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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 45 43
Rank change year-on-year +10 -2 -3
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 97 76 156
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 5.87% 3.67% 5.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.34% 4.25% 6.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 45 116
10th Percentile £360 £150 £409
25th Percentile £417 £288 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £435 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.70% -13.00% -
75th Percentile £520 £550 £558
90th Percentile £551 £646 £597
UK median daily rate £511 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.26% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - £59.18
25th Percentile - - £59.41
Median hourly rate £15.60 £21.64 £59.79
Median % change year-on-year -27.91% -63.81% +25.87%
75th Percentile - - £60.17
90th Percentile - - £60.40
UK median hourly rate £31.20 £19.38 £37.75
% change year-on-year +61.03% -48.68% -12.93%

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 1,530 1,787 2,479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 92.56% 86.29% 92.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 859 1,101 1,716
10th Percentile £250 £213 £260
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £453 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% -4.63% -
75th Percentile £538 £556 £550
90th Percentile £600 £638 £633
UK median daily rate £502 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.33% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 88 60
10th Percentile £16.34 £12.30 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.88 £12.13
Median hourly rate £20.00 £20.57 £16.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.77% +26.62% -56.60%
75th Percentile £25.42 £49.44 £37.19
90th Percentile £59.25 £61.28 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +11 71 £465 +16.13% 197
Edinburgh -12 19 £500 +14.16% 153
Renfrewshire - 2 - - 6
South Lanarkshire +12 1 £470 -14.55% 2
Argyll and Bute - 1 - - 2
Scottish Borders - 1 - - 2
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 7 (7.22%) Confluence
2 3 (3.09%) SAS
3 2 (2.06%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.06%) CMS
3 2 (2.06%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.03%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (7.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (6.19%) MS Visio
3 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 19 (19.59%) Cloud Computing
2 16 (16.49%) AWS
3 11 (11.34%) Azure
4 8 (8.25%) Amazon S3
5 7 (7.22%) Power Platform
6 6 (6.19%) OpenShift
7 5 (5.15%) Cohesity
8 4 (4.12%) Snowflake
9 2 (2.06%) Adobe Analytics
9 2 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.06%) GitHub
9 2 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.06%) Google Analytics
10 1 (1.03%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.03%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.19%) NAS
1 6 (6.19%) SAN
2 3 (3.09%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.06%) Firewall
3 2 (2.06%) Internet
4 1 (1.03%) BGP
4 1 (1.03%) DHCP
4 1 (1.03%) DNS
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 7 (7.22%) Power BI
2 3 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.06%) MariaDB
3 2 (2.06%) MySQL
3 2 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.06%) Power Query
3 2 (2.06%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.03%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.03%) Big Data
4 1 (1.03%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.03%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.03%) InfluxDB
4 1 (1.03%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (7.22%) Jenkins
1 7 (7.22%) JIRA
2 6 (6.19%) Git
2 6 (6.19%) Xcode
3 2 (2.06%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.06%) Selenium
3 2 (2.06%) Toad
4 1 (1.03%) GitLab
4 1 (1.03%) WebDriver
General
1 61 (62.89%) Social Skills
2 48 (49.48%) Finance
3 26 (26.80%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (20.62%) Banking
5 13 (13.40%) Public Sector
6 11 (11.34%) Investment Banking
7 7 (7.22%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (4.12%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (3.09%) Financial Institution
9 3 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (3.09%) Tech for Good
10 2 (2.06%) Legal
10 2 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (2.06%) Retail
11 1 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.03%) Law
11 1 (1.03%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (1.03%) Marketing
11 1 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (19.59%) Analyst
2 12 (12.37%) Developer
3 10 (10.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 10 (10.31%) JavaScript Engineer
3 10 (10.31%) Python Engineer
4 9 (9.28%) Project Manager
5 7 (7.22%) Business Analyst
5 7 (7.22%) Data Engineer
5 7 (7.22%) Senior
6 6 (6.19%) Mobile Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Designer
8 3 (3.09%) Architect
8 3 (3.09%) Credit Analyst
8 3 (3.09%) Lead
8 3 (3.09%) Programme Manager
8 3 (3.09%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (3.09%) Senior Manager
9 2 (2.06%) Service Designer
9 2 (2.06%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 2 (2.06%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.19%) SwiftUI
1 6 (6.19%) UIKit
2 4 (4.12%) Node.js
3 3 (3.09%) REST
4 2 (2.06%) CSS
4 2 (2.06%) Gherkin
4 2 (2.06%) HTML
4 2 (2.06%) J2EE
4 2 (2.06%) Kafka
4 2 (2.06%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (2.06%) PySpark
4 2 (2.06%) React
4 2 (2.06%) Spring
4 2 (2.06%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.03%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.46%) Management Information System
2 13 (13.40%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (9.28%) Credit Risk
4 8 (8.25%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (7.22%) Mobile App
6 6 (6.19%) iPad
6 6 (6.19%) iPhone
6 6 (6.19%) Product Ownership
6 6 (6.19%) Virtual Team
7 3 (3.09%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (3.09%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.06%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.06%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (1.03%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.03%) Reference Data
9 1 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.28%) Windows
2 8 (8.25%) Windows Server
3 7 (7.22%) Unix
4 6 (6.19%) Android
4 6 (6.19%) Apple iOS
4 6 (6.19%) Linux
5 3 (3.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.03%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (37.11%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (34.02%) Agile
3 19 (19.59%) CI/CD
4 17 (17.53%) Data Security
4 17 (17.53%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 17 (17.53%) Risk Management
5 16 (16.49%) Task Automation
6 14 (14.43%) Artificial Intelligence
6 14 (14.43%) Critical Thinking
6 14 (14.43%) Data Analysis
6 14 (14.43%) Data Science
6 14 (14.43%) Machine Learning
7 13 (13.40%) Cybersecurity
7 13 (13.40%) Data Protection
7 13 (13.40%) Experimental Design
7 13 (13.40%) Natural Language Processing
7 13 (13.40%) Statistical Analysis
8 12 (12.37%) Analytics
8 12 (12.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 11 (11.34%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 35 (36.08%) Python
2 19 (19.59%) Java
2 19 (19.59%) JavaScript
3 16 (16.49%) SQL
4 13 (13.40%) TypeScript
5 6 (6.19%) Objective-C
5 6 (6.19%) Swift
6 4 (4.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (3.09%) VBA
8 2 (2.06%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.03%) Bash
9 1 (1.03%) Perl
9 1 (1.03%) R
9 1 (1.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (7.22%) Degree
2 3 (3.09%) Numerate Degree
2 3 (3.09%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.03%) CCAB
3 1 (1.03%) CCNP
3 1 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.03%) CISM
3 1 (1.03%) CISSP
3 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.03%) PhD
3 1 (1.03%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.25%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (4.12%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.06%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.06%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.06%) GDPR
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
System Software
1 2 (2.06%) Active Directory
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 7 (7.22%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.19%) NetBackup
2 6 (6.19%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (3.09%) Grafana
4 2 (2.06%) Terraform
5 1 (1.03%) Ansible
5 1 (1.03%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.03%) HAProxy
5 1 (1.03%) Nagios
5 1 (1.03%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 10 (10.31%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.19%) Oracle
2 6 (6.19%) Veritas
3 4 (4.12%) Alteryx
3 4 (4.12%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.09%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.06%) Adobe
5 2 (2.06%) Databricks
5 2 (2.06%) Google
5 2 (2.06%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.06%) VMware
6 1 (1.03%) BT
6 1 (1.03%) Cisco
6 1 (1.03%) Commvault
6 1 (1.03%) Juniper
6 1 (1.03%) NetApp
6 1 (1.03%) Qualys