Business Continuity Planning Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Business Continuity Planning
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Business Continuity Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 92 109
Rank change year-on-year -58 +17 -
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity Planning 3 6 2
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.095% 0.44% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.49% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £450 £257 -
25th Percentile £506 £372 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +35.29% -
75th Percentile - £588 £438
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £625 £463
% change year-on-year -12.00% +35.14% -26.73%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Business Continuity Planning 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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,622 1,214 1,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.21% 88.68% 83.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,697 793 1,057
10th Percentile £309 £193 £275
25th Percentile £404 £375 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £660 £750
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 55 114
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.08
25th Percentile £22.50 £13.20 £14.00
Median hourly rate £34.38 £18.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +90.97% -20.00% +18.42%
75th Percentile £67.84 £22.91 £40.38
90th Percentile £72.54 £40.08 £58.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.02 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.96% -20.49% -2.25%

Business Continuity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Business Continuity Planning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Business Continuity Planning job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Business Continuity Planning
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Business Continuity Planning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Business Continuity Planning

Business Continuity Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Continuity Planning in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Business Continuity Planning in the West Midlands

Business Continuity Planning
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Business Continuity Planning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Business Continuity Planning

Business Continuity Planning
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Continuity Planning within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 May 2026. 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
Birmingham -33 1 £425 +134.16% 5
Business Continuity Planning
England

Business Continuity Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) CloudStack
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Datadog
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (66.67%) OpenShift
3 1 (33.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) NAS
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) Structured Cabling
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Site Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Private Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) BCP
1 3 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 3 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
2 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Go
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CCNP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) Progress Chef
2 2 (66.67%) Puppet
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Commvault
2 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Veeam
2 1 (33.33%) VMware