BCP Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring BCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 120 125
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 +54
Contract jobs citing BCP 3 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.17% 0.16% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.17% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £320 - £342
25th Percentile £327 £625 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £345 £650 £475
Median % change year-on-year -46.92% +36.84% -19.49%
75th Percentile £369 £675 £589
90th Percentile £380 - £650
Central London median daily rate £345 £650 £475
% change year-on-year -46.92% +36.84% -14.03%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,626 1,728 2,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.59% 92.01% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,141 1,052 1,547
10th Percentile £350 £372 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £765 £790 £800
Central London median daily rate £538 £575 £573
% change year-on-year -6.52% +0.44% -0.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 11 10
10th Percentile £19.94 £14.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £28.00 £38.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +46.67% -37.13%
75th Percentile £42.30 £112.00 £44.56
90th Percentile £45.56 £137.50 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -32.10%

BCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

BCP job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing BCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing BCP

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing BCP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing BCP

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Datadog
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Rubrik
2 1 (33.33%) Sumo Logic
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) CouchDB
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) International Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Business Change Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Business Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Business Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Change Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Management Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Memcached
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) CMDB
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Continuity
1 2 (66.67%) Business Continuity Planning
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Design Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Fintech
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (33.33%) Quality Management
2 1 (33.33%) Resilience Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Server Hardening
2 1 (33.33%) Service Continuity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) PHP
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Atlassian
1 1 (33.33%) BMC
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
1 1 (33.33%) VMware
1 1 (33.33%) Zerto