Service Continuity Management Contracts

Service Continuity Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Service Continuity Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Service Continuity Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 509 568 700
Rank change year-on-year +59 +132 +144
Contract jobs citing Service Continuity Management 11 14 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.038% 0.032% 0.030%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.041% 0.037% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 12
10th Percentile £463 £311 £220
25th Percentile £481 £375 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £473
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +0.53% -10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £506 £521
90th Percentile £800 £638 £709
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +15.79% +11.76% -8.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Service Continuity Management 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 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Service Continuity Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Service Continuity Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Service Continuity Management in the UK

Service Continuity Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Continuity Management.

Daily rate trend for Service Continuity Management in the UK

Service Continuity Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Continuity Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Continuity Management in the UK

Service Continuity Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Continuity Management.

Hourly rate trend for Service Continuity Management in the UK

Service Continuity Management
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Continuity Management within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +54 8 £550 +9.67% 8
UK excluding London +62 6 £550 +15.79% 6
London +36 3 £550 -8.33% 4
North of England +18 3 £550 +22.22% 3
North West +16 3 £550 +22.22% 3
Work from Home +39 2 £525 +31.25% 6
East of England - 2 £800 -
Scotland +13 1 £188 - 2

Service Continuity Management
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Workday HCM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) LAN
1 1 (9.09%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
3 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Service Continuity Manager
1 4 (36.36%) Service Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Business Continuity Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Business Manager
2 2 (18.18%) IT Manager
2 2 (18.18%) IT Services Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Workday Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) ITIL Manager
3 1 (9.09%) ITIL Service Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Management Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Service Management Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Technology Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Workday Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) CMDB
1 1 (9.09%) Cyberattack
1 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
1 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
1 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
1 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) ITIL
2 7 (63.64%) Problem Management
3 6 (54.55%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (54.55%) Risk Management
4 5 (45.45%) Business Continuity
4 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (36.36%) Incident Management
5 4 (36.36%) Service Catalogue
6 3 (27.27%) Business Strategy
6 3 (27.27%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (27.27%) ITSM
6 3 (27.27%) Performance Management
6 3 (27.27%) Service Delivery
6 3 (27.27%) Service Management
7 2 (18.18%) Change Management
7 2 (18.18%) Data Management
7 2 (18.18%) Data Stewardship
7 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning
7 2 (18.18%) Master Data Management
7 2 (18.18%) Portfolio Management
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (18.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) ISO 22301
1 4 (36.36%) ISO 31000
1 4 (36.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 2 (18.18%) QA
3 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) ServiceNow
2 2 (18.18%) Workday
3 1 (9.09%) Avaya
3 1 (9.09%) Extreme Networks
3 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle