BCP Contracts in England

Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for BCP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited BCP over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 524 589 708
Rank change year-on-year +65 +119 -107
Contract jobs citing BCP 24 67 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.065% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.075% 0.15% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 48 52
10th Percentile £300 £304 £262
25th Percentile £406 £444 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +12.82% +21.88%
75th Percentile £614 £691 £613
90th Percentile £928 £808 £781
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £84.09 -
UK median hourly rate - £84.09 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

BCP is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,103 45,050 64,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.60% 90.20% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,075 31,613 45,917
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.61%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,251 1,592 1,754
10th Percentile £12.92 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.42
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BCP in England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

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 6 May 2024. 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 +80 11 £660 +5.39% 24
South West - 5 £450 -
Midlands +32 2 £588 +80.77% 2
West Midlands +21 2 £588 +80.77% 2
South East +16 2 £300 -52.00% 7
North West +19 1 £400 +28.00% 2
North of England +18 1 £400 +28.00% 3
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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 3 (12.50%) Confluence
2 2 (8.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (8.33%) IIS
3 1 (4.17%) JBoss
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (4.17%) OpenEdge
Business Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (8.33%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (4.17%) MFGPRO
3 1 (4.17%) Sage 50
3 1 (4.17%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (12.50%) Azure
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (8.33%) GitHub
3 2 (8.33%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) AWS
4 1 (4.17%) IaaS
4 1 (4.17%) PaaS
4 1 (4.17%) SaaS
4 1 (4.17%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) DNS
2 2 (8.33%) SAN
2 2 (8.33%) WAN
3 1 (4.17%) DHCP
3 1 (4.17%) Firewall
3 1 (4.17%) HTTP
3 1 (4.17%) HTTPS
3 1 (4.17%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (4.17%) Kerberos
3 1 (4.17%) LAN
3 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) Power BI
2 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) JIRA
2 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.33%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Legal
3 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.33%) Publishing
3 2 (8.33%) Retail
4 1 (4.17%) Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Law
4 1 (4.17%) Marketing
4 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Availability Manager
1 6 (25.00%) Service Manager
2 3 (12.50%) Analyst
2 3 (12.50%) Architect
2 3 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 3 (12.50%) Service Continuity Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Business Change Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Business Continuity Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Business Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Change Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) E-Commerce Manager
3 2 (8.33%) E-Commerce Project Manager
3 2 (8.33%) IT Manager
3 2 (8.33%) IT Services Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Security Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Applications Architect
4 1 (4.17%) ERP Project Manager
4 1 (4.17%) ITIL Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Security Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (4.17%) JSON
2 1 (4.17%) REST
2 1 (4.17%) RESTful
2 1 (4.17%) Web Services
2 1 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) CMDB
2 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.17%) Client/Server
3 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.17%) Operational Technology
3 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (29.17%) Windows
2 4 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 3 (12.50%) Linux
3 3 (12.50%) Unix
4 2 (8.33%) Windows 10
4 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (4.17%) AIX
5 1 (4.17%) HPUX
5 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 12 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 10 (41.67%) Business Continuity Planning
3 9 (37.50%) Agile
4 8 (33.33%) Service Management
5 7 (29.17%) ITIL
6 6 (25.00%) Availability Management
6 6 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (25.00%) ITSM
7 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 4 (16.67%) ERP
7 4 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
7 4 (16.67%) Project Management
8 3 (12.50%) Capacity Management
8 3 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
8 3 (12.50%) Change Management
8 3 (12.50%) Configuration Management
8 3 (12.50%) DevOps
8 3 (12.50%) Information Security
8 3 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.17%) CCNP
4 1 (4.17%) CEH
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.17%) CISSP
4 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.17%) Degree
4 1 (4.17%) GCIA
4 1 (4.17%) GCIH
4 1 (4.17%) GIAC
4 1 (4.17%) GSEC
4 1 (4.17%) MCSA
4 1 (4.17%) MCSE
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
4 1 (4.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (8.33%) NIST
1 2 (8.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
2 1 (4.17%) ISO 22301
2 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (4.17%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Ansible
2 2 (8.33%) Kibana
2 2 (8.33%) logstash
2 2 (8.33%) Packer
2 2 (8.33%) Terraform
3 1 (4.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Remedy
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) Adobe
3 2 (8.33%) HP
3 2 (8.33%) IBM
3 2 (8.33%) SAP
4 1 (4.17%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.17%) Dell
4 1 (4.17%) EMC
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle
4 1 (4.17%) Progress
4 1 (4.17%) QAD
4 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.17%) Skytap
4 1 (4.17%) Temenos
4 1 (4.17%) VMware