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 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 115 117 145
Rank change year-on-year +2 +28 +50
Contract jobs citing BCP 8 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.46% 0.19% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.21% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 2
10th Percentile £355 £636 £478
25th Percentile £361 £651 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £690 £555
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +24.44% -29.59%
75th Percentile £728 £716 £610
90th Percentile £753 £725 £635
Central London median daily rate £675 £690 £634
% change year-on-year -2.17% +8.83% -18.19%

All Process and 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 1,625 1,948 2,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.42% 91.93% 89.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,114 1,208 1,779
10th Percentile £328 £363 £371
25th Percentile £424 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £770 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 16
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.63 £23.13 £16.31
Median hourly rate £27.04 £42.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -36.39% +36.00% -27.73%
75th Percentile £35.88 £112.00 £48.19
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% +27.27% -36.05%

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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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for BCP in the City of London

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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 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%) Contingency Planning
5 1 (12.50%) DevOps
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