IT Strategy Jobs in Edinburgh

IT/Technology Strategy
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring IT Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited IT Strategy over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 89 79
Rank change year-on-year +19 -10 +33
Permanent jobs citing IT Strategy 18 21 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.03% 1.41% 3.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.08% 1.57% 3.68%
Number of salaries quoted 8 15 34
10th Percentile £52,125 £42,500 £52,741
25th Percentile £66,563 £46,961 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,626 £56,318 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.84% -13.36% -7.14%
75th Percentile £93,778 £104,375 £117,516
90th Percentile £94,894 £118,614 £139,455
Scotland median annual salary £70,000 £50,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +40.00% -23.08% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

IT 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 864 1,339 1,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 97.41% 89.75% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 393 942 1,143
10th Percentile £26,929 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £97,500 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £53,500 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.70% +5.50%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Strategy in Edinburgh

IT Strategy
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Strategy in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for IT Strategy in Edinburgh

IT Strategy
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Strategy in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IT Strategy in Edinburgh

IT Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (5.56%) IIS
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) AWS
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) GCP
3 3 (16.67%) GitHub
4 2 (11.11%) OpenShift
4 2 (11.11%) SaaS
4 2 (11.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.56%) Data Vault
2 1 (5.56%) Metadata
2 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) IBM UrbanCode
1 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (55.56%) Finance
2 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (22.22%) Banking
5 2 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (5.56%) Electronics
6 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Architect
2 6 (33.33%) Senior
3 5 (27.78%) Lead
4 4 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (22.22%) Technical Architect
5 3 (16.67%) Senior Architect
6 2 (11.11%) IT Manager
6 2 (11.11%) Senior Technical Architect
6 2 (11.11%) Technical Solutions Architect
7 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Architect
7 1 (5.56%) Lead Architect
7 1 (5.56%) Lead Enterprise Architect
7 1 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) CSS
1 3 (16.67%) HTML
2 2 (11.11%) JSON
2 2 (11.11%) Kafka
2 2 (11.11%) REST
2 2 (11.11%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Public Cloud
2 3 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (16.67%) Mainframe
3 2 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (11.11%) Private Cloud
3 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 2 (11.11%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
1 3 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) Technology Strategy
2 10 (55.56%) Roadmaps
3 8 (44.44%) Mentoring
4 7 (38.89%) Agile
5 5 (27.78%) Risk Management
5 5 (27.78%) Strategic Roadmap
5 5 (27.78%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (22.22%) Collaborative Culture
6 4 (22.22%) Software Engineering
6 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
7 3 (16.67%) Cash Management
7 3 (16.67%) SDLC
7 3 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
8 2 (11.11%) Adaptive Web Design
8 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
8 2 (11.11%) Data Governance
8 2 (11.11%) Microservices
8 2 (11.11%) Prototyping
8 2 (11.11%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) Java
2 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 3 (16.67%) Bash
3 3 (16.67%) JCL
3 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 3 (16.67%) Shell Script
3 3 (16.67%) SQL
4 2 (11.11%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) GDPR
2 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.11%) QA
3 1 (5.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) CA Endevor
2 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (5.56%) Informatica
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Sage