Business Continuity Planning Contracts

Business Continuity Planning
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Business Continuity Planning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Continuity Planning over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 567 653 810
Rank change year-on-year +86 +157 -102
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity Planning 17 44 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.079% 0.044%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.046% 0.088% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 29 30
10th Percentile £330 £420 £186
25th Percentile £425 £461 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £439
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +36.75% +10.38%
75th Percentile £502 £719 £528
90th Percentile £525 £775 £689
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £625 £475
% change year-on-year -28.00% +31.58% +19.50%

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 contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Business Continuity Planning in the UK

Business Continuity Planning
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Continuity Planning over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Continuity Planning in the UK

Business Continuity Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Continuity Planning in the UK

Business Continuity Planning
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Continuity Planning within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +65 16 £475 -24.00% 32
London +67 8 £488 -26.91% 9
Work from Home +104 7 £450 -12.20% 11
UK excluding London +24 7 £450 -28.00% 21
South West +7 6 £450 +20.00% 1
West Midlands - 1 £425 - 1
Midlands - 1 £425 - 1

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 1 (5.88%) Confluence
1 1 (5.88%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (5.88%) MFGPRO
2 1 (5.88%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) Power Platform
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (11.76%) AWS
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (5.88%) Azure
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) Firewall
2 2 (11.76%) DNS
2 2 (11.76%) Network Security
2 2 (11.76%) SSL
2 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.88%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (5.88%) SAN
3 1 (5.88%) VPN
3 1 (5.88%) WAN
3 1 (5.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Power BI
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
1 1 (5.88%) Terragrunt
General
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.88%) Law
4 1 (5.88%) Legal
4 1 (5.88%) Private Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Availability Manager
1 5 (29.41%) Service Manager
2 4 (23.53%) Architect
2 4 (23.53%) Senior
3 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Security Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Service Continuity Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Business Continuity Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Business Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Deployment Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Disaster Recovery Manager
5 1 (5.88%) ERP Manager
5 1 (5.88%) ERP Project Manager
5 1 (5.88%) IT Services Manager
5 1 (5.88%) ITIL Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Vendor Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Transformation Project Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Vendor Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) OAuth
1 2 (11.76%) OpenID
1 2 (11.76%) SAML
1 2 (11.76%) SPML
2 1 (5.88%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) CMDB
1 3 (17.65%) Management Information System
1 3 (17.65%) Security Posture
2 2 (11.76%) PKI
3 1 (5.88%) Client/Server
3 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
2 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.88%) HPUX
3 1 (5.88%) Linux
3 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.88%) Unix
3 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Business Continuity
2 12 (70.59%) BCP
2 12 (70.59%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (35.29%) Configuration Management
3 6 (35.29%) ITIL
4 5 (29.41%) Agile
4 5 (29.41%) Availability Management
4 5 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (29.41%) ITSM
4 5 (29.41%) Proactive Monitoring
4 5 (29.41%) Service Management
5 4 (23.53%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (17.65%) Business Strategy
6 3 (17.65%) Capacity Management
6 3 (17.65%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (17.65%) Customer Service
6 3 (17.65%) Data Protection
6 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (17.65%) Security Architecture
6 3 (17.65%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (11.76%) CISA
4 2 (11.76%) CISM
4 2 (11.76%) CISSP
5 1 (5.88%) PMI Certification
5 1 (5.88%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (17.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (5.88%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
1 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) WSUS
2 1 (5.88%) AirWatch
2 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Kustomize
2 1 (5.88%) SCCM
2 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
1 5 (29.41%) Remedy
2 2 (11.76%) CA
2 2 (11.76%) VMware
3 1 (5.88%) Apple
3 1 (5.88%) EMC
3 1 (5.88%) Fortinet
3 1 (5.88%) HP
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) Progress
3 1 (5.88%) QAD
3 1 (5.88%) Red Hat