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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 104 104
Rank change year-on-year -17 0 +21
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 20 21 19
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.92% 1.21% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.28% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 15
10th Percentile £185 £352 -
25th Percentile £397 £367 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £350
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +71.43% -27.27%
75th Percentile £663 £725 £521
90th Percentile £725 £769 £668
Central London median daily rate £500 £575 £350
% change year-on-year -13.04% +64.29% -28.21%

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 1,967 1,644 1,949
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.11% 94.48% 91.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,362 1,104 1,217
10th Percentile £368 £325 £366
25th Percentile £455 £422 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £763 £792
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 20 19
10th Percentile - £17.02 £15.60
25th Percentile £17.60 £21.54 £21.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £27.83 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.53% -27.73% +40.00%
75th Percentile £31.00 £47.00 £102.25
90th Percentile £61.50 £66.25 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.83 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.15% -20.50% +30.84%

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 4 October 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) Azure
2 6 (30.00%) AWS
3 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.00%) Alation
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.00%) Azure AI
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (5.00%) Collibra
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (5.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) DHCP
1 2 (10.00%) DNS
1 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (10.00%) VPN
2 1 (5.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Power BI
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.00%) Metadata
2 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 14 (70.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Architect
2 5 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Change Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Data Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Desktop Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Desktop Support
4 2 (10.00%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Support Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Applications Support
5 1 (5.00%) Applications Support Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Business Change Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Business Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Security Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Web Services
2 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.00%) JSON
2 1 (5.00%) LangChain
2 1 (5.00%) LlamaIndex
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (5.00%) OAuth
2 1 (5.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (5.00%) REST
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (10.00%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (5.00%) AI Agents
3 1 (5.00%) AS400
3 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (35.00%) AI
3 6 (30.00%) BCP
3 6 (30.00%) Business Continuity Planning
3 6 (30.00%) Decision-Making
3 6 (30.00%) Machine Learning
3 6 (30.00%) MLOps
3 6 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 5 (25.00%) LLM
4 5 (25.00%) Observability
4 5 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 5 (25.00%) Use Case
5 4 (20.00%) Budgeting
5 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (20.00%) Human-in-the-Loop
5 4 (20.00%) Migration
5 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.00%) Bicep
2 1 (5.00%) COBOL
2 1 (5.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) RPG
2 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) PMI Certification
2 2 (10.00%) PMP
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (10.00%) NIST
2 1 (5.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) JSP 440
2 1 (5.00%) NCSC
2 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Bloomberg
2 2 (10.00%) Citrix
2 2 (10.00%) Databricks
2 2 (10.00%) NetApp
3 1 (5.00%) Dell
3 1 (5.00%) EMC
3 1 (5.00%) Foundry
3 1 (5.00%) IBM
3 1 (5.00%) Informatica
3 1 (5.00%) JDA
3 1 (5.00%) Pure Storage
3 1 (5.00%) VMware
3 1 (5.00%) VocaLink