Business Continuity Contracts in the City of London

Business Continuity
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Business Continuity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Continuity over the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 107 140
Rank change year-on-year +1 +33 +28
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Business Continuity 17 14 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.93% 0.68% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 0.74% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 19
10th Percentile £351 - £236
25th Percentile £355 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £350 £475
Median % change year-on-year +53.57% -26.32% -5.00%
75th Percentile £725 £381 £604
90th Percentile £726 £630 £669
Central London median daily rate £500 £350 £475
% change year-on-year +42.86% -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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,721 1,894 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.20% 91.90% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,130 1,259 1,990
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £424 £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 £713
90th Percentile £775 £788 £820
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £595
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.36% +3.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 16 14
10th Percentile £17.62 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.21 £19.79 £14.50
Median hourly rate £28.15 £26.63 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.73% +6.50% -42.18%
75th Percentile £50.25 £82.19 £41.24
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £52.85
Central London median hourly rate £28.79 £26.78 £31.25
% change year-on-year +7.49% -14.30% -26.47%

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 22 August 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 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (5.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Power Platform
2 3 (17.65%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (11.76%) Power Automate
3 2 (11.76%) PowerApps
4 1 (5.88%) AWS
4 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.88%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Firewall
1 2 (11.76%) WAN
2 1 (5.88%) LAN
2 1 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Power BI
2 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) JIRA
General
1 9 (52.94%) Finance
2 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
3 6 (35.29%) Banking
4 3 (17.65%) Financial Institution
4 3 (17.65%) International Banking
5 2 (11.76%) Law
5 2 (11.76%) Legal
5 2 (11.76%) Police
5 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (5.88%) Front Office
6 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (17.65%) Analyst
2 2 (11.76%) Business Information Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Business Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Consultant
2 2 (11.76%) Desktop Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Information Manager
2 2 (11.76%) IT Manager
2 2 (11.76%) IT Services Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365 Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Service Continuity Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Service Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Support Analyst
2 2 (11.76%) Test Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Testing Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Trade Floor Support Analyst
2 2 (11.76%) Transformation Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) JIRA Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Data Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Data Centre
1 3 (17.65%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.76%) Freedom of Information
2 2 (11.76%) Low-Code
2 2 (11.76%) Replication
3 1 (5.88%) CMDB
3 1 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.88%) Fat Client
3 1 (5.88%) Fixed Income
3 1 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (5.88%) Thin Client
3 1 (5.88%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Windows
2 2 (11.76%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) BCP
1 6 (35.29%) Business Continuity Planning
1 6 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
1 6 (35.29%) Disaster Recovery
1 6 (35.29%) ITIL
1 6 (35.29%) Risk Management
2 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (23.53%) Regulatory Compliance
4 3 (17.65%) Analytics
4 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (17.65%) Decision-Making
4 3 (17.65%) Service Management
4 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (11.76%) Defect Management
5 2 (11.76%) Incident Response
5 2 (11.76%) Records Management
5 2 (11.76%) Risk Register
5 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
5 2 (11.76%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) Bash
1 1 (5.88%) C
1 1 (5.88%) C#
1 1 (5.88%) Java
1 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL
1 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.88%) Python
1 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 2 (11.76%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (5.88%) COBIT
2 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) GRC
2 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
1 1 (5.88%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) HP ALM
2 1 (5.88%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) ServiceNow
2 2 (11.76%) HP
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco
3 1 (5.88%) Citrix
3 1 (5.88%) Infoblox
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto
3 1 (5.88%) VMware