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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 111 99
Rank change year-on-year -5 -12 +58
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 14 12 25
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.61% 0.68% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.73% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 23
10th Percentile £410 £460 £250
25th Percentile £548 £550 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £776 £645 £350
Median % change year-on-year +20.31% +84.29% -14.63%
75th Percentile £819 £707 £570
90th Percentile - £725 £698
Central London median daily rate £776 £620 £350
% change year-on-year +25.16% +77.14% -

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 1,955 1,639 1,968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.00% 93.28% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,329 1,040 1,396
10th Percentile £363 £356 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £569
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.10% -5.21%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 12 11
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.00 £19.92
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £29.78 £29.58 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% +18.30% -28.57%
75th Percentile £49.78 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £41.84
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -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 6 May 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 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (7.14%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Network Security
General
1 8 (57.14%) Finance
2 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 1 (7.14%) Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Front Office
5 1 (7.14%) International Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Business Consultant
1 8 (57.14%) Consultant
2 7 (50.00%) Business Continuity Consultant
3 3 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery Consultant
3 3 (21.43%) IT Consultant
4 2 (14.29%) Incident Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Business Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Business Change Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Business Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Change Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Coordinator
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Management Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Murex Business Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) PMO Coordinator
5 1 (7.14%) Project Coordinator
5 1 (7.14%) Support Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) CMDB
1 1 (7.14%) Fixed Income
1 1 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
1 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
1 1 (7.14%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (35.71%) Incident Response
2 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (21.43%) ITIL
3 3 (21.43%) ITSM
3 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) BCP
4 2 (14.29%) Business Continuity Planning
4 2 (14.29%) Change Management
4 2 (14.29%) Problem Management
4 2 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Service Management
5 1 (7.14%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (7.14%) Data Mapping
5 1 (7.14%) Data Migration
5 1 (7.14%) Data Validation
5 1 (7.14%) High Availability
5 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (7.14%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.14%) NIST
1 1 (7.14%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.14%) BMC
2 1 (7.14%) Murex
2 1 (7.14%) VMware
2 1 (7.14%) Zerto