Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 625 711 851
Rank change year-on-year +86 +140 +188
Permanent jobs citing BCP 84 203 111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.20% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.23% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 63 96 90
10th Percentile £38,750 £45,013 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £57,211
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +9.25% -8.46%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £110,750 £86,250 £86,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £56,600 £51,750
% change year-on-year +3.80% +9.37% +8.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,902 86,889 92,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.67% 84.13% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,611 60,763 54,796
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%

BCP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for BCP in the UK

BCP
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for BCP in the UK

BCP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing BCP over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for BCP in the UK

BCP
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BCP within the UK over the 6 months to 30 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
England +42 81 £67,500 +8.00% 164
London +30 43 £77,500 +19.23% 38
UK excluding London +164 40 £58,750 +3.80% 152
North of England +56 15 £48,750 -39.06% 35
South East +78 13 £75,000 +27.66% 51
Work from Home +99 7 £67,750 +4.23% 124
South West +98 7 £62,500 +13.64% 9
North East +51 6 £57,500 -28.13% 4
North West +6 6 £35,500 -55.63% 24
Yorkshire +61 3 £42,500 -46.88% 7
Scotland +119 2 £80,000 +49.21% 7
Midlands +73 2 £93,750 +82.04% 32
West Midlands +54 1 £57,500 +9.52% 12
Wales +47 1 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £57,500 - 4

BCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.57%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.38%) nginx
4 1 (1.19%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.95%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (5.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.19%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 41 (48.81%) Azure
2 16 (19.05%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 13 (15.48%) AWS
5 12 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 10 (11.90%) Entra ID
7 8 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (9.52%) GitHub
7 8 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (8.33%) Power Platform
9 4 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (3.57%) GCP
11 2 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (2.38%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (2.38%) IaaS
11 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (2.38%) PaaS
12 1 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (30.95%) Firewall
2 22 (26.19%) VPN
3 18 (21.43%) Network Security
4 13 (15.48%) WAN
5 11 (13.10%) Intrusion Detection
5 11 (13.10%) LAN
6 10 (11.90%) SAN
7 9 (10.71%) DNS
7 9 (10.71%) SD-WAN
7 9 (10.71%) VLAN
8 8 (9.52%) TCP/IP
9 7 (8.33%) BGP
9 7 (8.33%) MPLS
9 7 (8.33%) OSPF
10 6 (7.14%) DHCP
10 6 (7.14%) NAS
11 4 (4.76%) NetScaler
11 4 (4.76%) SNMP
12 2 (2.38%) 802.11
12 2 (2.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.14%) Power BI
3 4 (4.76%) Data Lake
3 4 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.19%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (4.76%) JIRA
2 2 (2.38%) Git
2 2 (2.38%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.19%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 34 (40.48%) Finance
2 28 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.90%) Manufacturing
4 9 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.71%) Banking
5 7 (8.33%) Tech for Good
6 6 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
6 6 (7.14%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.57%) Law
8 3 (3.57%) Legal
8 3 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.19%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (17.86%) Analyst
2 13 (15.48%) Senior
3 10 (11.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (11.90%) Lead
3 10 (11.90%) Security Engineer
4 9 (10.71%) IT Analyst
5 8 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (9.52%) IT Engineer
5 8 (9.52%) Network Engineer
6 7 (8.33%) Business Continuity Analyst
6 7 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery Analyst
7 6 (7.14%) Business IT Analyst
8 5 (5.95%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (5.95%) IT Support
8 5 (5.95%) Network Security Engineer
8 5 (5.95%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.76%) Azure Data Engineer
9 4 (4.76%) Data Engineer
9 4 (4.76%) Head of Architecture
9 4 (4.76%) Head of Strategy
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.57%) AngularJS
2 2 (2.38%) .NET
2 2 (2.38%) .NET Framework
2 2 (2.38%) 802.1X
2 2 (2.38%) ASP.NET
2 2 (2.38%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (2.38%) Entity Framework
2 2 (2.38%) LINQ
2 2 (2.38%) XML
3 1 (1.19%) CSS
3 1 (1.19%) LDAP
3 1 (1.19%) OAuth
3 1 (1.19%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.19%) OpenID
3 1 (1.19%) React
3 1 (1.19%) REST
3 1 (1.19%) SAML
3 1 (1.19%) Software Packaging
3 1 (1.19%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.10%) Data Centre
2 7 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 6 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.57%) CMDB
5 3 (3.57%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.38%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.38%) PKI
6 2 (2.38%) Replication
7 1 (1.19%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.19%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.19%) Life Science
7 1 (1.19%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.19%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (16.67%) Windows
2 9 (10.71%) Linux
2 9 (10.71%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (67.86%) Business Continuity
2 48 (57.14%) Disaster Recovery
3 47 (55.95%) Business Continuity Planning
4 20 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
5 15 (17.86%) CI/CD
5 15 (17.86%) DevOps
6 14 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (16.67%) ITIL
6 14 (16.67%) ITSM
6 14 (16.67%) Risk Management
7 13 (15.48%) Roadmaps
8 12 (14.29%) Data Engineering
8 12 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 12 (14.29%) IT Strategy
9 11 (13.10%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (13.10%) Technology Strategy
9 11 (13.10%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 10 (11.90%) Service Management
11 9 (10.71%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 13 (15.48%) PowerShell
2 9 (10.71%) Python
3 5 (5.95%) SQL
4 2 (2.38%) Bash
4 2 (2.38%) C#
5 1 (1.19%) Groovy
5 1 (1.19%) Java
5 1 (1.19%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.19%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.19%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.19%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (13.10%) Degree
2 4 (4.76%) CCNP
2 4 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (3.57%) CCNA
3 3 (3.57%) Master's Degree
3 3 (3.57%) Six Sigma Black Belt
3 3 (3.57%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 3 (3.57%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
4 2 (2.38%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.38%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.19%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.19%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.10%) GDPR
2 10 (11.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (9.52%) NIST
4 5 (5.95%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (3.57%) Accessibility
6 2 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (1.19%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 20 (23.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (21.43%) Hyper-V
3 15 (17.86%) Active Directory
4 7 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.38%) Docker
5 2 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.19%) NDS
6 1 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (15.48%) Terraform
2 10 (11.90%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (5.95%) SCCM
3 5 (5.95%) vCenter Server
4 4 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.38%) Grafana
5 2 (2.38%) HAProxy
5 2 (2.38%) Istio
5 2 (2.38%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.38%) linkerd
5 2 (2.38%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.38%) SCOM
6 1 (1.19%) Ansible
6 1 (1.19%) CA Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.19%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (1.19%) Packer
6 1 (1.19%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 32 (38.10%) Microsoft
2 21 (25.00%) VMware
3 12 (14.29%) Cisco
4 8 (9.52%) Databricks
4 8 (9.52%) ServiceNow
5 6 (7.14%) Fortinet
5 6 (7.14%) Palo Alto
6 4 (4.76%) Bloomberg
6 4 (4.76%) Citrix
6 4 (4.76%) F5
6 4 (4.76%) FactSet
6 4 (4.76%) Mitel
6 4 (4.76%) NetApp
6 4 (4.76%) Refinitiv
6 4 (4.76%) Veeam
7 3 (3.57%) Dell
7 3 (3.57%) EMC
7 3 (3.57%) Google
7 3 (3.57%) SonicWALL
8 2 (2.38%) Avaya