Business Continuity Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Business Continuity
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Business Continuity skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 102 118
Rank change year-on-year -1 +16 +43
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 18 22 29
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.06% 1.06% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 1.15% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 17 23
10th Percentile £355 - £280
25th Percentile £404 - £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £350 £475
Median % change year-on-year +78.57% -26.32% -3.06%
75th Percentile £726 £588 £638
90th Percentile £868 £664 £669
Central London median daily rate £536 £350 £481
% change year-on-year +53.21% -27.27% +1.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,599 1,911 2,525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.56% 91.79% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,107 1,170 1,765
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £421 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% +1.74%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £763 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 17
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.07 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.71% +54.55% -45.54%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £59.30
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -20.00% +30.84% -38.14%

Business Continuity
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Business Continuity job vacancy trend in the City of London

Business Continuity
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

Business Continuity
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Continuity in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Continuity in the City of London

Business Continuity
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

Business Continuity
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 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (11.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
2 2 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (5.56%) GitHub
3 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.56%) IaaS
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (5.56%) PaaS
3 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) Firewall
2 2 (11.11%) WAN
3 1 (5.56%) LAN
3 1 (5.56%) Network Security
3 1 (5.56%) VLAN
3 1 (5.56%) VPN
3 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 9 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Banking
4 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Financial Institution
4 2 (11.11%) International Banking
4 2 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Back Office
5 1 (5.56%) Front Office
5 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Law
5 1 (5.56%) Legal
5 1 (5.56%) Police
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Business Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Support Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Trade Floor Support Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Applications Support
3 1 (5.56%) Applications Support Specialist
3 1 (5.56%) Business Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Information Manager
3 1 (5.56%) IT Manager
3 1 (5.56%) IT Services Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Managing Consultant
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Principal Consultant
3 1 (5.56%) Security Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Service Continuity Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Service Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Support Specialist
3 1 (5.56%) Test Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Testing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Data Centre
2 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 2 (11.11%) CMDB
4 1 (5.56%) Fat Client
4 1 (5.56%) Fixed Income
4 1 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (5.56%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) Replication
4 1 (5.56%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (5.56%) Thin Client
4 1 (5.56%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
1 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (27.78%) BCP
3 5 (27.78%) Business Continuity Planning
3 5 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (22.22%) Regulatory Compliance
5 3 (16.67%) Analytics
5 3 (16.67%) Business Strategy
5 3 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
5 3 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 3 (16.67%) Information Security
5 3 (16.67%) ITIL
5 3 (16.67%) Project Management
5 3 (16.67%) Risk Management
5 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (11.11%) Change Management
6 2 (11.11%) Service Delivery
6 2 (11.11%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 2 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) Bash
2 1 (5.56%) C
2 1 (5.56%) C#
2 1 (5.56%) Java
2 1 (5.56%) PL/SQL
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Azure Certification
1 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) CISM
2 1 (5.56%) CISSP
2 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) GDPR
2 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (11.11%) QA
3 1 (5.56%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (5.56%) COBIT
3 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.56%) GRC
3 1 (5.56%) ISO 9001
3 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (5.56%) NIST
3 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 4 (22.22%) ServiceNow
2 2 (11.11%) VMware
3 1 (5.56%) CheckPoint
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco
3 1 (5.56%) Citrix
3 1 (5.56%) CyberArk
3 1 (5.56%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.56%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) Infoblox
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) Palo Alto
3 1 (5.56%) Tenable