Technical Leadership Contracts in Scotland

Technical Leadership
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Technical Leadership skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Technical Leadership over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 116 135
Rank change year-on-year +5 +19 -29
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 18 50 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.82% 1.77% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 1.92% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 35 33
10th Percentile £365 £511 £488
25th Percentile £408 £519 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £538 £625 £588
90th Percentile £619 £650 £609
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £28.72 £66.71 £75.00
% change year-on-year -56.96% -11.05% +87.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Technical Leadership 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 1,942 2,610 3,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.68% 92.55% 93.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,171 1,872 2,340
10th Percentile £228 £260 £244
25th Percentile £399 £406 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £588 £560 £550
90th Percentile £663 £650 £624
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 55 47
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.32
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.78 £20.38
Median hourly rate £18.79 £17.21 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.18% -56.98% -
75th Percentile £40.94 £50.74 £49.15
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.94 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Technical Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in Scotland

Technical Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leadership in Scotland

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in Scotland over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in Scotland

Technical Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leadership in Scotland

Technical Leadership
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 Technical Leadership within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 3 May 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 +23 7 £500 -8.26% 9
Glasgow -9 7 £480 -21.95% 3
Renfrewshire - 1 - - 1
Technical Leadership
UK

Technical Leadership
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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) AWS
2 6 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 5 (27.78%) Serverless
4 4 (22.22%) Amazon S3
4 4 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (22.22%) Azure
4 4 (22.22%) IaaS
4 4 (22.22%) PaaS
5 3 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (16.67%) iPaaS
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
6 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) LAN
1 3 (16.67%) WAN
2 1 (5.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (5.56%) Informix
4 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Git
1 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 3 (16.67%) Cypress.io
3 1 (5.56%) Gradle
3 1 (5.56%) Maven
General
1 9 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Lead
1 6 (33.33%) Technical Leader
2 5 (27.78%) Architect
3 3 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Technical Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Technical Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.56%) SQL Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) AWS CDK
2 4 (22.22%) CSS
2 4 (22.22%) HTML
2 4 (22.22%) React
2 4 (22.22%) Web Services
3 3 (16.67%) .NET
3 3 (16.67%) J2EE
3 3 (16.67%) RESTful
4 1 (5.56%) EJB
4 1 (5.56%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Client/Server
1 3 (16.67%) N-Tier
2 2 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Low-Code
3 1 (5.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Unix
2 3 (16.67%) VMS
3 1 (5.56%) Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Agile
1 7 (38.89%) Continuous Improvement
1 7 (38.89%) Roadmaps
2 5 (27.78%) Coaching
2 5 (27.78%) DevOps
2 5 (27.78%) Mentoring
3 4 (22.22%) Architecture Governance
3 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
3 4 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (22.22%) Enterprise Architecture
3 4 (22.22%) High Availability
3 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (22.22%) Microservices
3 4 (22.22%) Project Delivery
3 4 (22.22%) SOA
4 3 (16.67%) Inclusive Design
4 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (16.67%) Product Management
4 3 (16.67%) Release Management
4 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) SQL
1 5 (27.78%) TypeScript
2 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.11%) Python
4 1 (5.56%) Bash
4 1 (5.56%) Groovy
4 1 (5.56%) Java
4 1 (5.56%) Ruby
4 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) Accessibility
2 2 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
1 3 (16.67%) Hyper-V
1 3 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Ansible
1 2 (11.11%) Grafana
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (5.56%) McAfee
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle