The first table below looks at the demand for BCP skills in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited BCP 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 North West region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
Rank 238 220 215
Rank change year-on-year
-18 -5
Permanent jobs citing BCP 5 27 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.070% 0.380% 0.277%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.091% 0.518% 0.405%
Number of salaries quoted 5 23 4
Average salary £45,000 £43,250 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.04% -27.91%
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
All Processes & Methodologies
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
5523 5209 4697
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 76.87% 73.39% 68.40%
Number of salaries quoted 4625 4554 4125
Average salary £37,500 £36,500 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.73% -5.19%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,500 £57,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
BCP
England

BCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West BCP Jobs Demand Trend

BCP
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing BCP across the North West region.

North West BCP Salary Trend

BCP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing BCP across the North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

North West BCP Salary Histogram

BCP
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BCP within the North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Manchester -29 3 £45,000 +32.35%
Merseyside +18 1 £27,250 -54.58%
BCP
England

BCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region citing BCP 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 BCP.

1 6 (66.67%) Windows
2 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 5 (55.56%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (55.56%) Business Continuity
3 4 (44.44%) Information Security
3 4 (44.44%) CISA
3 4 (44.44%) CISM
3 4 (44.44%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (44.44%) CISSP
3 4 (44.44%) MS Excel
3 4 (44.44%) SQL
3 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
3 4 (44.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (44.44%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (33.33%) ITIL
4 3 (33.33%) LAN
4 3 (33.33%) Law
5 2 (22.22%) Legal
5 2 (22.22%) Migration
5 2 (22.22%) Replication
5 2 (22.22%) VMware
5 2 (22.22%) VMware ESX
5 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
5 2 (22.22%) Firewall
5 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis

BCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region citing BCP 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 BCP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
1 2 (22.22%) MS Exchange
1 2 (22.22%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (22.22%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (44.44%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) LAN
2 2 (22.22%) Firewall
2 2 (22.22%) WAN
2 2 (22.22%) DHCP
2 2 (22.22%) DNS
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco PIX
3 1 (11.11%) Network Security
3 1 (11.11%) HSRP
3 1 (11.11%) EIGRP
3 1 (11.11%) VPN
3 1 (11.11%) WLAN
3 1 (11.11%) VLAN
3 1 (11.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server 2005
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (22.22%) Data Mining
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2000
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 3 (33.33%) Law
2 2 (22.22%) Legal
2 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server DBA
1 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
1 2 (22.22%) SQL DBA
1 2 (22.22%) Server Administrator
1 2 (22.22%) Analyst
1 2 (22.22%) DBA
1 2 (22.22%) Support Analyst
1 2 (22.22%) 3rd Line Support
1 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 2 (22.22%) Administrator
1 2 (22.22%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
1 2 (22.22%) Teradata DBA
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) IT Security Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) Security Officer
2 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) Security Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Replication
1 2 (22.22%) Blackberry
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
2 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (55.56%) Business Continuity
2 4 (44.44%) Information Security
3 3 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (33.33%) ITIL
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
5 1 (11.11%) Security Architecture
5 1 (11.11%) CRAMM
5 1 (11.11%) ISMS
5 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
5 1 (11.11%) Capacity Management
5 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2
5 1 (11.11%) Data Security
5 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) T-SQL
2 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) CISA
1 4 (44.44%) CISM
1 4 (44.44%) CISSP
2 2 (22.22%) ISACA
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) CCIE
3 1 (11.11%) CCNP
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (22.22%) SLA
3 1 (11.11%) COBIT
3 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) VMware ESX
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
1 2 (22.22%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) VMware
2 2 (22.22%) Citrix
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco
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