Business Continuity Contracts in the South West

Business Continuity
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Business Continuity skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Business Continuity over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 164 147
Rank change year-on-year +32 -17 -7
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 20 10 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.63% 0.27% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.30% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 9 22
10th Percentile £425 £398 £314
25th Percentile £463 £425 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +18.75%
75th Percentile £608 £563 £514
90th Percentile £625 £588 £539
England median daily rate £495 £508 £523
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.78% +16.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,642 3,282 3,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.87% 89.53% 88.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,701 2,410 2,334
10th Percentile £220 £311 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +8.00% +6.95%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £719 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 344 193
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.75 £17.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £47.92 £61.50 £48.48
Median % change year-on-year -22.09% +26.86% +7.73%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.37 £69.97
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

Business Continuity
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Business Continuity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Business Continuity in the South West

Business Continuity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Continuity in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Business Continuity in the South West

Business Continuity
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Continuity in the South West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Continuity in the South West

Business Continuity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Continuity in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Business Continuity in the South West

Business Continuity
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Continuity within the South West region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol +25 9 £595 +13.33% 5
Wiltshire +6 6 £495 +20.73% 9
Somerset +5 3 £617 +23.30% 1
Business Continuity
England

Business Continuity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (10.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) SaaS
3 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.00%) PaaS
3 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Network Security
1 1 (5.00%) SAN
1 1 (5.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Power BI
General
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Electronics
3 4 (20.00%) Manufacturing
3 4 (20.00%) Marketing
3 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Service Manager
2 6 (30.00%) Service Transition Manager
2 6 (30.00%) Transition Manager
3 4 (20.00%) Availability Manager
3 4 (20.00%) IT Manager
4 3 (15.00%) Author
4 3 (15.00%) IT Services Manager
5 2 (10.00%) Change Manager
5 2 (10.00%) ITIL Manager
5 2 (10.00%) Technical Author
6 1 (5.00%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (5.00%) Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Business Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Incident Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (5.00%) ITIL Service Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Procurement Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Business Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) CMDB
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) ITIL
2 13 (65.00%) Service Management
3 8 (40.00%) Business Impact Analysis
3 8 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (40.00%) Change Management
3 8 (40.00%) Impact Analysis
3 8 (40.00%) ITSM
3 8 (40.00%) Risk Management
4 6 (30.00%) Conflict Resolution
4 6 (30.00%) Critical Path Analysis
4 6 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (30.00%) SFIA
4 6 (30.00%) Work Breakdown Structure
5 5 (25.00%) Agile
5 5 (25.00%) BCP
5 5 (25.00%) Business Continuity Planning
6 4 (20.00%) Availability Management
6 4 (20.00%) Incident Response
6 4 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
6 4 (20.00%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) Bash
1 1 (5.00%) Bicep
1 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (55.00%) SC Cleared
1 11 (55.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (20.00%) ISEB
2 4 (20.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (15.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (10.00%) ISEB Practitioner
4 2 (10.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.00%) ISTQB
5 1 (5.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (5.00%) MCP
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) COBIT
1 4 (20.00%) ISO 9000
2 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.00%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Ansible
1 1 (5.00%) Grafana
1 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (5.00%) Puppet
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
1 1 (5.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Remedy
1 4 (20.00%) SAP
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) BT
3 1 (5.00%) VMware