Technical Leader Contracts in Scotland

Technical Lead
UK > Scotland

The median Technical Lead daily rate in Scotland is £510 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 144 138
Rank change year-on-year +31 -6 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 14 23 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.64% 0.82% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.86% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 18 30
10th Percentile £327 £509 £481
25th Percentile £486 £512 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £535 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -4.46% +17.89%
75th Percentile £569 £565 £569
90th Percentile £675 £608 £599
UK median daily rate £625 £625 £575
% change year-on-year - +8.70% +9.52%

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 2,054 2,681 3,374
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.57% 95.24% 95.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,241 1,919 2,400
10th Percentile £200 £231 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £580 £556 £550
90th Percentile £654 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 44 52
10th Percentile £12.32 £12.86 £14.65
25th Percentile £16.06 £15.93 £17.50
Median hourly rate £24.27 £22.13 £26.85
Median % change year-on-year +9.71% -17.60% -28.40%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.82 £48.19
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.22 £54.25
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in Scotland

Technical Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leader in Scotland

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in Scotland over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leader in Scotland

Technical Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leader in Scotland

Technical Leader
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 Leader within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 4 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
Glasgow +15 8 £498 -8.51%
Edinburgh +33 3 £650 +19.27% 10
West Lothian - 1 £650 -
Technical Leader
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Technical Leader 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 Technical Leader in the job title.

1 9 (64.29%) JavaScript
1 9 (64.29%) AWS
1 9 (64.29%) React
2 8 (57.14%) TypeScript
2 8 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (57.14%) Agile
2 8 (57.14%) Serverless
3 7 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (50.00%) HTML
3 7 (50.00%) CSS
3 7 (50.00%) Amazon S3
4 5 (35.71%) Software Engineering
4 5 (35.71%) AWS CDK
4 5 (35.71%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (35.71%) Public Sector
4 5 (35.71%) Accessibility
5 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (28.57%) Scrum
5 4 (28.57%) SQL
5 4 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
6 3 (21.43%) Coaching
6 3 (21.43%) User Experience
6 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (21.43%) Microservices
6 3 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (21.43%) CloudFront
6 3 (21.43%) Node.js
6 3 (21.43%) REST
6 3 (21.43%) PCI DSS

Technical Leader 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) AWS
2 8 (57.14%) Serverless
3 7 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 7 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (21.43%) CloudFront
4 3 (21.43%) npm
5 2 (14.29%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (21.43%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (7.14%) Informix
4 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Cypress.io
1 3 (21.43%) webpack
2 2 (14.29%) Capybara
2 2 (14.29%) Gradle
2 2 (14.29%) Maven
General
1 5 (35.71%) Public Sector
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (64.29%) React
2 7 (50.00%) CSS
2 7 (50.00%) HTML
3 5 (35.71%) AWS CDK
4 3 (21.43%) GraphQL
4 3 (21.43%) Node.js
4 3 (21.43%) OAuth
4 3 (21.43%) REST
5 2 (14.29%) Spring Boot
5 2 (14.29%) WebKit
6 1 (7.14%) EJB
6 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Management Information System
2 2 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) Software Engineering
2 5 (35.71%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (28.57%) Scrum
4 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 3 (21.43%) Coaching
4 3 (21.43%) Decision-Making
4 3 (21.43%) Full Stack Development
4 3 (21.43%) Human-Centred Design
4 3 (21.43%) Inclusive Design
4 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
4 3 (21.43%) Microservices
4 3 (21.43%) Product Management
4 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
4 3 (21.43%) Service Design
4 3 (21.43%) User Experience
5 2 (14.29%) Architecture Roadmap
5 2 (14.29%) Customer Experience
5 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) JavaScript
2 8 (57.14%) TypeScript
3 4 (28.57%) SQL
4 3 (21.43%) Java
5 2 (14.29%) Ruby
6 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) Accessibility
2 3 (21.43%) PCI DSS
3 2 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Grafana
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle