BCP Contracts in the UK excluding London

Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring BCP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BCP over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 382 420
Rank change year-on-year +83 +38 +36
Contract jobs citing BCP 40 17 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.082% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.097% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 17 18
10th Percentile £207 £300 £304
25th Percentile £321 £413 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £570 £505 £610
90th Percentile £680 £558 £663
UK median daily rate £539 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +13.37% -9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £17.37 - -
25th Percentile £18.90 - -
Median hourly rate £21.43 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £21.43 - £84.09
% change year-on-year - - +68.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,562 17,588 21,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.75% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,507 14,891
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 2,055 1,305
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

BCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing BCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for BCP in the UK excluding London

BCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BCP in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for BCP in the UK excluding London

BCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BCP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BCP in the UK excluding London

BCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BCP in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for BCP in the UK excluding London

BCP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BCP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
North of England +38 17 £410 -10.08% 32
North West +28 16 £383 -16.05% 15
South East +53 9 £545 +81.67% 29
Midlands +23 6 £575 -2.13% 21
West Midlands +19 6 £575 -2.13% 13
Scotland +14 6 £425 -10.53% 9
South West +39 1 £470 +4.44% 10
Yorkshire - 1 £450 - 13
East of England - 1 £675 - 17
BCP
UK

BCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (27.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.50%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (10.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 15 (37.50%) Azure
2 13 (32.50%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (30.00%) Entra ID
4 9 (22.50%) IaaS
5 1 (2.50%) Akamai
5 1 (2.50%) AWS
5 1 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.50%) Nutanix
5 1 (2.50%) PaaS
5 1 (2.50%) SaaS
5 1 (2.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (30.00%) Firewall
2 9 (22.50%) Network Security
3 8 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (10.00%) WAN
4 4 (10.00%) Wireless
5 3 (7.50%) Internet
5 3 (7.50%) iSCSI
5 3 (7.50%) LAN
5 3 (7.50%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (7.50%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (2.50%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (2.50%) DNS
6 1 (2.50%) Kerberos
6 1 (2.50%) SD-WAN
6 1 (2.50%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.00%) GIS
2 2 (5.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (5.00%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.50%) DTS
3 1 (2.50%) MSDE
3 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 12 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (22.50%) Finance
3 8 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 6 (15.00%) Banking
4 6 (15.00%) Investment Banking
5 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.50%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.00%) Front Office
6 2 (5.00%) Military
6 2 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.50%) Legal
7 1 (2.50%) Local Government
7 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (22.50%) Analyst
2 6 (15.00%) Lead
3 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 4 (10.00%) Service Continuity Leader
5 3 (7.50%) Architect
5 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 3 (7.50%) IT Manager
5 3 (7.50%) IT Project Manager
5 3 (7.50%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Consultant
6 2 (5.00%) Oracle Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Report Manager
6 2 (5.00%) Risk Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Technical Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Technical Support
6 2 (5.00%) Technical Support Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Infrastructure Support
7 1 (2.50%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
7 1 (2.50%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) .NET
1 1 (2.50%) 802.1X
1 1 (2.50%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (7.50%) IVR
3 2 (5.00%) Replication
3 2 (5.00%) Social Media
4 1 (2.50%) Clustering
4 1 (2.50%) EMC VNX
4 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.50%) IBM XIV
4 1 (2.50%) NHS
4 1 (2.50%) PKI
4 1 (2.50%) PMI
4 1 (2.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (35.00%) Windows
2 13 (32.50%) Windows Server
3 5 (12.50%) Linux
4 3 (7.50%) Android
4 3 (7.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (5.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (80.00%) Business Continuity
2 31 (77.50%) Business Continuity Planning
3 24 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 15 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
4 15 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (32.50%) High Availability
6 11 (27.50%) Information Security
6 11 (27.50%) ITIL
7 9 (22.50%) Change Management
7 9 (22.50%) Project Delivery
7 9 (22.50%) Risk Assessment
8 8 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
8 8 (20.00%) Project Management
8 8 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
9 7 (17.50%) Incident Response
9 7 (17.50%) Line Management
9 7 (17.50%) Web Operations
10 6 (15.00%) Business Impact Analysis
10 6 (15.00%) Impact Analysis
10 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (22.50%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.00%) SQL
3 1 (2.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 8 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) Degree
3 3 (7.50%) DV Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.50%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 4 (10.00%) QA
3 3 (7.50%) PMO
3 3 (7.50%) SLA
4 1 (2.50%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.50%) ISO 14001
4 1 (2.50%) ISO 22301
4 1 (2.50%) ISO 9001
4 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.50%) NIST
4 1 (2.50%) NIST 800
System Software
1 14 (35.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (20.00%) vSphere
3 6 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (7.50%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (5.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 8 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.00%) Data Guard
2 2 (5.00%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (45.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (20.00%) VMware
3 3 (7.50%) Apple
4 2 (5.00%) Oracle
4 2 (5.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (5.00%) Sun
5 1 (2.50%) Cisco
5 1 (2.50%) Dell KACE
5 1 (2.50%) EMC
5 1 (2.50%) IBM
5 1 (2.50%) Meraki
5 1 (2.50%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.50%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.50%) Ubiquiti