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 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 34 103 79
Rank change year-on-year +69 -24 +27
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 690 135 237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.16% 3.02% 3.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.13% 3.19% 4.29%
Number of salaries quoted 106 77 83
10th Percentile £35,700 £33,195 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,829 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £60,000 £49,861
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% +20.33% -0.28%
75th Percentile £62,342 £80,627 £65,000
90th Percentile £94,519 £101,564 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,999 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% 0.00% +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 6,197 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%

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 28 May 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 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 +62 606 £42,500 -26.28% 25
Edinburgh 0 46 £65,000 +4.00% 22
Dundee - 9 £45,000 - 3
Fife - 7 £43,200 -
Renfrewshire - 6 £36,678 -
Aberdeen -11 3 £45,000 - 4
Perthshire - 3 £30,000 - 1
Aberdeenshire +6 2 £45,000 +87.50% 2
South Lanarkshire +2 2 £105,000 - 1
Clackmannanshire - 2 £51,500 -
West Lothian -4 1 £27,500 -47.62% 1
East Lothian - 1 - -
North Lanarkshire - 1 £37,500 - 1
South Ayrshire - 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
1 149 (21.59%) Apache Spark
2 79 (11.45%) Apache
3 63 (9.13%) FileNet
4 24 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (2.75%) Camunda
6 17 (2.46%) Cloud Foundry
7 11 (1.59%) CICS
8 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.29%) Confluence
9 2 (0.29%) SAS
10 1 (0.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.14%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 11 (1.59%) Primavera
2 4 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 287 (41.59%) AWS
2 73 (10.58%) Azure
3 63 (9.13%) Amazon S3
4 48 (6.96%) GitHub
5 38 (5.51%) GCP
6 30 (4.35%) Power Platform
7 18 (2.61%) BlazeMeter
8 15 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (0.87%) Entra ID
12 4 (0.58%) IaaS
13 3 (0.43%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (0.43%) SaaS
14 2 (0.29%) Fivetran
14 2 (0.29%) Vertex AI
15 1 (0.14%) Azure Data Factory
15 1 (0.14%) Cloud Computing
15 1 (0.14%) Smartsheet
15 1 (0.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.46%) DSL
1 17 (2.46%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.14%) Firewall
2 1 (0.14%) MPLS
2 1 (0.14%) SDH
2 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (16.38%) NoSQL
2 94 (13.62%) Big Data
3 80 (11.59%) Hadoop
4 74 (10.72%) Elasticsearch
5 63 (9.13%) Apache Cassandra
6 31 (4.49%) Apache Hive
7 30 (4.35%) Power BI
8 29 (4.20%) Tableau
9 28 (4.06%) DB2
10 26 (3.77%) MongoDB
11 21 (3.04%) Data Lake
12 17 (2.46%) Amazon Aurora
12 17 (2.46%) CockroachDB
13 16 (2.32%) Impala
14 15 (2.17%) HBase
15 13 (1.88%) Relational Database
16 10 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
16 10 (1.45%) Flink
17 4 (0.58%) RDBMS
18 2 (0.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 87 (12.61%) JUnit
2 70 (10.14%) Jenkins
3 62 (8.99%) Jasmine
4 45 (6.52%) Mockito
5 29 (4.20%) Maven
6 19 (2.75%) CircleCI
6 19 (2.75%) Gradle
6 19 (2.75%) JMeter
6 19 (2.75%) Travis CI
7 18 (2.61%) Selenium
8 17 (2.46%) Cypress.io
8 17 (2.46%) Karma Test Runner
8 17 (2.46%) Protractor
8 17 (2.46%) WebDriver
9 15 (2.17%) LabVIEW
10 11 (1.59%) ChangeMan
11 10 (1.45%) JIRA
12 9 (1.30%) Git
13 2 (0.29%) GitLab
13 2 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 566 (82.03%) Finance
2 555 (80.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 540 (78.26%) Law
4 332 (48.12%) Marketing
5 165 (23.91%) Legal
6 105 (15.22%) Banking
7 89 (12.90%) Social Skills
8 65 (9.42%) Investment Banking
9 60 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
10 30 (4.35%) Financial Institution
11 27 (3.91%) Presentation Skills
11 27 (3.91%) Private Banking
12 23 (3.33%) Manufacturing
13 15 (2.17%) Electronics
13 15 (2.17%) Retail
14 7 (1.01%) Games
14 7 (1.01%) Public Sector
14 7 (1.01%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 421 (61.01%) Software Engineer
2 212 (30.72%) Java Engineer
2 212 (30.72%) Java Software Engineer
3 127 (18.41%) Senior
4 120 (17.39%) Full Stack Engineer
4 120 (17.39%) Full Stack Software Engineer
5 119 (17.25%) Lead
6 102 (14.78%) Lead Software Engineer
7 99 (14.35%) Senior Software Engineer
8 76 (11.01%) Software Engineering Director
9 67 (9.71%) Big Data Engineer
9 67 (9.71%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 53 (7.68%) Python Engineer
10 53 (7.68%) Python Software Engineer
11 49 (7.10%) AWS Engineer
11 49 (7.10%) AWS Software Engineer
11 49 (7.10%) Scala Engineer
11 49 (7.10%) Scala Software Engineer
12 45 (6.52%) Data Engineer
13 41 (5.94%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (29.13%) Spring
2 163 (23.62%) React
3 141 (20.43%) AngularJS
4 115 (16.67%) Kafka
5 91 (13.19%) GraphQL
6 89 (12.90%) J2EE
6 89 (12.90%) Spring Boot
7 80 (11.59%) Hibernate
8 63 (9.13%) Spring Integration
9 51 (7.39%) HTML
10 50 (7.25%) CSS
11 47 (6.81%) REST
12 42 (6.09%) PySpark
13 37 (5.36%) Node.js
14 35 (5.07%) JMS
14 35 (5.07%) jQuery
14 35 (5.07%) JSON
14 35 (5.07%) RESTful
14 35 (5.07%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 27 (3.91%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 240 (34.78%) Cloud Native
2 108 (15.65%) Public Cloud
3 79 (11.45%) Product Ownership
4 45 (6.52%) Credit Risk
5 38 (5.51%) Management Information System
6 23 (3.33%) Data Structures
7 20 (2.90%) Taxonomies
8 18 (2.61%) Market Risk
9 11 (1.59%) Mainframe
9 11 (1.59%) Reference Data
9 11 (1.59%) VSAM
10 10 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.16%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (0.87%) Video\Live Streaming
14 5 (0.72%) Data Centre
15 3 (0.43%) Driving Licence
15 3 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
16 2 (0.29%) Cyber Threat
16 2 (0.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.17%) Unix
2 8 (1.16%) Windows
3 6 (0.87%) Linux
4 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 549 (79.57%) Software Engineering
2 505 (73.19%) Agile
3 451 (65.36%) SDLC
4 438 (63.48%) Operational Stability
5 393 (56.96%) CI/CD
6 366 (53.04%) Machine Learning
7 349 (50.58%) Artificial Intelligence
8 214 (31.01%) Problem-Solving
9 195 (28.26%) Risk Management
10 144 (20.87%) Microservices
11 143 (20.72%) Computer Science
12 128 (18.55%) Full Stack Development
13 106 (15.36%) Tech Ops
14 72 (10.43%) Analytics
15 70 (10.14%) ETL
16 67 (9.71%) Mathematics
17 63 (9.13%) AOP
17 63 (9.13%) Document Management
18 61 (8.84%) Asset Management
19 60 (8.70%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 448 (64.93%) Java
2 231 (33.48%) Python
3 227 (32.90%) SQL
4 84 (12.17%) Scala
5 52 (7.54%) TypeScript
6 43 (6.23%) JavaScript
7 31 (4.49%) C#
8 20 (2.90%) C++
9 19 (2.75%) Ruby
10 18 (2.61%) PL/SQL
11 15 (2.17%) C
12 11 (1.59%) COBOL
12 11 (1.59%) JCL
13 6 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.72%) Bash
15 4 (0.58%) R
16 2 (0.29%) PHP
16 2 (0.29%) PowerShell
17 1 (0.14%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 92 (13.33%) Degree
2 32 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
2 32 (4.64%) Master's Degree
3 24 (3.48%) Security Cleared
4 8 (1.16%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 8 (1.16%) SC Cleared
5 7 (1.01%) CISM
5 7 (1.01%) CISSP
6 6 (0.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (0.72%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.43%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (0.43%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.43%) PMP
9 2 (0.29%) HND
9 2 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.29%) PhD
10 1 (0.14%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.14%) CESG Certified Professional
10 1 (0.14%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (8.70%) SLA
2 37 (5.36%) Data Quality
3 17 (2.46%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.01%) NIST
5 6 (0.87%) QA
6 2 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.29%) GRC
7 1 (0.14%) CRD IV
7 1 (0.14%) GDPR
7 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (0.14%) NCSC
7 1 (0.14%) PMO
7 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (2.17%) HDFS
2 11 (1.59%) Time Sharing Option
3 8 (1.16%) Docker
4 2 (0.29%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 117 (16.96%) Kubernetes
2 32 (4.64%) Terraform
3 7 (1.01%) Grafana
3 7 (1.01%) Graphite
4 3 (0.43%) Ansible
5 2 (0.29%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 109 (15.80%) Oracle
2 77 (11.16%) Databricks
3 39 (5.65%) Microsoft
4 21 (3.04%) Google
5 19 (2.75%) Pega
6 17 (2.46%) Alteryx
6 17 (2.46%) Cognos
6 17 (2.46%) Sybase
7 15 (2.17%) Cloudera
8 7 (1.01%) Splunk
9 4 (0.58%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.43%) SAP
11 2 (0.29%) Apple
12 1 (0.14%) CA
12 1 (0.14%) Cisco
12 1 (0.14%) Informatica
12 1 (0.14%) Meraki
12 1 (0.14%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.14%) VMware