Technical Leader Contracts in Edinburgh

Technical Lead
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Technical Lead daily rate in Edinburgh is £610 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 94 113
Rank change year-on-year +24 +19 -24
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 4 16 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.49% 1.24% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 1.29% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 9
10th Percentile £525 £506 £475
25th Percentile £553 £512 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £545 £570
Median % change year-on-year +11.83% -4.39% +17.53%
75th Percentile £675 £560 £581
90th Percentile - £574 £661
Scotland median daily rate £513 £545 £560
% change year-on-year -5.96% -2.68% +17.89%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Edinburgh with a recognized job title 779 1,236 1,857
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.47% 95.59% 96.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 882 1,275
10th Percentile £200 £253 £230
25th Percentile £409 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £550
90th Percentile £663 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £458
% change year-on-year - +3.83% +7.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 14 24
10th Percentile £16.08 £14.53 £12.30
25th Percentile £17.79 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £21.26 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year +135.18% -10.48% -58.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £63.60 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £33.25 £23.18 £25.82
% change year-on-year +43.44% -10.21% -35.46%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings that featured Technical Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in Edinburgh

Technical Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Leader in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Technical Leader in Edinburgh

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leader in Edinburgh

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Technical Leader contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 2 (50.00%) User Experience
1 2 (50.00%) React
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (25.00%) UX Design
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Product Management
2 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) WebKit
2 1 (25.00%) Capybara
2 1 (25.00%) Gradle
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Coaching
2 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Kanban
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Maven
2 1 (25.00%) Ruby
2 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Capybara
1 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (25.00%) Gradle
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (25.00%) WebKit
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Architecture Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Human-Centred Design
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusive Design
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Kanban
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Service Design
2 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (25.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Ruby
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes