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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 270 269
Rank change year-on-year -8 -1 +105
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 115 88 125
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.74% 0.65% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.72% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 51 97
10th Percentile £360 £350 £250
25th Percentile £415 £513 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% +0.50%
75th Percentile £695 £675 £688
90th Percentile £819 £701 £745
England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £26.60 - -
25th Percentile £32.00 - -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £19.20 -
Median % change year-on-year +82.29% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 14,060 12,254 16,339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.32% 90.76% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,407 7,894 11,682
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.82%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 155 348
10th Percentile £17.85 £21.10 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £26.13 £19.34
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +25.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.38 £55.25 £51.94
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.61 £72.50
England median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.26% - -

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 February 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Continuity in London over the 6 months to 22 February 2026.

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 February 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 +1 24 £650 +8.33% 8
South London -9 6 £700 +300.00% 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 13 (11.30%) SharePoint
2 9 (7.83%) HCL Notes
2 9 (7.83%) Mendix
3 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.87%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.87%) Confluence
4 1 (0.87%) Mule
4 1 (0.87%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.87%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.74%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (26.09%) Azure
2 17 (14.78%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (11.30%) AWS
4 12 (10.43%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (9.57%) Serverless
6 10 (8.70%) Power Platform
7 9 (7.83%) Azure Functions
7 9 (7.83%) Azure Logic Apps
7 9 (7.83%) Azure Service Bus
7 9 (7.83%) Power Automate
7 9 (7.83%) PowerApps
8 8 (6.96%) GCP
9 7 (6.09%) Entra ID
10 5 (4.35%) GitHub
11 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (2.61%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (2.61%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (2.61%) OneDrive
12 3 (2.61%) PaaS
12 3 (2.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.83%) Firewall
2 4 (3.48%) WAN
3 3 (2.61%) LAN
3 3 (2.61%) Network Security
3 3 (2.61%) SD-WAN
3 3 (2.61%) VPN
4 2 (1.74%) VLAN
5 1 (0.87%) DHCP
5 1 (0.87%) DNS
5 1 (0.87%) Intranet
5 1 (0.87%) NAS
5 1 (0.87%) SAN
5 1 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.70%) Oracle Database
2 9 (7.83%) Power BI
3 2 (1.74%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.87%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.87%) Metadata
4 1 (0.87%) MySQL
4 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Jenkins
1 2 (1.74%) JIRA
2 1 (0.87%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.87%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.87%) ScriptRunner
2 1 (0.87%) TestRail
General
1 50 (43.48%) Finance
2 38 (33.04%) Social Skills
3 20 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.70%) Financial Institution
5 8 (6.96%) Banking
5 8 (6.96%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (5.22%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (3.48%) Legal
8 4 (3.48%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.61%) Police
10 2 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.74%) Local Government
10 2 (1.74%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.74%) Military
10 2 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.87%) Billing
11 1 (0.87%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.87%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (11.30%) Architect
1 13 (11.30%) Consultant
2 12 (10.43%) Lead
3 10 (8.70%) Business Consultant
4 9 (7.83%) Business Continuity Consultant
4 9 (7.83%) Developer
4 9 (7.83%) Power Platform Developer
5 6 (5.22%) Analyst
5 6 (5.22%) ServiceNow Architect
6 5 (4.35%) Business Manager
6 5 (4.35%) Project Manager
7 4 (3.48%) Business Analyst
7 4 (3.48%) Incident Manager
7 4 (3.48%) IT Manager
7 4 (3.48%) Platform Architect
7 4 (3.48%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (2.61%) Change Manager
8 3 (2.61%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (2.61%) IT Consultant
8 3 (2.61%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.70%) .NET
2 9 (7.83%) HTML5 Canvas
2 9 (7.83%) React
3 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.87%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.87%) CSS
4 1 (0.87%) HTML
4 1 (0.87%) RAML
4 1 (0.87%) REST
4 1 (0.87%) SOAP
4 1 (0.87%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.83%) Low-Code
2 8 (6.96%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.22%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (4.35%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.48%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.48%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.48%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.61%) CMDB
6 3 (2.61%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.87%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.87%) FMCG
8 1 (0.87%) IoT
8 1 (0.87%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.87%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.87%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.57%) Windows
2 3 (2.61%) Linux
2 3 (2.61%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.87%) Unix
3 1 (0.87%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (32.17%) Disaster Recovery
2 25 (21.74%) Risk Management
3 24 (20.87%) DevOps
4 23 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 23 (20.00%) ITIL
4 23 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (17.39%) CI/CD
6 19 (16.52%) Incident Response
6 19 (16.52%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (15.65%) Service Management
8 17 (14.78%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (12.17%) Migration
10 13 (11.30%) Business Continuity Planning
11 12 (10.43%) BCP
11 12 (10.43%) Cybersecurity
11 12 (10.43%) ITSM
12 11 (9.57%) High Availability
13 10 (8.70%) Data Management
13 10 (8.70%) Root Cause Analysis
13 10 (8.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 17 (14.78%) SQL
2 11 (9.57%) JavaScript
3 9 (7.83%) C#
3 9 (7.83%) Formula Language
3 9 (7.83%) LotusScript
4 8 (6.96%) PowerShell
5 5 (4.35%) Python
6 2 (1.74%) Bash
7 1 (0.87%) Bicep
7 1 (0.87%) DataWeave
7 1 (0.87%) Groovy
7 1 (0.87%) Java
7 1 (0.87%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.87%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (24.35%) Security Cleared
2 17 (14.78%) Degree
3 14 (12.17%) DV Cleared
4 13 (11.30%) SC Cleared
5 9 (7.83%) CISSP
6 7 (6.09%) Azure Certification
6 7 (6.09%) CISM
7 6 (5.22%) CISA
8 5 (4.35%) CRISC
9 4 (3.48%) AWS Certification
9 4 (3.48%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (3.48%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.61%) Master's Degree
10 3 (2.61%) Postgraduate
11 2 (1.74%) CCNA
11 2 (1.74%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 2 (1.74%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (1.74%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (11.30%) GDPR
3 11 (9.57%) NIST
4 7 (6.09%) GRC
4 7 (6.09%) PCI DSS
5 5 (4.35%) COBIT
6 4 (3.48%) Data Quality
6 4 (3.48%) SOC 2
7 3 (2.61%) PMO
7 3 (2.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (2.61%) SLA
8 2 (1.74%) ISO 22301
8 2 (1.74%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.87%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.87%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.87%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.87%) MiFID
9 1 (0.87%) NCSC
9 1 (0.87%) NIST 800
System Software
1 9 (7.83%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.22%) Docker
3 3 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.87%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.87%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.87%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (6.96%) Terraform
2 7 (6.09%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.74%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.87%) Ansible
5 1 (0.87%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.87%) Puppet
5 1 (0.87%) SCCM
Vendors
1 29 (25.22%) Microsoft
2 16 (13.91%) ServiceNow
3 11 (9.57%) Oracle
4 9 (7.83%) Kofax
4 9 (7.83%) Lotus
5 7 (6.09%) VMware
6 3 (2.61%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.61%) IBM
6 3 (2.61%) Veeam
7 2 (1.74%) Commvault
7 2 (1.74%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.87%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.87%) BMC
8 1 (0.87%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.87%) Citrix
8 1 (0.87%) Google
8 1 (0.87%) Murex
8 1 (0.87%) Reuters
8 1 (0.87%) Sage
8 1 (0.87%) Splunk