BC Cleared Contracts in Scotland

Basic Check (BC) Clearance
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for BC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 159 173
Rank change year-on-year +30 +14 -18
Contract jobs citing BC Cleared 1 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.045% 0.14% 0.057%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.16% 0.68% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £373 -
UK median daily rate £575 £563 £538
% change year-on-year +2.22% +4.65% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.00
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
75th Percentile - - £23.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £16.50 £29.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year -43.59% -26.88% +73.91%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

BC Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 616 592 606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 27.61% 20.71% 17.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 414 370
10th Percentile £188 £163 £176
25th Percentile £363 £363 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £550
90th Percentile £662 £625 £625
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 15 19
10th Percentile £13.03 £13.95 £19.50
25th Percentile £16.50 £16.00 £21.75
Median hourly rate £40.94 £21.67 £39.99
Median % change year-on-year +88.92% -45.81% +8.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.02 £53.75
90th Percentile £64.15 £66.50 £56.17
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +30.12% +7.21%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing BC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for BC Cleared in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BC Cleared in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for BC Cleared in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BC Cleared in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for BC Cleared in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BC Cleared within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Edinburgh - 1 - -
BC Cleared
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes