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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 105 98
Rank change year-on-year -4 -7 +56
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 22 12 35
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.07% 0.65% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 0.71% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 31
10th Percentile £462 £350 £250
25th Percentile £538 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £608 £350
Median % change year-on-year +27.57% +73.57% -
75th Percentile £819 £669 £567
90th Percentile £874 £689 £713
Central London median daily rate £650 £600 £350
% change year-on-year +8.33% +71.43% -

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 1,819 1,694 2,127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.82% 91.87% 89.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,253 1,056 1,514
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £433 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £575 £567
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% +1.37% -5.46%
75th Percentile £669 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 13
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £26.25 £18.93
Median hourly rate £28.00 £35.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.13% +42.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £47.50 £47.50 £41.84
90th Percentile £59.72 £112.00 £49.55
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -20.54%

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 7 March 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 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.55%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) Azure
2 4 (18.18%) AWS
3 3 (13.64%) GCP
4 2 (9.09%) GitHub
4 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.55%) Datadog
5 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.55%) IaaS
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (4.55%) PaaS
5 1 (4.55%) Rubrik
5 1 (4.55%) SaaS
5 1 (4.55%) Sumo Logic
5 1 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) Firewall
1 2 (9.09%) Network Security
2 1 (4.55%) VLAN
2 1 (4.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.55%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (54.55%) Finance
2 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Banking
4 2 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.55%) Back Office
5 1 (4.55%) Front Office
5 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.55%) International Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Consultant
2 8 (36.36%) Business Consultant
3 7 (31.82%) Business Continuity Consultant
4 3 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery Consultant
4 3 (13.64%) IT Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) Business Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Incident Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Business Change Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Business Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Change Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Coordinator
6 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Management Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Principal Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Security Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Support Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) CMDB
1 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 2 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.55%) Fixed Income
2 1 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.55%) Reference Data
2 1 (4.55%) Replication
2 1 (4.55%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (31.82%) Incident Response
3 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (18.18%) ITIL
4 4 (18.18%) ITSM
4 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (13.64%) Change Management
5 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
5 3 (13.64%) Collaborative Culture
5 3 (13.64%) DevOps
5 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (13.64%) Migration
5 3 (13.64%) Project Management
5 3 (13.64%) Service Management
6 2 (9.09%) Business Strategy
6 2 (9.09%) Cloud Security
6 2 (9.09%) Cyber Resilience
6 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (9.09%) Observability
6 2 (9.09%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.09%) Python
2 1 (4.55%) Bash
2 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) Azure Certification
3 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (9.09%) Degree
3 2 (9.09%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.55%) CISM
4 1 (4.55%) CISSP
4 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) GDPR
1 2 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (9.09%) NIST
2 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) ISO 9001
2 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.55%) PMO
2 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Terraform
2 1 (4.55%) Ansible
2 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
1 3 (13.64%) ServiceNow
2 2 (9.09%) VMware
3 1 (4.55%) BMC
3 1 (4.55%) CheckPoint
3 1 (4.55%) CyberArk
3 1 (4.55%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.55%) Google
3 1 (4.55%) Murex
3 1 (4.55%) Tenable
3 1 (4.55%) Zerto