Scotland BCP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Business Continuity Planning (BCP) skills within the Scotland region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited BCP over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
Location Berkshire Buckinghamshire City of London Crawley England Home Counties London Maidenhead Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes North West Scotland South East Surrey UK Wales West Midlands West Sussex	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	123
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.073 %
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	£406	£315
% change on same period last year	+28.96 %
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	-	£32.16
% change on same period last year	-
Processes & Methodologies Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	1037	1372
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.666 %	1.473 %
Daily rates quoted	246	340
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£331
Average daily rate	£364	£344
% change on same period last year	+5.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£393	£358
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£372
% change on same period last year	+2.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	78	91
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.04	£18.09
Average hourly rate	£22.17	£19.19
% change on same period last year	+15.55 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.31	£20.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.24	£29.63
% change on same period last year	-4.68 %
BCP UK

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.

BCP
Demand Trend

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

BCP
Daily Rate Trend

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