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 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 51 61
Rank change year-on-year -20 +10 +23
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 12 5 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.26% 0.90% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 1.04% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £213 £675 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -67.86% +7.69% +23.81%
75th Percentile £238 £725 £713
90th Percentile - - £735
England median daily rate £525 £510 £500
% change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% -1.09%

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 808 482 655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.78% 86.38% 82.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 289 450
10th Percentile £190 £250 £188
25th Percentile £353 £350 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £430 £445
Median % change year-on-year -1.16% -3.37% -1.11%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £550
90th Percentile £613 £612 £664
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 19 63
10th Percentile £14.85 £16.62 £11.32
25th Percentile £16.33 £17.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% +28.57% +3.98%
75th Percentile £23.90 £30.88 £31.00
90th Percentile £25.15 £42.74 £51.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +1.43%

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 3 February 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
Derbyshire - 7 - - 1
Nottinghamshire -13 5 £225 -67.86%
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 5 (41.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) Entra ID
2 5 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
General
1 5 (41.67%) Fire and Rescue
1 5 (41.67%) Local Government
1 5 (41.67%) Police
2 2 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Desktop Support
1 5 (41.67%) Desktop Support Technician
1 5 (41.67%) Desktop Technician
1 5 (41.67%) Help Desk Technician
1 5 (41.67%) ICT Technician
1 5 (41.67%) Senior
1 5 (41.67%) Senior Desktop Support
1 5 (41.67%) Senior Desktop Support Technician
1 5 (41.67%) Senior Support Technician
1 5 (41.67%) Senior Technician
1 5 (41.67%) Support Technician
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Driving Licence
1 5 (41.67%) Smartphone
2 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Windows
2 5 (41.67%) Apple iOS
2 5 (41.67%) Linux
2 5 (41.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) 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
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Bash
1 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) NVQ Level 3
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Active Directory
1 5 (41.67%) Hyper-V
1 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (41.67%) SCCM
2 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
2 2 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (41.67%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) F5