Business Continuity Contracts in Berkshire

Business Continuity
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Business Continuity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Continuity over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 100 101
Rank change year-on-year +14 +1 +19
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 9 22 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.77% 1.11% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 1.25% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 3
10th Percentile £431 £134 £393
25th Percentile £503 £272 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £375 £685
Median % change year-on-year +53.33% -45.22% +47.60%
75th Percentile £681 £519 £702
90th Percentile £700 - -
South East median daily rate £545 £450 £613
% change year-on-year +21.11% -26.53% +15.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Business Continuity falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,098 1,761 1,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.37% 88.89% 90.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 642 921 1,045
10th Percentile £313 £213 £340
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £614 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £675 £704
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 100 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.05 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.30 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year +0.32% +6.02% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.89 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Business Continuity
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Continuity in Berkshire

Business Continuity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Business Continuity in Berkshire

Business Continuity
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Continuity in Berkshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Continuity in Berkshire

Business Continuity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Continuity in Berkshire

Business Continuity
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
Bracknell +20 2 £700 +86.67% 1
Wokingham - 2 £625 -
Slough - 2 £450 - 6
Reading +29 1 - - 10
Business Continuity
South East

Business Continuity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (22.22%) PaaS
1 2 (22.22%) SaaS
2 1 (11.11%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle Database
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle Database 12c
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Local Government
3 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Lead Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Lead Solutions Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Coordinator
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Incident Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Major Incident Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Network Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Network Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
3 1 (11.11%) Security Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Security Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) SIEM Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) SOC Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Data Centre
2 2 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) PKI
3 1 (11.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (22.22%) VMS
3 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (33.33%) BCP
2 3 (33.33%) Business Continuity Planning
2 3 (33.33%) High Availability
2 3 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (22.22%) Database Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) IT Strategy
3 2 (22.22%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Project Management
3 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
3 2 (22.22%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (11.11%) Agile
4 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
4 1 (11.11%) Information Security
4 1 (11.11%) ITSM
4 1 (11.11%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (11.11%) Scrum
4 1 (11.11%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
3 1 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Data Guard
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) VMware
2 3 (33.33%) Oracle
3 2 (22.22%) Cisco
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) Red Hat
4 1 (11.11%) BMC
4 1 (11.11%) Dynatrace
4 1 (11.11%) HP
4 1 (11.11%) IBM
4 1 (11.11%) NetApp
4 1 (11.11%) Remedy
4 1 (11.11%) Zerto