Yorkshire Business Continuity Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Business Continuity skills within the Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Business Continuity over the 3 months to 1 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Continuity
Location Bedfordshire Berkshire Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Huddersfield Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leeds London Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North West Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Reigate Rochdale Salisbury Scotland Slough South East South West Staffordshire Surrey Swindon Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wirral Yorkshire	3 months to 1 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	103	135
Rank change on same period last year	+32
Matching contract IT job ads	4	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	0.289 %	0.439 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£450	£243
Average daily rate	£450	£302
% change on same period last year	+49.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£450	£360
UK excluding London average daily rate	£370	£351
% change on same period last year	+5.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.73	£27.32
Average hourly rate	£28.61	£34.22
% change on same period last year	-16.37 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.50	£41.12
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.28	£33.65
% change on same period last year	-12.97 %
Processes & Methodologies Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1384	2051
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.195 %	2.183 %
Daily rates quoted	354	556
Average minimum daily rate	£364	£346
Average daily rate	£386	£361
% change on same period last year	+6.91 %
Average maximum daily rate	£408	£376
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£371
% change on same period last year	+2.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	103	132
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.82	£25.64
Average hourly rate	£25.54	£27.46
% change on same period last year	-7.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.25	£29.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.11	£29.69
% change on same period last year	-5.31 %
Business Continuity England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Business Continuity
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Business Continuity across the Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Business Continuity
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Business Continuity across the Yorkshire region.

Business Continuity
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Business Continuity across the Yorkshire region.

Business Continuity
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Continuity across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 1 December 2008.

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 1 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
West Yorkshire	+3	3	-	-

Business Continuity England

Business Continuity
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the 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 5 (45.45 %) Disaster Recovery 2 3 (27.27 %) NHS 3 2 (18.18 %) Telecoms 3 2 (18.18 %) CMS 3 2 (18.18 %) VMware 3 2 (18.18 %) WebServices 3 2 (18.18 %) BCP 3 2 (18.18 %) Content Management 3 2 (18.18 %) Business Analysis 3 2 (18.18 %) Statistics 3 2 (18.18 %) Change Management 4 1 (9.091 %) ISO27001 4 1 (9.091 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 1 (9.091 %) QA 4 1 (9.091 %) Problem Management

4 1 (9.091 %) Data Protection 4 1 (9.091 %) VLAN 4 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (9.091 %) Configuration Management 4 1 (9.091 %) Project Management 4 1 (9.091 %) C# 4 1 (9.091 %) RPG 4 1 (9.091 %) .NET 4 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server 4 1 (9.091 %) DB2 4 1 (9.091 %) Visual Studio 4 1 (9.091 %) ASP.NET 4 1 (9.091 %) ITIL 4 1 (9.091 %) Windows 4 1 (9.091 %) SharePoint

Business Continuity
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

Application Development 1 2 (18.18 %) WebServices 2 1 (9.091 %) .NET 2 1 (9.091 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 2 (18.18 %) CMS 2 1 (9.091 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 1 (9.091 %) SharePoint
Communications & Networking 1 1 (9.091 %) LAN 1 1 (9.091 %) WAN 1 1 (9.091 %) SAN 1 1 (9.091 %) Internet 1 1 (9.091 %) VLAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server 1 1 (9.091 %) DB2 1 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) Visual Studio	General 1 2 (18.18 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 3 (27.27 %) Service Manager 2 2 (18.18 %) Technical Support 2 2 (18.18 %) 3rd Line Support 2 2 (18.18 %) Web Manager 2 2 (18.18 %) Administrator 3 1 (9.091 %) AS400 Administrator 3 1 (9.091 %) Web Content Manager 3 1 (9.091 %) Security Consultant 3 1 (9.091 %) Business Analyst 3 1 (9.091 %) Analyst 3 1 (9.091 %) Consultant 3 1 (9.091 %) Team Leader 3 1 (9.091 %) Data Migration Specialist 3 1 (9.091 %) Information Security Consultant 3 1 (9.091 %) Business Manager 3 1 (9.091 %) Windows Administrator 3 1 (9.091 %) .NET Team Leader 3 1 (9.091 %) SAN Administrator 3 1 (9.091 %) IT Services Manager	Miscellaneous 1 3 (27.27 %) NHS 2 2 (18.18 %) Statistics 3 1 (9.091 %) AS400
Operating Systems 1 1 (9.091 %) Windows 1 1 (9.091 %) OS/400	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (45.45 %) Disaster Recovery 2 2 (18.18 %) BCP 2 2 (18.18 %) Content Management 2 2 (18.18 %) Business Analysis 2 2 (18.18 %) Change Management 3 1 (9.091 %) ITIL 3 1 (9.091 %) ERP 3 1 (9.091 %) Problem Management 3 1 (9.091 %) Data Protection 3 1 (9.091 %) Configuration Management 3 1 (9.091 %) Project Management 3 1 (9.091 %) Service Management 3 1 (9.091 %) Service Delivery 3 1 (9.091 %) Security Management 3 1 (9.091 %) Migration 3 1 (9.091 %) Information Security
Programming Languages 1 1 (9.091 %) C# 1 1 (9.091 %) RPG	Qualifications 1 1 (9.091 %) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (9.091 %) ISO27001 1 1 (9.091 %) QA	Vendors 1 2 (18.18 %) VMware