Business Continuity Contracts in the UK excluding London

Business Continuity
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 278 311 333
Rank change year-on-year +33 +22 -13
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 125 148 195
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.60% 0.62% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.69% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 92 127
10th Percentile £313 £350 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £599
90th Percentile £630 £675 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £14.58 £24.37 -
25th Percentile £15.44 £24.97 -
Median hourly rate £16.17 £26.90 -
Median % change year-on-year -39.88% - -
75th Percentile £21.07 £27.90 -
90th Percentile £29.43 £27.95 -
UK median hourly rate £16.17 £25.81 £23.91
% change year-on-year -37.35% +7.95% +6.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,507 21,404 27,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.71% 89.51% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,460 14,856 19,229
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,060 1,308 1,363
10th Percentile £12.34 £11.00 £12.03
25th Percentile £15.19 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Business Continuity
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Business Continuity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Business Continuity in the UK excluding London

Business Continuity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Continuity in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Business Continuity in the UK excluding London

Business Continuity
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Continuity in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Continuity in the UK excluding London

Business Continuity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Continuity in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Business Continuity in the UK excluding London

Business Continuity
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Continuity in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Continuity in the UK excluding London

Business Continuity
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +24 46 £450 -26.53% 40
North of England +35 38 £463 -9.76% 37
North West +28 35 £488 -4.41% 24
South West +25 16 £495 -5.71% 20
Scotland +25 15 £600 +17.36% 13
Midlands +5 8 £613 +22.50% 16
West Midlands +14 7 £600 -7.69% 10
Yorkshire +16 2 £370 -33.48% 9
Wales +20 1 £450 -16.28% 4
North East +18 1 - - 5
East Midlands +15 1 £700 +46.60% 6
East of England +6 1 £600 +30.43% 11
Business Continuity
UK

Business Continuity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (1.60%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.80%) Confluence
2 1 (0.80%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 6 (4.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (4.00%) Unit4 Business World
2 4 (3.20%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.80%) MFGPRO
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.80%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.80%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 8 (6.40%) Azure
2 6 (4.80%) AWS
3 5 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (3.20%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.40%) SaaS
5 3 (2.40%) Serverless
6 2 (1.60%) Azure API Management
6 2 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.60%) Azure Functions
6 2 (1.60%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (1.60%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (1.60%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (1.60%) GCP
6 2 (1.60%) PaaS
7 1 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.80%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.00%) Intranet
1 5 (4.00%) SAN
2 4 (3.20%) SCCP
2 4 (3.20%) WAN
3 3 (2.40%) LAN
3 3 (2.40%) Network Security
4 2 (1.60%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (1.60%) Firewall
4 2 (1.60%) Internet
4 2 (1.60%) NAS
4 2 (1.60%) Wireless
5 1 (0.80%) BGP
5 1 (0.80%) Broadband
5 1 (0.80%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.80%) DHCP
5 1 (0.80%) DNS
5 1 (0.80%) OSPF
5 1 (0.80%) SNMP
5 1 (0.80%) VPN
5 1 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.20%) Power BI
2 3 (2.40%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.60%) MySQL
4 1 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.80%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.80%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Git
1 2 (1.60%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.80%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.80%) GoCD
2 1 (0.80%) JUnit
General
1 29 (23.20%) Social Skills
2 27 (21.60%) Public Sector
3 24 (19.20%) Finance
4 14 (11.20%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.40%) Legal
6 7 (5.60%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (5.60%) Telecoms
7 5 (4.00%) Law
8 4 (3.20%) French Language
8 4 (3.20%) German Language
9 3 (2.40%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.60%) Electronics
10 2 (1.60%) Marketing
11 1 (0.80%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.80%) Banking
11 1 (0.80%) Billing
11 1 (0.80%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.80%) Local Government
11 1 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.80%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 17 (13.60%) Analyst
2 11 (8.80%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 11 (8.80%) Senior
3 10 (8.00%) Incident Manager
4 8 (6.40%) Consultant
4 8 (6.40%) Lead
4 8 (6.40%) Test Analyst
5 7 (5.60%) Architect
5 7 (5.60%) IT Manager
5 7 (5.60%) Service Manager
6 6 (4.80%) Security Consultant
6 6 (4.80%) Service Architect
7 5 (4.00%) Accounts Payable Clerk
7 5 (4.00%) Development Manager
7 5 (4.00%) Operations Manager
7 5 (4.00%) Security Advisor
7 5 (4.00%) Systems Development Manager
8 4 (3.20%) Administrator
8 4 (3.20%) Business Analyst
8 4 (3.20%) Cloud Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.60%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.80%) .NET
2 1 (0.80%) .NET Framework
2 1 (0.80%) Android Jetpack
2 1 (0.80%) ASP.NET
2 1 (0.80%) Dagger
2 1 (0.80%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.80%) HTML
2 1 (0.80%) Jest
2 1 (0.80%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (0.80%) Kafka
2 1 (0.80%) Node.js
2 1 (0.80%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (0.80%) React
2 1 (0.80%) Retrofit
2 1 (0.80%) RxJava
2 1 (0.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (19.20%) Management Information System
2 3 (2.40%) CMDB
2 3 (2.40%) Public Cloud
2 3 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.60%) NHS
3 2 (1.60%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.60%) Replication
3 2 (1.60%) SCADA
4 1 (0.80%) CCTV
4 1 (0.80%) Client/Server
4 1 (0.80%) Cyberattack
4 1 (0.80%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.80%) Fat Client
4 1 (0.80%) IoT
4 1 (0.80%) PKI
4 1 (0.80%) PMI
4 1 (0.80%) Thin Client
4 1 (0.80%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.40%) Linux
2 4 (3.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.20%) Windows
3 3 (2.40%) Unix
3 3 (2.40%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.60%) Solaris
5 1 (0.80%) Android
5 1 (0.80%) HPUX
5 1 (0.80%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (41.60%) Disaster Recovery
2 29 (23.20%) ITIL
3 28 (22.40%) Information Security
4 23 (18.40%) Agile
5 22 (17.60%) Cybersecurity
6 21 (16.80%) Service Management
7 20 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (14.40%) Business Strategy
8 18 (14.40%) Project Management
8 18 (14.40%) Roadmaps
9 17 (13.60%) Risk Management
10 15 (12.00%) Data Protection
10 15 (12.00%) Incident Management
10 15 (12.00%) IT Strategy
11 11 (8.80%) Change Management
11 11 (8.80%) ITSM
11 11 (8.80%) Service Design
12 10 (8.00%) Collaborative Working
12 10 (8.00%) Use Case
12 10 (8.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.20%) PowerShell
1 4 (3.20%) Python
2 3 (2.40%) SQL
3 2 (1.60%) AWK
3 2 (1.60%) Bourne shell
3 2 (1.60%) Java
3 2 (1.60%) Korn
3 2 (1.60%) Perl
3 2 (1.60%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.80%) Bash
4 1 (0.80%) Bicep
4 1 (0.80%) Kotlin
4 1 (0.80%) PHP
4 1 (0.80%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.80%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (20.80%) Security Cleared
2 20 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 16 (12.80%) Degree
4 15 (12.00%) CISSP
5 8 (6.40%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 8 (6.40%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 7 (5.60%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (4.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 6 (4.80%) CISA
7 6 (4.80%) CISM
7 6 (4.80%) CISMP
7 6 (4.80%) CRISC
8 5 (4.00%) PMI Certification
9 4 (3.20%) CLAS
9 4 (3.20%) PMP
10 3 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.60%) DV Cleared
11 2 (1.60%) ISEB
11 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.60%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (16.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (11.20%) NIST
3 9 (7.20%) GRC
4 8 (6.40%) COBIT
5 6 (4.80%) Accessibility
5 6 (4.80%) Disclosure Scotland
6 5 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (2.40%) IASME
7 3 (2.40%) PMO
8 2 (1.60%) QA
8 2 (1.60%) SLA
9 1 (0.80%) GDPR
9 1 (0.80%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.80%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.80%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.80%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 5 (4.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.80%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (5.60%) Ansible
2 3 (2.40%) Packer
2 3 (2.40%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (1.60%) NetBackup
3 2 (1.60%) Oracle ZFS
3 2 (1.60%) Terraform
3 2 (1.60%) WSUS
3 2 (1.60%) yum
4 1 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.80%) Control-M
4 1 (0.80%) Grafana
4 1 (0.80%) Nessus
4 1 (0.80%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.80%) Puppet
4 1 (0.80%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.80%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (11.20%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.00%) Reuters
3 4 (3.20%) Red Hat
3 4 (3.20%) Remedy
3 4 (3.20%) VMware
4 3 (2.40%) Oracle
4 3 (2.40%) QinetiQ
4 3 (2.40%) SAP
5 2 (1.60%) Cisco
5 2 (1.60%) EMC
5 2 (1.60%) F5
5 2 (1.60%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.60%) Veritas
6 1 (0.80%) BT
6 1 (0.80%) HP
6 1 (0.80%) Progress
6 1 (0.80%) QAD
6 1 (0.80%) Veeam