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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 548 684 687
Rank change year-on-year +136 +3 +101
Permanent jobs citing BCP 38 64 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.097% 0.090% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.11% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 28 45 47
10th Percentile £38,750 £34,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +7.84% +7.37%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,250 £80,000 £75,400
UK median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £56,711
% change year-on-year +20.00% +10.21% -9.26%

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 36,419 59,619 57,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.92% 83.98% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 18,159 41,251 29,495
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,716 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,100 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £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 12 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 12 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 +66 14 £57,500 -28.13% 13
South East +88 12 £75,000 +30.43% 25
South West +101 7 £62,500 +13.64% 1
Yorkshire +73 5 £42,500 -46.88% 2
North West -1 5 £35,500 -55.63% 8
North East +48 4 £57,500 -28.13% 3
Scotland +113 2 £80,000 +49.21% 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £57,500 -
Midlands +55 1 £130,000 +160.00% 7
Wales - 1 - - 1
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 2 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.63%) Confluence
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.95%) Azure
2 6 (15.79%) AWS
3 3 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (5.26%) SaaS
5 1 (2.63%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (28.95%) Firewall
2 9 (23.68%) Intrusion Detection
2 9 (23.68%) VPN
3 8 (21.05%) LAN
3 8 (21.05%) WAN
4 6 (15.79%) TCP/IP
5 5 (13.16%) BGP
5 5 (13.16%) MPLS
5 5 (13.16%) Network Security
5 5 (13.16%) OSPF
5 5 (13.16%) SD-WAN
5 5 (13.16%) VLAN
6 4 (10.53%) SAN
7 3 (7.89%) DNS
8 1 (2.63%) DHCP
8 1 (2.63%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (2.63%) iSCSI
8 1 (2.63%) Kerberos
8 1 (2.63%) NAS
8 1 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
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 19 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.05%) Manufacturing
3 6 (15.79%) Tech for Good
4 5 (13.16%) Public Sector
5 4 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (10.53%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (7.89%) Law
7 2 (5.26%) Finance
7 2 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.63%) Banking
8 1 (2.63%) Legal
8 1 (2.63%) Marketing
8 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.63%) Public Speaking
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%) Senior
6 4 (10.53%) IT Director
6 4 (10.53%) 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%) Network Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Network Security Engineer
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
3 2 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.26%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
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
4 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.53%) Linux
1 4 (10.53%) Windows
2 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (81.58%) Business Continuity
2 26 (68.42%) Business Continuity Planning
3 22 (57.89%) Disaster Recovery
4 13 (34.21%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (31.58%) ITIL
6 10 (26.32%) ITSM
6 10 (26.32%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 9 (23.68%) Service Management
8 7 (18.42%) Root Cause Analysis
9 6 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (15.79%) End-to-End Testing
9 6 (15.79%) Network Architecture
10 5 (13.16%) Data Centre Operations
10 5 (13.16%) Identity Access Management
10 5 (13.16%) Network Monitoring
10 5 (13.16%) Network Segmentation
10 5 (13.16%) Project Management
10 5 (13.16%) Risk Assessment
10 5 (13.16%) Server Management
10 5 (13.16%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.63%) Groovy
1 1 (2.63%) Java
1 1 (2.63%) JavaScript
1 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
1 1 (2.63%) Python
1 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
1 1 (2.63%) SQL
1 1 (2.63%) TypeScript
1 1 (2.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) 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%) CCNA
3 1 (2.63%) CCNP
3 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.63%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
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%) COBIT
3 1 (2.63%) FISMA
3 1 (2.63%) GLBA
3 1 (2.63%) GRC
3 1 (2.63%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.63%) ISO 22301
3 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (2.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (23.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (15.79%) Hyper-V
3 3 (7.89%) 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%) Packer
1 1 (2.63%) PingFederate
1 1 (2.63%) Terraform
1 1 (2.63%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (26.32%) VMware
2 4 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.53%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.63%) Cisco
3 1 (2.63%) ForgeRock
3 1 (2.63%) NetIQ
3 1 (2.63%) Okta
3 1 (2.63%) Ping Identity
3 1 (2.63%) SAP
3 1 (2.63%) Tanium