Strategic Thinking Contracts in Glasgow

Strategic Thinking
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 67 - 80
Rank change year-on-year - - -5
Contract jobs citing Strategic Thinking 12 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 1.50% - 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% - 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 4
10th Percentile £294 - £441
25th Percentile £418 - £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 - £638
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.25%
75th Percentile £532 - £825
90th Percentile £543 - £915
Scotland median daily rate £492 £646 £505
% change year-on-year -23.84% +27.92% -22.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 747 806 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 93.61% 91.90% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 515 629
10th Percentile £311 £280 £325
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £603 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 40 27
10th Percentile £16.18 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.83 £21.13 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +56.50% -66.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.14 £35.00
90th Percentile £76.83 £63.75 £59.47
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 Glasgow

Job postings citing Strategic Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Thinking in Glasgow

Strategic Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Strategic Thinking in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for Strategic Thinking in Glasgow

Strategic Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Strategic Thinking in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Strategic Thinking in Glasgow

Strategic Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 (8.33%) Adobe XD
1 1 (8.33%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) Figma
2 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
2 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (8.33%) Data Mining
1 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
1 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
1 1 (8.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Banking
2 4 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Designer
2 2 (16.67%) Service Designer
2 2 (16.67%) Technical Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Technical Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Software Delivery Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Software Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (8.33%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
1 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (41.67%) Project Management
3 4 (33.33%) Change Management
3 4 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 4 (33.33%) Scrum
3 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (25.00%) Budget Management
4 3 (25.00%) Customer Experience
4 3 (25.00%) DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 3 (25.00%) Resource Allocation
4 3 (25.00%) SDLC
4 3 (25.00%) Waterfall
5 2 (16.67%) Customer-Centric Approach
5 2 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
5 2 (16.67%) Service Design
5 2 (16.67%) User Research
5 2 (16.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 2 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) C#
1 1 (8.33%) C++
1 1 (8.33%) Java
1 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (8.33%) Python
1 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) ISACA
2 1 (8.33%) PMI Certification
2 1 (8.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Pega
2 1 (8.33%) Adobe
2 1 (8.33%) Blue Prism
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Spotify