BCP Contracts in Scotland

Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 149 164
Rank change year-on-year +20 +15 -17
Contract jobs citing BCP 6 11 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.27% 0.38% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.41% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 12
10th Percentile £448 £441 £426
25th Percentile - £481 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £478
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.71% +19.38%
75th Percentile £537 £512 £511
90th Percentile £558 £520 £524
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,980 2,651 3,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.55% 92.63% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,210 1,904 2,315
10th Percentile £238 £263 £242
25th Percentile £400 £406 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 56 50
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £14.99
25th Percentile £16.00 £12.04 £17.58
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -43.75% -27.59%
75th Percentile £40.94 £53.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.03 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for BCP in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for BCP in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BCP in Scotland over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BCP 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 BCP within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 25 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
Glasgow +13 6 £475 +15.85%
BCP
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 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Catchpoint
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) IPv6
1 2 (33.33%) SSL
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (50.00%) Runbook
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Compliance Management
2 2 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
3 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Programme Governance
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CCIE
1 2 (33.33%) CCNP
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) AppNeta
1 2 (33.33%) Arista
1 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto
1 2 (33.33%) Tufin