BCP Contracts in the UK excluding London

Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for BCP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates 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 383 425 457
Rank change year-on-year +42 +32 -44
Contract jobs citing BCP 15 22 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.072% 0.096% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.086% 0.11% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 15 39
10th Percentile £300 £304 £301
25th Percentile £406 £309 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +17.28%
75th Percentile £490 £659 £525
90th Percentile £558 £670 £628
UK median daily rate £475 £590 £488
% change year-on-year -19.49% +21.03% +18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,354 20,436 27,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.24% 89.17% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,295 14,024 19,087
10th Percentile £250 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £579
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,139 1,241 1,336
10th Percentile £12.47 £10.63 £12.43
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £62.38
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

BCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing BCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for BCP in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BCP in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for BCP in the UK excluding London

BCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BCP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BCP in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BCP in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for BCP in the UK excluding London

BCP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BCP within the UK excluding London region 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Scotland +39 5 £475 -5.66% 1
South West - 5 £450 - 1
Midlands +26 2 £588 +80.77% 3
West Midlands +16 2 £588 +80.77% 3
South East +5 2 £300 -52.00% 7
North of England +22 1 £400 +29.03% 10
North West +10 1 £400 +29.03% 8
BCP
UK

BCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (13.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (13.33%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) OpenEdge
Business Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (13.33%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (6.67%) MFGPRO
3 1 (6.67%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
1 4 (26.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (13.33%) Catchpoint
2 2 (13.33%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) DNS
2 2 (13.33%) Firewall
2 2 (13.33%) IPv6
2 2 (13.33%) SAN
2 2 (13.33%) SSL
2 2 (13.33%) VPN
3 1 (6.67%) DHCP
3 1 (6.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Publishing
2 2 (13.33%) Retail
3 1 (6.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Availability Manager
1 4 (26.67%) Service Manager
2 2 (13.33%) E-Commerce Manager
2 2 (13.33%) E-Commerce Project Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Firewall Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 1 (6.67%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (6.67%) Administrator
3 1 (6.67%) Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (6.67%) ITIL Availability Manager
3 1 (6.67%) ITIL Manager
3 1 (6.67%) ITIL Service Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Security Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Security Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Server Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Service Continuity Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) CMDB
2 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Client/Server
3 1 (6.67%) Operational Technology
3 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.67%) HPUX
3 1 (6.67%) Linux
3 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Agile
2 7 (46.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (40.00%) Business Continuity
3 6 (40.00%) Business Continuity Planning
4 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (33.33%) ITIL
5 4 (26.67%) Availability Management
5 4 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (26.67%) ITSM
5 4 (26.67%) Proactive Monitoring
5 4 (26.67%) Service Management
6 3 (20.00%) Capacity Management
6 3 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (20.00%) Configuration Management
6 3 (20.00%) ERP
6 3 (20.00%) Project Management
6 3 (20.00%) Runbook
6 3 (20.00%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
7 2 (13.33%) E-Commerce
7 2 (13.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (13.33%) CCIE
3 2 (13.33%) CCNP
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (6.67%) MCSA
4 1 (6.67%) MCSE
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Ansible
1 3 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Remedy
2 2 (13.33%) Adobe
2 2 (13.33%) AppNeta
2 2 (13.33%) Arista
2 2 (13.33%) HP
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Palo Alto
2 2 (13.33%) SAP
2 2 (13.33%) Tufin
3 1 (6.67%) Dell
3 1 (6.67%) Progress
3 1 (6.67%) QAD
3 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.67%) VMware