Lead Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Leader
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Leader daily rate in Glasgow is £447, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 56 47
Rank change year-on-year +15 -9 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 35 25 31
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 4.87% 3.31% 3.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.20% 3.68% 3.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 19 26
10th Percentile £400 £401 £363
25th Percentile £409 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £550 £498
Median % change year-on-year -18.73% +10.55% -13.48%
75th Percentile £703 £633 £547
90th Percentile £734 £712 £750
Scotland median daily rate £475 £572 £525
% change year-on-year -16.89% +8.86% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 673 679 843
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.73% 89.81% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 445 570
10th Percentile £254 £283 £325
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £448 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% -10.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £618
90th Percentile £625 £652 £700
Scotland median daily rate £455 £450 £489
% change year-on-year +1.11% -7.93% +2.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 17
10th Percentile £17.84 £11.78 £12.13
25th Percentile £22.39 £16.75 £15.42
Median hourly rate £26.21 £19.59 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.79% +11.94% +16.67%
75th Percentile £42.32 £24.18 £19.50
90th Percentile £60.97 £37.70 £36.70
Scotland median hourly rate £24.09 £23.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year +4.74% +17.95% +10.05%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Lead' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Lead job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Lead
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Glasgow.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Glasgow

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead in Glasgow over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lead in Glasgow

Lead
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Glasgow.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Glasgow

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 21 December 2025, Lead contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Glasgow region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 15 (42.86%) AWS
2 11 (31.43%) CI/CD
2 11 (31.43%) TypeScript
3 8 (22.86%) Domain-Driven Design
3 8 (22.86%) GitHub
3 8 (22.86%) Kubernetes
3 8 (22.86%) Security Cleared
3 8 (22.86%) TDD
3 8 (22.86%) Terraform
4 7 (20.00%) CircleCI
4 7 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 7 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (20.00%) Grafana
4 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (20.00%) Prometheus
4 7 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 7 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 7 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 7 (20.00%) WebLogic
5 6 (17.14%) Oracle
5 6 (17.14%) SC Cleared
5 6 (17.14%) Technology Strategy
6 5 (14.29%) AI
6 5 (14.29%) Complexity Analysis
6 5 (14.29%) Data Lake
6 5 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (14.29%) Data Science

Lead Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (20.00%) WebLogic
2 3 (8.57%) Apache
2 3 (8.57%) Apache Spark
3 2 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Chatbot
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (42.86%) AWS
2 8 (22.86%) GitHub
3 7 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (11.43%) Amazon SageMaker
5 3 (8.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (8.57%) Power Platform
6 2 (5.71%) Amazon Bedrock
6 2 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (5.71%) Amazon S3
6 2 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (5.71%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (5.71%) Serverless
6 2 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.86%) Azure
7 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) DNS
1 1 (2.86%) Internet
1 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 5 (14.29%) Oracle Database
3 3 (8.57%) Delta Lake
3 3 (8.57%) Power BI
4 2 (5.71%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (5.71%) Tableau
5 1 (2.86%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 7 (20.00%) CircleCI
2 5 (14.29%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (8.57%) MLflow
4 2 (5.71%) GitLab
5 1 (2.86%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.86%) JIRA
5 1 (2.86%) Selenium
General
1 10 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.00%) Finance
3 5 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.43%) Banking
5 3 (8.57%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.86%) Military
7 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.29%) Node.js
2 4 (11.43%) AngularJS
2 4 (11.43%) React
3 3 (8.57%) Next.js
3 3 (8.57%) PySpark
4 2 (5.71%) Hugging Face
4 2 (5.71%) LangChain
5 1 (2.86%) CSS
5 1 (2.86%) Gherkin
5 1 (2.86%) HTML
5 1 (2.86%) Kafka
5 1 (2.86%) Playwright
5 1 (2.86%) Spring
5 1 (2.86%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (14.29%) Algorithms
3 3 (8.57%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.86%) Cyberattack
4 1 (2.86%) Digital Media
4 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.86%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Linux
1 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (31.43%) CI/CD
2 8 (22.86%) Domain-Driven Design
2 8 (22.86%) TDD
3 7 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 7 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 7 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 6 (17.14%) Technology Strategy
5 5 (14.29%) AI
5 5 (14.29%) Complexity Analysis
5 5 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (14.29%) Data Science
5 5 (14.29%) IT Strategy
5 5 (14.29%) Line Management
5 5 (14.29%) Machine Learning
5 5 (14.29%) Migration
6 4 (11.43%) Agile
6 4 (11.43%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 11 (31.43%) TypeScript
2 5 (14.29%) Python
3 3 (8.57%) Java
3 3 (8.57%) SQL
4 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (22.86%) Security Cleared
2 6 (17.14%) SC Cleared
3 5 (14.29%) Degree
4 3 (8.57%) AWS Certification
5 2 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.86%) CBAP
6 1 (2.86%) CISSP
6 1 (2.86%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (2.86%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.71%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.86%) COBIT
3 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.86%) NIST
Systems Management
1 8 (22.86%) Kubernetes
1 8 (22.86%) Terraform
2 7 (20.00%) Grafana
2 7 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (17.14%) Oracle
2 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.57%) Databricks
4 2 (5.71%) MobileIron
4 2 (5.71%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.86%) Remedy
5 1 (2.86%) Splunk
5 1 (2.86%) Veracode