Lead Contracts in Glasgow

Leader
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Leader daily rate in Glasgow is £499 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 41 58 30
Rank change year-on-year +17 -28 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 43 28 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 4.90% 3.06% 6.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.16% 3.21% 6.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 20 46
10th Percentile £288 £390 £408
25th Percentile £438 £414 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £499 £511 £465
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +9.95% +10.71%
75th Percentile £538 £678 £565
90th Percentile £631 £723 £649
Scotland median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £26.75 -
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
Glasgow

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Glasgow. 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 Glasgow with a recognized job title 834 872 979
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.10% 95.30% 96.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 549 645 745
10th Percentile £270 £313 £209
25th Percentile £378 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +10.43%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £538
90th Percentile £675 £701 £600
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £460
% change year-on-year - +3.26% +8.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 16 11
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.00 £17.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £13.97 £21.00
Median hourly rate £24.26 £28.75 £25.28
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +13.75% +13.60%
75th Percentile £47.35 £58.75 £41.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £63.56 £48.00
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 Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Glasgow

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in Glasgow

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead in Glasgow

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in Glasgow

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

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 Glasgow region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 16 (37.21%) Agile
2 14 (32.56%) Finance
3 13 (30.23%) Decision-Making
4 12 (27.91%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (25.58%) Software Engineering
5 11 (25.58%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (20.93%) Scrum
7 8 (18.60%) ERP
7 8 (18.60%) AWS
7 8 (18.60%) Analytics
7 8 (18.60%) CI/CD
8 7 (16.28%) Public Sector
9 6 (13.95%) Community of Practice
9 6 (13.95%) Serverless
9 6 (13.95%) Actionable Insight
9 6 (13.95%) Social Skills
9 6 (13.95%) Snowflake
9 6 (13.95%) Full Stack Development
9 6 (13.95%) TypeScript
9 6 (13.95%) Alteryx
9 6 (13.95%) Tableau
9 6 (13.95%) Dashboard Development
9 6 (13.95%) SQL
9 6 (13.95%) Oracle
9 6 (13.95%) Credit Risk
9 6 (13.95%) Legal
10 5 (11.63%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (11.63%) Management Information System
10 5 (11.63%) HTML
10 5 (11.63%) Java

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 2 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (4.65%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Oracle Assets
1 3 (6.98%) Oracle Cash Management
1 3 (6.98%) Oracle ERP
1 3 (6.98%) Oracle Payables
1 3 (6.98%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (2.33%) Maximo
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 8 (18.60%) AWS
2 6 (13.95%) Serverless
2 6 (13.95%) Snowflake
3 5 (11.63%) Amazon S3
3 5 (11.63%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (6.98%) CloudFront
4 3 (6.98%) npm
4 3 (6.98%) OCI
5 2 (4.65%) Azure
6 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.33%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.95%) Tableau
2 5 (11.63%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (9.30%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (4.65%) DB2
4 2 (4.65%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (4.65%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.33%) Informix
5 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.33%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (9.30%) JIRA
2 3 (6.98%) Cucumber
2 3 (6.98%) JUnit
2 3 (6.98%) Mockito
2 3 (6.98%) webpack
3 2 (4.65%) CircleCI
3 2 (4.65%) Cypress.io
3 2 (4.65%) GitLab
3 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (32.56%) Finance
2 11 (25.58%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (16.28%) Public Sector
4 6 (13.95%) Legal
4 6 (13.95%) Social Skills
5 4 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.65%) Law
6 2 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.63%) CSS
1 5 (11.63%) HTML
1 5 (11.63%) React
2 3 (6.98%) AWS CDK
2 3 (6.98%) GraphQL
2 3 (6.98%) Node.js
2 3 (6.98%) OAuth
2 3 (6.98%) PySpark
2 3 (6.98%) REST
3 2 (4.65%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) Credit Risk
2 5 (11.63%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.65%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (4.65%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (37.21%) Agile
2 13 (30.23%) Decision-Making
3 12 (27.91%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (25.58%) Software Engineering
5 9 (20.93%) Scrum
6 8 (18.60%) Analytics
6 8 (18.60%) CI/CD
6 8 (18.60%) ERP
7 6 (13.95%) Actionable Insight
7 6 (13.95%) Community of Practice
7 6 (13.95%) Dashboard Development
7 6 (13.95%) Full Stack Development
8 5 (11.63%) Coaching
9 4 (9.30%) Data Security
9 4 (9.30%) Mentoring
9 4 (9.30%) Risk Management
9 4 (9.30%) Roadmaps
9 4 (9.30%) Service Delivery
9 4 (9.30%) Test Automation
9 4 (9.30%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.95%) SQL
1 6 (13.95%) TypeScript
2 5 (11.63%) Java
2 5 (11.63%) JavaScript
3 4 (9.30%) Python
4 2 (4.65%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.33%) C#
5 1 (2.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (9.30%) Degree
2 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.65%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.33%) CGEIT
3 1 (2.33%) CISA
3 1 (2.33%) CISM
3 1 (2.33%) CISSP
3 1 (2.33%) CRISC
3 1 (2.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (2.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.65%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (4.65%) GDPR
2 2 (4.65%) HIPAA
2 2 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.33%) NIST
3 1 (2.33%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (2.33%) Ansible
1 1 (2.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (13.95%) Alteryx
1 6 (13.95%) Oracle
2 2 (4.65%) Greenplum
2 2 (4.65%) SAP
2 2 (4.65%) Workday
3 1 (2.33%) IFS