Business Strategy Job Trends in Edinburgh

Business Strategy
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Business Strategy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 43 100
Rank change year-on-year -18 +57 +25
Permanent jobs citing Business Strategy 43 60 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 4.03% 5.42% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.72% 5.63% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 0 5 9
10th Percentile - £89,750 -
25th Percentile - - £83,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £125,000 £92,778
Median % change year-on-year - +34.73% +3.09%
75th Percentile - - £96,539
90th Percentile - - £111,000
Scotland median annual salary £65,000 £90,000 £85,250
% change year-on-year -27.78% +5.57% +52.19%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Business Strategy falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 911 1,065 962
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 85.38% 96.21% 91.79%
Number of salaries quoted 391 404 775
10th Percentile £26,000 £36,250 £31,100
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% -8.00% +2.31%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £93,778 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £42,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -23.64% +4.76% -8.70%

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Business Strategy job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Business Strategy
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Business Strategy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Business Strategy

Business Strategy
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:

Business Applications
1 20 (46.51%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 30 (69.77%) Azure
1 30 (69.77%) Azure DevOps
1 30 (69.77%) Entra ID
2 20 (46.51%) AWS
2 20 (46.51%) GitHub
2 20 (46.51%) OCI
3 10 (23.26%) Azure Monitor
3 10 (23.26%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 20 (46.51%) Jenkins
1 20 (46.51%) Oracle Forms
General
1 41 (95.35%) Finance
2 7 (16.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (16.28%) Marketing
2 7 (16.28%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (9.30%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (9.30%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.65%) Banking
4 2 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.65%) Legal
4 2 (4.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (51.16%) Senior
2 20 (46.51%) Applications Engineer
2 20 (46.51%) Cloud Engineer
2 20 (46.51%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 6 (13.95%) Analyst
4 4 (9.30%) IT Analyst
4 4 (9.30%) Service Analyst
4 4 (9.30%) Service Design Analyst
4 4 (9.30%) Service Transition Analyst
4 4 (9.30%) Transition Analyst
5 2 (4.65%) Operations Analyst
5 2 (4.65%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (4.65%) Senior Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (46.51%) JSON
1 20 (46.51%) RESTful
1 20 (46.51%) SOAP
1 20 (46.51%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (46.51%) Cloud Native
1 20 (46.51%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (23.26%) Product Ownership
3 7 (16.28%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (9.30%) CMDB
5 2 (4.65%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (95.35%) Coaching
2 34 (79.07%) Asset Management
3 30 (69.77%) Agile
3 30 (69.77%) DevOps
4 22 (51.16%) Test Automation
5 20 (46.51%) API Integration
5 20 (46.51%) CI/CD
5 20 (46.51%) Data Governance
5 20 (46.51%) ERP
5 20 (46.51%) Identity Access Management
5 20 (46.51%) Mentoring
5 20 (46.51%) Migration
5 20 (46.51%) Observability
5 20 (46.51%) Root Cause Analysis
5 20 (46.51%) Translating Business Requirements
6 14 (32.56%) ITIL
7 12 (27.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (23.26%) Analytics
8 10 (23.26%) Cybersecurity
8 10 (23.26%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 30 (69.77%) Python
2 20 (46.51%) Java
2 20 (46.51%) PL/SQL
2 20 (46.51%) Shell Script
2 20 (46.51%) SQL
3 10 (23.26%) Bash
3 10 (23.26%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.65%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (16.28%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) COBIT
System Software
1 20 (46.51%) Active Directory
2 10 (23.26%) Virtual Desktop
2 10 (23.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (69.77%) Terraform
2 20 (46.51%) Single Sign-On
3 10 (23.26%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 20 (46.51%) Okta
1 20 (46.51%) Oracle
2 2 (4.65%) Blue Prism
2 2 (4.65%) Pega