Business Continuity Contracts

Business Continuity
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 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 359 423 441
Rank change year-on-year +64 +18 +27
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 250 316 491
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.53% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.59% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 220 349
10th Percentile £274 £348 £330
25th Percentile £363 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £650
90th Percentile £708 £740 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -2.14% +7.69% +5.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 17
10th Percentile £14.58 £23.54 £22.35
25th Percentile £15.44 £23.81 -
Median hourly rate £16.17 £25.76 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -37.23% +7.74% +6.27%
75th Percentile £21.07 £27.74 -
90th Percentile £29.43 £27.88 £25.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.17 £26.90 £8.00
% change year-on-year -39.88% +236.19% -64.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 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%

Business Continuity
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Continuity in the UK

Business Continuity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Business Continuity in the UK

Business Continuity
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Business Continuity in the UK

Business Continuity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Continuity in the UK

Business Continuity
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Continuity over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Continuity in the UK

Business Continuity
Top 16 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 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 +86 224 £488 -4.04% 185
UK excluding London +55 131 £514 -2.14% 114
London +74 104 £475 -5.00% 76
Work from Home +81 77 £500 -9.09% 64
South East +37 46 £450 -26.53% 32
North of England +42 38 £463 -9.62% 28
North West +30 35 £488 -4.60% 17
South West +31 19 £502 -4.48% 18
Scotland +24 16 £600 +9.09% 9
Midlands -1 10 £613 +22.50% 15
West Midlands +18 8 £558 -10.80% 11
Yorkshire +15 2 £370 -33.48% 8
North East +20 1 - - 4
Wales +16 1 £450 -16.28% 3
East Midlands +12 1 £700 +46.60% 4
East of England +7 1 £600 +30.43% 6

Business Continuity
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 14 (5.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.20%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.80%) Confluence
4 1 (0.40%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 10 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.20%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.40%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (2.00%) Unit4 Business World
3 2 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.80%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.40%) MFGPRO
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.40%) Sage 50
4 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (8.00%) Azure
2 19 (7.60%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (4.00%) AWS
4 6 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (2.40%) Power Platform
4 6 (2.40%) SaaS
5 4 (1.60%) PaaS
6 3 (1.20%) GCP
6 3 (1.20%) IaaS
6 3 (1.20%) Serverless
7 2 (0.80%) Azure API Management
7 2 (0.80%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (0.80%) Azure Functions
7 2 (0.80%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (0.80%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (0.80%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (0.80%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (0.80%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (0.80%) OCI
7 2 (0.80%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 23 (9.20%) Firewall
2 19 (7.60%) SAN
3 7 (2.80%) Network Security
4 6 (2.40%) DNS
5 5 (2.00%) Intranet
5 5 (2.00%) LAN
5 5 (2.00%) WAN
6 4 (1.60%) DHCP
6 4 (1.60%) Internet
6 4 (1.60%) SCCP
6 4 (1.60%) Wireless
7 3 (1.20%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (1.20%) Cisco Firepower
7 3 (1.20%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (1.20%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (1.20%) VPN
8 2 (0.80%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (0.80%) NAS
8 2 (0.80%) SSL
8 2 (0.80%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.40%) Power BI
2 3 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (1.20%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (0.80%) MySQL
3 2 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.40%) Data Mart
4 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.40%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.40%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.40%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Git
1 2 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
1 2 (0.80%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.40%) GitLab
2 1 (0.40%) GoCD
2 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.40%) JIRA
2 1 (0.40%) JUnit
2 1 (0.40%) Selenium
General
1 64 (25.60%) Finance
2 55 (22.00%) Social Skills
3 42 (16.80%) Public Sector
4 26 (10.40%) Banking
5 21 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.40%) Legal
6 11 (4.40%) Manufacturing
6 11 (4.40%) Telecoms
7 8 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.40%) Electronics
8 6 (2.40%) Law
8 6 (2.40%) Marketing
9 5 (2.00%) French Language
10 4 (1.60%) German Language
11 3 (1.20%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.80%) Advertising
12 2 (0.80%) Local Government
12 2 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.80%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (17.60%) Analyst
2 27 (10.80%) Architect
3 18 (7.20%) Senior
4 17 (6.80%) Lead
5 16 (6.40%) Consultant
5 16 (6.40%) Support Engineer
6 15 (6.00%) IT Manager
7 14 (5.60%) Incident Manager
8 13 (5.20%) Business Analyst
8 13 (5.20%) Service Manager
9 12 (4.80%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 11 (4.40%) Technical Architect
11 10 (4.00%) Operations Analyst
11 10 (4.00%) Project Manager
12 8 (3.20%) Technical Analyst
12 8 (3.20%) Test Analyst
13 7 (2.80%) Cloud Engineer
13 7 (2.80%) IT Services Manager
13 7 (2.80%) Security Analyst
13 7 (2.80%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.80%) .NET
1 2 (0.80%) ARM Templates
1 2 (0.80%) OAuth
1 2 (0.80%) OpenID
1 2 (0.80%) SAML
1 2 (0.80%) SPML
2 1 (0.40%) .NET Framework
2 1 (0.40%) Android Jetpack
2 1 (0.40%) ASP.NET
2 1 (0.40%) Dagger
2 1 (0.40%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.40%) HTML
2 1 (0.40%) Jest
2 1 (0.40%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (0.40%) Kafka
2 1 (0.40%) Node.js
2 1 (0.40%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (0.40%) React
2 1 (0.40%) Retrofit
2 1 (0.40%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.40%) Management Information System
2 15 (6.00%) Video Conferencing
3 5 (2.00%) Data Centre
4 4 (1.60%) Public Cloud
4 4 (1.60%) Replication
5 3 (1.20%) CMDB
5 3 (1.20%) IoT
5 3 (1.20%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.20%) Operational Technology
5 3 (1.20%) PKI
5 3 (1.20%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.20%) SCADA
5 3 (1.20%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.80%) Cloud Native
6 2 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.80%) Mainframe
6 2 (0.80%) NHS
7 1 (0.40%) PMI
7 1 (0.40%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 28 (11.20%) Windows
2 13 (5.20%) Linux
2 13 (5.20%) Windows Server 2012
2 13 (5.20%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.60%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.20%) Unix
5 3 (1.20%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.80%) Solaris
6 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.40%) Android
7 1 (0.40%) CentOS
7 1 (0.40%) HPUX
7 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (48.40%) Disaster Recovery
2 50 (20.00%) ITIL
3 48 (19.20%) Cybersecurity
4 42 (16.80%) Risk Management
4 42 (16.80%) Roadmaps
5 38 (15.20%) Information Security
6 37 (14.80%) Project Management
7 36 (14.40%) Business Strategy
8 35 (14.00%) Service Management
8 35 (14.00%) Validation
9 34 (13.60%) Data Protection
10 32 (12.80%) Agile
11 30 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 29 (11.60%) IT Strategy
13 27 (10.80%) Incident Management
14 26 (10.40%) Change Management
15 23 (9.20%) Problem-Solving
16 22 (8.80%) Cyber Resilience
16 22 (8.80%) Strategic Roadmap
16 22 (8.80%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 9 (3.60%) Python
2 8 (3.20%) PowerShell
3 4 (1.60%) SQL
4 3 (1.20%) Java
5 2 (0.80%) AWK
5 2 (0.80%) Bash
5 2 (0.80%) Bourne shell
5 2 (0.80%) Korn
5 2 (0.80%) Perl
5 2 (0.80%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.40%) Bicep
6 1 (0.40%) C
6 1 (0.40%) C#
6 1 (0.40%) Go
6 1 (0.40%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.40%) PHP
6 1 (0.40%) Ruby
6 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.40%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 36 (14.40%) Security Cleared
2 27 (10.80%) Degree
2 27 (10.80%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.80%) CISSP
4 12 (4.80%) CISM
5 10 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (3.60%) CISA
7 8 (3.20%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 8 (3.20%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 7 (2.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 7 (2.80%) CISMP
8 7 (2.80%) CRISC
9 6 (2.40%) PMI Certification
10 5 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (2.00%) DV Cleared
10 5 (2.00%) PMP
11 4 (1.60%) CLAS
11 4 (1.60%) ISTQB
11 4 (1.60%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 4 (1.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (13.60%) NIST
2 28 (11.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (6.00%) GRC
4 13 (5.20%) COBIT
5 9 (3.60%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (3.20%) ISO 22301
6 8 (3.20%) QA
7 6 (2.40%) Accessibility
8 5 (2.00%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (2.00%) GDPR
8 5 (2.00%) SLA
9 3 (1.20%) IASME
9 3 (1.20%) ISO 9000
9 3 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (1.20%) PCI DSS
9 3 (1.20%) PMO
10 2 (0.80%) NCSC
11 1 (0.40%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.40%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 24 (9.60%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.80%) Docker
3 2 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.80%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.40%) Firmware
4 1 (0.40%) NFS
4 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (7.20%) SCCM
2 12 (4.80%) Ansible
3 5 (2.00%) Terraform
4 4 (1.60%) Packer
5 3 (1.20%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (0.80%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.80%) NetBackup
6 2 (0.80%) Oracle ZFS
6 2 (0.80%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.80%) WSUS
6 2 (0.80%) yum
7 1 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.40%) Control-M
7 1 (0.40%) Grafana
7 1 (0.40%) Nessus
7 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.40%) Puppet
7 1 (0.40%) SCOM
7 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.40%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 35 (14.00%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.60%) Cisco
3 17 (6.80%) EMC
4 15 (6.00%) CheckPoint
4 15 (6.00%) Citrix
4 15 (6.00%) HP
5 14 (5.60%) Avaya
6 9 (3.60%) SAP
7 8 (3.20%) VMware
8 6 (2.40%) Remedy
9 5 (2.00%) Adobe
9 5 (2.00%) Oracle
9 5 (2.00%) Red Hat
9 5 (2.00%) Reuters
10 4 (1.60%) F5
10 4 (1.60%) QinetiQ
11 3 (1.20%) BT
11 3 (1.20%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.80%) CA
12 2 (0.80%) Veritas