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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 92 116
Rank change year-on-year +57 +24 -3
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 702 147 138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.46% 3.10% 2.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.26% 3.29% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 113 81 69
10th Percentile £35,700 £31,569 £39,650
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,829 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,543 £60,047 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.15% +20.09% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61,123 £80,627 £68,275
90th Percentile £72,433 £100,000 £78,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +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 6,235 4,465 5,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.87% 94.26% 91.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,418 2,242 2,777
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,125 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,905 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% +10.30% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +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 27 April 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 27 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +60 609 £42,500 -29.17% 17
Edinburgh +12 56 £59,556 -0.82% 12
Dundee - 9 £45,000 - 3
Fife - 7 £43,200 - 1
Renfrewshire - 6 £36,678 - 2
Perthshire +7 3 £30,000 - 1
Aberdeen -8 3 £45,000 - 5
Aberdeenshire +6 2 £45,000 +87.50% 4
South Lanarkshire 0 2 £105,000 -
Clackmannanshire - 2 £51,500 -
West Lothian -2 1 £27,500 -47.62%
North Lanarkshire - 1 £37,500 -
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
1 153 (21.79%) Apache Spark
2 81 (11.54%) Apache
3 62 (8.83%) FileNet
4 25 (3.56%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (2.85%) Camunda
6 17 (2.42%) Cloud Foundry
7 11 (1.57%) CICS
8 8 (1.14%) Confluence
9 7 (1.00%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.43%) SAS
11 2 (0.28%) Anypoint
Applications
1 21 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (2.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.14%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.14%) EViews
6 1 (0.14%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (1.57%) Primavera
2 4 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 293 (41.74%) AWS
2 75 (10.68%) Azure
3 62 (8.83%) Amazon S3
4 46 (6.55%) GitHub
5 39 (5.56%) GCP
6 36 (5.13%) Power Platform
7 20 (2.85%) Microsoft 365
8 17 (2.42%) BlazeMeter
9 16 (2.28%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (0.85%) Entra ID
11 6 (0.85%) Yammer
12 4 (0.57%) IaaS
12 4 (0.57%) SaaS
13 2 (0.28%) Fivetran
13 2 (0.28%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (0.28%) Vertex AI
14 1 (0.14%) Azure Sentinel
14 1 (0.14%) Smartsheet
14 1 (0.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.56%) DSL
2 17 (2.42%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.28%) Firewall
4 1 (0.14%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.14%) MPLS
4 1 (0.14%) SDH
4 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (16.10%) NoSQL
2 97 (13.82%) Big Data
3 82 (11.68%) Hadoop
4 72 (10.26%) Elasticsearch
5 62 (8.83%) Apache Cassandra
6 36 (5.13%) Power BI
7 32 (4.56%) Apache Hive
8 30 (4.27%) Tableau
9 29 (4.13%) DB2
10 28 (3.99%) MongoDB
11 22 (3.13%) Data Lake
12 17 (2.42%) Amazon Aurora
12 17 (2.42%) CockroachDB
13 16 (2.28%) HBase
13 16 (2.28%) Impala
14 14 (1.99%) Relational Database
15 10 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
15 10 (1.42%) Flink
16 4 (0.57%) Data Hub
16 4 (0.57%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 86 (12.25%) JUnit
2 69 (9.83%) Jenkins
3 61 (8.69%) Jasmine
4 44 (6.27%) Mockito
5 28 (3.99%) Maven
6 20 (2.85%) CircleCI
6 20 (2.85%) Gradle
6 20 (2.85%) Travis CI
7 18 (2.56%) JMeter
7 18 (2.56%) Selenium
8 17 (2.42%) Cypress.io
8 17 (2.42%) JIRA
8 17 (2.42%) Karma Test Runner
8 17 (2.42%) Protractor
8 17 (2.42%) WebDriver
9 15 (2.14%) LabVIEW
10 11 (1.57%) ChangeMan
11 9 (1.28%) Git
12 2 (0.28%) GitLab
12 2 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 582 (82.91%) Finance
2 561 (79.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 548 (78.06%) Law
4 335 (47.72%) Marketing
5 170 (24.22%) Legal
6 115 (16.38%) Banking
7 89 (12.68%) Social Skills
8 71 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
9 67 (9.54%) Investment Banking
10 32 (4.56%) Financial Institution
11 29 (4.13%) Presentation Skills
12 27 (3.85%) Private Banking
13 23 (3.28%) Manufacturing
14 16 (2.28%) Retail
15 15 (2.14%) Electronics
16 9 (1.28%) Public Sector
17 8 (1.14%) Telecoms
18 7 (1.00%) Games
19 5 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
20 4 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 427 (60.83%) Software Engineer
2 212 (30.20%) Java Engineer
2 212 (30.20%) Java Software Engineer
3 127 (18.09%) Senior
4 121 (17.24%) Full Stack Engineer
4 121 (17.24%) Full Stack Software Engineer
5 118 (16.81%) Lead
6 101 (14.39%) Lead Software Engineer
7 99 (14.10%) Senior Software Engineer
8 76 (10.83%) Software Engineering Director
9 69 (9.83%) Big Data Engineer
9 69 (9.83%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 54 (7.69%) Python Engineer
10 54 (7.69%) Python Software Engineer
11 50 (7.12%) AWS Engineer
11 50 (7.12%) AWS Software Engineer
11 50 (7.12%) Scala Engineer
11 50 (7.12%) Scala Software Engineer
12 47 (6.70%) Data Engineer
13 42 (5.98%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (28.92%) Spring
2 164 (23.36%) React
3 143 (20.37%) AngularJS
4 113 (16.10%) Kafka
5 91 (12.96%) GraphQL
5 91 (12.96%) Spring Boot
6 89 (12.68%) J2EE
7 79 (11.25%) Hibernate
8 62 (8.83%) Spring Integration
9 52 (7.41%) HTML
10 51 (7.26%) CSS
11 49 (6.98%) REST
12 43 (6.13%) PySpark
13 37 (5.27%) Node.js
14 36 (5.13%) RESTful
15 35 (4.99%) JMS
15 35 (4.99%) jQuery
15 35 (4.99%) JSON
15 35 (4.99%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 29 (4.13%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 237 (33.76%) Cloud Native
2 110 (15.67%) Public Cloud
3 81 (11.54%) Product Ownership
4 44 (6.27%) Credit Risk
5 41 (5.84%) Management Information System
6 23 (3.28%) Data Structures
7 21 (2.99%) Taxonomies
8 17 (2.42%) Market Risk
9 11 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (1.57%) Mainframe
9 11 (1.57%) Reference Data
9 11 (1.57%) VSAM
10 8 (1.14%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (0.71%) Data Centre
13 3 (0.43%) Driving Licence
13 3 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
14 2 (0.28%) Cyber Threat
14 2 (0.28%) Security Posture
14 2 (0.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.28%) Unix
2 4 (0.57%) Windows
3 3 (0.43%) Linux
4 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 555 (79.06%) Software Engineering
2 520 (74.07%) Agile
3 457 (65.10%) SDLC
4 445 (63.39%) Operational Stability
5 399 (56.84%) CI/CD
6 366 (52.14%) Machine Learning
7 348 (49.57%) Artificial Intelligence
8 211 (30.06%) Problem-Solving
9 199 (28.35%) Risk Management
10 144 (20.51%) Microservices
11 140 (19.94%) Computer Science
12 129 (18.38%) Full Stack Development
13 106 (15.10%) Tech Ops
14 76 (10.83%) Analytics
15 72 (10.26%) ETL
16 66 (9.40%) Mathematics
17 64 (9.12%) Asset Management
18 62 (8.83%) AOP
18 62 (8.83%) Data Modelling
18 62 (8.83%) Document Management
Programming Languages
1 453 (64.53%) Java
2 233 (33.19%) Python
3 232 (33.05%) SQL
4 87 (12.39%) Scala
5 53 (7.55%) TypeScript
6 43 (6.13%) JavaScript
7 32 (4.56%) C#
8 20 (2.85%) Ruby
9 19 (2.71%) PL/SQL
10 17 (2.42%) C++
11 15 (2.14%) C
12 11 (1.57%) COBOL
12 11 (1.57%) JCL
13 6 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.71%) R
15 2 (0.28%) Bash
15 2 (0.28%) PHP
15 2 (0.28%) PowerShell
16 1 (0.14%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.14%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 95 (13.53%) Degree
2 31 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
2 31 (4.42%) Master's Degree
3 24 (3.42%) Security Cleared
4 8 (1.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 8 (1.14%) SC Cleared
5 7 (1.00%) CISM
5 7 (1.00%) CISSP
6 6 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (0.71%) 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 (0.28%) HND
9 2 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.28%) PhD
10 1 (0.14%) CESG Certified Professional
10 1 (0.14%) MRICS
10 1 (0.14%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (8.83%) SLA
2 38 (5.41%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.56%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.00%) NIST
5 6 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
5 6 (0.85%) QA
6 2 (0.28%) 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 16 (2.28%) HDFS
2 11 (1.57%) Time Sharing Option
3 4 (0.57%) Docker
4 2 (0.28%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 114 (16.24%) Kubernetes
2 31 (4.42%) Terraform
3 7 (1.00%) Grafana
3 7 (1.00%) Graphite
4 2 (0.28%) Ansible
4 2 (0.28%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.14%) CASB
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 108 (15.38%) Oracle
2 81 (11.54%) Databricks
3 45 (6.41%) Microsoft
4 21 (2.99%) Google
5 20 (2.85%) Pega
6 18 (2.56%) Alteryx
6 18 (2.56%) Cognos
6 18 (2.56%) Sybase
7 16 (2.28%) Cloudera
8 7 (1.00%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.00%) Splunk
9 6 (0.85%) Atlassian
9 6 (0.85%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.43%) SAP
11 2 (0.28%) Apple
11 2 (0.28%) CA
11 2 (0.28%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.14%) LogRhythm
12 1 (0.14%) Meraki
12 1 (0.14%) Trustwave