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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 279 279
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +114
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 97 102 150
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.69% 0.64% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.72% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 57 113
10th Percentile £349 - £300
25th Percentile £475 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -2.82%
75th Percentile £713 £675 £673
90th Percentile £800 £743 £745
England median daily rate £512 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +2.35% -2.44% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £25.40 - £27.05
25th Percentile £29.00 - £34.63
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £48.50
75th Percentile - - £63.63
90th Percentile - - £71.95
England median hourly rate £35.00 £57.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year -39.13% +18.56% +94.00%

All Process and 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 13,057 14,136 18,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.24% 89.39% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,585 9,131 12,920
10th Percentile £334 £350 £351
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -3.51% -3.39%
75th Percentile £653 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 170 250
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.25 £18.76
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £28.31 £37.50 £37.17
Median % change year-on-year -24.50% +0.89% -4.39%
75th Percentile £47.00 £55.94 £61.75
90th Percentile £68.06 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.87% -21.42% +26.76%

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 22 November 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Continuity in London over the 6 months to 22 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Continuity in London

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 22 November 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 -4 20 £536 +53.21% 36
South London -5 1 £513 +192.86% 1
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 7 (7.22%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.09%) Confluence
3 3 (3.09%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (4.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (4.12%) MS Visio
2 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.03%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (22.68%) Azure
2 14 (14.43%) AWS
3 9 (9.28%) Entra ID
3 9 (9.28%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (6.19%) GitHub
5 5 (5.15%) GCP
5 5 (5.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (4.12%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (4.12%) Amazon S3
6 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (4.12%) OneDrive
6 4 (4.12%) SaaS
7 3 (3.09%) PaaS
8 2 (2.06%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.06%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (2.06%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.06%) IaaS
8 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 15 (15.46%) Firewall
2 9 (9.28%) WAN
3 6 (6.19%) LAN
3 6 (6.19%) VPN
4 5 (5.15%) SD-WAN
5 4 (4.12%) DNS
6 3 (3.09%) DHCP
6 3 (3.09%) Structured Cabling
6 3 (3.09%) VLAN
6 3 (3.09%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (2.06%) Network Security
8 1 (1.03%) 4G
8 1 (1.03%) Intranet
8 1 (1.03%) NAS
8 1 (1.03%) SAN
8 1 (1.03%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.12%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.03%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.03%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.03%) DTS
2 1 (1.03%) EDRMS
2 1 (1.03%) MySQL
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (1.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (4.12%) JIRA
2 2 (2.06%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.06%) Snyk
3 1 (1.03%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.03%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.03%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (1.03%) TestRail
General
1 40 (41.24%) Finance
2 27 (27.84%) Social Skills
3 13 (13.40%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.19%) Banking
4 6 (6.19%) Influencing Skills
4 6 (6.19%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.09%) Legal
5 3 (3.09%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.06%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.06%) Retail
7 1 (1.03%) Back Office
7 1 (1.03%) French Language
7 1 (1.03%) Front Office
7 1 (1.03%) International Banking
7 1 (1.03%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.03%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.03%) Police
Job Titles
1 11 (11.34%) Analyst
1 11 (11.34%) Lead
2 8 (8.25%) Architect
3 7 (7.22%) IT Manager
3 7 (7.22%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (6.19%) Senior
5 5 (5.15%) Business Analyst
5 5 (5.15%) Project Manager
6 4 (4.12%) Consultant
6 4 (4.12%) Data Centre Architect
7 3 (3.09%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.09%) Disaster Recovery Manager
7 3 (3.09%) Operations Manager
7 3 (3.09%) Resilience Manager
7 3 (3.09%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (2.06%) Business Manager
8 2 (2.06%) IT Operations Manager
8 2 (2.06%) IT Services Manager
8 2 (2.06%) Principal Architect
8 2 (2.06%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.09%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.06%) .NET
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (1.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.40%) Data Centre
2 9 (9.28%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.19%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (5.15%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.12%) CMDB
6 3 (3.09%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (3.09%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.06%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.06%) Replication
7 2 (2.06%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.03%) Fixed Income
8 1 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.03%) IoT
8 1 (1.03%) PMI
8 1 (1.03%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.03%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 18 (18.56%) Windows
2 9 (9.28%) Linux
2 9 (9.28%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.06%) Unix
4 1 (1.03%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (31.96%) Disaster Recovery
2 22 (22.68%) Risk Management
3 21 (21.65%) Migration
4 17 (17.53%) ITIL
4 17 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (16.49%) BCP
5 16 (16.49%) Business Continuity Planning
5 16 (16.49%) Cybersecurity
6 15 (15.46%) Stakeholder Management
7 14 (14.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 13 (13.40%) Data Protection
9 12 (12.37%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (11.34%) Change Management
10 11 (11.34%) Incident Management
10 11 (11.34%) Incident Response
10 11 (11.34%) Roadmaps
11 10 (10.31%) Information Security
11 10 (10.31%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (9.28%) Service Management
13 8 (8.25%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (13.40%) PowerShell
2 9 (9.28%) Python
3 7 (7.22%) SQL
4 4 (4.12%) Bash
5 2 (2.06%) Java
6 1 (1.03%) Bicep
6 1 (1.03%) C
6 1 (1.03%) C#
6 1 (1.03%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.03%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (13.40%) Degree
2 11 (11.34%) Security Cleared
3 7 (7.22%) CISM
3 7 (7.22%) CISSP
3 7 (7.22%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.12%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.12%) CISA
4 4 (4.12%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.09%) CCNA
5 3 (3.09%) CCNP
5 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.09%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.06%) CBAP
6 2 (2.06%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.06%) Postgraduate
7 1 (1.03%) CRISC
7 1 (1.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.03%) PMP
7 1 (1.03%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (5.15%) GDPR
3 4 (4.12%) NIST
4 3 (3.09%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.09%) QA
4 3 (3.09%) SLA
5 2 (2.06%) COBIT
5 2 (2.06%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.06%) GRC
5 2 (2.06%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.03%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.03%) ISO 19650
6 1 (1.03%) ISO 22301
6 1 (1.03%) ISO 9001
6 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (1.03%) MiFID
6 1 (1.03%) PMO
6 1 (1.03%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (11.34%) Active Directory
2 7 (7.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.12%) Docker
4 2 (2.06%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.06%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.03%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (10.31%) Terraform
2 6 (6.19%) NetBackup
3 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (3.09%) FortiGate
4 3 (3.09%) Puppet
4 3 (3.09%) SCCM
5 2 (2.06%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (2.06%) QRadar
6 1 (1.03%) Ansible
6 1 (1.03%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (1.03%) Grafana
6 1 (1.03%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (1.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (18.56%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.34%) ServiceNow
3 10 (10.31%) VMware
4 5 (5.15%) Oracle
5 4 (4.12%) Cisco
5 4 (4.12%) Commvault
6 3 (3.09%) CyberArk
6 3 (3.09%) Dynatrace
6 3 (3.09%) Google
6 3 (3.09%) IBM
6 3 (3.09%) SnapLogic
6 3 (3.09%) Splunk
6 3 (3.09%) Tenable
6 3 (3.09%) Veeam
7 2 (2.06%) Carbon Black
7 2 (2.06%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (2.06%) Proofpoint
7 2 (2.06%) Rapid7
7 2 (2.06%) Tanium
7 2 (2.06%) Veracode