Thought Leadership Contracts in Scotland

Thought Leadership
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Thought Leadership skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Thought 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 110 123 152
Rank change year-on-year +13 +29 +12
Contract jobs citing Thought Leadership 6 6 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.37% 0.27% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.31% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 5
10th Percentile £521 £211 £640
25th Percentile £533 £363 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £388 £700
Median % change year-on-year +47.61% -44.64% +12.00%
75th Percentile £625 £400 -
90th Percentile £648 £440 £873
UK median daily rate £572 £570 £595
% change year-on-year +0.35% -4.20% -8.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Thought 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 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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
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 1 May 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
Glasgow +6 6 £572 +43.00% 33
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:

General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
1 4 (66.67%) ServiceNow Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) JSON
1 4 (66.67%) REST
1 4 (66.67%) SOAP
1 4 (66.67%) Web Services
1 4 (66.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) IT Asset Management
1 4 (66.67%) ITSM
1 4 (66.67%) Security Operations
2 3 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
2 3 (50.00%) Service Management
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 2 (33.33%) Coaching
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Project Management
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 1 (16.67%) IT Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Portfolio Management
4 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
4 1 (16.67%) Programme Management
4 1 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Spotify