Business Continuity
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Business Continuity skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Business Continuity over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 380 414 435
Rank change year-on-year +34 +21 +74
Permanent jobs citing Business Continuity 711 739 1,379
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.69% 0.76% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.79% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 506 472 844
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,835 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,540 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.98% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £76,250 £68,813 £69,880
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +1.00% +5.26% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Business Continuity is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,445 93,025 160,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.24% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,550 54,985 83,280
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Business Continuity
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Business Continuity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Business Continuity in the UK

Business Continuity
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Business Continuity.

Salary trend for Business Continuity in the UK

Business Continuity
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Continuity over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Business Continuity in the UK

Business Continuity
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Continuity within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +68 651 £57,500 +4.55% 221
UK excluding London -33 417 £50,500 +1.00% 138
London +195 276 £75,000 +15.38% 88
Work from Home +39 213 £65,000 +13.04% 91
South East +33 117 £52,500 +1.94% 35
North of England +49 111 £48,750 -2.50% 36
North West +27 61 £51,500 -1.90% 20
Midlands -76 59 £59,000 +44.79% 26
South West -18 45 £49,000 +9.73% 21
West Midlands -9 42 £70,000 +75.00% 20
Yorkshire +54 38 £45,621 +14.05% 13
East of England -31 36 £62,500 +17.92% 10
Wales +15 32 £44,886 +28.25% 1
East Midlands -73 17 £40,000 -25.98% 6
North East +2 14 £50,000 -4.76% 3
Scotland -71 13 £53,940 +2.74% 12
Isle of Man - 4 - -

Business Continuity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 91 (12.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (4.64%) SharePoint
3 15 (2.11%) Skype for Business
4 4 (0.56%) Apache
4 4 (0.56%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 4 (0.56%) Site Server
5 3 (0.42%) IIS
5 3 (0.42%) SAS
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.28%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.14%) IBM Domino
7 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (2.39%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.13%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.42%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.70%) Oracle Financial Analyzer
3 4 (0.56%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.56%) SAP WM
4 3 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.14%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 175 (24.61%) Microsoft 365
2 164 (23.07%) Azure
3 54 (7.59%) AWS
4 35 (4.92%) Power Platform
5 34 (4.78%) SaaS
6 20 (2.81%) PaaS
7 19 (2.67%) Google Workspace
7 19 (2.67%) IaaS
8 18 (2.53%) Entra ID
9 17 (2.39%) GCP
10 16 (2.25%) Cloud Computing
11 13 (1.83%) PowerApps
12 12 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (1.69%) Nutanix
13 11 (1.55%) Azure Monitor
13 11 (1.55%) OneDrive
14 10 (1.41%) Amazon S3
15 8 (1.13%) Power Automate
16 7 (0.98%) GitHub
16 7 (0.98%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 145 (20.39%) Firewall
2 116 (16.32%) Wireless
3 106 (14.91%) WAN
4 82 (11.53%) DNS
4 82 (11.53%) SD-WAN
5 73 (10.27%) Cisco IOS
5 73 (10.27%) WebEx
6 47 (6.61%) DHCP
7 40 (5.63%) LAN
7 40 (5.63%) TCP/IP
8 38 (5.34%) VPN
9 36 (5.06%) SAN
10 34 (4.78%) Network Security
11 26 (3.66%) Intrusion Detection
12 25 (3.52%) Wi-Fi
13 20 (2.81%) NAS
14 17 (2.39%) VLAN
15 16 (2.25%) Internet
16 14 (1.97%) IP Telephony
16 14 (1.97%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (5.06%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.53%) MySQL
3 17 (2.39%) Power BI
4 14 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
5 13 (1.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 11 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (1.55%) MongoDB
6 11 (1.55%) Oracle Database
7 7 (0.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 7 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (0.70%) Big Data
9 3 (0.42%) EDRMS
9 3 (0.42%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.28%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.28%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (2.39%) Git
2 16 (2.25%) JIRA
3 15 (2.11%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.27%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.56%) Selenium
6 3 (0.42%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.42%) CircleCI
6 3 (0.42%) GitLab
6 3 (0.42%) JUnit
6 3 (0.42%) Subversion
6 3 (0.42%) TestNG
6 3 (0.42%) Travis CI
7 2 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.14%) JMeter
General
1 289 (40.65%) Social Skills
2 160 (22.50%) Finance
3 122 (17.16%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (11.11%) Legal
5 45 (6.33%) Law
6 38 (5.34%) Retail
7 34 (4.78%) Telecoms
8 27 (3.80%) Organisational Skills
9 26 (3.66%) Banking
10 25 (3.52%) Public Sector
11 19 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
12 18 (2.53%) Manufacturing
12 18 (2.53%) Police
13 17 (2.39%) Games
14 16 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 15 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
16 13 (1.83%) Back Office
17 12 (1.69%) Front Office
18 11 (1.55%) Local Government
19 8 (1.13%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 103 (14.49%) Senior
2 83 (11.67%) Analyst
2 83 (11.67%) IT Support
3 74 (10.41%) IT Support Specialist
3 74 (10.41%) Support Specialist
4 65 (9.14%) IT Manager
5 54 (7.59%) Lead
6 40 (5.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 37 (5.20%) Network Engineer
8 29 (4.08%) Consultant
8 29 (4.08%) Information Manager
8 29 (4.08%) Security Manager
9 27 (3.80%) Administrator
10 26 (3.66%) Support Analyst
11 24 (3.38%) Senior Network Engineer
12 20 (2.81%) Security Analyst
13 19 (2.67%) Head of IT
14 18 (2.53%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 17 (2.39%) Azure Engineer
15 17 (2.39%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.39%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (1.69%) ARM Templates
2 12 (1.69%) YAML
3 10 (1.41%) CSS
3 10 (1.41%) HTML
4 9 (1.27%) .NET
5 8 (1.13%) FIX Protocol
6 7 (0.98%) Laravel
6 7 (0.98%) REST
6 7 (0.98%) Web Services
7 6 (0.84%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (0.56%) Akka
8 4 (0.56%) React
9 3 (0.42%) 802.1X
9 3 (0.42%) ASP.NET
9 3 (0.42%) Azure Blueprints
9 3 (0.42%) jQuery
9 3 (0.42%) Keycloak
9 3 (0.42%) Middleware
10 2 (0.28%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 113 (15.89%) Management Information System
2 83 (11.67%) Video Conferencing
3 72 (10.13%) Wiki
4 68 (9.56%) Data Centre
5 42 (5.91%) Security Posture
6 30 (4.22%) Onboarding
7 20 (2.81%) Cyber Threat
8 18 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (2.39%) Clustering
9 17 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
10 16 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
11 15 (2.11%) Replication
12 8 (1.13%) NHS
13 7 (0.98%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 6 (0.84%) AS400
14 6 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (0.84%) IoT
14 6 (0.84%) Public Cloud
15 5 (0.70%) Cyberattack
15 5 (0.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 231 (32.49%) Windows
2 83 (11.67%) Windows 10
3 81 (11.39%) Windows Server
4 77 (10.83%) Android
5 68 (9.56%) Linux
6 13 (1.83%) Windows Server 2019
7 12 (1.69%) Mac OS
8 11 (1.55%) CentOS
9 10 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 10 (1.41%) Unix
10 9 (1.27%) Apple iOS
11 7 (0.98%) VMS
12 6 (0.84%) Windows 7
12 6 (0.84%) Windows Server 2003
12 6 (0.84%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.42%) SUSE
13 3 (0.42%) Ubuntu
13 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.28%) Solaris
14 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (47.82%) Disaster Recovery
2 203 (28.55%) Cybersecurity
3 201 (28.27%) Business Continuity Planning
4 172 (24.19%) Problem-Solving
5 169 (23.77%) BCP
6 158 (22.22%) Information Security
7 136 (19.13%) ITIL
8 98 (13.78%) Computer Science
9 92 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
9 92 (12.94%) Project Management
9 92 (12.94%) Risk Management
10 85 (11.95%) Mobile Device Management
11 80 (11.25%) Contract Negotiation
12 79 (11.11%) Data Protection
13 72 (10.13%) Application Virtualisation
14 71 (9.99%) Customer Service
15 67 (9.42%) Service Management
16 64 (9.00%) Incident Management
17 62 (8.72%) Service Delivery
18 61 (8.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 58 (8.16%) PowerShell
2 41 (5.77%) SQL
3 27 (3.80%) Bash
4 21 (2.95%) Python
5 13 (1.83%) Perl
5 13 (1.83%) T-SQL
6 10 (1.41%) JavaScript
6 10 (1.41%) RPG
7 7 (0.98%) PHP
8 4 (0.56%) Java
8 4 (0.56%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.42%) ActionScript
9 3 (0.42%) C#
9 3 (0.42%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.14%) AWK
10 1 (0.14%) Bourne shell
10 1 (0.14%) C++
10 1 (0.14%) Korn
10 1 (0.14%) Scala
10 1 (0.14%) VC++
Qualifications
1 212 (29.82%) Degree
2 84 (11.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 78 (10.97%) Master's Degree
4 50 (7.03%) CISSP
5 40 (5.63%) Security Cleared
6 29 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 26 (3.66%) CISM
8 24 (3.38%) GIAC
9 23 (3.23%) CISA
10 22 (3.09%) Cisco Certification
11 20 (2.81%) SC Cleared
12 19 (2.67%) CRISC
13 16 (2.25%) CompTIA Security+
14 14 (1.97%) CCNP
14 14 (1.97%) CompTIA CySA+
14 14 (1.97%) DV Cleared
14 14 (1.97%) MCSE
15 12 (1.69%) CCNA
15 12 (1.69%) GSEC
15 12 (1.69%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (19.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 71 (9.99%) Cyber Essentials
3 67 (9.42%) GDPR
4 33 (4.64%) NIST
5 30 (4.22%) ISO 22301
6 21 (2.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 21 (2.95%) PCI DSS
7 18 (2.53%) ISO 9001
8 17 (2.39%) QA
9 15 (2.11%) COBIT
9 15 (2.11%) ISO 14001
10 14 (1.97%) SLA
11 13 (1.83%) SOC 2
12 12 (1.69%) GRC
13 11 (1.55%) NCSC
14 10 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 9 (1.27%) NEBOSH
15 9 (1.27%) PMO
16 7 (0.98%) Accessibility
16 7 (0.98%) NIST 800
System Software
1 172 (24.19%) Active Directory
2 104 (14.63%) VMware ESXi
3 76 (10.69%) XenApp
4 72 (10.13%) Microsoft App-V
4 72 (10.13%) XenDesktop
5 65 (9.14%) VMware Infrastructure
6 26 (3.66%) Hyper-V
7 18 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
8 15 (2.11%) Firmware
8 15 (2.11%) Virtual Servers
9 12 (1.69%) Docker
10 11 (1.55%) vSphere
11 5 (0.70%) KVM
12 3 (0.42%) VirtualBox
13 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.28%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.14%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.14%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 86 (12.10%) SCCM
2 72 (10.13%) AirWatch
3 38 (5.34%) Ansible
4 26 (3.66%) Terraform
5 23 (3.23%) Nagios
6 21 (2.95%) Microsoft Intune
7 20 (2.81%) Puppet
8 15 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (1.97%) Grafana
10 12 (1.69%) Graphite
11 10 (1.41%) SCOM
11 10 (1.41%) vCenter Server
12 9 (1.27%) HAProxy
13 8 (1.13%) Kubernetes
13 8 (1.13%) Microsoft Clustering
14 7 (0.98%) Foglight
15 6 (0.84%) NetCrunch
15 6 (0.84%) Progress Chef
15 6 (0.84%) ZABBIX
16 5 (0.70%) logstash
Vendors
1 255 (35.86%) Microsoft
2 132 (18.57%) Cisco
3 91 (12.80%) VMware
4 80 (11.25%) Citrix
5 36 (5.06%) Veeam
6 28 (3.94%) Oracle
7 23 (3.23%) HP
8 21 (2.95%) Commvault
9 19 (2.67%) IBM
10 18 (2.53%) Splunk
11 15 (2.11%) Apple
11 15 (2.11%) Google
12 14 (1.97%) Avaya
12 14 (1.97%) Mitel
13 13 (1.83%) Nimble Storage
13 13 (1.83%) SolarWinds
14 12 (1.69%) Dell
14 12 (1.69%) NetApp
15 11 (1.55%) Meraki
15 11 (1.55%) Red Hat