BCP Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring BCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 - 142
Rank change year-on-year - - +38
Contract jobs citing BCP 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.15% - 0.078%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% - 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £252 - -
25th Percentile £371 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +60.00%
75th Percentile £772 - -
90th Percentile £871 - -
South East median daily rate £450 - £550
% change year-on-year - - +40.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,746 1,859 2,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 88.67% 87.65% 91.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,116 1,084 1,510
10th Percentile £263 £298 £213
25th Percentile £400 £411 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £619
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 59 106
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.19 £17.90
25th Percentile £17.45 £28.38 £25.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £56.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.68% +13.49% +138.10%
75th Percentile £55.75 £63.20 £64.20
90th Percentile £87.41 £70.72 £73.79
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £54.36 £52.50
% change year-on-year -59.53% +3.54% +21.84%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BCP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

BCP job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing BCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing BCP

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BCP in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 30 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BCP in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing BCP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing BCP

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BCP within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 30 November 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
Berkshire - 1 £175 - 2
Buckinghamshire - 1 £588 -
Oxfordshire - 1 £875 -
BCP
South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

General
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 3 (100.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Cyber Resilience
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) Blue Team
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Purple Team
3 1 (33.33%) Red Team
3 1 (33.33%) Resilience Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GRC