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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 255 310
Rank change year-on-year -51 +55 +40
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 116 92 89
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.62% 0.75% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.81% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 59 70
10th Percentile £354 £453 £227
25th Percentile £415 £523 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £375
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% +53.33% -28.57%
75th Percentile £666 £669 £571
90th Percentile £768 £733 £695
England median daily rate £525 £570 £450
% change year-on-year -7.81% +26.56% -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 £20.25 £21.63 £16.17
% change year-on-year -6.36% +33.74% -59.82%

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 16,527 11,302 15,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.72% 92.31% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,014 7,563 11,181
10th Percentile £358 £347 £340
25th Percentile £435 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 199 318
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.89 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +16.42% -28.34%
75th Percentile £58.75 £49.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £80.38 £63.75 £68.23
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +67.86% -25.33% +4.17%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -10 16 £599 -5.25% 10
South London - 5 £700 - 2
West London -26 2 £500 - 2
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 8 (6.90%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.17%) HCL Notes
2 6 (5.17%) Mendix
3 1 (0.86%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.86%) Mule
3 1 (0.86%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.86%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (0.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Primavera
2 1 (0.86%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.86%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.86%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (22.41%) Azure
2 15 (12.93%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (12.07%) AWS
4 9 (7.76%) Power Platform
4 9 (7.76%) Serverless
5 8 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (6.90%) GCP
6 7 (6.03%) PowerApps
7 6 (5.17%) Azure Functions
7 6 (5.17%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (5.17%) Azure Service Bus
7 6 (5.17%) Entra ID
7 6 (5.17%) Power Automate
8 3 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.59%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.59%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.59%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.72%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 2 (1.72%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.17%) DHCP
1 6 (5.17%) DNS
1 6 (5.17%) Network Security
1 6 (5.17%) TCP/IP
1 6 (5.17%) VPN
2 5 (4.31%) Firewall
3 3 (2.59%) LAN
3 3 (2.59%) WAN
3 3 (2.59%) Wireless
4 2 (1.72%) 4G
4 2 (1.72%) Intranet
5 1 (0.86%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.03%) Oracle Database
1 7 (6.03%) Power BI
2 4 (3.45%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.72%) Big Data
5 1 (0.86%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.86%) Metadata
5 1 (0.86%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (0.86%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (0.86%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (3.45%) JIRA
2 3 (2.59%) GitLab
3 2 (1.72%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.86%) Selenium
4 1 (0.86%) SpecFlow
General
1 42 (36.21%) Finance
1 42 (36.21%) Social Skills
2 19 (16.38%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (9.48%) Public Sector
4 9 (7.76%) Banking
4 9 (7.76%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (6.03%) Financial Institution
6 6 (5.17%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (5.17%) Telecoms
7 5 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (4.31%) Local Government
8 4 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.45%) Law
9 2 (1.72%) Back Office
9 2 (1.72%) Billing
9 2 (1.72%) Legal
9 2 (1.72%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.86%) Front Office
10 1 (0.86%) Military
10 1 (0.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (14.66%) Consultant
2 14 (12.07%) Architect
2 14 (12.07%) Business Consultant
3 12 (10.34%) Business Continuity Consultant
4 10 (8.62%) Change Manager
5 9 (7.76%) IT Manager
5 9 (7.76%) Lead
6 8 (6.90%) IT Consultant
7 7 (6.03%) Analyst
7 7 (6.03%) Business Manager
7 7 (6.03%) Incident Manager
8 6 (5.17%) Developer
8 6 (5.17%) Power Platform Developer
8 6 (5.17%) Project Manager
8 6 (5.17%) Senior
8 6 (5.17%) ServiceNow Architect
9 5 (4.31%) IT Change Manager
10 4 (3.45%) Coordinator
10 4 (3.45%) Platform Architect
10 4 (3.45%) Resilience Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.17%) .NET
1 6 (5.17%) HTML5 Canvas
1 6 (5.17%) React
2 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.86%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.86%) CSS
3 1 (0.86%) HTML
3 1 (0.86%) JSON
3 1 (0.86%) Kafka
3 1 (0.86%) Middleware
3 1 (0.86%) RAML
3 1 (0.86%) REST
3 1 (0.86%) SOAP
3 1 (0.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.90%) Low-Code
2 7 (6.03%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.03%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.17%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (4.31%) CMDB
4 5 (4.31%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.59%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.59%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.59%) Fixed Income
5 3 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.59%) Replication
5 3 (2.59%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.72%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.72%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (1.72%) Clustering
6 2 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.72%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.72%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.86%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.21%) Windows
2 6 (5.17%) Linux
3 4 (3.45%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.59%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.86%) AIX
6 1 (0.86%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.86%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.86%) Rocky
6 1 (0.86%) Solaris
6 1 (0.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (37.93%) Disaster Recovery
2 26 (22.41%) Continuous Improvement
3 23 (19.83%) Incident Response
3 23 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (18.10%) DevOps
5 20 (17.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 19 (16.38%) Risk Management
7 18 (15.52%) CI/CD
7 18 (15.52%) Stakeholder Management
8 17 (14.66%) ITIL
9 16 (13.79%) Data Protection
9 16 (13.79%) Incident Management
10 15 (12.93%) Agile
10 15 (12.93%) Change Management
10 15 (12.93%) Cybersecurity
11 14 (12.07%) High Availability
12 13 (11.21%) Impact Assessments
13 11 (9.48%) Decision-Making
13 11 (9.48%) Programme Delivery
14 10 (8.62%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 13 (11.21%) SQL
2 7 (6.03%) C#
2 7 (6.03%) JavaScript
2 7 (6.03%) Python
3 6 (5.17%) Formula Language
3 6 (5.17%) LotusScript
4 4 (3.45%) Bash
4 4 (3.45%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.59%) Java
6 1 (0.86%) DataWeave
6 1 (0.86%) Groovy
6 1 (0.86%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.86%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (21.55%) Security Cleared
2 16 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 12 (10.34%) Degree
4 9 (7.76%) APMG
4 9 (7.76%) DV Cleared
5 7 (6.03%) AWS Certification
6 6 (5.17%) CISSP
7 4 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.45%) CISA
7 4 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (3.45%) CISM
7 4 (3.45%) CRISC
7 4 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (3.45%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (2.59%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.59%) CCNA
8 3 (2.59%) CCNP
8 3 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.59%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (9.48%) GDPR
2 11 (9.48%) PMO
3 10 (8.62%) NIST
4 7 (6.03%) PCI DSS
5 6 (5.17%) GRC
6 4 (3.45%) COBIT
6 4 (3.45%) QA
6 4 (3.45%) SLA
7 3 (2.59%) ISO 22301
7 3 (2.59%) NCSC
7 3 (2.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (2.59%) SOC 2
8 2 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (1.72%) Data Quality
8 2 (1.72%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.86%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.86%) NIST 800
System Software
1 10 (8.62%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.17%) Docker
3 3 (2.59%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.03%) Terraform
3 5 (4.31%) Ansible
4 3 (2.59%) FortiGate
4 3 (2.59%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.72%) SCCM
6 1 (0.86%) Grafana
6 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.86%) Nagios
6 1 (0.86%) QRadar
6 1 (0.86%) SCOM
Vendors
1 26 (22.41%) Microsoft
2 21 (18.10%) ServiceNow
3 9 (7.76%) Oracle
4 6 (5.17%) Kofax
4 6 (5.17%) Lotus
5 3 (2.59%) Bloomberg
5 3 (2.59%) Citrix
5 3 (2.59%) Computacenter
5 3 (2.59%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.72%) Autodesk
6 2 (1.72%) Kronos
6 2 (1.72%) Murex
6 2 (1.72%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.72%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.72%) VMware
6 2 (1.72%) Workday
7 1 (0.86%) ArcSight
7 1 (0.86%) LogRhythm
7 1 (0.86%) Splunk
7 1 (0.86%) Yardi