Business Continuity Contracts with Work from Home Options

Business Continuity
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 273 339 412
Rank change year-on-year +66 +73 -38
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 73 133 214
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.48% 0.52% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.58% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 87 162
10th Percentile £350 £400 £313
25th Percentile £363 £450 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £525 £506
Median % change year-on-year -5.95% +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £621 £709 £672
90th Percentile £691 £775 £749
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £32.95
25th Percentile - - £44.13
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £63.00
75th Percentile - - £81.63
90th Percentile - - £92.65
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,390 22,975 40,674
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.75% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,954 16,256 29,514
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £720
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 577 528 541
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.00 £30.54 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Business Continuity
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Business Continuity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Business Continuity trend for jobs with a WFH option

Business Continuity
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Business Continuity.

Business Continuity daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Business Continuity
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Business Continuity over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Business Continuity daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Business Continuity
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Business Continuity.

Business Continuity hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Business Continuity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (12.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (8.22%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.37%) Confluence
3 1 (1.37%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (6.85%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.37%) MFGPRO
2 1 (1.37%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.37%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (1.37%) Sage 50
2 1 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.96%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (9.59%) Azure
3 5 (6.85%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.11%) Serverless
5 2 (2.74%) Azure API Management
5 2 (2.74%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (2.74%) Azure Functions
5 2 (2.74%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (2.74%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (2.74%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (2.74%) PaaS
6 1 (1.37%) AWS
6 1 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.37%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.37%) IaaS
6 1 (1.37%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (13.70%) Firewall
2 8 (10.96%) SAN
3 4 (5.48%) SCCP
4 2 (2.74%) Intranet
4 2 (2.74%) Network Security
4 2 (2.74%) VPN
5 1 (1.37%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.37%) LAN
5 1 (1.37%) NaaS
5 1 (1.37%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.37%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.85%) Power BI
2 2 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (2.74%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (24.66%) Finance
2 16 (21.92%) Public Sector
3 15 (20.55%) Social Skills
4 10 (13.70%) Banking
5 6 (8.22%) Manufacturing
6 4 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.74%) Advertising
7 2 (2.74%) Electronics
7 2 (2.74%) Legal
7 2 (2.74%) Marketing
7 2 (2.74%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.37%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.37%) French Language
8 1 (1.37%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.37%) Law
8 1 (1.37%) Local Government
8 1 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Spanish Language
8 1 (1.37%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 13 (17.81%) IT Manager
2 10 (13.70%) Analyst
3 9 (12.33%) Support Engineer
4 7 (9.59%) Incident Manager
4 7 (9.59%) Service Manager
5 6 (8.22%) Senior
6 5 (6.85%) Architect
6 5 (6.85%) Availability Manager
6 5 (6.85%) IT Services Manager
6 5 (6.85%) Lead
6 5 (6.85%) Project Manager
7 4 (5.48%) Security Analyst
8 3 (4.11%) Business Analyst
8 3 (4.11%) Infrastructure Manager
8 3 (4.11%) Network Manager
8 3 (4.11%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (4.11%) Technical Architect
9 2 (2.74%) Information Analyst
9 2 (2.74%) IT Project Manager
9 2 (2.74%) Junior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.74%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.37%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.96%) Video Conferencing
2 7 (9.59%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.11%) CMDB
3 3 (4.11%) Operational Technology
3 3 (4.11%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.37%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.37%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.37%) IoT
4 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.37%) Replication
4 1 (1.37%) SCADA
4 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.70%) Windows
2 8 (10.96%) Windows Server 2012
2 8 (10.96%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (2.74%) Linux
4 1 (1.37%) HPUX
4 1 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (50.68%) Disaster Recovery
2 15 (20.55%) Service Management
3 14 (19.18%) Incident Management
4 13 (17.81%) Cybersecurity
5 12 (16.44%) Project Management
6 11 (15.07%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (15.07%) Information Security
7 10 (13.70%) Agile
7 10 (13.70%) ITIL
8 9 (12.33%) BCP
8 9 (12.33%) Risk Management
9 8 (10.96%) Business Continuity Planning
9 8 (10.96%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (9.59%) Business Impact Analysis
10 7 (9.59%) Impact Analysis
10 7 (9.59%) ITSM
11 6 (8.22%) Business Strategy
11 6 (8.22%) Culture Change
11 6 (8.22%) Data Protection
11 6 (8.22%) Major Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.11%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.37%) Bash
2 1 (1.37%) Bicep
2 1 (1.37%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (16.44%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.33%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.22%) CISSP
4 5 (6.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 5 (6.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 4 (5.48%) CLAS
6 3 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.74%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.74%) ISEB
7 2 (2.74%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (2.74%) PMI Certification
7 2 (2.74%) PMP
8 1 (1.37%) ACCA
8 1 (1.37%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.37%) CIMA
8 1 (1.37%) Degree
8 1 (1.37%) MCSE
8 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (8.22%) NIST
3 2 (2.74%) COBIT
3 2 (2.74%) ISO 22301
3 2 (2.74%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.74%) PMO
4 1 (1.37%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.37%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.37%) GDPR
4 1 (1.37%) GRC
4 1 (1.37%) IASME
4 1 (1.37%) NCSC
4 1 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (12.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (10.96%) SCCM
2 1 (1.37%) Ansible
2 1 (1.37%) Grafana
2 1 (1.37%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.37%) Puppet
2 1 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (12.33%) Citrix
1 9 (12.33%) HP
2 8 (10.96%) Avaya
2 8 (10.96%) CheckPoint
2 8 (10.96%) Cisco
2 8 (10.96%) EMC
2 8 (10.96%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.85%) Adobe
3 5 (6.85%) Remedy
4 4 (5.48%) SAP
5 2 (2.74%) Oracle
6 1 (1.37%) Progress
6 1 (1.37%) QAD
6 1 (1.37%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.37%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.37%) VMware