The first table below looks at the demand for Business Continuity skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Business Continuity over the 3 months to 23 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 West 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Continuity
Rank 105 128 119
Rank change year-on-year
+23 -9
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 6 13 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.299% 0.401% 0.279%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.450% 0.587% 0.428%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 6
Average daily rate £365 £325 £368
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.30% -11.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £273 £325 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £488 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £355 £328
% change year-on-year
+12.67% +8.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £27.50 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +25.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £27.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year
-37.03% -18.18%
All Processes & Methodologies
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1334 2214 1871
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 66.37% 68.23% 65.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 835 1369 966
Average daily rate £375 £390 £382
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% +2.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £263 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 111 129
Average hourly rate £29.00 £25.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.00% -23.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £16.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.75 £39.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Business Continuity
England

Business Continuity
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

South West 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 South West region.

South West Business Continuity Hourly Rate Trend

Business Continuity
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Continuity within the South West region over the 3 months to 23 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
Bristol +13 2 £379 -32.66%
Wiltshire +2 2 £418 -
Somerset +4 1 - -
Dorset -8 1 £263 -19.23%
Business Continuity
England

Business Continuity
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 5 (50.00%) ITIL
2 4 (40.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (30.00%) Oracle
3 3 (30.00%) Service Management
3 3 (30.00%) ITSM
3 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (20.00%) Firewall
4 2 (20.00%) VMware
4 2 (20.00%) Clustering
4 2 (20.00%) Backup Exec
4 2 (20.00%) Data Security
4 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 2 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 2 (20.00%) WebLogic
4 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2
4 2 (20.00%) UNIX
4 2 (20.00%) Solaris
4 2 (20.00%) Linux
4 2 (20.00%) HP
4 2 (20.00%) LAN
4 2 (20.00%) DHCP
4 2 (20.00%) HTTP
4 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (20.00%) DNS
4 2 (20.00%) Juniper
4 2 (20.00%) SAN

Business Continuity
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 (10.00%) Spring Security
1 1 (10.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (10.00%) JSP
1 1 (10.00%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) WebLogic
1 2 (20.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (10.00%) Apache
2 1 (10.00%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
1 2 (20.00%) LAN
1 2 (20.00%) DHCP
1 2 (20.00%) HTTP
1 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
1 2 (20.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (10.00%) Subversion
1 1 (10.00%) Maven
1 1 (10.00%) NetBeans
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Legal
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) UNIX Systems Administrator
1 2 (20.00%) UNIX Administrator
1 2 (20.00%) Administrator
1 2 (20.00%) Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Analyst
1 2 (20.00%) Technical Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
1 2 (20.00%) Technical Design Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Solaris Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Solaris Systems Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) Transition Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Clustering
1 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (20.00%) Blackberry
1 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (10.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) UNIX
2 2 (20.00%) Solaris
2 2 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (10.00%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) ITIL
2 3 (30.00%) Service Management
2 3 (30.00%) ITSM
2 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (20.00%) Data Security
3 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 2 (20.00%) Project Planning
3 2 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (20.00%) ITIL V3
4 1 (10.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (10.00%) QMS
4 1 (10.00%) Requirements Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Business Transformation
4 1 (10.00%) BPR
4 1 (10.00%) Project Management
4 1 (10.00%) Quality Management
4 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) BC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) ISEB
2 1 (10.00%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (10.00%) TickIT
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Backup Exec
1 2 (20.00%) HP SIM
1 2 (20.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) VMware
2 2 (20.00%) HP
2 2 (20.00%) Juniper
2 2 (20.00%) NetApp
2 2 (20.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (20.00%) ProCurve
3 1 (10.00%) IBM
Gloucester, South West
Infrastructure Engineer, 3rd Line Engineer,- Contract - GloucesterOur client, has an urgent requirement for an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to join their team-The postholder will be responsible for the...
OPUS
Rate: GBP250 to GBP350 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
Gloucester, Gloucestershire
Key skills: - Windows Server 2008 R2 - AD - Exchange 2010 - MS Clustering - WSUS - Networking technologies - TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP - VMWare Experience of HP/Cisco Networking technologies is an advantage...
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Rate: £250 to £350 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013