Decision-Making Jobs in Scotland

Decision-Making
UK > Scotland

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 96 80
Rank change year-on-year +59 -16 +36
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 673 128 239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.83% 2.94% 3.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.84% 3.12% 4.31%
Number of salaries quoted 105 70 83
10th Percentile £35,700 £31,550 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,582 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £58,596 £49,861
Median % change year-on-year -18.08% +17.52% -0.28%
75th Percentile £62,342 £74,661 £65,000
90th Percentile £94,923 £85,375 £76,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.60% -0.79% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Decision-Making 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 6,209 4,103 5,548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 90.71% 94.39% 91.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,483 2,060 2,859
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,500 £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 £83,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Decision-Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in Scotland

Decision-Making
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in Scotland.

Salary trend for Decision-Making in Scotland

Decision-Making
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Decision-Making in Scotland

Decision-Making
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Decision-Making within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 June 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 +55 591 £42,500 -26.28% 29
Edinburgh +3 44 £65,000 +8.25% 20
Dundee - 9 £45,000 - 3
Fife -2 7 £43,200 -
Renfrewshire - 6 £36,678 -
Aberdeen -9 3 £45,000 - 2
Perthshire - 3 £30,000 - 1
Aberdeenshire +4 2 £45,000 +87.50%
South Lanarkshire +2 2 £105,000 -
Clackmannanshire - 2 £51,500 -
West Lothian -3 1 £27,500 -47.62% 1
North Lanarkshire - 1 £37,500 - 1
South Ayrshire - 1 - -
East Lothian - 1 - -
Decision-Making
UK

Decision-Making
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
1 143 (21.25%) Apache Spark
2 77 (11.44%) Apache
3 63 (9.36%) FileNet
4 23 (3.42%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (2.67%) Camunda
6 17 (2.53%) Cloud Foundry
7 11 (1.63%) CICS
8 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.30%) Confluence
10 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.15%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 11 (1.63%) Primavera
2 4 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 275 (40.86%) AWS
2 71 (10.55%) Azure
3 63 (9.36%) Amazon S3
4 48 (7.13%) GitHub
5 35 (5.20%) GCP
6 30 (4.46%) Power Platform
7 18 (2.67%) BlazeMeter
8 14 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (1.93%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (0.89%) Entra ID
12 4 (0.59%) IaaS
13 3 (0.45%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (0.45%) SaaS
14 2 (0.30%) Fivetran
15 1 (0.15%) Azure Data Factory
15 1 (0.15%) Cloud Computing
15 1 (0.15%) Smartsheet
15 1 (0.15%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.53%) Kerberos
2 16 (2.38%) DSL
3 1 (0.15%) Firewall
3 1 (0.15%) MPLS
3 1 (0.15%) SDH
3 1 (0.15%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.15%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (16.64%) NoSQL
2 88 (13.08%) Big Data
3 76 (11.29%) Hadoop
4 74 (11.00%) Elasticsearch
5 63 (9.36%) Apache Cassandra
6 30 (4.46%) Power BI
7 28 (4.16%) Apache Hive
7 28 (4.16%) Tableau
8 27 (4.01%) DB2
9 25 (3.71%) MongoDB
10 20 (2.97%) Data Lake
11 17 (2.53%) Amazon Aurora
11 17 (2.53%) CockroachDB
12 14 (2.08%) HBase
12 14 (2.08%) Impala
13 13 (1.93%) Relational Database
14 10 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (1.49%) Flink
15 4 (0.59%) RDBMS
16 2 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 87 (12.93%) JUnit
2 69 (10.25%) Jenkins
3 62 (9.21%) Jasmine
4 45 (6.69%) Mockito
5 28 (4.16%) Maven
6 19 (2.82%) JMeter
7 18 (2.67%) CircleCI
7 18 (2.67%) Gradle
7 18 (2.67%) Selenium
7 18 (2.67%) Travis CI
8 17 (2.53%) Cypress.io
8 17 (2.53%) Karma Test Runner
8 17 (2.53%) Protractor
8 17 (2.53%) WebDriver
9 15 (2.23%) LabVIEW
10 11 (1.63%) ChangeMan
11 9 (1.34%) Git
11 9 (1.34%) JIRA
12 2 (0.30%) GitLab
12 2 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 549 (81.58%) Finance
2 540 (80.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 525 (78.01%) Law
4 323 (47.99%) Marketing
5 160 (23.77%) Legal
6 100 (14.86%) Banking
7 89 (13.22%) Social Skills
8 63 (9.36%) Investment Banking
9 57 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
10 28 (4.16%) Financial Institution
11 26 (3.86%) Private Banking
12 25 (3.71%) Presentation Skills
13 23 (3.42%) Manufacturing
14 15 (2.23%) Electronics
15 14 (2.08%) Retail
16 7 (1.04%) Games
16 7 (1.04%) Public Sector
16 7 (1.04%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
18 4 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 409 (60.77%) Software Engineer
2 208 (30.91%) Java Engineer
2 208 (30.91%) Java Software Engineer
3 124 (18.42%) Senior
4 117 (17.38%) Full Stack Engineer
4 117 (17.38%) Full Stack Software Engineer
4 117 (17.38%) Lead
5 100 (14.86%) Lead Software Engineer
6 97 (14.41%) Senior Software Engineer
7 74 (11.00%) Software Engineering Director
8 62 (9.21%) Big Data Engineer
8 62 (9.21%) Big Data Software Engineer
9 50 (7.43%) Python Engineer
9 50 (7.43%) Python Software Engineer
10 48 (7.13%) AWS Engineer
10 48 (7.13%) AWS Software Engineer
10 48 (7.13%) Scala Engineer
10 48 (7.13%) Scala Software Engineer
11 41 (6.09%) Architect
12 40 (5.94%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (29.27%) Spring
2 161 (23.92%) React
3 139 (20.65%) AngularJS
4 114 (16.94%) Kafka
5 90 (13.37%) GraphQL
6 89 (13.22%) J2EE
7 85 (12.63%) Spring Boot
8 80 (11.89%) Hibernate
9 63 (9.36%) Spring Integration
10 50 (7.43%) HTML
11 49 (7.28%) CSS
12 45 (6.69%) REST
13 41 (6.09%) PySpark
14 37 (5.50%) Node.js
15 35 (5.20%) JMS
15 35 (5.20%) jQuery
15 35 (5.20%) JSON
15 35 (5.20%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 34 (5.05%) RESTful
17 25 (3.71%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 235 (34.92%) Cloud Native
2 102 (15.16%) Public Cloud
3 77 (11.44%) Product Ownership
4 44 (6.54%) Credit Risk
5 37 (5.50%) Management Information System
6 23 (3.42%) Data Structures
7 19 (2.82%) Taxonomies
8 18 (2.67%) Market Risk
9 11 (1.63%) Mainframe
9 11 (1.63%) Reference Data
9 11 (1.63%) VSAM
10 10 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.19%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (0.89%) Video\Live Streaming
14 5 (0.74%) Data Centre
15 3 (0.45%) Driving Licence
15 3 (0.45%) Self-Motivation
16 2 (0.30%) Cyber Threat
16 2 (0.30%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.08%) Unix
2 8 (1.19%) Windows
3 6 (0.89%) Linux
4 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 535 (79.49%) Software Engineering
2 489 (72.66%) Agile
3 438 (65.08%) SDLC
4 425 (63.15%) Operational Stability
5 381 (56.61%) CI/CD
6 357 (53.05%) Machine Learning
7 339 (50.37%) Artificial Intelligence
8 211 (31.35%) Problem-Solving
9 190 (28.23%) Risk Management
10 142 (21.10%) Computer Science
11 141 (20.95%) Microservices
12 125 (18.57%) Full Stack Development
13 104 (15.45%) Tech Ops
14 68 (10.10%) ETL
15 67 (9.96%) Analytics
15 67 (9.96%) Mathematics
16 63 (9.36%) AOP
16 63 (9.36%) Document Management
17 58 (8.62%) Asset Management
17 58 (8.62%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 437 (64.93%) Java
2 220 (32.69%) Python
2 220 (32.69%) SQL
3 78 (11.59%) Scala
4 51 (7.58%) TypeScript
5 43 (6.39%) JavaScript
6 31 (4.61%) C#
7 20 (2.97%) C++
8 18 (2.67%) Ruby
9 17 (2.53%) PL/SQL
10 15 (2.23%) C
11 11 (1.63%) COBOL
11 11 (1.63%) JCL
12 6 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.74%) Bash
14 4 (0.59%) R
15 2 (0.30%) PHP
15 2 (0.30%) PowerShell
16 1 (0.15%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 90 (13.37%) Degree
2 32 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
2 32 (4.75%) Master's Degree
3 24 (3.57%) Security Cleared
4 8 (1.19%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 8 (1.19%) SC Cleared
5 7 (1.04%) CISM
5 7 (1.04%) CISSP
6 6 (0.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (0.74%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.45%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (0.45%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.45%) PMP
9 2 (0.30%) HND
9 2 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.30%) PhD
10 1 (0.15%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.15%) CESG Certified Professional
10 1 (0.15%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (8.32%) SLA
2 36 (5.35%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.38%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.04%) NIST
5 6 (0.89%) QA
6 2 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.30%) GRC
7 1 (0.15%) GDPR
7 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (0.15%) NCSC
7 1 (0.15%) PMO
7 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (2.08%) HDFS
2 11 (1.63%) Time Sharing Option
3 8 (1.19%) Docker
4 2 (0.30%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 116 (17.24%) Kubernetes
2 31 (4.61%) Terraform
3 7 (1.04%) Grafana
3 7 (1.04%) Graphite
4 3 (0.45%) Ansible
5 2 (0.30%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 108 (16.05%) Oracle
2 72 (10.70%) Databricks
3 39 (5.79%) Microsoft
4 19 (2.82%) Google
5 18 (2.67%) Pega
6 16 (2.38%) Alteryx
6 16 (2.38%) Cognos
6 16 (2.38%) Sybase
7 14 (2.08%) Cloudera
8 7 (1.04%) Splunk
9 4 (0.59%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.45%) SAP
11 2 (0.30%) Apple
12 1 (0.15%) CA
12 1 (0.15%) Cisco
12 1 (0.15%) Informatica
12 1 (0.15%) Meraki
12 1 (0.15%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.15%) VMware