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 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 67 77
Rank change year-on-year +12 +10 +17
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 13 11 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.02% 1.27% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% 1.49% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 17
10th Percentile £485 £402 £470
25th Percentile £500 £409 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% -9.52% -3.67%
75th Percentile £731 £538 £555
90th Percentile £788 £664 £618
Scotland median daily rate £530 £450 £545
% change year-on-year +17.78% -17.43% -0.91%

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 611 738 1,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.02% 85.42% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 412 756
10th Percentile £224 £213 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -2.06%
75th Percentile £531 £550 £538
90th Percentile £600 £650 £600
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 28 6
10th Percentile £16.93 £13.24 £17.21
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.96 £21.36
Median hourly rate £17.59 £18.77 £32.09
Median % change year-on-year -6.33% -41.49% +42.92%
75th Percentile £32.73 £38.00 £51.25
90th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £58.13
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £19.94 £18.33
% change year-on-year +0.31% +8.80% -51.04%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 7 (53.85%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) AWS
3 3 (23.08%) Azure AI
3 3 (23.08%) Azure Cognitive Search
3 3 (23.08%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) Serverless
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
4 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.69%) BrowserStack
5 1 (7.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) Network Security
1 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Metadata
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (15.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Cypress.io
2 1 (7.69%) Appium
2 1 (7.69%) Storybook
General
1 7 (53.85%) Public Sector
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Legal
4 2 (15.38%) Banking
5 1 (7.69%) Digital Health
5 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Data Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Lead
3 3 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Technical Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Technical Leader
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Data Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Principal Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Principal Data Architect
5 1 (7.69%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) React
2 3 (23.08%) .NET
2 3 (23.08%) RESTful
3 2 (15.38%) AWS CDK
3 2 (15.38%) CSS
3 2 (15.38%) HTML
4 1 (7.69%) Ionic Framework
4 1 (7.69%) Jest
4 1 (7.69%) Next.js
4 1 (7.69%) Playwright
4 1 (7.69%) React Native
4 1 (7.69%) REST
4 1 (7.69%) Spring
4 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
4 1 (7.69%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Cloud Native
1 3 (23.08%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Agile
1 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
1 7 (53.85%) DevOps
2 4 (30.77%) Data Architecture
2 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) API Design
3 3 (23.08%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (23.08%) Data Governance
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (23.08%) Machine Learning
3 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
3 3 (23.08%) OCR
3 3 (23.08%) Product Management
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (15.38%) Data Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Observability
4 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
4 2 (15.38%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) C#
1 3 (23.08%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
3 1 (7.69%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
1 1 (7.69%) CISSP
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) Accessibility
2 2 (15.38%) GDPR
3 1 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (7.69%) WCAG
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) OpenAI