Business Continuity Contract Job Trends in the South West

Business Continuity
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Business Continuity skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 118 139
Rank change year-on-year +15 +21 +10
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 14 16 18
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.71% 0.63% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.75% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 15
10th Percentile £295 £400 £381
25th Percentile £413 £425 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £637 £488 £595
Median % change year-on-year +30.50% -18.03% +13.33%
75th Percentile £744 £694 £618
90th Percentile £775 £771 £625
England median daily rate £525 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,785 2,137 2,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.43% 83.84% 87.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,011 1,236 1,918
10th Percentile £213 £300 £313
25th Percentile £366 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 206 267
10th Percentile £15.00 £22.50 £23.06
25th Percentile £18.87 £46.69 £48.23
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.74% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £63.75 £72.50 £73.25
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +42.26%

Business Continuity
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Business Continuity job vacancy trend in the South West

Business Continuity
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Business Continuity
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Continuity in the South West over the 6 months to 3 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Continuity in the South West

Business Continuity
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Business Continuity
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 3 October 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
Wiltshire +10 5 £750 +49.85% 1
Somerset - 5 - - 2
Bristol -1 2 £538 +19.44% 2
Gloucestershire +12 1 £637 -22.50% 6
Devon - 1 £175 - 2
Business Continuity
England

Business Continuity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (7.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) VPN
1 2 (14.29%) WAN
2 1 (7.14%) DHCP
2 1 (7.14%) DNS
2 1 (7.14%) LAN
2 1 (7.14%) SD-WAN
2 1 (7.14%) VLAN
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Finance
2 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 3 (21.43%) Local Government
4 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Electronics
4 2 (14.29%) Manufacturing
4 2 (14.29%) Marketing
4 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
5 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Consultant
2 4 (28.57%) Security Consultant
3 3 (21.43%) Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Lead
3 3 (21.43%) Security Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) IT Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Business Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Business Continuity Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Data Centre Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Implementation Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Lead Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Lead Security Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Network Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Senior
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.14%) Driving Licence
3 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) NHS
3 1 (7.14%) Operational Technology
3 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Windows
2 6 (42.86%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Risk Management
2 7 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (28.57%) Virtual Environments
3 4 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (21.43%) Cloud Security
4 3 (21.43%) High Availability
4 3 (21.43%) Incident Response
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) Patch Management
4 3 (21.43%) Security Hardening
4 3 (21.43%) Server Hardening
4 3 (21.43%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 3 (21.43%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 2 (14.29%) Business Continuity Management
5 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (14.29%) Digital Marketing
5 2 (14.29%) Impact Analysis
5 2 (14.29%) Programme Management
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) GRC
1 1 (7.14%) ISO 22301
1 1 (7.14%) NIST
1 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Nessus
1 3 (21.43%) SCCM
1 3 (21.43%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Qualys
1 3 (21.43%) VMware
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) SAP
3 1 (7.14%) Brocade
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco
3 1 (7.14%) Extreme Networks
3 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow