Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for BCP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited BCP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 560 640 740
Rank change year-on-year +80 +100 -106
Contract jobs citing BCP 38 79 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.088% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.15% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 56 73
10th Percentile £312 £304 £363
25th Percentile £418 £461 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £558 £666 £588
90th Percentile £795 £775 £773
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
Median hourly rate - £84.09 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +68.18% +110.53%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - +50.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

BCP 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

BCP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for BCP in the UK

BCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BCP.

Daily rate trend for BCP in the UK

BCP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BCP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BCP in the UK

BCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BCP.

Hourly rate trend for BCP in the UK

BCP
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BCP within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +92 28 £463 -15.91% 32
Work from Home +119 18 £450 -13.29% 9
UK excluding London +56 18 £450 -10.00% 14
London +76 14 £525 -19.23% 20
Scotland +29 6 £475 -5.66%
South West - 5 £450 - 1
West Midlands +30 2 £588 +23.68% 2
North of England +25 2 £456 +46.00% 2
Midlands +23 2 £588 +23.68% 2
South East +21 2 £300 -52.00% 5
North West +10 2 £456 +46.00% 1
Wales - 1 £450 - 1

BCP
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 3 (7.89%) Confluence
2 2 (5.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (5.26%) IIS
3 1 (2.63%) JBoss
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.63%) OpenEdge
Business Applications
1 6 (15.79%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (5.26%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (2.63%) MFGPRO
3 1 (2.63%) Sage 50
3 1 (2.63%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.79%) Azure
1 6 (15.79%) Power Platform
2 3 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.26%) Catchpoint
3 2 (5.26%) GitHub
3 2 (5.26%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) AWS
4 1 (2.63%) IaaS
4 1 (2.63%) PaaS
4 1 (2.63%) SaaS
4 1 (2.63%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.79%) DNS
2 3 (7.89%) Firewall
2 3 (7.89%) SAN
3 2 (5.26%) DHCP
3 2 (5.26%) IPv6
3 2 (5.26%) SSL
3 2 (5.26%) VPN
3 2 (5.26%) WAN
4 1 (2.63%) HTTP
4 1 (2.63%) HTTPS
4 1 (2.63%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.63%) Kerberos
4 1 (2.63%) LAN
4 1 (2.63%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.79%) Power BI
2 3 (7.89%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.63%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (13.16%) JIRA
2 2 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.26%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 9 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 7 (18.42%) Finance
3 3 (7.89%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.26%) Legal
4 2 (5.26%) Publishing
4 2 (5.26%) Retail
5 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Banking
5 1 (2.63%) Law
5 1 (2.63%) Marketing
5 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Private Banking
5 1 (2.63%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 6 (15.79%) Availability Manager
1 6 (15.79%) Service Manager
2 5 (13.16%) Analyst
2 5 (13.16%) Consultant
3 3 (7.89%) Architect
3 3 (7.89%) Business Consultant
3 3 (7.89%) Business Continuity Consultant
3 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (7.89%) Project Manager
3 3 (7.89%) Service Continuity Manager
4 2 (5.26%) Business Change Analyst
4 2 (5.26%) Business Continuity Manager
4 2 (5.26%) Business Manager
4 2 (5.26%) Change Analyst
4 2 (5.26%) E-Commerce Manager
4 2 (5.26%) E-Commerce Project Manager
4 2 (5.26%) Firewall Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Security Architect
4 2 (5.26%) Server Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Trade Floor Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (2.63%) JSON
2 1 (2.63%) REST
2 1 (2.63%) RESTful
2 1 (2.63%) Web Services
2 1 (2.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.89%) CMDB
1 3 (7.89%) Data Centre
1 3 (7.89%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.26%) Operational Technology
2 2 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.63%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.63%) Cyberattack
3 1 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.63%) IoT
3 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.63%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 8 (21.05%) Windows
2 5 (13.16%) Windows Server
3 3 (7.89%) Linux
3 3 (7.89%) Unix
4 2 (5.26%) Windows 10
4 2 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (2.63%) AIX
5 1 (2.63%) HPUX
5 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 15 (39.47%) Business Continuity Planning
2 15 (39.47%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (28.95%) Agile
4 8 (21.05%) ITIL
4 8 (21.05%) Service Management
5 6 (15.79%) Availability Management
5 6 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (15.79%) ITSM
6 4 (10.53%) CI/CD
6 4 (10.53%) ERP
6 4 (10.53%) Information Security
6 4 (10.53%) Proactive Monitoring
6 4 (10.53%) Project Management
6 4 (10.53%) Risk Management
7 3 (7.89%) Business Impact Analysis
7 3 (7.89%) Impact Analysis
7 3 (7.89%) Knowledge Transfer
7 3 (7.89%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.16%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.63%) Python
2 1 (2.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.89%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (7.89%) CCNP
3 3 (7.89%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (5.26%) CCIE
4 2 (5.26%) CISSP
4 2 (5.26%) MCSA
4 2 (5.26%) MCSE
4 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.63%) CEH
5 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.63%) Degree
5 1 (2.63%) GCIA
5 1 (2.63%) GCIH
5 1 (2.63%) GIAC
5 1 (2.63%) GSEC
5 1 (2.63%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.63%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) NIST
2 2 (5.26%) ISO 22301
2 2 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.26%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.63%) GDPR
3 1 (2.63%) GRC
3 1 (2.63%) QA
3 1 (2.63%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (13.16%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.63%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (15.79%) Ansible
2 5 (13.16%) Terraform
3 2 (5.26%) Kibana
3 2 (5.26%) logstash
3 2 (5.26%) Packer
4 1 (2.63%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (15.79%) Remedy
2 4 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.89%) HP
4 2 (5.26%) Adobe
4 2 (5.26%) AppNeta
4 2 (5.26%) Arista
4 2 (5.26%) Dell
4 2 (5.26%) IBM
4 2 (5.26%) Palo Alto
4 2 (5.26%) SAP
4 2 (5.26%) Tufin
5 1 (2.63%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.63%) EMC
5 1 (2.63%) Oracle
5 1 (2.63%) Progress
5 1 (2.63%) QAD
5 1 (2.63%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.63%) Skytap
5 1 (2.63%) Temenos