Business Continuity Planning Jobs

Business Continuity Planning
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Business Continuity Planning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Business Continuity Planning over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 641 689 926
Rank change year-on-year +48 +237 +155
Permanent jobs citing Business Continuity Planning 65 213 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.21% 0.054%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.25% 0.057%
Number of salaries quoted 57 100 47
10th Percentile £40,250 £44,773 £37,387
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £46,260
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £59,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.70% +3.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £64,375
90th Percentile £108,250 £96,250 £82,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - - +27.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Business Continuity Planning 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 51,302 84,920 96,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.76% 85.59% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 27,015 59,883 56,845
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,008 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £98,474 £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%

Business Continuity Planning
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Business Continuity Planning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Business Continuity Planning in the UK

Business Continuity Planning
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Business Continuity Planning.

Salary trend for Business Continuity Planning in the UK

Business Continuity Planning
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Continuity Planning over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Business Continuity Planning in the UK

Business Continuity Planning
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Continuity Planning within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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 +11 62 £65,000 +11.15% 55
UK excluding London +149 32 £57,500 - 32
London +3 31 £71,000 +9.23% 31
North of England +57 17 £55,000 -4.35% 15
Work from Home +125 8 £71,000 +20.85% 19
North West -11 8 £55,000 -4.35% 9
South West +105 7 £62,500 +13.64% 3
South East +89 5 £75,000 +30.43% 11
Yorkshire +70 5 £42,500 -46.88% 4
North East +53 4 £57,500 -28.13% 2
Midlands +48 1 £130,000 +76.27% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £57,500 -
Wales - 1 - - 1
Scotland - 1 - - 2

Business Continuity Planning
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 5 (7.69%) Moodle
2 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.54%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 22 (33.85%) Azure
2 15 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (15.38%) AWS
4 5 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 4 (6.15%) Entra ID
6 3 (4.62%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (3.08%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (3.08%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (3.08%) GCP
7 2 (3.08%) IaaS
7 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (3.08%) PaaS
8 1 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.54%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (47.69%) Firewall
2 17 (26.15%) VPN
3 14 (21.54%) Intrusion Detection
3 14 (21.54%) WAN
4 12 (18.46%) LAN
4 12 (18.46%) TCP/IP
5 11 (16.92%) Network Security
6 9 (13.85%) SD-WAN
7 7 (10.77%) BGP
7 7 (10.77%) IPsec
7 7 (10.77%) MPLS
7 7 (10.77%) OSPF
7 7 (10.77%) SAN
7 7 (10.77%) SSL
7 7 (10.77%) VLAN
8 4 (6.15%) DNS
9 3 (4.62%) DHCP
9 3 (4.62%) NAS
9 3 (4.62%) SNMP
10 2 (3.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.31%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (4.62%) JIRA
General
1 33 (50.77%) Social Skills
2 21 (32.31%) Finance
3 16 (24.62%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (15.38%) Banking
5 8 (12.31%) Manufacturing
6 7 (10.77%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (10.77%) Tech for Good
7 5 (7.69%) Public Sector
8 4 (6.15%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (4.62%) Investment Banking
10 2 (3.08%) Law
10 2 (3.08%) Legal
10 2 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (30.77%) Analyst
2 11 (16.92%) Senior
3 9 (13.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (13.85%) IT Analyst
4 8 (12.31%) Lead
5 7 (10.77%) Business Continuity Analyst
5 7 (10.77%) Disaster Recovery Analyst
6 6 (9.23%) Business IT Analyst
6 6 (9.23%) Security Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) IT Support
7 5 (7.69%) Security Analyst
8 4 (6.15%) Head of Architecture
8 4 (6.15%) Head of IT
8 4 (6.15%) Head of Strategy
8 4 (6.15%) Network Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Project Manager
8 4 (6.15%) Senior Manager
8 4 (6.15%) Senior Project Manager
8 4 (6.15%) Service Analyst
9 3 (4.62%) Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.08%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.85%) Data Centre
2 7 (10.77%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 5 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (7.69%) Learning Management System
4 4 (6.15%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (6.15%) Social Media
5 2 (3.08%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (3.08%) Driving Licence
5 2 (3.08%) PKI
5 2 (3.08%) Replication
6 1 (1.54%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.54%) Life Science
6 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.54%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 20 (30.77%) Windows
2 10 (15.38%) Linux
3 5 (7.69%) Windows Server
4 4 (6.15%) Windows Vista
5 2 (3.08%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (3.08%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.54%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (100.00%) Business Continuity
2 48 (73.85%) BCP
3 46 (70.77%) Disaster Recovery
4 24 (36.92%) Cybersecurity
5 16 (24.62%) ITIL
6 14 (21.54%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (21.54%) IT Strategy
6 14 (21.54%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 13 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (16.92%) Project Management
9 10 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 9 (13.85%) Coaching
10 9 (13.85%) Risk Management
11 8 (12.31%) Agile
11 8 (12.31%) ITSM
11 8 (12.31%) PRINCE2
11 8 (12.31%) Root Cause Analysis
11 8 (12.31%) Technology Strategy
12 7 (10.77%) Business Strategy
12 7 (10.77%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.85%) SQL
2 4 (6.15%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.54%) Bash
3 1 (1.54%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (12.31%) Degree
2 7 (10.77%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (7.69%) CompTIA CySA+
3 5 (7.69%) CompTIA Security+
3 5 (7.69%) GIAC
3 5 (7.69%) MCSA
4 4 (6.15%) CCNP
4 4 (6.15%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (6.15%) DBS Check
4 4 (6.15%) PMI Certification
4 4 (6.15%) PMP
4 4 (6.15%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 3 (4.62%) CCNA
6 1 (1.54%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.54%) MCP
6 1 (1.54%) MCSE
6 1 (1.54%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (1.54%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.54%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (23.08%) GDPR
2 12 (18.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (9.23%) NIST
4 5 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (7.69%) NCSC
5 3 (4.62%) Accessibility
6 2 (3.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 16 (24.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 6 (9.23%) Active Directory
4 5 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (6.15%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (4.62%) SCCM
2 3 (4.62%) Terraform
3 2 (3.08%) SCOM
3 2 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (3.08%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.54%) Grafana
4 1 (1.54%) HAProxy
4 1 (1.54%) Istio
4 1 (1.54%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.54%) linkerd
4 1 (1.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (44.62%) Microsoft
2 17 (26.15%) VMware
3 14 (21.54%) Cisco
4 8 (12.31%) Palo Alto
5 5 (7.69%) ServiceNow
6 4 (6.15%) Arista
7 3 (4.62%) F5
7 3 (4.62%) SolarWinds
8 2 (3.08%) Avaya
8 2 (3.08%) Bloomberg
8 2 (3.08%) Citrix
8 2 (3.08%) Dell
8 2 (3.08%) EMC
8 2 (3.08%) FactSet
8 2 (3.08%) Fortinet
8 2 (3.08%) Google
8 2 (3.08%) NetApp
8 2 (3.08%) SevOne
8 2 (3.08%) SonicWALL
8 2 (3.08%) Veeam