Business Continuity Contract Job Trends in Reading

Business Continuity
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Business Continuity skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 87 75
Rank change year-on-year +13 -12 +22
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 5 3 16
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.69% 0.29% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.32% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 8
10th Percentile £380 - £198
25th Percentile £425 - £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £323
Median % change year-on-year - - -48.40%
75th Percentile £578 - £400
90th Percentile £629 - £561
Berkshire median daily rate £449 £450 £400
% change year-on-year -0.33% +12.50% -34.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £71.00 £57.50 -
% change year-on-year +23.48% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 657 939 956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.25% 91.25% 92.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 533 627
10th Percentile £350 £325 £213
25th Percentile £431 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £614 £650 £615
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -0.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 9 17
10th Percentile £14.75 £28.45 £41.24
25th Percentile £18.22 £42.50 £59.89
Median hourly rate £62.25 £61.76 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year +0.79% -2.42% -2.63%
75th Percentile £91.81 £69.69 £65.25
90th Percentile £98.75 £77.39 £66.96
Berkshire median hourly rate £38.86 £59.00 £61.65
% change year-on-year -34.14% -4.29% +52.21%

Business Continuity
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Business Continuity relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Business Continuity job vacancy trend in Reading

Business Continuity
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Business Continuity.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Business Continuity

Business Continuity
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Continuity in Reading over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Continuity in Reading

Business Continuity
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Business Continuity.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Business Continuity

Business Continuity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (20.00%) PaaS
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Junior
1 1 (20.00%) Security Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) ERP
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Project Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Release Management
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Go
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) CISA
3 1 (20.00%) CISM
3 1 (20.00%) CISMP
3 1 (20.00%) CISSP
3 1 (20.00%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) COBIT
1 1 (20.00%) GRC
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Progress
2 1 (20.00%) Workday