Business Continuity Planning Contracts

Business Continuity Planning
UK

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

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 575 677 816
Rank change year-on-year +102 +139 -155
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity Planning 19 39 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.065% 0.044%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.051% 0.073% 0.049%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 23 29
10th Percentile £416 £462 £181
25th Percentile £425 £506 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £625 £425
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +47.06% +11.84%
75th Percentile £505 £731 £500
90th Percentile £530 £775 £627
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £625 £475
% change year-on-year -28.00% +31.58% +19.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Business Continuity Planning 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 37,383 53,667 80,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.90% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,097 37,244 56,431
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 2,426 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.13% +80.00% -8.51%

Business Continuity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Continuity Planning in the UK

Business Continuity Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Continuity Planning.

Daily rate trend for Business Continuity Planning in the UK

Business Continuity Planning
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Continuity Planning over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Continuity Planning in the UK

Business Continuity Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Continuity Planning.

Hourly rate trend for Business Continuity Planning in the UK

Business Continuity Planning
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Continuity Planning within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +99 17 £475 -24.75% 21
UK excluding London +62 9 £450 -28.00% 14
Work from Home +118 8 £450 -21.74% 8
London +94 8 £500 -29.20% 10
South West - 5 £450 - 1
Midlands - 2 £425 - 2
West Midlands - 2 £425 - 2
Scotland +33 1 £440 - 1
North of England +29 1 £513 -19.61% 3
North West +22 1 £513 -19.61% 3

Business Continuity Planning
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 1 (5.26%) OpenEdge
Business Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (5.26%) MFGPRO
2 1 (5.26%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) Power Platform
2 4 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.26%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) DNS
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
1 2 (10.53%) Network Security
1 2 (10.53%) SSL
1 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.26%) SAN
2 1 (5.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) Power BI
General
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (10.53%) Legal
3 1 (5.26%) Banking
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Law
3 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Private Banking
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Availability Manager
1 5 (26.32%) Service Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Architect
2 3 (15.79%) Consultant
2 3 (15.79%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 3 (15.79%) Security Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Project Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Senior
3 2 (10.53%) Service Continuity Manager
4 1 (5.26%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (5.26%) Administrator
4 1 (5.26%) Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) IT Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Lead
4 1 (5.26%) Lead Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Senior ServiceNow Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) OAuth
1 2 (10.53%) OpenID
1 2 (10.53%) SAML
1 2 (10.53%) SPML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Management Information System
2 3 (15.79%) CMDB
2 3 (15.79%) Security Posture
3 2 (10.53%) PKI
3 2 (10.53%) SCADA
4 1 (5.26%) Client/Server
4 1 (5.26%) IoT
4 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.26%) Operational Technology
4 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
2 1 (5.26%) HPUX
2 1 (5.26%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Unix
2 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Business Continuity
2 15 (78.95%) BCP
3 12 (63.16%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (36.84%) ITIL
5 6 (31.58%) Configuration Management
5 6 (31.58%) Risk Management
6 5 (26.32%) Agile
6 5 (26.32%) Availability Management
6 5 (26.32%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (26.32%) Collaborative Working
6 5 (26.32%) ITSM
6 5 (26.32%) Service Management
7 4 (21.05%) Business Strategy
7 4 (21.05%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (21.05%) Proactive Monitoring
8 3 (15.79%) Capacity Management
8 3 (15.79%) Capacity Planning
8 3 (15.79%) Data Protection
8 3 (15.79%) Security Architecture
8 3 (15.79%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 3 (15.79%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (15.79%) CISSP
4 2 (10.53%) CISA
4 2 (10.53%) CISM
5 1 (5.26%) Degree
5 1 (5.26%) HND
5 1 (5.26%) PMI Certification
5 1 (5.26%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (5.26%) GDPR
2 1 (5.26%) GRC
2 1 (5.26%) ISO 22301
2 1 (5.26%) NIST
2 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (5.26%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Remedy
2 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.53%) CA
4 1 (5.26%) EMC
4 1 (5.26%) HP
4 1 (5.26%) Progress
4 1 (5.26%) QAD
4 1 (5.26%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.26%) VMware