IT Strategy Contracts in Edinburgh

IT/Technology Strategy
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring IT Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IT Strategy over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 71 100
Rank change year-on-year +7 +29 +20
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 3 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.47% 0.60% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.69% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile £445 £581 £635
25th Percentile £475 £609 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -3.57% -18.84%
75th Percentile £588 £750 £750
90th Percentile £610 - £765
Scotland median daily rate £447 £700 £600
% change year-on-year -36.14% +16.67% +26.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

IT 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 609 721 1,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.91% 86.04% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 431 798
10th Percentile £242 £219 £237
25th Percentile £406 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% - -0.63%
75th Percentile £538 £559 £538
90th Percentile £600 £656 £613
Scotland median daily rate £463 £470 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% -1.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 32 6
10th Percentile - £13.28 £11.83
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.19 £14.30
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.59 £19.49
Median % change year-on-year +18.38% -4.64% -33.93%
75th Percentile £27.45 £60.75 £21.57
90th Percentile £50.06 - £37.71
Scotland median hourly rate £20.38 £19.34 £14.50
% change year-on-year +5.42% +33.34% -61.26%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Strategy in Edinburgh

IT Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for IT Strategy in Edinburgh

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Strategy in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Strategy in Edinburgh

IT 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
1 1 (33.33%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Head of IT
2 1 (33.33%) IT Manager
2 1 (33.33%) IT Services Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Service Manager
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (33.33%) Blazor
1 1 (33.33%) Entity Framework
1 1 (33.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) CMDB
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) CRM
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Data Design
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) ERP
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Process Management
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Time Management
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow