The first table below looks at the demand for BCP skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BCP over the 3 months to 22 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 South East 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
Rank 222 243 232
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -11
Contract jobs citing BCP 7 3 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.088% 0.029% 0.097%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.130% 0.045% 0.151%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 4
Average daily rate £381 £300 £370
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+27.08% -18.91%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £323 £300 £308
10% offered a daily rate of more than £414 £300 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £365 £380
% change year-on-year
+23.28% -3.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £67.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £53.75 £27.00
% change year-on-year
- +99.07%
All Processes & Methodologies
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
5379 6721 6614
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 67.90% 64.97% 64.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2783 3216 3013
Average daily rate £375 £360 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.16% -4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £514
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 327 363
Average hourly rate £26.98 £25.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.78% -27.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.37 £13.50 £13.54
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
BCP
England

BCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East BCP Daily Rate Trend

BCP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing BCP across the South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 22 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
Hampshire - 4 £388 -
Buckinghamshire - 2 - -
Surrey +18 1 £300 -
BCP
England

BCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 11 (78.57%) SQL
1 11 (78.57%) T-SQL
1 11 (78.57%) SQL Server
1 11 (78.57%) Replication
1 11 (78.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 11 (78.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 11 (78.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 10 (71.43%) WebLogic
2 10 (71.43%) Oracle
2 10 (71.43%) Oracle Reports
3 9 (64.29%) Perl
3 9 (64.29%) PL/SQL
3 9 (64.29%) Shell Script
3 9 (64.29%) SQLPlus
3 9 (64.29%) TOAD
3 9 (64.29%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (64.29%) Oracle Forms
3 9 (64.29%) Microsoft
3 9 (64.29%) Oracle 10g
3 9 (64.29%) Data Guard
3 9 (64.29%) Oracle RAC
3 9 (64.29%) Korn
3 9 (64.29%) Oracle RMAN
4 7 (50.00%) Oracle Applications
4 7 (50.00%) E-business
4 7 (50.00%) SOA
4 7 (50.00%) Oracle Discoverer
4 7 (50.00%) Middleware
4 7 (50.00%) XML
4 7 (50.00%) Apache

BCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 7 (50.00%) Middleware
1 7 (50.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 10 (71.43%) WebLogic
2 7 (50.00%) Apache
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (7.143%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) MS Excel
2 1 (7.143%) MS Visio
2 1 (7.143%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (50.00%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.143%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (78.57%) SQL Server
1 11 (78.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 11 (78.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 11 (78.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 10 (71.43%) Oracle Reports
3 9 (64.29%) SQLPlus
3 9 (64.29%) TOAD
3 9 (64.29%) Oracle 10g
4 7 (50.00%) Oracle Discoverer
5 2 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (14.29%) DTS
5 2 (14.29%) RDBMS
6 1 (7.143%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 9 (64.29%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1 (7.143%) Telecoms
1 1 (7.143%) Finance
1 1 (7.143%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) DBA
2 9 (64.29%) Oracle DBA
3 6 (42.86%) SQL DBA
4 4 (28.57%) SQL Server DBA
5 3 (21.43%) Oracle Applications DBA
6 2 (14.29%) Analyst
6 2 (14.29%) Administrator
7 1 (7.143%) Service Analyst
7 1 (7.143%) Business Analyst
7 1 (7.143%) Service Continuity Analyst
7 1 (7.143%) Exchange Administrator
7 1 (7.143%) Business Continuity Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 11 (78.57%) Replication
2 1 (7.143%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (50.00%) E-business
2 7 (50.00%) SOA
3 5 (35.71%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (21.43%) Business Continuity
5 2 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (14.29%) Database Tuning
5 2 (14.29%) Capacity Management
6 1 (7.143%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (7.143%) ERP
6 1 (7.143%) ITIL
6 1 (7.143%) IT Governance
6 1 (7.143%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) SQL
1 11 (78.57%) T-SQL
2 9 (64.29%) Perl
2 9 (64.29%) PL/SQL
2 9 (64.29%) Shell Script
2 9 (64.29%) Korn
3 6 (42.86%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 9 (64.29%) Oracle RAC
1 9 (64.29%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (7.143%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (64.29%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) Oracle
2 9 (64.29%) Microsoft
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