Business Strategy Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Business Strategy
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Business Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 65 67
Rank change year-on-year +8 +2 +4
Contract jobs citing Business Strategy 24 5 6
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 3.21% 0.74% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.56% 0.83% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 4 3
10th Percentile £358 £324 £483
25th Percentile £358 £344 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £398 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.88% -30.87% +4.55%
75th Percentile £563 £466 £588
90th Percentile £643 £516 -
Scotland median daily rate £441 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -19.86% -4.35% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Business 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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 674 604 735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 90.23% 89.09% 91.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 420 499
10th Percentile £300 £267 £344
25th Percentile £384 £356 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -12.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £588
90th Percentile £613 £654 £700
Scotland median daily rate £469 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.17% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 12 21
10th Percentile £14.40 £15.39 £12.00
25th Percentile £16.84 £18.11 £12.13
Median hourly rate £17.72 £19.59 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.53% +35.10% -61.26%
75th Percentile £25.95 £26.76 £17.72
90th Percentile £54.37 £41.70 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £19.97 £19.59 £18.33
% change year-on-year +1.94% +6.90% -12.74%

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Business Strategy relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Business Strategy job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Business Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Business Strategy

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Strategy in Glasgow over the 6 months to 7 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Strategy in Glasgow

Business Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 3 (12.50%) Confluence
2 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) MS Visio
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) Azure
2 3 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 2 (8.33%) AWS
3 2 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (4.17%) BlazeMeter
4 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.17%) IaaS
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.17%) PaaS
4 1 (4.17%) SaaS
4 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Data Lake
1 3 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.33%) Power BI
3 1 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (4.17%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) JUnit
2 1 (4.17%) Mockito
General
1 14 (58.33%) Influencing Skills
2 11 (45.83%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (45.83%) Social Skills
3 9 (37.50%) Finance
4 5 (20.83%) Banking
4 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.33%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.17%) Legal
6 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Architect
2 5 (20.83%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (16.67%) Agile Coach
3 4 (16.67%) Business Analyst
4 3 (12.50%) Analyst
4 3 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Lead
4 3 (12.50%) Lead Data Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Business Engagement Manager
5 2 (8.33%) Business Manager
5 2 (8.33%) Community Manager
5 2 (8.33%) Engagement Manager
5 2 (8.33%) Project Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Change Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Java Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Security Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Security Project Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Business Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) .NET
1 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
1 1 (4.17%) CSS
1 1 (4.17%) Kafka
1 1 (4.17%) Middleware
1 1 (4.17%) React
1 1 (4.17%) Spring
1 1 (4.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 3 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.17%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) Agile
2 12 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (41.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 6 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 6 (25.00%) Process Improvement
4 6 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
5 5 (20.83%) Project Management
5 5 (20.83%) Roadmaps
5 5 (20.83%) Scrum
5 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 5 (20.83%) Technology Strategy
6 4 (16.67%) Agile Coaching
6 4 (16.67%) Data Transformation
6 4 (16.67%) IT Strategy
6 4 (16.67%) Machine Learning
6 4 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 3 (12.50%) Architecture Governance
7 3 (12.50%) Data Science
7 3 (12.50%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) Java
2 2 (8.33%) Python
3 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) Degree
2 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Certification
3 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) BC Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.17%) CISSP
4 1 (4.17%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (4.17%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (4.17%) ISEB
4 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.17%) Postgraduate
4 1 (4.17%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.17%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (4.17%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.17%) SAP
3 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.17%) Splunk