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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 256 303
Rank change year-on-year -39 +47 +42
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 117 88 87
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.64% 0.72% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.78% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 58 70
10th Percentile £336 £475 £227
25th Percentile £415 £525 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £406
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +44.00% -24.42%
75th Percentile £656 £672 £627
90th Percentile £753 £736 £726
England median daily rate £525 £575 £475
% change year-on-year -8.70% +21.05% -13.64%
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 16,293 11,314 15,451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.65% 92.27% 88.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,880 7,585 11,084
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £433 £431 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 194 320
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.24 £24.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.73% +15.18% -28.59%
75th Percentile £58.94 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.57 £63.60 £68.08
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.60 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.34% -23.73% -

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 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 1 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 -6 18 £593 -5.06% 10
South London - 5 £700 - 2
West London -24 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 12 (10.26%) SharePoint
2 10 (8.55%) HCL Notes
2 10 (8.55%) Mendix
3 1 (0.85%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.85%) Mule
3 1 (0.85%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.85%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.71%) Primavera
2 1 (0.85%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.85%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.85%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (24.79%) Azure
2 19 (16.24%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 12 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (10.26%) Serverless
5 11 (9.40%) AWS
5 11 (9.40%) PowerApps
6 10 (8.55%) Azure Functions
6 10 (8.55%) Azure Logic Apps
6 10 (8.55%) Azure Service Bus
6 10 (8.55%) Power Automate
7 8 (6.84%) GCP
8 6 (5.13%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.56%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.71%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 2 (1.71%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 1 (0.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.85%) Datadog
11 1 (0.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.13%) DHCP
1 6 (5.13%) DNS
1 6 (5.13%) TCP/IP
1 6 (5.13%) VPN
2 5 (4.27%) Firewall
2 5 (4.27%) Network Security
3 3 (2.56%) LAN
3 3 (2.56%) WAN
3 3 (2.56%) Wireless
4 2 (1.71%) 4G
4 2 (1.71%) Intranet
5 1 (0.85%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.40%) Oracle Database
1 11 (9.40%) Power BI
2 4 (3.42%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.71%) Big Data
5 1 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.85%) Metadata
5 1 (0.85%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (0.85%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (0.85%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (3.42%) JIRA
2 1 (0.85%) GitLab
2 1 (0.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.85%) Selenium
2 1 (0.85%) SpecFlow
General
1 43 (36.75%) Finance
1 43 (36.75%) Social Skills
2 21 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 11 (9.40%) Financial Institution
5 9 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (5.98%) Banking
6 7 (5.98%) Telecoms
7 6 (5.13%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (4.27%) Local Government
9 4 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.56%) Law
10 3 (2.56%) Legal
11 2 (1.71%) Back Office
11 2 (1.71%) Billing
11 2 (1.71%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.71%) Military
11 2 (1.71%) Police
12 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (15.38%) Consultant
2 16 (13.68%) Business Consultant
3 14 (11.97%) Business Continuity Consultant
4 13 (11.11%) Architect
5 11 (9.40%) Change Manager
6 10 (8.55%) Developer
6 10 (8.55%) Power Platform Developer
7 8 (6.84%) Business Manager
7 8 (6.84%) IT Consultant
7 8 (6.84%) IT Manager
8 7 (5.98%) Analyst
8 7 (5.98%) Lead
9 6 (5.13%) Incident Manager
9 6 (5.13%) Senior
9 6 (5.13%) ServiceNow Architect
10 5 (4.27%) IT Change Manager
10 5 (4.27%) Project Manager
11 4 (3.42%) Business Continuity Manager
11 4 (3.42%) Coordinator
11 4 (3.42%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.55%) .NET
1 10 (8.55%) HTML5 Canvas
1 10 (8.55%) React
2 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.85%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.85%) CSS
3 1 (0.85%) HTML
3 1 (0.85%) JSON
3 1 (0.85%) Kafka
3 1 (0.85%) Middleware
3 1 (0.85%) RAML
3 1 (0.85%) REST
3 1 (0.85%) SOAP
3 1 (0.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.26%) Low-Code
2 8 (6.84%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.13%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (4.27%) CMDB
5 4 (3.42%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.56%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.56%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (1.71%) Clustering
7 2 (1.71%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.71%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.71%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.71%) Replication
7 2 (1.71%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.85%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.85%) NHS
8 1 (0.85%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.11%) Windows
2 5 (4.27%) Linux
3 4 (3.42%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.56%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.85%) AIX
6 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.85%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.85%) Rocky
6 1 (0.85%) Solaris
6 1 (0.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (35.04%) Disaster Recovery
2 24 (20.51%) Continuous Improvement
3 23 (19.66%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (18.80%) DevOps
5 21 (17.95%) Incident Response
6 20 (17.09%) CI/CD
6 20 (17.09%) Risk Management
7 19 (16.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 18 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
9 17 (14.53%) ITIL
10 16 (13.68%) Change Management
10 16 (13.68%) Data Protection
11 15 (12.82%) Incident Management
12 14 (11.97%) Agile
12 14 (11.97%) Cybersecurity
13 12 (10.26%) High Availability
13 12 (10.26%) Impact Assessments
14 11 (9.40%) Business Continuity Planning
14 11 (9.40%) Business Intelligence
14 11 (9.40%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (14.53%) SQL
2 11 (9.40%) C#
2 11 (9.40%) JavaScript
3 10 (8.55%) Formula Language
3 10 (8.55%) LotusScript
4 6 (5.13%) Python
5 4 (3.42%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.56%) Bash
7 2 (1.71%) Java
8 1 (0.85%) DataWeave
8 1 (0.85%) Groovy
8 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (23.93%) Security Cleared
2 16 (13.68%) SC Cleared
3 12 (10.26%) Degree
4 10 (8.55%) DV Cleared
5 9 (7.69%) APMG
6 6 (5.13%) CISSP
7 5 (4.27%) AWS Certification
8 4 (3.42%) CISA
8 4 (3.42%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (3.42%) CISM
8 4 (3.42%) CRISC
8 4 (3.42%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (3.42%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (2.56%) Azure Certification
9 3 (2.56%) CCNA
9 3 (2.56%) CCNP
9 3 (2.56%) Master's Degree
9 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.40%) GDPR
1 11 (9.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (8.55%) NIST
2 10 (8.55%) PMO
3 7 (5.98%) PCI DSS
4 6 (5.13%) GRC
5 4 (3.42%) COBIT
5 4 (3.42%) QA
5 4 (3.42%) SLA
6 3 (2.56%) Data Quality
6 3 (2.56%) ISO 22301
6 3 (2.56%) NCSC
6 3 (2.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (2.56%) SOC 2
7 2 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.71%) ISO 31000
8 1 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.85%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.85%) NIST 800
System Software
1 10 (8.55%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.27%) Docker
3 3 (2.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (5.98%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.27%) Terraform
3 3 (2.56%) Ansible
3 3 (2.56%) FortiGate
4 2 (1.71%) SCCM
5 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.85%) Nagios
5 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.85%) QRadar
5 1 (0.85%) SCOM
Vendors
1 31 (26.50%) Microsoft
2 21 (17.95%) ServiceNow
3 13 (11.11%) Oracle
4 10 (8.55%) Kofax
4 10 (8.55%) Lotus
5 3 (2.56%) Bloomberg
5 3 (2.56%) Citrix
5 3 (2.56%) Computacenter
5 3 (2.56%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.56%) VMware
6 2 (1.71%) Autodesk
6 2 (1.71%) Kronos
6 2 (1.71%) Murex
6 2 (1.71%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.71%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.71%) Workday
7 1 (0.85%) ArcSight
7 1 (0.85%) LogRhythm
7 1 (0.85%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.85%) Splunk