Business Continuity Contracts in the UK excluding London

Business Continuity
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Business Continuity skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Business Continuity over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 265 304 330
Rank change year-on-year +39 +26 -6
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 143 151 206
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.69% 0.62% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.69% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 99 133
10th Percentile £329 £345 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £598
90th Percentile £650 £675 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £519 £525
% change year-on-year -3.61% -1.19% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £14.38 £24.37 £9.35
25th Percentile £14.96 £24.97 £11.38
Median hourly rate £16.17 £26.90 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.88% +73.52% -29.55%
75th Percentile £25.71 £27.90 £20.38
90th Percentile £31.28 £27.95 £22.85
UK median hourly rate £16.17 £25.71 £23.91
% change year-on-year -37.11% +7.53% +6.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Business Continuity is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,689 21,829 27,884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.99% 89.52% 88.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,683 15,134 19,490
10th Percentile £240 £250 £230
25th Percentile £381 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,009 1,327 1,384
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.94 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.16 £13.87
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £19.96
Median % change year-on-year - +75.39% -8.21%
75th Percentile £59.95 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £72.46 £70.95 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.78% +44.00% -

Business Continuity
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Continuity in the UK excluding London

Business Continuity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Business Continuity in the UK excluding London

Business Continuity
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Continuity in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Continuity in the UK excluding London

Business Continuity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Continuity in the UK excluding London

Business Continuity
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Continuity in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Continuity in the UK excluding London

Business Continuity
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 April 2024. 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
South East +32 46 £481 -21.43% 39
North of England +48 41 £463 -8.51% 29
North West +35 36 £506 +0.15% 19
South West +33 27 £515 +14.44% 22
Scotland +23 16 £600 +14.29% 4
Midlands +12 10 £600 +14.29% 15
West Midlands +20 8 £575 -11.54% 11
Yorkshire +15 4 £410 -20.00% 8
Wales +17 2 £394 -26.74% 2
North East +25 1 - - 3
East Midlands +9 1 £700 +45.83% 4
East of England +4 1 £600 +30.43% 5
Business Continuity
UK

Business Continuity
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 2 (1.40%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.70%) Confluence
2 1 (0.70%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 6 (4.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (3.50%) Unit4 Business World
2 4 (2.80%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.70%) MFGPRO
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.70%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 9 (6.29%) Azure
2 8 (5.59%) AWS
3 4 (2.80%) Power Platform
3 4 (2.80%) SaaS
4 3 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (2.10%) Serverless
5 2 (1.40%) Azure API Management
5 2 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (1.40%) Azure Functions
5 2 (1.40%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (1.40%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (1.40%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (1.40%) GCP
5 2 (1.40%) PaaS
6 1 (0.70%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (0.70%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.70%) IaaS
6 1 (0.70%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.80%) SAN
1 4 (2.80%) SCCP
1 4 (2.80%) WAN
2 3 (2.10%) Intranet
2 3 (2.10%) LAN
2 3 (2.10%) Network Security
3 2 (1.40%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (1.40%) Firewall
3 2 (1.40%) Internet
3 2 (1.40%) Wireless
4 1 (0.70%) BGP
4 1 (0.70%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (0.70%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (0.70%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (0.70%) NAS
4 1 (0.70%) OSPF
4 1 (0.70%) SNMP
4 1 (0.70%) VPN
4 1 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.80%) Power BI
2 2 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (1.40%) Metadata
2 2 (1.40%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.70%) MySQL
3 1 (0.70%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (1.40%) Git
1 2 (1.40%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.70%) GitLab
2 1 (0.70%) GoCD
2 1 (0.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.70%) JUnit
2 1 (0.70%) Selenium
General
1 34 (23.78%) Finance
2 33 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 32 (22.38%) Public Sector
4 14 (9.79%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.79%) Telecoms
5 11 (7.69%) Manufacturing
6 9 (6.29%) Electronics
6 9 (6.29%) Legal
6 9 (6.29%) Marketing
7 7 (4.90%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (4.20%) Law
9 4 (2.80%) French Language
9 4 (2.80%) German Language
10 2 (1.40%) Digital Economy
11 1 (0.70%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.70%) Aviation
11 1 (0.70%) Banking
11 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.70%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 17 (11.89%) Analyst
1 17 (11.89%) Service Manager
2 13 (9.09%) Service Transition Manager
2 13 (9.09%) Transition Manager
3 11 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 11 (7.69%) Senior
4 10 (6.99%) Architect
4 10 (6.99%) Incident Manager
5 9 (6.29%) IT Manager
6 8 (5.59%) Consultant
6 8 (5.59%) Lead
6 8 (5.59%) Test Analyst
7 6 (4.20%) Security Consultant
7 6 (4.20%) Service Architect
8 5 (3.50%) Accounts Payable Clerk
8 5 (3.50%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (3.50%) Development Manager
8 5 (3.50%) Operations Manager
8 5 (3.50%) Security Advisor
8 5 (3.50%) Systems Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.10%) ARM Templates
2 2 (1.40%) Middleware
3 1 (0.70%) .NET
3 1 (0.70%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.70%) Android Jetpack
3 1 (0.70%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.70%) Dagger
3 1 (0.70%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.70%) HTML
3 1 (0.70%) Jest
3 1 (0.70%) Kafka
3 1 (0.70%) Node.js
3 1 (0.70%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.70%) React
3 1 (0.70%) Retrofit
3 1 (0.70%) RxJava
3 1 (0.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (16.78%) Management Information System
2 5 (3.50%) CMDB
3 3 (2.10%) Public Cloud
3 3 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.40%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (1.40%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.40%) Educational Technology
4 2 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.40%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.40%) Replication
4 2 (1.40%) SCADA
5 1 (0.70%) CCTV
5 1 (0.70%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.70%) Cyberattack
5 1 (0.70%) IoT
5 1 (0.70%) NHS
5 1 (0.70%) PMI
5 1 (0.70%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (0.70%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.29%) Linux
2 5 (3.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (3.50%) Windows
3 3 (2.10%) Unix
3 3 (2.10%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.40%) Solaris
5 1 (0.70%) Android
5 1 (0.70%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (37.76%) Disaster Recovery
2 43 (30.07%) ITIL
3 34 (23.78%) Risk Management
3 34 (23.78%) Service Management
4 30 (20.98%) Agile
4 30 (20.98%) Project Management
5 28 (19.58%) Information Security
6 26 (18.18%) Change Management
7 25 (17.48%) Cybersecurity
8 24 (16.78%) ITSM
9 21 (14.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (13.29%) Business Impact Analysis
10 19 (13.29%) Impact Analysis
10 19 (13.29%) Roadmaps
11 18 (12.59%) Business Strategy
11 18 (12.59%) PRINCE2
12 17 (11.89%) IT Strategy
13 15 (10.49%) Data Protection
13 15 (10.49%) Incident Management
13 15 (10.49%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 6 (4.20%) Python
2 4 (2.80%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.40%) AWK
3 2 (1.40%) Bourne shell
3 2 (1.40%) Java
3 2 (1.40%) Korn
3 2 (1.40%) Perl
3 2 (1.40%) Shell Script
3 2 (1.40%) SQL
4 1 (0.70%) Bash
4 1 (0.70%) Bicep
4 1 (0.70%) Kotlin
4 1 (0.70%) PHP
4 1 (0.70%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (20.98%) Security Cleared
2 24 (16.78%) SC Cleared
3 20 (13.99%) Degree
4 15 (10.49%) CISSP
5 11 (7.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 10 (6.99%) ISEB
7 8 (5.59%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 8 (5.59%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 7 (4.90%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (4.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (4.20%) CISA
9 6 (4.20%) CISM
9 6 (4.20%) CISMP
9 6 (4.20%) CRISC
9 6 (4.20%) ISEB Practitioner
9 6 (4.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 5 (3.50%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (2.80%) CLAS
11 4 (2.80%) PMI Certification
12 3 (2.10%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (16.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (10.49%) COBIT
3 14 (9.79%) NIST
4 10 (6.99%) ISO 9000
5 9 (6.29%) GRC
6 6 (4.20%) Accessibility
7 5 (3.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (3.50%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (2.10%) IASME
8 3 (2.10%) PMO
9 2 (1.40%) QA
10 1 (0.70%) GDPR
10 1 (0.70%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.70%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.70%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.70%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (3.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.40%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (5.59%) Ansible
2 4 (2.80%) Packer
2 4 (2.80%) Terraform
3 2 (1.40%) NetBackup
3 2 (1.40%) Oracle ZFS
3 2 (1.40%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (1.40%) yum
4 1 (0.70%) Control-M
4 1 (0.70%) Grafana
4 1 (0.70%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.70%) Puppet
4 1 (0.70%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (8.39%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.99%) SAP
3 5 (3.50%) Reuters
4 4 (2.80%) Remedy
4 4 (2.80%) VMware
5 3 (2.10%) QinetiQ
5 3 (2.10%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.40%) Cisco
6 2 (1.40%) EMC
6 2 (1.40%) F5
6 2 (1.40%) Oracle
6 2 (1.40%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.40%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.40%) Veritas
7 1 (0.70%) BT
7 1 (0.70%) Citrix
7 1 (0.70%) HP
7 1 (0.70%) Progress
7 1 (0.70%) QAD
7 1 (0.70%) ScienceLogic