IT Strategy Jobs in Scotland

IT/Technology Strategy
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 183 114
Rank change year-on-year +47 -69 +41
Permanent jobs citing IT Strategy 30 108 108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.99% 1.58% 2.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 1.74% 2.60%
Number of salaries quoted 18 44 46
10th Percentile £32,000 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £44,688 £42,500 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £49,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -24.62% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £73,938 £122,500
90th Percentile £94,144 £119,216 £140,977
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -13.33% +11.11%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,794 6,223 4,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.12% 91.17% 94.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,309 2,465 2,077
10th Percentile £30,400 £28,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

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
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for IT Strategy in Scotland

IT Strategy
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Strategy in Scotland over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IT Strategy in Scotland

IT 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 IT Strategy within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 31 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 +27 18 £70,000 +24.30% 17
Glasgow +98 7 £75,000 +56.25% 11
Perth and Kinross - 5 £33,000 -
Aberdeen +17 1 £52,500 +13.51% 5
Renfrewshire - 1 £90,000 - 2
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 6 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (16.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.33%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (36.67%) Azure
2 6 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (10.00%) AWS
3 3 (10.00%) GCP
4 2 (6.67%) OpenShift
4 2 (6.67%) SaaS
4 2 (6.67%) Snowflake
5 1 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.33%) GitHub
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) DHCP
1 5 (16.67%) DKIM
1 5 (16.67%) DMARC
1 5 (16.67%) DNS
1 5 (16.67%) Firewall
1 5 (16.67%) VPN
1 5 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (3.33%) LAN
2 1 (3.33%) Unified Communications
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) IBM UrbanCode
1 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (36.67%) Finance
1 11 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Banking
3 2 (6.67%) Law
4 1 (3.33%) Electronics
4 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Lead
2 7 (23.33%) Architect
3 6 (20.00%) Senior
4 5 (16.67%) Help Desk Team Lead
4 5 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (16.67%) Team Leader
5 4 (13.33%) Technical Architect
6 3 (10.00%) IT Manager
6 3 (10.00%) Senior Architect
7 2 (6.67%) Consultant
7 2 (6.67%) Senior Technical Architect
7 2 (6.67%) Technical Solutions Architect
8 1 (3.33%) Head of IT
8 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Manager
8 1 (3.33%) IT Director
8 1 (3.33%) Security Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Senior Consultant
8 1 (3.33%) Senior Manager
8 1 (3.33%) Senior Software Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) JSON
1 2 (6.67%) Kafka
1 2 (6.67%) REST
1 2 (6.67%) Spring
2 1 (3.33%) .NET
2 1 (3.33%) CSS
2 1 (3.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (13.33%) Product Ownership
3 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (6.67%) Private Cloud
4 2 (6.67%) Public Cloud
4 2 (6.67%) Smartphone
5 1 (3.33%) Mainframe
5 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.00%) Unix
1 6 (20.00%) Windows
2 5 (16.67%) VMS
3 1 (3.33%) Linux
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (56.67%) Technology Strategy
2 13 (43.33%) Roadmaps
3 9 (30.00%) Agile
3 9 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (23.33%) Risk Management
6 5 (16.67%) Incident Response
6 5 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 5 (16.67%) Remote Monitoring and Management
6 5 (16.67%) Service Management
6 5 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
6 5 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (13.33%) Data Protection
7 4 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
7 4 (13.33%) Operational Stability
7 4 (13.33%) Technical Architecture
8 3 (10.00%) Computer Science
9 2 (6.67%) Data Analytics
9 2 (6.67%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (10.00%) Java
3 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.67%) Python
4 1 (3.33%) Bash
4 1 (3.33%) JCL
4 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) GDPR
2 2 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (6.67%) QA
3 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.33%) NIST
3 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) Hyper-V
1 5 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.33%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 9 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.67%) Apple
2 5 (16.67%) VMware
3 2 (6.67%) Databricks
4 1 (3.33%) Sage