Business Continuity Contracts in the South East

Business Continuity
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 152 182
Rank change year-on-year +25 +30 +26
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 25 46 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.83% 0.83% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.98% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 18 20
10th Percentile £471 £247 £200
25th Percentile £475 £334 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £450 £613
Median % change year-on-year +21.11% -26.53% +15.29%
75th Percentile £681 £716 £704
90th Percentile £700 £766 £725
England median daily rate £557 £495 £508
% change year-on-year +12.53% -2.56% -2.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £14.00 -
England median hourly rate £21.63 £16.17 £25.81
% change year-on-year +33.74% -37.35% +7.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,758 4,707 5,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.54% 84.81% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,757 2,740 3,571
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 435 221
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £16.05 £18.26 £23.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.79
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Business Continuity
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Continuity in the South East

Business Continuity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Continuity in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Business Continuity in the South East

Business Continuity
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Continuity in the South East over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Continuity in the South East

Business Continuity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Continuity in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Business Continuity in the South East

Business Continuity
Contract 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 Business Continuity within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 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
Thames Valley +24 12 £663 +76.67% 21
Berkshire +14 9 £575 +53.33% 12
West Sussex +16 4 £500 -9.09% 2
Hampshire +19 3 £540 -32.50% 8
Surrey +9 3 £550 +22.22% 3
Oxfordshire +7 3 £700 +150.00% 5
Kent - 1 £750 - 4
Sussex - 1 £500 - 4
Business Continuity
England

Business Continuity
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) PaaS
3 3 (12.00%) AWS
4 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (8.00%) GCP
4 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (8.00%) SaaS
4 2 (8.00%) Snowflake
5 1 (4.00%) Akamai
5 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.00%) IaaS
5 1 (4.00%) Nutanix
5 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Network Security
2 1 (4.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (4.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.00%) VPN
2 1 (4.00%) WAN
2 1 (4.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (12.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (8.00%) Oracle Database
3 2 (8.00%) Oracle Database 12c
3 2 (8.00%) Power BI
3 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
General
1 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Legal
4 2 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Finance
5 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Local Government
5 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) Architect
2 4 (16.00%) DBA
2 4 (16.00%) Lead
2 4 (16.00%) SQL DBA
3 3 (12.00%) Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Delivery Manager
3 3 (12.00%) Systems Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Business Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Business Continuity Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Data Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Lead Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Oracle Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Project Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
4 2 (8.00%) Security Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Security Project Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) Web Services
2 1 (4.00%) 802.1X
2 1 (4.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (8.00%) Replication
3 1 (4.00%) PKI
3 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (8.00%) VMS
2 2 (8.00%) Windows
3 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (20.00%) BCP
2 5 (20.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 5 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 5 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (16.00%) Agile
3 4 (16.00%) Migration
3 4 (16.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (12.00%) Analytics
4 3 (12.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (12.00%) High Availability
4 3 (12.00%) ITIL
4 3 (12.00%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (12.00%) Project Management
4 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (12.00%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (8.00%) Business Continuity Management
5 2 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (32.00%) Degree
2 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (8.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (8.00%) PMI Certification
4 2 (8.00%) PMP
4 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
5 1 (4.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) ISO 22301
2 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.00%) NCSC
3 1 (4.00%) NIST
3 1 (4.00%) NIST 800
3 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.00%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Data Guard
1 2 (8.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.00%) Oracle
3 4 (16.00%) VMware
4 3 (12.00%) Cisco
5 2 (8.00%) Databricks
5 2 (8.00%) Google
5 2 (8.00%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.00%) Dell KACE
6 1 (4.00%) Dynatrace
6 1 (4.00%) HP
6 1 (4.00%) IBM
6 1 (4.00%) Liquidlogic
6 1 (4.00%) Meraki
6 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto
6 1 (4.00%) Remedy
6 1 (4.00%) Salesforce
6 1 (4.00%) SAP
6 1 (4.00%) SolarWinds
6 1 (4.00%) Ubiquiti
6 1 (4.00%) Zerto