Contingency Planning Contracts

Contingency Planning
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Contingency Planning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Contingency Planning over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 512 621 720
Rank change year-on-year +109 +99 -102
Contract jobs citing Contingency Planning 82 95 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.16% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.18% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 70 90
10th Percentile £411 £475 £406
25th Percentile £488 £531 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.59% +9.50%
75th Percentile £669 £669 £650
90th Percentile £735 £764 £739
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £570 £500
% change year-on-year -1.32% +14.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £34.25 - £69.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 - £70.50
75th Percentile £36.75 - £71.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Contingency Planning 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,383 53,667 80,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.90% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,097 37,244 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,426 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.13% +80.00% -8.51%

Contingency Planning
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Contingency Planning in the UK

Contingency Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Contingency Planning in the UK

Contingency Planning
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Contingency Planning over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Contingency Planning in the UK

Contingency Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Contingency Planning in the UK

Contingency Planning
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Contingency Planning within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
England +110 66 £600 -0.25% 48
UK excluding London +79 53 £563 -1.32% 37
Work from Home +118 30 £538 -12.07% 19
London +87 22 £643 +1.90% 16
South East +23 14 £635 +12.39% 13
North of England +38 11 £663 +6.00% 11
West Midlands +38 11 £475 +22.58% 4
Midlands +34 11 £475 +22.58% 4
Scotland +29 8 £500 -13.04% 5
North West +26 5 £650 +1.96% 7
Yorkshire +25 5 £675 +22.73% 1
South West +17 5 £525 -25.00% 4
Wales - 4 £325 -
East Midlands - 2 - -
North East - 1 - - 3

Contingency Planning
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 2 (2.44%) ThingWorx
2 1 (1.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (9.76%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.44%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (2.44%) Temenos Globus
2 1 (1.22%) SAP MDG
2 1 (1.22%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 3 (3.66%) Azure
1 3 (3.66%) OCI
1 3 (3.66%) WhatsApp
2 2 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.22%) AWS
3 1 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.88%) Firewall
2 2 (2.44%) LAN
2 2 (2.44%) PPP
2 2 (2.44%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.44%) VPN
2 2 (2.44%) WAN
3 1 (1.22%) NetScaler
3 1 (1.22%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.66%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (2.44%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (3.66%) JIRA
General
1 31 (37.80%) Social Skills
2 21 (25.61%) Finance
3 14 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.98%) Military
5 8 (9.76%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (7.32%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.88%) Billing
7 4 (4.88%) Marketing
7 4 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.66%) Legal
8 3 (3.66%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.44%) Advertising
9 2 (2.44%) Banking
9 2 (2.44%) Dutch Language
9 2 (2.44%) German Language
9 2 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.44%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.44%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.22%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.22%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 32 (39.02%) Project Manager
2 11 (13.41%) Delivery Manager
3 10 (12.20%) Lead
3 10 (12.20%) Senior
4 9 (10.98%) Security Manager
4 9 (10.98%) Senior Manager
4 9 (10.98%) Senior Project Manager
5 6 (7.32%) SAP Manager
6 5 (6.10%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 5 (6.10%) Product Owner
6 5 (6.10%) Programme Manager
6 5 (6.10%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
6 5 (6.10%) Security Project Manager
7 4 (4.88%) Coordinator
7 4 (4.88%) Infrastructure Manager
7 4 (4.88%) Infrastructure Project Manager
7 4 (4.88%) IT Manager
7 4 (4.88%) Project Coordinator
8 3 (3.66%) IT Project Manager
8 3 (3.66%) SAP Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.76%) Product Ownership
2 6 (7.32%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.44%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.22%) Cyberattack
4 1 (1.22%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.22%) HACMP
4 1 (1.22%) NHS
4 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.22%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.66%) Windows
2 1 (1.22%) AIX
2 1 (1.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (51.22%) Project Management
2 28 (34.15%) Project Delivery
3 27 (32.93%) Agile
4 24 (29.27%) Stakeholder Management
5 23 (28.05%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (25.61%) Business Case
7 17 (20.73%) Roadmaps
8 16 (19.51%) Risk Management
9 15 (18.29%) PRINCE2
10 14 (17.07%) Product Roadmap
11 13 (15.85%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (15.85%) Decision-Making
11 13 (15.85%) Waterfall
12 12 (14.63%) Business Strategy
13 11 (13.41%) Change Control
13 11 (13.41%) Change Management
13 11 (13.41%) Programme Management
14 10 (12.20%) Matrix Organization
14 10 (12.20%) Migration
14 10 (12.20%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.66%) SQL
2 2 (2.44%) VBA
3 1 (1.22%) Java
3 1 (1.22%) Python
3 1 (1.22%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (18.29%) Degree
1 15 (18.29%) PMI Certification
1 15 (18.29%) PMP
2 12 (14.63%) Security Cleared
3 11 (13.41%) SC Cleared
4 10 (12.20%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.44%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.22%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.22%) CCNA
6 1 (1.22%) CCNP
6 1 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.22%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.22%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (1.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.76%) QA
2 7 (8.54%) PMO
3 6 (7.32%) NIST
4 4 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.44%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.44%) Basel III
5 2 (2.44%) COREP
5 2 (2.44%) COSO
5 2 (2.44%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.44%) FINREP
5 2 (2.44%) ISO 31000
5 2 (2.44%) SLA
6 1 (1.22%) IFRS
6 1 (1.22%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 2 (2.44%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.22%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (1.22%) PowerHA
Vendors
1 8 (9.76%) SAP
2 6 (7.32%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.10%) Atlassian
3 5 (6.10%) Sophos
4 4 (4.88%) Rapid7
5 3 (3.66%) Oracle
6 1 (1.22%) Citrix
6 1 (1.22%) Ericsson
6 1 (1.22%) IBM
6 1 (1.22%) Nokia
6 1 (1.22%) Palantir
6 1 (1.22%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.22%) Workday