BCP Contracts

Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 22 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 555 617 749
Rank change year-on-year +62 +132 -79
Contract jobs citing BCP 29 80 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.066% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.078% 0.16% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 59 71
10th Percentile £300 £311 £363
25th Percentile £406 £456 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +12.82% +16.07%
75th Percentile £558 £694 £581
90th Percentile £820 £830 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £515 £475
% change year-on-year -12.70% +8.52% +17.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £84.09 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

BCP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing BCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for BCP in the UK

BCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BCP.

Daily rate trend for BCP in the UK

BCP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BCP over the 6 months to 22 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BCP in the UK

BCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BCP.

Hourly rate trend for BCP in the UK

BCP
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 22 June 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
England +46 23 £450 -28.00% 29
Work from Home +99 17 £450 -14.29% 5
UK excluding London +16 14 £450 -12.70% 16
London +51 11 £525 -18.22% 14
South West +6 5 £450 +20.00% 1
Scotland +43 4 £515 -0.09%
West Midlands +19 2 £588 +80.77% 2
Midlands +18 2 £588 +80.77% 4
South East +10 2 £300 -52.00% 3
North of England +11 1 £400 +29.03% 5
North West +9 1 £400 +29.03% 4

BCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (13.79%) Confluence
2 2 (6.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (6.90%) IIS
3 1 (3.45%) JBoss
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.45%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (6.90%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (3.45%) MFGPRO
3 1 (3.45%) Sage 50
3 1 (3.45%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.69%) Power Platform
2 4 (13.79%) Azure
3 3 (10.34%) AWS
3 3 (10.34%) GitHub
3 3 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (6.90%) Catchpoint
4 2 (6.90%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.45%) Serverless
5 1 (3.45%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.69%) DNS
2 4 (13.79%) Firewall
3 3 (10.34%) SAN
3 3 (10.34%) VPN
4 2 (6.90%) DHCP
4 2 (6.90%) IPv6
4 2 (6.90%) SSL
5 1 (3.45%) HTTP
5 1 (3.45%) HTTPS
5 1 (3.45%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (3.45%) Kerberos
5 1 (3.45%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.45%) WAN
5 1 (3.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) Power BI
2 3 (10.34%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.45%) MySQL
3 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) JIRA
2 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.90%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (3.45%) Terragrunt
General
1 8 (27.59%) Finance
2 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Banking
4 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Legal
4 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.90%) Publishing
4 2 (6.90%) Retail
5 1 (3.45%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.45%) Law
5 1 (3.45%) Marketing
5 1 (3.45%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) Availability Manager
1 6 (20.69%) Service Manager
2 4 (13.79%) Senior
3 3 (10.34%) Architect
3 3 (10.34%) Project Manager
3 3 (10.34%) Service Continuity Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) E-Commerce Manager
4 2 (6.90%) E-Commerce Project Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Firewall Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) IT Manager
4 2 (6.90%) IT Services Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Security Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Server Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Business Change Analyst
5 1 (3.45%) Deployment Project Manager
5 1 (3.45%) ERP Project Manager
5 1 (3.45%) ITIL Manager
5 1 (3.45%) ITIL Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (3.45%) JSON
2 1 (3.45%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (3.45%) REST
2 1 (3.45%) RESTful
2 1 (3.45%) Web Services
2 1 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) CMDB
1 3 (10.34%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (6.90%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.45%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.45%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (31.03%) Windows
2 6 (20.69%) Windows Server
3 3 (10.34%) Linux
3 3 (10.34%) Unix
3 3 (10.34%) Windows 10
4 2 (6.90%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (6.90%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (6.90%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (3.45%) AIX
5 1 (3.45%) HPUX
5 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) Business Continuity
2 12 (41.38%) Business Continuity Planning
3 11 (37.93%) Agile
3 11 (37.93%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (24.14%) ITIL
4 7 (24.14%) Service Management
5 6 (20.69%) Availability Management
5 6 (20.69%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (20.69%) ITSM
6 5 (17.24%) DevOps
6 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (17.24%) Proactive Monitoring
6 5 (17.24%) Project Management
7 4 (13.79%) CI/CD
7 4 (13.79%) ERP
8 3 (10.34%) Capacity Management
8 3 (10.34%) Capacity Planning
8 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (10.34%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
8 3 (10.34%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.69%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.90%) Python
3 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.34%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (10.34%) CCNP
3 3 (10.34%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (6.90%) CCIE
4 2 (6.90%) MCSA
4 2 (6.90%) MCSE
4 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.45%) CEH
5 1 (3.45%) CISSP
5 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.45%) Degree
5 1 (3.45%) GCIA
5 1 (3.45%) GCIH
5 1 (3.45%) GIAC
5 1 (3.45%) GSEC
5 1 (3.45%) PMI Certification
5 1 (3.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.90%) NIST
1 2 (6.90%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.45%) GDPR
2 1 (3.45%) PMO
2 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.45%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) Ansible
1 5 (17.24%) Terraform
2 2 (6.90%) Kibana
2 2 (6.90%) logstash
2 2 (6.90%) Packer
2 2 (6.90%) WSUS
3 1 (3.45%) AirWatch
3 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.45%) Kustomize
3 1 (3.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Remedy
2 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.34%) HP
4 2 (6.90%) Adobe
4 2 (6.90%) AppNeta
4 2 (6.90%) Arista
4 2 (6.90%) Dell
4 2 (6.90%) IBM
4 2 (6.90%) Oracle
4 2 (6.90%) Palo Alto
4 2 (6.90%) SAP
4 2 (6.90%) Tufin
4 2 (6.90%) VMware
5 1 (3.45%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.45%) EMC
5 1 (3.45%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.45%) Progress
5 1 (3.45%) QAD
5 1 (3.45%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.45%) Temenos