BCP Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring BCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing BCP 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.55% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £429 - -
25th Percentile £436 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 - -
75th Percentile £474 - -
90th Percentile £474 - -
Scotland median daily rate £469 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +10.35% -10.53% -5.66%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

BCP falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 618 599 724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 85.60% 94.93% 88.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 336 422
10th Percentile £253 £218 £228
25th Percentile £406 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £471 £484
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -2.69% +1.79%
75th Percentile £550 £543 £575
90th Percentile £650 £638 £663
Scotland median daily rate £450 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 24 32
10th Percentile £17.23 - £13.66
25th Percentile £40.25 £17.30 £16.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £22.44 £21.02
Median % change year-on-year +122.84% +6.74% -1.13%
75th Percentile £75.00 £25.59 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £42.35 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £21.59 £18.79
% change year-on-year -7.36% +14.90% +7.59%

BCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BCP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

BCP job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

BCP
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing BCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing BCP

BCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Catchpoint
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (25.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) BGP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
1 2 (50.00%) OSPF
1 2 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (25.00%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (25.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Kanban
2 2 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) RBAC
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (25.00%) CCIE
2 1 (25.00%) NCDA
2 1 (25.00%) VCP6
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) vMotion
2 1 (25.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Arista
2 2 (50.00%) Juniper
2 2 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) AppNeta
3 1 (25.00%) Brocade
3 1 (25.00%) Commvault
3 1 (25.00%) CyberArk
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) NetApp