Business Continuity Contracts in the West Midlands

Business Continuity
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Business Continuity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Continuity 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 82 103 119
Rank change year-on-year +21 +16 +27
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 15 8 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.12% 0.41% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 0.49% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 13
10th Percentile £413 £441 £455
25th Percentile £444 £484 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £558 £625
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% -10.80% +4.17%
75th Percentile £566 £634 £650
90th Percentile £588 £651 £670
England median daily rate £564 £491 £511
% change year-on-year +14.81% -3.86% -1.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Business Continuity 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 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Business Continuity
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Business Continuity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Business Continuity in the West Midlands

Business Continuity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Continuity in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Business Continuity in the West Midlands

Business Continuity
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Continuity in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Continuity in the West Midlands

Business Continuity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Continuity in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Business Continuity in the West Midlands

Business Continuity
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 within the West Midlands region 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
Birmingham +23 9 £451 -12.52% 2
Warwickshire +6 4 £550 - 3
Worcestershire - 2 £675 - 1
Business Continuity
England

Business Continuity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) IaaS
2 3 (20.00%) PaaS
2 3 (20.00%) SaaS
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.67%) AWS
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) Network Security
General
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Legal
3 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) IT Manager
1 5 (33.33%) IT Project Manager
1 5 (33.33%) Lead
1 5 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) PMO Lead
2 2 (13.33%) Report Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Resilience Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Service Continuity Leader
3 1 (6.67%) Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Information Security Advisor
3 1 (6.67%) IT Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) IT Director
3 1 (6.67%) Project Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Security Advisor
3 1 (6.67%) Service Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Service Delivery Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) PMI
1 2 (13.33%) Replication
2 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 7 (46.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (40.00%) BCP
2 6 (40.00%) Business Continuity Planning
3 5 (33.33%) ITIL
3 5 (33.33%) Migration
4 4 (26.67%) Business Impact Analysis
4 4 (26.67%) Change Control
4 4 (26.67%) Impact Analysis
5 3 (20.00%) Business Continuity Management
5 3 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (20.00%) Incident Response
5 3 (20.00%) Programme Management
5 3 (20.00%) Requirements Workshops
5 3 (20.00%) Risk Management
5 3 (20.00%) Systems Analysis
5 3 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
6 2 (13.33%) Agile
6 2 (13.33%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
1 2 (13.33%) PMI Certification
2 1 (6.67%) CEH
2 1 (6.67%) CISA
2 1 (6.67%) CISM
2 1 (6.67%) CISSP
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (46.67%) PMO
2 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (6.67%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (6.67%) GDPR
4 1 (6.67%) HIPAA
4 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (6.67%) NIST
4 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
4 1 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (13.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft