Business Continuity Contracts in the Thames Valley

Business Continuity
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Business Continuity skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Business Continuity over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 134 149
Rank change year-on-year +25 +15 -16
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 25 16 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.94% 0.55% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 0.60% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 6
10th Percentile £180 £456 £193
25th Percentile £276 £588 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £638 £464
Median % change year-on-year -41.18% +37.47% +22.04%
75th Percentile £453 £695 £692
90th Percentile £519 £702 £769
South East median daily rate £450 £613 £513
% change year-on-year -26.53% +19.51% +28.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Business Continuity is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,314 2,662 3,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.03% 91.76% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,304 1,857 2,108
10th Percentile £213 £322 £225
25th Percentile £370 £413 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £601 £580
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 63 87
10th Percentile £14.25 £18.50 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.75 £12.15
Median hourly rate £45.00 £52.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +200.00% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.36
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £66.75
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.99
% change year-on-year -5.00% +127.43% -20.05%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024. 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 +11 22 £375 -45.22% 11
Oxfordshire +7 2 £280 - 1
Buckinghamshire +24 1 £385 -38.40% 1
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:

Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.00%) Azure
1 2 (8.00%) Azure API Management
1 2 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (8.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (8.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 2 (8.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (8.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Broadband
1 1 (4.00%) DHCP
1 1 (4.00%) DNS
1 1 (4.00%) Internet
1 1 (4.00%) NAS
1 1 (4.00%) SAN
1 1 (4.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.00%) MySQL
3 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (60.00%) Finance
2 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (24.00%) Legal
3 6 (24.00%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (20.00%) Law
5 4 (16.00%) French Language
5 4 (16.00%) German Language
5 4 (16.00%) Telecoms
6 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (4.00%) General Ledger
7 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Consultant
1 6 (24.00%) Security Consultant
2 5 (20.00%) Accounts Payable Clerk
2 5 (20.00%) Development Manager
2 5 (20.00%) Operations Manager
2 5 (20.00%) Systems Development Manager
3 4 (16.00%) Cloud Consultant
3 4 (16.00%) Cloud Security Consultant
4 3 (12.00%) Lead
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Integration Developer
6 1 (4.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (4.00%) Accounts Receivable Clerk
6 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Support
6 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Support Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Telecoms Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.00%) Fat Client
2 1 (4.00%) IoT
2 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.00%) PKI
2 1 (4.00%) PMI
2 1 (4.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
1 1 (4.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
1 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 8 (32.00%) Information Security
2 7 (28.00%) Risk Management
3 6 (24.00%) Cloud Security
3 6 (24.00%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (24.00%) ERP
3 6 (24.00%) Project Management
4 5 (20.00%) Accounts Payable
4 5 (20.00%) Accounts Receivable
4 5 (20.00%) Client Onboarding
4 5 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 3 (12.00%) Benchmarking
5 3 (12.00%) Business Strategy
5 3 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (12.00%) Programme Delivery
5 3 (12.00%) Programme Management
6 2 (8.00%) Application Security
6 2 (8.00%) Business Development
6 2 (8.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (8.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (32.00%) Degree
2 6 (24.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 6 (24.00%) CISA
2 6 (24.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (24.00%) CISM
2 6 (24.00%) CISMP
2 6 (24.00%) CISSP
2 6 (24.00%) CRISC
3 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) ACCA
4 1 (4.00%) CCSP
4 1 (4.00%) CIMA
4 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) PgMP
4 1 (4.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) COBIT
1 6 (24.00%) GRC
1 6 (24.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (24.00%) NIST
2 5 (20.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (4.00%) Ansible
1 1 (4.00%) Nessus
1 1 (4.00%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (4.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (4.00%) WSUS
1 1 (4.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Reuters
2 2 (8.00%) Oracle
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.00%) Veeam
3 1 (4.00%) VMware