The first table below looks at the demand for BCP skills in IT jobs advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited BCP over the 3 months to 17 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 South West region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
Rank 208 207 178
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -29
Permanent jobs citing BCP 2 8 27
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 0.038% 0.145% 0.461%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.051% 0.192% 0.671%
Number of salaries quoted 0 8 26
Average salary - £41,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -17.00%
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
All Processes & Methodologies
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
3948 4161 4023
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 75.26% 75.44% 68.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3460 3540 3403
Average salary £37,500 £38,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.59% +2.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
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 South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

South 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 17 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
Devon - 2 - -
BCP
England

BCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South 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 (100.00%) Business Continuity
2 4 (66.67%) Service Management
2 4 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) ITSM
2 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (66.67%) PCI DSS
2 4 (66.67%) Windows 7
3 2 (33.33%) SIEM
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 2 (33.33%) Xen
3 2 (33.33%) WSUS
3 2 (33.33%) NLBS
3 2 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 2 (33.33%) Fat Client
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Management
3 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (33.33%) Citrix
3 2 (33.33%) CISSP
3 2 (33.33%) Thin Client
3 2 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (33.33%) MPLS
3 2 (33.33%) Blackberry
3 2 (33.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server

BCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South 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 (33.33%) MS Exchange
1 2 (33.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) IP Telephony
2 2 (33.33%) BIG-IP
2 2 (33.33%) LDAP
2 2 (33.33%) LAN
2 2 (33.33%) WAN
2 2 (33.33%) SMTP
2 2 (33.33%) Ethernet
2 2 (33.33%) FTP
2 2 (33.33%) HTTP
2 2 (33.33%) Kerberos
2 2 (33.33%) SNMP
2 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (33.33%) HTTPS
2 2 (33.33%) MPLS
2 2 (33.33%) DSL
General
1 2 (33.33%) Legal
1 2 (33.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Administrator
1 2 (33.33%) IT Administrator
1 2 (33.33%) Security Administrator
1 2 (33.33%) Head of IT
1 2 (33.33%) IT Security Administrator
1 2 (33.33%) IT Support
1 2 (33.33%) Head of Security
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Thin Client
1 2 (33.33%) Blackberry
1 2 (33.33%) Statistics
1 2 (33.33%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Windows 7
2 2 (33.33%) Windows XP
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Business Continuity
2 4 (66.67%) Service Management
2 4 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (66.67%) ITSM
3 2 (33.33%) Security Management
3 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 2 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Management
3 2 (33.33%) SIEM
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CISSP
1 2 (33.33%) ISSMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (66.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) Xen
1 2 (33.33%) NLBS
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Citrix
2 2 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco