Decision-Making Contracts in Scotland

Decision-Making
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Decision-Making skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Decision-Making over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 57 37
Rank change year-on-year +22 -20 -7
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 97 75 176
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 5.97% 3.38% 6.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.39% 3.82% 6.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 46 141
10th Percentile £356 £178 £379
25th Percentile £419 £346 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £438 £505
Median % change year-on-year +8.45% -13.27% +1.00%
75th Percentile £535 £556 £561
90th Percentile £556 £661 £625
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.19% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile - £21.76 £59.18
25th Percentile - £21.95 £59.41
Median hourly rate £15.60 £22.26 £59.79
Median % change year-on-year -29.90% -62.78% +25.87%
75th Percentile - £22.56 £60.17
90th Percentile - £22.75 £60.40
UK median hourly rate £31.08 £19.38 £47.50
% change year-on-year +60.39% -59.21% +11.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Decision-Making falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +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 1 May 2025.

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

Decision-Making
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 1 May 2025. 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 +14 58 £475 +11.76% 43
Edinburgh +6 32 £475 -1.35% 42
Renfrewshire - 2 - - 32
South Lanarkshire +23 1 £470 -14.55%
Argyll and Bute - 1 - - 3
Scottish Borders - 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 5 (5.15%) Confluence
2 3 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.09%) SAS
3 2 (2.06%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (2.06%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.06%) CMS
3 2 (2.06%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (10.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (9.28%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (6.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (5.15%) MS Visio
5 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 21 (21.65%) Cloud Computing
2 16 (16.49%) AWS
3 15 (15.46%) Azure
4 12 (12.37%) Amazon S3
5 11 (11.34%) OpenShift
6 9 (9.28%) Power Platform
7 6 (6.19%) Snowflake
8 5 (5.15%) Cohesity
9 2 (2.06%) Adobe Analytics
9 2 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.06%) Google Analytics
10 1 (1.03%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.03%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.03%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.03%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.31%) NAS
1 10 (10.31%) SAN
2 3 (3.09%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.06%) Internet
4 1 (1.03%) BGP
4 1 (1.03%) DHCP
4 1 (1.03%) DNS
4 1 (1.03%) Firewall
4 1 (1.03%) LAN
4 1 (1.03%) Network Security
4 1 (1.03%) OSPF
4 1 (1.03%) VPN
4 1 (1.03%) WAN
4 1 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.25%) Power BI
2 4 (4.12%) Tableau
3 3 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.09%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.03%) Big Data
5 1 (1.03%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.03%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.03%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.03%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.03%) MySQL
5 1 (1.03%) OLAP
5 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (11.34%) Jenkins
2 10 (10.31%) Git
3 5 (5.15%) JIRA
4 3 (3.09%) Xcode
5 2 (2.06%) GitLab
5 2 (2.06%) Toad
General
1 53 (54.64%) Social Skills
2 41 (42.27%) Finance
3 30 (30.93%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (22.68%) Banking
5 12 (12.37%) Public Sector
6 11 (11.34%) Investment Banking
7 6 (6.19%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (6.19%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (4.12%) Retail
8 4 (4.12%) Tech for Good
9 3 (3.09%) Financial Institution
9 3 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (3.09%) Retail Banking
10 2 (2.06%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (1.03%) Billing
11 1 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.03%) Front Office
11 1 (1.03%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (18.56%) Analyst
2 12 (12.37%) Data Engineer
2 12 (12.37%) Developer
3 11 (11.34%) Python Engineer
4 8 (8.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 8 (8.25%) JavaScript Engineer
5 7 (7.22%) Business Analyst
6 6 (6.19%) Project Manager
6 6 (6.19%) Senior
7 4 (4.12%) Designer
8 3 (3.09%) Credit Analyst
8 3 (3.09%) Insight Manager
8 3 (3.09%) Mobile Engineer
8 3 (3.09%) Performance Manager
8 3 (3.09%) Programme Manager
8 3 (3.09%) Senior Manager
9 2 (2.06%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 2 (2.06%) NetBackup Engineer
9 2 (2.06%) Support Officer
9 2 (2.06%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.12%) PySpark
2 3 (3.09%) REST
2 3 (3.09%) SwiftUI
2 3 (3.09%) UIKit
3 2 (2.06%) CSS
3 2 (2.06%) HTML
3 2 (2.06%) J2EE
3 2 (2.06%) Kafka
3 2 (2.06%) Node.js
4 1 (1.03%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.03%) Spring
4 1 (1.03%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.37%) Management Information System
2 11 (11.34%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.19%) Credit Risk
4 5 (5.15%) Mobile App
4 5 (5.15%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.12%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (4.12%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (3.09%) iPad
6 3 (3.09%) iPhone
6 3 (3.09%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.06%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.03%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.03%) PMI
8 1 (1.03%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (13.40%) Windows
2 12 (12.37%) Windows Server
3 11 (11.34%) Unix
4 4 (4.12%) Linux
5 3 (3.09%) Android
5 3 (3.09%) Apple iOS
5 3 (3.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.03%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (39.18%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (24.74%) Agile
3 19 (19.59%) CI/CD
4 16 (16.49%) Data Protection
4 16 (16.49%) Data Security
4 16 (16.49%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 14 (14.43%) Risk Management
5 14 (14.43%) Task Automation
6 13 (13.40%) Business Intelligence
6 13 (13.40%) Critical Thinking
6 13 (13.40%) Data Analysis
6 13 (13.40%) Data Science
6 13 (13.40%) Machine Learning
7 12 (12.37%) Artificial Intelligence
8 11 (11.34%) Analytics
8 11 (11.34%) Experimental Design
8 11 (11.34%) Natural Language Processing
8 11 (11.34%) Observability
8 11 (11.34%) Statistical Analysis
9 10 (10.31%) Data Deduplication
Programming Languages
1 38 (39.18%) Python
2 20 (20.62%) SQL
3 14 (14.43%) Java
4 13 (13.40%) JavaScript
5 11 (11.34%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.09%) Objective-C
6 3 (3.09%) Swift
6 3 (3.09%) VBA
7 2 (2.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.06%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.03%) Bash
8 1 (1.03%) Perl
8 1 (1.03%) R
8 1 (1.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (8.25%) Degree
2 3 (3.09%) Numerate Degree
3 2 (2.06%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.03%) CCAB
4 1 (1.03%) CCNP
4 1 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.03%) CISM
4 1 (1.03%) CISSP
4 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.03%) PhD
4 1 (1.03%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.03%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.15%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (4.12%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.06%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.06%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.06%) WCAG
4 1 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.03%) GRC
4 1 (1.03%) IFRS
4 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (1.03%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (2.06%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.03%) Docker
2 1 (1.03%) KVM
2 1 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (10.31%) Kubernetes
1 10 (10.31%) NetBackup
1 10 (10.31%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (1.03%) Ansible
2 1 (1.03%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (1.03%) FortiGate
2 1 (1.03%) Grafana
2 1 (1.03%) HAProxy
2 1 (1.03%) Nagios
2 1 (1.03%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (1.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (14.43%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.31%) Veritas
3 5 (5.15%) Oracle
4 4 (4.12%) Alteryx
4 4 (4.12%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.09%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.06%) Adobe
6 2 (2.06%) Databricks
6 2 (2.06%) Google
6 2 (2.06%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.06%) VMware
7 1 (1.03%) BT
7 1 (1.03%) Cisco
7 1 (1.03%) Commvault
7 1 (1.03%) Juniper
7 1 (1.03%) NetApp
7 1 (1.03%) Qualys