The first table below looks at the demand for Business Continuity skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Business Continuity over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Continuity
Rank 105 121 98
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -23
Permanent jobs citing Business Continuity 17 15 20
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.924% 0.694% 1.148%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.245% 0.906% 1.654%
Number of salaries quoted 14 15 19
Average salary £49,250 £52,500 £48,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.19% +8.24%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,000 £33,500 £43,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,000 £95,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £43,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+3.44% +2.35%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1365 1656 1209
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 74.18% 76.60% 69.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1095 1467 1040
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Business Continuity
North West

Business Continuity
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire Business Continuity Jobs Demand Trend

Business Continuity
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Business Continuity across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire Business Continuity Salary Trend

Business Continuity
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Business Continuity across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Cheshire Business Continuity Salary Histogram

Business Continuity
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Continuity within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Job
Vacancies
Knutsford - 11 £48,500 -
Chester - 3 £36,000 - 1
Business Continuity
North West

Business Continuity
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Business Continuity.

1 15 (55.56%) IBM
1 15 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 14 (51.85%) Validation
2 14 (51.85%) WebSphere
3 10 (37.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (37.04%) VMware
3 10 (37.04%) Cisco
3 10 (37.04%) EMC
4 9 (33.33%) SAN
4 9 (33.33%) WAN
4 9 (33.33%) Firewall
4 9 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 9 (33.33%) Finance
4 9 (33.33%) High Availability
5 8 (29.63%) WAN Optimisation
5 8 (29.63%) Cisco Nexus
5 8 (29.63%) Security Cleared
5 8 (29.63%) Riverbed
5 8 (29.63%) Isilon
5 8 (29.63%) Xen
5 8 (29.63%) Service Management
5 8 (29.63%) ITSM
5 8 (29.63%) Cognos
5 8 (29.63%) AIX
5 8 (29.63%) Linux
5 8 (29.63%) Juniper
5 8 (29.63%) Tivoli
5 8 (29.63%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 8 (29.63%) Lotus
6 7 (25.93%) Management Information System

Business Continuity
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Business Continuity. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (51.85%) WebSphere
2 6 (22.22%) Middleware
2 6 (22.22%) WebSphere MQ
3 2 (7.407%) COM
Application Platforms
1 6 (22.22%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 1 (3.704%) MS Exchange
2 1 (3.704%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (3.704%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 6 (22.22%) MS Excel
2 5 (18.52%) MS PowerPoint
2 5 (18.52%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 9 (33.33%) SAN
1 9 (33.33%) WAN
1 9 (33.33%) Firewall
2 8 (29.63%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (3.704%) Intranet
3 1 (3.704%) Internet
3 1 (3.704%) LAN
3 1 (3.704%) Wireless
3 1 (3.704%) NAS
3 1 (3.704%) Unified Communications
3 1 (3.704%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 9 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (3.704%) Legal
2 1 (3.704%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (55.56%) Consultant
2 9 (33.33%) Technical Consultant
3 8 (29.63%) Pre Sales Consultant
3 8 (29.63%) Technical Pre Sales Consultant
3 8 (29.63%) Sales Consultant
4 6 (22.22%) Analyst
5 5 (18.52%) Service Continuity Analyst
5 5 (18.52%) Service Analyst
6 2 (7.407%) Technical Architect
6 2 (7.407%) Architect
7 1 (3.704%) Security Analyst
7 1 (3.704%) Project Manager
7 1 (3.704%) Business Analyst
7 1 (3.704%) Senior Consultant
7 1 (3.704%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.704%) IT Infrastructure Manager
7 1 (3.704%) ICT Project Manager
7 1 (3.704%) Senior Architect
7 1 (3.704%) Head of IT
7 1 (3.704%) Technical Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.407%) Statistics
2 2 (7.407%) Celerra
2 2 (7.407%) CLARiiON
3 1 (3.704%) Symmetrix
3 1 (3.704%) EMC Centera
3 1 (3.704%) HP StorageWorks
3 1 (3.704%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 8 (29.63%) AIX
1 8 (29.63%) Linux
2 2 (7.407%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (7.407%) Windows
2 2 (7.407%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (3.704%) Windows 2000
3 1 (3.704%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) Validation
2 9 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 9 (33.33%) High Availability
3 8 (29.63%) WAN Optimisation
3 8 (29.63%) Service Management
3 8 (29.63%) ITSM
4 6 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
5 5 (18.52%) ITIL
6 3 (11.11%) Information Security
7 2 (7.407%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (7.407%) BCP
7 2 (7.407%) Project Management
7 2 (7.407%) PRINCE2
8 1 (3.704%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (3.704%) Quality Management
8 1 (3.704%) Infrastructure Management
8 1 (3.704%) Change Control
8 1 (3.704%) Demand Management
8 1 (3.704%) Systems Analysis
8 1 (3.704%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.704%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.407%) Degree
2 2 (7.407%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (3.704%) CCA
3 1 (3.704%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (3.704%) CISSP
3 1 (3.704%) EMC Certification
3 1 (3.704%) VTSP
3 1 (3.704%) CCEE
3 1 (3.704%) CCAA
3 1 (3.704%) CCIA
3 1 (3.704%) VCP5
3 1 (3.704%) NCDA
3 1 (3.704%) NCIE
3 1 (3.704%) VCP4
3 1 (3.704%) MCITP
3 1 (3.704%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (3.704%) HP AIS
3 1 (3.704%) HP ASE
3 1 (3.704%) HP MASE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.704%) SLA
2 1 (3.704%) BS7799
2 1 (3.704%) BS25999
System Software
1 10 (37.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (29.63%) Xen
3 2 (7.407%) Hyper-V
3 2 (7.407%) vSphere
4 1 (3.704%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.704%) VMware ESX
4 1 (3.704%) XenApp
4 1 (3.704%) XenServer
4 1 (3.704%) XenDesktop
4 1 (3.704%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.704%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) Tivoli
1 8 (29.63%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (3.704%) Backup Exec
2 1 (3.704%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 15 (55.56%) IBM
1 15 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 10 (37.04%) VMware
2 10 (37.04%) Cisco
2 10 (37.04%) EMC
3 8 (29.63%) Riverbed
3 8 (29.63%) Isilon
3 8 (29.63%) Cognos
3 8 (29.63%) Juniper
3 8 (29.63%) Lotus
4 2 (7.407%) HP
4 2 (7.407%) NetApp
5 1 (3.704%) Citrix
5 1 (3.704%) Avaya
5 1 (3.704%) Symantec
5 1 (3.704%) Panasonic
5 1 (3.704%) ProCurve
Chester, North West
Should have experience with business continuity planning, information security, and preferably auditing or risk management, as well as contract and vendor specifications for integrated security and business continuity...
Harvey Nash plc
Posted: 10 June 2013