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 11 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 105 104
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 +58
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 17 23 36
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.95% 1.08% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.17% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 17 29
10th Percentile £350 - £333
25th Percentile £379 - £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £350 £475
Median % change year-on-year +49.29% -26.32% +18.75%
75th Percentile £701 £650 £625
90th Percentile £888 £680 £680
Central London median daily rate £511 £375 £488
% change year-on-year +36.33% -23.08% +39.29%

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 1,644 1,961 2,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 91.49% 91.81% 89.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,155 1,209 1,674
10th Percentile £330 £370 £363
25th Percentile £419 £474 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £578 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.43% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £754 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 11
10th Percentile £20.06 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.88 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.05% +62.00% -51.46%
75th Percentile £52.19 £97.38 £42.38
90th Percentile £63.75 £124.75 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -11.43% +37.25% -49.50%

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 11 December 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:

Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (11.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) AWS
3 3 (17.65%) GCP
4 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
4 2 (11.76%) GitHub
4 2 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.88%) Datadog
5 1 (5.88%) IaaS
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (5.88%) PaaS
5 1 (5.88%) Rubrik
5 1 (5.88%) SaaS
5 1 (5.88%) Sumo Logic
5 1 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) Firewall
2 1 (5.88%) LAN
2 1 (5.88%) Network Security
2 1 (5.88%) VLAN
2 1 (5.88%) VPN
2 1 (5.88%) WAN
2 1 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.88%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (58.82%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Banking
4 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.76%) International Banking
4 2 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Back Office
5 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Legal
5 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (17.65%) Analyst
1 3 (17.65%) Consultant
2 2 (11.76%) Business Analyst
2 2 (11.76%) Business Consultant
2 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Business Continuity Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Business Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse Architect
3 1 (5.88%) IT Manager
3 1 (5.88%) IT Services Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Management Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Managing Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Security Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Service Continuity Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Test Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Testing Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Trade Floor Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Data Centre
2 3 (17.65%) CMDB
3 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
3 2 (11.76%) Replication
4 1 (5.88%) Fat Client
4 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.88%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (5.88%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
1 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (23.53%) Project Management
4 3 (17.65%) BCP
4 3 (17.65%) Business Continuity Planning
4 3 (17.65%) Business Strategy
4 3 (17.65%) Data Modelling
4 3 (17.65%) Incident Response
4 3 (17.65%) Information Security
4 3 (17.65%) ITIL
4 3 (17.65%) Service Management
5 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
5 2 (11.76%) Cloud Security
5 2 (11.76%) Collaborative Culture
5 2 (11.76%) Cyber Resilience
5 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (11.76%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
5 2 (11.76%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) Bash
2 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL
2 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Azure Certification
1 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) CISM
2 1 (5.88%) CISSP
2 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.88%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
1 2 (11.76%) GDPR
1 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (11.76%) NIST
1 2 (11.76%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (5.88%) ISO 9001
2 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
1 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.88%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) ServiceNow
2 3 (17.65%) VMware
3 1 (5.88%) BMC
3 1 (5.88%) CheckPoint
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco
3 1 (5.88%) Citrix
3 1 (5.88%) CyberArk
3 1 (5.88%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.88%) Google
3 1 (5.88%) Infoblox
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto
3 1 (5.88%) Tenable
3 1 (5.88%) Zerto