BCP Job Trends in the Midlands

Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring BCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 242 222
Rank change year-on-year +23 -20 +103
Permanent jobs citing BCP 5 4 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.064% 0.063% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.079% 0.069% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £61,500 - £37,500
25th Percentile £73,125 - £44,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £130,000 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +144.13% -23.93%
75th Percentile £97,500 - £78,625
90th Percentile - - £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £61,250 £66,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -7.89% +20.91%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,361 5,773 4,943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.32% 90.47% 86.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3,535 2,521 4,072
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing BCP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

BCP job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing BCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing BCP

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Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing BCP in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for BCP in the Midlands

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Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BCP within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
West Midlands +21 3 £95,000 - 5
East Midlands - 2 £57,500 - 1
BCP
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Law
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Head of IT
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Compliance Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) EDI
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Business Continuity
1 4 (80.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 3 (60.00%) IT Strategy
2 3 (60.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (40.00%) Cost Control
3 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (40.00%) FinOps
3 2 (40.00%) IT Governance
3 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Wealth Management
4 1 (20.00%) Business Process Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Lean Six Sigma
4 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) SIEM
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GRC
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (20.00%) NCSC
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk
1 1 (20.00%) Varonis