Business Continuity Contract Job Trends in London

Business Continuity
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Business Continuity skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 265 306
Rank change year-on-year -45 +41 +44
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 130 103 90
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.66% 0.77% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.84% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 67 71
10th Percentile £363 £395 £250
25th Percentile £459 £506 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% +35.29% -22.73%
75th Percentile £652 £669 £588
90th Percentile £763 £755 £750
England median daily rate £525 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
Median hourly rate £16.04 £21.63 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.83% - -
England median hourly rate £19.22 £42.06 £16.17
% change year-on-year -54.31% +160.13% -59.82%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,398 12,312 15,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.95% 92.16% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,552 8,218 11,064
10th Percentile £358 £331 £340
25th Percentile £440 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £524 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 230 293
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.96
25th Percentile £22.91 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.73% +7.50% -27.31%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £68.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -4.70%

Business Continuity
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Business Continuity relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Business Continuity job vacancy trend in London

Business Continuity
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Business Continuity

Business Continuity
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Continuity in London over the 6 months to 8 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Business Continuity in London

Business Continuity
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Business Continuity

Business Continuity
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 Business Continuity within the London region over the 6 months to 8 July 2026. 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 -17 9 £475 -20.83% 13
South London - 3 £723 - 2
West London -20 2 £500 - 3
Business Continuity
England

Business Continuity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (3.85%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.31%) HCL Notes
2 3 (2.31%) Mendix
3 1 (0.77%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.77%) Apache
3 1 (0.77%) CloudStack
3 1 (0.77%) Mule
3 1 (0.77%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.77%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (0.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.54%) Endur
1 2 (1.54%) Primavera
2 1 (0.77%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.77%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.77%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.77%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.77%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.77%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 31 (23.85%) Azure
2 21 (16.15%) AWS
3 11 (8.46%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (6.15%) GCP
5 7 (5.38%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (5.38%) Entra ID
5 7 (5.38%) Power Platform
5 7 (5.38%) Serverless
6 4 (3.08%) PowerApps
7 3 (2.31%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.31%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (2.31%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.31%) Azure Functions
7 3 (2.31%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (2.31%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (2.31%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (2.31%) GitHub
7 3 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.31%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.54%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.15%) Network Security
1 8 (6.15%) VPN
2 7 (5.38%) DNS
3 6 (4.62%) DHCP
3 6 (4.62%) Firewall
3 6 (4.62%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.08%) LAN
4 4 (3.08%) WAN
5 3 (2.31%) Wireless
6 2 (1.54%) 4G
6 2 (1.54%) Intranet
6 2 (1.54%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (0.77%) Internet
7 1 (0.77%) NAS
7 1 (0.77%) SAN
7 1 (0.77%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.62%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.85%) Power BI
3 4 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.08%) Oracle Database
4 3 (2.31%) Metadata
5 2 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.54%) Big Data
6 1 (0.77%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.77%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.77%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.77%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (0.77%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (0.77%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.77%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.77%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (3.85%) JIRA
2 3 (2.31%) GitLab
3 2 (1.54%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.77%) Selenium
4 1 (0.77%) SpecFlow
General
1 50 (38.46%) Finance
2 43 (33.08%) Social Skills
3 23 (17.69%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (9.23%) Banking
4 12 (9.23%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.15%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (3.85%) Telecoms
8 4 (3.08%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.08%) Law
8 4 (3.08%) Local Government
9 3 (2.31%) Back Office
9 3 (2.31%) Legal
10 2 (1.54%) Billing
10 2 (1.54%) Front Office
10 2 (1.54%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (17.69%) Architect
2 14 (10.77%) Lead
3 13 (10.00%) IT Manager
4 12 (9.23%) Consultant
5 10 (7.69%) Change Manager
6 8 (6.15%) Analyst
6 8 (6.15%) Business Consultant
7 7 (5.38%) Incident Manager
7 7 (5.38%) Project Manager
7 7 (5.38%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (4.62%) Business Continuity Consultant
8 6 (4.62%) Resilience Manager
8 6 (4.62%) Senior
8 6 (4.62%) ServiceNow Architect
9 5 (3.85%) Business Manager
9 5 (3.85%) IT Change Manager
9 5 (3.85%) IT Consultant
10 4 (3.08%) Applications Manager
10 4 (3.08%) Applications Support
10 4 (3.08%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.85%) .NET
1 5 (3.85%) React
2 3 (2.31%) HTML5 Canvas
2 3 (2.31%) REST
3 2 (1.54%) .NET Core
3 2 (1.54%) .NET Framework
3 2 (1.54%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.54%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.77%) CSS
4 1 (0.77%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.77%) HTML
4 1 (0.77%) JSON
4 1 (0.77%) Kafka
4 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.77%) Middleware
4 1 (0.77%) PySpark
4 1 (0.77%) RAML
4 1 (0.77%) SOAP
4 1 (0.77%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.15%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.38%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.62%) CMDB
3 6 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.62%) Security Posture
4 5 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.85%) Low-Code
4 5 (3.85%) Replication
5 4 (3.08%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (3.08%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.08%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.31%) Cyberattack
6 3 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.31%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (1.54%) Clustering
7 2 (1.54%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.54%) SCADA
7 2 (1.54%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 15 (11.54%) Windows
2 8 (6.15%) Linux
3 6 (4.62%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.31%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.77%) AIX
6 1 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.77%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.77%) Rocky
6 1 (0.77%) Solaris
6 1 (0.77%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.77%) Unix
6 1 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (43.85%) Disaster Recovery
2 28 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (21.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 27 (20.77%) Continuous Improvement
4 23 (17.69%) Stakeholder Management
5 22 (16.92%) DevOps
6 21 (16.15%) ITIL
7 20 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
7 20 (15.38%) Incident Management
7 20 (15.38%) Incident Response
7 20 (15.38%) Risk Management
8 18 (13.85%) Agile
8 18 (13.85%) BCP
8 18 (13.85%) Business Continuity Planning
8 18 (13.85%) Change Management
8 18 (13.85%) Data Protection
8 18 (13.85%) Project Delivery
9 17 (13.08%) CI/CD
10 16 (12.31%) High Availability
11 15 (11.54%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 11 (8.46%) SQL
2 9 (6.92%) Python
3 6 (4.62%) C#
3 6 (4.62%) JavaScript
4 5 (3.85%) Bash
4 5 (3.85%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.31%) Formula Language
5 3 (2.31%) Java
5 3 (2.31%) LotusScript
6 2 (1.54%) Bicep
6 2 (1.54%) COBOL
6 2 (1.54%) RPG
6 2 (1.54%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.77%) DataWeave
7 1 (0.77%) Groovy
7 1 (0.77%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.77%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.77%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (13.08%) SC Cleared
3 13 (10.00%) Degree
4 9 (6.92%) APMG
5 8 (6.15%) AWS Certification
5 8 (6.15%) DV Cleared
6 6 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (3.85%) Azure Certification
8 4 (3.08%) CCNP
8 4 (3.08%) CISA
8 4 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (3.08%) CISSP
8 4 (3.08%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (3.08%) Master's Degree
8 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (3.08%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (2.31%) CCNA
9 3 (2.31%) PMI Certification
9 3 (2.31%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 11 (8.46%) PMO
2 10 (7.69%) NIST
3 9 (6.92%) GDPR
4 6 (4.62%) PCI DSS
4 6 (4.62%) SLA
5 5 (3.85%) GRC
5 5 (3.85%) QA
6 3 (2.31%) COBIT
6 3 (2.31%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (2.31%) ISO 22301
6 3 (2.31%) NCSC
6 3 (2.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.54%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.54%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.54%) ISO 31000
7 2 (1.54%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.77%) NIST 800
System Software
1 11 (8.46%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.62%) Docker
3 3 (2.31%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.77%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.77%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.92%) Terraform
3 5 (3.85%) Ansible
4 4 (3.08%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.31%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.54%) Grafana
6 2 (1.54%) SCCM
7 1 (0.77%) Check_MK
7 1 (0.77%) Nagios
7 1 (0.77%) QRadar
7 1 (0.77%) SCOM
Vendors
1 29 (22.31%) Microsoft
2 23 (17.69%) ServiceNow
3 6 (4.62%) Oracle
4 4 (3.08%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.31%) Bloomberg
5 3 (2.31%) Citrix
5 3 (2.31%) Computacenter
5 3 (2.31%) Kofax
5 3 (2.31%) Lotus
5 3 (2.31%) VMware
6 2 (1.54%) Autodesk
6 2 (1.54%) IBM
6 2 (1.54%) Kronos
6 2 (1.54%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.54%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.54%) Workday
7 1 (0.77%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.77%) Splunk
7 1 (0.77%) Veeam
7 1 (0.77%) Yardi