Strategic Thinking Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Strategic Thinking
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Strategic Thinking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 69 76
Rank change year-on-year +11 +7 +43
Contract jobs citing Strategic Thinking 7 7 14
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.14% 0.84% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 0.98% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 10
10th Percentile £246 £200 £296
25th Percentile £385 £275 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +19.38% -15.79% -26.92%
75th Percentile £491 £469 £516
90th Percentile £496 £510 £554
Scotland median daily rate £428 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -5.00% -13.04%
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 584 715 927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.81% 86.04% 91.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 379 573
10th Percentile £300 £213 £213
25th Percentile £413 £343 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -5.26% -2.06%
75th Percentile £550 £531 £538
90th Percentile £600 £619 £600
Scotland median daily rate £470 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 23 6
10th Percentile - £13.27 £12.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.50 £20.18
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -53.68% +153.33%
75th Percentile £42.90 £24.18 £53.74
90th Percentile £64.25 £48.84 £58.13
Scotland median hourly rate £19.97 £19.59 £18.93
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.49% -2.30%

Strategic Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Strategic Thinking job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Strategic Thinking
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Strategic Thinking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Strategic Thinking

Strategic Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Strategic Thinking in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 4 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Strategic Thinking in Edinburgh

Strategic Thinking
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) npm
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
1 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) Maven
1 1 (14.29%) webpack
General
1 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (14.29%) Mandarin Language
4 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Product Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
1 2 (28.57%) Senior Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Senior Product Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) Jest
1 1 (14.29%) React
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
1 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Coaching
2 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Product Strategy
2 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Product Management
3 2 (28.57%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (28.57%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) Pair Programming
4 1 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Strategic Planning
4 1 (14.29%) Target Operating Model
4 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bash
1 1 (14.29%) Go
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
1 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Master's Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Postgraduate
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Grafana
2 1 (14.29%) linkerd
2 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
1 1 (14.29%) ForgeRock
1 1 (14.29%) Ping Identity