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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 257 302
Rank change year-on-year -32 +45 -10
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 162 104 94
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.80% 0.77% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.83% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 68 57
10th Percentile £396 £355 £333
25th Percentile £488 £495 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £571 £563 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +18.42% -7.32%
75th Percentile £725 £684 £638
90th Percentile £825 £779 £743
England median daily rate £550 £548 £475
% change year-on-year +0.46% +15.26% -9.52%
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 £19.22 £42.06 £36.84
% change year-on-year -54.31% +14.19% -29.84%

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 17,987 12,459 14,514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.90% 92.61% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,749 8,238 9,752
10th Percentile £359 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 256 181
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% -9.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.00 £48.94 £55.00
90th Percentile £86.25 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -31 13 £562 +4.59% 28
South London - 5 £550 - 3
West London -22 2 £500 - 9
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 6 (3.70%) JBoss
2 3 (1.85%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.62%) Apache
3 1 (0.62%) CICS
3 1 (0.62%) CloudStack
3 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.62%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.23%) Endur
1 2 (1.23%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (1.23%) Primavera
2 1 (0.62%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.62%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.62%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.62%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.62%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.62%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (0.62%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 36 (22.22%) Azure
2 24 (14.81%) AWS
3 17 (10.49%) Entra ID
4 12 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (4.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (4.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (4.32%) Azure Monitor
6 7 (4.32%) PaaS
7 6 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (3.70%) AWS KMS
8 5 (3.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 5 (3.09%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (3.09%) GCP
8 5 (3.09%) GitHub
8 5 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (3.09%) SaaS
9 4 (2.47%) IaaS
10 3 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.85%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.02%) VPN
2 10 (6.17%) DNS
3 9 (5.56%) DHCP
3 9 (5.56%) Network Security
4 8 (4.94%) TCP/IP
5 7 (4.32%) Firewall
6 6 (3.70%) Kerberos
6 6 (3.70%) LAN
6 6 (3.70%) WAN
6 6 (3.70%) Wireless
7 4 (2.47%) 4G
7 4 (2.47%) SAN
8 2 (1.23%) Internet
8 2 (1.23%) Intranet
8 2 (1.23%) NAS
8 2 (1.23%) Structured Cabling
9 1 (0.62%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.62%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.79%) SQL Server
2 9 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (4.32%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.70%) Big Data
4 6 (3.70%) Hadoop
4 6 (3.70%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.70%) MySQL
4 6 (3.70%) Redis
5 4 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.47%) Metadata
6 2 (1.23%) Power BI
6 2 (1.23%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.62%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.62%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.62%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (0.62%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.62%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (3.09%) JIRA
2 3 (1.85%) GitLab
2 3 (1.85%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.62%) Git
3 1 (0.62%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 60 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 57 (35.19%) Finance
3 22 (13.58%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (12.96%) Public Sector
5 15 (9.26%) Banking
6 9 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (4.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.47%) Front Office
9 4 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.47%) Law
9 4 (2.47%) Legal
9 4 (2.47%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.85%) Back Office
10 3 (1.85%) Local Government
10 3 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.23%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.23%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.62%) Billing
12 1 (0.62%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (14.20%) Architect
2 19 (11.73%) Senior
3 18 (11.11%) Lead
4 14 (8.64%) Consultant
5 12 (7.41%) Analyst
6 11 (6.79%) IT Manager
7 10 (6.17%) Administrator
7 10 (6.17%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (4.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (4.32%) Business Consultant
9 7 (4.32%) Change Manager
9 7 (4.32%) DBA
9 7 (4.32%) Linux Engineer
9 7 (4.32%) Project Manager
10 6 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (3.70%) Resilience Manager
11 5 (3.09%) Business Continuity Consultant
11 5 (3.09%) Head of Applications
11 5 (3.09%) Head of Security
11 5 (3.09%) IT Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (11.11%) Terraform
2 2 (1.23%) .NET
2 2 (1.23%) .NET Core
2 2 (1.23%) .NET Framework
2 2 (1.23%) ARM Templates
2 2 (1.23%) ASP.NET
2 2 (1.23%) React
2 2 (1.23%) REST
3 1 (0.62%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.62%) ISPF
3 1 (0.62%) JSON
3 1 (0.62%) Kafka
3 1 (0.62%) LangChain
3 1 (0.62%) LlamaIndex
3 1 (0.62%) Middleware
3 1 (0.62%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.62%) PySpark
3 1 (0.62%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.41%) Replication
2 11 (6.79%) Onboarding
3 9 (5.56%) Clustering
3 9 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (4.94%) CMDB
5 7 (4.32%) Cloud Native
5 7 (4.32%) Data Centre
5 7 (4.32%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (4.32%) Security Posture
6 5 (3.09%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (2.47%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (2.47%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (2.47%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.47%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.47%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (1.85%) Cyberattack
8 3 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.85%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (12.96%) Windows
2 18 (11.11%) Linux
3 10 (6.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (6.17%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.47%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.85%) Unix
6 2 (1.23%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.23%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.62%) AIX
7 1 (0.62%) Android
7 1 (0.62%) CentOS
7 1 (0.62%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.62%) Rocky
7 1 (0.62%) Solaris
7 1 (0.62%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.62%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (57.41%) Disaster Recovery
2 51 (31.48%) Stakeholder Management
3 35 (21.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 33 (20.37%) Continuous Improvement
5 31 (19.14%) BCP
5 31 (19.14%) Business Continuity Planning
6 29 (17.90%) Cybersecurity
7 27 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (16.05%) High Availability
8 26 (16.05%) Project Delivery
9 23 (14.20%) Risk Management
10 22 (13.58%) Decision-Making
10 22 (13.58%) DevOps
10 22 (13.58%) ITIL
11 21 (12.96%) CI/CD
11 21 (12.96%) Incident Response
11 21 (12.96%) Infrastructure as Code
11 21 (12.96%) Roadmaps
12 20 (12.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 20 (12.35%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 17 (10.49%) PowerShell
2 11 (6.79%) Python
3 10 (6.17%) SQL
4 8 (4.94%) Bicep
5 7 (4.32%) Bash
6 4 (2.47%) C#
7 3 (1.85%) COBOL
8 2 (1.23%) C
8 2 (1.23%) C++
8 2 (1.23%) Java
8 2 (1.23%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.23%) RPG
8 2 (1.23%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.62%) JCL
9 1 (0.62%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (17.90%) Security Cleared
2 23 (14.20%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.17%) AWS Certification
4 9 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 9 (5.56%) Degree
5 8 (4.94%) APMG
5 8 (4.94%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.09%) CCNP
7 5 (3.09%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (3.09%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.47%) CCNA
8 4 (2.47%) PMI Certification
8 4 (2.47%) PMP
9 3 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.23%) CISM
10 2 (1.23%) CISSP
10 2 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (6.79%) PMO
3 9 (5.56%) NIST
4 8 (4.94%) Data Quality
5 6 (3.70%) GRC
5 6 (3.70%) ISO 22301
5 6 (3.70%) QA
6 5 (3.09%) GDPR
7 4 (2.47%) JSP 440
8 3 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.85%) NCSC
8 3 (1.85%) SLA
8 3 (1.85%) SOC 2
9 2 (1.23%) Accessibility
9 2 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.62%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (9.88%) Active Directory
2 12 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.70%) vSphere
4 5 (3.09%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.85%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.23%) Docker
6 2 (1.23%) Firmware
7 1 (0.62%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.62%) RACF
7 1 (0.62%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.94%) Ansible
3 7 (4.32%) Puppet
4 6 (3.70%) Failover Clustering
4 6 (3.70%) Red Hat Satellite
5 5 (3.09%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.47%) FortiGate
6 4 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.85%) Grafana
8 2 (1.23%) SCCM
8 2 (1.23%) SCOM
8 2 (1.23%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.62%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.62%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.62%) Nagios
9 1 (0.62%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.62%) QRadar
9 1 (0.62%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 35 (21.60%) Microsoft
2 17 (10.49%) ServiceNow
3 14 (8.64%) VMware
4 9 (5.56%) Red Hat
5 7 (4.32%) Cisco
6 4 (2.47%) Oracle
7 3 (1.85%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.85%) Citrix
7 3 (1.85%) Computacenter
7 3 (1.85%) IBM
7 3 (1.85%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.23%) Autodesk
8 2 (1.23%) EMC
8 2 (1.23%) Google
8 2 (1.23%) Kronos
8 2 (1.23%) NetApp
8 2 (1.23%) Splunk
8 2 (1.23%) Veeam
8 2 (1.23%) Workday
9 1 (0.62%) Pure Storage