Strategic Thinking Jobs in Scotland

Strategic Thinking
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 154 157 218
Rank change year-on-year +3 +61 -34
Permanent jobs citing Strategic Thinking 100 53 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.76% 1.40% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 1.46% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 37 30 23
10th Percentile £53,413 £41,923 -
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,305 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £59,526 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% +0.89% +21.65%
75th Percentile £97,500 £72,500 £73,125
90th Percentile £125,000 £89,472 £76,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,004 3,640 5,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 87.82% 95.94% 92.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,133 1,969 3,041
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,555 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,548 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Strategic Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Thinking in Scotland

Strategic Thinking
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Strategic Thinking in Scotland

Strategic Thinking
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Strategic Thinking in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Strategic Thinking in Scotland

Strategic Thinking
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 Thinking within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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 -28 57 £70,000 - 1
Edinburgh +20 30 £77,500 +30.20% 1
Renfrewshire - 4 - -
Lanarkshire - 3 £80,000 -
Dundee - 3 £55,380 - 1
Aberdeen -8 1 - - 3
Perth and Kinross - 1 - -
Strategic Thinking
UK

Strategic Thinking
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 5 (5.00%) Confluence
1 5 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (12.00%) Sketch
2 7 (7.00%) UserZoom
3 6 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.00%) AutoCAD
5 1 (1.00%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 19 (19.00%) Figma
2 11 (11.00%) AWS
3 7 (7.00%) SurveyMonkey
4 4 (4.00%) Azure
5 3 (3.00%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (3.00%) Entra ID
5 3 (3.00%) GCP
5 3 (3.00%) SaaS
6 1 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.00%) dbt
6 1 (1.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.00%) Big Data
3 1 (1.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.00%) Metadata
3 1 (1.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (18.00%) JIRA
2 7 (7.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.00%) Selenium
General
1 46 (46.00%) Finance
2 41 (41.00%) Social Skills
3 29 (29.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 29 (29.00%) Law
4 23 (23.00%) Marketing
5 19 (19.00%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (17.00%) Legal
7 11 (11.00%) Banking
8 4 (4.00%) Retail
8 4 (4.00%) Tech for Good
9 3 (3.00%) Investment Banking
9 3 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (3.00%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (17.00%) Services Director
2 16 (16.00%) Lead
3 14 (14.00%) Principal Engineer
4 13 (13.00%) Data Engineer
5 11 (11.00%) Principal Data Engineer
6 8 (8.00%) Architect
7 7 (7.00%) Senior
7 7 (7.00%) User Experience Researcher
8 5 (5.00%) Consultant
8 5 (5.00%) Designer
8 5 (5.00%) Enterprise Architecture Consultant
8 5 (5.00%) Enterprise Consultant
8 5 (5.00%) Project Manager
9 4 (4.00%) Analyst
9 4 (4.00%) Chief Technology Officer
9 4 (4.00%) Service Designer
10 3 (3.00%) Enterprise Architect
10 3 (3.00%) Information Manager
10 3 (3.00%) Principal Software Engineer
10 3 (3.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.00%) React
2 4 (4.00%) Node.js
2 4 (4.00%) RESTful
3 3 (3.00%) Playwright
4 1 (1.00%) Kafka
4 1 (1.00%) Micronaut
Miscellaneous
1 19 (19.00%) Management Information System
2 14 (14.00%) Algorithms
3 12 (12.00%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (10.00%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.00%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.00%) Credit Derivative
6 3 (3.00%) Derivative
6 3 (3.00%) Fixed Income
6 3 (3.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (3.00%) Hedge funds
6 3 (3.00%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 3 (3.00%) Reference Data
6 3 (3.00%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (3.00%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.00%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.00%) Educational Technology
8 1 (1.00%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (1.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.00%) Windows
1 3 (3.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (45.00%) Agile
2 40 (40.00%) Analytics
3 38 (38.00%) Mentoring
4 26 (26.00%) Roadmaps
5 24 (24.00%) User Research
6 23 (23.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 20 (20.00%) Data Management
7 20 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
7 20 (20.00%) DevOps
7 20 (20.00%) Visualisation
8 19 (19.00%) Critical Thinking
8 19 (19.00%) User Experience
8 19 (19.00%) UX Research
9 18 (18.00%) Budgeting
10 17 (17.00%) Creative Thinking
10 17 (17.00%) Internal Audit
11 16 (16.00%) Strategic Roadmap
12 15 (15.00%) Data Architecture
12 15 (15.00%) Data Modelling
12 15 (15.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.00%) Java
2 6 (6.00%) SQL
3 3 (3.00%) TypeScript
3 3 (3.00%) VBA
4 2 (2.00%) Python
5 1 (1.00%) C#
5 1 (1.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.00%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 26 (26.00%) Degree
2 8 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.00%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.00%) BICSI Certification
5 1 (1.00%) BICSI RCDD
5 1 (1.00%) PhD
5 1 (1.00%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (29.00%) QA
2 7 (7.00%) Actionable Recommendations
3 5 (5.00%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (1.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (4.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (17.00%) ServiceNow
2 11 (11.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.00%) Qualtrics
4 5 (5.00%) BiZZdesign
5 4 (4.00%) Oracle
6 3 (3.00%) Citrix
6 3 (3.00%) Google
7 1 (1.00%) Autodesk
7 1 (1.00%) Databricks
7 1 (1.00%) Keysight
7 1 (1.00%) Splunk