BCP Contracts with Work from Home Options

Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for BCP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited BCP over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 441 568
Rank change year-on-year +115 +127 -104
Contract jobs citing BCP 18 30 55
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.13% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 18 43
10th Percentile £330 £339 £363
25th Percentile £413 £443 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £524 £488
Median % change year-on-year -14.20% +7.58% +20.00%
75th Percentile £558 £616 £525
90th Percentile £855 £748 £788
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £84.09 -
UK median hourly rate - £84.09 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +68.18% +110.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

BCP 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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,413 23,039 40,643
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.92% 89.76% 91.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,959 16,290 29,502
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 580 529 544
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.58
25th Percentile £25.38 £30.54 £19.98
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £67.35
UK median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing BCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

BCP trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing BCP.

BCP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing BCP over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

BCP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing BCP.

BCP hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (11.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (11.11%) Confluence
1 2 (11.11%) IIS
2 1 (5.56%) OpenEdge
Business Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (11.11%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (5.56%) MFGPRO
3 1 (5.56%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) Power Platform
2 2 (11.11%) Catchpoint
2 2 (11.11%) GitHub
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (11.11%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) DNS
2 2 (11.11%) DHCP
2 2 (11.11%) Firewall
2 2 (11.11%) IPv6
2 2 (11.11%) SAN
2 2 (11.11%) SSL
2 2 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) Power BI
2 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) JIRA
2 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.11%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.11%) Publishing
3 2 (11.11%) Retail
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Law
4 1 (5.56%) Legal
4 1 (5.56%) Marketing
4 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Availability Manager
1 5 (27.78%) Service Manager
2 3 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 2 (11.11%) E-Commerce Manager
3 2 (11.11%) E-Commerce Project Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Firewall Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) IT Manager
3 2 (11.11%) IT Services Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Server Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Service Continuity Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Business Continuity Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Business Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Deployment Project Manager
4 1 (5.56%) ERP Manager
4 1 (5.56%) ERP Project Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Security Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Technology Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Transformation Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) CMDB
2 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.11%) Operational Technology
2 2 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.56%) Client/Server
3 1 (5.56%) IoT
3 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.56%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Windows
2 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 2 (11.11%) Windows 10
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (5.56%) HPUX
4 1 (5.56%) Linux
4 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Agile
1 9 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 8 (44.44%) Business Continuity Planning
2 8 (44.44%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (27.78%) Availability Management
3 5 (27.78%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (27.78%) ITIL
3 5 (27.78%) ITSM
3 5 (27.78%) Service Management
4 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 4 (22.22%) ERP
4 4 (22.22%) Project Management
5 3 (16.67%) Capacity Management
5 3 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (16.67%) Configuration Management
5 3 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
5 3 (16.67%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
6 2 (11.11%) Customer Service
6 2 (11.11%) Service Catalogue
6 2 (11.11%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) CCIE
3 2 (11.11%) CCNP
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (11.11%) MCSA
3 2 (11.11%) MCSE
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.56%) CISSP
4 1 (5.56%) PMI Certification
4 1 (5.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) NIST
2 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (11.11%) PCI DSS
3 1 (5.56%) GDPR
3 1 (5.56%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Ansible
1 2 (11.11%) Kibana
1 2 (11.11%) logstash
1 2 (11.11%) Packer
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Remedy
2 3 (16.67%) HP
3 2 (11.11%) Adobe
3 2 (11.11%) AppNeta
3 2 (11.11%) Arista
3 2 (11.11%) Dell
3 2 (11.11%) IBM
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.11%) Palo Alto
3 2 (11.11%) SAP
3 2 (11.11%) Tufin
4 1 (5.56%) Progress
4 1 (5.56%) QAD
4 1 (5.56%) Red Hat