Business Continuity Contracts in the Midlands

Business Continuity
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 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 93 123 133
Rank change year-on-year +30 +10 +23
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 18 10 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.94% 0.36% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 0.44% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 21
10th Percentile £413 £460 £450
25th Percentile £460 £524 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £613 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +22.50% -13.04%
75th Percentile £588 £659 £650
90th Percentile £700 £706 -
England median daily rate £564 £491 £511
% change year-on-year +14.81% -3.86% -1.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Business Continuity
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Continuity in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Business Continuity in the Midlands

Business Continuity
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Continuity in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Continuity in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Continuity in the Midlands

Business Continuity
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 within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +21 15 £525 -5.83% 19
East Midlands +10 1 £700 - 9
Business Continuity
England

Business Continuity
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:

Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) IaaS
2 3 (16.67%) PaaS
2 3 (16.67%) SaaS
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.56%) AWS
4 1 (5.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
1 1 (5.56%) Network Security
General
1 4 (22.22%) Finance
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (11.11%) Local Government
2 2 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Legal
3 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 5 (27.78%) IT Manager
2 5 (27.78%) IT Project Manager
2 5 (27.78%) Lead
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Head of IT
3 2 (11.11%) PMO Lead
3 2 (11.11%) Report Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Resilience Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Service Continuity Leader
4 1 (5.56%) Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Data Centre Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Data Centre Project Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Data Migration Manager
4 1 (5.56%) IT Director
4 1 (5.56%) Migration Project Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Project Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Service Delivery Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) PMI
1 2 (11.11%) Replication
2 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (38.89%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (33.33%) BCP
3 6 (33.33%) Business Continuity Planning
3 6 (33.33%) Migration
4 5 (27.78%) ITIL
4 5 (27.78%) Project Management
4 5 (27.78%) Risk Management
5 4 (22.22%) Business Impact Analysis
5 4 (22.22%) Change Control
5 4 (22.22%) Impact Analysis
6 3 (16.67%) Business Continuity Management
6 3 (16.67%) Cloud Security
6 3 (16.67%) Contract Management
6 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (16.67%) Incident Response
6 3 (16.67%) Programme Management
6 3 (16.67%) Requirements Workshops
6 3 (16.67%) Systems Analysis
6 3 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Azure Certification
1 2 (11.11%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.56%) CEH
2 1 (5.56%) CISA
2 1 (5.56%) CISM
2 1 (5.56%) CISSP
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (38.89%) PMO
2 3 (16.67%) Data Quality
3 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (5.56%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (5.56%) GDPR
4 1 (5.56%) HIPAA
4 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (5.56%) NIST
4 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
4 1 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 2 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft