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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 118 84
Rank change year-on-year +2 -34 +45
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 15 46 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.68% 1.61% 2.39%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.48% 7.85% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 34 51
10th Percentile £390 £403 £399
25th Percentile £441 £420 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -5.09% +27.06%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £594
90th Percentile £675 £625 £650
UK median daily rate £503 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -8.50% +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 £38.35 £47.50
% change year-on-year -58.12% -19.26% +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 606 586 600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 27.46% 20.53% 17.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 407 366
10th Percentile £188 £162 £174
25th Percentile £363 £375 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £550
90th Percentile £668 £628 £625
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 15 19
10th Percentile £12.95 £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 £64.70 £66.50 £56.17
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +30.12% +5.06%

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 27 April 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 27 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 +25 5 £520 +18.18% 2
Glasgow -12 5 £625 +13.64% 7
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:

Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (6.67%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (6.67%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (6.67%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Basecamp
3 1 (6.67%) Canva
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (6.67%) Figma
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
3 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DHCP
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (6.67%) InfluxDB
1 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) GitLab
1 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) Artifactory
2 1 (6.67%) Selenium
General
1 8 (53.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) IT Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) Designer
3 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Graphic Designer
3 1 (6.67%) Junior
3 1 (6.67%) Junior Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Scrum Master
3 1 (6.67%) Security Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) AWS CDK
1 1 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) PKI
2 1 (6.67%) 3D Graphics
2 1 (6.67%) Clustering
2 1 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Graphic Design
2 1 (6.67%) Motion Graphics
2 1 (6.67%) Social Media
2 1 (6.67%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.67%) Ubuntu
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Agile
2 4 (26.67%) Scrum
3 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (20.00%) DevOps
3 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (13.33%) Break/Fix
4 2 (13.33%) Business Continuity
4 2 (13.33%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (13.33%) Configuration Management
4 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (13.33%) PLM
4 2 (13.33%) PRINCE2
4 2 (13.33%) Proactive Monitoring
4 2 (13.33%) Project Management
5 1 (6.67%) Computer Science
5 1 (6.67%) Kanban
5 1 (6.67%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) Bash
2 1 (6.67%) Groovy
2 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) Degree
4 2 (13.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
5 1 (6.67%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (6.67%) MCSE
5 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (13.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (6.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Ansible
2 2 (13.33%) Terraform
3 1 (6.67%) Grafana
3 1 (6.67%) Kibana
3 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.67%) McAfee ePO
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (6.67%) Packer
3 1 (6.67%) SCCM
3 1 (6.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Adobe
2 1 (6.67%) Citrix
2 1 (6.67%) Facebook
2 1 (6.67%) HP
2 1 (6.67%) Instagram
2 1 (6.67%) McAfee
2 1 (6.67%) Symantec
2 1 (6.67%) Twitter
2 1 (6.67%) Veritas
2 1 (6.67%) VMware