Business Continuity Job Trends in Birmingham

Business Continuity
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Business Continuity skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 114 81
Rank change year-on-year +18 -33 +33
Permanent jobs citing Business Continuity 5 13 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.29% 0.69% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.75% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3 11 16
10th Percentile £55,900 £28,500 £46,257
25th Percentile £69,625 £36,250 £55,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £55,000 £69,500
Median % change year-on-year +72.73% -20.86% +54.44%
75th Percentile £97,500 £57,500 £75,000
90th Percentile - £58,750 £86,875
West Midlands median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £56,325
% change year-on-year +13.64% -2.35% +2.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Business Continuity falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,377 1,742 1,097
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 80.01% 92.41% 89.92%
Number of salaries quoted 968 820 930
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,060 £44,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -2.62%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £88,875 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

Business Continuity
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Business Continuity relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Business Continuity job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Business Continuity
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Business Continuity.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Business Continuity

Business Continuity
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Continuity in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Business Continuity in Birmingham

Business Continuity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (20.00%) IIS
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) ISDN
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
1 1 (20.00%) PSTN
1 1 (20.00%) RTP
1 1 (20.00%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (20.00%) Unified Communications
1 1 (20.00%) VoIP
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Head of IT
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Database Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Database Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior VoIP Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Web Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) VoIP Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Web Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) BCP
1 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity Planning
1 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (40.00%) Cost Control
1 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (40.00%) FinOps
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) IT Governance
1 2 (40.00%) IT Strategy
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
1 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (40.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (40.00%) Wealth Management
2 1 (20.00%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CCNA
1 1 (20.00%) CCNP
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GRC
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Aruba
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds