The first table below looks at the demand for Business Continuity skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Business Continuity over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Milton Keynes 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Continuity
Rank 51 60 56
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -4
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 6 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 0.998% 0.448% 0.316%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.373% 0.654% 0.615%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
Average daily rate £725 £335 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+116.41% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £395 £325
% change year-on-year
-13.92% +21.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £16.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £23.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
- -13.63%
All Processes & Methodologies
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
437 459 325
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 72.71% 68.51% 51.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 202 142
Average daily rate £350 £325 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -4.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £214 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £423 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 21 32
Average hourly rate £22.50 £14.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+55.17% -3.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.10 £10.58 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.90 £29.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Business Continuity
Buckinghamshire

Business Continuity
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes Business Continuity Hourly Rate Trend

Business Continuity
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 3 (42.86%) BCP
1 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (28.57%) QA
2 2 (28.57%) MS PowerPoint
2 2 (28.57%) IEC 61508
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Advertising
2 2 (28.57%) Information Security
2 2 (28.57%) MS Visio
3 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) CISSP
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2000
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) HTML
3 1 (14.29%) VB
3 1 (14.29%) VB.NET
3 1 (14.29%) .NET
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
3 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
3 1 (14.29%) CSS
3 1 (14.29%) Web Services
3 1 (14.29%) XML
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) MCP

Business Continuity
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 Development
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
1 1 (14.29%) XML
1 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MS PowerPoint
1 2 (28.57%) MS Visio
2 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
1 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Head of Security
2 2 (28.57%) Head of Information Security
2 2 (28.57%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Service Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Applications Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Service Continuity Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Statistics
1 1 (14.29%) SCADA
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) BCP
1 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (28.57%) Information Security
3 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) IT Governance
3 1 (14.29%) Web Development
3 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C#
1 1 (14.29%) VB
1 1 (14.29%) VB.NET
1 1 (14.29%) VB6
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CISSP
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (14.29%) MCP
1 1 (14.29%) MCAD
1 1 (14.29%) MCITP
1 1 (14.29%) MCPD
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
1 2 (28.57%) IEC 61508
2 1 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (14.29%) COBIT
2 1 (14.29%) COSO
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft