Strategic Thinking Contracts in Edinburgh

Strategic Thinking
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Strategic Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Strategic Thinking over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 110 107
Rank change year-on-year +47 -3 -11
Contract jobs citing Strategic Thinking 10 6 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.22% 0.46% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 0.49% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 12
10th Percentile £553 £524 £530
25th Percentile £613 £529 £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £646 £547 £658
Median % change year-on-year +18.21% -16.88% -9.31%
75th Percentile £656 £561 £750
90th Percentile £675 £563 -
Scotland median daily rate £646 £525 £650
% change year-on-year +23.05% -19.23% -10.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Strategic Thinking is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 731 1,231 1,830
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 88.93% 94.84% 93.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 875 1,257
10th Percentile £230 £250 £256
25th Percentile £410 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £549 £569
90th Percentile £669 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £465
% change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 11 16
10th Percentile £13.66 £13.16 £16.27
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.72 £19.94
Median hourly rate £21.02 £21.26 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year -1.13% -47.18% -26.11%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile - £54.50 £54.03
Scotland median hourly rate £18.79 £17.21 £40.00
% change year-on-year +9.18% -56.98% -

Strategic Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Strategic Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Thinking in Edinburgh

Strategic Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Strategic Thinking in Edinburgh

Strategic Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Strategic Thinking in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Strategic Thinking in Edinburgh

Strategic Thinking
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
1 3 (30.00%) IaaS
1 3 (30.00%) iPaaS
1 3 (30.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) VSAN
2 3 (30.00%) LAN
2 3 (30.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Lead
2 3 (30.00%) Technical Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Data Centre Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Data Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Migration Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Migration Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Technical Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (20.00%) VMware Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) .NET
1 3 (30.00%) J2EE
1 3 (30.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Data Centre
1 4 (40.00%) VxBlock/Vblock
2 3 (30.00%) Client/Server
2 3 (30.00%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Capacity Management
2 4 (40.00%) Data Migration
2 4 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 4 (40.00%) Kanban
2 4 (40.00%) Migration
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) TOGAF
3 3 (30.00%) Architecture Governance
3 3 (30.00%) Change Management
3 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (30.00%) High Availability
3 3 (30.00%) Innovative Thinking
3 3 (30.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (30.00%) Target Operating Model
3 3 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (40.00%) vSphere
3 3 (30.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) vCenter Server
1 4 (40.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) VMware
2 4 (40.00%) Dell
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (20.00%) Cisco