Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for BCP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited BCP over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 712 836 1065
Rank change year-on-year +124 +229 -182
Permanent jobs citing BCP 194 110 200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.12% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 94 90 116
10th Percentile £45,393 £45,000 £40,478
25th Percentile £50,159 £46,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,211 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.25% -8.46% +16.28%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £86,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,600 £51,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +10.98% +7.37% +5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

BCP is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,980 90,493 162,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.59% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,356 54,578 82,967
10th Percentile £29,284 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for BCP in the UK

BCP
Top 16 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 2 June 2024. 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 +151 190 £62,500 +9.25% 49
London +184 120 £65,000 +11.19% 19
UK excluding London -32 68 £56,600 +10.98% 30
Work from Home +16 25 £65,000 +15.04% 18
South East -11 23 £58,750 +0.43% 7
Midlands -9 14 £50,000 +3.09% 3
South West -20 13 £55,000 +13.40% 1
North of England +31 11 £80,000 +64.95% 10
East Midlands -7 9 £47,500 +17.28%
North West -9 9 £80,000 +64.95% 8
East of England -6 5 £48,750 - 7
West Midlands -16 5 £52,500 +8.25% 3
Yorkshire +58 2 £80,000 +66.67% 2
North East -11 2 £80,000 +39.13% 1
Wales +3 1 - - 2
Scotland -67 1 £53,614 - 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 66 (34.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.12%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.58%) JBoss
4 4 (2.06%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.52%) Confluence
5 1 (0.52%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (5.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.58%) Temenos T24
3 4 (2.06%) NEC Housing
4 3 (1.55%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 78 (40.21%) Microsoft 365
2 38 (19.59%) Azure
3 17 (8.76%) AWS
4 12 (6.19%) Cloud Computing
5 10 (5.15%) Power Platform
6 6 (3.09%) Power Automate
6 6 (3.09%) PowerApps
7 4 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.55%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (1.55%) Commercetools
8 3 (1.55%) PaaS
8 3 (1.55%) SaaS
8 3 (1.55%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 2 (1.03%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.03%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.03%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.03%) IaaS
10 1 (0.52%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.52%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 69 (35.57%) WAN
2 63 (32.47%) SD-WAN
3 62 (31.96%) Cisco IOS
3 62 (31.96%) WebEx
3 62 (31.96%) Wireless
4 30 (15.46%) Firewall
5 12 (6.19%) VPN
6 10 (5.15%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (4.64%) Network Security
8 7 (3.61%) Intrusion Detection
8 7 (3.61%) LAN
9 5 (2.58%) DNS
9 5 (2.58%) Internet
10 4 (2.06%) 5G
10 4 (2.06%) DHCP
11 3 (1.55%) SAN
12 2 (1.03%) Cisco Nexus
12 2 (1.03%) TCP/IP
12 2 (1.03%) VoIP
13 1 (0.52%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.73%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.61%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (3.09%) MySQL
3 6 (3.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.03%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.03%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.03%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (6.70%) JIRA
2 6 (3.09%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 111 (57.22%) Social Skills
2 54 (27.84%) Finance
3 28 (14.43%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (10.31%) Legal
5 17 (8.76%) Banking
6 13 (6.70%) Retail
7 10 (5.15%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (4.12%) Law
9 7 (3.61%) Back Office
9 7 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (3.61%) Public Sector
10 6 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (2.58%) Local Government
12 4 (2.06%) Games
12 4 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (2.06%) Manufacturing
12 4 (2.06%) Police
13 3 (1.55%) Investment Banking
14 2 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 67 (34.54%) Support Specialist
2 64 (32.99%) IT Support
3 62 (31.96%) IT Support Specialist
4 19 (9.79%) IT Manager
5 15 (7.73%) Senior
6 14 (7.22%) Analyst
7 12 (6.19%) Lead
8 10 (5.15%) Coordinator
9 9 (4.64%) Systems Engineer
10 8 (4.12%) Resilience Manager
10 8 (4.12%) Service Continuity Coordinator
11 7 (3.61%) Applications Support
11 7 (3.61%) Architect
11 7 (3.61%) Head of IT
11 7 (3.61%) Information Manager
11 7 (3.61%) Security Manager
12 6 (3.09%) Database Analyst
12 6 (3.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (3.09%) Network Manager
12 6 (3.09%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.25%) Web Services
2 5 (2.58%) REST
3 3 (1.55%) XML
4 2 (1.03%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.03%) XSLT
5 1 (0.52%) .NET
5 1 (0.52%) HTML
5 1 (0.52%) JSP
5 1 (0.52%) Servlets
5 1 (0.52%) SignalR
5 1 (0.52%) SOAP
5 1 (0.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (32.47%) Wiki
2 62 (31.96%) Video Conferencing
3 21 (10.82%) Data Centre
4 20 (10.31%) Management Information System
5 13 (6.70%) Replication
6 9 (4.64%) Security Posture
7 7 (3.61%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (3.09%) AS400
9 5 (2.58%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.03%) FlexPod
10 2 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.03%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.03%) Reference Data
10 2 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.52%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.52%) Cyber Security Posture
11 1 (0.52%) Cyberattack
11 1 (0.52%) Cybercrime
11 1 (0.52%) IoT
11 1 (0.52%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 97 (50.00%) Windows
2 65 (33.51%) Windows 10
3 62 (31.96%) Android
4 12 (6.19%) Linux
5 11 (5.67%) Windows Server
6 8 (4.12%) Unix
7 7 (3.61%) AIX
8 5 (2.58%) Kali Linux
8 5 (2.58%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.55%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.52%) HPUX
10 1 (0.52%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (81.44%) Business Continuity
2 151 (77.84%) Business Continuity Planning
3 72 (37.11%) Computer Science
4 69 (35.57%) Disaster Recovery
5 62 (31.96%) Application Virtualisation
5 62 (31.96%) Contract Negotiation
5 62 (31.96%) Mobile Device Management
6 55 (28.35%) Cybersecurity
7 36 (18.56%) Risk Management
8 33 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (14.95%) ITIL
10 24 (12.37%) Service Management
11 21 (10.82%) Incident Response
12 19 (9.79%) Business Strategy
12 19 (9.79%) High Availability
13 17 (8.76%) Data Protection
13 17 (8.76%) DevOps
13 17 (8.76%) Service Delivery
13 17 (8.76%) Stakeholder Management
14 16 (8.25%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 17 (8.76%) PowerShell
1 17 (8.76%) SQL
2 10 (5.15%) RPG
3 6 (3.09%) Python
3 6 (3.09%) T-SQL
4 3 (1.55%) Bash
4 3 (1.55%) Java
5 1 (0.52%) C#
5 1 (0.52%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 104 (53.61%) Degree
2 66 (34.02%) Master's Degree
3 65 (33.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (8.25%) CISSP
5 11 (5.67%) CISM
6 6 (3.09%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.09%) CRISC
7 5 (2.58%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.58%) Postgraduate
8 4 (2.06%) MCSE
8 4 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.55%) CCNA
9 3 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.55%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 3 (1.55%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 3 (1.55%) PCI QSA
10 2 (1.03%) SC Cleared
10 2 (1.03%) Security Cleared
11 1 (0.52%) GIAC
11 1 (0.52%) GSLC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (9.28%) NIST
3 15 (7.73%) PCI DSS
4 9 (4.64%) GDPR
4 9 (4.64%) SLA
5 8 (4.12%) ISO 22301
6 6 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 4 (2.06%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.55%) COBIT
8 3 (1.55%) QA
9 2 (1.03%) Data Quality
9 2 (1.03%) GRC
10 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.52%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.52%) PMO
10 1 (0.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 73 (37.63%) VMware ESXi
2 71 (36.60%) Active Directory
3 62 (31.96%) Microsoft App-V
3 62 (31.96%) XenApp
3 62 (31.96%) XenDesktop
4 13 (6.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (5.67%) Firmware
6 6 (3.09%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 64 (32.99%) SCCM
2 62 (31.96%) AirWatch
3 11 (5.67%) SCOM
4 5 (2.58%) Suricata
4 5 (2.58%) Terraform
5 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.03%) Ansible
6 2 (1.03%) Grafana
6 2 (1.03%) Kibana
6 2 (1.03%) logstash
6 2 (1.03%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.52%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.52%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.52%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.52%) SCOrch
7 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.52%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.52%) WSUS
Vendors
1 95 (48.97%) Microsoft
2 77 (39.69%) Cisco
3 62 (31.96%) Citrix
4 21 (10.82%) VMware
5 12 (6.19%) Dell
5 12 (6.19%) NetApp
5 12 (6.19%) Veeam
6 10 (5.15%) IBM
7 8 (4.12%) Commvault
7 8 (4.12%) Oracle
7 8 (4.12%) Sun
7 8 (4.12%) Zerto
8 7 (3.61%) Splunk
9 5 (2.58%) Juniper
9 5 (2.58%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.58%) Temenos
10 4 (2.06%) NEC
11 3 (1.55%) HP
11 3 (1.55%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.55%) SolarWinds