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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 46 11
Rank change year-on-year +22 -35 +55
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 212 142 314
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 7.73% 4.37% 13.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.15% 5.01% 13.98%
Number of salaries quoted 40 52 293
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,520 -
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,777 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,855 £52,343 £25,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.80% +109.37% -58.33%
75th Percentile £70,383 £79,648 £28,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £61,123
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -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 2,318 2,832 2,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 84.57% 87.17% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,146 1,319 1,768
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 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,066 £83,225
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 28 November 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 28 November 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 +7 70 £56,250 -20.77% 26
Edinburgh -12 38 £57,500 -11.57% 29
North Lanarkshire - 24 - -
Renfrewshire +3 18 - - 1
South Lanarkshire - 12 - -
West Lothian - 9 £50,000 - 1
Stirling +4 7 - - 2
West Dunbartonshire - 7 £60,000 -
Ayrshire - 6 - -
North Ayrshire - 6 - -
East Ayrshire - 6 - -
Lanarkshire - 6 - - 10
Dundee -2 1 £69,248 +76.00% 2
Fife - 1 £50,000 -
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 7 (3.30%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.47%) Confluence
2 1 (0.47%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (4.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 27 (12.74%) AWS
2 23 (10.85%) Azure
3 11 (5.19%) Power Platform
4 8 (3.77%) Snowflake
5 6 (2.83%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (2.83%) GitHub
5 6 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (1.42%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (1.42%) SaaS
8 2 (0.94%) GCP
9 1 (0.47%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.47%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.47%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.47%) dbt
9 1 (0.47%) PaaS
9 1 (0.47%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.19%) Power BI
2 8 (3.77%) Relational Database
3 7 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.30%) Tableau
4 6 (2.83%) Apache Hive
4 6 (2.83%) Big Data
5 5 (2.36%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.42%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.42%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.42%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.42%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.42%) HBase
6 3 (1.42%) Impala
6 3 (1.42%) KDB
6 3 (1.42%) Kdb+
6 3 (1.42%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.42%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (1.89%) JIRA
2 3 (1.42%) Gradle
2 3 (1.42%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.42%) Maven
3 1 (0.47%) Git
General
1 122 (57.55%) Analytical Skills
1 122 (57.55%) Social Skills
2 81 (38.21%) Finance
3 43 (20.28%) Law
4 42 (19.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (11.79%) Marketing
6 20 (9.43%) Banking
7 11 (5.19%) Legal
8 8 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (3.77%) Public Sector
9 7 (3.30%) Front Office
9 7 (3.30%) Private Banking
9 7 (3.30%) Retail
10 5 (2.36%) Advertising
10 5 (2.36%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.42%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.42%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.42%) Publishing
12 2 (0.94%) Brand Awareness
12 2 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 96 (45.28%) Innovation Manager
2 38 (17.92%) Software Engineer
3 24 (11.32%) Java Engineer
3 24 (11.32%) Java Software Engineer
4 17 (8.02%) Analyst
4 17 (8.02%) Lead
5 12 (5.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 12 (5.66%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 12 (5.66%) Python Engineer
5 12 (5.66%) Python Software Engineer
5 12 (5.66%) Senior
6 10 (4.72%) Developer
7 9 (4.25%) Lead Software Engineer
8 8 (3.77%) Financial Controller
9 6 (2.83%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 6 (2.83%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (2.83%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 6 (2.83%) Java Software Developer
9 6 (2.83%) Lead Java Engineer
9 6 (2.83%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (7.08%) Spring
2 11 (5.19%) Spring Boot
3 10 (4.72%) Kafka
4 9 (4.25%) React
5 6 (2.83%) AngularJS
5 6 (2.83%) RESTful
6 5 (2.36%) REST
7 4 (1.89%) PySpark
8 3 (1.42%) JPA
9 1 (0.47%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.02%) Cloud Native
2 6 (2.83%) Reference Data
3 5 (2.36%) Digital Media
3 5 (2.36%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.42%) Derivative
4 3 (1.42%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (1.42%) FMCG
4 3 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.42%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.42%) Operational Technology
4 3 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (0.94%) Life Science
5 2 (0.94%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.94%) PMI
5 2 (0.94%) Public Cloud
5 2 (0.94%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.47%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.47%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.47%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (71.23%) AI
2 121 (57.08%) Analytics
3 120 (56.60%) Continuous Improvement
4 109 (51.42%) Stakeholder Management
5 103 (48.58%) Customer Experience
6 101 (47.64%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 63 (29.72%) Agile
8 48 (22.64%) Critical Thinking
8 48 (22.64%) Emotional Intelligence
9 39 (18.40%) CI/CD
10 38 (17.92%) Operational Stability
10 38 (17.92%) Software Engineering
11 35 (16.51%) SDLC
12 34 (16.04%) Machine Learning
13 33 (15.57%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (10.38%) Data Engineering
15 21 (9.91%) Business Intelligence
16 17 (8.02%) Coaching
17 16 (7.55%) Risk Management
18 15 (7.08%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 38 (17.92%) SQL
2 29 (13.68%) Java
3 25 (11.79%) Python
4 6 (2.83%) T-SQL
5 5 (2.36%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.94%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (2.83%) AWS Certification
1 6 (2.83%) Degree
2 5 (2.36%) CRISC
3 2 (0.94%) ACCA
3 2 (0.94%) CIMA
3 2 (0.94%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.47%) CBAP
4 1 (0.47%) HNC
4 1 (0.47%) HND
4 1 (0.47%) PMP
4 1 (0.47%) SAFe Agilist
4 1 (0.47%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.25%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.89%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.89%) GDPR
2 4 (1.89%) GRC
3 3 (1.42%) GAAP
3 3 (1.42%) IFRS
3 3 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.42%) Solvency II
4 2 (0.94%) QA
5 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.47%) NIST
5 1 (0.47%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.47%) PMO
5 1 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (1.42%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (1.42%) Grafana
1 3 (1.42%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.42%) Netcool
1 3 (1.42%) Netcool/OMNIbus
1 3 (1.42%) Terraform
1 3 (1.42%) Tivoli
2 1 (0.47%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 12 (5.66%) Oracle
2 11 (5.19%) Databricks
3 10 (4.72%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.30%) Alteryx
5 5 (2.36%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.89%) Charles River
7 3 (1.42%) Cloudera
7 3 (1.42%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.42%) IBM
7 3 (1.42%) Splunk
7 3 (1.42%) Teradata
8 2 (0.94%) Xero
9 1 (0.47%) Computacenter
9 1 (0.47%) Siemens