BCP Contracts in Manchester

Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring BCP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BCP 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 68 94 113
Rank change year-on-year +26 +19 +26
Contract jobs citing BCP 11 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.19% 0.13% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 0.15% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 5
10th Percentile £386 £411 -
25th Percentile £415 £427 £304
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £456 £310
Median % change year-on-year +9.75% +47.18% -27.06%
75th Percentile £592 £489 £315
90th Percentile £642 £507 £520
North West median daily rate £383 £456 £313
% change year-on-year -16.05% +46.00% -26.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

BCP 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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing BCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for BCP in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BCP in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for BCP in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BCP in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BCP in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BCP in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for BCP in Manchester

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Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BCP within the Manchester 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
Stockport - 1 - - 3
BCP
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 8 (72.73%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) Azure
1 8 (72.73%) Entra ID
1 8 (72.73%) IaaS
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) Firewall
1 8 (72.73%) Intrusion Detection
1 8 (72.73%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (72.73%) Telecoms
2 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Analyst
1 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 2 (18.18%) Lead
3 2 (18.18%) Service Continuity Leader
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Storage Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 1 (9.09%) EMC VNX
1 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (9.09%) IBM XIV
1 1 (9.09%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Windows
1 8 (72.73%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 11 (100.00%) Business Continuity Planning
1 11 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 8 (72.73%) Change Management
2 8 (72.73%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (72.73%) Enterprise Architecture
2 8 (72.73%) Information Security
2 8 (72.73%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (72.73%) Risk Assessment
2 8 (72.73%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 7 (63.64%) High Availability
3 7 (63.64%) Line Management
3 7 (63.64%) Project Delivery
3 7 (63.64%) Web Operations
4 5 (45.45%) Analytics
4 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Impact Analysis
5 2 (18.18%) Incident Response
5 2 (18.18%) Runbook
5 2 (18.18%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) Azure Certification
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) Active Directory
1 8 (72.73%) vSphere
2 6 (54.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft
1 8 (72.73%) VMware
2 1 (9.09%) EMC
2 1 (9.09%) IBM