Lead Contracts in Scotland

Leader
UK > Scotland

The median Leader daily rate in Scotland is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 49 31
Rank change year-on-year +15 -18 0
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 119 148 213
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 5.49% 5.36% 6.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.81% 5.61% 6.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 111 162
10th Percentile £389 £304 £408
25th Percentile £463 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £511
Median % change year-on-year - -2.20% +8.78%
75th Percentile £616 £575 £588
90th Percentile £710 £675 £736
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £18.23 £19.93 -
25th Percentile £21.03 £22.44 £51.25
Median hourly rate £25.69 £26.75 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.98% -49.05% -16.67%
75th Percentile £30.34 £30.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £33.14 £33.38 -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £52.97 £40.01
% change year-on-year -5.61% +32.39% +50.13%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 2,047 2,638 3,272
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.42% 95.48% 95.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,248 1,870 2,322
10th Percentile £200 £232 £214
25th Percentile £363 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 44 53
10th Percentile £12.31 £12.86 £15.53
25th Percentile £16.19 £14.44 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.90 £22.13 £26.85
Median % change year-on-year +26.08% -17.60% -30.71%
75th Percentile £60.00 £59.41 £48.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £68.38 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Scotland

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in Scotland

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead in Scotland

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in Scotland

Lead
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Lead in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Lead in Scotland

Lead
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 Lead within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Edinburgh +18 56 £550 +10.00% 29
Glasgow +21 41 £498 -2.69% 22
Aberdeen +4 5 £550 -12.00% 10
Perthshire 0 3 £506 -11.18%
South Lanarkshire - 3 £550 -
Lanarkshire +4 2 £488 +14.71% 7
West Lothian -2 1 £650 +52.94% 2
Renfrewshire -3 1 £770 +40.00%
Aberdeenshire - 1 - - 4
Fife - 1 - -
Lead
UK

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, Lead contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 48 (40.34%) Public Sector
2 39 (32.77%) Agile
3 25 (21.01%) Finance
4 24 (20.17%) Social Skills
5 23 (19.33%) Roadmaps
5 23 (19.33%) Decision-Making
6 22 (18.49%) Scrum
7 19 (15.97%) JIRA
8 18 (15.13%) Stakeholder Management
9 17 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
9 17 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (13.45%) Coaching
10 16 (13.45%) Risk Management
11 15 (12.61%) Disclosure Scotland
12 14 (11.76%) Azure
13 13 (10.92%) Oracle
13 13 (10.92%) Project Management
14 12 (10.08%) Analytics
14 12 (10.08%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 12 (10.08%) Project Delivery
15 10 (8.40%) Release Train
15 10 (8.40%) Cybersecurity
15 10 (8.40%) Continuous Improvement
15 10 (8.40%) Mentoring
15 10 (8.40%) DevOps
15 10 (8.40%) Change Management
15 10 (8.40%) Software Engineering
16 9 (7.56%) ERP
16 9 (7.56%) Degree
16 9 (7.56%) CI/CD

Lead Skill Set
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 7 (5.88%) Confluence
2 2 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.68%) IIS
3 1 (0.84%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.84%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.52%) Oracle Assets
1 3 (2.52%) Oracle Cash Management
1 3 (2.52%) Oracle ERP
1 3 (2.52%) Oracle Payables
1 3 (2.52%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.68%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.84%) Maximo
3 1 (0.84%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.84%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.84%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.84%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.84%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (11.76%) Azure
2 8 (6.72%) AWS
2 8 (6.72%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (5.88%) OCI
4 6 (5.04%) Snowflake
5 4 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (3.36%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.36%) Serverless
5 4 (3.36%) SuccessFactors
6 3 (2.52%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.52%) CloudFront
6 3 (2.52%) npm
7 2 (1.68%) GCP
7 2 (1.68%) Nutanix
7 2 (1.68%) SaaS
8 1 (0.84%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.84%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.68%) LAN
1 2 (1.68%) SAN
1 2 (1.68%) WAN
2 1 (0.84%) 4G
2 1 (0.84%) 5G
2 1 (0.84%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.04%) Tableau
2 4 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (3.36%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.36%) Power BI
3 3 (2.52%) Big Data
4 2 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.68%) DB2
4 2 (1.68%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.68%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.68%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.84%) Informix
5 1 (0.84%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.84%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 19 (15.97%) JIRA
2 3 (2.52%) Cucumber
2 3 (2.52%) JMeter
2 3 (2.52%) JUnit
2 3 (2.52%) LoadRunner
2 3 (2.52%) Mockito
2 3 (2.52%) Selenium
2 3 (2.52%) webpack
3 2 (1.68%) Capybara
3 2 (1.68%) CircleCI
3 2 (1.68%) ER Studio
3 2 (1.68%) GitLab
3 2 (1.68%) Gradle
3 2 (1.68%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.68%) Maven
4 1 (0.84%) LabVIEW
General
1 48 (40.34%) Public Sector
2 25 (21.01%) Finance
3 24 (20.17%) Social Skills
4 17 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.72%) Legal
6 6 (5.04%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.36%) Banking
7 4 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.68%) Law
9 2 (1.68%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.68%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.84%) Electronics
10 1 (0.84%) Local Government
10 1 (0.84%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.84%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.88%) React
2 3 (2.52%) CSS
2 3 (2.52%) GraphQL
2 3 (2.52%) HTML
2 3 (2.52%) Node.js
2 3 (2.52%) OAuth
2 3 (2.52%) PySpark
2 3 (2.52%) REST
3 2 (1.68%) .NET
3 2 (1.68%) Spring
3 2 (1.68%) Spring Boot
3 2 (1.68%) WebKit
4 1 (0.84%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.84%) Kafka
4 1 (0.84%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.84%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.84%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.72%) Management Information System
2 7 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.04%) Credit Risk
3 6 (5.04%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.52%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.68%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.68%) Wiki
6 1 (0.84%) ASIC
6 1 (0.84%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.84%) Equities
6 1 (0.84%) FMCG
6 1 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.84%) Housing Association
6 1 (0.84%) NHS
6 1 (0.84%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.84%) Replication
6 1 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.36%) Windows
2 2 (1.68%) Linux
2 2 (1.68%) Unix
2 2 (1.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (32.77%) Agile
2 23 (19.33%) Decision-Making
2 23 (19.33%) Roadmaps
3 22 (18.49%) Scrum
4 18 (15.13%) Stakeholder Management
5 17 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (13.45%) Coaching
6 16 (13.45%) Risk Management
7 13 (10.92%) Project Management
8 12 (10.08%) Analytics
8 12 (10.08%) Project Delivery
8 12 (10.08%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 10 (8.40%) Change Management
9 10 (8.40%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (8.40%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (8.40%) DevOps
9 10 (8.40%) Mentoring
9 10 (8.40%) Release Train
9 10 (8.40%) Software Engineering
10 9 (7.56%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 8 (6.72%) Python
2 7 (5.88%) Java
3 6 (5.04%) SQL
4 5 (4.20%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.36%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.68%) Bash
6 2 (1.68%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.68%) Ruby
6 2 (1.68%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.84%) C#
7 1 (0.84%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (7.56%) Degree
2 5 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (4.20%) Master's Degree
2 5 (4.20%) SC Cleared
2 5 (4.20%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.52%) CGEIT
3 3 (2.52%) CISA
3 3 (2.52%) CISM
3 3 (2.52%) CISSP
3 3 (2.52%) CRISC
3 3 (2.52%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 2 (1.68%) CCNA
4 2 (1.68%) CCNP
4 2 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.68%) PMP
5 1 (0.84%) ISEB
5 1 (0.84%) ISEB Practitioner
5 1 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.84%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.61%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (5.04%) Accessibility
2 6 (5.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.20%) PCI DSS
4 4 (3.36%) QA
4 4 (3.36%) WCAG
5 3 (2.52%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.52%) NIST
6 2 (1.68%) GDPR
6 2 (1.68%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.68%) PMO
7 1 (0.84%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.84%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.84%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.84%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (2.52%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (1.68%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (1.68%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.68%) SCCM
2 1 (0.84%) Ansible
2 1 (0.84%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 13 (10.92%) Oracle
2 7 (5.88%) SAP
3 6 (5.04%) Alteryx
4 4 (3.36%) VMware
5 2 (1.68%) Databricks
5 2 (1.68%) F5
5 2 (1.68%) Greenplum
5 2 (1.68%) IDERA
5 2 (1.68%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.68%) Workday
6 1 (0.84%) Ariba
6 1 (0.84%) Google
6 1 (0.84%) IFS
6 1 (0.84%) MuleSoft