Business Continuity Planning Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Business Continuity Planning
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Business Continuity Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 125 130
Rank change year-on-year -35 +5 +66
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity Planning 4 7 4
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.13% 0.28% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.33% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - £252 -
25th Percentile £213 £255 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £260 £650
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% -60.00% +108.00%
75th Percentile £238 £450 £713
90th Percentile - £503 £735
England median daily rate £500 £525 £463
% change year-on-year -4.76% +13.51% -10.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Business Continuity Planning 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 2,688 2,125 2,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.96% 84.70% 84.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,695 1,322 1,557
10th Percentile £250 £250 £250
25th Percentile £373 £375 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -1.52%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £689
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 80 104
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £14.04
25th Percentile £16.35 £16.94 £17.41
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.25 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -15.19% -6.51% +41.41%
75th Percentile £25.15 £34.06 £51.50
90th Percentile £31.00 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

Business Continuity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Business Continuity Planning job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Business Continuity Planning
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Business Continuity Planning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Business Continuity Planning

Business Continuity Planning
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Business Continuity Planning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Business Continuity Planning

Business Continuity Planning
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 Business Continuity Planning within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 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 -15 3 £225 -50.00% 3
West Midlands -31 1 - - 4
Business Continuity Planning
England

Business Continuity Planning
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 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Desktop Support
2 1 (25.00%) Desktop Support Technician
2 1 (25.00%) Desktop Technician
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Desktop Support
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Desktop Support Technician
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Support Technician
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Technician
2 1 (25.00%) Service Continuity Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (25.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) BCP
1 4 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 4 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 3 (75.00%) Runbook
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) GitOps
3 2 (50.00%) Identity Management
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
3 2 (50.00%) Log Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) ITIL
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) F5