BCP Jobs in England

Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring BCP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited BCP over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 605 642 816
Rank change year-on-year +37 +174 +195
Permanent jobs citing BCP 78 202 105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.23% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.27% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 58 93 84
10th Percentile £38,750 £45,270 £46,225
25th Percentile £54,375 £50,000 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £62,500 £57,211
Median % change year-on-year +18.00% +9.25% -11.98%
75th Percentile £85,875 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £94,500 £84,375
UK median annual salary £73,750 £62,500 £57,211
% change year-on-year +18.00% +9.25% -8.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

BCP 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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,477 74,482 83,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.01% 84.24% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 22,533 54,432 49,691
10th Percentile £29,625 £29,000 £34,375
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,105
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,695 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

BCP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing BCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for BCP in England

BCP
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing BCP in England.

Salary trend for BCP in England

BCP
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing BCP in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for BCP in England

BCP
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BCP within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +32 42 £78,750 +21.15% 53
North of England +44 14 £48,750 -39.06% 30
South East +79 13 £75,000 +25.00% 56
South West +111 7 £62,500 +13.64% 9
North West -2 6 £35,500 -55.63% 17
North East +51 5 £57,500 -28.13% 5
Yorkshire +63 3 £42,500 -46.88% 8
Midlands +46 1 £130,000 +152.43% 29
BCP
UK

BCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (6.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.56%) nginx
2 2 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.28%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (6.41%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (6.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (5.13%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.28%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 40 (51.28%) Azure
2 14 (17.95%) Azure Data Factory
2 14 (17.95%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (16.67%) AWS
4 12 (15.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 9 (11.54%) Entra ID
6 8 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (10.26%) GitHub
6 8 (10.26%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (7.69%) Power Platform
8 4 (5.13%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (3.85%) GCP
10 2 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (2.56%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (2.56%) IaaS
10 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (2.56%) PaaS
11 1 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 25 (32.05%) Firewall
2 21 (26.92%) VPN
3 16 (20.51%) Network Security
4 13 (16.67%) WAN
5 11 (14.10%) LAN
6 10 (12.82%) Intrusion Detection
7 9 (11.54%) DNS
7 9 (11.54%) SAN
7 9 (11.54%) SD-WAN
7 9 (11.54%) VLAN
8 8 (10.26%) TCP/IP
9 7 (8.97%) BGP
9 7 (8.97%) MPLS
9 7 (8.97%) OSPF
10 6 (7.69%) DHCP
10 6 (7.69%) NAS
11 4 (5.13%) NetScaler
11 4 (5.13%) SNMP
12 2 (2.56%) 802.11
12 2 (2.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.82%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.41%) Power BI
3 4 (5.13%) Data Lake
3 4 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (5.13%) JIRA
2 2 (2.56%) Git
2 2 (2.56%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.28%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 33 (42.31%) Finance
2 26 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 9 (11.54%) Banking
3 9 (11.54%) Manufacturing
4 8 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (8.97%) Tech for Good
6 6 (7.69%) Public Sector
7 5 (6.41%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (3.85%) Law
8 3 (3.85%) Legal
8 3 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (19.23%) Analyst
2 13 (16.67%) Senior
3 10 (12.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (12.82%) Lead
4 9 (11.54%) IT Analyst
5 8 (10.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (10.26%) Security Engineer
6 7 (8.97%) Business Continuity Analyst
6 7 (8.97%) Disaster Recovery Analyst
7 6 (7.69%) Business IT Analyst
7 6 (7.69%) IT Engineer
7 6 (7.69%) Network Engineer
8 5 (6.41%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (6.41%) IT Support
8 5 (6.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (5.13%) Data Engineer
9 4 (5.13%) Head of Architecture
9 4 (5.13%) Head of Strategy
9 4 (5.13%) IT Director
9 4 (5.13%) Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.56%) .NET
1 2 (2.56%) .NET Framework
1 2 (2.56%) 802.1X
1 2 (2.56%) AngularJS
1 2 (2.56%) ASP.NET
1 2 (2.56%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (2.56%) Entity Framework
1 2 (2.56%) LINQ
1 2 (2.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.82%) Data Centre
2 7 (8.97%) Product Ownership
3 6 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.85%) CMDB
5 3 (3.85%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.56%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.56%) PKI
6 2 (2.56%) Replication
7 1 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.28%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.28%) Life Science
7 1 (1.28%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (15.38%) Windows
2 8 (10.26%) Linux
2 8 (10.26%) Windows Server
3 4 (5.13%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (67.95%) Business Continuity
2 45 (57.69%) Disaster Recovery
3 43 (55.13%) Business Continuity Planning
4 17 (21.79%) Cybersecurity
5 14 (17.95%) CI/CD
5 14 (17.95%) DevOps
6 13 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (16.67%) ITIL
6 13 (16.67%) ITSM
6 13 (16.67%) Roadmaps
7 12 (15.38%) Data Engineering
7 12 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 12 (15.38%) IT Strategy
8 11 (14.10%) Risk Management
8 11 (14.10%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (14.10%) Technology Strategy
9 10 (12.82%) Service Management
9 10 (12.82%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 9 (11.54%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 11 (14.10%) PowerShell
2 9 (11.54%) Python
3 4 (5.13%) SQL
4 2 (2.56%) Bash
4 2 (2.56%) C#
5 1 (1.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (12.82%) Degree
2 3 (3.85%) CCNP
2 3 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (3.85%) Master's Degree
2 3 (3.85%) Six Sigma Black Belt
2 3 (3.85%) Six Sigma Green Belt
2 3 (3.85%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
3 2 (2.56%) CCNA
3 2 (2.56%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.56%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.28%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.28%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.54%) GDPR
1 9 (11.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (8.97%) NIST
3 5 (6.41%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (3.85%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.28%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 20 (25.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (21.79%) Hyper-V
3 14 (17.95%) Active Directory
4 7 (8.97%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.56%) Docker
5 2 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (16.67%) Terraform
2 10 (12.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (6.41%) vCenter Server
4 4 (5.13%) SCCM
4 4 (5.13%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.56%) Grafana
5 2 (2.56%) HAProxy
5 2 (2.56%) Istio
5 2 (2.56%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.56%) linkerd
5 2 (2.56%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.56%) SCOM
6 1 (1.28%) Ansible
6 1 (1.28%) Packer
Vendors
1 30 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 21 (26.92%) VMware
3 11 (14.10%) Cisco
4 8 (10.26%) Databricks
5 7 (8.97%) ServiceNow
6 6 (7.69%) Fortinet
6 6 (7.69%) Palo Alto
7 4 (5.13%) Bloomberg
7 4 (5.13%) Citrix
7 4 (5.13%) F5
7 4 (5.13%) FactSet
7 4 (5.13%) Mitel
7 4 (5.13%) NetApp
7 4 (5.13%) Refinitiv
7 4 (5.13%) Veeam
8 3 (3.85%) Google
9 2 (2.56%) Avaya
9 2 (2.56%) Dell
9 2 (2.56%) SolarWinds
9 2 (2.56%) SonicWALL