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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 259 306
Rank change year-on-year -30 +47 +19
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 154 109 78
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.76% 0.80% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.87% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 71 55
10th Percentile £363 £375 £318
25th Percentile £463 £500 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +35.29% -17.07%
75th Percentile £671 £675 £626
90th Percentile £800 £763 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £475
% change year-on-year - +15.79% -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 £17.63 £42.06 £36.84
% change year-on-year -58.09% +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 18,008 12,525 14,374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 92.35% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,832 8,338 10,058
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £662 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 255 198
10th Percentile £16.95 £16.50 £17.01
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.44
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.75
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.17% +3.59%

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 16 August 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 16 August 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 -17 11 £537 -0.07% 20
South London - 5 £550 - 4
West London -19 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 5 (3.25%) JBoss
2 4 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.65%) Apache
3 1 (0.65%) CloudStack
3 1 (0.65%) HCL Notes
3 1 (0.65%) Mendix
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.30%) Endur
1 2 (1.30%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (1.30%) Primavera
2 1 (0.65%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.65%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.65%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (0.65%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (22.73%) Azure
2 23 (14.94%) AWS
3 15 (9.74%) Entra ID
3 15 (9.74%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (5.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (5.19%) Azure Monitor
4 8 (5.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 7 (4.55%) PaaS
6 6 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (3.90%) AWS KMS
7 5 (3.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (3.25%) GitHub
7 5 (3.25%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (3.25%) SaaS
8 4 (2.60%) GCP
8 4 (2.60%) IaaS
8 4 (2.60%) Power Platform
8 4 (2.60%) Serverless
9 3 (1.95%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.44%) VPN
2 11 (7.14%) DNS
3 10 (6.49%) DHCP
4 8 (5.19%) Network Security
4 8 (5.19%) TCP/IP
5 7 (4.55%) Firewall
6 6 (3.90%) LAN
6 6 (3.90%) WAN
7 5 (3.25%) Kerberos
7 5 (3.25%) Wireless
8 4 (2.60%) 4G
8 4 (2.60%) SAN
9 2 (1.30%) Intranet
9 2 (1.30%) NAS
9 2 (1.30%) Structured Cabling
10 1 (0.65%) Internet
10 1 (0.65%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.65%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.79%) SQL Server
2 9 (5.84%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (4.55%) Big Data
3 7 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.90%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.90%) MySQL
4 6 (3.90%) Redis
5 5 (3.25%) Hadoop
6 4 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.95%) Power BI
8 2 (1.30%) Metadata
8 2 (1.30%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.65%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.65%) Oracle BI EE
9 1 (0.65%) Oracle ODI
9 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.65%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (3.25%) JIRA
2 3 (1.95%) GitLab
3 2 (1.30%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.65%) Selenium
4 1 (0.65%) SpecFlow
General
1 56 (36.36%) Finance
2 54 (35.06%) Social Skills
3 24 (15.58%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (12.34%) Public Sector
5 13 (8.44%) Banking
6 8 (5.19%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.60%) Front Office
8 4 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.60%) Law
8 4 (2.60%) Legal
8 4 (2.60%) Local Government
9 3 (1.95%) Back Office
9 3 (1.95%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.95%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.30%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Military
11 1 (0.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (15.58%) Architect
2 18 (11.69%) Senior
3 15 (9.74%) Lead
4 13 (8.44%) Consultant
5 12 (7.79%) IT Manager
6 10 (6.49%) Analyst
7 9 (5.84%) Administrator
7 9 (5.84%) Change Manager
7 9 (5.84%) DBA
7 9 (5.84%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (5.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (4.55%) Business Consultant
10 6 (3.90%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (3.90%) Linux Engineer
10 6 (3.90%) Project Manager
10 6 (3.90%) Resilience Manager
10 6 (3.90%) ServiceNow Architect
11 5 (3.25%) Business Continuity Consultant
11 5 (3.25%) Head of Security
11 5 (3.25%) IT Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.95%) .NET
1 3 (1.95%) ARM Templates
1 3 (1.95%) React
2 2 (1.30%) .NET Core
2 2 (1.30%) .NET Framework
2 2 (1.30%) ASP.NET
2 2 (1.30%) REST
3 1 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.65%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (0.65%) JSON
3 1 (0.65%) Kafka
3 1 (0.65%) Middleware
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.65%) PySpark
3 1 (0.65%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.14%) Onboarding
1 11 (7.14%) Replication
2 9 (5.84%) Clustering
2 9 (5.84%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.90%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.90%) CMDB
4 6 (3.90%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.25%) Security Posture
6 4 (2.60%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.60%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (2.60%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.60%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.60%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (1.95%) Cyberattack
7 3 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.95%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.95%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 23 (14.94%) Windows
2 16 (10.39%) Linux
3 11 (7.14%) Windows Server
4 8 (5.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.60%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.95%) Unix
7 2 (1.30%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.30%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.30%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.65%) AIX
8 1 (0.65%) Android
8 1 (0.65%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.65%) Rocky
8 1 (0.65%) Solaris
8 1 (0.65%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.65%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (54.55%) Disaster Recovery
2 42 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 33 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 31 (20.13%) Continuous Improvement
5 28 (18.18%) BCP
5 28 (18.18%) Business Continuity Planning
5 28 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (17.53%) High Availability
7 26 (16.88%) Cybersecurity
7 26 (16.88%) Project Delivery
8 23 (14.94%) ITIL
9 21 (13.64%) CI/CD
9 21 (13.64%) DevOps
9 21 (13.64%) Incident Response
10 20 (12.99%) Incident Management
10 20 (12.99%) Performance Tuning
11 19 (12.34%) Infrastructure as Code
11 19 (12.34%) Migration
11 19 (12.34%) Roadmaps
12 18 (11.69%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 13 (8.44%) SQL
3 11 (7.14%) Python
4 7 (4.55%) Bash
5 6 (3.90%) Bicep
5 6 (3.90%) C#
6 3 (1.95%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.30%) C
7 2 (1.30%) C++
7 2 (1.30%) COBOL
7 2 (1.30%) Java
7 2 (1.30%) RPG
7 2 (1.30%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.65%) Formula Language
8 1 (0.65%) LotusScript
8 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (20.13%) Security Cleared
2 26 (16.88%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.49%) AWS Certification
3 10 (6.49%) Degree
4 9 (5.84%) APMG
4 9 (5.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (5.19%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.90%) CCNP
6 6 (3.90%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.25%) CCNA
7 5 (3.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.95%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.95%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.95%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.95%) PMP
9 2 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.30%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.30%) MCITP
9 2 (1.30%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 11 (7.14%) PMO
2 7 (4.55%) NIST
3 6 (3.90%) Data Quality
4 5 (3.25%) ISO 22301
4 5 (3.25%) QA
5 4 (2.60%) GDPR
6 3 (1.95%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.95%) SLA
6 3 (1.95%) SOC 2
7 2 (1.30%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.30%) NCSC
7 2 (1.30%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.65%) GRC
8 1 (0.65%) JSP 440
System Software
1 17 (11.04%) Active Directory
2 10 (6.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.25%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.60%) vSphere
5 3 (1.95%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.30%) Docker
6 2 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.65%) Firmware
7 1 (0.65%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (11.04%) Terraform
2 7 (4.55%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.90%) Ansible
4 5 (3.25%) Failover Clustering
4 5 (3.25%) FortiGate
4 5 (3.25%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.25%) Puppet
4 5 (3.25%) Red Hat Satellite
5 3 (1.95%) Grafana
6 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.30%) SCCM
6 2 (1.30%) SCOM
7 1 (0.65%) Check_MK
7 1 (0.65%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.65%) Nagios
7 1 (0.65%) QRadar
7 1 (0.65%) SCVMM
7 1 (0.65%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 36 (23.38%) Microsoft
2 22 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 11 (7.14%) VMware
4 8 (5.19%) Red Hat
5 6 (3.90%) Cisco
6 4 (2.60%) Oracle
7 3 (1.95%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.95%) Citrix
7 3 (1.95%) Computacenter
7 3 (1.95%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.30%) Autodesk
8 2 (1.30%) EMC
8 2 (1.30%) IBM
8 2 (1.30%) Kronos
8 2 (1.30%) NetApp
8 2 (1.30%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.30%) Splunk
8 2 (1.30%) Veeam
8 2 (1.30%) Workday
9 1 (0.65%) Pure Storage