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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 268 273
Rank change year-on-year -35 +5 +96
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 120 80 105
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.69% 0.63% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.69% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 51 84
10th Percentile £363 £406 £250
25th Percentile £415 £525 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £474
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +26.65% -2.07%
75th Percentile £671 £675 £631
90th Percentile £800 £688 £725
England median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 £19.20 -
Median % change year-on-year +82.29% - -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.36 £24.50
% change year-on-year +32.80% +7.57% -4.71%

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 15,419 11,590 15,847
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 91.69% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,329 7,865 11,333
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £758 £800 £790
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 165 335
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.11 £15.97
25th Percentile £22.41 £24.18 £19.74
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.67% -23.08%
75th Percentile £56.00 £50.75 £49.94
90th Percentile £72.50 £64.50 £66.90
England median hourly rate £40.52 £32.05 £33.78
% change year-on-year +26.43% -5.11% -9.93%

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 11 April 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 11 April 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 19 £588 - 10
South London -10 5 £700 +300.00%
West London -20 1 - - 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 13 (10.83%) SharePoint
2 10 (8.33%) HCL Notes
2 10 (8.33%) Mendix
3 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.83%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.83%) Mule
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.83%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.67%) Primavera
2 1 (0.83%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.83%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.83%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 28 (23.33%) Azure
2 15 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (10.83%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (10.00%) AWS
4 12 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 11 (9.17%) Serverless
6 10 (8.33%) Azure Functions
6 10 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
6 10 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
6 10 (8.33%) Power Automate
6 10 (8.33%) PowerApps
7 7 (5.83%) GCP
8 4 (3.33%) GitHub
9 3 (2.50%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 2 (1.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.00%) Firewall
2 3 (2.50%) Network Security
3 2 (1.67%) LAN
3 2 (1.67%) VPN
4 1 (0.83%) DHCP
4 1 (0.83%) DNS
4 1 (0.83%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (0.83%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.83%) WAN
4 1 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.83%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.17%) Oracle Database
1 11 (9.17%) Power BI
2 4 (3.33%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.67%) Big Data
5 1 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.83%) Metadata
5 1 (0.83%) MySQL
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (1.67%) JIRA
2 1 (0.83%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.83%) Selenium
2 1 (0.83%) SpecFlow
General
1 50 (41.67%) Finance
2 42 (35.00%) Social Skills
3 23 (19.17%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.00%) Financial Institution
4 12 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.50%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (5.83%) Banking
8 6 (5.00%) Telecoms
9 4 (3.33%) Legal
10 3 (2.50%) Local Government
10 3 (2.50%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.50%) Police
11 2 (1.67%) Billing
11 2 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.67%) Military
11 2 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.83%) Front Office
12 1 (0.83%) Law
Job Titles
1 18 (15.00%) Consultant
2 16 (13.33%) Business Consultant
3 14 (11.67%) Business Continuity Consultant
4 13 (10.83%) Architect
5 10 (8.33%) Developer
5 10 (8.33%) Power Platform Developer
6 9 (7.50%) Change Manager
7 8 (6.67%) IT Consultant
7 8 (6.67%) Lead
8 7 (5.83%) IT Manager
8 7 (5.83%) Project Manager
9 6 (5.00%) Business Manager
9 6 (5.00%) ServiceNow Architect
10 4 (3.33%) Incident Manager
10 4 (3.33%) IT Change Manager
10 4 (3.33%) Platform Architect
11 3 (2.50%) Analyst
11 3 (2.50%) Business Continuity Manager
11 3 (2.50%) Disaster Recovery Consultant
11 3 (2.50%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.33%) .NET
1 10 (8.33%) HTML5 Canvas
1 10 (8.33%) React
2 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.83%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.83%) CSS
3 1 (0.83%) HTML
3 1 (0.83%) Middleware
3 1 (0.83%) RAML
3 1 (0.83%) REST
3 1 (0.83%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.00%) Low-Code
2 6 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.50%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.67%) Clustering
6 2 (1.67%) CMDB
6 2 (1.67%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.67%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.83%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.83%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.83%) Over-the-Top Content
7 1 (0.83%) Replication
7 1 (0.83%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.00%) Windows
2 5 (4.17%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.33%) Linux
4 2 (1.67%) Unix
5 1 (0.83%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.83%) Rocky
5 1 (0.83%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (34.17%) Disaster Recovery
2 24 (20.00%) DevOps
3 22 (18.33%) Data Protection
4 21 (17.50%) CI/CD
4 21 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (17.50%) Risk Management
4 21 (17.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (15.83%) ITIL
7 16 (13.33%) Incident Response
8 14 (11.67%) Change Management
8 14 (11.67%) Service Management
9 13 (10.83%) Agile
9 13 (10.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 12 (10.00%) High Availability
11 11 (9.17%) Analytics
11 11 (9.17%) Cybersecurity
11 11 (9.17%) Incident Management
11 11 (9.17%) ITSM
11 11 (9.17%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (15.00%) SQL
2 11 (9.17%) C#
2 11 (9.17%) JavaScript
3 10 (8.33%) Formula Language
3 10 (8.33%) LotusScript
4 7 (5.83%) Python
5 6 (5.00%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.50%) Bash
7 1 (0.83%) DataWeave
7 1 (0.83%) Groovy
7 1 (0.83%) Java
7 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.83%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 17 (14.17%) SC Cleared
3 13 (10.83%) Degree
3 13 (10.83%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.83%) APMG
5 6 (5.00%) CISSP
6 4 (3.33%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.33%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.33%) CISA
6 4 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (3.33%) CISM
6 4 (3.33%) CRISC
6 4 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (3.33%) Master's Degree
6 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.33%) Postgraduate
6 4 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (2.50%) CCNA
8 2 (1.67%) CCNP
8 2 (1.67%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.17%) GDPR
2 10 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (7.50%) NIST
3 9 (7.50%) PMO
4 7 (5.83%) PCI DSS
5 6 (5.00%) GRC
6 4 (3.33%) COBIT
6 4 (3.33%) QA
7 3 (2.50%) Data Quality
7 3 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (2.50%) SLA
7 3 (2.50%) SOC 2
8 2 (1.67%) ISO 22301
8 2 (1.67%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.83%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.83%) NCSC
9 1 (0.83%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.83%) RMADS
System Software
1 7 (5.83%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.17%) Docker
3 1 (0.83%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (6.67%) Terraform
2 6 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.67%) Ansible
3 2 (1.67%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.83%) NetBackup
4 1 (0.83%) Puppet
4 1 (0.83%) SCCM
Vendors
1 29 (24.17%) Microsoft
2 16 (13.33%) ServiceNow
3 13 (10.83%) Oracle
4 10 (8.33%) Kofax
4 10 (8.33%) Lotus
5 3 (2.50%) IBM
5 3 (2.50%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.50%) Veeam
5 3 (2.50%) VMware
6 2 (1.67%) Autodesk
6 2 (1.67%) Computacenter
6 2 (1.67%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.67%) Kronos
6 2 (1.67%) Murex
6 2 (1.67%) Workday
7 1 (0.83%) Apple
7 1 (0.83%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.83%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.83%) SnapLogic
7 1 (0.83%) Zerto