Technical Leadership Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Technical Leadership
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland 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 84 80 115
Rank change year-on-year -4 +35 +7
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 29 36 25
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 1.84% 2.10% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.08% 2.38% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 22 17
10th Percentile £438 £395 £486
25th Percentile £494 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £592 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.86% +12.71% -3.67%
75th Percentile £555 £670 £580
90th Percentile £603 £701 £658
UK median daily rate £575 £603 £600
% change year-on-year -4.56% +0.42% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £62.00
25th Percentile - - £65.00
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £65.00 £18.93
% change year-on-year +15.38% +243.37% -69.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,393 1,513 2,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.28% 88.22% 90.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 795 888 1,362
10th Percentile £239 £221 £250
25th Percentile £384 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -9.55% +4.74%
75th Percentile £550 £541 £588
90th Percentile £625 £651 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 46 57
10th Percentile £14.93 £15.11 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.98 £18.77 £16.50
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.94 £19.18
Median % change year-on-year -12.81% +19.59% +3.68%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £55.00
90th Percentile £53.00 £31.44 £67.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.21% -22.94% +21.43%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in Scotland

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in Scotland

Technical Leadership
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Technical Leadership
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leadership within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 6 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +3 17 £529 -7.99% 11
Glasgow -2 12 £528 -9.21% 6
Aberdeen - 3 £445 - 3
Technical Leadership
UK

Technical Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (3.45%) Apache
1 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 14 (48.28%) AWS
2 8 (27.59%) Amazon S3
2 8 (27.59%) AWS Lambda
2 8 (27.59%) Serverless
3 7 (24.14%) Azure
4 5 (17.24%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (13.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (13.79%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (13.79%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (13.79%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (6.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (6.90%) GitHub
6 2 (6.90%) OpenShift
6 2 (6.90%) Power Platform
6 2 (6.90%) Textract
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Cognitive Search
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 1 (3.45%) Datadog
7 1 (3.45%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) VoIP
2 2 (6.90%) HTTP
3 1 (3.45%) Firewall
3 1 (3.45%) Network Security
3 1 (3.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.90%) Power BI
3 1 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.45%) DB2
3 1 (3.45%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.45%) Metadata
3 1 (3.45%) MySQL
3 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Cypress.io
1 2 (6.90%) Git
1 2 (6.90%) GitLab
1 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.45%) JUnit
2 1 (3.45%) MLflow
2 1 (3.45%) Mockito
2 1 (3.45%) Storybook
General
1 9 (31.03%) Public Sector
2 6 (20.69%) Finance
2 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Legal
3 2 (6.90%) Marketing
4 1 (3.45%) Banking
4 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Architect
2 5 (17.24%) Senior
3 4 (13.79%) Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Lead
3 4 (13.79%) Technical Leader
4 3 (10.34%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Telephony Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Data Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Python Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Salesforce Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Java Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (24.14%) AWS CDK
1 7 (24.14%) PyTorch
2 5 (17.24%) boto
2 5 (17.24%) Hugging Face
2 5 (17.24%) NumPy
2 5 (17.24%) OAuth
2 5 (17.24%) OpenCV
2 5 (17.24%) Pandas
2 5 (17.24%) SQLAlchemy
3 4 (13.79%) .NET
3 4 (13.79%) JWT
3 4 (13.79%) React
3 4 (13.79%) REST
4 3 (10.34%) CSS
4 3 (10.34%) FastAPI
4 3 (10.34%) HTML
4 3 (10.34%) RESTful
5 2 (6.90%) SpaCy
5 2 (6.90%) Spring
5 2 (6.90%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Data Structures
2 4 (13.79%) Algorithms
3 3 (10.34%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.45%) Educational Technology
5 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Linux
1 1 (3.45%) Unix
1 1 (3.45%) Windows
1 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (41.38%) Agile
2 9 (31.03%) Machine Learning
3 8 (27.59%) AI
3 8 (27.59%) OCR
4 7 (24.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (24.14%) Scrum
5 6 (20.69%) CI/CD
5 6 (20.69%) DevOps
5 6 (20.69%) Kanban
5 6 (20.69%) OOP
5 6 (20.69%) Software Engineering
6 5 (17.24%) ETL
6 5 (17.24%) LLM
6 5 (17.24%) Migration
6 5 (17.24%) Roadmaps
7 4 (13.79%) Async-Await
7 4 (13.79%) Code Quality
7 4 (13.79%) Community of Practice
7 4 (13.79%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 8 (27.59%) Python
2 5 (17.24%) Java
2 5 (17.24%) TypeScript
3 1 (3.45%) C#
3 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) Degree
2 3 (10.34%) AWS Certification
2 3 (10.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.45%) CISSP
3 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.45%) Postgraduate
3 1 (3.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (27.59%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.90%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.45%) GDPR
3 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 4 (13.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) Kubernetes
2 5 (17.24%) Grafana
3 4 (13.79%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (31.03%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.24%) Cisco
3 2 (6.90%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.45%) Adobe
4 1 (3.45%) Facebook
4 1 (3.45%) Google
4 1 (3.45%) Meraki
4 1 (3.45%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.45%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud