Business Continuity Contracts in Birmingham

Business Continuity
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 58 73
Rank change year-on-year +8 +15 +15
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Business Continuity 7 5 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.21% 0.72% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 0.88% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 3
10th Percentile £297 £320 £650
25th Percentile £425 £350 £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £750
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -46.67% +57.89%
75th Percentile £538 £450 -
90th Percentile £625 £480 -
West Midlands median daily rate £575 £475 £625
% change year-on-year +21.05% -24.00% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 506 565 715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 87.39% 81.41% 83.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 390 481
10th Percentile £166 £212 £270
25th Percentile £358 £391 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £625
90th Percentile £638 £750 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £494 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.30% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 16 24
10th Percentile - £14.75 £12.86
25th Percentile £12.62 £21.06 £17.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £40.25 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.12% +46.36% +57.14%
75th Percentile £22.08 £53.13 £39.75
90th Percentile £26.89 £56.25 £88.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £21.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year +11.91% -20.91% +62.60%

Business Continuity
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Continuity in Birmingham

Business Continuity
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Business Continuity.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Business Continuity

Business Continuity
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Continuity in Birmingham over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Continuity in Birmingham

Business Continuity
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Business Continuity.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Business Continuity

Business Continuity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
General
1 3 (42.86%) Legal
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Law
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Category Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Contracts Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Information Security Advisor
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Security Advisor
2 1 (14.29%) Service Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Service Continuity Leader
2 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Replication
1 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Risk Management
2 3 (42.86%) BCP
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity Planning
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
3 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (14.29%) Business Impact Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Forensic Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Impact Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (14.29%) Service Catalogue
4 1 (14.29%) Swim Lanes
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 1 (14.29%) CEH
1 1 (14.29%) CISA
1 1 (14.29%) CISM
1 1 (14.29%) CISSP
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) HIPAA
1 1 (14.29%) ISO 22301
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
1 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
1 1 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft