The first table below looks at the demand for Business Continuity skills in IT contracts advertised for the South Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Business Continuity over the 3 months to 21 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 Yorkshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Continuity
Rank - 31 32
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 0 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire - 0.382% 1.068%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 0.676% 1.987%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £320
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £353 £325
% change year-on-year
+13.47% +8.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £27.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year
-38.18% -16.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
South Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
182 148 151
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 67.91% 56.49% 53.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 79 91
Average daily rate £325 £310 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.83% -4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £200 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 7 19
Average hourly rate £25.00 £27.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.40% -36.47%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.44 £19.72 £20.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £87.50 £30.00 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Business Continuity
Yorkshire

Business Continuity
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire Business Continuity Daily Rate Trend

Business Continuity
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 2 (50.00%) CISA
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Brocade
2 1 (25.00%) Operations Management
2 1 (25.00%) NAS
2 1 (25.00%) Symmetrix DMX
2 1 (25.00%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Business Transformation
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (25.00%) ITSM
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Symmetrix
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) MS Office
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (25.00%) SLA
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) EMC
2 1 (25.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) NetApp

Business Continuity
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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.

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Office
1 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) NAS
1 1 (25.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) IT Security Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Auditor
2 1 (25.00%) Services Director
2 1 (25.00%) IT Security Auditor
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery Director
2 1 (25.00%) Designer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Risk Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) IT Auditor
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Symmetrix DMX
1 1 (25.00%) Symmetrix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Operations Management
2 1 (25.00%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Business Transformation
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (25.00%) ITSM
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Brocade
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) HP
1 1 (25.00%) EMC
1 1 (25.00%) NetApp