BCP Contracts in the Midlands

Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 132 156
Rank change year-on-year +17 +24 +41
Contract jobs citing BCP 7 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.35% 0.072% 0.031%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.088% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £295 £446 -
25th Percentile £467 £497 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £588 £325
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +80.77% -55.93%
75th Percentile £619 £672 £338
90th Percentile £675 £719 -
England median daily rate £550 £450 £614
% change year-on-year +22.22% -26.68% +25.90%

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 1,781 2,261 2,859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.30% 81.71% 88.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,168 1,528 2,004
10th Percentile £203 £234 £258
25th Percentile £356 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £639 £688 £690
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 172 98
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £12.35
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £14.64
Median hourly rate £18.63 £18.50 £22.46
Median % change year-on-year +0.68% -17.61% +27.88%
75th Percentile £26.51 £34.20 £45.25
90th Percentile £48.20 £55.00 £59.75
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for BCP in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for BCP in the Midlands

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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 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BCP in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for BCP in the Midlands

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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 29 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
West Midlands +20 7 £575 -2.13% 14
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) IaaS
1 1 (14.29%) PaaS
1 1 (14.29%) SaaS
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) IT Manager
1 3 (42.86%) IT Project Manager
1 3 (42.86%) Project Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Report Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Service Continuity Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Service Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Business Continuity
2 6 (85.71%) Business Continuity Planning
3 4 (57.14%) ITIL
4 3 (42.86%) Business Impact Analysis
4 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (42.86%) Impact Analysis
4 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (28.57%) Change Control
5 2 (28.57%) High Availability
5 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
5 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
5 2 (28.57%) Programme Management
5 2 (28.57%) Project Management
5 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
5 2 (28.57%) Runbook
5 2 (28.57%) Service Catalogue
6 1 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
6 1 (14.29%) Project Planning
6 1 (14.29%) Supplier Management
6 1 (14.29%) Systems Analysis
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) PMO
2 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (14.29%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
3 1 (14.29%) ISO 22301