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 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 152 166
Rank change year-on-year +26 +14 +53
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 38 35 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.09% 0.70% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 0.85% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 13 22
10th Percentile £395 £378 £200
25th Percentile £442 £475 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £550 £383
Median % change year-on-year -7.09% +43.79% -30.45%
75th Percentile £675 £763 £555
90th Percentile £700 £773 £635
England median daily rate £550 £470 £523
% change year-on-year +17.02% -10.05% -3.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £63.10 - -
25th Percentile £65.88 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £71.00 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.48% - -
75th Percentile £75.75 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £78.30 - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £36.84 £40.24
% change year-on-year +69.68% -8.46% +68.30%

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 3,150 4,135 5,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 90.05% 82.93% 89.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,966 2,507 3,413
10th Percentile £250 £260 £263
25th Percentile £400 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £518
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +0.39% +3.60%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 328 238
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £15.43
25th Percentile £15.13 £26.02 £21.23
Median hourly rate £21.90 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.81% +14.70% +108.33%
75th Percentile £50.50 £70.00 £63.56
90th Percentile £74.75 £76.90 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

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 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Continuity in the South East over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +12 23 £493 +10.99% 19
Berkshire +12 17 £478 -6.83% 14
Hampshire +22 6 £600 -4.00% 6
Surrey +19 6 £500 -31.03% 14
Oxfordshire -6 6 £875 +212.50% 1
West Sussex +3 1 £550 - 2
Kent -6 1 £750 +25.00% 1
East Sussex - 1 £165 - 3
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 4 (10.53%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
1 1 (2.63%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (2.63%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (18.42%) AWS
1 7 (18.42%) Azure
2 6 (15.79%) GCP
3 2 (5.26%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.26%) SaaS
4 1 (2.63%) Akamai
4 1 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.63%) Nutanix
4 1 (2.63%) PaaS
4 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) Network Security
1 2 (5.26%) SAN
2 1 (2.63%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (2.63%) Firewall
2 1 (2.63%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.63%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.63%) VPN
2 1 (2.63%) WAN
2 1 (2.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) Oracle Database
1 2 (5.26%) Oracle Database 12c
1 2 (5.26%) Power BI
1 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
1 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.63%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) JIRA
General
1 13 (34.21%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.89%) Finance
4 2 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Front Office
4 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.26%) Retail
5 1 (2.63%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.63%) Automotive
5 1 (2.63%) Banking
5 1 (2.63%) Legal
5 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (21.05%) Analyst
2 7 (18.42%) Systems Analyst
3 6 (15.79%) IT Support
4 5 (13.16%) Business IT Analyst
4 5 (13.16%) Business Support Analyst
4 5 (13.16%) Business Systems Analyst
4 5 (13.16%) IT Analyst
4 5 (13.16%) IT Support Analyst
4 5 (13.16%) Support Analyst
4 5 (13.16%) Systems Support
4 5 (13.16%) Systems Support Analyst
5 4 (10.53%) IT Manager
5 4 (10.53%) Programme Manager
6 3 (7.89%) Architect
6 3 (7.89%) Designer
6 3 (7.89%) IT Programme Manager
6 3 (7.89%) Site Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Solutions Designer
6 3 (7.89%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.26%) Web Services
2 1 (2.63%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 12 (31.58%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (13.16%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (13.16%) Onboarding
3 3 (7.89%) IoT
3 3 (7.89%) Life Science
4 2 (5.26%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.26%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.63%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.63%) Replication
5 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) Linux
1 2 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (5.26%) Unix
1 2 (5.26%) VMS
1 2 (5.26%) Windows
1 2 (5.26%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.63%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (42.11%) Stakeholder Management
2 15 (39.47%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (28.95%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (28.95%) Release Management
4 10 (26.32%) Service Delivery
5 8 (21.05%) High Availability
6 7 (18.42%) CI/CD
6 7 (18.42%) ITIL
7 6 (15.79%) Agile
7 6 (15.79%) BCP
7 6 (15.79%) Migration
7 6 (15.79%) Proactive Monitoring
7 6 (15.79%) Roadmaps
7 6 (15.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (15.79%) Task Automation
8 5 (13.16%) Analytics
8 5 (13.16%) Change Control
8 5 (13.16%) Information Management
8 5 (13.16%) Knowledge Management
8 5 (13.16%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.79%) Go
1 6 (15.79%) Java
1 6 (15.79%) Python
2 3 (7.89%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 7 (18.42%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) Degree
3 2 (5.26%) DV Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) Server+ Certification
4 1 (2.63%) BC Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.26%) ISO 22301
2 2 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.26%) SLA
3 1 (2.63%) GRC
3 1 (2.63%) NCSC
3 1 (2.63%) NIST
3 1 (2.63%) NIST 800
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.26%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.26%) Data Guard
2 2 (5.26%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (15.79%) Oracle
2 5 (13.16%) Liquidlogic
3 3 (7.89%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.26%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.63%) BMC
5 1 (2.63%) Cisco
5 1 (2.63%) Dell KACE
5 1 (2.63%) Meraki
5 1 (2.63%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.63%) Progress
5 1 (2.63%) Remedy
5 1 (2.63%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.63%) Ubiquiti
5 1 (2.63%) Workday