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 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 630 683 865
Rank change year-on-year +53 +182 +169
Permanent jobs citing BCP 87 216 116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.22% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.25% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 65 92 90
10th Percentile £44,750 £45,148 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,095 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,500 £56,711
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +10.21% -9.26%
75th Percentile £91,250 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £107,750 £92,000 £88,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% +7.84% +7.37%

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 51,728 84,924 96,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.83% 85.58% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 26,848 59,902 56,809
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,010 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,415 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -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 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for BCP in the UK

BCP
Top 14 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 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
England +19 82 £75,000 +20.00% 93
London +15 47 £87,000 +33.85% 59
UK excluding London +136 38 £62,500 +13.64% 53
North of England +66 14 £57,500 -28.13% 13
South East +88 12 £75,000 +30.43% 25
Work from Home +118 9 £72,500 +16.94% 38
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
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 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.30%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.15%) Confluence
3 1 (1.15%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (9.20%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (4.60%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 38 (43.68%) Azure
2 17 (19.54%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (16.09%) Azure Data Factory
4 12 (13.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 11 (12.64%) AWS
6 8 (9.20%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (9.20%) GitHub
6 8 (9.20%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (6.90%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (6.90%) Entra ID
8 5 (5.75%) Power Platform
9 4 (4.60%) SaaS
10 3 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (3.45%) IaaS
10 3 (3.45%) PaaS
11 2 (2.30%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (2.30%) GCP
11 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (1.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 27 (31.03%) Firewall
2 21 (24.14%) VPN
3 15 (17.24%) Network Security
3 15 (17.24%) WAN
4 13 (14.94%) LAN
5 9 (10.34%) Intrusion Detection
5 9 (10.34%) SD-WAN
5 9 (10.34%) VLAN
6 8 (9.20%) DNS
6 8 (9.20%) TCP/IP
7 7 (8.05%) BGP
7 7 (8.05%) MPLS
7 7 (8.05%) OSPF
7 7 (8.05%) SAN
8 5 (5.75%) DHCP
9 4 (4.60%) NAS
9 4 (4.60%) NetScaler
10 3 (3.45%) SNMP
11 2 (2.30%) 802.11
11 2 (2.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.94%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.75%) Power BI
3 4 (4.60%) Data Lake
3 4 (4.60%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (4.60%) Git
1 4 (4.60%) JIRA
2 2 (2.30%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.15%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 35 (40.23%) Finance
2 31 (35.63%) Social Skills
3 12 (13.79%) Banking
4 8 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (9.20%) Manufacturing
5 7 (8.05%) Tech for Good
6 6 (6.90%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.60%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (3.45%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.45%) Law
8 3 (3.45%) Legal
8 3 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.30%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.15%) Marketing
10 1 (1.15%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 15 (17.24%) Analyst
1 15 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 14 (16.09%) Senior
3 10 (11.49%) Lead
4 9 (10.34%) IT Analyst
5 8 (9.20%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (8.05%) Business Continuity Analyst
6 7 (8.05%) Disaster Recovery Analyst
6 7 (8.05%) Network Engineer
7 6 (6.90%) Business IT Analyst
7 6 (6.90%) Security Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Azure Data Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Data Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Head of IT
9 4 (4.60%) Head of Strategy
9 4 (4.60%) IT Director
9 4 (4.60%) IT Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.75%) AngularJS
2 4 (4.60%) .NET
2 4 (4.60%) .NET Framework
2 4 (4.60%) ASP.NET
2 4 (4.60%) ASP.NET MVC
2 4 (4.60%) Entity Framework
2 4 (4.60%) LINQ
2 4 (4.60%) XML
3 2 (2.30%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.15%) CSS
4 1 (1.15%) LDAP
4 1 (1.15%) OAuth
4 1 (1.15%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.15%) OpenID
4 1 (1.15%) React
4 1 (1.15%) REST
4 1 (1.15%) SAML
4 1 (1.15%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.79%) Data Centre
2 7 (8.05%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.75%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.60%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.45%) CMDB
5 3 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.45%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.30%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.30%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.30%) PKI
6 2 (2.30%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.30%) Replication
7 1 (1.15%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.15%) Life Science
7 1 (1.15%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.15%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.15%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.15%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 16 (18.39%) Windows
2 12 (13.79%) Linux
3 9 (10.34%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.60%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (2.30%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (66.67%) Business Continuity
2 50 (57.47%) Disaster Recovery
3 48 (55.17%) Business Continuity Planning
4 19 (21.84%) Cybersecurity
5 17 (19.54%) ITIL
6 16 (18.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (18.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 16 (18.39%) Roadmaps
7 14 (16.09%) CI/CD
7 14 (16.09%) DevOps
8 13 (14.94%) IT Strategy
8 13 (14.94%) ITSM
8 13 (14.94%) Service Management
8 13 (14.94%) Technology Strategy
9 12 (13.79%) Data Engineering
10 11 (12.64%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (11.49%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (11.49%) Risk Management
11 10 (11.49%) Vulnerability Assessment
12 9 (10.34%) Knowledge Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (14.94%) PowerShell
2 8 (9.20%) Python
3 7 (8.05%) SQL
4 4 (4.60%) C#
5 1 (1.15%) Bash
5 1 (1.15%) Groovy
5 1 (1.15%) Java
5 1 (1.15%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.15%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.15%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (14.94%) Degree
2 4 (4.60%) CCNP
2 4 (4.60%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (3.45%) CCNA
3 3 (3.45%) Master's Degree
3 3 (3.45%) Six Sigma Black Belt
3 3 (3.45%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 3 (3.45%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
4 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.15%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.15%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.15%) MCP
5 1 (1.15%) MCSE
5 1 (1.15%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (1.15%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.15%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.34%) GDPR
2 8 (9.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (8.05%) NIST
4 5 (5.75%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (3.45%) Accessibility
6 2 (2.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (1.15%) COBIT
7 1 (1.15%) FISMA
7 1 (1.15%) GLBA
7 1 (1.15%) GRC
7 1 (1.15%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.15%) ISO 22301
7 1 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (1.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (24.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (20.69%) Hyper-V
3 14 (16.09%) Active Directory
4 10 (11.49%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (4.60%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.15%) Docker
7 1 (1.15%) Firmware
7 1 (1.15%) NDS
Systems Management
1 12 (13.79%) Terraform
2 8 (9.20%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (5.75%) SCCM
3 5 (5.75%) vCenter Server
4 4 (4.60%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.30%) SCOM
6 1 (1.15%) Ansible
6 1 (1.15%) CA Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.15%) Grafana
6 1 (1.15%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.15%) Istio
6 1 (1.15%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.15%) linkerd
6 1 (1.15%) Packer
6 1 (1.15%) PingFederate
6 1 (1.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 33 (37.93%) Microsoft
2 23 (26.44%) VMware
3 19 (21.84%) Cisco
4 10 (11.49%) Palo Alto
5 8 (9.20%) Databricks
5 8 (9.20%) ServiceNow
6 6 (6.90%) Arista
6 6 (6.90%) Fortinet
7 4 (4.60%) Bloomberg
7 4 (4.60%) Citrix
7 4 (4.60%) FactSet
7 4 (4.60%) Mitel
7 4 (4.60%) NetApp
7 4 (4.60%) Refinitiv
7 4 (4.60%) Veeam
8 3 (3.45%) F5
8 3 (3.45%) SolarWinds
9 2 (2.30%) Avaya
9 2 (2.30%) Dell
9 2 (2.30%) Google