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 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 45 28
Rank change year-on-year +14 -17 +13
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 120 141 242
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 5.65% 5.26% 7.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.96% 5.52% 7.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 100 190
10th Percentile £375 £366 £408
25th Percentile £473 £414 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £511
Median % change year-on-year -4.08% +1.96% +7.63%
75th Percentile £605 £558 £575
90th Percentile £688 £638 £673
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile - £19.93 -
25th Percentile - £22.44 -
Median hourly rate £16.37 £26.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -38.80% - -
75th Percentile - £30.94 -
90th Percentile £23.82 £33.38 -
UK median hourly rate £43.13 £55.00 £47.30
% change year-on-year -21.58% +16.28% +63.10%

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 2,012 2,553 3,275
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.77% 95.23% 95.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,227 1,773 2,329
10th Percentile £200 £225 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £473
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +0.48% +11.23%
75th Percentile £557 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £633 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 48 52
10th Percentile £12.30 £12.62 £16.35
25th Percentile £15.75 £14.25 £17.86
Median hourly rate £19.50 £20.22 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year -3.56% -45.98% +7.71%
75th Percentile £57.50 £58.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.22 £55.98
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +17 55 £550 +10.00% 42
Glasgow +13 41 £498 -5.01% 34
Aberdeen +6 7 £550 -12.00% 4
Perthshire +1 3 £506 -8.37%
South Lanarkshire - 3 £550 -
Lanarkshire +3 2 £488 +2.63% 18
West Lothian +4 1 £650 +52.94% 7
Renfrewshire - 1 £770 -
Aberdeenshire - 1 - - 5
Fife - 1 - - 2
Lead
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 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 46 (38.33%) Public Sector
2 37 (30.83%) Agile
3 29 (24.17%) Social Skills
4 26 (21.67%) Decision-Making
5 22 (18.33%) Finance
6 19 (15.83%) Stakeholder Management
6 19 (15.83%) Scrum
6 19 (15.83%) JIRA
6 19 (15.83%) Roadmaps
7 18 (15.00%) Coaching
8 17 (14.17%) Analytical Skills
9 16 (13.33%) Risk Management
9 16 (13.33%) Project Delivery
10 15 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
11 13 (10.83%) Azure
12 12 (10.00%) Analytics
12 12 (10.00%) Change Management
12 12 (10.00%) Project Management
12 12 (10.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 10 (8.33%) Release Train
13 10 (8.33%) Software Engineering
14 9 (7.50%) Information Security
14 9 (7.50%) Degree
14 9 (7.50%) Usability Testing
14 9 (7.50%) Oracle
14 9 (7.50%) SAP
14 9 (7.50%) ERP
14 9 (7.50%) Cybersecurity
14 9 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement

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 (5.83%) Confluence
2 2 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.50%) Oracle Assets
1 3 (2.50%) Oracle Cash Management
1 3 (2.50%) Oracle ERP
1 3 (2.50%) Oracle Payables
1 3 (2.50%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.67%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.83%) Maximo
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.83%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.83%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.83%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.83%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (10.83%) Azure
2 7 (5.83%) AWS
3 6 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (5.00%) Snowflake
3 6 (5.00%) SuccessFactors
4 4 (3.33%) OCI
4 4 (3.33%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.50%) Amazon S3
5 3 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (2.50%) CloudFront
5 3 (2.50%) npm
5 3 (2.50%) Serverless
6 2 (1.67%) GCP
7 1 (0.83%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.83%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.83%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.83%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.83%) 4G
1 1 (0.83%) 5G
1 1 (0.83%) Firewall
1 1 (0.83%) LoRaWAN
1 1 (0.83%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.00%) Tableau
2 4 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (3.33%) Power BI
3 3 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.50%) Big Data
3 3 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (15.83%) JIRA
2 3 (2.50%) Cucumber
2 3 (2.50%) JMeter
2 3 (2.50%) JUnit
2 3 (2.50%) LoadRunner
2 3 (2.50%) Mockito
2 3 (2.50%) Selenium
2 3 (2.50%) webpack
3 2 (1.67%) Capybara
3 2 (1.67%) ER Studio
3 2 (1.67%) Gradle
3 2 (1.67%) Maven
4 1 (0.83%) LabVIEW
General
1 46 (38.33%) Public Sector
2 29 (24.17%) Social Skills
3 22 (18.33%) Finance
4 17 (14.17%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.67%) Legal
6 6 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.33%) Banking
7 4 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.67%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.67%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.83%) Electronics
10 1 (0.83%) Local Government
10 1 (0.83%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.17%) React
2 3 (2.50%) CSS
2 3 (2.50%) GraphQL
2 3 (2.50%) HTML
2 3 (2.50%) Node.js
2 3 (2.50%) OAuth
2 3 (2.50%) PySpark
2 3 (2.50%) REST
3 2 (1.67%) Spring Boot
3 2 (1.67%) WebKit
4 1 (0.83%) Kafka
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.83%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.83%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 6 (5.00%) Credit Risk
2 6 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.33%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.33%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.83%) ASIC
5 1 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.83%) Equities
5 1 (0.83%) FMCG
5 1 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.83%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.83%) NHS
5 1 (0.83%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.33%) Windows
2 2 (1.67%) Linux
3 1 (0.83%) Android
3 1 (0.83%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (30.83%) Agile
2 26 (21.67%) Decision-Making
3 19 (15.83%) Roadmaps
3 19 (15.83%) Scrum
3 19 (15.83%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (15.00%) Coaching
5 16 (13.33%) Project Delivery
5 16 (13.33%) Risk Management
6 15 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (10.00%) Analytics
7 12 (10.00%) Change Management
7 12 (10.00%) Project Management
7 12 (10.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 10 (8.33%) Release Train
8 10 (8.33%) Software Engineering
9 9 (7.50%) Cybersecurity
9 9 (7.50%) ERP
9 9 (7.50%) Information Security
9 9 (7.50%) Usability Testing
9 9 (7.50%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 5 (4.17%) Java
1 5 (4.17%) JavaScript
1 5 (4.17%) Python
2 3 (2.50%) SQL
2 3 (2.50%) TypeScript
3 2 (1.67%) Ruby
4 1 (0.83%) C#
4 1 (0.83%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (7.50%) Degree
2 7 (5.83%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.17%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.50%) CGEIT
5 3 (2.50%) CISA
5 3 (2.50%) CISM
5 3 (2.50%) CISSP
5 3 (2.50%) CRISC
5 3 (2.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 2 (1.67%) PMP
7 1 (0.83%) ISEB
7 1 (0.83%) ISEB Practitioner
7 1 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.83%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
2 8 (6.67%) Accessibility
3 6 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (5.00%) WCAG
4 5 (4.17%) PCI DSS
4 5 (4.17%) QA
5 3 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.50%) NIST
6 2 (1.67%) GDPR
6 2 (1.67%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.67%) PMO
7 1 (0.83%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.83%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.83%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 1 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (1.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.83%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 9 (7.50%) Oracle
1 9 (7.50%) SAP
2 6 (5.00%) Alteryx
3 2 (1.67%) Databricks
3 2 (1.67%) IDERA
3 2 (1.67%) Workday
4 1 (0.83%) Ariba
4 1 (0.83%) Citrix
4 1 (0.83%) Google
4 1 (0.83%) IFS
4 1 (0.83%) MuleSoft