Business Continuity Contracts in Manchester

Business Continuity
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 80 93
Rank change year-on-year +2 +13 +48
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Business Continuity 8 8 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.78% 0.67% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.77% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 5
10th Percentile - £394 -
25th Percentile £525 £430 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +0.96% +4.00%
75th Percentile £575 £572 £638
90th Percentile - £606 £649
North West median daily rate £550 £500 £523
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.31% +4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £16.17 -
North West median hourly rate - £16.17 £27.98
% change year-on-year - -42.21% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 911 1,036 1,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.05% 86.55% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 581 651 1,149
10th Percentile £305 £350 £285
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £669 £713 £675
North West median daily rate £454 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -9.30% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 47 54
10th Percentile £17.26 £15.97 £15.72
25th Percentile £19.07 £24.43 £16.37
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +79.49% +11.43%
75th Percentile £57.75 £62.50 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.50 £87.00 £68.80
North West median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £30.65
% change year-on-year -22.86% +14.20% +40.71%

Business Continuity
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Continuity in Manchester

Business Continuity
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Business Continuity.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Business Continuity

Business Continuity
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Business Continuity.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Business Continuity

Business Continuity
DemandTrendContract 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 Business Continuity within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 20 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Salford - 1 £550 - 2
Business Continuity
North West

Business Continuity
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 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
1 5 (62.50%) Entra ID
1 5 (62.50%) IaaS
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) Firewall
1 5 (62.50%) Intrusion Detection
1 5 (62.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (62.50%) Telecoms
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Analyst
1 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Business Manager
2 1 (12.50%) IT Manager
2 1 (12.50%) IT Services Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Service Continuity Leader
2 1 (12.50%) Service Continuity Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Service Manager
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
1 5 (62.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (75.00%) BCP
2 6 (75.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 6 (75.00%) High Availability
3 5 (62.50%) Analytics
3 5 (62.50%) Change Management
3 5 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (62.50%) Enterprise Architecture
3 5 (62.50%) Information Security
3 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (62.50%) Line Management
3 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (62.50%) Project Delivery
3 5 (62.50%) Risk Assessment
3 5 (62.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 5 (62.50%) Web Operations
4 3 (37.50%) ITIL
4 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
5 2 (25.00%) Problem Management
5 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Azure Certification
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO 22301
1 2 (25.00%) ISO 31000
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
1 5 (62.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (62.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
1 5 (62.50%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) ServiceNow