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 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 44 14
Rank change year-on-year +13 -30 +80
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 160 131 482
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 5.87% 4.95% 15.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.31% 5.35% 16.64%
Number of salaries quoted 29 46 293
10th Percentile £38,500 £38,135 -
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,855 £56,093 £25,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% +124.37% -58.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £79,648 £28,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £100,625 £51,800
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -10.57%

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 2,188 2,449 2,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 80.21% 92.52% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,065 1,031 1,796
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £41,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.55% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £82,396 £88,750 £83,903
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 5 January 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 5 January 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 -1 32 £52,500 -16.00% 32
Edinburgh -36 30 £54,855 -9.14% 20
North Lanarkshire - 24 - - 1
Renfrewshire +1 18 - - 1
South Lanarkshire - 12 - -
West Dunbartonshire - 7 £60,000 -
Stirling -1 6 - -
East Ayrshire -1 6 - -
North Ayrshire - 6 - -
Ayrshire - 6 - -
Lanarkshire - 6 - - 13
West Lothian - 6 £50,000 - 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 1 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.63%) Confluence
1 1 (0.63%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.63%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 19 (11.88%) Azure
2 10 (6.25%) AWS
3 9 (5.63%) Azure Data Factory
3 9 (5.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 9 (5.63%) Power Platform
4 8 (5.00%) Snowflake
5 7 (4.38%) GitHub
5 7 (4.38%) GitHub Copilot
6 5 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.50%) SaaS
8 3 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.25%) GCP
10 1 (0.63%) dbt
10 1 (0.63%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.63%) Power BI
2 7 (4.38%) Data Lake
2 7 (4.38%) Metadata
2 7 (4.38%) Tableau
3 2 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.25%) Qlik Sense
3 2 (1.25%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.25%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.63%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 4 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 120 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 117 (73.13%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (25.63%) Finance
4 7 (4.38%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (3.13%) Banking
5 5 (3.13%) Financial Institution
5 5 (3.13%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.50%) Front Office
6 4 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.50%) Law
6 4 (2.50%) Retail
7 3 (1.88%) Advertising
7 3 (1.88%) Marketing
7 3 (1.88%) Private Banking
8 2 (1.25%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.63%) Billing
9 1 (0.63%) Electronics
9 1 (0.63%) Games
9 1 (0.63%) Legal
9 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 96 (60.00%) Innovation Manager
2 12 (7.50%) Analyst
3 8 (5.00%) Lead
3 8 (5.00%) Senior
4 6 (3.75%) Financial Controller
5 5 (3.13%) Business Analyst
5 5 (3.13%) Head of Data Management
5 5 (3.13%) Head of Risk Management
6 4 (2.50%) Data Manager
6 4 (2.50%) Developer
6 4 (2.50%) Engineering Manager
6 4 (2.50%) Insight Analyst
6 4 (2.50%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (2.50%) Senior Business Analyst
6 4 (2.50%) Senior Technical Analyst
6 4 (2.50%) Senior Technical Business Analyst
6 4 (2.50%) Technical Analyst
6 4 (2.50%) Technical Business Analyst
6 4 (2.50%) Technical Leader
7 3 (1.88%) Head of Digital
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.63%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.63%) Cloud Native
2 4 (2.50%) Product Ownership
3 3 (1.88%) Digital Media
3 3 (1.88%) Management Information System
3 3 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.25%) Life Science
4 2 (1.25%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.25%) PMI
4 2 (1.25%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.63%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.63%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.63%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (76.25%) Continuous Improvement
2 120 (75.00%) Analytics
3 115 (71.88%) AI
4 107 (66.88%) Stakeholder Management
5 104 (65.00%) Customer Experience
6 103 (64.38%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 48 (30.00%) Critical Thinking
7 48 (30.00%) Emotional Intelligence
8 28 (17.50%) Agile
9 18 (11.25%) DevOps
10 17 (10.63%) Data Engineering
11 14 (8.75%) Asset Management
11 14 (8.75%) Business Intelligence
11 14 (8.75%) Coaching
12 13 (8.13%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (8.13%) Test Automation
13 12 (7.50%) CI/CD
14 11 (6.88%) Data Integration
14 11 (6.88%) Data Pipeline
14 11 (6.88%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (12.50%) SQL
2 9 (5.63%) Python
3 7 (4.38%) T-SQL
4 2 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.63%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (3.75%) AWS Certification
1 6 (3.75%) Degree
2 5 (3.13%) CRISC
3 3 (1.88%) ACCA
3 3 (1.88%) CIMA
3 3 (1.88%) PMI Certification
4 2 (1.25%) PMP
5 1 (0.63%) CBAP
5 1 (0.63%) HNC
5 1 (0.63%) HND
5 1 (0.63%) SAFe Agilist
5 1 (0.63%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.63%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.50%) GDPR
3 3 (1.88%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.25%) GRC
5 1 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.63%) NIST
5 1 (0.63%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.63%) PMO
5 1 (0.63%) QA
5 1 (0.63%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (0.63%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 9 (5.63%) Databricks
2 7 (4.38%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.75%) Alteryx
4 4 (2.50%) Charles River
5 3 (1.88%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.88%) Teradata
6 2 (1.25%) Xero
7 1 (0.63%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.63%) Computacenter
7 1 (0.63%) Genesys
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle
7 1 (0.63%) Siemens
7 1 (0.63%) Verint