Decision-Making Contracts in Scotland

Decision-Making
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Decision-Making skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Decision-Making over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 37 33
Rank change year-on-year -23 -4 +41
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 75 176 206
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.40% 6.16% 5.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.83% 6.65% 6.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 141 165
10th Percentile £178 £379 £338
25th Percentile £346 £463 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.27% +1.00% +20.85%
75th Percentile £556 £561 £541
90th Percentile £661 £625 £599
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £539
% change year-on-year - -2.55% +13.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 7
10th Percentile £21.76 £59.18 £25.28
25th Percentile £21.95 £59.41 £25.39
Median hourly rate £22.26 £59.79 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.78% +25.87% +66.67%
75th Percentile £22.56 £60.17 £52.25
90th Percentile £22.75 £60.40 £55.79
UK median hourly rate £19.38 £47.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -59.21% +11.76% +31.01%

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 contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,956 2,648 3,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.63% 92.62% 92.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,905 2,309
10th Percentile £230 £263 £244
25th Percentile £400 £408 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 54 48
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £14.89
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.51 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -51.45% -10.99%
75th Percentile £40.94 £53.75 £48.95
90th Percentile £60.75 £66.09 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in Scotland

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in Scotland

Decision-Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Decision-Making within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow 0 39 £425 -10.15% 18
Edinburgh -13 30 £482 -6.14% 13
South Lanarkshire -13 3 £550 +9.34%
Fife 0 1 - - 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 4 (5.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (9.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 13 (17.33%) AWS
2 8 (10.67%) Power Platform
3 6 (8.00%) Snowflake
4 2 (2.67%) Azure
4 2 (2.67%) npm
4 2 (2.67%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.67%) FabricPath
1 2 (2.67%) Firewall
1 2 (2.67%) LAN
1 2 (2.67%) NAS
1 2 (2.67%) NX-OS
1 2 (2.67%) Remote Desktop
1 2 (2.67%) SAN
1 2 (2.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (2.67%) VPN
1 2 (2.67%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.67%) Power BI
2 6 (8.00%) Tableau
3 4 (5.33%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (2.67%) Big Data
5 1 (1.33%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.33%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (5.33%) JIRA
2 2 (2.67%) Cypress.io
2 2 (2.67%) Git
2 2 (2.67%) Jenkins
General
1 26 (34.67%) Finance
2 24 (32.00%) Social Skills
3 22 (29.33%) Public Sector
4 18 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (16.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (14.67%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (12.00%) Banking
7 9 (12.00%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (8.00%) Legal
9 5 (6.67%) Billing
10 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.33%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.33%) Tech for Good
10 1 (1.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (32.00%) Lead
2 18 (24.00%) Analyst
3 11 (14.67%) Data Analyst
4 8 (10.67%) Full Stack Engineer
5 6 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (8.00%) Java Engineer
5 6 (8.00%) Lead Data Analyst
5 6 (8.00%) Senior
6 4 (5.33%) Architect
6 4 (5.33%) Cisco Consultant
6 4 (5.33%) Consultant
6 4 (5.33%) Developer
6 4 (5.33%) PMO Analyst
6 4 (5.33%) User Researcher
6 4 (5.33%) VMware Consultant
7 3 (4.00%) Commercial Manager
7 3 (4.00%) Data Quality Analyst
7 3 (4.00%) Java Developer
7 3 (4.00%) Quality Analyst
7 3 (4.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.67%) AngularJS
1 11 (14.67%) REST
1 11 (14.67%) Spring
2 9 (12.00%) CSS
2 9 (12.00%) HTML
2 9 (12.00%) JPA
2 9 (12.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (2.67%) React
4 1 (1.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.00%) Public Cloud
2 10 (13.33%) Management Information System
3 6 (8.00%) Credit Risk
4 4 (5.33%) Data Centre
4 4 (5.33%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.67%) Equities
5 2 (2.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.67%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (2.67%) VxBlock/Vblock
6 1 (1.33%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.33%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.33%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.33%) Windows
2 3 (4.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.67%) Mac OS X
3 2 (2.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (32.00%) Agile
2 15 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 15 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (18.67%) SDLC
4 12 (16.00%) Analytics
4 12 (16.00%) Risk Management
5 11 (14.67%) Actionable Insight
5 11 (14.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 11 (14.67%) Full Stack Development
5 11 (14.67%) Machine Learning
5 11 (14.67%) Operational Stability
5 11 (14.67%) Software Engineering
6 9 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (12.00%) Data Protection
6 9 (12.00%) Process Improvement
7 8 (10.67%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (10.67%) Information Security
7 8 (10.67%) Microservices
7 8 (10.67%) Time Management
8 7 (9.33%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 17 (22.67%) SQL
2 11 (14.67%) Java
3 9 (12.00%) TypeScript
4 4 (5.33%) Python
5 3 (4.00%) Perl
6 2 (2.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (21.33%) Degree
2 3 (4.00%) CGEIT
2 3 (4.00%) CISA
2 3 (4.00%) CISM
2 3 (4.00%) CISSP
2 3 (4.00%) CRISC
2 3 (4.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 3 (4.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (4.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.67%) ISEB
3 2 (2.67%) ISEB Practitioner
3 2 (2.67%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.33%) APMG
4 1 (1.33%) IIBA
4 1 (1.33%) MCSE
4 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.00%) PMO
2 7 (9.33%) Disclosure Scotland
2 7 (9.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (6.67%) SLA
4 4 (5.33%) Data Quality
5 3 (4.00%) Accessibility
5 3 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (4.00%) NIST
5 3 (4.00%) PCI DSS
6 2 (2.67%) GDPR
6 2 (2.67%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (1.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (1.33%) QA
System Software
1 6 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.33%) VMware NSX
2 4 (5.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (4.00%) Terraform
2 2 (2.67%) Ansible
2 2 (2.67%) Grafana
2 2 (2.67%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (2.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.67%) NetBackup
2 2 (2.67%) Prometheus
2 2 (2.67%) vCenter Server
2 2 (2.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 14 (18.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.00%) Alteryx
2 6 (8.00%) VMware
3 4 (5.33%) Cisco
3 4 (5.33%) Dell
3 4 (5.33%) Oracle
4 2 (2.67%) Apple
4 2 (2.67%) Cadence
4 2 (2.67%) Google
4 2 (2.67%) SAP
4 2 (2.67%) Veritas
4 2 (2.67%) Workday
5 1 (1.33%) Databricks