Business Continuity Contracts in the South West

Business Continuity
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 144 149 134
Rank change year-on-year +5 -15 +7
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 13 10 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.39% 0.30% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.33% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 27
10th Percentile £410 £399 £291
25th Percentile £425 £475 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £490
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +7.14% -20.49%
75th Percentile £504 £588 £575
90th Percentile £609 £625 £615
England median daily rate £470 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -10.48% - +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 requiring process or methodology skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,709 3,015 3,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.12% 88.99% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,689 2,175 2,323
10th Percentile £250 £313 £300
25th Percentile £403 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 373 312 206
10th Percentile £13.85 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £28.00 £15.78 £23.81
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +17.95% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £64.31
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.31 £68.73
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Business Continuity
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Business Continuity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Business Continuity in the South West

Business Continuity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Continuity in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Business Continuity in the South West

Business Continuity
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Business Continuity in the South West

Business Continuity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Continuity in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Business Continuity in the South West

Business Continuity
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Continuity within the South West region 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
Wiltshire -2 5 £488 +30.07% 5
Bristol +3 4 £448 -14.76% 6
Somerset -2 1 £617 +23.30% 5
Business Continuity
England

Business Continuity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Power Platform
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.69%) PaaS
3 1 (7.69%) SaaS
3 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) SAN
1 1 (7.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Power BI
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
3 2 (15.38%) Electronics
3 2 (15.38%) Manufacturing
3 2 (15.38%) Marketing
3 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Service Manager
2 4 (30.77%) Availability Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Service Transition Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Transition Manager
4 1 (7.69%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (7.69%) Active Directory Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery Manager
4 1 (7.69%) IT Manager
4 1 (7.69%) IT Services Manager
4 1 (7.69%) ITIL Manager
4 1 (7.69%) ITIL Service Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Service Continuity Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Software Asset Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Software Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Validation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (7.69%) SailPoint
1 1 (7.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) CMDB
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) ITIL
2 8 (61.54%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (46.15%) Agile
3 6 (46.15%) Business Continuity Planning
3 6 (46.15%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (38.46%) BCP
4 5 (38.46%) Service Management
5 4 (30.77%) Availability Management
5 4 (30.77%) Configuration Management
5 4 (30.77%) ITSM
5 4 (30.77%) Proactive Monitoring
5 4 (30.77%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
6 3 (23.08%) Capacity Management
6 3 (23.08%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (15.38%) Asset Management
7 2 (15.38%) Change Management
7 2 (15.38%) Critical Path Analysis
7 2 (15.38%) Digital Marketing
7 2 (15.38%) Programme Management
7 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Bash
1 1 (7.69%) Bicep
1 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
1 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (69.23%) SC Cleared
1 9 (69.23%) Security Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (15.38%) MCP
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
4 1 (7.69%) ISEB
4 1 (7.69%) ISTQB
4 1 (7.69%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) COBIT
1 1 (7.69%) ISO 9000
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Ansible
1 1 (7.69%) Grafana
1 1 (7.69%) NetIQ Identity Manager
1 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
1 1 (7.69%) Puppet
1 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
1 1 (7.69%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Remedy
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) SAP
4 1 (7.69%) BT
4 1 (7.69%) ForgeRock
4 1 (7.69%) NetIQ
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle
4 1 (7.69%) VMware