BCP Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring BCP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BCP 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 284 327 446
Rank change year-on-year +43 +119 +131
Contract jobs citing BCP 20 18 31
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.20% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.13% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 17 19
10th Percentile £205 £330 £343
25th Percentile £208 £413 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £450 £524
Median % change year-on-year +15.22% -14.11% +7.48%
75th Percentile £609 £558 £594
90th Percentile £675 £855 £740
UK median daily rate £539 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +13.37% -9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £79.89
Median hourly rate - - £84.09
75th Percentile - - £88.30
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £21.43 - £84.09
% change year-on-year - - +68.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

BCP falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing BCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

BCP trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing BCP over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
1 5 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (10.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) Firewall
2 3 (15.00%) Internet
2 3 (15.00%) iSCSI
2 3 (15.00%) LAN
2 3 (15.00%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (15.00%) WAN
2 3 (15.00%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (15.00%) Wireless
3 2 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Military
3 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Architect
1 4 (20.00%) Lead
1 4 (20.00%) Service Continuity Leader
2 3 (15.00%) Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Consultant
2 3 (15.00%) Project Manager
2 3 (15.00%) Security Architect
2 3 (15.00%) Security Consultant
2 3 (15.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 2 (10.00%) IT Manager
3 2 (10.00%) IT Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Report Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Technical Support
3 2 (10.00%) Technical Support Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Support
4 1 (5.00%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
4 1 (5.00%) Storage Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Cyberattack
1 3 (15.00%) IVR
2 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.00%) Social Media
3 1 (5.00%) EMC VNX
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (5.00%) IBM XIV
3 1 (5.00%) NHS
3 1 (5.00%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Windows
1 5 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (15.00%) Android
2 3 (15.00%) Linux
2 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) Business Continuity
1 16 (80.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 11 (55.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 10 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (45.00%) Incident Response
5 8 (40.00%) ITIL
6 5 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (25.00%) High Availability
6 5 (25.00%) Information Security
6 5 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
6 5 (25.00%) Risk Management
7 4 (20.00%) Business Impact Analysis
7 4 (20.00%) Impact Analysis
7 4 (20.00%) Load Balancing
7 4 (20.00%) Runbook
7 4 (20.00%) Service Catalogue
7 4 (20.00%) Service Delivery
8 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (15.00%) Strategic Thinking
8 3 (15.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) CISM
1 3 (15.00%) CISSP
1 3 (15.00%) CRISC
2 2 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 3 (15.00%) GDPR
2 3 (15.00%) HIPAA
2 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (15.00%) NIST
2 3 (15.00%) SLA
3 2 (10.00%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (15.00%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (10.00%) vSphere
4 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) Apple
3 2 (10.00%) Sun
3 2 (10.00%) VMware
4 1 (5.00%) EMC
4 1 (5.00%) IBM