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 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 458 493 571
Rank change year-on-year +35 +78 +181
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Business Continuity Planning 39 24 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.072% 0.081%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.084% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 16 22
10th Percentile £389 £263 £433
25th Percentile £525 £402 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £481 £617
Median % change year-on-year +19.48% -22.00% +29.89%
75th Percentile £691 £538 £708
90th Percentile £740 £606 £953
UK median daily rate £563 £488 £550
% change year-on-year +15.38% -11.36% +22.22%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 25,062 28,457 39,537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.79% 85.79% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,974 18,468 27,622
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £404 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £626 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £756 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,446 1,582 1,376
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.05 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.12 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.75 £40.85
Median % change year-on-year -41.17% +4.66% +51.39%
75th Percentile £50.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £41.00
% change year-on-year -38.57% -0.15% +54.72%

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
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Business Continuity Planning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Business Continuity Planning

Business Continuity Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Continuity Planning in England over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Continuity Planning in England

Business Continuity Planning
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Business Continuity Planning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Business Continuity Planning

Business Continuity Planning
DemandTrendContract 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 20 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +29 18 £540 +8.00% 25
North of England -18 8 - - 6
North West -4 6 - - 4
South East - 6 £644 - 12
Midlands -2 4 £575 +27.78% 2
West Midlands -3 4 £575 +48.39% 1
East of England - 3 £541 - 2
North East - 2 - - 2
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 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.13%) SAS
2 2 (5.13%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (2.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.77%) Azure
2 7 (17.95%) AWS
2 7 (17.95%) Entra ID
3 6 (15.38%) IaaS
3 6 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (10.26%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (10.26%) Power Platform
5 3 (7.69%) GitHub
5 3 (7.69%) Serverless
6 2 (5.13%) Akamai
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon S3
6 2 (5.13%) Nutanix
6 2 (5.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.56%) Cloud Functions
7 1 (2.56%) GCP
7 1 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (23.08%) Firewall
2 7 (17.95%) Network Security
3 5 (12.82%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (7.69%) DNS
4 3 (7.69%) TCP/IP
4 3 (7.69%) VPN
4 3 (7.69%) WAN
5 2 (5.13%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (5.13%) SD-WAN
5 2 (5.13%) Wireless
6 1 (2.56%) DHCP
6 1 (2.56%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (2.56%) iSCSI
6 1 (2.56%) Kerberos
6 1 (2.56%) NAS
6 1 (2.56%) SAN
6 1 (2.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.82%) SQL Server
2 4 (10.26%) Power BI
3 2 (5.13%) Data Lake
3 2 (5.13%) Oracle Database
3 2 (5.13%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Git
1 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.56%) JIRA
General
1 9 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.51%) Finance
3 5 (12.82%) Telecoms
4 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.69%) Law
4 3 (7.69%) Police
4 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.13%) Banking
5 2 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Front Office
6 1 (2.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (30.77%) Analyst
2 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 5 (12.82%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (10.26%) Lead
4 3 (7.69%) IT Manager
5 2 (5.13%) Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Business Continuity Analyst
5 2 (5.13%) Business Information Manager
5 2 (5.13%) Business Manager
5 2 (5.13%) Information Manager
5 2 (5.13%) IT Project Manager
5 2 (5.13%) Oracle Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Project Analyst
5 2 (5.13%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.13%) Report Manager
5 2 (5.13%) Security Manager
5 2 (5.13%) Senior
5 2 (5.13%) Service Continuity Leader
5 2 (5.13%) Support Analyst
5 2 (5.13%) Trade Floor Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) 802.1X
1 2 (5.13%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.56%) Node.js
2 1 (2.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.69%) Freedom of Information
2 3 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.69%) Security Posture
3 2 (5.13%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (5.13%) Replication
3 2 (5.13%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.56%) CMDB
4 1 (2.56%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.56%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.56%) PKI
4 1 (2.56%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (2.56%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 12 (30.77%) Windows
2 11 (28.21%) Windows Server
3 7 (17.95%) Linux
4 2 (5.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (5.13%) VMS
5 1 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (100.00%) Business Continuity
2 36 (92.31%) BCP
3 17 (43.59%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (28.21%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (25.64%) Cybersecurity
5 10 (25.64%) High Availability
6 8 (20.51%) Analytics
6 8 (20.51%) Change Management
7 7 (17.95%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (15.38%) Incident Response
8 6 (15.38%) Information Security
8 6 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (15.38%) Project Delivery
8 6 (15.38%) Risk Management
8 6 (15.38%) Service Delivery
8 6 (15.38%) Vulnerability Scanning
9 5 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (12.82%) Line Management
9 5 (12.82%) Risk Assessment
9 5 (12.82%) Web Operations
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.08%) PowerShell
2 5 (12.82%) Python
3 4 (10.26%) SQL
4 2 (5.13%) Bash
4 2 (5.13%) Java
5 1 (2.56%) C
5 1 (2.56%) C#
5 1 (2.56%) Groovy
5 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (12.82%) Azure Certification
1 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) Degree
3 2 (5.13%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.56%) CEH
4 1 (2.56%) CISSP
4 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) GDPR
2 4 (10.26%) PMO
3 3 (7.69%) GRC
3 3 (7.69%) ISO 22301
3 3 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (7.69%) NIST
4 2 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.56%) NIST 800
5 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 9 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 6 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (12.82%) vSphere
4 2 (5.13%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (2.56%) Docker
5 1 (2.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (17.95%) Terraform
2 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (5.13%) Data Guard
3 2 (5.13%) NetBackup
3 2 (5.13%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (5.13%) Puppet
4 1 (2.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.56%) Ansible
4 1 (2.56%) Grafana
4 1 (2.56%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (20.51%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.38%) VMware
3 2 (5.13%) Cisco
3 2 (5.13%) Commvault
3 2 (5.13%) Dell KACE
3 2 (5.13%) Meraki
3 2 (5.13%) Oracle
3 2 (5.13%) Palo Alto
3 2 (5.13%) Red Hat
3 2 (5.13%) SnapLogic
3 2 (5.13%) SolarWinds
3 2 (5.13%) Ubiquiti
4 1 (2.56%) Aruba
4 1 (2.56%) Citrix
4 1 (2.56%) Google
4 1 (2.56%) HP
4 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.56%) Veeam