Business Continuity Contracts in the East of England

Business Continuity
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Business Continuity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Continuity over the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 93 102
Rank change year-on-year +6 +9 +25
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 5 6 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.39% 0.38% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.45% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 7
10th Percentile £439 £533 £422
25th Percentile £491 £544 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.91% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £700 £594 -
90th Percentile £723 £598 £590
England median daily rate £550 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £51.75
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - £58.25
England median hourly rate £42.06 £36.84 £52.50
% change year-on-year +14.19% -29.84% +119.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,133 1,319 1,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 88.86% 83.32% 87.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 520 502 952
10th Percentile £200 £198 £225
25th Percentile £364 £306 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £658 £650 £703
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 475 342
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.84 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.43 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £43.00 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -12.79% +117.06% -3.37%
75th Percentile £65.38 £60.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.30 £70.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £40.85
% change year-on-year -41.51% +5.28% +54.13%

Business Continuity
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Business Continuity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Business Continuity in the East of England

Business Continuity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Continuity in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Business Continuity in the East of England

Business Continuity
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Continuity in the East of England over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Continuity in the East of England

Business Continuity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Continuity in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Business Continuity in the East of England

Business Continuity
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 17 August 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
Hertfordshire +11 3 £700 +21.74% 5
Essex - 2 £464 - 3
Business Continuity
England

Business Continuity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) IaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) iSCSI
2 1 (20.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (20.00%) NAS
2 1 (20.00%) SAN
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) VLAN
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Publishing
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Programme Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Programme Manager
2 1 (20.00%) PMO Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Project Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce Programme Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technology Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) PKI
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Business Continuity Planning
1 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) BCP
2 2 (40.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (40.00%) Project Management
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Commercial Awareness
3 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (20.00%) Contract Management
3 1 (20.00%) Data Security
3 1 (20.00%) ERP
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (20.00%) Project Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Project Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Aruba
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix
2 1 (20.00%) HP
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (20.00%) Veeam
2 1 (20.00%) VMware