineer
8 3 (4.545%) Systems Manager
8 3 (4.545%) Storage Engineer
8 3 (4.545%) Storage Architect
8 3 (4.545%) Business Continuity Specialist
9 2 (3.030%) Service Continuity Specialist
9 2 (3.030%) Services Delivery Analyst
9 2 (3.030%) PMO Analyst
9 2 (3.030%) Network Engineer
9 2 (3.030%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.061%) Symmetrix DMX
1 4 (6.061%) Blackberry
1 4 (6.061%) EMC Centera
2 3 (4.545%) Thin Client
2 3 (4.545%) Video Conferencing
2 3 (4.545%) Fat Client
3 2 (3.030%) New Media
3 2 (3.030%) SWIFT
3 2 (3.030%) Video on Demand
3 2 (3.030%) IVR
4 1 (1.515%) Grid Computing
4 1 (1.515%) Clustering
4 1 (1.515%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.515%) NHS
4 1 (1.515%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 13 (19.70%) Windows
2 11 (16.67%) Linux
3 8 (12.12%) UNIX
4 4 (6.061%) Solaris
5 3 (4.545%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (3.030%) Windows 7
6 2 (3.030%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (45.45%) Disaster Recovery
1 30 (45.45%) Business Continuity
2 25 (37.88%) ITIL
3 22 (33.33%) Project Management
4 17 (25.76%) Service Delivery
5 12 (18.18%) Risk Management
6 8 (12.12%) Migration
7 5 (7.576%) Problem Management
7 5 (7.576%) Performance Management
7 5 (7.576%) High Availability
8 4 (6.061%) Data Management
8 4 (6.061%) Incident Management
8 4 (6.061%) Service Management
8 4 (6.061%) Change Management
9 3 (4.545%) Risk Assessment
9 3 (4.545%) ITSM
9 3 (4.545%) Workflow
9 3 (4.545%) ERP
9 3 (4.545%) PRINCE2
9 3 (4.545%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.091%) SQL
2 2 (3.030%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (7.576%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.061%) SC Cleared
2 4 (6.061%) CISSP
3 3 (4.545%) CCNP
3 3 (4.545%) CCNA
3 3 (4.545%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (4.545%) Degree
4 2 (3.030%) CCIE
4 2 (3.030%) CISM
5 1 (1.515%) CCVP
5 1 (1.515%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.61%) SLA
2 4 (6.061%) BS25999
3 2 (3.030%) COBIT
4 1 (1.515%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.515%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.515%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (4.545%) VMware ESX
1 3 (4.545%) Oracle RMAN
1 3 (4.545%) NFS
1 3 (4.545%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 3 (4.545%) Hyper-V
1 3 (4.545%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.030%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (3.030%) Xen
2 2 (3.030%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.515%) NLBS
3 1 (1.515%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 3 (4.545%) NetBackup
1 3 (4.545%) Data Guard
1 3 (4.545%) Cisco CUCM
2 2 (3.030%) Cisco UCCE
2 2 (3.030%) WSUS
3 1 (1.515%) WhatsUp Gold
3 1 (1.515%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 14 (21.21%) Cisco
2 9 (13.64%) EMC
3 8 (12.12%) Oracle
3 8 (12.12%) VMware
4 6 (9.091%) Microsoft
5 4 (6.061%) 3PAR
5 4 (6.061%) CommVault
5 4 (6.061%) Citrix
6 3 (4.545%) HP
6 3 (4.545%) Sun
7 2 (3.030%) Riverbed
7 2 (3.030%) Altiris
7 2 (3.030%) IBM
7 2 (3.030%) Reuters
7 2 (3.030%) Bloomberg
7 2 (3.030%) Remedy
8 1 (1.515%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.515%) NetApp
8 1 (1.515%) Sybase
8 1 (1.515%) Brocade
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