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 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 31 37
Rank change year-on-year -24 +6 +47
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 87 185 593
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.66% 8.22% 9.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.77% 8.89% 10.30%
Number of salaries quoted 30 28 107
10th Percentile £38,625 £35,875 £33,750
25th Percentile £51,563 £50,296 £41,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £58,750 £45,543
Median % change year-on-year - +29.00% -23.02%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,738 £62,342
90th Percentile £115,250 £87,500 £76,900
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £54,844
% change year-on-year - +9.40% -7.87%

All Process & 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 2,308 2,082 5,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 70.47% 92.53% 88.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,333 863 2,596
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,929 £28,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £32,851 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 22 June 2026.

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 22 June 2026. 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 +9 39 £72,500 +38.10% 20
Edinburgh -25 22 £55,000 -8.33% 16
West Lothian - 8 - -
Aberdeen -14 4 £47,500 +5.56% 3
North Lanarkshire -9 3 - - 2
Midlothian - 3 - - 9
Stirling -4 2 - - 3
Lanarkshire +8 1 - - 12
Inverclyde -2 1 - - 1
Perthshire - 1 £127,500 -
Perth and Kinross - 1 £127,500 -
Falkirk - 1 - - 1
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
East Lothian - 1 - -
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 3 (3.45%) Confluence
2 1 (1.15%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.15%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (5.75%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.15%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (11.49%) Azure
2 5 (5.75%) Azure AI
2 5 (5.75%) Azure Machine Learning
3 4 (4.60%) AWS
3 4 (4.60%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.45%) Copilot Studio
4 3 (3.45%) GCP
4 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (3.45%) Vertex AI
5 2 (2.30%) Amazon Bedrock
5 2 (2.30%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.15%) GitHub
6 1 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (20.69%) Broadband
2 4 (4.60%) Firewall
2 4 (4.60%) Network Security
2 4 (4.60%) VLAN
3 1 (1.15%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.15%) Data Vault
1 1 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.15%) Delta Lake
1 1 (1.15%) Metadata
1 1 (1.15%) Oracle BI EE
1 1 (1.15%) Oracle ODI
1 1 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (1.15%) Power BI
1 1 (1.15%) Snowflake Schema
1 1 (1.15%) Star Schema
1 1 (1.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (3.45%) JIRA
2 1 (1.15%) Oracle APEX
General
1 44 (50.57%) Social Skills
2 24 (27.59%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (22.99%) Finance
4 14 (16.09%) Games
5 8 (9.20%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.90%) Billing
7 5 (5.75%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (4.60%) Legal
8 4 (4.60%) Marketing
8 4 (4.60%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.30%) Retail
10 1 (1.15%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.15%) Automotive
10 1 (1.15%) Banking
10 1 (1.15%) Police
Job Titles
1 27 (31.03%) Analyst
2 17 (19.54%) Senior
3 13 (14.94%) Business Development Manager
3 13 (14.94%) Business Manager
3 13 (14.94%) Development Manager
4 8 (9.20%) Finance Systems Analyst
4 8 (9.20%) Financial Analyst
4 8 (9.20%) Systems Analyst
5 7 (8.05%) Lead
6 6 (6.90%) Architect
6 6 (6.90%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 5 (5.75%) Senior Manager
8 4 (4.60%) Governance Manager
8 4 (4.60%) Security Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Security Manager
8 4 (4.60%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (4.60%) Senior Security Engineer
9 3 (3.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 3 (3.45%) Forecast Analyst
9 3 (3.45%) Project Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.45%) LangChain
1 3 (3.45%) Semantic Kernel
2 1 (1.15%) GraphQL
2 1 (1.15%) gRPC
2 1 (1.15%) JSON
2 1 (1.15%) Kafka
2 1 (1.15%) PySpark
2 1 (1.15%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.15%) REST
2 1 (1.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.94%) AI Agents
2 11 (12.64%) Cyber Threat
2 11 (12.64%) Cyberattack
2 11 (12.64%) Social Media
3 6 (6.90%) Management Information System
4 5 (5.75%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.60%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.60%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.45%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (3.45%) Operational Technology
7 2 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.30%) IoT
7 2 (2.30%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.30%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.15%) Robotics
8 1 (1.15%) Taxonomies
8 1 (1.15%) Video on Demand
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (27.59%) AI
1 24 (27.59%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (20.69%) Business Development
3 16 (18.39%) Continuous Improvement
3 16 (18.39%) Line Management
3 16 (18.39%) LLM
4 15 (17.24%) Information Security
5 13 (14.94%) Agile
6 11 (12.64%) Analytics
6 11 (12.64%) Data Loss Prevention
6 11 (12.64%) Design Patterns
6 11 (12.64%) Human-in-the-Loop
6 11 (12.64%) Identity Access Management
6 11 (12.64%) Mentoring
6 11 (12.64%) Threat Modelling
7 10 (11.49%) Business Strategy
7 10 (11.49%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (10.34%) Project Delivery
8 9 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (9.20%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 7 (8.05%) Python
2 3 (3.45%) Java
3 1 (1.15%) C
3 1 (1.15%) C++
3 1 (1.15%) Embedded C
3 1 (1.15%) Embedded C++
3 1 (1.15%) Scala
3 1 (1.15%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (5.75%) ACCA
1 5 (5.75%) CIMA
1 5 (5.75%) Degree
1 5 (5.75%) ICAEW
2 4 (4.60%) CISM
2 4 (4.60%) CISSP
2 4 (4.60%) CRISC
3 2 (2.30%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.30%) MBA
4 1 (1.15%) CSPO
4 1 (1.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.15%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.15%) PMP
4 1 (1.15%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.64%) GDPR
2 4 (4.60%) COBIT
2 4 (4.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.60%) NIST
3 1 (1.15%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (1.15%) Docker
Vendors
1 7 (8.05%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.75%) Foundry
2 5 (5.75%) Google
3 4 (4.60%) Databricks
4 3 (3.45%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.15%) Infor
5 1 (1.15%) Oracle
5 1 (1.15%) SAP