The first table below looks at the demand for Business Continuity skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Business Continuity over the 3 months to 24 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 Sussex 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Continuity
Rank 39 58 -
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 0.270% 0.152% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.397% 0.205% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £275 £300 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £363 £330
% change year-on-year
+10.34% +9.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £27.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year
-37.03% -18.18%
All Processes & Methodologies
West Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
252 487 304
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 68.11% 74.01% 68.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 289 151
Average daily rate £384 £338 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.70% -12.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 16
Average hourly rate £32.50 £22.00 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+47.72% -41.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.60 £10.00 £21.79
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.60 £33.50 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Business Continuity
South East

Business Continuity
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Sussex 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 Sussex region.

West Sussex Business Continuity Daily Rate Trend

Business Continuity
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 4 (100.00%) SAN
1 4 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Clustering
2 3 (75.00%) Backup Exec
2 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) ProCurve
2 3 (75.00%) Juniper
2 3 (75.00%) NetApp
2 3 (75.00%) CheckPoint
2 3 (75.00%) Blackberry
2 3 (75.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 3 (75.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (75.00%) LAN
2 3 (75.00%) DHCP
2 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) HP
3 2 (50.00%) HP SIM
3 2 (50.00%) Advertising
3 2 (50.00%) WSUS
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (25.00%) MCSE
4 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
4 1 (25.00%) Active Directory

Business Continuity
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 3 (75.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
2 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) LAN
2 3 (75.00%) DHCP
2 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Clustering
1 3 (75.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (75.00%) Configuration Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (25.00%) MCSE
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Backup Exec
2 2 (50.00%) HP SIM
2 2 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) ProCurve
2 3 (75.00%) Juniper
2 3 (75.00%) NetApp
2 3 (75.00%) CheckPoint
2 3 (75.00%) HP