Strategic Thinking Contracts in Edinburgh

Strategic Thinking
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Strategic Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Strategic Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 96 121
Rank change year-on-year +34 +25 -21
Contract jobs citing Strategic Thinking 12 10 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.37% 0.85% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 0.90% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 8
10th Percentile £445 £440 £520
25th Percentile £513 £463 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £646 £475 £650
Median % change year-on-year +36.00% -26.92% -10.34%
75th Percentile - £550 £656
90th Percentile £671 £559 £703
Scotland median daily rate £586 £525 £620
% change year-on-year +11.52% -15.32% -14.48%

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 contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 738 1,109 1,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 84.44% 93.82% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 776 1,235
10th Percentile £219 £225 £280
25th Percentile £364 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year - -2.06% +14.12%
75th Percentile £555 £538 £570
90th Percentile £650 £600 £638
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 7 12
10th Percentile £13.30 £12.10 £15.29
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.44 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.17 £21.26 £22.45
Median % change year-on-year -9.83% -5.30% -58.78%
75th Percentile £60.75 £32.71 £48.75
90th Percentile - £47.75 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
% change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -8.71%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Strategic Thinking in Edinburgh

Strategic Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Strategic Thinking in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate 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 2 (16.67%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
1 3 (25.00%) IaaS
1 3 (25.00%) iPaaS
1 3 (25.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) VSAN
2 3 (25.00%) LAN
2 3 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (58.33%) Public Sector
3 5 (41.67%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Architect
2 4 (33.33%) Senior
3 3 (25.00%) Lead
3 3 (25.00%) Technical Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Consultant
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Consultant
4 2 (16.67%) Content Designer
4 2 (16.67%) Data Centre Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Data Consultant
4 2 (16.67%) Designer
4 2 (16.67%) Migration Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Migration Consultant
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Content Designer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Designer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Technical Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (16.67%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) .NET
1 3 (25.00%) J2EE
1 3 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 4 (33.33%) VxBlock/Vblock
2 3 (25.00%) Client/Server
2 3 (25.00%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 6 (50.00%) Agile
3 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (41.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (33.33%) Capacity Management
4 4 (33.33%) Data Migration
4 4 (33.33%) Data Protection
4 4 (33.33%) Kanban
4 4 (33.33%) Migration
4 4 (33.33%) TOGAF
5 3 (25.00%) Change Management
5 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (25.00%) High Availability
5 3 (25.00%) Innovative Thinking
5 3 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
5 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 3 (25.00%) SOA
5 3 (25.00%) Target Operating Model
5 3 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (33.33%) vSphere
3 3 (25.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) vCenter Server
1 4 (33.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) VMware
2 4 (33.33%) Dell
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco