BCP Contracts in the South East

Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 178 208
Rank change year-on-year +23 +30 +57
DemandTrendContract jobs citing BCP 10 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.28% 0.042% 0.053%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.050% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £533 - £558
25th Percentile £547 - £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £644 £300 £600
Median % change year-on-year +114.67% -50.00% +23.08%
75th Percentile £700 - £644
90th Percentile £819 - £663
England median daily rate £545 £500 £636
% change year-on-year +9.00% -21.35% +27.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £16.36 - -
75th Percentile £18.90 - -
90th Percentile £20.42 - -
England median hourly rate £16.36 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,163 3,975 4,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.65% 82.50% 89.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,977 2,417 3,383
10th Percentile £250 £255 £250
25th Percentile £400 £403 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.35% +3.60%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £671 £700 £700
England median daily rate £510 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -3.77% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 302 315 238
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £15.43
25th Percentile £15.41 £26.25 £21.23
Median hourly rate £23.50 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.02% +14.70% +96.08%
75th Percentile £52.90 £70.09 £64.31
90th Percentile £71.14 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.75 £40.85
% change year-on-year -41.17% +4.66% +51.39%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing BCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for BCP in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing BCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing BCP

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BCP in the South East over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BCP in the South East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing BCP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing BCP

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DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BCP within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 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
Thames Valley - 4 £700 - 5
Kent - 3 - - 3
Surrey +11 2 £550 +83.33%
Berkshire - 2 £700 - 2
Buckinghamshire - 1 £588 - 3
Hampshire - 1 £540 - 1
Oxfordshire - 1 £875 -
BCP
England

BCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Akamai
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Nutanix
1 1 (10.00%) SaaS
1 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) Network Security
1 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
1 1 (10.00%) WAN
1 1 (10.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Front Office
3 2 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (10.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Client Services Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Operations Team Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Security Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Service Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (20.00%) VMS
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Business Continuity
2 6 (60.00%) Business Continuity Planning
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (30.00%) Incident Response
3 3 (30.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) Cyber Resilience
4 2 (20.00%) Database Migration
4 2 (20.00%) High Availability
4 2 (20.00%) ITIL
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (20.00%) Time Management
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (10.00%) Data Privacy
5 1 (10.00%) Performance Metrics
5 1 (10.00%) Regulatory Compliance
5 1 (10.00%) Resilience Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GRC
1 1 (10.00%) ISO 22301
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
1 1 (10.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Data Guard
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) Dell KACE
3 1 (10.00%) Meraki
3 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (10.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (10.00%) Ubiquiti