Business Continuity Planning Contracts in England

Business Continuity Planning
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Business Continuity Planning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Continuity Planning 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 445 525 618
Rank change year-on-year +80 +93 +129
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity Planning 40 17 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.046% 0.069%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.053% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 13 20
10th Percentile £443 £415 £461
25th Percentile £513 £425 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £475 £631
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -24.75% +48.53%
75th Percentile £675 £505 £741
90th Percentile £710 £516 £780
UK median daily rate £575 £481 £625
% change year-on-year +19.48% -23.00% +47.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Business Continuity Planning 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%

Business Continuity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Continuity Planning in England

Business Continuity Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Continuity Planning in England.

Daily rate trend for Business Continuity Planning in England

Business Continuity Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Business Continuity Planning in England

Business Continuity Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Continuity Planning in England.

Hourly rate trend for Business Continuity Planning in England

Business Continuity Planning
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 Business Continuity Planning 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 +45 15 £645 +29.00% 59
North of England +31 13 £475 -7.32% 39
North West +28 12 £500 -2.44% 18
Midlands +26 6 £575 +35.29% 15
West Midlands +18 6 £575 +35.29% 8
South East - 5 £550 - 24
Yorkshire - 1 £450 - 16
East of England - 1 £675 - 18
Business Continuity Planning
UK

Business Continuity Planning
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 8 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 14 (35.00%) Azure
2 10 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (22.50%) Entra ID
3 9 (22.50%) IaaS
4 4 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 3 (7.50%) AWS
5 3 (7.50%) Serverless
6 2 (5.00%) Akamai
6 2 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (5.00%) Nutanix
6 2 (5.00%) SaaS
7 1 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.50%) Cloud Functions
7 1 (2.50%) GCP
7 1 (2.50%) GitHub
7 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (25.00%) Firewall
1 10 (25.00%) Network Security
2 8 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (7.50%) VPN
3 3 (7.50%) WAN
4 2 (5.00%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (5.00%) DNS
4 2 (5.00%) SD-WAN
4 2 (5.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (5.00%) Wireless
5 1 (2.50%) Kerberos
5 1 (2.50%) LAN
5 1 (2.50%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (10.00%) Power BI
3 2 (5.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (5.00%) Oracle Database
3 2 (5.00%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (2.50%) GIS
4 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Git
1 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 7 (17.50%) Finance
4 5 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.50%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (7.50%) Law
5 3 (7.50%) Legal
5 3 (7.50%) Police
6 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.50%) Local Government
7 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (17.50%) Analyst
2 6 (15.00%) Architect
2 6 (15.00%) Lead
3 5 (12.50%) Consultant
3 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) IT Manager
4 4 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 4 (10.00%) Service Continuity Leader
5 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 3 (7.50%) IT Project Manager
5 3 (7.50%) Security Architect
5 3 (7.50%) Security Consultant
5 3 (7.50%) Security Manager
6 2 (5.00%) Business Information Manager
6 2 (5.00%) Business Manager
6 2 (5.00%) Information Manager
6 2 (5.00%) Oracle Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Report Manager
6 2 (5.00%) Senior
7 1 (2.50%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.50%) Node.js
2 1 (2.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.50%) Cyberattack
1 3 (7.50%) Freedom of Information
1 3 (7.50%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.50%) EMC VNX
3 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.50%) IBM XIV
3 1 (2.50%) NHS
3 1 (2.50%) PKI
3 1 (2.50%) PMI
3 1 (2.50%) Replication
3 1 (2.50%) Video\Live Streaming
3 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (27.50%) Windows
2 10 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (7.50%) Linux
4 2 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (5.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (100.00%) Business Continuity
2 37 (92.50%) BCP
3 25 (62.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 16 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (32.50%) Cybersecurity
5 13 (32.50%) High Availability
6 12 (30.00%) Incident Response
6 12 (30.00%) Risk Assessment
7 10 (25.00%) Change Management
8 9 (22.50%) ITIL
8 9 (22.50%) Project Delivery
9 8 (20.00%) Analytics
9 8 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
9 8 (20.00%) Information Security
9 8 (20.00%) Risk Management
9 8 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
10 7 (17.50%) Line Management
10 7 (17.50%) Web Operations
11 6 (15.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 8 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (7.50%) SQL
3 1 (2.50%) Groovy
3 1 (2.50%) Java
3 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 8 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (10.00%) CISSP
3 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (7.50%) CISM
4 3 (7.50%) CRISC
5 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.50%) CEH
6 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.50%) Degree
6 1 (2.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.50%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (20.00%) GDPR
2 7 (17.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (17.50%) NIST
3 5 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 3 (7.50%) GRC
4 3 (7.50%) HIPAA
4 3 (7.50%) PMO
5 2 (5.00%) QA
6 1 (2.50%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
6 1 (2.50%) ISO 22301
6 1 (2.50%) NIST 800
System Software
1 11 (27.50%) Active Directory
2 8 (20.00%) vSphere
3 7 (17.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (5.00%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (7.50%) Terraform
3 2 (5.00%) Data Guard
3 2 (5.00%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (2.50%) Ansible
4 1 (2.50%) Grafana
4 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (27.50%) Microsoft
2 9 (22.50%) VMware
3 2 (5.00%) Cisco
3 2 (5.00%) Dell KACE
3 2 (5.00%) Meraki
3 2 (5.00%) Oracle
3 2 (5.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (5.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (5.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (5.00%) Ubiquiti
4 1 (2.50%) EMC
4 1 (2.50%) Google
4 1 (2.50%) IBM
4 1 (2.50%) Veeam