Technical Leadership Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Technical Leadership
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 62 74
Rank change year-on-year -2 +12 -5
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 12 17 7
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.58% 2.26% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.82% 2.53% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 6
10th Percentile £435 £458 £461
25th Percentile £438 £513 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £581 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.21% +13.37% -18.00%
75th Percentile £576 £625 £538
90th Percentile £603 £700 £623
Scotland median daily rate £528 £592 £525
% change year-on-year -10.86% +12.71% -3.67%

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 659 673 800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 86.94% 89.38% 90.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 436 533
10th Percentile £300 £308 £350
25th Percentile £381 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £445 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.24% -11.10% +5.26%
75th Percentile £539 £541 £626
90th Percentile £625 £675 £700
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £498
% change year-on-year +2.78% -9.55% +4.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 17
10th Percentile £15.16 £16.75 £12.08
25th Percentile £17.18 £17.32 £12.13
Median hourly rate £26.21 £19.59 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +33.79% +10.55% -40.38%
75th Percentile £47.45 £26.86 £19.50
90th Percentile £60.00 £40.10 £36.70
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.94 £19.18
% change year-on-year -12.81% +19.59% +3.68%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Technical Leadership relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in Glasgow

Technical Leadership
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) GitHub
2 2 (16.67%) Serverless
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (8.33%) Datadog
3 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (8.33%) DB2
1 1 (8.33%) DynamoDB
1 1 (8.33%) MySQL
1 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) JUnit
2 1 (8.33%) Mockito
General
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
1 2 (16.67%) Marketing
1 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Architect
1 5 (41.67%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) Telephony Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Salesforce Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Java Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Java Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Unified Communications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) OAuth
1 2 (16.67%) REST
1 2 (16.67%) Spring
1 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Camel
2 1 (8.33%) AWS CDK
2 1 (8.33%) FastAPI
2 1 (8.33%) Hugging Face
2 1 (8.33%) JSON
2 1 (8.33%) JWT
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) NumPy
2 1 (8.33%) OAuth2
2 1 (8.33%) OpenCV
2 1 (8.33%) OpenID
2 1 (8.33%) PyTorch
2 1 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (8.33%) RESTful
2 1 (8.33%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Educational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Agile
1 3 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
1 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (16.67%) Data Architecture
2 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (16.67%) ERP
2 2 (16.67%) ETL
2 2 (16.67%) Kanban
2 2 (16.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (16.67%) OOP
2 2 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (16.67%) Scrum
2 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (8.33%) Biometrics
3 1 (8.33%) CRM
3 1 (8.33%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Postgraduate
3 1 (8.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Cisco CUCM
2 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (8.33%) Grafana
3 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) Cisco
3 2 (16.67%) Salesforce
4 1 (8.33%) Facebook
4 1 (8.33%) Google
4 1 (8.33%) MuleSoft
4 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud