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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 268 285
Rank change year-on-year -2 +17 -2
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 189 101 97
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.93% 0.75% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 0.81% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 71 53
10th Percentile £420 £355 £328
25th Percentile £469 £477 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +14.58% -8.57%
75th Percentile £725 £693 £650
90th Percentile £825 £788 £730
England median daily rate £550 £525 £450
% change year-on-year +4.76% +16.67% -14.29%
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 £23.00 £36.84
% change year-on-year -16.43% -37.56% -33.03%

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 18,094 12,405 14,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.88% 92.57% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,846 8,173 9,340
10th Percentile £359 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 241 182
10th Percentile £16.01 £17.98 £17.28
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.01 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.75 £30.00 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% -18.14% -7.51%
75th Percentile £58.44 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.75 £78.72
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -30 21 £500 -13.04% 33
South London -4 6 £550 +7.32% 1
West London -19 2 £500 - 10
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 6 (3.17%) JBoss
1 6 (3.17%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.59%) nginx
4 2 (1.06%) CICS
5 1 (0.53%) Apache
5 1 (0.53%) CloudStack
5 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.53%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Endur
1 2 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.53%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.53%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.53%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 56 (29.63%) Azure
2 40 (21.16%) AWS
3 24 (12.70%) Entra ID
4 18 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (5.82%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (5.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (4.76%) GCP
7 9 (4.76%) Power Platform
7 9 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 8 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (4.23%) GitHub
8 8 (4.23%) PaaS
9 7 (3.70%) AWS KMS
9 7 (3.70%) SaaS
10 6 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (3.17%) Azure Sentinel
10 6 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (2.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 5 (2.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.99%) VPN
2 14 (7.41%) DNS
3 13 (6.88%) DHCP
4 10 (5.29%) Network Security
5 9 (4.76%) Firewall
5 9 (4.76%) TCP/IP
6 7 (3.70%) SAN
7 6 (3.17%) Kerberos
7 6 (3.17%) LAN
7 6 (3.17%) WAN
7 6 (3.17%) Wireless
8 4 (2.12%) 4G
8 4 (2.12%) NAS
9 3 (1.59%) OpenVPN
10 2 (1.06%) Internet
10 2 (1.06%) Intranet
11 1 (0.53%) Structured Cabling
11 1 (0.53%) Unified Communications
11 1 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.53%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
1 14 (7.41%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.35%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (4.23%) Amazon Aurora
3 8 (4.23%) Metadata
3 8 (4.23%) MongoDB
3 8 (4.23%) Redis
4 7 (3.70%) MySQL
4 7 (3.70%) Power BI
5 6 (3.17%) Big Data
5 6 (3.17%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.59%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.06%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.53%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.53%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (4.23%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.70%) GitLab
3 6 (3.17%) JIRA
4 3 (1.59%) Git
5 2 (1.06%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (0.53%) Gemini Tracker
General
1 67 (35.45%) Social Skills
2 66 (34.92%) Finance
3 24 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (10.58%) Public Sector
5 18 (9.52%) Banking
6 10 (5.29%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.17%) Law
8 6 (3.17%) Legal
9 5 (2.65%) Front Office
9 5 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.12%) Retail
11 3 (1.59%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.59%) Local Government
11 3 (1.59%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.59%) Police
11 3 (1.59%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.06%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 31 (16.40%) Architect
2 27 (14.29%) Lead
3 22 (11.64%) Senior
4 14 (7.41%) Analyst
4 14 (7.41%) Consultant
4 14 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
5 11 (5.82%) Administrator
5 11 (5.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (4.23%) DBA
7 7 (3.70%) Resilience Manager
8 6 (3.17%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 6 (3.17%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (3.17%) Infrastructure Architect
8 6 (3.17%) IT Manager
8 6 (3.17%) Linux Engineer
8 6 (3.17%) Project Manager
8 6 (3.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (2.65%) Data Architect
9 5 (2.65%) Head of IT
9 5 (2.65%) Head of Security
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (15.87%) Terraform
2 10 (5.29%) REST
3 5 (2.65%) .NET
3 5 (2.65%) React
4 4 (2.12%) .NET Framework
5 3 (1.59%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.59%) Web Services
6 2 (1.06%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.06%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.06%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.06%) Entity Framework
6 2 (1.06%) ISPF
6 2 (1.06%) JSON
6 2 (1.06%) Vue
6 2 (1.06%) WPF
7 1 (0.53%) Kafka
7 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.53%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.53%) PySpark
7 1 (0.53%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.99%) Replication
2 13 (6.88%) Onboarding
3 12 (6.35%) Cloud Native
3 12 (6.35%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (5.82%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (5.29%) Security Posture
6 9 (4.76%) Clustering
7 8 (4.23%) CMDB
8 7 (3.70%) Data Centre
8 7 (3.70%) Enterprise Cloud
8 7 (3.70%) Enterprise Storage
9 6 (3.17%) Management Information System
10 5 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (2.65%) Operational Technology
11 4 (2.12%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (2.12%) Fixed Income
11 4 (2.12%) SCADA
11 4 (2.12%) Security Operations Centre
12 3 (1.59%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 30 (15.87%) Windows
2 23 (12.17%) Linux
3 16 (8.47%) Windows Server
4 10 (5.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.12%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.59%) Unix
7 2 (1.06%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.06%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.06%) zOS
8 1 (0.53%) AIX
8 1 (0.53%) Android
8 1 (0.53%) CentOS
8 1 (0.53%) SUSE
8 1 (0.53%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (61.90%) Disaster Recovery
2 64 (33.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 42 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 40 (21.16%) BCP
5 38 (20.11%) Business Continuity Planning
6 36 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
7 35 (18.52%) Cybersecurity
8 33 (17.46%) CI/CD
8 33 (17.46%) DevOps
9 31 (16.40%) Migration
9 31 (16.40%) Roadmaps
10 30 (15.87%) High Availability
11 29 (15.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 27 (14.29%) Decision-Making
13 26 (13.76%) Incident Response
13 26 (13.76%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (13.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 24 (12.70%) ITIL
16 23 (12.17%) Performance Tuning
17 22 (11.64%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (11.64%) PowerShell
2 17 (8.99%) Python
3 13 (6.88%) Bicep
3 13 (6.88%) SQL
4 7 (3.70%) Bash
4 7 (3.70%) C#
5 5 (2.65%) COBOL
5 5 (2.65%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.59%) Groovy
6 3 (1.59%) Java
6 3 (1.59%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (1.59%) RPG
7 2 (1.06%) C
7 2 (1.06%) C++
7 2 (1.06%) JCL
7 2 (1.06%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 41 (21.69%) Security Cleared
2 34 (17.99%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.35%) AWS Certification
4 11 (5.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 11 (5.82%) Degree
5 9 (4.76%) Azure Certification
6 8 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.17%) PMI Certification
7 6 (3.17%) PMP
8 5 (2.65%) CCNP
8 5 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (2.65%) DV Cleared
9 4 (2.12%) CCNA
10 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.06%) APMG
11 2 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.06%) CISM
11 2 (1.06%) CISSP
11 2 (1.06%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (5.82%) NIST
3 10 (5.29%) Data Quality
4 9 (4.76%) ISO 22301
5 6 (3.17%) GRC
6 5 (2.65%) GDPR
6 5 (2.65%) PMO
7 4 (2.12%) JSP 440
7 4 (2.12%) SLA
8 3 (1.59%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.59%) NCSC
8 3 (1.59%) QA
8 3 (1.59%) SOC 2
9 2 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 17 (8.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (3.17%) Docker
4 6 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (3.17%) vSphere
5 4 (2.12%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.06%) Firmware
7 2 (1.06%) RACF
7 2 (1.06%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 13 (6.88%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.76%) Ansible
3 7 (3.70%) Grafana
3 7 (3.70%) Puppet
4 6 (3.17%) Failover Clustering
4 6 (3.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (3.17%) Prometheus
4 6 (3.17%) Red Hat Satellite
5 4 (2.12%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.59%) Kibana
6 3 (1.59%) SCCM
6 3 (1.59%) SCOM
7 2 (1.06%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.53%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.53%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.53%) Nagios
8 1 (0.53%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.53%) QRadar
8 1 (0.53%) SCOrch
8 1 (0.53%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 54 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 20 (10.58%) ServiceNow
3 19 (10.05%) VMware
4 8 (4.23%) IBM
4 8 (4.23%) Red Hat
5 7 (3.70%) Cisco
6 5 (2.65%) Oracle
7 4 (2.12%) Bloomberg
7 4 (2.12%) Citrix
7 4 (2.12%) Google
8 3 (1.59%) JDA
8 3 (1.59%) Splunk
9 2 (1.06%) Broadcom
9 2 (1.06%) Databricks
9 2 (1.06%) Dell
9 2 (1.06%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.06%) EMC
9 2 (1.06%) NetApp
9 2 (1.06%) Snow
9 2 (1.06%) Veeam