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 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 94 94
Rank change year-on-year +12 0 +28
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 17 19 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.40% 1.08% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 1.26% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 11
10th Percentile £405 £391 £313
25th Percentile £440 £434 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £513 £415
Median % change year-on-year -6.83% +23.49% -26.22%
75th Percentile £547 £519 £475
90th Percentile £700 - £550
South East median daily rate £511 £550 £383
% change year-on-year -7.09% +43.79% -30.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £63.10 - -
25th Percentile £65.88 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £71.00 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.48% - -
75th Percentile £75.75 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £78.30 - -
South East median hourly rate £71.00 £57.50 -
% change year-on-year +23.48% - -

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 1,120 1,511 1,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 92.49% 86.10% 89.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 795 1,008
10th Percentile £350 £317 £314
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £691 £708
South East median daily rate £500 £520 £518
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.39% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 77 56
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.40 £17.17
25th Percentile £18.09 £41.25 £24.50
Median hourly rate £37.28 £61.60 £56.89
Median % change year-on-year -39.48% +8.29% +118.79%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.39 £70.90
90th Percentile £87.45 £87.46 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £21.90 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -61.81% +14.70% +108.33%

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 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Continuity in Berkshire over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 August 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 +8 7 £700 +86.67% 1
Reading +25 4 £475 -7.32% 8
Wokingham - 3 £463 - 2
Slough - 2 £442 -
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 4 (23.53%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (5.88%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) AWS
1 5 (29.41%) Azure
1 5 (29.41%) GCP
2 1 (5.88%) PaaS
2 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle Database
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) JIRA
General
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Front Office
2 2 (11.76%) Retail
3 1 (5.88%) Aerospace
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) IT Manager
1 4 (23.53%) Programme Manager
2 3 (17.65%) Architect
2 3 (17.65%) IT Programme Manager
2 3 (17.65%) Site Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Data Centre Technician
3 2 (11.76%) Data Technician
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Change Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Data Centre Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Data Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Incident Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Junior
4 1 (5.88%) Major Incident Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Network Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Supply Chain Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (64.71%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (29.41%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (29.41%) Onboarding
3 3 (17.65%) Life Science
4 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
5 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (5.88%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Unix
1 2 (11.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) High Availability
1 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (35.29%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (35.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (29.41%) Change Management
3 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
3 5 (29.41%) Migration
3 5 (29.41%) Release Management
3 5 (29.41%) Roadmaps
3 5 (29.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 5 (29.41%) Task Automation
4 4 (23.53%) Agile
4 4 (23.53%) Conflict Resolution
4 4 (23.53%) Data Modelling
4 4 (23.53%) Dependency Management
4 4 (23.53%) ITIL
4 4 (23.53%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 4 (23.53%) Scrum
4 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (17.65%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Go
1 5 (29.41%) Java
1 5 (29.41%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) Security Cleared
2 6 (35.29%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) Server+ Certification
4 1 (5.88%) BC Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) Data Guard
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Oracle
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.88%) BMC
3 1 (5.88%) Progress
3 1 (5.88%) Remedy
3 1 (5.88%) Workday