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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 258 313
Rank change year-on-year -58 +55 +20
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 130 107 85
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.66% 0.79% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.86% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 69 65
10th Percentile £363 £377 £313
25th Percentile £463 £500 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £465
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% +23.66% -12.76%
75th Percentile £656 £663 £625
90th Percentile £785 £753 £765
England median daily rate £535 £550 £494
% change year-on-year -2.73% +11.39% -7.75%
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 £19.22 £42.06 £16.17
% change year-on-year -54.31% +160.13% -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 17,610 12,492 15,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.97% 92.11% 88.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,678 8,360 10,852
10th Percentile £363 £331 £350
25th Percentile £448 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 240 266
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.12
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £20.50
Median hourly rate £36.25 £31.75 £32.40
Median % change year-on-year +14.17% -1.99% -21.94%
75th Percentile £57.81 £50.13 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.30 £70.38
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -8.14%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -18 10 £531 -11.46% 7
South London - 3 £723 - 2
West London -16 2 £500 - 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 3 (2.31%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.77%) Anypoint
2 1 (0.77%) Apache
2 1 (0.77%) CloudStack
2 1 (0.77%) HCL Notes
2 1 (0.77%) Mendix
2 1 (0.77%) Mule
2 1 (0.77%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.77%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (0.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.54%) Endur
1 2 (1.54%) Primavera
2 1 (0.77%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.77%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.77%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.77%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.77%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.77%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (22.31%) Azure
2 21 (16.15%) AWS
3 9 (6.92%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (6.15%) GCP
5 7 (5.38%) Entra ID
6 5 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.85%) Power Platform
6 5 (3.85%) Serverless
7 3 (2.31%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.31%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (2.31%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.31%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (2.31%) GitHub
7 3 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.54%) Datadog
8 2 (1.54%) IaaS
8 2 (1.54%) PaaS
8 2 (1.54%) SaaS
8 2 (1.54%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 2 (1.54%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.15%) Network Security
1 8 (6.15%) VPN
2 7 (5.38%) DNS
3 6 (4.62%) DHCP
3 6 (4.62%) Firewall
3 6 (4.62%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.08%) LAN
4 4 (3.08%) WAN
5 3 (2.31%) Wireless
6 2 (1.54%) 4G
6 2 (1.54%) Intranet
6 2 (1.54%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (0.77%) Internet
7 1 (0.77%) NAS
7 1 (0.77%) SAN
7 1 (0.77%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.62%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.31%) Metadata
3 3 (2.31%) Power BI
4 2 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.54%) Big Data
4 2 (1.54%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.77%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.77%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.77%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.77%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (0.77%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (0.77%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.77%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.77%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (3.85%) JIRA
2 3 (2.31%) GitLab
3 2 (1.54%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.77%) Selenium
4 1 (0.77%) SpecFlow
General
1 47 (36.15%) Finance
2 40 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 23 (17.69%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (9.23%) Public Sector
5 11 (8.46%) Banking
6 9 (6.92%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (3.08%) Law
9 4 (3.08%) Local Government
9 4 (3.08%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.31%) Back Office
10 3 (2.31%) Legal
11 2 (1.54%) Billing
11 2 (1.54%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.54%) Front Office
11 2 (1.54%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (18.46%) Architect
2 13 (10.00%) Lead
3 12 (9.23%) Consultant
3 12 (9.23%) IT Manager
4 10 (7.69%) Analyst
5 9 (6.92%) Change Manager
6 8 (6.15%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (5.38%) Business Consultant
7 7 (5.38%) Incident Manager
7 7 (5.38%) Project Manager
7 7 (5.38%) Senior
8 6 (4.62%) Resilience Manager
8 6 (4.62%) ServiceNow Architect
9 5 (3.85%) Business Continuity Consultant
9 5 (3.85%) Business Manager
9 5 (3.85%) IT Consultant
10 4 (3.08%) Applications Manager
10 4 (3.08%) Applications Support
10 4 (3.08%) Major Incident Manager
10 4 (3.08%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.31%) .NET
1 3 (2.31%) React
1 3 (2.31%) REST
2 2 (1.54%) .NET Core
2 2 (1.54%) .NET Framework
2 2 (1.54%) ARM Templates
2 2 (1.54%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.77%) CSS
3 1 (0.77%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.77%) HTML
3 1 (0.77%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (0.77%) JSON
3 1 (0.77%) Kafka
3 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.77%) Middleware
3 1 (0.77%) PySpark
3 1 (0.77%) RAML
3 1 (0.77%) SOAP
3 1 (0.77%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.15%) Cloud Native
1 8 (6.15%) Onboarding
2 6 (4.62%) CMDB
2 6 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (4.62%) Security Posture
3 5 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.85%) Replication
4 4 (3.08%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (3.08%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.08%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.31%) Cyberattack
5 3 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.31%) Low-Code
5 3 (2.31%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.31%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.54%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.54%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (1.54%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.77%) Windows
2 8 (6.15%) Linux
3 6 (4.62%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.31%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.77%) AIX
6 1 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.77%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.77%) Rocky
6 1 (0.77%) Solaris
6 1 (0.77%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.77%) Unix
6 1 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (46.15%) Disaster Recovery
2 29 (22.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 28 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 26 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 23 (17.69%) Cybersecurity
6 21 (16.15%) BCP
6 21 (16.15%) Business Continuity Planning
7 20 (15.38%) Incident Management
7 20 (15.38%) ITIL
7 20 (15.38%) Risk Management
8 19 (14.62%) DevOps
8 19 (14.62%) Incident Response
9 18 (13.85%) Data Protection
9 18 (13.85%) Project Delivery
10 17 (13.08%) Agile
10 17 (13.08%) Change Management
11 16 (12.31%) High Availability
12 15 (11.54%) Decision-Making
13 14 (10.77%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 9 (6.92%) Python
1 9 (6.92%) SQL
2 5 (3.85%) Bash
2 5 (3.85%) PowerShell
3 4 (3.08%) C#
3 4 (3.08%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.31%) Java
5 2 (1.54%) Bicep
5 2 (1.54%) COBOL
5 2 (1.54%) RPG
5 2 (1.54%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.77%) DataWeave
6 1 (0.77%) Formula Language
6 1 (0.77%) Groovy
6 1 (0.77%) LotusScript
6 1 (0.77%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.77%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.77%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (18.46%) Security Cleared
2 16 (12.31%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.23%) Degree
4 9 (6.92%) APMG
5 8 (6.15%) AWS Certification
6 7 (5.38%) DV Cleared
7 6 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.85%) Azure Certification
9 4 (3.08%) CCNP
9 4 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (3.08%) CISSP
9 4 (3.08%) Master's Degree
9 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (3.08%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (2.31%) CCNA
10 3 (2.31%) CISA
10 3 (2.31%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (2.31%) PMI Certification
10 3 (2.31%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (8.46%) NIST
2 11 (8.46%) PMO
3 8 (6.15%) GDPR
4 5 (3.85%) GRC
4 5 (3.85%) ISO 22301
4 5 (3.85%) PCI DSS
4 5 (3.85%) QA
4 5 (3.85%) SLA
5 4 (3.08%) SOC 2
6 3 (2.31%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (2.31%) NCSC
6 3 (2.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.54%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.54%) COBIT
7 2 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.54%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.54%) ISO 31000
8 1 (0.77%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.77%) NIST 800
System Software
1 11 (8.46%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.62%) Docker
3 3 (2.31%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.77%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.77%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.92%) Terraform
3 5 (3.85%) Ansible
4 4 (3.08%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.31%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.54%) Grafana
6 2 (1.54%) SCCM
7 1 (0.77%) Check_MK
7 1 (0.77%) Nagios
7 1 (0.77%) QRadar
7 1 (0.77%) SCOM
Vendors
1 26 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 22 (16.92%) ServiceNow
3 4 (3.08%) Oracle
3 4 (3.08%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.31%) Bloomberg
4 3 (2.31%) Citrix
4 3 (2.31%) Computacenter
4 3 (2.31%) VMware
5 2 (1.54%) Autodesk
5 2 (1.54%) IBM
5 2 (1.54%) Kronos
5 2 (1.54%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.54%) SolarWinds
5 2 (1.54%) Workday
6 1 (0.77%) ArcSight
6 1 (0.77%) LogRhythm
6 1 (0.77%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.77%) Splunk
6 1 (0.77%) Veeam
6 1 (0.77%) Yardi