IT Strategy Contracts in Scotland

IT/Technology Strategy
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring IT Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IT Strategy 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 105 97 150
Rank change year-on-year -8 +53 0
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 11 32 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.68% 1.44% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 1.63% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 30 11
10th Percentile £319 £568 £401
25th Percentile £330 £625 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -42.59% +12.50% +26.32%
75th Percentile £471 £706 £663
90th Percentile £502 £793 £700
UK median daily rate £625 £600 £615
% change year-on-year +4.17% -2.44% -1.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £85.00
UK median hourly rate £100.00 £30.12 £37.34
% change year-on-year +232.01% -19.34% +113.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

IT 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 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing IT Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for IT Strategy in Scotland

IT Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Strategy in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for IT Strategy in Scotland

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Strategy in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Strategy in Scotland

IT Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Strategy in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for IT Strategy in Scotland

IT 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 IT Strategy within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 -2 8 £388 -42.59% 7
Edinburgh +1 2 £450 -35.71% 13
IT Strategy
UK

IT Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (18.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Internet
1 1 (9.09%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
General
1 8 (72.73%) Finance
2 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
3 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (27.27%) Banking
4 3 (27.27%) Investment Banking
5 2 (18.18%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Architect
1 4 (36.36%) Data Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Release Manager
2 3 (27.27%) ServiceNow Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Head of IT
4 1 (9.09%) IT Manager
4 1 (9.09%) IT Services Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) CMDB
1 4 (36.36%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (27.27%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Agile
2 7 (63.64%) Technology Strategy
3 6 (54.55%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (45.45%) ITIL
4 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (45.45%) Programme Management
4 5 (45.45%) Service Management
5 4 (36.36%) Configuration Management
5 4 (36.36%) Data Architecture
5 4 (36.36%) Data Design
5 4 (36.36%) Data Modelling
5 4 (36.36%) Data Security
5 4 (36.36%) ITSM
5 4 (36.36%) Security Management
5 4 (36.36%) Time Management
6 3 (27.27%) Change Control
6 3 (27.27%) Data Protection
6 3 (27.27%) Investment Management
6 3 (27.27%) Release Management
6 3 (27.27%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) ISEB
2 1 (9.09%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) Data Quality
2 3 (27.27%) QA
3 2 (18.18%) PMO
4 1 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) ServiceNow
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Spotify