BCP Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring BCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing BCP 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 1.09% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £165 - -
South West median daily rate £358 £470 £338
% change year-on-year -23.94% +39.26% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Dorset

BCP 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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 79 109 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 85.87% 89.34% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 59 131
10th Percentile £203 £300 £172
25th Percentile £363 £419 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £538
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -9.30% +8.04%
75th Percentile £550 £605 £650
90th Percentile £595 £700 £750
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 53
10th Percentile - £14.41 £15.99
25th Percentile £15.25 £14.71 £23.43
Median hourly rate £15.50 £15.62 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% -72.35% +175.56%
75th Percentile £17.58 £22.79 £65.98
90th Percentile £23.61 £43.84 £68.89
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%

BCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BCP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset.

BCP job vacancy trend in Dorset

BCP
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing BCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing BCP

BCP
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BCP within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 21 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bournemouth - 1 £165 -
BCP
South West

BCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
General
1 1 (100.00%) Back Office
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) NEC
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle