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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 24 33
Rank change year-on-year -40 +9 +54
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 80 161 702
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.51% 8.35% 11.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.36% 9.02% 12.21%
Number of salaries quoted 20 42 141
10th Percentile £37,425 £35,425 -
25th Percentile £47,813 £45,000 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £60,000 £43,200
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +38.89% -28.06%
75th Percentile £85,000 £79,648 £59,500
90th Percentile £118,625 £98,374 £67,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -8.33%

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 2,380 1,784 5,751
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 74.54% 92.48% 92.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,285 912 2,394
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,575 £28,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £41,250 £39,784
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -10.43%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £94,878 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +9.09% -10.57%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 -12 31 £72,500 -15.70% 26
Edinburgh -36 26 £57,500 -7.20% 16
North Lanarkshire -11 5 - -
Renfrewshire -9 3 - -
West Lothian - 3 - - 2
Lanarkshire +2 2 - - 16
South Lanarkshire -10 2 - - 1
Stirling -12 2 - - 1
Ayrshire -2 1 - -
East Ayrshire -3 1 - -
North Ayrshire -5 1 - -
West Dunbartonshire -9 1 - -
Aberdeen -12 1 - -
Perthshire - 1 £127,500 -
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 2 (2.50%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.50%) Confluence
2 1 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (1.25%) SAS
2 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (7.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Infor CloudSuite
1 1 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (20.00%) Azure
2 9 (11.25%) Azure Data Factory
2 9 (11.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 8 (10.00%) GitHub
4 7 (8.75%) AWS
4 7 (8.75%) GitHub Copilot
4 7 (8.75%) Snowflake
5 5 (6.25%) GCP
6 4 (5.00%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.75%) Azure AI
7 3 (3.75%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (3.75%) Vertex AI
8 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (2.50%) SaaS
9 1 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.25%) dbt
9 1 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.50%) Broadband
2 1 (1.25%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.00%) Metadata
2 7 (8.75%) Data Lake
3 4 (5.00%) Power BI
4 2 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.50%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (2.50%) Tableau
5 1 (1.25%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.25%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.25%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (1.25%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (1.25%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.25%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.25%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (3.75%) JIRA
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle APEX
General
1 43 (53.75%) Social Skills
2 38 (47.50%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (31.25%) Finance
4 6 (7.50%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.00%) Banking
5 4 (5.00%) Games
5 4 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (5.00%) Legal
5 4 (5.00%) Marketing
6 3 (3.75%) Financial Institution
6 3 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.50%) Advertising
7 2 (2.50%) Retail
8 1 (1.25%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.25%) Automotive
8 1 (1.25%) Billing
8 1 (1.25%) Law
8 1 (1.25%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (20.00%) Innovation Manager
2 11 (13.75%) Analyst
3 8 (10.00%) Senior
4 7 (8.75%) Architect
4 7 (8.75%) Lead
5 6 (7.50%) Senior Manager
6 5 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 5 (6.25%) Engineering Manager
6 5 (6.25%) Security Manager
7 4 (5.00%) Data Manager
7 4 (5.00%) Governance Manager
8 3 (3.75%) Finance Systems Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Financial Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Forecast Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Head of Data Management
8 3 (3.75%) Head of Risk Management
8 3 (3.75%) Project Manager
8 3 (3.75%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.75%) Systems Analyst
9 2 (2.50%) Head of Sales
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.75%) LangChain
1 3 (3.75%) Semantic Kernel
2 2 (2.50%) Kafka
3 1 (1.25%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.25%) gRPC
3 1 (1.25%) JSON
3 1 (1.25%) PySpark
3 1 (1.25%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.25%) REST
3 1 (1.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 5 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (6.25%) Social Media
3 4 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.75%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.50%) Digital Media
5 2 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.50%) IoT
5 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.50%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.50%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.25%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.25%) PMI
6 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.25%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (56.25%) Analytics
2 42 (52.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 39 (48.75%) AI
4 26 (32.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 25 (31.25%) Customer Experience
6 24 (30.00%) Agile
7 21 (26.25%) Stakeholder Management
8 19 (23.75%) Critical Thinking
8 19 (23.75%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (20.00%) Emotional Intelligence
10 15 (18.75%) Data Engineering
11 12 (15.00%) CI/CD
11 12 (15.00%) Coaching
11 12 (15.00%) Risk Management
12 11 (13.75%) Data Pipeline
12 11 (13.75%) DevOps
12 11 (13.75%) Observability
13 10 (12.50%) Data Modelling
13 10 (12.50%) Test Automation
14 9 (11.25%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 13 (16.25%) Python
2 11 (13.75%) SQL
3 7 (8.75%) T-SQL
4 4 (5.00%) Java
5 2 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.25%) C
6 1 (1.25%) C++
6 1 (1.25%) Embedded C
6 1 (1.25%) Embedded C++
6 1 (1.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (8.75%) CRISC
2 5 (6.25%) Degree
3 4 (5.00%) AWS Certification
3 4 (5.00%) CISM
3 4 (5.00%) CISSP
4 3 (3.75%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.50%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.50%) MBA
5 2 (2.50%) PMP
6 1 (1.25%) ACCA
6 1 (1.25%) CIMA
6 1 (1.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (1.25%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.25%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.25%) NIST
3 4 (5.00%) COBIT
3 4 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.50%) GRC
5 1 (1.25%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.25%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.25%) PMO
5 1 (1.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (1.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.25%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 11 (13.75%) Databricks
2 5 (6.25%) Google
3 4 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.75%) Foundry
5 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.25%) Anaplan
6 1 (1.25%) Computacenter
6 1 (1.25%) Genesys
6 1 (1.25%) Infor
6 1 (1.25%) Oracle
6 1 (1.25%) SAP
6 1 (1.25%) Verint