BCP Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring BCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 116 132
Rank change year-on-year -35 +16 +69
Contract jobs citing BCP 9 6 4
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.29% 0.26% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.30% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 4
10th Percentile - £252 £406
25th Percentile £213 £254 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £289 £260 £650
Median % change year-on-year +10.96% -60.00% +108.00%
75th Percentile £373 £333 £694
90th Percentile £412 £456 £728
England median daily rate £455 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -13.33% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.25 - -
Median hourly rate £16.50 - -
75th Percentile £16.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £16.43 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,694 2,005 2,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.57% 85.87% 84.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,699 1,258 1,523
10th Percentile £250 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -1.52%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £595
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 72 97
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £13.15
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £17.07
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.05 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.13% +0.22% +36.66%
75th Percentile £25.15 £33.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £31.00 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.63%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BCP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

BCP job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing BCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing BCP

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BCP in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BCP in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing BCP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing BCP

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BCP within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
East Midlands - 7 £225 - 4
West Midlands -40 2 £425 +63.46% 4
BCP
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (44.44%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Entra ID
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (22.22%) GitHub
3 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (11.11%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) DHCP
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) VLAN
2 1 (11.11%) VoIP
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Desktop Support
1 4 (44.44%) Desktop Support Technician
1 4 (44.44%) Desktop Technician
1 4 (44.44%) Support Technician
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Desktop Support
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Desktop Support Technician
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Support Technician
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Technician
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Network Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Product Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Service Continuity Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Smartphone
2 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Apple iOS
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Business Continuity
1 6 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (55.56%) Business Continuity Planning
2 5 (55.56%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (44.44%) Customer Service
3 4 (44.44%) Data Migration
3 4 (44.44%) Migration
4 3 (33.33%) Change Management
4 3 (33.33%) High Availability
4 3 (33.33%) Runbook
4 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (22.22%) Analytics
5 2 (22.22%) DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) GitOps
5 2 (22.22%) Identity Management
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) ITIL
5 2 (22.22%) Load Balancing
5 2 (22.22%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Bash
1 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
1 2 (22.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (22.22%) Docker
3 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (44.44%) SCCM
2 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) Prometheus
2 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) Citrix
2 1 (11.11%) Dell
2 1 (11.11%) F5
2 1 (11.11%) HP
2 1 (11.11%) VMware