Strategic Thinking Jobs in Scotland

Strategic Thinking
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Strategic Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Strategic Thinking over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 167 159 242
Rank change year-on-year -8 +83 -71
Permanent jobs citing Strategic Thinking 125 70 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.84% 1.56% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.02% 1.66% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 40 42 16
10th Percentile £53,413 £43,750 -
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,219 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £64,747 £63,250
Median % change year-on-year +15.84% +2.37% +30.41%
75th Percentile £98,125 £80,627 £72,188
90th Percentile £125,000 £89,427 £75,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Strategic Thinking is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,197 4,226 5,521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 91.25% 94.48% 91.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,442 2,092 2,855
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £31,133
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +14.58%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -37 79 £67,500 -3.57% 5
Edinburgh +9 33 £77,500 +29.07% 11
Renfrewshire - 4 - -
Lanarkshire - 3 £80,000 - 3
Dundee - 3 £55,380 - 1
Aberdeen -14 1 £100,000 +42.86% 4
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 (4.00%) Confluence
1 5 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 31 (24.80%) UserZoom
2 12 (9.60%) Sketch
3 6 (4.80%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.80%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.80%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 43 (34.40%) Figma
2 31 (24.80%) SurveyMonkey
3 9 (7.20%) AWS
4 6 (4.80%) Azure
5 3 (2.40%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (2.40%) Entra ID
5 3 (2.40%) SaaS
6 2 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.60%) GCP
6 2 (1.60%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.80%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.20%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.40%) Big Data
2 3 (2.40%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.60%) Hadoop
3 2 (1.60%) Metadata
4 1 (0.80%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 32 (25.60%) Jenkins
2 18 (14.40%) JIRA
3 3 (2.40%) Selenium
4 1 (0.80%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.80%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.80%) JMeter
4 1 (0.80%) JUnit
4 1 (0.80%) Mockito
4 1 (0.80%) Postman
General
1 74 (59.20%) Finance
2 67 (53.60%) Social Skills
3 57 (45.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 57 (45.60%) Law
4 51 (40.80%) Marketing
5 23 (18.40%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (16.80%) Legal
7 15 (12.00%) Banking
8 7 (5.60%) Investment Banking
8 7 (5.60%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (3.20%) Retail
10 3 (2.40%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.80%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.80%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (24.80%) User Experience Researcher
2 18 (14.40%) Lead
3 17 (13.60%) Services Director
4 14 (11.20%) Principal Engineer
5 13 (10.40%) Data Engineer
6 11 (8.80%) Principal Data Engineer
7 7 (5.60%) Analyst
7 7 (5.60%) Business Analyst
8 6 (4.80%) Architect
9 5 (4.00%) Consultant
9 5 (4.00%) Designer
9 5 (4.00%) Enterprise Architecture Consultant
9 5 (4.00%) Enterprise Consultant
9 5 (4.00%) Project Manager
10 4 (3.20%) Onboarding Analyst
10 4 (3.20%) Operational Security Manager
10 4 (3.20%) Security Manager
10 4 (3.20%) Security Operations Manager
10 4 (3.20%) Service Designer
10 4 (3.20%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.60%) React
2 3 (2.40%) Node.js
2 3 (2.40%) Playwright
2 3 (2.40%) RESTful
3 2 (1.60%) Kafka
4 1 (0.80%) Spring
4 1 (0.80%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.80%) Web Services
4 1 (0.80%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.20%) Management Information System
2 14 (11.20%) Algorithms
3 12 (9.60%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (7.20%) Product Ownership
5 8 (6.40%) Onboarding
6 7 (5.60%) Credit Derivative
6 7 (5.60%) Derivative
6 7 (5.60%) Fixed Income
6 7 (5.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (5.60%) Hedge funds
6 7 (5.60%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 7 (5.60%) Reference Data
7 4 (3.20%) Cyber Security Posture
7 4 (3.20%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (3.20%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (2.40%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (2.40%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.60%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.40%) Windows
1 3 (2.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (58.40%) Agile
2 63 (50.40%) Mentoring
3 61 (48.80%) Analytics
4 50 (40.00%) Roadmaps
5 48 (38.40%) User Research
6 44 (35.20%) Data Visualisation
6 44 (35.20%) DevOps
6 44 (35.20%) Visualisation
7 43 (34.40%) Critical Thinking
7 43 (34.40%) User Experience
7 43 (34.40%) UX Research
8 40 (32.00%) Strategic Roadmap
9 36 (28.80%) Service Design
10 35 (28.00%) Actionable Insight
11 34 (27.20%) Data Analytics
11 34 (27.20%) SDLC
12 32 (25.60%) Product Management
13 31 (24.80%) Continuous Integration
13 31 (24.80%) Market Research
13 31 (24.80%) Psychology
Programming Languages
1 6 (4.80%) Java
1 6 (4.80%) SQL
2 3 (2.40%) TypeScript
3 1 (0.80%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.80%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.80%) Python
Qualifications
1 47 (37.60%) Degree
2 8 (6.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (4.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.40%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.80%) BICSI Certification
5 1 (0.80%) BICSI RCDD
5 1 (0.80%) PhD
5 1 (0.80%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.80%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (24.80%) Actionable Recommendations
2 27 (21.60%) QA
3 5 (4.00%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.40%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (3.20%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.80%) Terraform
Vendors
1 31 (24.80%) Qualtrics
2 17 (13.60%) ServiceNow
3 10 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.00%) Oracle
4 5 (4.00%) BiZZdesign
5 3 (2.40%) Citrix
6 2 (1.60%) Databricks
6 2 (1.60%) Google
7 1 (0.80%) Autodesk
7 1 (0.80%) Keysight
7 1 (0.80%) Splunk