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 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 268 262
Rank change year-on-year -8 -6 +111
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 100 96 134
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.70% 0.65% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.72% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 52 101
10th Percentile £320 £350 £263
25th Percentile £415 £381 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +11.63% +7.50%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £690
90th Percentile £800 £700 £745
England median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £26.60 - -
25th Percentile £32.00 - £72.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £29.23 £55.00
% change year-on-year +19.74% -46.85% +113.92%

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 13,087 13,251 16,363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.34% 90.11% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,629 8,493 11,734
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £676
90th Percentile £757 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 163 243
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.13 £17.80
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £20.01
Median hourly rate £31.49 £35.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% +9.23% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.13 £55.13 £58.75
90th Percentile £67.91 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.35%

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 29 December 2025.

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 29 December 2025.

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 29 December 2025. 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 -2 21 £523 -9.13% 30
South London -4 2 £606 +246.43% 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 14 (14.00%) SharePoint
2 6 (6.00%) HCL Notes
2 6 (6.00%) Mendix
3 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (4.00%) SAS
4 1 (1.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (4.00%) MS Visio
3 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.00%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (1.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (28.00%) Azure
2 16 (16.00%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (14.00%) AWS
4 10 (10.00%) Entra ID
5 8 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (7.00%) GitHub
6 7 (7.00%) Power Automate
6 7 (7.00%) Serverless
7 6 (6.00%) Azure Functions
7 6 (6.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (6.00%) Azure Service Bus
7 6 (6.00%) Power Platform
7 6 (6.00%) PowerApps
7 6 (6.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (5.00%) Amazon S3
8 5 (5.00%) OneDrive
9 4 (4.00%) GCP
9 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (4.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.00%) Firewall
2 8 (8.00%) WAN
3 5 (5.00%) LAN
3 5 (5.00%) SD-WAN
3 5 (5.00%) VPN
4 3 (3.00%) DHCP
4 3 (3.00%) DNS
4 3 (3.00%) VLAN
5 2 (2.00%) Network Security
5 2 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.00%) 4G
6 1 (1.00%) Intranet
6 1 (1.00%) NAS
6 1 (1.00%) SAN
6 1 (1.00%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.00%) Oracle Database
2 6 (6.00%) Power BI
3 1 (1.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.00%) DTS
3 1 (1.00%) EDRMS
3 1 (1.00%) MySQL
3 1 (1.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.00%) JIRA
2 1 (1.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (1.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.00%) ScriptRunner
2 1 (1.00%) TestRail
General
1 52 (52.00%) Finance
2 28 (28.00%) Social Skills
3 13 (13.00%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.00%) Financial Institution
5 7 (7.00%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (5.00%) Banking
6 5 (5.00%) Legal
6 5 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.00%) International Banking
8 2 (2.00%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.00%) Police
8 2 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.00%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.00%) Back Office
9 1 (1.00%) French Language
9 1 (1.00%) Law
9 1 (1.00%) Military
9 1 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (12.00%) Lead
2 8 (8.00%) Consultant
2 8 (8.00%) Platform Engineer
3 7 (7.00%) Analyst
4 6 (6.00%) Developer
4 6 (6.00%) Power Platform Developer
5 5 (5.00%) Architect
5 5 (5.00%) Business Consultant
6 4 (4.00%) Business Analyst
6 4 (4.00%) Business Continuity Consultant
6 4 (4.00%) Business Manager
6 4 (4.00%) IT Manager
6 4 (4.00%) Project Manager
6 4 (4.00%) Senior
7 3 (3.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.00%) Disaster Recovery Manager
7 3 (3.00%) Resilience Manager
7 3 (3.00%) Security Engineer
8 2 (2.00%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (2.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.00%) .NET
2 6 (6.00%) HTML5 Canvas
2 6 (6.00%) React
3 3 (3.00%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (1.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.00%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.00%) Data Centre
3 7 (7.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (6.00%) Low-Code
5 5 (5.00%) CMDB
6 4 (4.00%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (4.00%) Management Information System
6 4 (4.00%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.00%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.00%) Replication
7 2 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.00%) Driving Licence
8 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.00%) IoT
8 1 (1.00%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (17.00%) Windows
2 8 (8.00%) Windows Server
3 7 (7.00%) Linux
4 1 (1.00%) Unix
4 1 (1.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (29.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 19 (19.00%) ITIL
2 19 (19.00%) Risk Management
3 17 (17.00%) Business Continuity Planning
3 17 (17.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (16.00%) BCP
4 16 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (15.00%) CI/CD
5 15 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (15.00%) DevOps
5 15 (15.00%) Incident Response
6 14 (14.00%) Migration
7 13 (13.00%) Cybersecurity
7 13 (13.00%) Data Protection
7 13 (13.00%) Service Management
8 11 (11.00%) Incident Management
8 11 (11.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (11.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 10 (10.00%) Information Security
10 9 (9.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 12 (12.00%) PowerShell
1 12 (12.00%) SQL
2 7 (7.00%) JavaScript
2 7 (7.00%) Python
3 6 (6.00%) C#
3 6 (6.00%) Formula Language
3 6 (6.00%) LotusScript
4 1 (1.00%) Bash
4 1 (1.00%) Bicep
4 1 (1.00%) Java
4 1 (1.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (17.00%) Degree
2 14 (14.00%) Security Cleared
3 9 (9.00%) DV Cleared
4 7 (7.00%) CISM
4 7 (7.00%) CISSP
5 5 (5.00%) Azure Certification
5 5 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (3.00%) CCNA
7 3 (3.00%) Postgraduate
7 3 (3.00%) SC Cleared
8 2 (2.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (2.00%) CCNP
8 2 (2.00%) CISA
8 2 (2.00%) CRISC
8 2 (2.00%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.00%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.00%) PMP
9 1 (1.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (7.00%) GDPR
3 6 (6.00%) NIST
4 4 (4.00%) Data Quality
5 3 (3.00%) COBIT
5 3 (3.00%) GRC
5 3 (3.00%) PCI DSS
5 3 (3.00%) QA
6 2 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (2.00%) PMO
6 2 (2.00%) SOC 2
7 1 (1.00%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (1.00%) ISO 19650
7 1 (1.00%) ISO 22301
7 1 (1.00%) ISO 9001
7 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (1.00%) MiFID
7 1 (1.00%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (12.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.00%) Docker
3 2 (2.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.00%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (1.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (11.00%) Terraform
2 5 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (5.00%) NetBackup
3 4 (4.00%) Puppet
4 3 (3.00%) SCCM
5 2 (2.00%) FortiGate
5 2 (2.00%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.00%) Ansible
6 1 (1.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (1.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 26 (26.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.00%) Oracle
2 9 (9.00%) ServiceNow
2 9 (9.00%) VMware
3 6 (6.00%) Kofax
3 6 (6.00%) Lotus
4 5 (5.00%) Commvault
5 4 (4.00%) SnapLogic
6 3 (3.00%) Dynatrace
6 3 (3.00%) IBM
6 3 (3.00%) Veeam
7 2 (2.00%) Cisco
7 2 (2.00%) Citrix
7 2 (2.00%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.00%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.00%) BMC
8 1 (1.00%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.00%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.00%) Reuters
8 1 (1.00%) Sage