BCP Contracts in England

Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring BCP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BCP over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 432 514 586
Rank change year-on-year +82 +72 +111
Contract jobs citing BCP 53 28 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.075% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.087% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 22 49
10th Percentile £228 £301 £304
25th Percentile £457 £403 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £463 £550
Median % change year-on-year +23.14% -15.91% +11.39%
75th Percentile £675 £533 £688
90th Percentile £700 £908 £805
UK median daily rate £539 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +13.37% -9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £17.37 - -
25th Percentile £18.90 - £79.89
Median hourly rate £21.43 - £84.09
75th Percentile - - £88.30
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £21.43 - £84.09
% change year-on-year - - +68.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

BCP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing BCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for BCP in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BCP in England.

Daily rate trend for BCP in England

BCP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BCP in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BCP in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BCP in England.

Hourly rate trend for BCP in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BCP within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +42 18 £640 +21.90% 75
North of England +34 17 £410 -10.08% 48
North West +31 16 £383 -16.05% 21
South East +53 9 £545 +81.67% 47
Midlands +26 6 £575 -2.13% 36
West Midlands +18 6 £575 -2.13% 21
South West +42 1 £470 +4.44% 21
Yorkshire - 1 £450 - 20
East of England - 1 £675 - 30
BCP
UK

BCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 11 (20.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.77%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.89%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (33.96%) Azure
2 14 (26.42%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (22.64%) Entra ID
4 9 (16.98%) IaaS
5 4 (7.55%) SaaS
6 3 (5.66%) AWS
6 3 (5.66%) Power Platform
6 3 (5.66%) Serverless
7 2 (3.77%) Akamai
7 2 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.77%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.89%) Cloud Functions
8 1 (1.89%) GCP
8 1 (1.89%) GitHub
8 1 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.89%) Mimecast
8 1 (1.89%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (24.53%) Firewall
2 10 (18.87%) Network Security
3 8 (15.09%) Intrusion Detection
4 5 (9.43%) WAN
4 5 (9.43%) Wireless
5 4 (7.55%) VPN
6 3 (5.66%) Internet
6 3 (5.66%) iSCSI
6 3 (5.66%) LAN
6 3 (5.66%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (5.66%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (3.77%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (3.77%) DNS
7 2 (3.77%) SD-WAN
7 2 (3.77%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.89%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (22.64%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.66%) Power BI
3 2 (3.77%) Data Lake
3 2 (3.77%) GIS
3 2 (3.77%) Oracle Database
3 2 (3.77%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (1.89%) DTS
4 1 (1.89%) MSDE
4 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Git
1 1 (1.89%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (24.53%) Social Skills
2 10 (18.87%) Finance
3 8 (15.09%) Telecoms
4 6 (11.32%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.66%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (5.66%) Law
5 3 (5.66%) Legal
5 3 (5.66%) Police
5 3 (5.66%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.77%) Front Office
7 1 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Local Government
7 1 (1.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (15.09%) Analyst
2 6 (11.32%) Architect
2 6 (11.32%) Consultant
2 6 (11.32%) Lead
3 5 (9.43%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 5 (9.43%) Senior
4 4 (7.55%) Project Manager
4 4 (7.55%) Security Consultant
4 4 (7.55%) Security Manager
4 4 (7.55%) Service Continuity Leader
5 3 (5.66%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 3 (5.66%) IT Manager
5 3 (5.66%) IT Project Manager
5 3 (5.66%) Security Architect
5 3 (5.66%) Senior Manager
5 3 (5.66%) Senior Service Manager
5 3 (5.66%) Service Manager
5 3 (5.66%) Support Engineer
6 2 (3.77%) Technical Engineer
6 2 (3.77%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.77%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.89%) .NET
2 1 (1.89%) ASP.NET
2 1 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.89%) Node.js
2 1 (1.89%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.55%) Data Centre
1 4 (7.55%) Security Posture
2 3 (5.66%) Cyberattack
2 3 (5.66%) Freedom of Information
2 3 (5.66%) IVR
2 3 (5.66%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.77%) Replication
4 1 (1.89%) Clustering
4 1 (1.89%) EMC VNX
4 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.89%) IBM XIV
4 1 (1.89%) NHS
4 1 (1.89%) PKI
4 1 (1.89%) PMI
4 1 (1.89%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.89%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (1.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (28.30%) Windows
2 14 (26.42%) Windows Server
3 6 (11.32%) Linux
4 3 (5.66%) Android
4 3 (5.66%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.77%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (79.25%) Business Continuity
2 37 (69.81%) Business Continuity Planning
3 30 (56.60%) Disaster Recovery
4 17 (32.08%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (28.30%) Cybersecurity
5 15 (28.30%) High Availability
5 15 (28.30%) Incident Response
5 15 (28.30%) ITIL
6 12 (22.64%) Information Security
6 12 (22.64%) Risk Assessment
7 11 (20.75%) Change Management
7 11 (20.75%) Service Delivery
8 10 (18.87%) Project Delivery
8 10 (18.87%) Risk Management
9 8 (15.09%) Agile
9 8 (15.09%) Analytics
9 8 (15.09%) Enterprise Architecture
9 8 (15.09%) Service Catalogue
9 8 (15.09%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (15.09%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.98%) PowerShell
2 4 (7.55%) SQL
3 1 (1.89%) Groovy
3 1 (1.89%) Java
3 1 (1.89%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.89%) Python
3 1 (1.89%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (15.09%) Azure Certification
1 8 (15.09%) Microsoft Certification
1 8 (15.09%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.32%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.55%) CISSP
3 4 (7.55%) Degree
4 3 (5.66%) CISM
4 3 (5.66%) CRISC
4 3 (5.66%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.89%) CEH
5 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.89%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (15.09%) NIST
3 7 (13.21%) GDPR
4 5 (9.43%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 3 (5.66%) GRC
5 3 (5.66%) HIPAA
5 3 (5.66%) PMO
5 3 (5.66%) SLA
6 2 (3.77%) QA
7 1 (1.89%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.89%) Data Quality
7 1 (1.89%) ISO 14001
7 1 (1.89%) ISO 22301
7 1 (1.89%) ISO 9001
7 1 (1.89%) NIST 800
System Software
1 15 (28.30%) Active Directory
2 8 (15.09%) vSphere
3 7 (13.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (5.66%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (3.77%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (1.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (16.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (5.66%) Terraform
3 2 (3.77%) Data Guard
3 2 (3.77%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (1.89%) Ansible
4 1 (1.89%) Grafana
4 1 (1.89%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.89%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (28.30%) Microsoft
2 9 (16.98%) VMware
3 3 (5.66%) Apple
3 3 (5.66%) Meraki
3 3 (5.66%) Palo Alto
3 3 (5.66%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.77%) Cisco
4 2 (3.77%) Dell KACE
4 2 (3.77%) Oracle
4 2 (3.77%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.77%) SolarWinds
4 2 (3.77%) Ubiquiti
5 1 (1.89%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.89%) EMC
5 1 (1.89%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (1.89%) F5
5 1 (1.89%) Google
5 1 (1.89%) IBM
5 1 (1.89%) Qualys
5 1 (1.89%) Sophos