Strategic Planning Jobs in Scotland

Strategic Planning
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Strategic Planning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Strategic Planning over the 6 months leading up to 9 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 235 187
Rank change year-on-year +96 -48 +30
Permanent jobs citing Strategic Planning 22 16 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.64% 0.29% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.33% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 10 5 10
10th Percentile £52,000 £37,414 £49,958
25th Percentile £53,750 £37,631 £54,677
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,738 £44,436 £77,384
Median % change year-on-year +88.45% -42.58% +11.34%
75th Percentile £92,185 £65,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,000 £66,132 -
UK median annual salary £70,000 £58,347 £55,000
% change year-on-year +19.97% +6.09% -9.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Strategic Planning 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 2,922 4,844 3,471
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 85.14% 87.93% 96.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,390 1,989 1,955
10th Percentile £26,929 £31,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £32,851 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £63,150 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £82,548
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

Strategic Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Strategic Planning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Planning in Scotland

Strategic Planning
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Strategic Planning in Scotland.

Salary trend for Strategic Planning in Scotland

Strategic Planning
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Strategic Planning in Scotland over the 6 months to 9 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Strategic Planning in Scotland

Strategic Planning
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Strategic Planning within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 9 August 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
Glasgow +115 10 £73,750 +22.92% 4
Edinburgh +23 9 £83,738 +31.31% 9
Inverclyde - 2 - -
Midlothian - 1 - - 1
Strategic Planning
UK

Strategic Planning
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:

Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) AWS
2 4 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (18.18%) Amazon EMR
2 4 (18.18%) Amazon MSK
2 4 (18.18%) Amazon S3
2 4 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (18.18%) Power Platform
2 4 (18.18%) Serverless
3 2 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (18.18%) Electronic Patient Records
1 4 (18.18%) Power BI
2 3 (13.64%) Tableau
3 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.55%) Power Query
3 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (36.36%) Git
1 8 (36.36%) Jenkins
1 8 (36.36%) Maven
2 4 (18.18%) Subversion
General
1 15 (68.18%) Social Skills
2 14 (63.64%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (59.09%) Finance
4 11 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (36.36%) Banking
5 8 (36.36%) Law
6 3 (13.64%) Advertising
6 3 (13.64%) Marketing
6 3 (13.64%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
7 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
7 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Java Engineer
1 8 (36.36%) Java Software Engineer
1 8 (36.36%) Software Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Lead
3 4 (18.18%) Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 4 (18.18%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 4 (18.18%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
3 4 (18.18%) Java Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Java Software Developer
3 4 (18.18%) React Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Software Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Account Manager
4 3 (13.64%) Technical Director
4 3 (13.64%) Web Manager
5 2 (9.09%) Technical Leader
6 1 (4.55%) Portfolio Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (36.36%) Spring
2 5 (22.73%) Spring Boot
3 4 (18.18%) AngularJS
3 4 (18.18%) Hibernate
3 4 (18.18%) HTML
3 4 (18.18%) jQuery
3 4 (18.18%) Kafka
3 4 (18.18%) React
4 2 (9.09%) OAuth
4 2 (9.09%) OAuth2
4 2 (9.09%) OpenID
4 2 (9.09%) SailPoint
4 2 (9.09%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Equities
2 3 (13.64%) Data Centre
2 3 (13.64%) Digital Media
2 3 (13.64%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (13.64%) SCADA
3 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.55%) FMCG
3 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.55%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Android
1 1 (4.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (45.45%) Agile
3 9 (40.91%) Software Engineering
4 8 (36.36%) Performance Tuning
4 8 (36.36%) System Integration Testing
4 8 (36.36%) User Acceptance Testing
5 7 (31.82%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (31.82%) Decision-Making
6 5 (22.73%) TDD
6 5 (22.73%) Test Automation
7 4 (18.18%) Analytics
7 4 (18.18%) CI/CD
7 4 (18.18%) Community of Practice
7 4 (18.18%) Data Modelling
7 4 (18.18%) Data Strategy
7 4 (18.18%) Front End Development
7 4 (18.18%) Integration Testing
7 4 (18.18%) Kanban
7 4 (18.18%) Scrum
7 4 (18.18%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) Java
2 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Degree
2 4 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (9.09%) NIST
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Oracle
2 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.64%) Facebook
3 3 (13.64%) YouTube
4 2 (9.09%) ForgeRock
5 1 (4.55%) Salesforce