Digital Strategy Contracts in Edinburgh

Digital Strategy
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Digital Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Digital Strategy over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 71 107
Rank change year-on-year +9 +36 +19
Contract jobs citing Digital Strategy 5 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.80% 0.12% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.14% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £288 - £489
25th Percentile £344 - £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +38.89%
75th Percentile £638 - £772
90th Percentile - - £811
Scotland median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Digital Strategy 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 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Digital Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Digital Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Strategy in Edinburgh

Digital Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Digital Strategy in Edinburgh

Digital Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Strategy in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Strategy in Edinburgh

Digital Strategy
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 1 (20.00%) IIS
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) Power BI
3 1 (20.00%) OLAP
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) ICT Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) PMO Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) Budgeting
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Coaching
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (20.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (20.00%) Line Management
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (20.00%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Server Management
2 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (20.00%) P3O
1 1 (20.00%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) Commvault
3 1 (20.00%) Dell
3 1 (20.00%) SonicWALL