BCP Contracts in London

Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring BCP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BCP 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 335 377 451
Rank change year-on-year +42 +74 +105
Contract jobs citing BCP 18 14 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.079% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.089% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 32
10th Percentile £542 £312 £363
25th Percentile £588 £463 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £525 £626
Median % change year-on-year +21.90% -16.17% +25.25%
75th Percentile £675 £925 £756
90th Percentile £725 £938 £825
England median daily rate £570 £463 £550
% change year-on-year +23.14% -15.91% +11.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £79.89
Median hourly rate - - £84.09
75th Percentile - - £88.30
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £21.43 - £84.09
% change year-on-year - - +68.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

BCP 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

BCP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing BCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for BCP in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BCP in London.

Daily rate trend for BCP in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BCP in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BCP in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BCP in London.

Hourly rate trend for BCP in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BCP within the London 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
Central London +1 3 £725 +52.63% 2
East London - 2 £630 -
North London - 1 £463 -
BCP
England

BCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) Azure
1 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
1 3 (16.67%) SaaS
2 2 (11.11%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) Serverless
3 1 (5.56%) Akamai
3 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Functions
3 1 (5.56%) GCP
3 1 (5.56%) GitHub
3 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.56%) Mimecast
3 1 (5.56%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (5.56%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) Network Security
2 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
2 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.56%) WAN
2 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (38.89%) Finance
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Law
2 3 (16.67%) Police
2 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.11%) Legal
4 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Senior
2 3 (16.67%) Architect
2 3 (16.67%) Consultant
2 3 (16.67%) Security Architect
2 3 (16.67%) Security Consultant
2 3 (16.67%) Security Manager
2 3 (16.67%) Senior Manager
2 3 (16.67%) Senior Service Manager
2 3 (16.67%) Service Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Business Information Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Business Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Information Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Delivery Director
4 1 (5.56%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) IT Director
4 1 (5.56%) Network Security Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Platform Integration Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Services Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) 802.1X
1 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (5.56%) Node.js
1 1 (5.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Cyberattack
1 3 (16.67%) Freedom of Information
1 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.11%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Reference Data
3 1 (5.56%) Video\Live Streaming
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
1 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) Business Continuity
2 12 (66.67%) Business Continuity Planning
3 10 (55.56%) Incident Response
4 6 (33.33%) Agile
4 6 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (27.78%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (27.78%) Service Delivery
5 5 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (22.22%) ITIL
6 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (22.22%) Service Management
6 4 (22.22%) Strategic Thinking
7 3 (16.67%) Decision-Making
7 3 (16.67%) DevSecOps
7 3 (16.67%) Information Governance
7 3 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
7 3 (16.67%) Service Catalogue
7 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) Groovy
2 1 (5.56%) Java
2 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) CISSP
2 3 (16.67%) CISM
2 3 (16.67%) CRISC
2 3 (16.67%) Degree
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.56%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (44.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (38.89%) GDPR
2 7 (38.89%) NIST
3 3 (16.67%) GRC
3 3 (16.67%) HIPAA
4 2 (11.11%) QA
5 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
1 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) Grafana
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 2 (11.11%) Meraki
2 2 (11.11%) Palo Alto
3 1 (5.56%) CheckPoint
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco
3 1 (5.56%) Dell KACE
3 1 (5.56%) Extreme Networks
3 1 (5.56%) F5
3 1 (5.56%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) Qualys
3 1 (5.56%) SolarWinds
3 1 (5.56%) Sophos
3 1 (5.56%) Ubiquiti
3 1 (5.56%) VMware