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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 267 309 309
Rank change year-on-year +42 0 +19
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 120 138 204
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.59% 0.60% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.67% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 85 133
10th Percentile £303 £357 £275
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £599 £600 £600
90th Percentile £641 £675 £750
UK median daily rate £498 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -5.24% - +9.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £14.58 £24.37 -
25th Percentile £15.44 £24.97 -
Median hourly rate £16.17 £26.90 -
Median % change year-on-year -39.88% - -
75th Percentile £21.07 £27.90 -
90th Percentile £29.43 £27.95 -
UK median hourly rate £16.17 £25.81 £23.91
% change year-on-year -37.35% +7.95% +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 17,140 20,557 27,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.34% 89.47% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,220 14,177 18,943
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.43%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £655
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 1,258 1,350
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £61.52
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 17 May 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 +18 42 £450 -25.00% 36
North of England +38 37 £463 -11.48% 35
North West +33 34 £488 -7.14% 25
Scotland +38 16 £600 +9.09% 14
South West +8 16 £495 -5.71% 18
Midlands +7 8 £613 +23.74% 24
West Midlands +15 7 £600 -4.00% 17
Yorkshire +8 2 £370 -33.48% 8
North East +15 1 - - 2
East Midlands +7 1 £700 +46.60% 7
East of England +1 1 £600 +25.00% 13
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 (1.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.83%) Confluence
2 1 (0.83%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 6 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (4.17%) Unit4 Business World
2 4 (3.33%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.83%) MFGPRO
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.83%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.83%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 8 (6.67%) Azure
2 5 (4.17%) AWS
2 5 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (3.33%) Power Platform
4 3 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (2.50%) Azure Key Vault
4 3 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (2.50%) SaaS
4 3 (2.50%) Serverless
5 2 (1.67%) Azure API Management
5 2 (1.67%) Azure Functions
5 2 (1.67%) PaaS
6 1 (0.83%) Azure App Service
6 1 (0.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (0.83%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.83%) GCP
6 1 (0.83%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.83%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.00%) Intranet
2 5 (4.17%) SAN
3 4 (3.33%) SCCP
3 4 (3.33%) WAN
4 3 (2.50%) Network Security
5 2 (1.67%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (1.67%) LAN
5 2 (1.67%) NAS
6 1 (0.83%) Broadband
6 1 (0.83%) DHCP
6 1 (0.83%) DNS
6 1 (0.83%) Internet
6 1 (0.83%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.33%) Power BI
2 3 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (2.50%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.67%) MySQL
4 1 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.83%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.83%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (1.67%) Git
1 2 (1.67%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.83%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.83%) GoCD
2 1 (0.83%) JUnit
General
1 27 (22.50%) Public Sector
1 27 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 24 (20.00%) Finance
3 11 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.83%) Legal
4 7 (5.83%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (5.00%) Telecoms
6 5 (4.17%) Law
7 4 (3.33%) French Language
7 4 (3.33%) German Language
8 3 (2.50%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.67%) Electronics
9 2 (1.67%) Marketing
10 1 (0.83%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.83%) Banking
10 1 (0.83%) Billing
10 1 (0.83%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 16 (13.33%) Analyst
2 11 (9.17%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 10 (8.33%) Incident Manager
3 10 (8.33%) Senior
4 8 (6.67%) IT Manager
4 8 (6.67%) Lead
4 8 (6.67%) Test Analyst
5 7 (5.83%) Architect
5 7 (5.83%) Consultant
5 7 (5.83%) Service Manager
6 6 (5.00%) Security Consultant
7 5 (4.17%) Accounts Payable Clerk
7 5 (4.17%) Development Manager
7 5 (4.17%) Operations Manager
7 5 (4.17%) Security Advisor
7 5 (4.17%) Service Architect
7 5 (4.17%) Systems Development Manager
8 4 (3.33%) Availability Manager
8 4 (3.33%) Cloud Consultant
8 4 (3.33%) Cloud Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.50%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.83%) .NET
2 1 (0.83%) .NET Framework
2 1 (0.83%) Android Jetpack
2 1 (0.83%) ASP.NET
2 1 (0.83%) Dagger
2 1 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.83%) Jest
2 1 (0.83%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (0.83%) Kafka
2 1 (0.83%) Node.js
2 1 (0.83%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (0.83%) React
2 1 (0.83%) Retrofit
2 1 (0.83%) RxJava
2 1 (0.83%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (2.50%) CMDB
2 3 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.67%) NHS
3 2 (1.67%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.67%) Public Cloud
3 2 (1.67%) SCADA
4 1 (0.83%) Client/Server
4 1 (0.83%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.83%) Fat Client
4 1 (0.83%) IoT
4 1 (0.83%) PKI
4 1 (0.83%) PMI
4 1 (0.83%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.83%) Replication
4 1 (0.83%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (0.83%) Thin Client
4 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.67%) Linux
2 4 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.50%) Unix
3 3 (2.50%) Windows
4 2 (1.67%) Solaris
4 2 (1.67%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.83%) Android
5 1 (0.83%) HPUX
5 1 (0.83%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (39.17%) Disaster Recovery
2 28 (23.33%) Information Security
3 25 (20.83%) ITIL
4 22 (18.33%) Agile
5 21 (17.50%) Cybersecurity
6 19 (15.83%) Service Management
7 18 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (15.00%) Project Management
8 17 (14.17%) Business Strategy
8 17 (14.17%) Risk Management
8 17 (14.17%) Roadmaps
9 15 (12.50%) Data Protection
9 15 (12.50%) IT Strategy
10 14 (11.67%) Incident Management
11 10 (8.33%) Change Management
11 10 (8.33%) Cyber Resilience
11 10 (8.33%) ITSM
11 10 (8.33%) Use Case
11 10 (8.33%) Validation
12 9 (7.50%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.33%) PowerShell
1 4 (3.33%) Python
1 4 (3.33%) SQL
2 2 (1.67%) AWK
2 2 (1.67%) Bicep
2 2 (1.67%) Bourne shell
2 2 (1.67%) Java
2 2 (1.67%) Korn
2 2 (1.67%) Perl
2 2 (1.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (0.83%) Bash
3 1 (0.83%) Kotlin
3 1 (0.83%) PHP
3 1 (0.83%) T-SQL
3 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (18.33%) Security Cleared
2 17 (14.17%) SC Cleared
3 15 (12.50%) CISSP
4 14 (11.67%) Degree
5 8 (6.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 8 (6.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 6 (5.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 6 (5.00%) CISA
6 6 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (5.00%) CISM
6 6 (5.00%) CISMP
6 6 (5.00%) CRISC
7 5 (4.17%) PMI Certification
8 4 (3.33%) CLAS
8 4 (3.33%) PMP
9 3 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.67%) ISEB
10 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.67%) RHCE
10 2 (1.67%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (11.67%) NIST
3 9 (7.50%) GRC
4 8 (6.67%) COBIT
5 6 (5.00%) Accessibility
5 6 (5.00%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (2.50%) IASME
6 3 (2.50%) PMO
7 2 (1.67%) SLA
8 1 (0.83%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.83%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.83%) ISO 9000
8 1 (0.83%) QA
System Software
1 5 (4.17%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (5.83%) Ansible
2 3 (2.50%) Packer
2 3 (2.50%) Red Hat Satellite
2 3 (2.50%) Terraform
3 2 (1.67%) NetBackup
3 2 (1.67%) Oracle ZFS
3 2 (1.67%) WSUS
3 2 (1.67%) yum
4 1 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.83%) Control-M
4 1 (0.83%) Grafana
4 1 (0.83%) Nessus
4 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.83%) Puppet
4 1 (0.83%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.83%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.17%) Reuters
3 4 (3.33%) Red Hat
3 4 (3.33%) Remedy
4 3 (2.50%) Oracle
4 3 (2.50%) SAP
5 2 (1.67%) EMC
5 2 (1.67%) Veritas
5 2 (1.67%) VMware
6 1 (0.83%) BT
6 1 (0.83%) HP
6 1 (0.83%) Progress
6 1 (0.83%) QAD
6 1 (0.83%) QinetiQ
6 1 (0.83%) Veeam
234 Business Continuity jobs Nationwide