Strategic Thinking Jobs in Edinburgh

Strategic Thinking
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Strategic Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Strategic Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 76 89
Rank change year-on-year +7 +13 +56
Permanent jobs citing Strategic Thinking 20 33 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.21% 2.22% 3.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 2.48% 3.15%
Number of salaries quoted 4 29 39
10th Percentile - £61,080 £43,400
25th Percentile - £66,250 £54,416
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,738 £77,500 £60,047
Median % change year-on-year +8.05% +29.07% -11.04%
75th Percentile £87,804 £103,750 £80,627
90th Percentile £95,121 £125,000 £89,436
Scotland median annual salary £83,738 £75,000 £60,047
% change year-on-year +11.65% +24.90% -5.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Strategic Thinking 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 880 1,332 1,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 97.45% 89.58% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 397 933 1,127
10th Percentile £26,929 £35,000 £36,050
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £44,033
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,433 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £97,500 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%

Strategic Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Thinking in Edinburgh

Strategic Thinking
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Strategic Thinking in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Strategic Thinking in Edinburgh

Strategic Thinking
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Strategic Thinking in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Strategic Thinking in Edinburgh

Strategic Thinking
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 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (10.00%) AWS
2 2 (10.00%) dbt
2 2 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (5.00%) AWS KMS
3 1 (5.00%) Azure
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (5.00%) GCP
3 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) Tableau
2 5 (25.00%) Power BI
3 2 (10.00%) Looker
4 1 (5.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) GitLab
General
1 12 (60.00%) Finance
2 10 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 4 (20.00%) Banking
5 3 (15.00%) Financial Institution
6 2 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (10.00%) Legal
6 2 (10.00%) Marketing
7 1 (5.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) Lead
3 3 (15.00%) Cyber Threat Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Risk Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Data Scientist
4 2 (10.00%) Digital Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Security Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Data Scientist
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Kafka
1 1 (5.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Cyber Defence
1 3 (15.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (10.00%) Mobile Banking
2 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 8 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 8 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 7 (35.00%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (35.00%) Sprint Planning
3 7 (35.00%) Sprint Retrospective
4 6 (30.00%) Data Science
4 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
5 5 (25.00%) Analytics
5 5 (25.00%) Community of Practice
5 5 (25.00%) Cost Management
5 5 (25.00%) Customer Experience
5 5 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
5 5 (25.00%) Machine Learning
5 5 (25.00%) Visualisation
6 4 (20.00%) Cloud Security
6 4 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
6 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) Python
1 3 (15.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) CISA
1 1 (5.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft