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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 130 135
Rank change year-on-year +28 +5 +31
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 28 8 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.23% 0.27% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 0.34% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 5 11
10th Percentile £325 £453 £450
25th Percentile £350 £513 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £480
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +25.00% -12.73%
75th Percentile £538 £663 £663
90th Percentile £638 £715 £750
England median daily rate £550 £475 £529
% change year-on-year +15.79% -10.21% -1.58%

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 2,013 2,382 2,828
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.17% 80.23% 87.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,288 1,588 1,998
10th Percentile £210 £250 £256
25th Percentile £356 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -2.50% +4.17%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £639 £688 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 174 97
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.15 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.80 £13.93 £15.50
Median hourly rate £21.04 £18.50 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +13.73% -26.73% +29.49%
75th Percentile £27.94 £34.73 £47.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +45.12%

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

Business Continuity
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 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Continuity in the Midlands

Business Continuity
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 4 July 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 +22 18 £500 -11.11% 54
East Midlands +12 9 £350 -50.00% 27
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) AutoCAD
1 2 (7.14%) MicroStation
1 2 (7.14%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.86%) Azure
2 2 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (7.14%) Collibra
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (3.57%) AWS
3 1 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (3.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) Firewall
1 1 (3.57%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (7.14%) Delta Lake
1 2 (7.14%) GIS
1 2 (7.14%) Oracle Database
General
1 13 (46.43%) Social Skills
2 8 (28.57%) Retail
3 4 (14.29%) Finance
4 3 (10.71%) Legal
5 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Publishing
6 1 (3.57%) Law
6 1 (3.57%) Local Government
6 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (39.29%) Analyst
2 8 (28.57%) Information Analyst
2 8 (28.57%) Information Security Analyst
2 8 (28.57%) Security Analyst
3 4 (14.29%) Compliance Analyst
3 4 (14.29%) Governance Analyst
3 4 (14.29%) Lead
3 4 (14.29%) Risk Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Information Governance Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Information Risk Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Security Compliance Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Security Risk Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Service Continuity Leader
5 2 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Coordinator
5 2 (7.14%) Data Migration Specialist
5 2 (7.14%) Draughtsman
5 2 (7.14%) IT Manager
5 2 (7.14%) IT Project Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Report Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Security Posture
2 2 (7.14%) IoT
2 2 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 2 (7.14%) Replication
2 2 (7.14%) SCADA
3 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (39.29%) Data Protection
3 10 (35.71%) Information Security
4 9 (32.14%) Penetration Testing
5 8 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (25.00%) BCP
6 7 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (25.00%) ITSM
6 7 (25.00%) Risk Management
6 7 (25.00%) Ticket Management
7 6 (21.43%) Business Continuity Planning
7 6 (21.43%) Incident Response
8 4 (14.29%) ITIL
8 4 (14.29%) Migration
9 3 (10.71%) Change Control
9 3 (10.71%) High Availability
9 3 (10.71%) Load Balancing
9 3 (10.71%) Process Improvement
9 3 (10.71%) Programme Management
9 3 (10.71%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.14%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (7.14%) Python
1 2 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) Azure Certification
1 2 (7.14%) HNC
1 2 (7.14%) HND
2 1 (3.57%) CEH
2 1 (3.57%) CISA
2 1 (3.57%) CISM
2 1 (3.57%) CISSP
2 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (28.57%) GRC
2 6 (21.43%) GDPR
3 3 (10.71%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (7.14%) Accessibility
4 2 (7.14%) Data Quality
4 2 (7.14%) PMO
4 2 (7.14%) QA
5 1 (3.57%) HIPAA
5 1 (3.57%) ISO 22301
5 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (3.57%) NIST
5 1 (3.57%) PCI DSS
5 1 (3.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) Autodesk
2 2 (7.14%) Databricks
2 2 (7.14%) Informatica
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle
2 2 (7.14%) SAP