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 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 102 122
Rank change year-on-year +8 +20 +30
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 20 10 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.16% 0.53% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 0.65% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 7 6
10th Percentile £325 £280 £450
25th Percentile £413 £350 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £625
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -28.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £588 £500 £731
90th Percentile £650 £515 £750
England median daily rate £550 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -4.55%

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 1,521 1,533 1,843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 81.98% 85.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,040 1,262
10th Percentile £234 £269 £263
25th Percentile £380 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £625 £600
90th Percentile £650 £725 £725
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 59 41
10th Percentile £12.62 £13.14 £14.36
25th Percentile £14.24 £14.85 £20.00
Median hourly rate £24.34 £22.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% -16.67% +54.29%
75th Percentile £35.29 £38.13 £30.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.25 £43.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £41.02
% change year-on-year -40.82% +3.61% +53.35%

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 16 August 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 16 August 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 +4 8 £475 +18.75% 7
Worcestershire - 6 £575 -
Warwickshire -6 4 £463 -7.50%
Coventry - 2 - - 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (20.00%) Confluence
2 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) AutoCAD
1 2 (10.00%) MicroStation
1 2 (10.00%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (10.00%) Collibra
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (5.00%) AWS
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (5.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
1 1 (5.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (10.00%) Delta Lake
1 2 (10.00%) GIS
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Bitbucket
1 4 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (20.00%) Finance
1 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Legal
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Publishing
4 1 (5.00%) Law
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Administrator
1 4 (20.00%) JIRA Administrator
2 2 (10.00%) Analyst
2 2 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Coordinator
2 2 (10.00%) Data Migration Specialist
2 2 (10.00%) Draughtsman
2 2 (10.00%) IT Manager
2 2 (10.00%) IT Project Manager
2 2 (10.00%) Lead
2 2 (10.00%) Migration Specialist
2 2 (10.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (10.00%) Report Manager
3 1 (5.00%) Business Continuity Specialist
3 1 (5.00%) Category Manager
3 1 (5.00%) Information Security Advisor
3 1 (5.00%) Security Advisor
3 1 (5.00%) Service Analyst
3 1 (5.00%) Service Continuity Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) IoT
1 2 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (10.00%) Replication
1 2 (10.00%) SCADA
2 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (30.00%) ITIL
3 5 (25.00%) BCP
3 5 (25.00%) Change Management
3 5 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 5 (25.00%) Data Management
3 5 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (20.00%) Business Continuity Planning
4 4 (20.00%) Coaching
4 4 (20.00%) Migration
4 4 (20.00%) Programme Delivery
4 4 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 4 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
4 4 (20.00%) Task Automation
4 4 (20.00%) Workflow
5 3 (15.00%) Cloud Security
5 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.00%) Process Improvement
5 3 (15.00%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (10.00%) Python
2 2 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (10.00%) HNC
2 2 (10.00%) HND
3 1 (5.00%) CEH
3 1 (5.00%) CISA
3 1 (5.00%) CISM
3 1 (5.00%) CISSP
3 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) GDPR
2 2 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (10.00%) PMO
2 2 (10.00%) QA
3 1 (5.00%) HIPAA
3 1 (5.00%) ISO 22301
3 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.00%) NIST
3 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Firmware
2 2 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) SCCM
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) Atlassian
3 2 (10.00%) Autodesk
3 2 (10.00%) Databricks
3 2 (10.00%) Informatica
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle
3 2 (10.00%) SAP