Business Strategy Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Business Strategy
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland 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 87 94 110
Rank change year-on-year +7 +16 +39
Contract jobs citing Business Strategy 35 22 31
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 2.19% 1.19% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.42% 1.38% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 11 19
10th Percentile £358 £321 £455
25th Percentile £359 £359 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -19.86% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £529 £738 £600
90th Percentile £631 £875 £665
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,446 1,594 2,139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 90.66% 86.21% 92.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 796 954 1,378
10th Percentile £263 £206 £250
25th Percentile £393 £355 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £538 £557
90th Percentile £600 £663 £652
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 46 54
10th Percentile £16.28 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £13.85 £13.19
Median hourly rate £19.97 £19.59 £18.33
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +6.90% -12.74%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £56.05
90th Percentile £39.00 £43.27 £76.73
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £42.75
% change year-on-year -39.40% -2.92% +43.84%

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Business Strategy job vacancy trend in Scotland

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Business Strategy in Scotland

Business Strategy
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Business Strategy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Business Strategy

Business Strategy
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Strategy within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 7 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +8 24 £441 +10.88% 19
Edinburgh +8 9 £440 -32.31% 6
West Lothian - 1 £375 -
Business Strategy
UK

Business Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (14.29%) Confluence
2 2 (5.71%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (8.57%) MS Visio
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (14.29%) Azure
2 4 (11.43%) GCP
2 4 (11.43%) Power Platform
3 3 (8.57%) AWS
3 3 (8.57%) SaaS
4 1 (2.86%) BlazeMeter
4 1 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.86%) GitHub
4 1 (2.86%) IaaS
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.86%) PaaS
4 1 (2.86%) Serverless
4 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) DHCP
1 1 (2.86%) DNS
1 1 (2.86%) Firewall
1 1 (2.86%) IP Telephony
1 1 (2.86%) LAN
1 1 (2.86%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (2.86%) VLAN
1 1 (2.86%) VPN
1 1 (2.86%) Wireless
1 1 (2.86%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.14%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (8.57%) Data Lake
2 3 (8.57%) Power BI
3 2 (5.71%) BigQuery
3 2 (5.71%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (5.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (5.71%) Star Schema
4 1 (2.86%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.86%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (17.14%) JIRA
2 2 (5.71%) ER Studio
3 1 (2.86%) Git
3 1 (2.86%) JUnit
3 1 (2.86%) Mockito
3 1 (2.86%) Postman
General
1 17 (48.57%) Analytical Skills
1 17 (48.57%) Social Skills
2 15 (42.86%) Finance
3 14 (40.00%) Influencing Skills
4 6 (17.14%) Banking
4 6 (17.14%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.71%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.71%) Legal
6 1 (2.86%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.86%) Mandarin Language
6 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (28.57%) Analyst
2 8 (22.86%) Architect
3 7 (20.00%) Business Analyst
4 5 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (11.43%) Agile Coach
5 4 (11.43%) Lead
6 3 (8.57%) Data Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Lead Data Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Business Engagement Manager
7 2 (5.71%) Business Manager
7 2 (5.71%) Community Manager
7 2 (5.71%) Data Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) Engagement Manager
7 2 (5.71%) Project Manager
7 2 (5.71%) Senior
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Business Analyst
8 1 (2.86%) Data Consultant
8 1 (2.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) Kafka
2 2 (5.71%) Middleware
2 2 (5.71%) Web Services
3 1 (2.86%) .NET
3 1 (2.86%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.86%) CSS
3 1 (2.86%) OpenAPI
3 1 (2.86%) React
3 1 (2.86%) Spring
3 1 (2.86%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Algorithms
1 4 (11.43%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (8.57%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.71%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (5.71%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.86%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (2.86%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (2.86%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (48.57%) Agile
2 15 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (37.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (22.86%) Decision-Making
5 7 (20.00%) Project Management
5 7 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
6 6 (17.14%) Enterprise Architecture
6 6 (17.14%) Process Improvement
6 6 (17.14%) Roadmaps
6 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (14.29%) Data Analysis
7 5 (14.29%) Data Protection
7 5 (14.29%) Data Transformation
7 5 (14.29%) Scrum
7 5 (14.29%) Technology Strategy
8 4 (11.43%) Agile Coaching
8 4 (11.43%) Change Management
8 4 (11.43%) Computer Science
8 4 (11.43%) IT Strategy
8 4 (11.43%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.29%) Python
2 3 (8.57%) Java
2 3 (8.57%) SQL
3 2 (5.71%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (22.86%) Degree
2 3 (8.57%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.71%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) BC Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.86%) CISSP
4 1 (2.86%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (2.86%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.86%) ISEB
4 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.86%) Postgraduate
4 1 (2.86%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.86%) COBIT
2 1 (2.86%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (22.86%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.29%) Oracle
3 2 (5.71%) Google
3 2 (5.71%) SAP
4 1 (2.86%) Cisco
4 1 (2.86%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.86%) Splunk