BCP Contract Job Trends in Central London

Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring BCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 132 154
Rank change year-on-year +12 +22 +47
Contract jobs citing BCP 8 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.42% 0.17% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.18% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 3
10th Percentile £355 £636 £493
25th Percentile £361 £651 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £690 £634
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +8.83% -18.19%
75th Percentile £728 £716 £801
90th Percentile £753 £725 £890
London median daily rate £525 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -19.23% +13.04% -11.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

BCP 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,793 2,164 2,758
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 94.07% 92.12% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,230 1,375 1,917
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +2.17%
75th Percentile £675 £686 £700
90th Percentile £775 £782 £813
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -1.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 26 17
10th Percentile £17.43 £19.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.09 £28.06 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +27.27% -36.05%
75th Percentile £35.75 £74.38 £46.75
90th Percentile £62.35 £124.75 £59.30
London median hourly rate £31.49 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -16.03% -6.25% +5.44%

BCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BCP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

BCP job vacancy trend in Central London

BCP
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing BCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing BCP

BCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BCP in Central London over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BCP in Central London

BCP
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing BCP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing BCP

BCP
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BCP within the Central London region over the 6 months to 16 October 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
City of London +2 8 £675 -2.17% 7
BCP
London

BCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (12.50%) Datadog
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (12.50%) Sumo Logic
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (12.50%) CouchDB
2 1 (12.50%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Law
2 2 (25.00%) Police
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Business Information Manager
1 2 (25.00%) Business Manager
1 2 (25.00%) Information Manager
1 2 (25.00%) Support Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Trade Floor Support Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Applications Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Applications Support
2 1 (12.50%) Applications Support Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Data Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Memcached
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (25.00%) Freedom of Information
1 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Fixed Income
2 1 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (12.50%) Replication
2 1 (12.50%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Business Continuity
1 6 (75.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Change Management
3 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
3 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
3 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (25.00%) AI
4 2 (25.00%) Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (25.00%) Information Governance
4 2 (25.00%) Information Management
4 2 (25.00%) Records Management
4 2 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
5 1 (12.50%) Fintech
5 1 (12.50%) Server Hardening
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Bash
1 2 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) C
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) PHP
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
1 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow