Business Continuity Contracts in Lancashire

Business Continuity
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 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 25 31 33
Rank change year-on-year +6 +2 -
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 4 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 2.29% 0.51% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 0.65% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
North West median daily rate £516 £488 £511
% change year-on-year +5.90% -4.60% +2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £23.97
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £25.81
Median % change year-on-year - +35.61% -
75th Percentile - - £27.66
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £29.23 £16.17 £26.90
% change year-on-year +80.77% -39.88% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 158 154 211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 90.29% 78.97% 87.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 74 118
10th Percentile £400 £313 £339
25th Percentile £463 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £538 £533
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% +0.94% +11.52%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £630 £747 £700
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 51 42
10th Percentile £14.62 - £22.31
25th Percentile £23.87 £16.06 £28.85
Median hourly rate £28.75 £19.18 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +49.90% -54.87% +7.59%
75th Percentile £43.94 £46.03 £49.52
90th Percentile £60.59 £48.00 £53.43
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Business Continuity
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Continuity in Lancashire

Business Continuity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for Business Continuity in Lancashire

Business Continuity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Continuity in Lancashire

Business Continuity
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire 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
Burnley - 3 - - 1
Preston - 1 £500 - 5
Business Continuity
North West

Business Continuity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) LAN
1 3 (75.00%) Network Security
1 3 (75.00%) SAN
1 3 (75.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) GIS
General
1 1 (25.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Industrial Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Business Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Asset Management
1 3 (75.00%) Data Management
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
1 3 (75.00%) Proactive Maintenance
1 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (75.00%) Storage Management
1 3 (75.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) BCP
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Backup Exec
1 3 (75.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) Symantec
1 3 (75.00%) Veeam
1 3 (75.00%) VMware