Data-Driven Decision Making Jobs in Scotland

Data-Driven Decision Making
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Data-Driven Decision Making skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data-Driven Decision Making over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 236 197
Rank change year-on-year +128 -39 +42
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 41 47 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.46% 0.70% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 0.75% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 5 18 18
10th Percentile £76,500 £43,817 £39,829
25th Percentile £90,000 £46,250 £50,039
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £59,556 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +84.70% -11.77% +82.43%
75th Percentile - £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £119,733 - £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,584 6,258 4,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.12% 92.83% 94.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,340 2,424 2,253
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,490
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,654
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.94% +9.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £73,875
90th Percentile £83,739 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Data-Driven Decision Making
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Data-Driven Decision Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in Scotland

Data-Driven Decision Making
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making in Scotland.

Salary trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in Scotland

Data-Driven Decision Making
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data-Driven Decision Making in Scotland

Data-Driven 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 Data-Driven Decision Making within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North Lanarkshire - 8 - -
Glasgow +145 6 £102,500 +110.26% 17
Renfrewshire - 6 - - 4
Edinburgh +15 5 £121,305 +101.67% 9
South Lanarkshire - 4 - -
North Ayrshire - 2 - -
East Ayrshire - 2 - -
Stirling - 2 - -
Ayrshire - 2 - -
Lanarkshire - 2 - - 3
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
Data-Driven Decision Making
UK

Data-Driven 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.88%) OCI
2 1 (2.44%) AWS
2 1 (2.44%) Azure
2 1 (2.44%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.44%) DB2
1 1 (2.44%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.44%) MS Access
1 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.44%) RDBMS
1 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.44%) JUnit
General
1 39 (95.12%) Social Skills
2 35 (85.37%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (14.63%) Finance
4 4 (9.76%) Banking
4 4 (9.76%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Front Office
5 1 (2.44%) Law
Job Titles
1 32 (78.05%) Innovation Manager
2 2 (4.88%) Business Intelligence Lead
2 2 (4.88%) Business Intelligence Manager
2 2 (4.88%) Business Manager
2 2 (4.88%) Lead
2 2 (4.88%) Senior
3 1 (2.44%) Developer
3 1 (2.44%) Java Developer
3 1 (2.44%) SAP Manager
3 1 (2.44%) Senior Developer
3 1 (2.44%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (2.44%) Senior Manager
3 1 (2.44%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.44%) Kafka
1 1 (2.44%) Spring
1 1 (2.44%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.44%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.44%) Linux
1 1 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (87.80%) Decision-Making
2 34 (82.93%) Continuous Improvement
3 33 (80.49%) Analytics
4 32 (78.05%) Artificial Intelligence
4 32 (78.05%) Customer Experience
4 32 (78.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (12.20%) Visualisation
6 4 (9.76%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (9.76%) Data Management
6 4 (9.76%) Roadmaps
6 4 (9.76%) Strategic Roadmap
7 3 (7.32%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (4.88%) Actionable Insight
8 2 (4.88%) Business Strategy
8 2 (4.88%) ERP
9 1 (2.44%) Concurrent Programming
9 1 (2.44%) Customer Service
9 1 (2.44%) Microservices
9 1 (2.44%) Performance Management
9 1 (2.44%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.88%) SQL
2 1 (2.44%) Java
2 1 (2.44%) Python
Vendors
1 3 (7.32%) SAP
2 2 (4.88%) Oracle
2 2 (4.88%) Workday
3 1 (2.44%) IBM
3 1 (2.44%) Sybase