Business Continuity Job Trends in the West Midlands

Business Continuity
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Business Continuity skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 170 138
Rank change year-on-year +1 -32 +61
Permanent jobs citing Business Continuity 9 29 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.17% 0.70% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.76% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 6 20 38
10th Percentile £52,125 £28,200 £30,875
25th Percentile £58,438 £45,625 £43,379
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £58,250
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -5.58% +5.91%
75th Percentile £89,063 £60,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £60,075 £88,375
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,008
% change year-on-year +8.33% -3.24% +7.84%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,341 3,795 3,285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.12% 91.62% 87.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,264 1,687 2,757
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £37,938 £41,563 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Business Continuity
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Business Continuity job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Business Continuity
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Business Continuity.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Business Continuity

Business Continuity
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Continuity in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Business Continuity in the West Midlands

Business Continuity
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Continuity within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Birmingham +16 5 £95,000 +81.99% 6
Coventry +1 2 £62,500 -
Solihull +1 1 - -
Wolverhampton - 1 £60,000 -
Business Continuity
England

Business Continuity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (44.44%) SharePoint
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (11.11%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) AWS
3 3 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (22.22%) SaaS
4 2 (22.22%) Serverless
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (11.11%) GCP
5 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (11.11%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DHCP
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) ISDN
1 1 (11.11%) LAN
1 1 (11.11%) PSTN
1 1 (11.11%) RTP
1 1 (11.11%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (11.11%) Unified Communications
1 1 (11.11%) VoIP
1 1 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Legal
3 1 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) IT Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Head of IT
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Business Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Database Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (11.11%) IT Operations Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Database Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior IT Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior VoIP Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Web Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) VoIP Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Web Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (44.44%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (44.44%) Risk Management
2 4 (44.44%) Service Delivery
3 3 (33.33%) API Management
3 3 (33.33%) BCP
3 3 (33.33%) Business Continuity Planning
3 3 (33.33%) Change Control
3 3 (33.33%) IT Strategy
3 3 (33.33%) ITIL
3 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
4 2 (22.22%) Content Development
4 2 (22.22%) Cost Control
4 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (22.22%) FinOps
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 2 (22.22%) Proactive Monitoring
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (11.11%) CCNA
2 1 (11.11%) CCNP
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) GRC
2 1 (11.11%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Aruba
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk
2 1 (11.11%) Varonis