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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 25 36
Rank change year-on-year +8 +11 0
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 208 235 369
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 5.66% 9.25% 7.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.13% 10.27% 9.01%
Number of salaries quoted 57 44 56
10th Percentile £36,500 £39,875 £36,760
25th Percentile £49,500 £49,375 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,855 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.26% -2.91% +126.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,532 £67,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £83,738 £77,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

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 2,557 2,288 4,096
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 69.52% 90.08% 86.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,475 1,016 1,825
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,929 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,851 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -22.73% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -6.67%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 +16 78 £55,000 +4.76% 55
Edinburgh +3 60 £70,000 +19.15% 44
Stirling +5 15 £52,000 - 6
West Lothian +2 10 - - 2
Midlothian - 10 £65,000 - 20
North Lanarkshire -4 9 £45,000 - 3
Inverclyde +3 7 - -
Renfrewshire -3 6 - - 1
Aberdeen -11 5 £47,500 +5.56% 10
North Ayrshire -4 1 - - 2
Dundee -10 1 £54,500 -21.30% 3
South Lanarkshire -11 1 - - 2
Highlands - 1 - - 2
Perth and Kinross - 1 £127,500 -
Perthshire - 1 £127,500 -
Falkirk - 1 - - 2
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
East Lothian - 1 - - 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 4 (1.92%) Confluence
2 2 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.96%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.96%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.48%) Apache
Applications
1 14 (6.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (3.37%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.48%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (11.54%) Azure
2 18 (8.65%) AWS
3 10 (4.81%) Power Platform
4 7 (3.37%) GCP
5 6 (2.88%) Azure AI
5 6 (2.88%) Azure Machine Learning
5 6 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.40%) Snowflake
7 4 (1.92%) Amazon Bedrock
7 4 (1.92%) SaaS
8 3 (1.44%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (1.44%) Copilot Studio
8 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (1.44%) Vertex AI
9 2 (0.96%) Alation
9 2 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.96%) Collibra
10 1 (0.48%) Azure Databricks
10 1 (0.48%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 46 (22.12%) Firewall
1 46 (22.12%) Network Security
1 46 (22.12%) VLAN
2 18 (8.65%) Broadband
3 1 (0.48%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.37%) Electronic Patient Records
2 6 (2.88%) Metadata
2 6 (2.88%) Power BI
2 6 (2.88%) Tableau
3 5 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.44%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.48%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.48%) Big Data
5 1 (0.48%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.48%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.48%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.48%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.48%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (2.40%) JIRA
2 2 (0.96%) Git
3 1 (0.48%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.48%) Maven
General
1 108 (51.92%) Social Skills
2 45 (21.63%) Finance
3 32 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (9.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (9.13%) Public Sector
6 14 (6.73%) Marketing
7 13 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (5.77%) Games
8 12 (5.77%) Law
9 8 (3.85%) Billing
10 7 (3.37%) Legal
10 7 (3.37%) Manufacturing
11 6 (2.88%) Banking
11 6 (2.88%) Financial Institution
11 6 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.92%) Private Banking
13 2 (0.96%) Electronics
13 2 (0.96%) Retail
13 2 (0.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (29.33%) Senior
2 46 (22.12%) Security Engineer
2 46 (22.12%) Senior Security Engineer
3 27 (12.98%) Analyst
4 23 (11.06%) Lead
5 20 (9.62%) Business Development Manager
5 20 (9.62%) Business Manager
5 20 (9.62%) Development Manager
6 13 (6.25%) Consultant
7 9 (4.33%) Architect
7 9 (4.33%) Presales Consultant
7 9 (4.33%) Risk Manager
8 8 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Manager
8 8 (3.85%) Finance Systems Analyst
8 8 (3.85%) Financial Analyst
8 8 (3.85%) Systems Analyst
9 7 (3.37%) Coordinator
9 7 (3.37%) Data Manager
9 7 (3.37%) Technical Manager
10 6 (2.88%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.92%) Hugging Face
1 4 (1.92%) PyTorch
2 3 (1.44%) LangChain
2 3 (1.44%) PySpark
2 3 (1.44%) Semantic Kernel
3 2 (0.96%) HTML
3 2 (0.96%) HTML5
3 2 (0.96%) Kafka
3 2 (0.96%) React
4 1 (0.48%) CSS
4 1 (0.48%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.48%) Hibernate
4 1 (0.48%) JMS
4 1 (0.48%) Memcached
4 1 (0.48%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.48%) Redux
4 1 (0.48%) REST
4 1 (0.48%) RESTful
4 1 (0.48%) Spring
4 1 (0.48%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.10%) AI Agents
2 12 (5.77%) Cyber Threat
2 12 (5.77%) Onboarding
2 12 (5.77%) Social Media
3 11 (5.29%) Cyberattack
3 11 (5.29%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.33%) SystemC
5 7 (3.37%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.37%) NHS
6 6 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.40%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.44%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.44%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.96%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.96%) Video on Demand
9 2 (0.96%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.48%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (35.58%) Cybersecurity
2 50 (24.04%) Project Delivery
3 48 (23.08%) AI
4 47 (22.60%) Business Continuity
4 47 (22.60%) Capacity Planning
5 46 (22.12%) BCP
5 46 (22.12%) Business Continuity Planning
5 46 (22.12%) Economics
5 46 (22.12%) Network Architecture
5 46 (22.12%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 42 (20.19%) Continuous Improvement
7 36 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (15.38%) Business Development
9 28 (13.46%) Business Strategy
10 26 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
11 25 (12.02%) Analytics
11 25 (12.02%) Line Management
12 24 (11.54%) LLM
13 22 (10.58%) Agile
14 20 (9.62%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 16 (7.69%) Python
2 6 (2.88%) Java
3 5 (2.40%) SQL
4 2 (0.96%) JavaScript
4 2 (0.96%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.48%) C
5 1 (0.48%) C++
5 1 (0.48%) Embedded C
5 1 (0.48%) Embedded C++
5 1 (0.48%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (5.29%) Degree
2 10 (4.81%) CISSP
3 9 (4.33%) CISM
4 7 (3.37%) ACCA
4 7 (3.37%) CIMA
4 7 (3.37%) ICAEW
5 5 (2.40%) CRISC
6 4 (1.92%) PhD
7 2 (0.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.96%) CSPO
7 2 (0.96%) CSSLP
7 2 (0.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (0.96%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.96%) PMP
7 2 (0.96%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.48%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.48%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.25%) GDPR
2 8 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.92%) COBIT
4 4 (1.92%) NIST
5 3 (1.44%) SLA
6 2 (0.96%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.96%) GRC
7 1 (0.48%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.48%) PMO
7 1 (0.48%) QA
7 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (1.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.44%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.48%) Grafana
Vendors
1 23 (11.06%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.88%) Databricks
2 6 (2.88%) Foundry
2 6 (2.88%) Google
2 6 (2.88%) Salesforce
3 5 (2.40%) Alteryx
4 4 (1.92%) OpenAI
5 2 (0.96%) Informatica
6 1 (0.48%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.48%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.48%) Infor
6 1 (0.48%) NEC
6 1 (0.48%) SAP
6 1 (0.48%) Splunk
6 1 (0.48%) YouTube