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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 21 38
Rank change year-on-year -18 +17 +32
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 121 250 504
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.62% 9.98% 8.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.13% 11.01% 9.89%
Number of salaries quoted 34 38 87
10th Percentile £37,875 £40,625 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,563 £50,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £45,543
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +26.25% -22.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,532 £60,921
90th Percentile £115,000 £84,649 £71,100
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,878 £54,967
% change year-on-year +0.20% +8.93% -7.70%

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 2,358 2,271 5,098
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 70.54% 90.62% 87.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,408 1,000 2,331
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,968 £29,087
25th Percentile £32,250 £32,851 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £48,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -7.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,010 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,375 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -8.79%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 +10 49 £72,500 +38.10% 26
Edinburgh -14 30 £55,000 -8.33% 15
West Lothian 0 8 - - 2
Stirling -2 8 - - 1
North Lanarkshire -6 6 - - 1
Aberdeen -13 5 £47,500 +5.56% 2
Inverclyde +3 4 - - 1
Renfrewshire -4 3 - - 1
Midlothian - 3 - - 9
Lanarkshire +5 1 - - 19
Falkirk - 1 - -
East Lothian - 1 - -
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
Perthshire - 1 £127,500 - 1
Perth and Kinross - 1 £127,500 -
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 (3.31%) Confluence
2 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.83%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (6.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (5.79%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.83%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (9.09%) Azure
2 6 (4.96%) AWS
2 6 (4.96%) Azure AI
2 6 (4.96%) Azure Machine Learning
3 4 (3.31%) Power Platform
4 3 (2.48%) Amazon Bedrock
4 3 (2.48%) Amazon SageMaker
4 3 (2.48%) Copilot Studio
4 3 (2.48%) GCP
4 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (2.48%) Vertex AI
5 1 (0.83%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.83%) GitHub
5 1 (0.83%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 25 (20.66%) Firewall
1 25 (20.66%) Network Security
1 25 (20.66%) VLAN
2 18 (14.88%) Broadband
3 1 (0.83%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.83%) Data Vault
1 1 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (0.83%) Delta Lake
1 1 (0.83%) Oracle BI EE
1 1 (0.83%) Oracle ODI
1 1 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (0.83%) Power BI
1 1 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
1 1 (0.83%) Star Schema
1 1 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (4.13%) JIRA
2 1 (0.83%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.83%) Maven
2 1 (0.83%) Oracle APEX
General
1 70 (57.85%) Social Skills
2 28 (23.14%) Finance
3 24 (19.83%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.74%) Games
4 13 (10.74%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.61%) Billing
6 6 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (4.13%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.31%) Marketing
8 4 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.48%) Legal
10 2 (1.65%) Banking
10 2 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.65%) Retail
11 1 (0.83%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.83%) Automotive
11 1 (0.83%) Law
11 1 (0.83%) Police
11 1 (0.83%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (31.40%) Senior
2 27 (22.31%) Analyst
3 25 (20.66%) Security Engineer
3 25 (20.66%) Senior Security Engineer
4 17 (14.05%) Business Development Manager
4 17 (14.05%) Business Manager
4 17 (14.05%) Development Manager
5 8 (6.61%) Finance Systems Analyst
5 8 (6.61%) Financial Analyst
5 8 (6.61%) Systems Analyst
6 7 (5.79%) Lead
7 6 (4.96%) Cybersecurity Manager
8 5 (4.13%) Architect
8 5 (4.13%) Consultant
8 5 (4.13%) Project Manager
8 5 (4.13%) Senior Manager
9 4 (3.31%) Governance Manager
9 4 (3.31%) Security Manager
9 4 (3.31%) Senior Analyst
10 3 (2.48%) Principal Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.48%) LangChain
1 3 (2.48%) Semantic Kernel
2 1 (0.83%) CSS
2 1 (0.83%) GraphQL
2 1 (0.83%) gRPC
2 1 (0.83%) Hibernate
2 1 (0.83%) HTML
2 1 (0.83%) HTML5
2 1 (0.83%) Hugging Face
2 1 (0.83%) JMS
2 1 (0.83%) JSON
2 1 (0.83%) Kafka
2 1 (0.83%) PySpark
2 1 (0.83%) PyTorch
2 1 (0.83%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (0.83%) React
2 1 (0.83%) REST
2 1 (0.83%) Spring
2 1 (0.83%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.40%) AI Agents
2 11 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
2 11 (9.09%) Cyberattack
2 11 (9.09%) Social Media
3 6 (4.96%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.13%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.31%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.48%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (2.48%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.48%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.48%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.65%) IoT
7 2 (1.65%) Video on Demand
8 1 (0.83%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.83%) SystemC
8 1 (0.83%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (38.02%) Cybersecurity
2 31 (25.62%) Project Delivery
3 27 (22.31%) Capacity Planning
4 26 (21.49%) AI
5 25 (20.66%) BCP
5 25 (20.66%) Business Continuity
5 25 (20.66%) Business Continuity Planning
5 25 (20.66%) Economics
5 25 (20.66%) Network Architecture
5 25 (20.66%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 22 (18.18%) Business Development
7 19 (15.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (14.88%) Line Management
8 18 (14.88%) LLM
9 16 (13.22%) Business Strategy
9 16 (13.22%) Mentoring
10 15 (12.40%) Information Security
11 14 (11.57%) Agile
12 11 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (9.09%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 9 (7.44%) Python
2 4 (3.31%) Java
3 1 (0.83%) C
3 1 (0.83%) C++
3 1 (0.83%) Embedded C
3 1 (0.83%) Embedded C++
3 1 (0.83%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.83%) Scala
3 1 (0.83%) SQL
3 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (5.79%) ACCA
1 7 (5.79%) CIMA
1 7 (5.79%) ICAEW
2 6 (4.96%) Degree
3 4 (3.31%) CISM
3 4 (3.31%) CISSP
3 4 (3.31%) CRISC
4 2 (1.65%) CSPO
4 2 (1.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (1.65%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.65%) MBA
4 2 (1.65%) PMI Certification
4 2 (1.65%) PMP
4 2 (1.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (0.83%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.09%) GDPR
2 4 (3.31%) COBIT
2 4 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.31%) NIST
3 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (1.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.83%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (5.79%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.96%) Foundry
3 5 (4.13%) Google
4 4 (3.31%) Databricks
5 3 (2.48%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.83%) Infor
6 1 (0.83%) Oracle
6 1 (0.83%) SAP