Business Continuity Planning Contracts in the UK excluding London

Business Continuity Planning
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Business Continuity Planning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Continuity Planning over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 395 444
Rank change year-on-year +93 +49 +57
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity Planning 32 8 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.039% 0.050%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.046% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 7 5
10th Percentile £205 £358 £392
25th Percentile £413 £419 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £625
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -28.00% +31.58%
75th Percentile £588 £490 £663
90th Percentile £688 £510 £670
UK median daily rate £575 £488 £625
% change year-on-year +17.95% -22.00% +46.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Business Continuity Planning 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 11,553 17,505 21,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.71% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,248 10,459 14,852
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 834 2,060 1,308
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.34 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.19 £15.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.72
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £36.00
% change year-on-year -19.33% -0.14% +44.00%

Business Continuity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Continuity Planning in the UK excluding London

Business Continuity Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Business Continuity Planning in the UK excluding London

Business Continuity Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Continuity Planning in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Continuity Planning in the UK excluding London

Business Continuity Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Continuity Planning in the UK excluding London

Business Continuity Planning
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 Business Continuity Planning within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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 +30 14 £475 -7.32% 20
North West +26 12 £500 -2.44% 10
West Midlands +20 6 £575 +35.29% 1
Midlands +18 6 £575 +35.29% 1
Scotland - 6 £425 - 2
South East - 5 £550 - 8
North East - 1 - - 3
East of England - 1 £675 - 5
Yorkshire - 1 £450 - 8
Business Continuity Planning
UK

Business Continuity Planning
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 8 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (12.50%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 11 (34.38%) Azure
2 9 (28.13%) Entra ID
2 9 (28.13%) IaaS
2 9 (28.13%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.13%) Akamai
3 1 (3.13%) AWS
3 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (3.13%) Nutanix
3 1 (3.13%) PaaS
3 1 (3.13%) SaaS
3 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (28.13%) Firewall
1 9 (28.13%) Network Security
2 8 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (3.13%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (3.13%) DNS
3 1 (3.13%) Kerberos
3 1 (3.13%) SD-WAN
3 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.13%) VPN
3 1 (3.13%) WAN
3 1 (3.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle Database
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (3.13%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.13%) GIS
General
1 10 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 9 (28.13%) Finance
3 8 (25.00%) Telecoms
4 7 (21.88%) Banking
5 6 (18.75%) Investment Banking
6 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (9.38%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (6.25%) Military
7 2 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
8 1 (3.13%) Legal
8 1 (3.13%) Local Government
8 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) Analyst
2 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 5 (15.63%) Lead
3 4 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 4 (12.50%) Service Continuity Leader
4 3 (9.38%) Architect
4 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 3 (9.38%) IT Manager
4 3 (9.38%) IT Project Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Consultant
5 2 (6.25%) Oracle Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Report Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Risk Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) Business Continuity Consultant
6 1 (3.13%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Specialist
6 1 (3.13%) Risk Officer
6 1 (3.13%) Security Project Manager
6 1 (3.13%) Service Continuity Consultant
6 1 (3.13%) Storage Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.25%) Social Media
3 1 (3.13%) EMC VNX
3 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (3.13%) IBM XIV
3 1 (3.13%) NHS
3 1 (3.13%) PKI
3 1 (3.13%) PMI
3 1 (3.13%) Replication
3 1 (3.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (31.25%) Windows
2 9 (28.13%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.25%) Linux
3 2 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (6.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (100.00%) BCP
1 32 (100.00%) Business Continuity
2 19 (59.38%) Disaster Recovery
3 15 (46.88%) Cybersecurity
4 12 (37.50%) High Availability
4 12 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (28.13%) Project Delivery
5 9 (28.13%) Risk Assessment
6 8 (25.00%) Change Management
6 8 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 8 (25.00%) Information Security
6 8 (25.00%) ITIL
6 8 (25.00%) Project Management
6 8 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 7 (21.88%) Business Impact Analysis
7 7 (21.88%) Impact Analysis
7 7 (21.88%) Incident Response
7 7 (21.88%) Line Management
7 7 (21.88%) Web Operations
8 5 (15.63%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 8 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (9.38%) Degree
2 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (3.13%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 4 (12.50%) QA
3 3 (9.38%) PMO
4 2 (6.25%) ISO 22301
5 1 (3.13%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
5 1 (3.13%) NIST
5 1 (3.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 10 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 8 (25.00%) vSphere
3 6 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (6.25%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 8 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (6.25%) Data Guard
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 8 (25.00%) VMware
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle
3 2 (6.25%) Red Hat
3 2 (6.25%) Sun
4 1 (3.13%) Cisco
4 1 (3.13%) Dell KACE
4 1 (3.13%) EMC
4 1 (3.13%) IBM
4 1 (3.13%) Meraki
4 1 (3.13%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.13%) SolarWinds
4 1 (3.13%) Ubiquiti