Technical Leadership Contracts in Edinburgh

Technical Leadership
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Technical Leadership skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Technical Leadership over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 64 92
Rank change year-on-year +2 +28 +11
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 5 8 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.80% 0.98% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 1.11% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 14
10th Percentile £505 £409 £507
25th Percentile £513 £432 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £563 £545
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +3.21% -0.91%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £598
90th Percentile - £671 £625
Scotland median daily rate £600 £505 £575
% change year-on-year +18.81% -12.17% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Technical Leadership falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in Edinburgh

Technical Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leadership in Edinburgh

Technical Leadership
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 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Serverless
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) BrowserStack
3 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (20.00%) PaaS
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Appium
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) Storybook
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Architect
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Developer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Developer
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) React Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (20.00%) Ionic Framework
1 1 (20.00%) Jest
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
1 1 (20.00%) Playwright
1 1 (20.00%) React Native
1 1 (20.00%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (20.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) Cost Management
2 2 (40.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (40.00%) Database Migration
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Business Case
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) Kanban
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) Groovy
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle