Business Continuity
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Business Continuity skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Business Continuity over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 383 420 441
Rank change year-on-year +37 +21 +71
Permanent jobs citing Business Continuity 702 747 1,353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.70% 0.75% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.79% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 487 488 834
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,996 £40,835 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,380 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £69,965 £68,438
90th Percentile £83,500 £93,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +1.00% +5.26% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Business Continuity 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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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%

Business Continuity
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Business Continuity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Business Continuity in the UK

Business Continuity
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Business Continuity.

Salary trend for Business Continuity in the UK

Business Continuity
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Continuity over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Business Continuity in the UK

Business Continuity
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Continuity within the UK over the 6 months to 18 May 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 +73 644 £57,500 +4.40% 230
UK excluding London -49 409 £50,500 +1.00% 151
London +162 276 £75,000 +15.38% 85
Work from Home +31 202 £65,000 +13.04% 95
North of England +60 113 £50,000 -1.48% 36
South East +27 113 £52,500 +14.75% 43
North West +30 63 £51,674 -1.57% 24
Midlands -73 59 £60,000 +46.34% 27
South West -22 44 £48,328 -5.24% 17
West Midlands -11 42 £72,500 +81.25% 20
Yorkshire +61 38 £45,621 +14.05% 8
East of England -27 33 £62,500 +18.48% 16
Wales +19 32 £44,886 +28.25% 1
East Midlands -58 17 £40,000 -25.98% 7
North East +2 14 £50,000 -4.76% 4
Scotland -80 11 £55,380 +5.48% 14
Isle of Man - 4 - -

Business Continuity
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
1 102 (14.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (4.56%) SharePoint
3 15 (2.14%) Skype for Business
4 4 (0.57%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 4 (0.57%) Site Server
5 3 (0.43%) SAS
6 2 (0.28%) Apache
6 2 (0.28%) IIS
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.28%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 16 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.14%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.43%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.71%) Oracle Financial Analyzer
3 4 (0.57%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.57%) SAP WM
4 3 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.14%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 185 (26.35%) Microsoft 365
2 152 (21.65%) Azure
3 50 (7.12%) AWS
4 35 (4.99%) Power Platform
5 32 (4.56%) SaaS
6 19 (2.71%) Google Workspace
6 19 (2.71%) PaaS
7 18 (2.56%) IaaS
8 16 (2.28%) Entra ID
9 15 (2.14%) GCP
10 14 (1.99%) Cloud Computing
10 14 (1.99%) PowerApps
11 13 (1.85%) Nutanix
12 12 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (1.57%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (1.42%) Amazon S3
14 10 (1.42%) OneDrive
15 8 (1.14%) Power Automate
16 7 (1.00%) GitHub
16 7 (1.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 140 (19.94%) Firewall
2 128 (18.23%) Wireless
3 119 (16.95%) WAN
4 96 (13.68%) SD-WAN
5 87 (12.39%) Cisco IOS
5 87 (12.39%) WebEx
6 78 (11.11%) DNS
7 43 (6.13%) DHCP
8 38 (5.41%) LAN
9 37 (5.27%) TCP/IP
10 36 (5.13%) SAN
11 34 (4.84%) VPN
12 31 (4.42%) Network Security
13 26 (3.70%) Intrusion Detection
14 25 (3.56%) Wi-Fi
15 20 (2.85%) NAS
16 17 (2.42%) VLAN
17 16 (2.28%) Internet
18 14 (1.99%) IP Telephony
18 14 (1.99%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (5.13%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.56%) MySQL
3 17 (2.42%) Power BI
4 14 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
5 13 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 11 (1.57%) MongoDB
6 11 (1.57%) Oracle Database
7 10 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 7 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (0.71%) Big Data
10 3 (0.43%) EDRMS
10 3 (0.43%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.28%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.28%) Crystal Reports
11 2 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
12 1 (0.14%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 17 (2.42%) Git
2 16 (2.28%) JIRA
3 15 (2.14%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.28%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.57%) Selenium
6 3 (0.43%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.43%) CircleCI
6 3 (0.43%) GitLab
6 3 (0.43%) JUnit
6 3 (0.43%) Subversion
6 3 (0.43%) TestNG
6 3 (0.43%) Travis CI
7 2 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.14%) JMeter
General
1 297 (42.31%) Social Skills
2 155 (22.08%) Finance
3 120 (17.09%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (11.11%) Legal
5 41 (5.84%) Law
6 38 (5.41%) Retail
7 33 (4.70%) Telecoms
8 27 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
9 25 (3.56%) Public Sector
10 24 (3.42%) Banking
11 18 (2.56%) Manufacturing
11 18 (2.56%) Police
12 17 (2.42%) Games
12 17 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 15 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
15 13 (1.85%) Back Office
16 12 (1.71%) Front Office
17 11 (1.57%) Local Government
18 8 (1.14%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 102 (14.53%) Senior
2 97 (13.82%) IT Support
3 88 (12.54%) IT Support Specialist
3 88 (12.54%) Support Specialist
4 82 (11.68%) Analyst
5 59 (8.40%) IT Manager
6 51 (7.26%) Lead
7 35 (4.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 35 (4.99%) Network Engineer
8 29 (4.13%) Consultant
9 28 (3.99%) Information Manager
9 28 (3.99%) Security Manager
10 26 (3.70%) Administrator
11 24 (3.42%) Senior Network Engineer
11 24 (3.42%) Support Analyst
12 20 (2.85%) Security Analyst
13 19 (2.71%) Head of IT
14 18 (2.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 17 (2.42%) Service Manager
16 16 (2.28%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.42%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (1.85%) ARM Templates
3 12 (1.71%) YAML
4 10 (1.42%) CSS
4 10 (1.42%) HTML
5 9 (1.28%) .NET
6 8 (1.14%) FIX Protocol
7 7 (1.00%) Laravel
7 7 (1.00%) REST
8 6 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
8 6 (0.85%) Web Services
9 4 (0.57%) Akka
9 4 (0.57%) React
10 3 (0.43%) 802.1X
10 3 (0.43%) ASP.NET
10 3 (0.43%) Azure Blueprints
10 3 (0.43%) jQuery
11 2 (0.28%) EDI
11 2 (0.28%) Keycloak
11 2 (0.28%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 112 (15.95%) Management Information System
2 97 (13.82%) Video Conferencing
3 86 (12.25%) Wiki
4 64 (9.12%) Data Centre
5 43 (6.13%) Security Posture
6 30 (4.27%) Onboarding
7 19 (2.71%) Cyber Threat
8 18 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (2.42%) Clustering
10 16 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
10 16 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
11 14 (1.99%) Replication
12 8 (1.14%) NHS
13 6 (0.85%) AS400
13 6 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (0.85%) IoT
13 6 (0.85%) Low-Code
13 6 (0.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 5 (0.71%) Cyberattack
14 5 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 237 (33.76%) Windows
2 94 (13.39%) Windows 10
3 90 (12.82%) Android
4 78 (11.11%) Windows Server
5 66 (9.40%) Linux
6 12 (1.71%) Mac OS
7 11 (1.57%) Windows Server 2019
8 10 (1.42%) CentOS
8 10 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (1.28%) Unix
10 8 (1.14%) Apple iOS
11 7 (1.00%) VMS
12 6 (0.85%) Windows 7
12 6 (0.85%) Windows Server 2003
13 5 (0.71%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.28%) SUSE
14 2 (0.28%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.14%) HPUX
15 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 327 (46.58%) Disaster Recovery
2 212 (30.20%) Business Continuity Planning
3 200 (28.49%) Cybersecurity
4 178 (25.36%) BCP
5 163 (23.22%) Problem-Solving
6 156 (22.22%) Information Security
7 131 (18.66%) ITIL
8 110 (15.67%) Computer Science
9 99 (14.10%) Mobile Device Management
10 94 (13.39%) Contract Negotiation
11 91 (12.96%) Risk Management
12 88 (12.54%) Continuous Improvement
13 87 (12.39%) Project Management
14 86 (12.25%) Application Virtualisation
15 77 (10.97%) Data Protection
16 69 (9.83%) Customer Service
17 64 (9.12%) Incident Management
17 64 (9.12%) Service Management
18 57 (8.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 57 (8.12%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 56 (7.98%) PowerShell
2 41 (5.84%) SQL
3 26 (3.70%) Bash
4 20 (2.85%) Python
5 13 (1.85%) T-SQL
6 12 (1.71%) Perl
7 10 (1.42%) JavaScript
7 10 (1.42%) RPG
8 7 (1.00%) PHP
9 3 (0.43%) C#
9 3 (0.43%) Java
9 3 (0.43%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.43%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.28%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.14%) AWK
11 1 (0.14%) Bourne shell
11 1 (0.14%) Korn
11 1 (0.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 225 (32.05%) Degree
2 97 (13.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 92 (13.11%) Master's Degree
4 50 (7.12%) CISSP
5 40 (5.70%) Security Cleared
6 28 (3.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 26 (3.70%) CISM
8 24 (3.42%) GIAC
9 23 (3.28%) CISA
10 21 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
11 20 (2.85%) CRISC
11 20 (2.85%) SC Cleared
12 17 (2.42%) CompTIA Security+
13 15 (2.14%) CompTIA CySA+
14 14 (1.99%) DV Cleared
14 14 (1.99%) MCSE
15 13 (1.85%) CCNP
15 13 (1.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 12 (1.71%) CEH
16 12 (1.71%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (19.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 70 (9.97%) Cyber Essentials
3 66 (9.40%) GDPR
4 32 (4.56%) NIST
5 29 (4.13%) ISO 22301
6 21 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 21 (2.99%) PCI DSS
7 18 (2.56%) ISO 9001
8 15 (2.14%) COBIT
8 15 (2.14%) ISO 14001
8 15 (2.14%) QA
9 14 (1.99%) SLA
10 13 (1.85%) SOC 2
11 12 (1.71%) GRC
12 11 (1.57%) NCSC
13 10 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 9 (1.28%) NEBOSH
14 9 (1.28%) PMO
15 7 (1.00%) Accessibility
15 7 (1.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 179 (25.50%) Active Directory
2 117 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
3 90 (12.82%) XenApp
4 86 (12.25%) Microsoft App-V
4 86 (12.25%) XenDesktop
5 63 (8.97%) VMware Infrastructure
6 25 (3.56%) Hyper-V
7 17 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
8 16 (2.28%) Virtual Servers
9 15 (2.14%) Firmware
10 12 (1.71%) Docker
11 11 (1.57%) vSphere
12 3 (0.43%) KVM
12 3 (0.43%) VirtualBox
13 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.28%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 97 (13.82%) SCCM
2 86 (12.25%) AirWatch
3 37 (5.27%) Ansible
4 26 (3.70%) Terraform
5 23 (3.28%) Nagios
6 19 (2.71%) Puppet
7 18 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
8 15 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (1.85%) Grafana
10 12 (1.71%) Graphite
11 10 (1.42%) SCOM
11 10 (1.42%) vCenter Server
12 9 (1.28%) HAProxy
13 8 (1.14%) Microsoft Clustering
14 7 (1.00%) Foglight
14 7 (1.00%) Kubernetes
15 6 (0.85%) NetCrunch
15 6 (0.85%) ZABBIX
16 5 (0.71%) logstash
16 5 (0.71%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 262 (37.32%) Microsoft
2 144 (20.51%) Cisco
3 93 (13.25%) Citrix
4 85 (12.11%) VMware
5 37 (5.27%) Veeam
6 27 (3.85%) Oracle
7 24 (3.42%) HP
8 21 (2.99%) Commvault
9 19 (2.71%) IBM
10 17 (2.42%) Splunk
11 15 (2.14%) Apple
12 14 (1.99%) Avaya
12 14 (1.99%) Google
12 14 (1.99%) Mitel
12 14 (1.99%) Nimble Storage
13 12 (1.71%) Dell
13 12 (1.71%) NetApp
14 11 (1.57%) Meraki
14 11 (1.57%) SolarWinds
15 10 (1.42%) Red Hat