The first table below looks at the demand for Business Continuity skills in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Continuity
Rank 79 87 93
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +6
Permanent jobs citing Business Continuity 5 3 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.467% 0.220% 0.510%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.617% 0.300% 0.646%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 7
Average salary £70,000 £30,500 £49,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+129.50% -37.75%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £43,500 £43,250
% change year-on-year
+3.44% +0.57%
All Processes & Methodologies
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
810 1001 1239
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 75.63% 73.49% 78.97%
Number of salaries quoted 477 699 869
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -3.61%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Business Continuity
Scotland

Business Continuity
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Business Continuity Salary Trend

Business Continuity
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 10 (71.43%) Project Management
2 6 (42.86%) Internet
2 6 (42.86%) TCP/IP
2 6 (42.86%) DNS
2 6 (42.86%) Firewall
2 6 (42.86%) Unified Communications
3 5 (35.71%) Network Architecture
3 5 (35.71%) Network Management
3 5 (35.71%) Wireless
3 5 (35.71%) IPsec
3 5 (35.71%) Finance
3 5 (35.71%) Network Design
3 5 (35.71%) LAN
3 5 (35.71%) WAN
3 5 (35.71%) DHCP
3 5 (35.71%) IKE
3 5 (35.71%) SNMP
3 5 (35.71%) IPv4
3 5 (35.71%) IPv6
3 5 (35.71%) OSPF
3 5 (35.71%) BCP
3 5 (35.71%) BGP-4
3 5 (35.71%) EIGRP
4 4 (28.57%) ITIL
4 4 (28.57%) Management Information System
4 4 (28.57%) Information Security
5 3 (21.43%) Practice Management
5 3 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (21.43%) Information Management
5 3 (21.43%) Change Control

Business Continuity
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 Platforms
1 1 (7.143%) MS Exchange
1 1 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (7.143%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) Internet
1 6 (42.86%) TCP/IP
1 6 (42.86%) DNS
1 6 (42.86%) Firewall
1 6 (42.86%) Unified Communications
2 5 (35.71%) Wireless
2 5 (35.71%) IPsec
2 5 (35.71%) LAN
2 5 (35.71%) WAN
2 5 (35.71%) DHCP
2 5 (35.71%) IKE
2 5 (35.71%) SNMP
2 5 (35.71%) IPv4
2 5 (35.71%) IPv6
2 5 (35.71%) OSPF
2 5 (35.71%) BGP-4
2 5 (35.71%) EIGRP
3 1 (7.143%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.143%) SQL Server
1 1 (7.143%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (7.143%) Oracle 11g
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
2 1 (7.143%) Retail
2 1 (7.143%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Data Consultant
1 5 (35.71%) Consultant
2 3 (21.43%) Head of IT
3 2 (14.29%) IT Support
3 2 (14.29%) Support Manager
3 2 (14.29%) IT Support Manager
4 1 (7.143%) DBA
4 1 (7.143%) Risk Manager
4 1 (7.143%) Support Team Leader
4 1 (7.143%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Service Manager
4 1 (7.143%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (7.143%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.143%) UNIX
1 1 (7.143%) Windows
1 1 (7.143%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Project Management
2 5 (35.71%) Network Architecture
2 5 (35.71%) Network Management
2 5 (35.71%) Network Design
2 5 (35.71%) BCP
3 4 (28.57%) ITIL
3 4 (28.57%) Information Security
4 3 (21.43%) Practice Management
4 3 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (21.43%) Information Management
4 3 (21.43%) Change Control
5 1 (7.143%) PRINCE2
5 1 (7.143%) Data Modelling
5 1 (7.143%) Service Management
5 1 (7.143%) Service Delivery
5 1 (7.143%) Change Management
5 1 (7.143%) Asset Management
5 1 (7.143%) Data Management
5 1 (7.143%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (7.143%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (7.143%) Shell Script
2 1 (7.143%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.143%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (7.143%) PRINCE2 Certification
1 1 (7.143%) Degree
1 1 (7.143%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.143%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.143%) SLA
1 1 (7.143%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (7.143%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.143%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (7.143%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (7.143%) Data Guard
1 1 (7.143%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.143%) Oracle
2 1 (7.143%) HP
2 1 (7.143%) Symantec
2 1 (7.143%) Fujitsu
2 1 (7.143%) ProCurve