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

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 103 124
Rank change year-on-year +13 +21 +39
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 24 20 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.42% 0.88% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 1.04% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 14
10th Percentile £409 £305 £315
25th Percentile £444 £342 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £444 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.83% -1.39% -18.18%
75th Percentile £630 £519 £531
90th Percentile £700 - £611
South East median daily rate £526 £550 £433
% change year-on-year -4.45% +27.17% -21.36%
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 - -
South East median hourly rate £71.00 £57.50 -
% change year-on-year +23.48% - -

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 1,550 1,917 2,520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 91.99% 84.56% 90.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 929 1,090 1,706
10th Percentile £300 £263 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £623
90th Percentile £678 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £518
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.35% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 109 85
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.10 £14.90
25th Percentile £15.12 £22.50 £24.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £55.80 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.99% +11.60% +150.00%
75th Percentile £46.30 £67.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £77.75 £85.33 £75.15
South East median hourly rate £21.74 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -62.10% +14.70% +100.00%

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 17 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Continuity in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 17 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
Berkshire +11 17 £478 -6.83% 17
Oxfordshire -4 6 £875 +212.50% 2
Buckinghamshire - 1 £588 - 7
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 4 (16.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (4.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) AWS
1 5 (20.83%) Azure
1 5 (20.83%) GCP
2 1 (4.17%) PaaS
2 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Oracle Database
1 2 (8.33%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Front Office
2 2 (8.33%) Retail
3 1 (4.17%) Aerospace
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Banking
3 1 (4.17%) Legal
3 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Analyst
1 5 (20.83%) Business IT Analyst
1 5 (20.83%) Business Support Analyst
1 5 (20.83%) Business Systems Analyst
1 5 (20.83%) IT Analyst
1 5 (20.83%) IT Support
1 5 (20.83%) IT Support Analyst
1 5 (20.83%) Support Analyst
1 5 (20.83%) Systems Analyst
1 5 (20.83%) Systems Support
1 5 (20.83%) Systems Support Analyst
2 4 (16.67%) IT Manager
2 4 (16.67%) Programme Manager
3 3 (12.50%) Architect
3 3 (12.50%) IT Programme Manager
3 3 (12.50%) Site Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Data Centre Technician
4 2 (8.33%) Data Technician
4 2 (8.33%) Oracle Architect
Miscellaneous
1 11 (45.83%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (20.83%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (20.83%) Onboarding
3 3 (12.50%) Life Science
4 2 (8.33%) Data Centre
5 1 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.17%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
1 2 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (8.33%) Unix
1 2 (8.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (45.83%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (41.67%) Release Management
4 7 (29.17%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (29.17%) High Availability
5 6 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
5 6 (25.00%) Service Delivery
6 5 (20.83%) Analytics
6 5 (20.83%) Application Security
6 5 (20.83%) Change Control
6 5 (20.83%) Change Management
6 5 (20.83%) Customer-Centricity
6 5 (20.83%) Information Management
6 5 (20.83%) Knowledge Management
6 5 (20.83%) Migration
6 5 (20.83%) Performance Metrics
6 5 (20.83%) Performance Monitoring
6 5 (20.83%) Process Improvement
6 5 (20.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (20.83%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) Go
1 5 (20.83%) Java
1 5 (20.83%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) DV Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) Server+ Certification
4 1 (4.17%) BC Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.33%) SLA
3 1 (4.17%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.33%) Data Guard
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Liquidlogic
2 4 (16.67%) Oracle
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.17%) BMC
4 1 (4.17%) Progress
4 1 (4.17%) Remedy
4 1 (4.17%) Workday