Business Continuity Contracts in the North West

Business Continuity
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 112 117
Rank change year-on-year -9 +5 +57
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Business Continuity 12 15 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.55% 0.62% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.74% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 12
10th Percentile £333 £331 £355
25th Percentile £405 £400 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.31% +4.50%
75th Percentile £575 £543 £583
90th Percentile - £574 £654
England median daily rate £550 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £16.17 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year - -42.21% -
England median hourly rate £42.06 £36.84 £52.50
% change year-on-year +14.19% -29.84% +119.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,953 2,029 2,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.73% 84.05% 88.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,262 1,214 1,778
10th Percentile £282 £313 £285
25th Percentile £375 £406 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £668 £680 £663
England median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.64% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 165 159
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.06 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.19 £35.00 £30.76
Median % change year-on-year -22.32% +13.80% +41.21%
75th Percentile £55.37 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.13 £70.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £40.59
% change year-on-year -41.51% +5.94% +50.44%

Business Continuity
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Continuity in the North West

Business Continuity
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Business Continuity.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Business Continuity

Business Continuity
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Continuity in the North West over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Continuity in the North West

Business Continuity
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Business Continuity.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Business Continuity

Business Continuity
DemandTrendContract 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 Business Continuity within the North West region over the 6 months to 19 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester -6 8 £550 +20.55% 13
Lancashire - 3 - - 8
Cheshire -22 1 £290 -42.00% 5
Business Continuity
England

Business Continuity
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 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 8 (66.67%) Network Security
2 5 (41.67%) Firewall
2 5 (41.67%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (25.00%) LAN
3 3 (25.00%) SAN
3 3 (25.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (41.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Analyst
2 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Industrial Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Business Continuity Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Business Manager
4 1 (8.33%) IT Manager
4 1 (8.33%) IT Services Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Service Continuity Leader
4 1 (8.33%) Service Continuity Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Service Manager
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Windows
1 8 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 3 (25.00%) Linux
2 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 8 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (50.00%) BCP
2 6 (50.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 6 (50.00%) High Availability
2 6 (50.00%) ITIL
3 5 (41.67%) Analytics
3 5 (41.67%) Change Management
3 5 (41.67%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (41.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 5 (41.67%) Information Security
3 5 (41.67%) Line Management
3 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (41.67%) Project Delivery
3 5 (41.67%) Risk Assessment
3 5 (41.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 5 (41.67%) Web Operations
4 3 (25.00%) Proactive Maintenance
4 3 (25.00%) Storage Management
4 3 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (41.67%) Azure Certification
3 2 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) ISO 22301
1 2 (16.67%) ISO 31000
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 8 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (41.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (25.00%) Backup Exec
2 3 (25.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 8 (66.67%) VMware
2 3 (25.00%) Cisco
2 3 (25.00%) Symantec
2 3 (25.00%) Veeam
3 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow