Business Continuity Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Business Continuity
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Business Continuity skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 - 66
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 12 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.08% - 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% - 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £213 - £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +46.60%
75th Percentile £259 - £750
90th Percentile £280 - -
England median daily rate £528 £575 £475
% change year-on-year -8.17% +21.05% -9.52%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 864 493 605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.05% 86.34% 78.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 328 414
10th Percentile £200 £211 £200
25th Percentile £384 £322 £271
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £429 £419
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% +2.45% -9.51%
75th Percentile £544 £523 £550
90th Percentile £619 £591 £625
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 36 55
10th Percentile £13.53 £13.81 £11.24
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.25 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.87 £20.20 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.51% +18.79% -21.55%
75th Percentile £25.15 £25.15 £26.15
90th Percentile £31.15 £37.99 £35.00
England median hourly rate £45.78 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +57.86% -20.55% +0.29%

Business Continuity
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Business Continuity job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Business Continuity
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

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

Business Continuity
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Business Continuity.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Business Continuity

Business Continuity
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 Business Continuity within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 May 2026. 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
Nottinghamshire - 7 £225 - 3
Derbyshire - 5 - - 1
Business Continuity
England

Business Continuity
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 7 (58.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (58.33%) Entra ID
2 7 (58.33%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (41.67%) AWS
General
1 5 (41.67%) Fire and Rescue
1 5 (41.67%) Local Government
1 5 (41.67%) Police
2 2 (16.67%) Law
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Desktop Support
2 5 (41.67%) Desktop Support Technician
2 5 (41.67%) Desktop Technician
2 5 (41.67%) Help Desk Technician
2 5 (41.67%) ICT Technician
2 5 (41.67%) Senior
2 5 (41.67%) Senior Desktop Support
2 5 (41.67%) Senior Desktop Support Technician
2 5 (41.67%) Senior Support Technician
2 5 (41.67%) Senior Technician
2 5 (41.67%) Support Technician
3 2 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Desktop Rollout Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Rollout Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Rollout Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Smartphone
2 5 (41.67%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (58.33%) Apple iOS
2 7 (58.33%) Windows 10
3 5 (41.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (58.33%) BCP
2 7 (58.33%) Business Continuity Planning
2 7 (58.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (41.67%) Agile
3 5 (41.67%) Change Management
3 5 (41.67%) Customer Service
3 5 (41.67%) Data Migration
3 5 (41.67%) Data Protection
3 5 (41.67%) ITIL
3 5 (41.67%) ITSM
3 5 (41.67%) Mathematics
3 5 (41.67%) Migration
3 5 (41.67%) Service Delivery
3 5 (41.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (41.67%) Supplier Management
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) NVQ Level 3
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (41.67%) Hyper-V
2 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 7 (58.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (41.67%) VMware