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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 100 103
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 +57
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 21 21 34
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.14% 1.04% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 1.13% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 15 27
10th Percentile £356 - -
25th Percentile £438 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £375 £475
Median % change year-on-year +46.33% -21.05% +35.71%
75th Percentile £742 £653 £669
90th Percentile £878 £683 £694
Central London median daily rate £536 £575 £488
% change year-on-year -6.74% +17.95% +39.29%

All Process & 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 1,656 1,860 2,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.20% 92.17% 89.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,161 1,128 1,572
10th Percentile £343 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £546 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -5.00% +0.88% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 14 10
10th Percentile £20.18 £15.35 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.18 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £31.00 £40.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -23.46% +54.29% -30.46%
75th Percentile £42.47 £107.13 £44.56
90th Percentile £51.88 £129.85 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -21.43%

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 1 January 2026.

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:

Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (9.52%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) AWS
3 3 (14.29%) GCP
4 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
4 2 (9.52%) GitHub
4 2 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.76%) Datadog
5 1 (4.76%) IaaS
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (4.76%) PaaS
5 1 (4.76%) Rubrik
5 1 (4.76%) SaaS
5 1 (4.76%) Sumo Logic
5 1 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (4.76%) LAN
2 1 (4.76%) Network Security
2 1 (4.76%) VLAN
2 1 (4.76%) VPN
2 1 (4.76%) WAN
2 1 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.76%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (71.43%) Finance
2 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Banking
4 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.52%) International Banking
4 2 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Back Office
5 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.76%) Front Office
5 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Legal
5 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Consultant
2 5 (23.81%) Business Consultant
3 4 (19.05%) Business Continuity Consultant
4 3 (14.29%) Business Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Business Change Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Change Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Data Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse Architect
6 1 (4.76%) IT Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Oracle Data Architect
6 1 (4.76%) PMO Coordinator
6 1 (4.76%) Security Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Service Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Subject Matter Expert
6 1 (4.76%) Support Consultant
6 1 (4.76%) Test Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Transformation Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Data Centre
2 3 (14.29%) CMDB
3 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
3 2 (9.52%) Replication
4 1 (4.76%) Fat Client
4 1 (4.76%) Fixed Income
4 1 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.76%) Reference Data
4 1 (4.76%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (4.76%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
1 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (28.57%) Incident Response
3 4 (19.05%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (19.05%) Project Management
4 3 (14.29%) Business Strategy
4 3 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 3 (14.29%) Information Security
4 3 (14.29%) ITIL
4 3 (14.29%) Migration
4 3 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
4 3 (14.29%) Service Management
4 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (9.52%) CI/CD
5 2 (9.52%) Cloud Security
5 2 (9.52%) Collaborative Culture
5 2 (9.52%) Cyber Resilience
5 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (9.52%) Roadmaps
5 2 (9.52%) Target Operating Model
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.52%) Python
1 2 (9.52%) SQL
2 1 (4.76%) Bash
2 1 (4.76%) PL/SQL
2 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Azure Certification
1 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (9.52%) Degree
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) CISM
2 1 (4.76%) CISSP
2 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.76%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Data Quality
1 2 (9.52%) GDPR
1 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (9.52%) NIST
1 2 (9.52%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.76%) ISO 9001
2 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.76%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
1 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.76%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Terraform
2 1 (4.76%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 3 (14.29%) VMware
3 1 (4.76%) BMC
3 1 (4.76%) CheckPoint
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco
3 1 (4.76%) Citrix
3 1 (4.76%) CyberArk
3 1 (4.76%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.76%) Google
3 1 (4.76%) Infoblox
3 1 (4.76%) Murex
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
3 1 (4.76%) Tenable
3 1 (4.76%) Zerto