Decision-Making Job Trends in Scotland

Decision-Making
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Decision-Making skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 41 11
Rank change year-on-year +12 -30 +66
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 186 146 356
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 6.73% 4.78% 14.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.08% 5.40% 14.95%
Number of salaries quoted 38 55 295
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,370 -
25th Percentile £46,563 £40,304 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,855 £50,000 £25,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.71% +100.00% -58.33%
75th Percentile £71,149 £79,648 £28,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £61,123
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -8.33%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,302 2,706 2,382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 83.35% 88.52% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,167 1,235 1,762
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,750 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,500 £83,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Decision-Making relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Decision-Making job vacancy trend in Scotland

Decision-Making
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Decision-Making.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Decision-Making

Decision-Making
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in Scotland over the 6 months to 7 December 2025.

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 7 December 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
Glasgow +5 46 £60,000 -15.49% 32
Edinburgh -30 36 £57,500 +8.75% 31
North Lanarkshire - 24 - -
Renfrewshire +2 18 - - 3
South Lanarkshire - 12 - -
West Lothian - 9 £50,000 - 3
Stirling +3 7 - - 1
West Dunbartonshire - 7 £60,000 - 1
Ayrshire - 6 - -
North Ayrshire - 6 - -
East Ayrshire - 6 - -
Lanarkshire - 6 - - 12
Dundee -3 1 £69,248 +76.00% 1
Fife - 1 £50,000 - 3
Decision-Making
UK

Decision-Making
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.15%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.54%) Confluence
2 1 (0.54%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (5.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.69%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 22 (11.83%) Azure
2 16 (8.60%) AWS
3 10 (5.38%) Power Platform
4 8 (4.30%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (3.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 7 (3.76%) Snowflake
6 6 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (3.23%) GitHub
6 6 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.69%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (1.61%) SaaS
9 2 (1.08%) GCP
10 1 (0.54%) dbt
10 1 (0.54%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.38%) Power BI
2 8 (4.30%) Tableau
3 5 (2.69%) Data Lake
3 5 (2.69%) Metadata
4 4 (2.15%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.61%) Apache Hive
5 3 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.61%) Big Data
5 3 (1.61%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.08%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.08%) HBase
6 2 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.08%) Qlik Sense
6 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.54%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.54%) Impala
7 1 (0.54%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (2.15%) JIRA
2 2 (1.08%) Gradle
2 2 (1.08%) Maven
3 1 (0.54%) Git
3 1 (0.54%) Jenkins
General
1 122 (65.59%) Analytical Skills
2 121 (65.05%) Social Skills
3 57 (30.65%) Finance
4 19 (10.22%) Law
5 18 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (8.06%) Marketing
7 9 (4.84%) Banking
7 9 (4.84%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (3.76%) Public Sector
9 6 (3.23%) Retail
10 5 (2.69%) Advertising
10 5 (2.69%) Financial Institution
10 5 (2.69%) Front Office
10 5 (2.69%) Legal
11 4 (2.15%) Private Banking
12 2 (1.08%) Brand Awareness
12 2 (1.08%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.54%) Billing
13 1 (0.54%) Games
13 1 (0.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 96 (51.61%) Innovation Manager
2 16 (8.60%) Analyst
3 14 (7.53%) Software Engineer
4 11 (5.91%) Lead
5 10 (5.38%) Senior
6 9 (4.84%) Java Engineer
6 9 (4.84%) Java Software Engineer
7 8 (4.30%) Financial Controller
8 7 (3.76%) Developer
9 5 (2.69%) Account Manager
9 5 (2.69%) Business Analyst
9 5 (2.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (2.69%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 5 (2.69%) Head of Data Management
9 5 (2.69%) Head of Risk Management
9 5 (2.69%) Insight Analyst
9 5 (2.69%) Web Manager
10 4 (2.15%) Python Engineer
10 4 (2.15%) Python Software Engineer
10 4 (2.15%) Senior Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.23%) Spring
2 4 (2.15%) Kafka
3 3 (1.61%) React
3 3 (1.61%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.08%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.08%) JPA
4 2 (1.08%) PySpark
4 2 (1.08%) REST
4 2 (1.08%) RESTful
5 1 (0.54%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.91%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.69%) Digital Media
3 4 (2.15%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.61%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.61%) Operational Technology
4 3 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.08%) FMCG
5 2 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.08%) Life Science
5 2 (1.08%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.08%) PMI
5 2 (1.08%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.08%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.54%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.54%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.54%) Derivative
6 1 (0.54%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.54%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.54%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (69.89%) AI
2 120 (64.52%) Analytics
2 120 (64.52%) Continuous Improvement
3 109 (58.60%) Stakeholder Management
4 104 (55.91%) Customer Experience
5 102 (54.84%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 48 (25.81%) Critical Thinking
6 48 (25.81%) Emotional Intelligence
7 41 (22.04%) Agile
8 25 (13.44%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (11.83%) CI/CD
10 18 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
10 18 (9.68%) Data Engineering
11 17 (9.14%) Coaching
11 17 (9.14%) DevOps
12 14 (7.53%) Machine Learning
12 14 (7.53%) Operational Stability
12 14 (7.53%) Software Engineering
13 13 (6.99%) Asset Management
13 13 (6.99%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (14.52%) SQL
2 14 (7.53%) Python
3 12 (6.45%) Java
4 6 (3.23%) T-SQL
5 3 (1.61%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (3.23%) AWS Certification
1 6 (3.23%) Degree
2 5 (2.69%) CRISC
3 3 (1.61%) PMI Certification
4 2 (1.08%) ACCA
4 2 (1.08%) CIMA
4 2 (1.08%) PMP
5 1 (0.54%) CBAP
5 1 (0.54%) HNC
5 1 (0.54%) HND
5 1 (0.54%) SAFe Agilist
5 1 (0.54%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.84%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.15%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.15%) GDPR
2 4 (2.15%) GRC
3 3 (1.61%) GAAP
3 3 (1.61%) IFRS
3 3 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.61%) Solvency II
4 1 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.54%) NIST
4 1 (0.54%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.54%) PMO
4 1 (0.54%) QA
4 1 (0.54%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (1.08%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (0.54%) Grafana
1 1 (0.54%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.54%) Netcool
1 1 (0.54%) Netcool/OMNIbus
1 1 (0.54%) RSA Archer
1 1 (0.54%) Terraform
1 1 (0.54%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 10 (5.38%) Databricks
1 10 (5.38%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.76%) Alteryx
3 5 (2.69%) Oracle
4 4 (2.15%) Charles River
4 4 (2.15%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.61%) Teradata
6 2 (1.08%) Cloudera
6 2 (1.08%) Xero
7 1 (0.54%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.54%) Computacenter
7 1 (0.54%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.54%) Genesys
7 1 (0.54%) IBM
7 1 (0.54%) Siemens
7 1 (0.54%) Splunk
7 1 (0.54%) Verint