Business Continuity Job Trends

Business Continuity
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Business Continuity skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 340 391
Rank change year-on-year +90 +51 +30
Permanent jobs citing Business Continuity 760 393 663
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.77% 0.80% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 0.89% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 495 289 493
10th Percentile £31,691 £37,450 £36,300
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,239 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% +9.09% +2.77%
75th Percentile £77,250 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £93,650 £92,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £49,375 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.27% -5.95% +10.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Business Continuity 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 72,817 44,332 83,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.70% 90.20% 82.17%
Number of salaries quoted 50,259 24,803 58,175
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Business Continuity
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Business Continuity relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Business Continuity job vacancy trend in the UK

Business Continuity
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Business Continuity.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Business Continuity

Business Continuity
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Continuity over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Business Continuity in the UK

Business Continuity
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Continuity within the UK over the 6 months to 15 July 2026. 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 +55 618 £57,239 -4.60% 202
UK excluding London +83 489 £50,000 +1.27% 187
Work from Home +128 277 £55,000 -4.35% 111
London +14 218 £77,500 +6.90% 54
North of England +43 161 £51,273 +5.18% 39
South East +19 117 £43,750 -7.89% 50
North West +41 80 £56,000 +47.37% 16
Yorkshire +4 71 £43,500 -18.50% 16
Midlands +20 64 £50,000 -9.09% 42
Northern Ireland -16 53 - - 7
West Midlands +13 50 £50,000 -9.09% 23
Scotland +43 34 £73,587 +33.79% 13
East of England -2 30 £45,000 -25.00% 17
South West -77 22 £50,000 +11.11% 20
East Midlands -16 13 £42,500 -22.73% 19
Wales -45 10 £45,000 - 6
North East -62 10 £46,750 -18.70% 7

Business Continuity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 54 (7.11%) SharePoint
2 46 (6.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.05%) IIS
4 5 (0.66%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.66%) OpenEdge
5 4 (0.53%) Apache
6 3 (0.39%) CMS
7 2 (0.26%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.13%) Appian
8 1 (0.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (2.24%) MS Visio
2 8 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (1.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.71%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.66%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 4 (0.53%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (0.53%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 3 (0.39%) Q-Pulse
5 3 (0.39%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.26%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.26%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.13%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.13%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.13%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 266 (35.00%) Azure
2 165 (21.71%) Microsoft 365
3 142 (18.68%) AWS
4 84 (11.05%) Entra ID
5 77 (10.13%) SaaS
6 48 (6.32%) Power Platform
7 26 (3.42%) Datadog
8 23 (3.03%) Microsoft Purview
9 22 (2.89%) Dynamics 365
9 22 (2.89%) OneDrive
10 19 (2.50%) GCP
10 19 (2.50%) GitHub
10 19 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (2.50%) Nutanix
10 19 (2.50%) PowerApps
11 18 (2.37%) Power Automate
12 17 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (2.11%) Google Workspace
14 12 (1.58%) Azure Monitor
15 10 (1.32%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 173 (22.76%) Firewall
2 86 (11.32%) Network Security
3 79 (10.39%) WAN
4 73 (9.61%) VPN
5 69 (9.08%) DNS
6 61 (8.03%) LAN
7 49 (6.45%) DHCP
8 48 (6.32%) Wi-Fi
9 45 (5.92%) VLAN
10 32 (4.21%) Wireless
11 28 (3.68%) TCP/IP
12 25 (3.29%) SSL
13 24 (3.16%) Internet
14 21 (2.76%) SD-WAN
15 16 (2.11%) Cisco ISE
16 15 (1.97%) Cisco Nexus
16 15 (1.97%) Cisco Wireless
17 14 (1.84%) Remote Desktop
17 14 (1.84%) SAN
18 11 (1.45%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (4.87%) Power BI
2 28 (3.68%) SQL Server
3 14 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (0.92%) Metadata
7 5 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (0.66%) MySQL
7 5 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (0.66%) Power Query
7 5 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (0.53%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (0.39%) Tableau
10 2 (0.26%) Looker
10 2 (0.26%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.26%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.13%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (1.05%) JIRA
2 7 (0.92%) Git
3 6 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
4 4 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (0.39%) GitLab
6 2 (0.26%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.26%) JMeter
6 2 (0.26%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.13%) Yeoman
General
1 316 (41.58%) Social Skills
2 182 (23.95%) Finance
3 121 (15.92%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (7.24%) Legal
5 54 (7.11%) Manufacturing
6 48 (6.32%) Law
7 43 (5.66%) Banking
8 41 (5.39%) Organisational Skills
9 37 (4.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 29 (3.82%) Influencing Skills
11 28 (3.68%) Public Sector
12 25 (3.29%) Retail
13 21 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
14 16 (2.11%) Back Office
15 14 (1.84%) Games
16 10 (1.32%) Mandarin Language
17 8 (1.05%) Financial Institution
17 8 (1.05%) Fire and Rescue
18 7 (0.92%) French Language
18 7 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 112 (14.74%) IT Manager
2 107 (14.08%) Senior
3 77 (10.13%) IT Support
4 66 (8.68%) Resilience Manager
5 58 (7.63%) Analyst
5 58 (7.63%) Lead
6 57 (7.50%) Support Engineer
7 56 (7.37%) Service Manager
8 55 (7.24%) IT Engineer
9 50 (6.58%) IT Services Manager
10 45 (5.92%) Security Engineer
11 43 (5.66%) IT Support Engineer
12 41 (5.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 34 (4.47%) Cloud Engineer
14 33 (4.34%) Network Engineer
15 30 (3.95%) Applications Support
16 28 (3.68%) Architect
16 28 (3.68%) Business Continuity Manager
16 28 (3.68%) Business Manager
17 27 (3.55%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (6.84%) Middleware
2 8 (1.05%) ARM Templates
3 6 (0.79%) FIX Protocol
4 4 (0.53%) SAML
4 4 (0.53%) web3js
4 4 (0.53%) YAML
5 3 (0.39%) ADO
5 3 (0.39%) OAuth
6 2 (0.26%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (0.26%) DOM
6 2 (0.26%) Kafka
6 2 (0.26%) Keycloak
6 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.26%) RESTful
7 1 (0.13%) .NET
7 1 (0.13%) FHIR
7 1 (0.13%) JSON
7 1 (0.13%) OpenID
7 1 (0.13%) SAP CAF
7 1 (0.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 70 (9.21%) Management Information System
2 60 (7.89%) Cyber Threat
3 54 (7.11%) Security Posture
4 39 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
5 34 (4.47%) Driving Licence
5 34 (4.47%) Onboarding
6 33 (4.34%) Data Centre
7 30 (3.95%) Hybrid Cloud
8 25 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
9 23 (3.03%) PKI
10 20 (2.63%) Cloud Native
11 18 (2.37%) Public Cloud
11 18 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
12 15 (1.97%) Blog
13 14 (1.84%) CMDB
14 13 (1.71%) Virtual Team
15 12 (1.58%) Product Ownership
16 8 (1.05%) Freedom of Information
16 8 (1.05%) Replication
16 8 (1.05%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 163 (21.45%) Windows
2 103 (13.55%) Windows Server
3 24 (3.16%) Linux
4 9 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
4 9 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.66%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.53%) CentOS
7 4 (0.53%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.39%) VMS
9 2 (0.26%) Unix
10 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 454 (59.74%) Disaster Recovery
2 284 (37.37%) Cybersecurity
3 240 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
4 237 (31.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 163 (21.45%) ITIL
6 148 (19.47%) Information Security
7 137 (18.03%) Risk Management
8 135 (17.76%) BCP
9 131 (17.24%) Business Continuity Planning
10 128 (16.84%) Incident Response
11 107 (14.08%) Decision-Making
12 104 (13.68%) Data Protection
13 102 (13.42%) Stakeholder Management
14 100 (13.16%) DevOps
15 98 (12.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 92 (12.11%) Project Delivery
17 90 (11.84%) Agile
18 81 (10.66%) SIEM
19 78 (10.26%) High Availability
20 73 (9.61%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 73 (9.61%) SQL
2 59 (7.76%) PowerShell
3 54 (7.11%) Python
4 9 (1.18%) Bicep
5 8 (1.05%) Bash
6 4 (0.53%) VBA
7 3 (0.39%) C#
7 3 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.26%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.26%) RPG
9 1 (0.13%) COBOL
9 1 (0.13%) Scala
9 1 (0.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 103 (13.55%) CISSP
2 94 (12.37%) Degree
3 88 (11.58%) CISM
4 60 (7.89%) Cisco Certification
5 47 (6.18%) Security Cleared
6 45 (5.92%) ITIL Certification
7 36 (4.74%) CCNP
8 33 (4.34%) Azure Certification
9 32 (4.21%) CCNA
10 30 (3.95%) SC Cleared
11 27 (3.55%) CRISC
12 21 (2.76%) Microsoft Certification
13 19 (2.50%) Master's Degree
14 18 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
15 16 (2.11%) CISA
16 15 (1.97%) DV Cleared
17 14 (1.84%) AWS Certification
17 14 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
18 13 (1.71%) PMI Certification
18 13 (1.71%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (17.63%) NIST
2 124 (16.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 105 (13.82%) GDPR
4 76 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 72 (9.47%) ISO 22301
6 41 (5.39%) PCI DSS
7 23 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 23 (3.03%) SLA
8 20 (2.63%) GRC
9 17 (2.24%) SOC 2
10 14 (1.84%) COBIT
10 14 (1.84%) Data Quality
10 14 (1.84%) NCSC
11 13 (1.71%) PMO
12 10 (1.32%) Accessibility
12 10 (1.32%) QA
13 7 (0.92%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 7 (0.92%) ISO 9001
13 7 (0.92%) JSP 440
13 7 (0.92%) SOC 1
System Software
1 122 (16.05%) Active Directory
2 77 (10.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 49 (6.45%) Hyper-V
4 11 (1.45%) Docker
4 11 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (1.45%) vSphere
5 3 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.26%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.13%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.13%) Firmware
7 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 50 (6.58%) Terraform
2 31 (4.08%) Ansible
2 31 (4.08%) Kubernetes
2 31 (4.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (2.37%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (0.79%) FortiGate
4 6 (0.79%) Grafana
4 6 (0.79%) Packer
5 4 (0.53%) Argo
5 4 (0.53%) Iperf
5 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Clustering
5 4 (0.53%) VxRail
6 2 (0.26%) Data Guard
6 2 (0.26%) MOM
6 2 (0.26%) Nessus
6 2 (0.26%) Opsgenie
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (0.26%) WhatsUp Gold
7 1 (0.13%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 289 (38.03%) Microsoft
2 98 (12.89%) VMware
3 68 (8.95%) Cisco
4 53 (6.97%) Palo Alto
5 32 (4.21%) Google
6 28 (3.68%) SAP
7 25 (3.29%) Aruba
8 22 (2.89%) Oracle
9 21 (2.76%) Qualys
9 21 (2.76%) SolarWinds
10 20 (2.63%) Dell
10 20 (2.63%) Splunk
11 16 (2.11%) F5
12 15 (1.97%) Arista
12 15 (1.97%) ForeScout
12 15 (1.97%) Infoblox
12 15 (1.97%) SevOne
13 14 (1.84%) Fortinet
14 12 (1.58%) Dell Compellent
14 12 (1.58%) HP