Commercial Awareness Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Commercial Awareness
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Commercial Awareness skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 - 78
Rank change year-on-year - - +26
Contract jobs citing Commercial Awareness 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.49% - 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% - 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £421 - -
25th Percentile £434 - £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - £513
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.89%
75th Percentile £484 - £519
90th Percentile £494 - -
Scotland median daily rate £500 - £496
% change year-on-year - - -0.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £22.87
Scotland median hourly rate - - £22.87

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Commercial Awareness falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 546 586 800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 89.36% 93.91% 90.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 318 485
10th Percentile £188 £194 £229
25th Percentile £406 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £588 £538 £556
90th Percentile £675 £638 £639
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £485
% change year-on-year - -7.22% +2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 27 26
10th Percentile £17.23 £20.30 £13.27
25th Percentile £18.22 £21.02 £16.06
Median hourly rate £50.00 £23.59 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +111.95% -22.66% +43.46%
75th Percentile £68.00 £24.18 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £30.74 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.30 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.14% +19.46% +10.05%

Commercial Awareness
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Commercial Awareness relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Commercial Awareness job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Commercial Awareness
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Commercial Awareness.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Commercial Awareness

Commercial Awareness
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) PMO Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) PMO Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) AI
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Cost Management
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 1 (33.33%) Order Management
1 1 (33.33%) People Management
1 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
1 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) PMP
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) PMO