Business Continuity Contracts in England

Business Continuity
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 344 392
Rank change year-on-year +54 +48 +19
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 194 208 261
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.80% 0.57% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.66% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 148 170
10th Percentile £413 £257 £312
25th Percentile £500 £350 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -9.52% +1.35%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £675
90th Percentile £719 £725 £740
UK median daily rate £550 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.71% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 3
10th Percentile £19.83 £14.58 £23.48
25th Percentile £20.24 £15.44 £23.66
Median hourly rate £21.63 £16.17 £25.81
Median % change year-on-year +33.74% -37.35% +7.95%
75th Percentile £26.36 £21.07 £27.82
90th Percentile £45.54 £29.43 £27.92
UK median hourly rate £22.05 £16.17 £25.81
% change year-on-year +36.38% -37.35% +7.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,142 31,440 43,538
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.23% 86.46% 90.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,483 20,583 30,556
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
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 £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 937 2,239 1,538
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.87 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.97 £16.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -21.23% -2.14% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

Business Continuity
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Continuity in England

Business Continuity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Business Continuity in England

Business Continuity
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Continuity in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Continuity in England

Business Continuity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Continuity in England

Business Continuity
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Continuity in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Continuity in England

Business Continuity
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 16 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 +21 91 £600 +29.03% 175
North of England +23 42 £510 +10.27% 70
North West +1 27 £516 +5.90% 38
South East +33 25 £550 +22.22% 68
Midlands +23 17 £525 -14.29% 24
West Midlands +19 15 £525 -12.50% 11
Yorkshire +26 14 £475 +28.38% 22
South West +30 5 £435 -12.12% 22
East of England +29 5 £425 -29.17% 26
North East -1 1 - - 10
Business Continuity
UK

Business Continuity
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 17 (8.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (8.25%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.06%) Confluence
4 1 (0.52%) CMS
Applications
1 15 (7.73%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (6.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (6.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.03%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.52%) SAP Business ByDesign
3 1 (0.52%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.52%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.52%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.52%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.52%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.52%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 68 (35.05%) Azure
2 28 (14.43%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (13.40%) AWS
3 26 (13.40%) Entra ID
4 16 (8.25%) GCP
4 16 (8.25%) IaaS
5 12 (6.19%) SaaS
6 11 (5.67%) Power Platform
7 8 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (3.61%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (3.61%) PaaS
9 6 (3.09%) Power Automate
10 5 (2.58%) PowerApps
11 4 (2.06%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (2.06%) OneDrive
12 3 (1.55%) Mimecast
12 3 (1.55%) Serverless
13 2 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (1.03%) Azure Sentinel
13 2 (1.03%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 26 (13.40%) Firewall
2 23 (11.86%) Network Security
3 15 (7.73%) DNS
4 12 (6.19%) DHCP
4 12 (6.19%) WAN
5 11 (5.67%) Intranet
5 11 (5.67%) Intrusion Detection
5 11 (5.67%) TCP/IP
5 11 (5.67%) VPN
6 9 (4.64%) LAN
7 8 (4.12%) Wireless
8 7 (3.61%) SD-WAN
9 4 (2.06%) 4G
10 3 (1.55%) SAN
10 3 (1.55%) VLAN
10 3 (1.55%) WLAN
11 2 (1.03%) Cisco ISE
11 2 (1.03%) VoIP
11 2 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.52%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.19%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.09%) MongoDB
2 6 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (3.09%) Power BI
3 5 (2.58%) Oracle Database
4 4 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.06%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.55%) GIS
5 3 (1.55%) MySQL
6 2 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.03%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.03%) Oracle Database 12c
6 2 (1.03%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.52%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (4.12%) JIRA
2 1 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (0.52%) Git
2 1 (0.52%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.52%) Selenium
2 1 (0.52%) SpecFlow
General
1 72 (37.11%) Social Skills
2 41 (21.13%) Finance
3 25 (12.89%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.25%) Local Government
5 13 (6.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (6.70%) Telecoms
6 12 (6.19%) Banking
6 12 (6.19%) Legal
7 11 (5.67%) Public Sector
7 11 (5.67%) Public Speaking
8 5 (2.58%) Marketing
9 4 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.06%) Law
9 4 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.06%) Retail
10 3 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.55%) Police
11 2 (1.03%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.03%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.03%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 27 (13.92%) Analyst
2 23 (11.86%) Lead
3 22 (11.34%) Senior
4 17 (8.76%) Consultant
4 17 (8.76%) Project Manager
5 15 (7.73%) Architect
6 14 (7.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (6.19%) IT Manager
8 11 (5.67%) Communications Officer
9 10 (5.15%) Business Analyst
10 9 (4.64%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.61%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 7 (3.61%) Service Manager
12 6 (3.09%) Head of IT
12 6 (3.09%) Infrastructure Specialist
12 6 (3.09%) IT Project Manager
12 6 (3.09%) Security Analyst
12 6 (3.09%) Senior Analyst
12 6 (3.09%) Systems Analyst
13 5 (2.58%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.55%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.03%) Kafka
2 2 (1.03%) Web Services
3 1 (0.52%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.52%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.52%) Node.js
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.52%) REST
3 1 (0.52%) SAML
3 1 (0.52%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.52%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.25%) Data Centre
2 10 (5.15%) Replication
3 8 (4.12%) Security Posture
4 7 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.09%) PKI
6 5 (2.58%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.58%) Low-Code
6 5 (2.58%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.58%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (2.06%) Freedom of Information
7 4 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.55%) Cyberattack
8 3 (1.55%) IoT
8 3 (1.55%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.03%) PMI
9 2 (1.03%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.03%) SCADA
9 2 (1.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 47 (24.23%) Windows
2 25 (12.89%) Windows Server
3 13 (6.70%) Linux
4 3 (1.55%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.55%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (1.55%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.03%) VMS
6 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (41.24%) Disaster Recovery
2 49 (25.26%) Stakeholder Management
3 47 (24.23%) ITIL
4 46 (23.71%) BCP
5 43 (22.16%) Business Continuity Planning
6 41 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (20.10%) Risk Management
8 32 (16.49%) Cybersecurity
9 31 (15.98%) Migration
10 26 (13.40%) Project Management
11 24 (12.37%) High Availability
12 23 (11.86%) Change Management
12 23 (11.86%) Incident Response
12 23 (11.86%) Service Delivery
12 23 (11.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 22 (11.34%) Agile
14 21 (10.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 21 (10.82%) Roadmaps
15 18 (9.28%) Analytics
16 17 (8.76%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 21 (10.82%) PowerShell
2 13 (6.70%) SQL
3 12 (6.19%) Python
4 3 (1.55%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (1.55%) Perl
5 1 (0.52%) Bash
5 1 (0.52%) C#
5 1 (0.52%) Groovy
5 1 (0.52%) Java
5 1 (0.52%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 32 (16.49%) Degree
2 17 (8.76%) Security Cleared
3 15 (7.73%) Azure Certification
3 15 (7.73%) Microsoft Certification
3 15 (7.73%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.09%) PMI Certification
5 5 (2.58%) CBAP
5 5 (2.58%) CISSP
5 5 (2.58%) PMP
6 4 (2.06%) CISM
6 4 (2.06%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.55%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.55%) CCNA
7 3 (1.55%) CCNP
7 3 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.55%) CRISC
7 3 (1.55%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.55%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (8.76%) GDPR
3 11 (5.67%) NIST
4 9 (4.64%) Data Quality
4 9 (4.64%) ISO 22301
5 7 (3.61%) GRC
5 7 (3.61%) PMO
6 6 (3.09%) HIPAA
7 5 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 5 (2.58%) NCSC
8 4 (2.06%) SLA
9 3 (1.55%) ISO 31000
9 3 (1.55%) PCI DSS
9 3 (1.55%) QA
10 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.52%) COBIT
10 1 (0.52%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 33 (17.01%) Active Directory
2 19 (9.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (6.19%) vSphere
4 9 (4.64%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.58%) Docker
6 4 (2.06%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (1.55%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (1.03%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.03%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 24 (12.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (6.70%) Terraform
3 8 (4.12%) SCCM
4 6 (3.09%) FortiGate
5 5 (2.58%) HP ALM
6 4 (2.06%) Ansible
7 3 (1.55%) Backup Exec
7 3 (1.55%) Kubernetes
7 3 (1.55%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.03%) Data Guard
8 2 (1.03%) Nessus
8 2 (1.03%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.03%) WSUS
9 1 (0.52%) Grafana
9 1 (0.52%) OfficeScan
9 1 (0.52%) Perfmon
9 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.52%) Puppet
9 1 (0.52%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 41 (21.13%) Microsoft
2 26 (13.40%) VMware
3 14 (7.22%) ServiceNow
4 13 (6.70%) Oracle
5 12 (6.19%) Google
6 10 (5.15%) Cisco
6 10 (5.15%) SAP
7 6 (3.09%) HP
8 4 (2.06%) Databricks
8 4 (2.06%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.06%) Symantec
8 4 (2.06%) Veeam
9 3 (1.55%) Liquidlogic
9 3 (1.55%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.55%) Workday
10 2 (1.03%) Aruba
10 2 (1.03%) Dell KACE
10 2 (1.03%) Informatica
10 2 (1.03%) Meraki
10 2 (1.03%) Palo Alto