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 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 271 279
Rank change year-on-year -14 +8 +102
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 121 78 103
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.71% 0.61% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.67% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 50 82
10th Percentile £363 £457 £250
25th Percentile £415 £527 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £474
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +26.65% +0.26%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £631
90th Percentile £800 £689 £725
England median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 £19.20 -
Median % change year-on-year +82.29% - -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.36 £24.50
% change year-on-year +32.80% +7.57% -4.71%

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 15,294 11,605 15,921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.42% 91.50% 88.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,270 7,873 11,381
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £675
90th Percentile £753 £806 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 169 333
10th Percentile £18.07 £18.12 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.18 £19.92
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.20% -22.77%
75th Percentile £56.50 £50.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £65.00 £67.80
England median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year +15.38% -1.71% -11.83%

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 4 April 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 4 April 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 -9 19 £588 -2.08% 10
South London -11 5 £700 +300.00%
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 13 (10.74%) SharePoint
2 10 (8.26%) HCL Notes
2 10 (8.26%) Mendix
3 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.83%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.83%) Mule
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.83%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Primavera
2 1 (0.83%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 28 (23.14%) Azure
2 15 (12.40%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (10.74%) AWS
3 13 (10.74%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (9.92%) Serverless
5 11 (9.09%) Power Platform
6 10 (8.26%) Azure Functions
6 10 (8.26%) Azure Logic Apps
6 10 (8.26%) Azure Service Bus
6 10 (8.26%) Power Automate
6 10 (8.26%) PowerApps
7 8 (6.61%) GCP
8 4 (3.31%) Entra ID
8 4 (3.31%) GitHub
9 3 (2.48%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (2.48%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.65%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.65%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.65%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.79%) Firewall
2 3 (2.48%) Network Security
2 3 (2.48%) VPN
3 2 (1.65%) LAN
4 1 (0.83%) DHCP
4 1 (0.83%) DNS
4 1 (0.83%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (0.83%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.83%) WAN
4 1 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.26%) Oracle Database
1 10 (8.26%) Power BI
2 4 (3.31%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.65%) Big Data
3 2 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.83%) Metadata
4 1 (0.83%) MySQL
4 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.83%) JIRA
1 1 (0.83%) Selenium
1 1 (0.83%) SpecFlow
General
1 49 (40.50%) Finance
2 43 (35.54%) Social Skills
3 24 (19.83%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (9.92%) Financial Institution
4 12 (9.92%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.44%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (6.61%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (5.79%) Banking
8 6 (4.96%) Telecoms
9 4 (3.31%) Legal
10 3 (2.48%) Local Government
10 3 (2.48%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.48%) Police
11 2 (1.65%) Billing
11 2 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.65%) Military
11 2 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.83%) Front Office
12 1 (0.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (14.88%) Consultant
2 16 (13.22%) Business Consultant
3 14 (11.57%) Architect
3 14 (11.57%) Business Continuity Consultant
4 10 (8.26%) Developer
4 10 (8.26%) Power Platform Developer
5 9 (7.44%) Change Manager
6 8 (6.61%) IT Consultant
6 8 (6.61%) Lead
7 7 (5.79%) IT Manager
7 7 (5.79%) Project Manager
8 6 (4.96%) Business Manager
8 6 (4.96%) ServiceNow Architect
9 4 (3.31%) Incident Manager
9 4 (3.31%) IT Change Manager
9 4 (3.31%) Platform Architect
10 3 (2.48%) Analyst
10 3 (2.48%) Business Continuity Manager
10 3 (2.48%) Disaster Recovery Consultant
10 3 (2.48%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.26%) .NET
1 10 (8.26%) HTML5 Canvas
1 10 (8.26%) React
2 2 (1.65%) ARM Templates
2 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.83%) CSS
3 1 (0.83%) HTML
3 1 (0.83%) Middleware
3 1 (0.83%) RAML
3 1 (0.83%) REST
3 1 (0.83%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.92%) Low-Code
2 7 (5.79%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (4.96%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.31%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.48%) CMDB
6 3 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.48%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.65%) Clustering
7 2 (1.65%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.65%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.83%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.83%) Cyber Security Posture
8 1 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.83%) IoT
8 1 (0.83%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (0.83%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.09%) Windows
2 5 (4.13%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.48%) Linux
4 2 (1.65%) Unix
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.83%) Rocky
5 1 (0.83%) Solaris
5 1 (0.83%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (35.54%) Disaster Recovery
2 24 (19.83%) DevOps
2 24 (19.83%) Risk Management
3 23 (19.01%) Data Protection
4 22 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 21 (17.36%) CI/CD
5 21 (17.36%) Continuous Improvement
5 21 (17.36%) ITIL
6 20 (16.53%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (14.05%) Incident Response
8 16 (13.22%) Service Management
9 14 (11.57%) Change Management
9 14 (11.57%) High Availability
9 14 (11.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 13 (10.74%) Agile
11 12 (9.92%) Analytics
12 11 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
12 11 (9.09%) ITSM
12 11 (9.09%) Migration
12 11 (9.09%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (14.88%) SQL
2 11 (9.09%) C#
2 11 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 10 (8.26%) Formula Language
3 10 (8.26%) LotusScript
4 7 (5.79%) PowerShell
4 7 (5.79%) Python
5 3 (2.48%) Bash
6 1 (0.83%) Bicep
6 1 (0.83%) DataWeave
6 1 (0.83%) Groovy
6 1 (0.83%) Java
6 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.83%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (25.62%) Security Cleared
2 16 (13.22%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.57%) Degree
4 13 (10.74%) DV Cleared
5 7 (5.79%) APMG
6 6 (4.96%) CISSP
7 5 (4.13%) Azure Certification
7 5 (4.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (3.31%) AWS Certification
8 4 (3.31%) CISA
8 4 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (3.31%) CISM
8 4 (3.31%) CRISC
8 4 (3.31%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (3.31%) Master's Degree
8 4 (3.31%) Postgraduate
8 4 (3.31%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (2.48%) CCNA
9 3 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.65%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.92%) GDPR
2 11 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (7.44%) NIST
3 9 (7.44%) PMO
4 7 (5.79%) PCI DSS
5 6 (4.96%) GRC
6 4 (3.31%) COBIT
6 4 (3.31%) Data Quality
6 4 (3.31%) QA
7 3 (2.48%) ISO 22301
7 3 (2.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (2.48%) SLA
7 3 (2.48%) SOC 2
8 2 (1.65%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.83%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.83%) NCSC
9 1 (0.83%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.83%) RMADS
System Software
1 7 (5.79%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.96%) Docker
3 1 (0.83%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (7.44%) Terraform
2 7 (5.79%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.65%) Ansible
3 2 (1.65%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.83%) NetBackup
4 1 (0.83%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (23.14%) Microsoft
2 15 (12.40%) ServiceNow
3 12 (9.92%) Oracle
4 10 (8.26%) Kofax
4 10 (8.26%) Lotus
5 3 (2.48%) IBM
5 3 (2.48%) Veeam
6 2 (1.65%) Autodesk
6 2 (1.65%) Computacenter
6 2 (1.65%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.65%) Kronos
6 2 (1.65%) Murex
6 2 (1.65%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.65%) VMware
6 2 (1.65%) Workday
7 1 (0.83%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.83%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.83%) Sage
7 1 (0.83%) SnapLogic
7 1 (0.83%) Zerto