Contingency Planning Contracts in England

Contingency Planning
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Contingency Planning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Contingency Planning over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 423 472 574
Rank change year-on-year +49 +102 +106
Contract jobs citing Contingency Planning 48 61 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.17% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.19% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 49 47
10th Percentile £357 £445 £419
25th Percentile £397 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £593 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £745 £704
UK median daily rate £537 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.61% - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £34.25 -
Median hourly rate £40.00 £35.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.68% - -
75th Percentile £62.63 £36.75 -
90th Percentile £76.20 - -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £35.50 -
% change year-on-year +12.68% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Contingency 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 22,169 31,438 43,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.25% 86.37% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,471 20,622 30,640
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% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 963 2,250 1,536
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.96 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.60 £36.50 £37.15
Median % change year-on-year -21.64% -1.75% +48.60%
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%

Contingency Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Contingency Planning in England

Contingency Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Contingency Planning in England

Contingency Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Contingency Planning in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Contingency Planning in England

Contingency Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Contingency Planning in England

Contingency Planning
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Contingency Planning in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Contingency Planning in England

Contingency 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 Contingency Planning within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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 +44 16 £447 -30.48% 28
North of England +21 16 £544 -19.48% 5
North West +19 8 £447 -33.78% 3
East of England - 7 £425 - 3
Yorkshire +18 6 £550 -18.52% 2
Midlands +11 6 £537 +19.33% 8
South East +36 4 - - 13
East Midlands +11 3 £537 - 5
West Midlands -3 3 £574 +27.44% 3
South West +39 2 £475 -9.52% 5
Contingency Planning
UK

Contingency 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 3 (6.25%) Confluence
2 2 (4.17%) MS Project Server
3 1 (2.08%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (27.08%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Primavera
2 2 (4.17%) SAP PM
2 2 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 7 (14.58%) Amazon Glacier
1 7 (14.58%) Amazon Kinesis
1 7 (14.58%) Amazon S3
1 7 (14.58%) AWS
1 7 (14.58%) AWS Lambda
1 7 (14.58%) Serverless
2 4 (8.33%) Azure
3 2 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (4.17%) SaaS
4 1 (2.08%) Adobe Analytics
4 1 (2.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.08%) Collibra
4 1 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.08%) GCP
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) Internet
2 1 (2.08%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.58%) DynamoDB
2 2 (4.17%) Big Data
3 1 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.08%) Delta Lake
3 1 (2.08%) GIS
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (14.58%) Jenkins
2 6 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (2.08%) Zephyr
General
1 16 (33.33%) Finance
2 12 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (14.58%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.17%) Marketing
5 2 (4.17%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.08%) Banking
6 1 (2.08%) Legal
6 1 (2.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (22.92%) Project Manager
2 7 (14.58%) Architect
2 7 (14.58%) Programme Manager
3 6 (12.50%) Lead
3 6 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (6.25%) Cutover Manager
4 3 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 3 (6.25%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
4 3 (6.25%) SAP Manager
4 3 (6.25%) Security Manager
4 3 (6.25%) Security Project Manager
4 3 (6.25%) Senior
5 2 (4.17%) AWS Architect
5 2 (4.17%) AWS Solution Architect
5 2 (4.17%) Java Architect
5 2 (4.17%) Java Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.17%) Product Owner
5 2 (4.17%) SAP Cutover Manager
5 2 (4.17%) Technical Manager
5 2 (4.17%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.67%) Kafka
2 7 (14.58%) ActiveMQ
2 7 (14.58%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.58%) PMI
1 7 (14.58%) Public Cloud
2 4 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.25%) IoT
3 3 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.17%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.17%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.17%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.08%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (41.67%) Project Management
2 19 (39.58%) Agile
3 15 (31.25%) Risk Management
4 14 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (27.08%) Roadmaps
5 13 (27.08%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (25.00%) PRINCE2
6 12 (25.00%) Project Planning
7 10 (20.83%) Project Delivery
7 10 (20.83%) SDLC
8 8 (16.67%) Service Delivery
9 7 (14.58%) Budget Control
9 7 (14.58%) Budget Management
9 7 (14.58%) CI/CD
9 7 (14.58%) Containerisation
9 7 (14.58%) Creative Problem-Solving
9 7 (14.58%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (14.58%) Event-Driven
9 7 (14.58%) Microservices
10 6 (12.50%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.58%) Java
2 2 (4.17%) SQL
3 1 (2.08%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (2.08%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (16.67%) PMI Certification
2 7 (14.58%) Degree
3 6 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 5 (10.42%) SC Cleared
5 3 (6.25%) PMP
6 1 (2.08%) CFA
6 1 (2.08%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.08%) ISTQB
6 1 (2.08%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (2.08%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) QA
2 3 (6.25%) GDPR
3 1 (2.08%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.08%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.08%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (14.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.08%) HP ALM
1 1 (2.08%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.33%) SAP
3 2 (4.17%) Ariba
3 2 (4.17%) HP
4 1 (2.08%) Adobe
4 1 (2.08%) Databricks
4 1 (2.08%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.08%) eFront
4 1 (2.08%) Google
4 1 (2.08%) Informatica
4 1 (2.08%) Oracle