Strategic Thinking Contracts in Edinburgh

Strategic Thinking
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Strategic Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Strategic Thinking 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 65 65 106
Rank change year-on-year 0 +41 +7
Contract jobs citing Strategic Thinking 2 7 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.32% 0.86% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.97% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - - £524
25th Percentile - - £529
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £646 £547
Median % change year-on-year - +18.21% -16.88%
75th Percentile - £667 £561
90th Percentile - £679 £563
Scotland median daily rate £492 £646 £505
% change year-on-year -23.84% +27.92% -22.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44.23 - -
Median hourly rate £45.02 - -
75th Percentile £45.80 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £45.02 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Strategic Thinking 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%

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
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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Unix Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) AIX
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Target Operating Model
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (50.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat