Lead Contracts in Edinburgh

Leader
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Leader daily rate in Edinburgh is £544 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 43 29
Rank change year-on-year +18 -14 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 56 70 142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 6.46% 5.87% 7.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.81% 6.13% 7.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 51 117
10th Percentile £400 £304 £408
25th Percentile £467 £411 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +8.85% -3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £641 £545 £588
90th Percentile £686 £575 £738
Scotland median daily rate £500 £523 £510
% change year-on-year -4.31% +2.45% +8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £16.37 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £25.69 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £16.37 £26.75 -
% change year-on-year -38.80% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 822 1,141 1,831
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.81% 95.64% 95.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 790 1,261
10th Percentile £178 £218 £230
25th Percentile £340 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £568
90th Percentile £648 £600 £638
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £470
% change year-on-year -5.26% +1.06% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 9 13
10th Percentile £15.45 £12.63 -
25th Percentile £16.37 £17.70 £17.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £17.72 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +153.95% -11.40% -65.22%
75th Percentile £60.75 £21.26 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £28.09 £53.20
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £18.50 £37.43
% change year-on-year +5.41% -50.57% +37.36%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Edinburgh

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in Edinburgh

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead in Edinburgh

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in Edinburgh

Lead
Hourly Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Lead in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Lead in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 Edinburgh region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 32 (57.14%) Public Sector
2 18 (32.14%) Agile
3 13 (23.21%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (23.21%) JIRA
3 13 (23.21%) Coaching
3 13 (23.21%) Social Skills
4 12 (21.43%) Disclosure Scotland
5 11 (19.64%) Project Delivery
6 9 (16.07%) User Research
6 9 (16.07%) Usability Testing
6 9 (16.07%) Scrum
7 8 (14.29%) Finance
7 8 (14.29%) Risk Management
7 8 (14.29%) Decision-Making
8 7 (12.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 7 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 7 (12.50%) Mentoring
8 7 (12.50%) Roadmaps
8 7 (12.50%) Accessibility
9 6 (10.71%) WCAG
9 6 (10.71%) Azure
9 6 (10.71%) Test Strategy
9 6 (10.71%) Non-Functional Testing
9 6 (10.71%) Release Train
9 6 (10.71%) Contextual Inquiry
10 5 (8.93%) Programme Governance
10 5 (8.93%) Inclusive Design
10 5 (8.93%) Design Patterns
10 5 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (8.93%) Confluence

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 5 (8.93%) Confluence
2 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.71%) Azure
2 3 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (3.57%) GCP
3 2 (3.57%) Nutanix
3 2 (3.57%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.79%) AWS
4 1 (1.79%) OCI
4 1 (1.79%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.36%) Big Data
2 2 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.57%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (3.57%) Power BI
2 2 (3.57%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (23.21%) JIRA
2 3 (5.36%) JMeter
2 3 (5.36%) LoadRunner
2 3 (5.36%) Selenium
3 2 (3.57%) ER Studio
4 1 (1.79%) Capybara
4 1 (1.79%) Gradle
4 1 (1.79%) LabVIEW
4 1 (1.79%) Maven
General
1 32 (57.14%) Public Sector
2 13 (23.21%) Social Skills
3 8 (14.29%) Finance
4 5 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.14%) Banking
5 4 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (5.36%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Electronics
7 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.79%) Kafka
1 1 (1.79%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (1.79%) React
1 1 (1.79%) Spring Boot
1 1 (1.79%) WebKit
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.36%) Public Cloud
2 1 (1.79%) ASIC
2 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (1.79%) Equities
2 1 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.57%) Windows
2 1 (1.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (32.14%) Agile
2 13 (23.21%) Coaching
2 13 (23.21%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (19.64%) Project Delivery
4 9 (16.07%) Scrum
4 9 (16.07%) Usability Testing
4 9 (16.07%) User Research
5 8 (14.29%) Decision-Making
5 8 (14.29%) Risk Management
6 7 (12.50%) Mentoring
6 7 (12.50%) Roadmaps
6 7 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 7 (12.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 6 (10.71%) Contextual Inquiry
7 6 (10.71%) Non-Functional Testing
7 6 (10.71%) Release Train
7 6 (10.71%) Test Strategy
8 5 (8.93%) Design Patterns
8 5 (8.93%) Inclusive Design
8 5 (8.93%) Programme Governance
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.57%) Python
2 1 (1.79%) Java
2 1 (1.79%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.79%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (7.14%) Degree
2 3 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (5.36%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.79%) ISEB
3 1 (1.79%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (21.43%) Disclosure Scotland
2 7 (12.50%) Accessibility
3 6 (10.71%) WCAG
4 5 (8.93%) QA
5 3 (5.36%) PCI DSS
6 2 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (1.79%) ISO 20022
7 1 (1.79%) ISO 8583
7 1 (1.79%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (1.79%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (1.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (7.14%) Oracle
2 2 (3.57%) Databricks
2 2 (3.57%) IDERA
2 2 (3.57%) VMware
3 1 (1.79%) Google
3 1 (1.79%) MuleSoft