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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 53 66
Rank change year-on-year -11 +13 +35
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 11 9 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.28% 1.24% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 1.47% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £350 £413 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £650
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -30.77% -
75th Percentile £428 £475 £675
90th Percentile £469 £584 -
England median daily rate £513 £478 £525
% change year-on-year +7.33% -9.05% -

All Process and 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 741 613 679
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.46% 84.20% 84.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 373 493
10th Percentile £211 £266 £213
25th Percentile £350 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £445 £480
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% -7.29% +1.05%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £588
90th Percentile £638 £619 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 28 53
10th Percentile £16.17 £14.90 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £16.66
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +3.33% +32.86%
75th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £51.50
90th Percentile - £51.50 £69.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.07 £44.50
% change year-on-year -33.94% -14.45% +27.14%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Continuity in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Continuity in the East Midlands

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 4 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 - 10 £375 - 1
Derbyshire - 1 - - 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (9.09%) GitHub
1 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) SAN
General
1 9 (81.82%) Social Skills
2 7 (63.64%) Retail
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Front Office
3 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Analyst
2 8 (72.73%) Information Analyst
2 8 (72.73%) Information Security Analyst
2 8 (72.73%) Security Analyst
3 4 (36.36%) Compliance Analyst
3 4 (36.36%) Governance Analyst
3 4 (36.36%) Risk Analyst
4 3 (27.27%) Information Governance Analyst
4 3 (27.27%) Information Risk Analyst
4 3 (27.27%) Security Compliance Analyst
4 3 (27.27%) Security Risk Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Data Centre Technician
5 1 (9.09%) Data Technician
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Security Posture
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Cybersecurity
1 9 (81.82%) Data Protection
1 9 (81.82%) Information Security
2 8 (72.73%) Penetration Testing
3 7 (63.64%) ITSM
3 7 (63.64%) Ticket Management
4 2 (18.18%) Incident Response
4 2 (18.18%) Tech Ops
4 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 1 (9.09%) Analytics
5 1 (9.09%) BCP
5 1 (9.09%) Capacity Management
5 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (9.09%) High Availability
5 1 (9.09%) Identity Management
5 1 (9.09%) Incident Management
5 1 (9.09%) ITIL
5 1 (9.09%) Service Management
5 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Bash
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (72.73%) GRC
2 3 (27.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft