Business Continuity Contracts with Work from Home Options

Business Continuity
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Business Continuity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Continuity 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 272 313 400
Rank change year-on-year +41 +87 -17
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 69 145 232
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.47% 0.61% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.68% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 98 181
10th Percentile £350 £408 £300
25th Percentile £363 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £603 £694 £638
90th Percentile £646 £745 £740
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £32.95
25th Percentile - £56.25 £44.13
Median hourly rate £35.00 £57.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.13% -8.73% +198.08%
75th Percentile - £58.75 £81.63
90th Percentile - - £92.65
UK median hourly rate £16.17 £40.24 £23.91
% change year-on-year -59.82% +68.30% +7.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Business Continuity falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,871 21,399 39,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.23% 89.63% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,673 15,206 29,099
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 495 518
10th Percentile £15.02 £18.49 £14.96
25th Percentile £24.00 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.13 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.51% +30.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.95 £78.45 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Business Continuity
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Business Continuity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Business Continuity trend for jobs with a WFH option

Business Continuity
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Business Continuity.

Business Continuity daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Business Continuity
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Business Continuity over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Business Continuity daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Business Continuity
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Business Continuity.

Business Continuity hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Business Continuity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 8 (11.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (7.25%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.90%) Confluence
4 1 (1.45%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 6 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.90%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (7.25%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.45%) MFGPRO
2 1 (1.45%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 10 (14.49%) Azure
2 9 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (7.25%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (7.25%) Power Platform
4 4 (5.80%) Serverless
5 3 (4.35%) AWS
5 3 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (4.35%) Entra ID
5 3 (4.35%) PaaS
6 2 (2.90%) Azure API Management
6 2 (2.90%) Azure Functions
6 2 (2.90%) GitHub
6 2 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.90%) IaaS
6 2 (2.90%) SaaS
7 1 (1.45%) Azure App Service
7 1 (1.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.04%) SAN
2 8 (11.59%) Firewall
3 4 (5.80%) SCCP
4 3 (4.35%) Intranet
4 3 (4.35%) Network Security
5 2 (2.90%) SD-WAN
5 2 (2.90%) WAN
6 1 (1.45%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.45%) LAN
6 1 (1.45%) NaaS
6 1 (1.45%) VPN
6 1 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.25%) Power BI
2 3 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.90%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.45%) JIRA
2 1 (1.45%) Terragrunt
General
1 17 (24.64%) Public Sector
2 15 (21.74%) Finance
3 12 (17.39%) Social Skills
4 10 (14.49%) Banking
5 5 (7.25%) Manufacturing
6 4 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.90%) Electronics
7 2 (2.90%) Marketing
7 2 (2.90%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.45%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.45%) Aviation
8 1 (1.45%) French Language
8 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.45%) Law
8 1 (1.45%) Legal
8 1 (1.45%) Spanish Language
8 1 (1.45%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 13 (18.84%) IT Manager
2 9 (13.04%) Analyst
3 8 (11.59%) Service Manager
3 8 (11.59%) Support Engineer
4 7 (10.14%) Senior
5 6 (8.70%) Architect
5 6 (8.70%) Incident Manager
6 5 (7.25%) Availability Manager
6 5 (7.25%) Lead
6 5 (7.25%) Project Manager
7 4 (5.80%) Business Analyst
7 4 (5.80%) IT Services Manager
8 3 (4.35%) Infrastructure Manager
8 3 (4.35%) Network Manager
8 3 (4.35%) Resilience Manager
8 3 (4.35%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (4.35%) Technical Architect
9 2 (2.90%) Integration Developer
9 2 (2.90%) Junior IT Manager
9 2 (2.90%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.35%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.45%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (1.45%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.59%) Video Conferencing
2 6 (8.70%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.35%) CMDB
3 3 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.90%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.45%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.45%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.45%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (15.94%) Windows
2 9 (13.04%) Windows Server 2016
3 8 (11.59%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (4.35%) Linux
5 2 (2.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.45%) HPUX
6 1 (1.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (49.28%) Disaster Recovery
2 14 (20.29%) Service Management
3 13 (18.84%) Project Management
4 12 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (17.39%) Incident Management
5 11 (15.94%) Agile
6 10 (14.49%) Cybersecurity
6 10 (14.49%) ITIL
7 9 (13.04%) Information Security
8 8 (11.59%) BCP
8 8 (11.59%) ITSM
9 7 (10.14%) Business Continuity Planning
9 7 (10.14%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (10.14%) Risk Management
10 6 (8.70%) Culture Change
10 6 (8.70%) Data Protection
10 6 (8.70%) DevOps
10 6 (8.70%) IT Strategy
10 6 (8.70%) Threat Modelling
11 5 (7.25%) Impact Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.35%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.90%) Bicep
2 2 (2.90%) Python
3 1 (1.45%) Bash
3 1 (1.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (14.49%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.14%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.25%) CISSP
3 5 (7.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 5 (7.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 4 (5.80%) CLAS
5 3 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.90%) Degree
6 2 (2.90%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (2.90%) MCSE
6 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.90%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.90%) PMP
7 1 (1.45%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.45%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.45%) ISEB
7 1 (1.45%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.35%) NIST
3 2 (2.90%) COBIT
3 2 (2.90%) PMO
4 1 (1.45%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.45%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.45%) GDPR
4 1 (1.45%) IASME
4 1 (1.45%) NCSC
4 1 (1.45%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.45%) QA
4 1 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (14.49%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (11.59%) SCCM
2 3 (4.35%) Terraform
3 2 (2.90%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.45%) Ansible
4 1 (1.45%) Backup Exec
4 1 (1.45%) Grafana
4 1 (1.45%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.45%) Kustomize
4 1 (1.45%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.45%) Puppet
4 1 (1.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.04%) Cisco
2 9 (13.04%) EMC
2 9 (13.04%) HP
3 8 (11.59%) Avaya
3 8 (11.59%) CheckPoint
3 8 (11.59%) Citrix
4 5 (7.25%) Adobe
4 5 (7.25%) Remedy
5 3 (4.35%) SAP
6 2 (2.90%) Oracle
7 1 (1.45%) McAfee
7 1 (1.45%) Progress
7 1 (1.45%) QAD
7 1 (1.45%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.45%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.45%) Veritas
7 1 (1.45%) VMware