BCP Contracts in the North West

Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 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 104 135 149
Rank change year-on-year +31 +14 +19
Contract jobs citing BCP 16 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.81% 0.073% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.084% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 6
10th Percentile - £411 £304
25th Percentile £208 £427 £304
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £383 £456 £313
Median % change year-on-year -16.05% +46.00% -26.47%
75th Percentile £500 £489 £341
90th Percentile £586 £507 £503
England median daily rate £570 £463 £550
% change year-on-year +23.14% -15.91% +11.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for BCP in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for BCP in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BCP in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BCP in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for BCP in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +26 11 £501 +9.75% 12
Merseyside - 3 £215 - 3
Cheshire - 1 £275 - 4
Lancashire - 1 £500 - 3
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 11 (68.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.25%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (75.00%) Azure
2 11 (68.75%) Entra ID
2 11 (68.75%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (50.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (68.75%) Firewall
2 8 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 8 (50.00%) Network Security
3 3 (18.75%) Internet
3 3 (18.75%) iSCSI
3 3 (18.75%) LAN
3 3 (18.75%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (18.75%) WAN
3 3 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (18.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (12.50%) GIS
3 1 (6.25%) DTS
3 1 (6.25%) MSDE
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 8 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Legal
2 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Analyst
1 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 3 (18.75%) Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Lead
3 2 (12.50%) Service Continuity Leader
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Support
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Administrator
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Business Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Business Continuity Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) DBA
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Support
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) SQL DBA
4 1 (6.25%) Storage Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) .NET
1 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) IVR
2 1 (6.25%) Clustering
2 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) EMC VNX
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (6.25%) IBM XIV
2 1 (6.25%) NHS
2 1 (6.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (75.00%) Windows
1 12 (75.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (18.75%) Android
2 3 (18.75%) Linux
2 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Disaster Recovery
2 12 (75.00%) Business Continuity
2 12 (75.00%) Business Continuity Planning
3 11 (68.75%) Information Security
3 11 (68.75%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (56.25%) Risk Assessment
5 8 (50.00%) Change Management
5 8 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 8 (50.00%) High Availability
5 8 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 7 (43.75%) Line Management
6 7 (43.75%) Project Delivery
6 7 (43.75%) Web Operations
7 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (31.25%) Analytics
8 5 (31.25%) ITIL
9 3 (18.75%) Customer Service
9 3 (18.75%) Service Delivery
9 3 (18.75%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 8 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) SLA
2 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 12 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (50.00%) vSphere
3 6 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (18.75%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) Microsoft
2 8 (50.00%) VMware
3 3 (18.75%) Apple
4 1 (6.25%) EMC
4 1 (6.25%) IBM