Business Continuity Contracts in the West Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Business Continuity skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Business Continuity over the 3 months to 17 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 West Midlands 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Continuity
Rank 88 92 81
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -11
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 7 11 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.424% 0.493% 0.686%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.630% 0.793% 1.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 6
Average daily rate £370 £270 £150
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+37.03% +80.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £277 £170 £138
10% offered a daily rate of more than £505 £700 £403
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
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 1111 1388 1199
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 67.29% 62.21% 63.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 653 558
Average daily rate £330 £330 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £240 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £523 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 72 69
Average hourly rate £37.80 £20.26 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+86.62% -18.98%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
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 West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 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
Coventry - 2 - -
Birmingham +8 1 £400 +166.66%
Warwickshire -4 1 £550 -21.42%
Wolverhampton - 1 - -
Herefordshire - 1 £250 -
Business Continuity
England

Business Continuity
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 7 (46.67%) Windows
2 6 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (40.00%) VMware
3 4 (26.67%) Migration
3 4 (26.67%) NetApp
3 4 (26.67%) Active Directory
4 3 (20.00%) EMC
4 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (20.00%) TCP/IP
4 3 (20.00%) Finance
4 3 (20.00%) SAN
4 3 (20.00%) Clustering
5 2 (13.33%) Information Security
5 2 (13.33%) Incident Management
5 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (13.33%) WSUS
5 2 (13.33%) Test Scripting
5 2 (13.33%) Data Migration
5 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (13.33%) SRDF
5 2 (13.33%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (13.33%) High Availability
5 2 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (13.33%) Validation
5 2 (13.33%) HP
5 2 (13.33%) Juniper
5 2 (13.33%) Change Management
5 2 (13.33%) Risk Management
5 2 (13.33%) Firewall

Business Continuity
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) MS Exchange
2 1 (6.667%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (6.667%) Office Communications Server
2 1 (6.667%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (6.667%) Apache
2 1 (6.667%) Tomcat
2 1 (6.667%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.667%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (20.00%) SAN
2 2 (13.33%) Firewall
2 2 (13.33%) DNS
2 2 (13.33%) LAN
2 2 (13.33%) DHCP
3 1 (6.667%) Ethernet
3 1 (6.667%) FTP
3 1 (6.667%) HTTP
3 1 (6.667%) WAN
3 1 (6.667%) VPN
3 1 (6.667%) IPsec
3 1 (6.667%) xDSL
3 1 (6.667%) NetScreen
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (6.667%) LoadRunner
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (6.667%) Legal
2 1 (6.667%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Analyst
1 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Test Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Storage Consultant
2 2 (13.33%) Storage Administrator
2 2 (13.33%) Consultant
2 2 (13.33%) Administrator
3 1 (6.667%) Business Manager
3 1 (6.667%) Incident Manager
3 1 (6.667%) Portfolio Manager
3 1 (6.667%) Chief Information Officer
3 1 (6.667%) Chief Information Security Officer
3 1 (6.667%) Information Security Officer
3 1 (6.667%) Chief Security Officer
3 1 (6.667%) Major Incident Manager
3 1 (6.667%) Security Officer
3 1 (6.667%) Non-Functional Tester
3 1 (6.667%) Head of Security
3 1 (6.667%) Head of Information Security
3 1 (6.667%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Clustering
2 1 (6.667%) iSeries
2 1 (6.667%) Blackberry
2 1 (6.667%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) AIX
2 2 (13.33%) HPUX
2 2 (13.33%) Solaris
2 2 (13.33%) UNIX
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (6.667%) Linux
3 1 (6.667%) zOS
3 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (26.67%) Migration
3 2 (13.33%) Risk Management
3 2 (13.33%) Validation
3 2 (13.33%) ITIL
3 2 (13.33%) Incident Management
3 2 (13.33%) Information Security
3 2 (13.33%) Test Scripting
3 2 (13.33%) Data Migration
3 2 (13.33%) High Availability
3 2 (13.33%) Change Management
3 2 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (6.667%) Portfolio Management
4 1 (6.667%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (6.667%) Data Protection
4 1 (6.667%) TOGAF
4 1 (6.667%) Supplier Management
4 1 (6.667%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (6.667%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (6.667%) Operations Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.667%) SQL
1 1 (6.667%) Shell Script
1 1 (6.667%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.667%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (6.667%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (6.667%) MCITP
1 1 (6.667%) Degree
1 1 (6.667%) VCP5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.667%) COBIT
2 1 (6.667%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (6.667%) ISO 9001
2 1 (6.667%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (13.33%) SRDF
2 2 (13.33%) EMC RecoverPoint
2 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.667%) XenApp
3 1 (6.667%) XenServer
3 1 (6.667%) XenDesktop
3 1 (6.667%) ISA Server
3 1 (6.667%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) WSUS
2 1 (6.667%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (6.667%) SCCM
2 1 (6.667%) SCOM
2 1 (6.667%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (6.667%) HP SIM
2 1 (6.667%) OpenView
2 1 (6.667%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) VMware
2 4 (26.67%) NetApp
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (20.00%) EMC
4 2 (13.33%) Citrix
4 2 (13.33%) Juniper
4 2 (13.33%) HP
4 2 (13.33%) Oracle
4 2 (13.33%) Cisco
4 2 (13.33%) IBM
5 1 (6.667%) Veritas
5 1 (6.667%) Red Hat
5 1 (6.667%) CheckPoint
5 1 (6.667%) Altiris
5 1 (6.667%) ProCurve
2nd/3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer ( AD, Exchange, Windows Server )
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