BCP Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring BCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 - 61
Rank change year-on-year - - +29
Contract jobs citing BCP 9 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.03% - 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% - 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £349 - -
25th Percentile £353 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £382 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +160.00%
75th Percentile £402 - £675
90th Percentile £403 - -
England median daily rate £453 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -13.81% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.25 - -
Median hourly rate £16.50 - -
75th Percentile £16.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £16.36 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 739 585 652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.85% 85.65% 83.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 342 462
10th Percentile £189 £263 £213
25th Percentile £352 £350 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £444 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% -6.63% -
75th Percentile £525 £550 £588
90th Percentile £637 £636 £700
England median daily rate £501 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.42% -0.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 29 51
10th Percentile £16.17 £15.08 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.67
Median hourly rate £18.87 £24.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.38% +6.67% +33.69%
75th Percentile £25.12 £39.68 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £51.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%

BCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

BCP job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

BCP
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing BCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing BCP

BCP
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BCP within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 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
Northamptonshire - 6 £382 - 1
Derbyshire - 2 - -
Nottinghamshire - 1 - - 3
BCP
England

BCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (22.22%) GitHub
2 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Banking
3 2 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Product Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Product Owner
3 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Desktop Support
3 1 (11.11%) Desktop Support Technician
3 1 (11.11%) Desktop Technician
3 1 (11.11%) Product Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (11.11%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) B2B
2 5 (55.56%) Business Strategy
2 5 (55.56%) Product Management
2 5 (55.56%) Roadmaps
3 4 (44.44%) Accounts Payable
3 4 (44.44%) B2B Sales
3 4 (44.44%) Customer Insight
3 4 (44.44%) Development Roadmap
3 4 (44.44%) Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (44.44%) Product Roadmap
3 4 (44.44%) Product Strategy
3 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (22.22%) Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) GitOps
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Log Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
4 2 (22.22%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Bash
1 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
1 2 (22.22%) Python
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 2 (22.22%) Prometheus
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) F5