BPSS Clearance Contracts in Scotland

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for BPSS Clearance qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 122 95
Rank change year-on-year +7 -27 +30
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 12 45 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.55% 1.60% 2.36%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.02% 7.72% 13.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 33 51
10th Percentile £380 £409 £365
25th Percentile £425 £420 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +20.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £594
90th Percentile £675 £625 £650
UK median daily rate £507 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -7.91% +1.85% +9.09%
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 £16.06 £31.68 £47.50
% change year-on-year -49.30% -33.32% +90.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

BPSS Clearance 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 594 583 597
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 27.35% 20.71% 16.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 401 369
10th Percentile £188 £163 £194
25th Percentile £340 £375 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £598 £538 £550
90th Percentile £660 £631 £625
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 13 17
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.35 £21.00
25th Percentile £16.50 £15.99 £25.28
Median hourly rate £26.00 £21.26 £45.14
Median % change year-on-year +22.30% -52.90% +144.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £54.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £63.20 £63.81 £56.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% +10.82%

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for BPSS Clearance in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for BPSS Clearance in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BPSS Clearance in Scotland over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BPSS Clearance in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BPSS Clearance in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for BPSS Clearance 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 BPSS Clearance within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 4 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +28 4 £520 +17.38% 2
Glasgow -4 3 £650 +13.04% 9
Renfrewshire - 3 £525 -
Dundee - 2 £350 -
BPSS Clearance
UK

BPSS Clearance
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Basecamp
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (8.33%) Figma
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DHCP
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (8.33%) InfluxDB
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Artifactory
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (58.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) IT Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Junior
3 1 (8.33%) Junior Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Scrum Master
3 1 (8.33%) Security Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) AWS CDK
1 1 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) PKI
2 1 (8.33%) Clustering
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
1 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Ubuntu
2 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (16.67%) Break/Fix
3 2 (16.67%) PLM
3 2 (16.67%) PRINCE2
3 2 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (16.67%) Project Management
4 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (8.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (8.33%) Email Filtering
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) Minimum Viable Product
4 1 (8.33%) Observability
4 1 (8.33%) Product Vision
4 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery
4 1 (8.33%) Security Operations
4 1 (8.33%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (8.33%) Static Application Security Testing
4 1 (8.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Bash
1 1 (8.33%) Groovy
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (25.00%) Degree
4 2 (16.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
5 1 (8.33%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (8.33%) MCSE
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
1 1 (8.33%) Grafana
1 1 (8.33%) Kibana
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (8.33%) McAfee ePO
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (8.33%) SCCM
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
1 1 (8.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Citrix
1 1 (8.33%) HP
1 1 (8.33%) McAfee
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (8.33%) Symantec
1 1 (8.33%) Veritas
1 1 (8.33%) VMware