Business Strategy Jobs in Scotland

Business Strategy
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Business Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Business Strategy over the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 163 152
Rank change year-on-year +63 -11 -65
Permanent jobs citing Business Strategy 57 133 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.92% 1.98% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% 2.15% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 16 37 26
10th Percentile £62,500 £35,700 £46,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £42,500 £53,430
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £47,500 £82,818
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% -42.65% +4.00%
75th Percentile £104,375 £80,000 £94,375
90th Percentile £110,125 £125,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £67,713
% change year-on-year +8.00% -7.70% +4.17%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,756 6,198 4,359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.86% 92.47% 94.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,374 2,412 2,190
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,231
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +8.49%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £73,525
90th Percentile £83,517 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Strategy in Scotland

Business Strategy
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Business Strategy in Scotland.

Salary trend for Business Strategy in Scotland

Business Strategy
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Strategy in Scotland over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Business Strategy in Scotland

Business Strategy
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Strategy within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 10 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +39 39 £70,000 -40.43% 24
Glasgow +110 13 £82,500 +65.00% 32
Inverclyde - 2 - -
Dunbartonshire - 1 £67,500 -
Midlothian - 1 - - 1
Business Strategy
UK

Business 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 3 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (17.54%) AWS
2 4 (7.02%) OCI
3 3 (5.26%) Amazon EMR
3 3 (5.26%) Amazon SageMaker
3 3 (5.26%) Snowflake
4 2 (3.51%) Azure
4 2 (3.51%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.51%) SaaS
5 1 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.75%) GCP
5 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.53%) Big Data
1 6 (10.53%) Metadata
1 6 (10.53%) NoSQL
1 6 (10.53%) Tableau
2 3 (5.26%) Data Vault
3 1 (1.75%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.75%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.75%) Data Mart
3 1 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.75%) Neo4j
3 1 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.75%) Power BI
General
1 31 (54.39%) Finance
2 30 (52.63%) Social Skills
3 10 (17.54%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (8.77%) Banking
5 4 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.51%) Law
7 2 (3.51%) Legal
8 1 (1.75%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.75%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.75%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 23 (40.35%) Lead
2 11 (19.30%) Architect
3 7 (12.28%) Enterprise Architect
3 7 (12.28%) Senior
4 6 (10.53%) Data Scientist
5 5 (8.77%) Lead Architect
5 5 (8.77%) Lead Enterprise Architect
6 4 (7.02%) Business Intelligence Manager
6 4 (7.02%) Business Manager
6 4 (7.02%) Senior Data Scientist
7 3 (5.26%) Analyst
7 3 (5.26%) Data Architect
7 3 (5.26%) Technical Director
8 2 (3.51%) Consultant
8 2 (3.51%) Head of Business Development
8 2 (3.51%) Head of Development
8 2 (3.51%) IT Manager
8 2 (3.51%) Senior IT Manager
8 2 (3.51%) Senior Manager
8 2 (3.51%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.26%) Kafka
2 1 (1.75%) CSS
2 1 (1.75%) CSS3
2 1 (1.75%) HTML
2 1 (1.75%) HTML5
2 1 (1.75%) LangChain
2 1 (1.75%) Middleware
2 1 (1.75%) Node.js
2 1 (1.75%) Pandas
2 1 (1.75%) React
2 1 (1.75%) REST
2 1 (1.75%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.02%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.26%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (5.26%) SCADA
3 2 (3.51%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.51%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.51%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.75%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.75%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.75%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.75%) PMI
4 1 (1.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (45.61%) Roadmaps
2 24 (42.11%) Agile
3 18 (31.58%) Project Management
4 14 (24.56%) TOGAF
5 13 (22.81%) ArchiMate
5 13 (22.81%) Change Management
6 12 (21.05%) Adaptive Web Design
6 12 (21.05%) Analytics
6 12 (21.05%) Architecture Roadmap
6 12 (21.05%) Data Architecture
6 12 (21.05%) Product Backlog
7 11 (19.30%) Mentoring
7 11 (19.30%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (19.30%) Visualisation
8 10 (17.54%) Collaborative Culture
8 10 (17.54%) Data Management
8 10 (17.54%) Data Transformation
8 10 (17.54%) Thought Leadership
9 9 (15.79%) Business Case
9 9 (15.79%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.26%) Python
2 2 (3.51%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.75%) C#
3 1 (1.75%) Java
3 1 (1.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (12.28%) Degree
2 3 (5.26%) Master's Degree
3 2 (3.51%) ACCA
3 2 (3.51%) CFA
3 2 (3.51%) CIMA
3 2 (3.51%) PMP
4 1 (1.75%) CISA
4 1 (1.75%) CISSP
4 1 (1.75%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (1.75%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.75%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.75%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 5 (8.77%) GDPR
2 5 (8.77%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.75%) COBIT
Vendors
1 4 (7.02%) Oracle
2 3 (5.26%) Facebook
2 3 (5.26%) Informatica
2 3 (5.26%) YouTube
3 2 (3.51%) SAP
3 2 (3.51%) Workday
4 1 (1.75%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.75%) StreamSets