Business Continuity Contracts in London

Business Continuity
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Business Continuity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Continuity over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 265 288 362
Rank change year-on-year +23 +74 +29
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 88 103 133
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.70% 0.58% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.65% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 84 100
10th Percentile £475 £250 £312
25th Percentile £525 £350 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £631 £675
90th Percentile £719 £725 £745
England median daily rate £564 £491 £511
% change year-on-year +14.81% -3.86% -1.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £19.51 - -
25th Percentile £19.98 - -
Median hourly rate £21.63 - £23.36
75th Percentile £23.01 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £21.63 £16.17 £25.81
% change year-on-year +33.74% -37.35% +7.95%

All Process and 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 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Business Continuity
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Business Continuity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Business Continuity in London

Business Continuity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Continuity in London.

Daily rate trend for Business Continuity in London

Business Continuity
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Continuity in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Continuity in London

Business Continuity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Continuity in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 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 -10 15 £620 +77.14% 11
East London +18 6 £593 -5.95% 1
West London +13 4 - - 16
Business Continuity
England

Business Continuity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (4.55%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.14%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.14%) SAP Business ByDesign
Cloud Services
1 33 (37.50%) Azure
2 17 (19.32%) AWS
3 12 (13.64%) GCP
4 10 (11.36%) Entra ID
4 10 (11.36%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (9.09%) Power Platform
6 6 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (6.82%) SaaS
7 4 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (4.55%) OneDrive
7 4 (4.55%) Power Automate
8 3 (3.41%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (3.41%) Mimecast
8 3 (3.41%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.27%) IaaS
9 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (2.27%) Serverless
10 1 (1.14%) Cloud Functions
10 1 (1.14%) Nutanix
10 1 (1.14%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.50%) DNS
2 9 (10.23%) DHCP
2 9 (10.23%) Firewall
3 8 (9.09%) VPN
3 8 (9.09%) WAN
4 7 (7.95%) TCP/IP
5 5 (5.68%) LAN
5 5 (5.68%) Wireless
6 4 (4.55%) Network Security
6 4 (4.55%) SD-WAN
7 3 (3.41%) 4G
7 3 (3.41%) VLAN
8 2 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (1.14%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (1.14%) IP Telephony
9 1 (1.14%) NetScaler
9 1 (1.14%) Softphone
9 1 (1.14%) SWIFTNet
9 1 (1.14%) Unified Communications
9 1 (1.14%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.68%) Power BI
2 3 (3.41%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.27%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.14%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.14%) MySQL
4 1 (1.14%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (4.55%) JIRA
2 1 (1.14%) Git
2 1 (1.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.14%) Selenium
2 1 (1.14%) SpecFlow
General
1 35 (39.77%) Social Skills
2 34 (38.64%) Finance
3 12 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (11.36%) Banking
5 9 (10.23%) Legal
6 7 (7.95%) Public Sector
7 5 (5.68%) Law
7 5 (5.68%) Marketing
8 3 (3.41%) Police
9 2 (2.27%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.27%) International Banking
9 2 (2.27%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.27%) Retail
10 1 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.14%) Front Office
10 1 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.14%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (22.73%) Senior
2 12 (13.64%) Lead
3 11 (12.50%) Consultant
4 9 (10.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (9.09%) Analyst
5 8 (9.09%) Architect
5 8 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (7.95%) Project Manager
7 6 (6.82%) Business Analyst
7 6 (6.82%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (5.68%) Head of IT
8 5 (5.68%) IT Manager
8 5 (5.68%) Security Architect
8 5 (5.68%) Senior Business Analyst
8 5 (5.68%) Senior Manager
8 5 (5.68%) Service Manager
9 4 (4.55%) Business Manager
9 4 (4.55%) Microsoft 365 Manager
9 4 (4.55%) Security Consultant
10 3 (3.41%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.14%) 802.1X
1 1 (1.14%) ARM Templates
1 1 (1.14%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (1.14%) Node.js
1 1 (1.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.23%) Data Centre
2 7 (7.95%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.55%) Replication
3 4 (4.55%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (3.41%) Cyberattack
4 3 (3.41%) Freedom of Information
4 3 (3.41%) Low-Code
4 3 (3.41%) PKI
4 3 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.27%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.27%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.14%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.14%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.14%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (23.86%) Windows
2 7 (7.95%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.55%) Linux
4 3 (3.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (35.23%) Disaster Recovery
1 31 (35.23%) ITIL
2 25 (28.41%) Risk Management
3 24 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 20 (22.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 17 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (18.18%) Migration
7 15 (17.05%) BCP
7 15 (17.05%) Business Continuity Planning
7 15 (17.05%) Cybersecurity
7 15 (17.05%) Incident Response
7 15 (17.05%) Project Management
8 14 (15.91%) Agile
9 13 (14.77%) Roadmaps
10 11 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 11 (12.50%) Service Delivery
11 10 (11.36%) User Acceptance Testing
12 9 (10.23%) Change Management
12 9 (10.23%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (10.23%) PowerShell
1 9 (10.23%) Python
2 5 (5.68%) SQL
3 3 (3.41%) Perl
4 1 (1.14%) Bash
4 1 (1.14%) C#
4 1 (1.14%) Groovy
4 1 (1.14%) Java
4 1 (1.14%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 12 (13.64%) Degree
1 12 (13.64%) SC Cleared
1 12 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.68%) CBAP
3 4 (4.55%) CISSP
4 3 (3.41%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.41%) CCNA
4 3 (3.41%) CCNP
4 3 (3.41%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (3.41%) CISM
4 3 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.41%) CRISC
4 3 (3.41%) DBS Check
4 3 (3.41%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (3.41%) PMP
5 2 (2.27%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.27%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.14%) CEH
6 1 (1.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (1.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.64%) GDPR
1 12 (13.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (7.95%) NIST
3 6 (6.82%) GRC
4 5 (5.68%) HIPAA
5 3 (3.41%) NCSC
5 3 (3.41%) QA
6 2 (2.27%) ISO 22301
6 2 (2.27%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.14%) COBIT
7 1 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.14%) ISO 31000
7 1 (1.14%) PMO
7 1 (1.14%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (13.64%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.82%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.41%) Docker
3 3 (3.41%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (3.41%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (10.23%) Terraform
3 6 (6.82%) SCCM
4 4 (4.55%) Ansible
4 4 (4.55%) FortiGate
5 3 (3.41%) HP ALM
5 3 (3.41%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.14%) Grafana
6 1 (1.14%) OfficeScan
6 1 (1.14%) Perfmon
6 1 (1.14%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.14%) Puppet
6 1 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.14%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 13 (14.77%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.36%) ServiceNow
3 9 (10.23%) Google
4 5 (5.68%) VMware
5 4 (4.55%) SAP
6 3 (3.41%) HP
6 3 (3.41%) Oracle
6 3 (3.41%) Workday
7 2 (2.27%) Cisco
7 2 (2.27%) QAD
7 2 (2.27%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.27%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.14%) Altiris
8 1 (1.14%) Aruba
8 1 (1.14%) Barracuda Networks
8 1 (1.14%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.14%) Ivanti
8 1 (1.14%) Kronos
8 1 (1.14%) Mitel
8 1 (1.14%) Veeam