Lead Contracts in Edinburgh

Leader
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Leader daily rate in Edinburgh is £550 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 19 41 39
Rank change year-on-year +22 -2 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 59 81 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 7.29% 6.28% 5.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.64% 6.57% 6.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 60 90
10th Percentile £409 £298 £407
25th Percentile £471 £409 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £670 £574 £638
90th Percentile £749 £659 £800
Scotland median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £25.30 - -
25th Percentile £28.94 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £26.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year +30.84% -49.05% -16.67%

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 772 1,233 1,868
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.43% 95.58% 96.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 880 1,282
10th Percentile £204 £249 £230
25th Percentile £404 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £542 £555
90th Percentile £663 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £460
% change year-on-year - +3.26% +8.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 13 23
10th Percentile £16.10 £14.07 £11.98
25th Percentile £17.86 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £21.26 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +135.18% -1.12% -62.61%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £64.90 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £33.25 £23.86 £25.55
% change year-on-year +39.35% -6.60% -36.14%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Edinburgh

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in Edinburgh

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead in Edinburgh

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in Edinburgh

Lead
Hourly Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate histogram for Lead in Edinburgh

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

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 Edinburgh region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 37 (62.71%) Public Sector
2 20 (33.90%) Agile
3 14 (23.73%) Roadmaps
4 13 (22.03%) JIRA
5 12 (20.34%) Coaching
5 12 (20.34%) Disclosure Scotland
6 10 (16.95%) Mentoring
6 10 (16.95%) Project Delivery
6 10 (16.95%) Social Skills
6 10 (16.95%) Finance
7 9 (15.25%) Risk Management
7 9 (15.25%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (15.25%) Scrum
8 8 (13.56%) Azure
8 8 (13.56%) Decision-Making
9 7 (11.86%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 7 (11.86%) User Research
9 7 (11.86%) Design Patterns
9 7 (11.86%) Usability Testing
9 7 (11.86%) Project Management
9 7 (11.86%) Oracle
10 6 (10.17%) Windows
10 6 (10.17%) VMware
10 6 (10.17%) Test Automation
10 6 (10.17%) Release Train
10 6 (10.17%) Accessibility
10 6 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (10.17%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (10.17%) DevOps
10 6 (10.17%) Test Strategy

Lead 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (8.47%) Confluence
2 4 (6.78%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 8 (13.56%) Azure
2 5 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (6.78%) OCI
4 3 (5.08%) AWS
5 2 (3.39%) GCP
5 2 (3.39%) Nutanix
5 2 (3.39%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.39%) SaaS
6 1 (1.69%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.69%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.78%) LAN
1 4 (6.78%) WAN
2 3 (5.08%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.78%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.08%) Big Data
3 2 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.39%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (3.39%) Power BI
3 2 (3.39%) Star Schema
4 1 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (22.03%) JIRA
2 3 (5.08%) JMeter
2 3 (5.08%) LoadRunner
2 3 (5.08%) Selenium
3 2 (3.39%) ER Studio
3 2 (3.39%) LabVIEW
4 1 (1.69%) Capybara
4 1 (1.69%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.69%) Gradle
4 1 (1.69%) Maven
General
1 37 (62.71%) Public Sector
2 10 (16.95%) Finance
2 10 (16.95%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.78%) Banking
4 4 (6.78%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (3.39%) Electronics
6 1 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.78%) React
2 2 (3.39%) .NET
2 2 (3.39%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.69%) CSS
3 1 (1.69%) HTML
3 1 (1.69%) Kafka
3 1 (1.69%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (1.69%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.69%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.69%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.69%) WebKit
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.08%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (5.08%) Product Ownership
1 3 (5.08%) Public Cloud
2 2 (3.39%) ASIC
2 2 (3.39%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (3.39%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.39%) Wiki
3 1 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.69%) Equities
3 1 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.17%) Windows
2 4 (6.78%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (33.90%) Agile
2 14 (23.73%) Roadmaps
3 12 (20.34%) Coaching
4 10 (16.95%) Mentoring
4 10 (16.95%) Project Delivery
5 9 (15.25%) Risk Management
5 9 (15.25%) Scrum
5 9 (15.25%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (13.56%) Decision-Making
7 7 (11.86%) Design Patterns
7 7 (11.86%) Project Management
7 7 (11.86%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 7 (11.86%) Usability Testing
7 7 (11.86%) User Research
8 6 (10.17%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (10.17%) DevOps
8 6 (10.17%) Non-Functional Testing
8 6 (10.17%) Release Train
8 6 (10.17%) Test Automation
8 6 (10.17%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.47%) Python
2 3 (5.08%) Bash
2 3 (5.08%) JavaScript
2 3 (5.08%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.39%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.69%) Java
4 1 (1.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (8.47%) Degree
2 4 (6.78%) CCNA
2 4 (6.78%) CCNP
2 4 (6.78%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.08%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.69%) ISEB
4 1 (1.69%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (20.34%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (10.17%) Accessibility
3 5 (8.47%) QA
4 4 (6.78%) WCAG
5 3 (5.08%) PCI DSS
6 2 (3.39%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (1.69%) ISO 20022
7 1 (1.69%) ISO 8583
7 1 (1.69%) PMO
7 1 (1.69%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (8.47%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (6.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (6.78%) SCCM
2 1 (1.69%) Grafana
2 1 (1.69%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (11.86%) Oracle
2 6 (10.17%) VMware
3 5 (8.47%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.78%) F5
5 2 (3.39%) Databricks
5 2 (3.39%) IDERA
6 1 (1.69%) Google
6 1 (1.69%) MuleSoft