Business Continuity Contracts in the Thames Valley

Business Continuity
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 120 135
Rank change year-on-year +30 +15 +15
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 12 25 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.79% 0.93% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 1.07% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 6
10th Percentile £459 £180 £456
25th Percentile £509 £276 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £375 £638
Median % change year-on-year +76.67% -41.18% +37.47%
75th Percentile £700 £453 £695
90th Percentile - £519 £702
South East median daily rate £545 £450 £613
% change year-on-year +21.11% -26.53% +15.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Business Continuity
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Continuity in the Thames Valley

Business Continuity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Continuity in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Business Continuity in the Thames Valley

Business Continuity
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Continuity in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Continuity in the Thames Valley

Business Continuity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Continuity in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Business Continuity in the Thames Valley

Business Continuity
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 Business Continuity within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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
Berkshire +18 9 £575 +53.33% 21
Oxfordshire +6 3 £700 +150.00% 11
Business Continuity
South East

Business Continuity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 2 (16.67%) GCP
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (16.67%) PaaS
2 2 (16.67%) SaaS
2 2 (16.67%) Snowflake
3 1 (8.33%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Data Lake
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle Database
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle Database 12c
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Local Government
4 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Data Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) Lead Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Lead Solutions Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Business Support Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Incident Manager
3 1 (8.33%) IT Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) IT Support
3 1 (8.33%) Major Incident Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
3 1 (8.33%) Security Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Security Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) SIEM Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) SOC Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (8.33%) PKI
3 1 (8.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (16.67%) VMS
3 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (33.33%) Migration
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 3 (25.00%) Agile
3 3 (25.00%) Analytics
3 3 (25.00%) BCP
3 3 (25.00%) Business Continuity Planning
3 3 (25.00%) High Availability
3 3 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 2 (16.67%) Data Management
4 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (16.67%) ETL
4 2 (16.67%) Project Management
4 2 (16.67%) Resource Management
4 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) PMI Certification
2 2 (16.67%) PMP
2 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Data Guard
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) VMware
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle
3 2 (16.67%) Cisco
3 2 (16.67%) Databricks
3 2 (16.67%) Google
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (16.67%) Red Hat
4 1 (8.33%) BMC
4 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace
4 1 (8.33%) HP
4 1 (8.33%) IBM
4 1 (8.33%) Liquidlogic
4 1 (8.33%) NetApp
4 1 (8.33%) Remedy
4 1 (8.33%) Zerto