Thought Leadership Contracts in Scotland

Thought Leadership
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Thought Leadership skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Thought Leadership over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 152 168
Rank change year-on-year +28 +16 -16
Contract jobs citing Thought Leadership 6 11 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.27% 0.38% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.42% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 5
10th Percentile £211 £640 £530
25th Percentile £363 £663 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £700 £625
Median % change year-on-year -44.64% +12.00% +35.14%
75th Percentile £400 - £706
90th Percentile £440 £873 £823
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Thought Leadership is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,976 2,647 3,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.57% 92.62% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,202 1,908 2,318
10th Percentile £233 £260 £243
25th Percentile £400 £406 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £554 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 56 49
10th Percentile £12.38 £10.63 £14.94
25th Percentile £16.00 £12.04 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £17.72 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.05% -46.30% -21.43%
75th Percentile £44.47 £53.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.03 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -

Thought Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Thought Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Thought Leadership in Scotland

Thought Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Thought Leadership in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Thought Leadership in Scotland

Thought Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Thought Leadership in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Thought Leadership in Scotland

Thought Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Thought Leadership in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Thought Leadership in Scotland

Thought 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 Thought Leadership within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Glasgow +8 3 £400 - 4
West Lothian - 1 £60 -
Thought Leadership
UK

Thought Leadership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (33.33%) Canva
2 2 (33.33%) Slack
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) DB2
1 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) CircleCI
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (33.33%) Law
2 2 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Content Manager
1 2 (33.33%) IT Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Scrum Master
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
1 2 (33.33%) Video Editing
2 1 (16.67%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (50.00%) Scrum
1 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) Channel Management
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Content Development
2 2 (33.33%) Copywriting
2 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Digital Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
2 2 (33.33%) Logistics
2 2 (33.33%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) OOP
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) Refactoring
2 2 (33.33%) SOLID
2 2 (33.33%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) PMO
2 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Greenplum
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft