South Wales BCP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Business Continuity Planning (BCP) skills within the South Wales 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 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
Location Bath Belfast Berkshire Bracknell Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire City of London County Antrim Crawley East Midlands East of England England Essex Gatwick Hampshire Lancashire Leeds London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Middlesex Midlands Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North West Northern Ireland Norwich Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West Thames Valley UK Wales Warrington West Sussex West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	54	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.216 %	0.000 %
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	£380	£370
% change on same period last year	+2.76 %
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	£45.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Processes & Methodologies South Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	463	410
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.611 %	0.408 %
Daily rates quoted	136	94
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£398
Average daily rate	£365	£429
% change on same period last year	-14.76 %
Average maximum daily rate	£395	£459
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£377
% change on same period last year	+0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	71	50
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.81	£19.48
Average hourly rate	£35.93	£21.60
% change on same period last year	+66.31 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.05	£23.72
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.30	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.42 %
BCP Wales

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 South Wales 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 South Wales region.

BCP
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BCP within the South Wales region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cardiff	-	1	-	-

BCP Wales

BCP
Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 2 (100.00 %) Service Delivery 1 2 (100.00 %) Workflow 1 2 (100.00 %) Finance 1 2 (100.00 %) Enterprise Architecture 1 2 (100.00 %) Data Extraction 1 2 (100.00 %) Data Integration

BCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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.

General 1 2 (100.00 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 2 (100.00 %) Architect 1 2 (100.00 %) Integration Architect 1 2 (100.00 %) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous 1 2 (100.00 %) Data Extraction 1 2 (100.00 %) Data Integration	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (100.00 %) Service Delivery 1 2 (100.00 %) Workflow 1 2 (100.00 %) Enterprise Architecture