Business Continuity Contracts in Scotland

Business Continuity
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Business Continuity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Continuity over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 116 136
Rank change year-on-year +13 +20 +17
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 13 13 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.80% 0.59% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.66% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 22
10th Percentile £244 £561 £401
25th Percentile £413 £571 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £511
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +17.36% +7.63%
75th Percentile £519 £608 £600
90th Percentile £584 £612 -
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Business Continuity 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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Business Continuity
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Continuity in Scotland

Business Continuity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Business Continuity in Scotland

Business Continuity
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Continuity in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Continuity in Scotland

Business Continuity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Continuity in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Business Continuity in Scotland

Business Continuity
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 Business Continuity within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +9 9 £425 -29.17% 11
Edinburgh 0 3 £513 -14.58% 10
Fife - 1 £472 -
Business Continuity
UK

Business Continuity
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (30.77%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) SNA
1 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database 10g
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) JIRA
General
1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 6 (46.15%) Banking
2 6 (46.15%) Finance
2 6 (46.15%) Investment Banking
3 4 (30.77%) Public Sector
4 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Military
5 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Administrator
1 3 (23.08%) Analyst
1 3 (23.08%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (15.38%) Mainframe Specialist
2 2 (15.38%) Risk Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Coordinator
3 1 (7.69%) DBA
3 1 (7.69%) Graduate
3 1 (7.69%) Graduate Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Operations Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (7.69%) Project Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Report Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Risk Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) LDAP
1 3 (23.08%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Data Centre
2 2 (15.38%) Mainframe
2 2 (15.38%) Social Media
3 1 (7.69%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (7.69%) Industry 4.0
3 1 (7.69%) Operational Technology
3 1 (7.69%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Windows
2 3 (23.08%) Linux
2 3 (23.08%) Mac OS
2 3 (23.08%) Unix
2 3 (23.08%) Windows Server
3 2 (15.38%) zOS
4 1 (7.69%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (53.85%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (46.15%) Agile
2 6 (46.15%) BCP
2 6 (46.15%) Business Continuity Planning
2 6 (46.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (30.77%) Investment Management
4 4 (30.77%) Project Management
4 4 (30.77%) Wealth Management
5 3 (23.08%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (23.08%) DevOps
5 3 (23.08%) Information Security
5 3 (23.08%) Line Management
5 3 (23.08%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (23.08%) Storage Management
5 3 (23.08%) Task Automation
6 2 (15.38%) Network Monitoring
6 2 (15.38%) Social Media Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) JCL
1 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
1 3 (23.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) QA
2 3 (23.08%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (23.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (7.69%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
1 3 (23.08%) Hyper-V
1 3 (23.08%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Tivoli NetView
2 1 (7.69%) Data Guard
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Dynatrace
2 2 (15.38%) IBM
2 2 (15.38%) Sun
3 1 (7.69%) Commvault
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle