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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 256 309
Rank change year-on-year -39 +53 +21
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 145 112 77
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.72% 0.82% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.89% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 73 56
10th Percentile £363 £376 £306
25th Percentile £463 £500 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £381
Median % change year-on-year - +50.82% -25.61%
75th Percentile £683 £663 £553
90th Percentile £816 £763 £688
England median daily rate £550 £550 £470
% change year-on-year - +17.02% -10.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
Median hourly rate £16.04 £21.63 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.83% - -
England median hourly rate £16.04 £62.50 £36.84
% change year-on-year -74.34% +69.68% -8.46%

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 17,949 12,571 14,518
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.06% 92.19% 88.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,845 8,422 10,287
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £544 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% -1.11% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 299 246 207
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.75 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.33% -12.50% -17.62%
75th Percentile £56.63 £49.31 £54.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.50
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.03
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.16% -1.11%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 11 £588 +6.82% 13
South London - 3 £723 - 4
West London -18 2 £500 - 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 4 (2.76%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.07%) JBoss
3 1 (0.69%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.69%) Apache
3 1 (0.69%) CloudStack
3 1 (0.69%) HCL Notes
3 1 (0.69%) Mendix
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.69%) Mule
3 1 (0.69%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.38%) Endur
1 2 (1.38%) Primavera
2 1 (0.69%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.69%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.69%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.69%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.69%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (24.14%) Azure
2 21 (14.48%) AWS
3 13 (8.97%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (8.28%) Entra ID
5 8 (5.52%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (5.52%) GCP
6 6 (4.14%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (3.45%) GitHub
7 5 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (3.45%) PaaS
7 5 (3.45%) Power Platform
7 5 (3.45%) Serverless
8 4 (2.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (2.07%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.07%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (2.07%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.07%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (2.07%) IaaS
9 3 (2.07%) SaaS
10 2 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.59%) VPN
2 9 (6.21%) DNS
2 9 (6.21%) Network Security
3 8 (5.52%) DHCP
4 7 (4.83%) Firewall
4 7 (4.83%) TCP/IP
5 5 (3.45%) LAN
5 5 (3.45%) WAN
6 4 (2.76%) Wireless
7 3 (2.07%) 4G
7 3 (2.07%) Kerberos
7 3 (2.07%) SAN
8 2 (1.38%) Intranet
8 2 (1.38%) Structured Cabling
9 1 (0.69%) Internet
9 1 (0.69%) NAS
9 1 (0.69%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.14%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.45%) Big Data
3 4 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.07%) Hadoop
4 3 (2.07%) Metadata
4 3 (2.07%) Power BI
5 2 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.38%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.69%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.69%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (0.69%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.69%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (3.45%) JIRA
2 3 (2.07%) GitLab
3 2 (1.38%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.69%) Selenium
4 1 (0.69%) SpecFlow
General
1 52 (35.86%) Finance
2 47 (32.41%) Social Skills
3 27 (18.62%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.28%) Public Sector
5 11 (7.59%) Banking
6 8 (5.52%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (4.83%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (4.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.76%) Front Office
10 4 (2.76%) Law
10 4 (2.76%) Local Government
11 3 (2.07%) Back Office
11 3 (2.07%) Financial Institution
11 3 (2.07%) Legal
11 3 (2.07%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.38%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.69%) Military
13 1 (0.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (17.93%) Architect
2 15 (10.34%) Lead
3 12 (8.28%) Consultant
3 12 (8.28%) IT Manager
3 12 (8.28%) Senior
4 11 (7.59%) Analyst
5 9 (6.21%) Change Manager
6 8 (5.52%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (4.83%) Business Consultant
7 7 (4.83%) Incident Manager
8 6 (4.14%) Project Manager
8 6 (4.14%) Resilience Manager
8 6 (4.14%) ServiceNow Architect
9 5 (3.45%) Business Continuity Consultant
9 5 (3.45%) Business Manager
9 5 (3.45%) Head of Security
9 5 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (3.45%) IT Consultant
10 4 (2.76%) Head of IT
10 4 (2.76%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.07%) .NET
1 3 (2.07%) ARM Templates
1 3 (2.07%) React
1 3 (2.07%) REST
2 2 (1.38%) .NET Core
2 2 (1.38%) .NET Framework
2 2 (1.38%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.69%) CSS
3 1 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.69%) HTML
3 1 (0.69%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (0.69%) JSON
3 1 (0.69%) Kafka
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.69%) Middleware
3 1 (0.69%) PySpark
3 1 (0.69%) RAML
3 1 (0.69%) SOAP
3 1 (0.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.21%) Onboarding
2 8 (5.52%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.52%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.83%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (4.14%) CMDB
4 6 (4.14%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.45%) Clustering
5 5 (3.45%) Replication
5 5 (3.45%) Security Posture
6 4 (2.76%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (2.76%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.76%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.76%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.07%) Cyberattack
7 3 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.07%) Low-Code
7 3 (2.07%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (2.07%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (2.07%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.10%) Windows
2 14 (9.66%) Linux
3 8 (5.52%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.76%) Mac OS
6 3 (2.07%) Unix
7 2 (1.38%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.69%) AIX
8 1 (0.69%) Android
8 1 (0.69%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.69%) Rocky
8 1 (0.69%) Solaris
8 1 (0.69%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.69%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (51.03%) Disaster Recovery
2 35 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 32 (22.07%) Continuous Improvement
3 32 (22.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 30 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (17.24%) Cybersecurity
6 24 (16.55%) DevOps
7 23 (15.86%) BCP
7 23 (15.86%) Business Continuity Planning
7 23 (15.86%) ITIL
7 23 (15.86%) Project Delivery
8 21 (14.48%) Incident Management
8 21 (14.48%) Incident Response
8 21 (14.48%) Risk Management
9 19 (13.10%) High Availability
10 18 (12.41%) Data Protection
11 17 (11.72%) Agile
11 17 (11.72%) Change Management
11 17 (11.72%) CI/CD
12 16 (11.03%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 11 (7.59%) Python
2 9 (6.21%) PowerShell
2 9 (6.21%) SQL
3 7 (4.83%) Bash
4 6 (4.14%) C#
5 5 (3.45%) Bicep
6 4 (2.76%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.07%) Java
8 2 (1.38%) C
8 2 (1.38%) C++
8 2 (1.38%) COBOL
8 2 (1.38%) RPG
8 2 (1.38%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.69%) DataWeave
9 1 (0.69%) Formula Language
9 1 (0.69%) Groovy
9 1 (0.69%) LotusScript
9 1 (0.69%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (18.62%) Security Cleared
2 20 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.28%) Degree
4 9 (6.21%) APMG
4 9 (6.21%) Azure Certification
5 8 (5.52%) AWS Certification
6 7 (4.83%) DV Cleared
7 6 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.45%) CCNP
8 5 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (2.76%) CCNA
9 4 (2.76%) Master's Degree
9 4 (2.76%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (2.07%) CISA
10 3 (2.07%) CISSP
10 3 (2.07%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (2.07%) PMI Certification
10 3 (2.07%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (7.59%) NIST
2 11 (7.59%) PMO
3 6 (4.14%) GDPR
4 5 (3.45%) GRC
4 5 (3.45%) ISO 22301
4 5 (3.45%) QA
4 5 (3.45%) SLA
5 4 (2.76%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.76%) SOC 2
6 3 (2.07%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (2.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.38%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.38%) COBIT
7 2 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.38%) ISO 31000
7 2 (1.38%) NCSC
8 1 (0.69%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.69%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.69%) NIST 800
System Software
1 15 (10.34%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.14%) Docker
2 6 (4.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.07%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.38%) vSphere
5 1 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (8.28%) Kubernetes
1 12 (8.28%) Terraform
2 5 (3.45%) Ansible
3 4 (2.76%) FortiGate
3 4 (2.76%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.07%) Puppet
4 3 (2.07%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (1.38%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (1.38%) Grafana
5 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.38%) SCCM
6 1 (0.69%) Check_MK
6 1 (0.69%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.69%) Nagios
6 1 (0.69%) QRadar
6 1 (0.69%) SCOM
Vendors
1 32 (22.07%) Microsoft
2 22 (15.17%) ServiceNow
3 7 (4.83%) VMware
4 6 (4.14%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.76%) Cisco
5 4 (2.76%) Oracle
6 3 (2.07%) Bloomberg
6 3 (2.07%) Citrix
6 3 (2.07%) Computacenter
6 3 (2.07%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.38%) Autodesk
7 2 (1.38%) EMC
7 2 (1.38%) IBM
7 2 (1.38%) Kronos
7 2 (1.38%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.38%) Workday
8 1 (0.69%) Exabeam
8 1 (0.69%) Isilon
8 1 (0.69%) Pure Storage
8 1 (0.69%) Yardi