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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 283 300 322
Rank change year-on-year +17 +22 +5
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 117 141 208
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.56% 0.62% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.69% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 87 142
10th Percentile £318 £365 £264
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £618 £600
90th Percentile £645 £702 £699
UK median daily rate £500 £532 £525
% change year-on-year -5.93% +1.24% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile £14.58 £32.63 -
25th Percentile £15.44 £39.62 -
Median hourly rate £16.17 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -69.20% - -
75th Percentile £21.07 £56.25 -
90th Percentile £29.43 £57.75 -
UK median hourly rate £16.17 £40.24 £23.91
% change year-on-year -59.82% +68.30% +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 17,348 20,314 27,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.29% 89.18% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,293 13,939 19,042
10th Percentile £250 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,136 1,244 1,338
10th Percentile £12.45 £10.63 £12.47
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.72 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.70 £62.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +5 37 £513 -16.33% 34
North of England +35 36 £450 -19.64% 35
North West +38 33 £500 -13.61% 19
South West +14 17 £495 -5.71% 25
Scotland +28 16 £600 +12.89% 11
Midlands +1 7 £613 +22.50% 28
West Midlands +5 6 £600 -7.69% 18
East of England -4 4 £575 +15.00% 13
Yorkshire +13 2 £370 -38.33% 13
North East +12 1 - - 4
East Midlands +6 1 £700 +46.60% 10
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 (1.71%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.85%) Confluence
2 1 (0.85%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 6 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (4.27%) Unit4 Business World
2 4 (3.42%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.85%) MFGPRO
3 1 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.85%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 9 (7.69%) Azure
2 6 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (4.27%) AWS
4 4 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (3.42%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (2.56%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (2.56%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (2.56%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (2.56%) SaaS
5 3 (2.56%) Serverless
6 2 (1.71%) Azure API Management
6 2 (1.71%) Azure Functions
6 2 (1.71%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.71%) PaaS
7 1 (0.85%) Azure App Service
7 1 (0.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (0.85%) GCP
7 1 (0.85%) GitHub
7 1 (0.85%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.13%) Intranet
1 6 (5.13%) SAN
2 4 (3.42%) SCCP
2 4 (3.42%) WAN
3 3 (2.56%) Fibre Channel
3 3 (2.56%) Network Security
4 2 (1.71%) LAN
4 2 (1.71%) NAS
5 1 (0.85%) DHCP
5 1 (0.85%) DNS
5 1 (0.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.42%) Power BI
2 3 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (2.56%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.71%) MySQL
4 1 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.85%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.85%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (1.71%) Git
1 2 (1.71%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.85%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.85%) GoCD
2 1 (0.85%) JUnit
General
1 27 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 26 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 24 (20.51%) Finance
4 10 (8.55%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.98%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (5.13%) Legal
7 5 (4.27%) Law
8 3 (2.56%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.56%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.71%) Electronics
9 2 (1.71%) Marketing
10 1 (0.85%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.85%) Banking
10 1 (0.85%) Billing
10 1 (0.85%) French Language
10 1 (0.85%) German Language
10 1 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.85%) Local Government
10 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (13.68%) Analyst
2 12 (10.26%) Senior
3 11 (9.40%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 10 (8.55%) Incident Manager
5 9 (7.69%) Architect
5 9 (7.69%) Lead
6 8 (6.84%) IT Manager
6 8 (6.84%) Test Analyst
7 7 (5.98%) Service Manager
8 6 (5.13%) Service Architect
9 5 (4.27%) Accounts Payable Clerk
9 5 (4.27%) Development Manager
9 5 (4.27%) Operations Manager
9 5 (4.27%) Security Advisor
9 5 (4.27%) Systems Development Manager
10 4 (3.42%) Administrator
10 4 (3.42%) Availability Manager
10 4 (3.42%) Business Analyst
11 3 (2.56%) Resilience Manager
11 3 (2.56%) Service Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.56%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.85%) Android Jetpack
2 1 (0.85%) Dagger
2 1 (0.85%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.85%) Jest
2 1 (0.85%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (0.85%) Kafka
2 1 (0.85%) Node.js
2 1 (0.85%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (0.85%) React
2 1 (0.85%) Retrofit
2 1 (0.85%) RxJava
2 1 (0.85%) SailPoint
2 1 (0.85%) SAML
2 1 (0.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (19.66%) Management Information System
2 3 (2.56%) CMDB
2 3 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (2.56%) Replication
3 2 (1.71%) Data Centre
3 2 (1.71%) NHS
3 2 (1.71%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.71%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.85%) Client/Server
4 1 (0.85%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.85%) Fat Client
4 1 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.85%) PKI
4 1 (0.85%) PMI
4 1 (0.85%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.85%) SCADA
4 1 (0.85%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (0.85%) Thin Client
4 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.69%) Linux
2 5 (4.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (3.42%) Windows
4 3 (2.56%) Unix
5 2 (1.71%) Solaris
5 2 (1.71%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.85%) Android
6 1 (0.85%) HPUX
6 1 (0.85%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (42.74%) Disaster Recovery
2 28 (23.93%) Information Security
3 27 (23.08%) ITIL
4 23 (19.66%) Agile
5 19 (16.24%) Service Management
6 18 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 18 (15.38%) Project Management
7 17 (14.53%) Business Strategy
8 16 (13.68%) Cybersecurity
8 16 (13.68%) Roadmaps
9 15 (12.82%) Data Protection
9 15 (12.82%) IT Strategy
10 14 (11.97%) Incident Management
11 11 (9.40%) ITSM
11 11 (9.40%) Risk Management
12 10 (8.55%) Cyber Resilience
12 10 (8.55%) Service Design
12 10 (8.55%) Use Case
12 10 (8.55%) Validation
13 9 (7.69%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.42%) PowerShell
1 4 (3.42%) Python
2 3 (2.56%) SQL
3 2 (1.71%) AWK
3 2 (1.71%) Bicep
3 2 (1.71%) Bourne shell
3 2 (1.71%) Java
3 2 (1.71%) Korn
3 2 (1.71%) Perl
3 2 (1.71%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.85%) Bash
4 1 (0.85%) Kotlin
4 1 (0.85%) PHP
4 1 (0.85%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (19.66%) Security Cleared
2 17 (14.53%) SC Cleared
3 12 (10.26%) Degree
4 10 (8.55%) CISSP
5 8 (6.84%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 8 (6.84%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 5 (4.27%) PMI Certification
7 4 (3.42%) CLAS
7 4 (3.42%) PMP
8 3 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.71%) ISEB
9 2 (1.71%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.71%) MCP
9 2 (1.71%) RHCE
9 2 (1.71%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.85%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (7.69%) NIST
3 6 (5.13%) Accessibility
3 6 (5.13%) Disclosure Scotland
4 4 (3.42%) GRC
5 3 (2.56%) COBIT
5 3 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.56%) IASME
5 3 (2.56%) PMO
6 2 (1.71%) QA
6 2 (1.71%) SLA
7 1 (0.85%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.85%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.85%) ISO 9000
7 1 (0.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (5.13%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (5.98%) Ansible
2 3 (2.56%) Packer
2 3 (2.56%) Red Hat Satellite
2 3 (2.56%) Terraform
3 2 (1.71%) NetBackup
3 2 (1.71%) Oracle ZFS
3 2 (1.71%) vCenter Server
3 2 (1.71%) WSUS
3 2 (1.71%) yum
4 1 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.85%) Backup Exec
4 1 (0.85%) Control-M
4 1 (0.85%) Grafana
4 1 (0.85%) Nessus
4 1 (0.85%) NetIQ Identity Manager
4 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.85%) Puppet
4 1 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.85%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (13.68%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.27%) Reuters
3 4 (3.42%) Red Hat
3 4 (3.42%) Remedy
4 3 (2.56%) EMC
4 3 (2.56%) Oracle
4 3 (2.56%) SAP
4 3 (2.56%) Veritas
4 3 (2.56%) VMware
5 1 (0.85%) BT
5 1 (0.85%) Cisco
5 1 (0.85%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.85%) HP
5 1 (0.85%) McAfee
5 1 (0.85%) NetIQ
5 1 (0.85%) Progress
5 1 (0.85%) QAD
5 1 (0.85%) QinetiQ
5 1 (0.85%) Veeam