Technical Leadership Contracts in Glasgow

Technical Leadership
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 74 63
Rank change year-on-year +12 -11 +16
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 17 8 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 2.13% 0.91% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.28% 0.99% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 15
10th Percentile £517 £357 £555
25th Percentile £562 £374 £567
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £591 £490 £615
Median % change year-on-year +20.51% -20.33% +2.50%
75th Percentile £620 £538 £650
90th Percentile £625 £589 £714
Scotland median daily rate £600 £505 £575
% change year-on-year +18.81% -12.17% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 747 806 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 93.61% 91.90% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 515 629
10th Percentile £311 £280 £325
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £603 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 40 27
10th Percentile £16.18 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.83 £21.13 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +56.50% -66.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.14 £35.00
90th Percentile £76.83 £63.75 £59.47
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 Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in Glasgow

Technical Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leadership in Glasgow

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in Glasgow

Technical Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leadership in Glasgow

Technical Leadership
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 1 (5.88%) Moodle
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon S3
2 2 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) MySQL
2 2 (11.76%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.88%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
1 1 (5.88%) GitLab
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.88%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Banking
2 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.88%) Retail
3 1 (5.88%) Retail Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Developer
1 7 (41.18%) Lead
2 4 (23.53%) Architect
2 4 (23.53%) Lead Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Team Leader
4 1 (5.88%) Applications Developer
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Development Team Leader
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Head of Data Management
4 1 (5.88%) Java Applications Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Moodle Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Payments Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) Spring
1 7 (41.18%) Spring Boot
2 2 (11.76%) AWS CDK
2 2 (11.76%) Middleware
3 1 (5.88%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (5.88%) RESTful
3 1 (5.88%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) CentOS
2 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Microservices
2 8 (47.06%) Mentoring
3 6 (35.29%) Agile
3 6 (35.29%) Cost Reduction
3 6 (35.29%) Knowledge Transfer
3 6 (35.29%) TDD
4 5 (29.41%) Migration
4 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (23.53%) SOA
6 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
6 3 (17.65%) Project Delivery
7 2 (11.76%) Analytics
7 2 (11.76%) Business Case
7 2 (11.76%) Customer Experience
7 2 (11.76%) DevOps
7 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (11.76%) Post-Production
7 2 (11.76%) SDLC
7 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (11.76%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) Java
1 7 (41.18%) JavaScript
2 5 (29.41%) Shell Script
2 5 (29.41%) TypeScript
3 2 (11.76%) Python
4 1 (5.88%) Apex Code
4 1 (5.88%) Bash
4 1 (5.88%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) NCSC
2 1 (5.88%) NIST
2 1 (5.88%) QA
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) Packer
2 1 (5.88%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.88%) Salesforce
1 1 (5.88%) Workday