BCP Jobs in the UK excluding London

Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 533 696 694
Rank change year-on-year +163 -2 +111
Permanent jobs citing BCP 38 69 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.098% 0.094% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.11% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 28 49 48
10th Percentile £38,375 £43,000 £43,875
25th Percentile £52,031 £50,000 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £51,750
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +11.11% +8.95%
75th Percentile £76,188 £66,250 £61,875
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,200
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,047 60,812 55,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.70% 82.57% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 17,118 41,900 28,987
10th Percentile £26,338 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing BCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for BCP in the UK excluding London

BCP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing BCP in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for BCP in the UK excluding London

BCP
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for BCP in the UK excluding London

BCP
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BCP within the UK excluding London 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
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
Scotland +125 2 £80,000 +49.21% 7
Midlands +46 1 £130,000 +152.43% 29
Northern Ireland - 1 £57,500 - 1
Wales - 1 - - 2
BCP
UK

BCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (7.89%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 12 (31.58%) Azure
2 7 (18.42%) AWS
3 5 (13.16%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (7.89%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.26%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.63%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.63%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.63%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (34.21%) Firewall
2 10 (26.32%) Intrusion Detection
2 10 (26.32%) VPN
3 8 (21.05%) LAN
3 8 (21.05%) WAN
4 6 (15.79%) Network Security
4 6 (15.79%) TCP/IP
5 5 (13.16%) BGP
5 5 (13.16%) MPLS
5 5 (13.16%) OSPF
5 5 (13.16%) SAN
5 5 (13.16%) SD-WAN
5 5 (13.16%) VLAN
6 3 (7.89%) DNS
7 2 (5.26%) DHCP
7 2 (5.26%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (5.26%) iSCSI
7 2 (5.26%) NAS
7 2 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (2.63%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.63%) Power BI
1 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) JIRA
2 1 (2.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (2.63%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 9 (23.68%) Manufacturing
3 6 (15.79%) Tech for Good
4 5 (13.16%) Pharmaceutical
4 5 (13.16%) Public Sector
5 4 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (7.89%) Finance
6 3 (7.89%) Law
7 2 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.63%) Banking
8 1 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (26.32%) Analyst
2 9 (23.68%) IT Analyst
3 8 (21.05%) Lead
4 6 (15.79%) Business Continuity Analyst
4 6 (15.79%) Business IT Analyst
4 6 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery Analyst
5 5 (13.16%) Security Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) Senior
6 4 (10.53%) IT Director
6 4 (10.53%) Network Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) Network Security Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) Service Analyst
7 3 (7.89%) IT Support
7 3 (7.89%) IT Support Analyst
7 3 (7.89%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (7.89%) Senior IT Support
7 3 (7.89%) Senior IT Support Analyst
7 3 (7.89%) Senior Support Analyst
7 3 (7.89%) Services Director
7 3 (7.89%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.63%) AngularJS
1 1 (2.63%) CSS
1 1 (2.63%) LDAP
1 1 (2.63%) OAuth
1 1 (2.63%) OAuth2
1 1 (2.63%) OpenID
1 1 (2.63%) React
1 1 (2.63%) REST
1 1 (2.63%) SAML
1 1 (2.63%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Data Centre
2 3 (7.89%) CMDB
2 3 (7.89%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.63%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.63%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.63%) Life Science
4 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.63%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.53%) Linux
1 4 (10.53%) Windows
2 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (84.21%) Business Continuity
2 27 (71.05%) Business Continuity Planning
3 23 (60.53%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (28.95%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (26.32%) ITIL
5 10 (26.32%) ITSM
5 10 (26.32%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 8 (21.05%) Root Cause Analysis
7 7 (18.42%) Identity Access Management
7 7 (18.42%) Service Management
8 6 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (15.79%) End-to-End Testing
8 6 (15.79%) Service Delivery
9 5 (13.16%) Agile
9 5 (13.16%) Data Centre Operations
9 5 (13.16%) Network Architecture
9 5 (13.16%) Network Monitoring
9 5 (13.16%) Network Segmentation
9 5 (13.16%) Risk Management
9 5 (13.16%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.26%) SQL
2 1 (2.63%) Groovy
2 1 (2.63%) Java
2 1 (2.63%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.63%) Python
2 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
2 1 (2.63%) TypeScript
2 1 (2.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (21.05%) Degree
2 3 (7.89%) Master's Degree
2 3 (7.89%) Six Sigma Black Belt
2 3 (7.89%) Six Sigma Green Belt
2 3 (7.89%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
3 1 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.63%) CCNA
3 1 (2.63%) CCNP
3 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) GDPR
1 5 (13.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (13.16%) NIST
2 3 (7.89%) Accessibility
2 3 (7.89%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.63%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 10 (26.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (18.42%) Hyper-V
3 4 (10.53%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.63%) NDS
4 1 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (2.63%) Ansible
1 1 (2.63%) CA Single Sign-On
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (2.63%) Packer
1 1 (2.63%) PingFederate
1 1 (2.63%) Terraform
1 1 (2.63%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (28.95%) VMware
2 6 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.53%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.63%) Cisco
4 1 (2.63%) Concur
4 1 (2.63%) ForgeRock
4 1 (2.63%) HubSpot
4 1 (2.63%) NetIQ
4 1 (2.63%) Okta
4 1 (2.63%) Ping Identity
4 1 (2.63%) Sage
4 1 (2.63%) SAP
4 1 (2.63%) Tanium