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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 104 112
Rank change year-on-year -5 +8 +46
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 15 25 34
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.83% 1.16% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 1.27% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 19 27
10th Percentile £355 - £315
25th Percentile £452 - £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £350 £475
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -26.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £757 £619 £591
90th Percentile £888 £678 £671
Central London median daily rate £536 £350 £475
% change year-on-year +53.21% -26.32% +5.56%

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 1,681 1,971 2,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 92.82% 91.72% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,180 1,206 1,702
10th Percentile £337 £375 £363
25th Percentile £416 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £757 £785 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 13
10th Percentile £16.96 £16.70 -
25th Percentile £20.18 £22.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.12% +54.55% -47.62%
75th Percentile £44.72 £112.00 £53.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £72.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -21.43% +30.84% -48.06%

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 26 November 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 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (13.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
3 2 (13.33%) GCP
3 2 (13.33%) GitHub
3 2 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (6.67%) Datadog
4 1 (6.67%) IaaS
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (6.67%) PaaS
4 1 (6.67%) SaaS
4 1 (6.67%) Sumo Logic
4 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) LAN
2 1 (6.67%) Network Security
2 1 (6.67%) VLAN
2 1 (6.67%) VPN
2 1 (6.67%) WAN
2 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (6.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (46.67%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Back Office
4 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
4 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.67%) International Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Business Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Data Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse Architect
3 1 (6.67%) IT Manager
3 1 (6.67%) IT Services Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Managing Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Principal Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Service Continuity Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Service Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Support Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Test Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Testing Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Trade Floor Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (13.33%) CMDB
2 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (13.33%) Replication
3 1 (6.67%) Fat Client
3 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
1 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (20.00%) Business Strategy
3 3 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (20.00%) Information Security
3 3 (20.00%) Project Management
4 2 (13.33%) Analytics
4 2 (13.33%) BCP
4 2 (13.33%) Business Continuity Planning
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) ITIL
4 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
4 2 (13.33%) Migration
4 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery
4 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (13.33%) User Stories
4 2 (13.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) Bash
2 1 (6.67%) PL/SQL
2 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
1 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) CISM
2 1 (6.67%) CISSP
2 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) GDPR
1 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (13.33%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) ISO 9001
2 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (6.67%) NIST
2 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.67%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
2 2 (13.33%) VMware
3 1 (6.67%) CheckPoint
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco
3 1 (6.67%) Citrix
3 1 (6.67%) CyberArk
3 1 (6.67%) Dynatrace
3 1 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) Infoblox
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto
3 1 (6.67%) Tenable