Lead Contracts in Scotland

Leader
UK > Scotland

The median Leader daily rate in Scotland is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 53 31
Rank change year-on-year +21 -22 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 124 145 208
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 5.62% 5.08% 5.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.93% 5.34% 6.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 109 157
10th Percentile £400 £304 £408
25th Percentile £470 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £616 £575 £610
90th Percentile £721 £682 £730
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £25.30 £19.93 -
25th Percentile £28.94 £22.44 £51.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.75 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.84% -49.05% -16.67%
75th Percentile - £30.94 £53.75
90th Percentile - £33.38 -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% +57.14% +31.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 2,090 2,715 3,383
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.70% 95.13% 96.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,278 1,947 2,403
10th Percentile £204 £237 £213
25th Percentile £364 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +3.26% +8.24%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 45 54
10th Percentile £12.50 £12.90 £12.24
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.21 £17.50
Median hourly rate £33.25 £23.86 £25.55
Median % change year-on-year +39.35% -6.60% -36.14%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.55 £47.99
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.50 £54.14
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Scotland

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in Scotland

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead in Scotland

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in Scotland

Lead
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Lead in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Lead in Scotland

Lead
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 Lead 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 +22 59 £550 +10.00% 29
Glasgow +17 43 £499 -2.44% 20
Aberdeen +2 3 £600 -4.00% 8
Perthshire +2 3 £506 -11.18%
South Lanarkshire - 3 £550 -
Lanarkshire +3 2 £488 +14.71% 5
West Lothian +1 1 £650 +52.94% 1
Renfrewshire -3 1 £770 +41.28%
Aberdeenshire - 1 - - 6
Lead
UK

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Lead 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 Scotland region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 50 (40.32%) Public Sector
2 46 (37.10%) Agile
3 28 (22.58%) Roadmaps
4 25 (20.16%) Finance
5 24 (19.35%) Decision-Making
6 23 (18.55%) Scrum
7 21 (16.94%) Social Skills
8 20 (16.13%) Coaching
9 19 (15.32%) Analytical Skills
9 19 (15.32%) JIRA
10 18 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (12.90%) Risk Management
12 15 (12.10%) Stakeholder Management
12 15 (12.10%) Mentoring
12 15 (12.10%) Disclosure Scotland
12 15 (12.10%) AWS
13 14 (11.29%) Azure
14 13 (10.48%) Software Engineering
14 13 (10.48%) Oracle
14 13 (10.48%) Project Management
15 12 (9.68%) React
15 12 (9.68%) Analytics
15 12 (9.68%) Scaled Agile Framework
16 11 (8.87%) Accessibility
16 11 (8.87%) Test Automation
16 11 (8.87%) JavaScript
17 10 (8.06%) Degree
17 10 (8.06%) Cybersecurity
17 10 (8.06%) TypeScript
17 10 (8.06%) DevOps

Lead Skill Set
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 7 (5.65%) Confluence
2 4 (3.23%) IIS
3 2 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.81%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.42%) Oracle Assets
1 3 (2.42%) Oracle Cash Management
1 3 (2.42%) Oracle ERP
1 3 (2.42%) Oracle Payables
1 3 (2.42%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.61%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.81%) Maximo
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.81%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.81%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.81%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (12.10%) AWS
2 14 (11.29%) Azure
3 9 (7.26%) Serverless
4 8 (6.45%) Amazon S3
4 8 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (5.65%) OCI
6 6 (4.84%) Snowflake
7 4 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (3.23%) Power Platform
8 3 (2.42%) CloudFront
8 3 (2.42%) npm
8 3 (2.42%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.61%) GCP
9 2 (1.61%) Nutanix
9 2 (1.61%) SaaS
9 2 (1.61%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.81%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.81%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.23%) LAN
1 4 (3.23%) WAN
2 3 (2.42%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.26%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.84%) Tableau
3 5 (4.03%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.23%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (3.23%) Power BI
5 3 (2.42%) Big Data
6 2 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.61%) DB2
6 2 (1.61%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.61%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.81%) Informix
7 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.81%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 19 (15.32%) JIRA
2 4 (3.23%) Cypress.io
3 3 (2.42%) Cucumber
3 3 (2.42%) JMeter
3 3 (2.42%) JUnit
3 3 (2.42%) LoadRunner
3 3 (2.42%) Mockito
3 3 (2.42%) Selenium
3 3 (2.42%) webpack
4 2 (1.61%) Capybara
4 2 (1.61%) CircleCI
4 2 (1.61%) ER Studio
4 2 (1.61%) GitLab
4 2 (1.61%) Gradle
4 2 (1.61%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.61%) LabVIEW
4 2 (1.61%) Maven
General
1 50 (40.32%) Public Sector
2 25 (20.16%) Finance
3 21 (16.94%) Social Skills
4 19 (15.32%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (6.45%) Legal
6 4 (3.23%) Banking
6 4 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.61%) Electronics
7 2 (1.61%) Law
7 2 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.61%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.81%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.68%) React
2 8 (6.45%) CSS
2 8 (6.45%) HTML
3 7 (5.65%) AWS CDK
4 3 (2.42%) GraphQL
4 3 (2.42%) Node.js
4 3 (2.42%) OAuth
4 3 (2.42%) PySpark
4 3 (2.42%) REST
5 2 (1.61%) .NET
5 2 (1.61%) Spring
5 2 (1.61%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.61%) WebKit
6 1 (0.81%) EJB
6 1 (0.81%) Kafka
6 1 (0.81%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.81%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.81%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.81%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.26%) Management Information System
2 7 (5.65%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.84%) Credit Risk
4 4 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.23%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.42%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.61%) ASIC
6 2 (1.61%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.61%) Wiki
7 1 (0.81%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.81%) Equities
7 1 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.81%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.81%) Replication
7 1 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.84%) Windows
2 4 (3.23%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.61%) Linux
3 2 (1.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (37.10%) Agile
2 28 (22.58%) Roadmaps
3 24 (19.35%) Decision-Making
4 23 (18.55%) Scrum
5 20 (16.13%) Coaching
6 18 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (12.90%) Risk Management
8 15 (12.10%) Mentoring
8 15 (12.10%) Stakeholder Management
9 13 (10.48%) Project Management
9 13 (10.48%) Software Engineering
10 12 (9.68%) Analytics
10 12 (9.68%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 11 (8.87%) Test Automation
12 10 (8.06%) Cybersecurity
12 10 (8.06%) DevOps
12 10 (8.06%) Project Delivery
12 10 (8.06%) Release Train
13 9 (7.26%) CI/CD
13 9 (7.26%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 11 (8.87%) JavaScript
2 10 (8.06%) TypeScript
3 9 (7.26%) Python
4 8 (6.45%) Java
5 6 (4.84%) SQL
6 3 (2.42%) Bash
6 3 (2.42%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.61%) Ruby
7 2 (1.61%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.81%) C#
8 1 (0.81%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (8.06%) Degree
2 5 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (4.03%) Master's Degree
2 5 (4.03%) SC Cleared
2 5 (4.03%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.23%) CCNA
3 4 (3.23%) CCNP
3 4 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (2.42%) CGEIT
4 3 (2.42%) CISA
4 3 (2.42%) CISM
4 3 (2.42%) CISSP
4 3 (2.42%) CRISC
4 3 (2.42%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 2 (1.61%) PMP
6 1 (0.81%) ISEB
6 1 (0.81%) ISEB Practitioner
6 1 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.81%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.10%) Disclosure Scotland
2 11 (8.87%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (4.03%) PCI DSS
4 5 (4.03%) QA
5 4 (3.23%) WCAG
6 3 (2.42%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (2.42%) NIST
7 2 (1.61%) GDPR
7 2 (1.61%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.61%) PMO
8 1 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.81%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.81%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.81%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (4.03%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.23%) SCCM
2 3 (2.42%) Grafana
3 2 (1.61%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.81%) Ansible
4 1 (0.81%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 13 (10.48%) Oracle
2 6 (4.84%) Alteryx
2 6 (4.84%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.84%) VMware
3 5 (4.03%) SAP
4 4 (3.23%) F5
5 2 (1.61%) Databricks
5 2 (1.61%) Greenplum
5 2 (1.61%) IDERA
5 2 (1.61%) Workday
6 1 (0.81%) Ariba
6 1 (0.81%) Google
6 1 (0.81%) IFS
6 1 (0.81%) MuleSoft