BCP Contracts in the North of England

Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 26 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 169 168 194
Rank change year-on-year -1 +26 +41
Contract jobs citing BCP 12 3 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.31% 0.069% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.082% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 7
10th Percentile £468 £420 £304
25th Percentile £494 £450 £304
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £315
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +58.73% -25.88%
75th Percentile £619 £519 £558
90th Percentile £653 £530 £602
England median daily rate £563 £481 £617
% change year-on-year +16.88% -22.00% +23.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,487 3,666 4,801
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.77% 84.14% 89.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,227 2,228 3,227
10th Percentile £268 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -0.10% +0.10%
75th Percentile £551 £585 £600
90th Percentile £650 £669 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 283 205
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.15 £15.73
25th Percentile £17.46 £13.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £22.63 £22.88 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.07% -16.82% +36.61%
75th Percentile £43.39 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £72.29 £68.50 £55.15
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +63.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for BCP in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BCP in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for BCP in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BCP in the North of England over the 6 months to 26 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BCP in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BCP in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for BCP in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BCP within the North of England region over the 6 months to 26 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
North West +9 9 £650 +30.00% 7
North East - 2 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £450 - 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
1 5 (41.67%) Entra ID
1 5 (41.67%) IaaS
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) Firewall
1 5 (41.67%) Intrusion Detection
1 5 (41.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (41.67%) Telecoms
2 2 (16.67%) Banking
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Analyst
2 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Lead
3 3 (25.00%) Service Continuity Leader
4 2 (16.67%) Business Continuity Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) IT Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Service Continuity Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Storage Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (8.33%) EMC VNX
1 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (8.33%) IBM XIV
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
1 5 (41.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 12 (100.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 10 (83.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 9 (75.00%) High Availability
4 6 (50.00%) Business Impact Analysis
4 6 (50.00%) Impact Analysis
5 5 (41.67%) Analytics
5 5 (41.67%) Change Management
5 5 (41.67%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (41.67%) Enterprise Architecture
5 5 (41.67%) Information Security
5 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (41.67%) Line Management
5 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (41.67%) Project Delivery
5 5 (41.67%) Risk Assessment
5 5 (41.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 5 (41.67%) Web Operations
6 4 (33.33%) ITIL
6 4 (33.33%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Azure Certification
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 2 (16.67%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Active Directory
1 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (41.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
1 5 (41.67%) VMware
2 1 (8.33%) EMC
2 1 (8.33%) IBM