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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 110 131
Rank change year-on-year +11 +21 +28
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 18 18 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.03% 0.86% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.93% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 19
10th Percentile £351 - £236
25th Percentile £355 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £350 £475
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -26.32% -5.00%
75th Percentile £725 £397 £591
90th Percentile £775 £648 £669
Central London median daily rate £538 £350 £475
% change year-on-year +53.57% -26.32% -5.00%

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 1,650 1,935 2,700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.12% 91.92% 90.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,221 1,867
10th Percentile £324 £375 £363
25th Percentile £415 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £701
90th Percentile £763 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 16
10th Percentile £17.08 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.75 £20.00 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.15 £27.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% +8.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £56.75 £82.19 £44.87
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -18.57% +34.62% -38.82%

Business Continuity
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Business Continuity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Business Continuity 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 19 September 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 and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (5.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (5.56%) AWS
3 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.56%) GCP
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.56%) Power Automate
3 1 (5.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Firewall
1 2 (11.11%) WAN
2 1 (5.56%) LAN
2 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 9 (50.00%) Finance
2 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
3 6 (33.33%) Banking
4 3 (16.67%) Financial Institution
4 3 (16.67%) International Banking
5 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Law
5 2 (11.11%) Legal
5 2 (11.11%) Police
5 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.56%) Back Office
6 1 (5.56%) Front Office
6 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
6 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (16.67%) Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Business Information Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Business Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Consultant
2 2 (11.11%) Information Manager
2 2 (11.11%) IT Manager
2 2 (11.11%) IT Services Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Service Continuity Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Service Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Support Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Testing Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Trade Floor Support Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Applications Support
3 1 (5.56%) Applications Support Specialist
3 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse Architect
3 1 (5.56%) IT Risk Consultant
3 1 (5.56%) JIRA Consultant
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Data Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Senior
3 1 (5.56%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 2 (11.11%) Freedom of Information
3 2 (11.11%) Replication
4 1 (5.56%) CMDB
4 1 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (5.56%) Fat Client
4 1 (5.56%) Fixed Income
4 1 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (5.56%) Low-Code
4 1 (5.56%) Thin Client
4 1 (5.56%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Windows
2 2 (11.11%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (33.33%) BCP
2 6 (33.33%) Business Continuity Planning
2 6 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (33.33%) ITIL
2 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (22.22%) Regulatory Compliance
4 3 (16.67%) Analytics
4 3 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 3 (16.67%) Information Governance
4 3 (16.67%) Information Security
4 3 (16.67%) Project Management
4 3 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 3 (16.67%) Service Management
4 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (11.11%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) Bash
1 1 (5.56%) C
1 1 (5.56%) C#
1 1 (5.56%) Java
1 1 (5.56%) PL/SQL
1 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.56%) Python
1 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 2 (11.11%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) GDPR
1 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.56%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (5.56%) COBIT
2 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.56%) GRC
2 1 (5.56%) ISO 9001
2 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
1 1 (5.56%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) HP ALM
1 1 (5.56%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco
3 1 (5.56%) Citrix
3 1 (5.56%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.56%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) HP
3 1 (5.56%) Infoblox
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) Palo Alto
3 1 (5.56%) VMware