The first table below looks at the demand for Business Continuity skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wolverhampton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Business Continuity over the 3 months to 22 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 Wolverhampton 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Continuity
Rank 8 - 5
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 1 0 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wolverhampton 3.226% - 25.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.333% - 66.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 4
Average daily rate - - £150
UK excluding London average daily rate £406 £353 £325
% change year-on-year
+15.24% +8.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £27.25 £33.00
% change year-on-year
-37.61% -17.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
Wolverhampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
12 19 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wolverhampton 38.71% 63.33% 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 5
Average daily rate £310 £275 £150
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.54% +83.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £274 £150 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £329 £440 £260
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £10.50 £40.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-73.75% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Business Continuity
West Midlands

Business Continuity
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wolverhampton 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 Wolverhampton region.

Wolverhampton Business Continuity Daily Rate Trend

Business Continuity
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wolverhampton 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 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) UNIX
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) OpenView
3 1 (33.33%) HP
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (33.33%) LoadRunner
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (33.33%) xDSL
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Server

Business Continuity
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wolverhampton 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 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) LoadRunner
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Tester
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) UNIX
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) OpenView
1 1 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) VMware