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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 268 290
Rank change year-on-year -27 +22 +67
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 111 87 99
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.63% 0.69% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.75% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 55 81
10th Percentile £363 £475 £250
25th Percentile £415 £525 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +26.32% -5.00%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £631
90th Percentile £780 £719 £725
England median daily rate £550 £570 £475
% change year-on-year -3.42% +19.89% -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 £21.63 -
Median % change year-on-year +61.85% - -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £21.63 £16.17
% change year-on-year +61.85% +33.74% -37.35%

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 15,622 11,589 15,691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.42% 92.20% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,456 7,858 11,248
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 172 322
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.16 £22.73 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.25 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.65% +20.18% -26.92%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.56 £47.34
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.75 £65.68
England median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
% change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -2.97%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -16 14 £776 +25.16% 12
South London - 5 £700 -
West London -25 1 - - 3
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 (11.71%) SharePoint
2 10 (9.01%) HCL Notes
2 10 (9.01%) Mendix
3 1 (0.90%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.90%) Mule
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.90%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.80%) Primavera
2 1 (0.90%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.90%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.90%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (23.42%) Azure
2 15 (13.51%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (11.71%) Power Platform
4 12 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (9.91%) AWS
5 11 (9.91%) PowerApps
5 11 (9.91%) Serverless
6 10 (9.01%) Azure Functions
6 10 (9.01%) Azure Logic Apps
6 10 (9.01%) Azure Service Bus
6 10 (9.01%) Power Automate
7 7 (6.31%) GCP
8 2 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.80%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.80%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.80%) GitHub
8 2 (1.80%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 2 (1.80%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (0.90%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.90%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.60%) Firewall
2 3 (2.70%) Network Security
3 1 (0.90%) DHCP
3 1 (0.90%) DNS
3 1 (0.90%) LAN
3 1 (0.90%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (0.90%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.90%) VPN
3 1 (0.90%) WAN
3 1 (0.90%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.91%) Oracle Database
1 11 (9.91%) Power BI
2 4 (3.60%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.80%) Big Data
5 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.90%) Metadata
5 1 (0.90%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (0.90%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (0.90%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (0.90%) JIRA
1 1 (0.90%) Selenium
1 1 (0.90%) SpecFlow
General
1 42 (37.84%) Finance
2 38 (34.23%) Social Skills
3 21 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (12.61%) Public Sector
5 11 (9.91%) Financial Institution
6 8 (7.21%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (6.31%) Banking
7 7 (6.31%) Telecoms
8 5 (4.50%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (3.60%) Legal
9 4 (3.60%) Local Government
10 3 (2.70%) Law
10 3 (2.70%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.70%) Police
11 2 (1.80%) Billing
11 2 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.80%) Military
12 1 (0.90%) International Banking
12 1 (0.90%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (15.32%) Business Consultant
1 17 (15.32%) Consultant
2 14 (12.61%) Architect
2 14 (12.61%) Business Continuity Consultant
3 10 (9.01%) Change Manager
3 10 (9.01%) Developer
3 10 (9.01%) Power Platform Developer
4 8 (7.21%) IT Consultant
4 8 (7.21%) IT Manager
5 7 (6.31%) Business Manager
6 6 (5.41%) Incident Manager
6 6 (5.41%) Lead
6 6 (5.41%) ServiceNow Architect
7 5 (4.50%) IT Change Manager
7 5 (4.50%) Project Manager
8 4 (3.60%) Analyst
8 4 (3.60%) Business Continuity Manager
8 4 (3.60%) Platform Architect
9 3 (2.70%) Disaster Recovery Consultant
9 3 (2.70%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.01%) .NET
1 10 (9.01%) HTML5 Canvas
1 10 (9.01%) React
2 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.90%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.90%) CSS
3 1 (0.90%) HTML
3 1 (0.90%) JSON
3 1 (0.90%) Kafka
3 1 (0.90%) Middleware
3 1 (0.90%) RAML
3 1 (0.90%) REST
3 1 (0.90%) SOAP
3 1 (0.90%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.81%) Low-Code
2 5 (4.50%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.50%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (4.50%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.60%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.70%) CMDB
4 3 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.80%) Clustering
5 2 (1.80%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.90%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.90%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.90%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.90%) Over-the-Top Content
6 1 (0.90%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.90%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.91%) Windows
2 4 (3.60%) Linux
2 4 (3.60%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.90%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.90%) Rocky
3 1 (0.90%) Solaris
3 1 (0.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (35.14%) Disaster Recovery
2 21 (18.92%) Continuous Improvement
2 21 (18.92%) DevOps
3 20 (18.02%) Data Protection
3 20 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (17.12%) Risk Management
5 18 (16.22%) CI/CD
5 18 (16.22%) ITIL
6 17 (15.32%) Incident Response
7 16 (14.41%) Change Management
7 16 (14.41%) Stakeholder Management
8 15 (13.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 13 (11.71%) Agile
9 13 (11.71%) Service Management
10 12 (10.81%) Project Management
11 11 (9.91%) Business Intelligence
11 11 (9.91%) Cybersecurity
11 11 (9.91%) High Availability
12 10 (9.01%) Analytics
12 10 (9.01%) Business Continuity Planning
Programming Languages
1 16 (14.41%) SQL
2 11 (9.91%) C#
2 11 (9.91%) JavaScript
3 10 (9.01%) Formula Language
3 10 (9.01%) LotusScript
4 5 (4.50%) PowerShell
4 5 (4.50%) Python
5 2 (1.80%) Bash
6 1 (0.90%) DataWeave
6 1 (0.90%) Groovy
6 1 (0.90%) Java
6 1 (0.90%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.90%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (28.83%) Security Cleared
2 16 (14.41%) SC Cleared
3 14 (12.61%) DV Cleared
4 11 (9.91%) Degree
5 8 (7.21%) APMG
6 6 (5.41%) CISSP
7 4 (3.60%) AWS Certification
7 4 (3.60%) CISA
7 4 (3.60%) CISM
7 4 (3.60%) CRISC
7 4 (3.60%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (3.60%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (2.70%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.70%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.80%) CCNA
9 2 (1.80%) MCITP
9 2 (1.80%) MCTS
9 2 (1.80%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.01%) GDPR
1 10 (9.01%) PMO
2 9 (8.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (7.21%) NIST
4 6 (5.41%) PCI DSS
5 5 (4.50%) GRC
6 4 (3.60%) COBIT
6 4 (3.60%) QA
7 3 (2.70%) Data Quality
7 3 (2.70%) ISO 22301
7 3 (2.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (2.70%) SLA
7 3 (2.70%) SOC 2
8 2 (1.80%) ISO 31000
8 2 (1.80%) NCSC
9 1 (0.90%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.90%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.90%) RMADS
System Software
1 6 (5.41%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (5.41%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.50%) Terraform
3 1 (0.90%) Ansible
3 1 (0.90%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.90%) NetBackup
3 1 (0.90%) Puppet
3 1 (0.90%) QRadar
3 1 (0.90%) SCCM
Vendors
1 27 (24.32%) Microsoft
2 18 (16.22%) ServiceNow
3 13 (11.71%) Oracle
4 10 (9.01%) Kofax
4 10 (9.01%) Lotus
5 3 (2.70%) Computacenter
5 3 (2.70%) IBM
5 3 (2.70%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.70%) Veeam
6 2 (1.80%) Autodesk
6 2 (1.80%) Kronos
6 2 (1.80%) Murex
6 2 (1.80%) VMware
6 2 (1.80%) Workday
7 1 (0.90%) BMC
7 1 (0.90%) Commvault
7 1 (0.90%) LogRhythm
7 1 (0.90%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.90%) SnapLogic
7 1 (0.90%) Zerto