Business Continuity Planning Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Business Continuity Planning
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Business Continuity Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 349 403
Rank change year-on-year -13 +54 +98
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity Planning 18 12 15
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.070% 0.071%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.084% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 11
10th Percentile £453 £255 £275
25th Percentile £528 £293 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £644 £463 £550
Median % change year-on-year +39.24% -15.91% +38.80%
75th Percentile £759 £500 £620
90th Percentile £866 £538 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.25 - -
Median hourly rate £20.50 - -
75th Percentile £20.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £20.50 - -

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 14,457 14,304 18,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.18% 83.68% 88.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,718 8,119 12,228
10th Percentile £225 £244 £250
25th Percentile £370 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £671 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,593 961 1,290
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £18.40 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.27 £39.68 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.89% -6.64% +57.52%
75th Percentile £38.94 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.85 £72.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.08 £38.50 £43.17
% change year-on-year -34.87% -10.81% +30.80%

Business Continuity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Business Continuity Planning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Business Continuity Planning job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Business Continuity Planning
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Business Continuity Planning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Business Continuity Planning

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 22 October 2025.

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

Business Continuity Planning
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Business Continuity Planning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Business Continuity Planning

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 22 October 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
Wales - 5 - -
North of England -30 3 - - 7
South East - 3 £700 - 10
Midlands -32 2 - - 1
North East - 2 - -
Scotland - 2 - - 4
East of England - 2 £408 - 2
South West +12 1 - -
East Midlands -13 1 - - 1
North West -15 1 - - 7
West Midlands -25 1 - -
Business Continuity Planning
UK

Business Continuity Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) Lucidchart
3 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.56%) GitHub
3 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.56%) IaaS
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) DHCP
1 2 (11.11%) DNS
1 2 (11.11%) VLAN
2 1 (5.56%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (5.56%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) iSCSI
2 1 (5.56%) LAN
2 1 (5.56%) NAS
2 1 (5.56%) SAN
2 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.56%) VPN
2 1 (5.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database 12c
General
1 6 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (11.11%) Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Electronics
5 1 (5.56%) Legal
5 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.56%) Marketing
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Analyst
1 5 (27.78%) Data Centre Operator
1 5 (27.78%) IT Support
2 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Lead
2 3 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) Business Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Business Continuity Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) IT Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Business Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Service Continuity Leader
4 1 (5.56%) Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle Architect
4 1 (5.56%) PMO Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Project Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Security Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Senior IT Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) NHS
2 1 (5.56%) Replication
2 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
1 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Business Continuity
2 17 (94.44%) BCP
3 6 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (27.78%) Batch Scheduling
4 5 (27.78%) Event-Driven
4 5 (27.78%) High Availability
5 4 (22.22%) Business Impact Analysis
5 4 (22.22%) Impact Analysis
5 4 (22.22%) Impact Assessments
5 4 (22.22%) Risk Management
6 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (16.67%) Data Protection
6 3 (16.67%) Incident Response
6 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (16.67%) Runbook
7 2 (11.11%) Customer Experience
7 2 (11.11%) Cyber Resilience
7 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
7 2 (11.11%) Regulatory Compliance
7 2 (11.11%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) Bash
1 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 2 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
1 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
1 1 (5.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) GDPR
1 2 (11.11%) ISO 22301
1 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (5.56%) GRC
2 1 (5.56%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.56%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Control-M
2 1 (5.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (5.56%) Data Guard
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) BT
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) VMware
3 1 (5.56%) Aruba
3 1 (5.56%) Citrix
3 1 (5.56%) HP
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.56%) SAP
3 1 (5.56%) Veeam