The first table below looks at the demand for BCP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited BCP over the 3 months to 23 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
Rank 153 139 144
Rank change year-on-year
-14 +5
Permanent jobs citing BCP 4 9 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.128% 0.261% 0.369%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.173% 0.370% 0.483%
Number of salaries quoted 2 8 5
Average salary £45,000 £33,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+34.32% +3.07%
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
All Processes & Methodologies
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
2318 2431 2692
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 74.18% 70.61% 76.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1385 1728 1946
Average salary £41,000 £40,000 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.50% -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,500 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
BCP
UK

BCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland BCP Salary Trend

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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 23 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
Glasgow -24 3 £45,000 +34.32%
BCP
UK

BCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 7 (46.67%) SQL Server
2 6 (40.00%) Project Management
2 6 (40.00%) Firewall
3 5 (33.33%) Wireless
3 5 (33.33%) IPsec
3 5 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 5 (33.33%) Network Design
3 5 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
3 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 5 (33.33%) IPv4
3 5 (33.33%) IPv6
3 5 (33.33%) Internet
3 5 (33.33%) OSPF
3 5 (33.33%) BGP-4
3 5 (33.33%) EIGRP
3 5 (33.33%) Windows
3 5 (33.33%) LAN
3 5 (33.33%) WAN
3 5 (33.33%) DHCP
3 5 (33.33%) IKE
3 5 (33.33%) SNMP
3 5 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 5 (33.33%) DNS
3 5 (33.33%) Network Architecture
3 5 (33.33%) Network Management
3 5 (33.33%) Unified Communications
4 4 (26.67%) SQL
4 4 (26.67%) T-SQL
4 4 (26.67%) DTS
4 4 (26.67%) Investment Management

BCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 1 (6.667%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) MS Excel
2 1 (6.667%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) Firewall
2 5 (33.33%) Wireless
2 5 (33.33%) IPsec
2 5 (33.33%) IPv4
2 5 (33.33%) IPv6
2 5 (33.33%) Internet
2 5 (33.33%) OSPF
2 5 (33.33%) BGP-4
2 5 (33.33%) EIGRP
2 5 (33.33%) LAN
2 5 (33.33%) WAN
2 5 (33.33%) DHCP
2 5 (33.33%) IKE
2 5 (33.33%) SNMP
2 5 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 5 (33.33%) DNS
2 5 (33.33%) Unified Communications
3 1 (6.667%) Network Security
3 1 (6.667%) iSCSI
3 1 (6.667%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) SQL Server
2 5 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (26.67%) DTS
4 3 (20.00%) Data Mart
5 2 (13.33%) RDBMS
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (6.667%) Investment Banking
2 1 (6.667%) Banking
2 1 (6.667%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Data Consultant
1 5 (33.33%) Consultant
2 3 (20.00%) Database Designer
2 3 (20.00%) Designer
3 2 (13.33%) DBA
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) SQL Server DBA
3 2 (13.33%) SQL DBA
4 1 (6.667%) Network Administrator
4 1 (6.667%) Database Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Administrator
4 1 (6.667%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Statistics
2 1 (6.667%) Clustering
2 1 (6.667%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (6.667%) Windows 8
2 1 (6.667%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Project Management
2 5 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 5 (33.33%) Network Design
2 5 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 5 (33.33%) Network Management
3 4 (26.67%) Investment Management
4 3 (20.00%) Fund Accounting
5 2 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
5 2 (13.33%) Validation
5 2 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (13.33%) Asset Management
5 2 (13.33%) Data Management
6 1 (6.667%) Load Balancing
6 1 (6.667%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (6.667%) Incident Management
6 1 (6.667%) Information Security
6 1 (6.667%) Security Management
6 1 (6.667%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
1 4 (26.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.667%) MCSE
1 1 (6.667%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.667%) QA
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (13.33%) vSphere
2 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.667%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.667%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) SCCM
1 2 (13.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Cadis
2 2 (13.33%) VMware
2 2 (13.33%) Altiris