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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 381 412
Rank change year-on-year +65 +31 +70
Contract jobs citing BCP 43 11 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.053% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.064% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 10 20
10th Percentile £205 £298 £305
25th Percentile £391 £325 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £438 £524
Median % change year-on-year +18.86% -16.58% +11.59%
75th Percentile £678 £522 £661
90th Percentile £701 £559 £825
UK median daily rate £550 £481 £562
% change year-on-year +14.29% -14.43% +12.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £16.36 - -
25th Percentile £19.28 - -
Median hourly rate £20.50 - -
75th Percentile £20.75 - -
90th Percentile £20.95 - -
UK median hourly rate £20.50 - £84.09

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 13,230 17,130 20,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.27% 82.85% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,001 10,158 14,055
10th Percentile £238 £250 £263
25th Percentile £368 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,213 2,062 1,263
10th Percentile £13.92 £12.55 £13.91
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.62 £17.18
Median hourly rate £24.34 £38.12 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year -36.15% -3.74% +84.19%
75th Percentile £50.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £75.64
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.00
% change year-on-year -34.02% -4.70% +50.94%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 +18 12 £550 +18.92% 17
Midlands +15 12 £403 -23.33% 7
South East +46 10 £625 +108.33% 18
North West +18 9 £650 +40.54% 11
West Midlands +9 7 £575 +9.52% 7
Wales - 5 - - 2
East Midlands - 5 £402 -
North East - 2 - - 2
Scotland - 2 £210 - 2
East of England - 2 £675 - 4
Yorkshire - 1 £450 - 4
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 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (18.60%) Azure
2 7 (16.28%) Entra ID
3 6 (13.95%) IaaS
3 6 (13.95%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.33%) Akamai
4 1 (2.33%) AWS
4 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.33%) Nutanix
4 1 (2.33%) PaaS
4 1 (2.33%) SaaS
4 1 (2.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (16.28%) Firewall
2 6 (13.95%) Network Security
3 5 (11.63%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (4.65%) DNS
4 2 (4.65%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.33%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (2.33%) DHCP
5 1 (2.33%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (2.33%) iSCSI
5 1 (2.33%) Kerberos
5 1 (2.33%) NAS
5 1 (2.33%) SAN
5 1 (2.33%) SD-WAN
5 1 (2.33%) VLAN
5 1 (2.33%) VPN
5 1 (2.33%) WAN
5 1 (2.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.63%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (2.33%) Data Lake
General
1 13 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.60%) Banking
2 8 (18.60%) Finance
3 7 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (11.63%) Telecoms
5 3 (6.98%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (6.98%) Front Office
5 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.65%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.65%) Military
6 2 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Legal
7 1 (2.33%) Local Government
7 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (20.93%) Analyst
1 9 (20.93%) Lead
2 6 (13.95%) Service Continuity Leader
3 5 (11.63%) Data Centre Operator
3 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 5 (11.63%) IT Support
4 3 (6.98%) Architect
4 3 (6.98%) Product Manager
4 3 (6.98%) Project Manager
5 2 (4.65%) Business Continuity Analyst
5 2 (4.65%) IT Manager
5 2 (4.65%) IT Project Manager
5 2 (4.65%) Oracle Architect
5 2 (4.65%) Product Owner
5 2 (4.65%) Report Manager
5 2 (4.65%) Senior
6 1 (2.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 1 (2.33%) IT Engineer
6 1 (2.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.33%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.33%) 802.1X
1 1 (2.33%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.65%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.65%) Replication
2 2 (4.65%) Social Media
3 1 (2.33%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.33%) EMC VNX
3 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (2.33%) IBM XIV
3 1 (2.33%) PKI
3 1 (2.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (18.60%) Windows
2 7 (16.28%) Windows Server
3 3 (6.98%) Linux
4 2 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.65%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (81.40%) Business Continuity
2 33 (76.74%) Business Continuity Planning
3 19 (44.19%) Disaster Recovery
4 14 (32.56%) High Availability
5 11 (25.58%) Incident Response
6 10 (23.26%) ITIL
7 9 (20.93%) Business Impact Analysis
7 9 (20.93%) Impact Analysis
7 9 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (18.60%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (18.60%) Service Catalogue
9 7 (16.28%) Load Balancing
9 7 (16.28%) Project Delivery
9 7 (16.28%) Risk Management
9 7 (16.28%) Runbook
9 7 (16.28%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (13.95%) Event-Driven
10 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 5 (11.63%) Batch Scheduling
11 5 (11.63%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.95%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.65%) SQL
3 1 (2.33%) Bash
3 1 (2.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (11.63%) Azure Certification
1 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (9.30%) Degree
3 3 (6.98%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.65%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (2.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 4 (9.30%) ISO 22301
3 2 (4.65%) PMO
4 1 (2.33%) GRC
4 1 (2.33%) NIST
4 1 (2.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 8 (18.60%) Active Directory
2 6 (13.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (11.63%) vSphere
4 2 (4.65%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (2.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (11.63%) Control-M
1 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (4.65%) Data Guard
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (2.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (20.93%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.95%) VMware
3 5 (11.63%) BT
4 2 (4.65%) Oracle
4 2 (4.65%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.65%) Sun
5 1 (2.33%) Aruba
5 1 (2.33%) Cisco
5 1 (2.33%) Citrix
5 1 (2.33%) Dell KACE
5 1 (2.33%) EMC
5 1 (2.33%) HP
5 1 (2.33%) IBM
5 1 (2.33%) Meraki
5 1 (2.33%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.33%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.33%) Ubiquiti
5 1 (2.33%) Veeam