Business Continuity Contracts in Scotland

Business Continuity
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Business Continuity skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Business Continuity over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 137 157
Rank change year-on-year +23 +20 -20
Contract jobs citing Business Continuity 16 26 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.72% 0.91% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.98% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 21 10
10th Percentile £551 £400 £340
25th Percentile £563 £425 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +10.53% -7.77%
75th Percentile £607 £600 £522
90th Percentile £608 - £536
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Business Continuity 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 1,976 2,647 3,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.57% 92.62% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,202 1,908 2,318
10th Percentile £233 £260 £243
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 £554 £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 95 56 49
10th Percentile £12.38 £10.63 £14.94
25th Percentile £16.00 £12.04 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £17.72 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.05% -46.30% -21.43%
75th Percentile £44.47 £53.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.03 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 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 +40 8 £600 +41.18% 2
Glasgow -3 6 £600 +14.29% 1
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) SCCP
2 1 (6.25%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) GitLab
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.25%) Selenium
General
1 8 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) Security Advisor
2 4 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (6.25%) Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Business Continuity Specialist
3 1 (6.25%) Incident Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Information Security Advisor
3 1 (6.25%) Lead
3 1 (6.25%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Kafka
1 1 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
1 4 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Business Process Analysis
1 8 (50.00%) Information Security
1 8 (50.00%) ISMS
1 8 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 6 (37.50%) Capacity Planning
2 6 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (31.25%) Agile
3 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
3 5 (31.25%) Configuration Management
3 5 (31.25%) Continuous Delivery
3 5 (31.25%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (31.25%) DevOps
3 5 (31.25%) Incident Management
3 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (31.25%) Internal Audit
4 2 (12.50%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (12.50%) Risk Management
4 2 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
5 1 (6.25%) BCP
5 1 (6.25%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) CISSP
1 8 (50.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
1 8 (50.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
2 4 (25.00%) CLAS
3 2 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (6.25%) Degree
4 1 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (31.25%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (6.25%) GRC
3 1 (6.25%) ISO 20022
3 1 (6.25%) ISO 8583
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Ansible
2 4 (25.00%) Packer
3 2 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft