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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 25 39
Rank change year-on-year +6 +14 -17
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 233 223 254
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 5.75% 8.85% 6.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.43% 9.84% 7.28%
Number of salaries quoted 71 41 47
10th Percentile £33,212 £42,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,625 £50,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,186
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +10.18% +108.74%
75th Percentile £82,500 £71,532 £72,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £83,738 £102,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +0.91%

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 2,764 2,267 3,491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 68.18% 89.96% 85.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,634 993 1,570
10th Percentile £28,150 £26,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,194 £38,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.62% -30.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 +18 81 £55,000 +4.76% 176
Edinburgh +13 66 £75,000 +27.66% 180
Stirling +6 16 £52,000 - 1
Midlothian - 16 £65,000 - 101
North Lanarkshire -5 9 £45,000 - 2
Aberdeen -6 9 £47,500 - 19
West Lothian -2 8 - - 10
Renfrewshire -5 7 - - 3
Inverclyde - 7 - -
Dundee -9 4 £155,000 +123.83% 4
South Lanarkshire -14 4 - - 1
North Ayrshire -4 1 - - 1
Fife -10 1 - - 6
Highlands - 1 - - 5
Falkirk - 1 - -
Clackmannanshire - 1 - - 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 2 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (0.86%) Apache Spark
1 2 (0.86%) Confluence
1 2 (0.86%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.43%) Apache
Applications
1 15 (6.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (3.00%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (11.16%) AWS
1 26 (11.16%) Azure
2 15 (6.44%) Power Platform
3 8 (3.43%) SaaS
4 7 (3.00%) Snowflake
5 6 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.15%) GCP
7 4 (1.72%) Amazon Bedrock
8 3 (1.29%) Alation
8 3 (1.29%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (1.29%) Azure AI
8 3 (1.29%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (1.29%) Collibra
8 3 (1.29%) Copilot Studio
8 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (0.86%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.43%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.43%) dbt
10 1 (0.43%) GitHub
10 1 (0.43%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 46 (19.74%) Firewall
1 46 (19.74%) Network Security
1 46 (19.74%) VLAN
2 15 (6.44%) Broadband
3 1 (0.43%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.72%) Power BI
2 7 (3.00%) Electronic Patient Records
2 7 (3.00%) Metadata
2 7 (3.00%) Tableau
3 6 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.29%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.86%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.43%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.43%) Big Data
6 1 (0.43%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.43%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.43%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.43%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.43%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.43%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (1.29%) Git
1 3 (1.29%) JIRA
2 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.43%) Maven
General
1 113 (48.50%) Social Skills
2 56 (24.03%) Finance
3 36 (15.45%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (8.58%) Public Sector
5 19 (8.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (7.73%) Marketing
7 13 (5.58%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (5.15%) Games
8 12 (5.15%) Law
8 12 (5.15%) Manufacturing
9 9 (3.86%) Banking
10 8 (3.43%) Billing
10 8 (3.43%) Legal
11 7 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (2.58%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.72%) Private Banking
14 3 (1.29%) Electronics
14 3 (1.29%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 60 (25.75%) Senior
2 46 (19.74%) Security Engineer
2 46 (19.74%) Senior Security Engineer
3 26 (11.16%) Lead
4 25 (10.73%) Analyst
5 21 (9.01%) Business Development Manager
5 21 (9.01%) Business Manager
5 21 (9.01%) Development Manager
6 13 (5.58%) Consultant
7 12 (5.15%) Account Manager
8 10 (4.29%) Architect
8 10 (4.29%) Risk Manager
9 9 (3.86%) Presales Consultant
10 8 (3.43%) Data Manager
11 7 (3.00%) Coordinator
11 7 (3.00%) Developer
11 7 (3.00%) Finance Systems Analyst
11 7 (3.00%) Financial Analyst
11 7 (3.00%) Systems Analyst
11 7 (3.00%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.72%) Hugging Face
1 4 (1.72%) PyTorch
1 4 (1.72%) React
2 3 (1.29%) PySpark
2 3 (1.29%) REST
3 2 (0.86%) .NET
3 2 (0.86%) .NET Framework
3 2 (0.86%) HTML
3 2 (0.86%) HTML5
3 2 (0.86%) Kafka
3 2 (0.86%) WinForms
4 1 (0.43%) CSS
4 1 (0.43%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.43%) gRPC
4 1 (0.43%) Hibernate
4 1 (0.43%) JMS
4 1 (0.43%) Memcached
4 1 (0.43%) Redux
4 1 (0.43%) Spring
4 1 (0.43%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.44%) Onboarding
2 21 (9.01%) AI Agents
3 14 (6.01%) Management Information System
4 12 (5.15%) Cyber Threat
4 12 (5.15%) Social Media
5 11 (4.72%) Cyberattack
6 10 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (3.86%) SystemC
8 7 (3.00%) NHS
9 5 (2.15%) Algorithms
9 5 (2.15%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.29%) Reference Data
11 2 (0.86%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.86%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.86%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.86%) Video on Demand
11 2 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (29.61%) Cybersecurity
2 58 (24.89%) AI
3 53 (22.75%) Continuous Improvement
4 50 (21.46%) Project Delivery
5 47 (20.17%) Business Continuity
5 47 (20.17%) Capacity Planning
6 46 (19.74%) BCP
6 46 (19.74%) Business Continuity Planning
6 46 (19.74%) Economics
6 46 (19.74%) Network Architecture
6 46 (19.74%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 43 (18.45%) Business Development
8 38 (16.31%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (15.88%) Stakeholder Management
10 29 (12.45%) Business Strategy
11 27 (11.59%) Analytics
11 27 (11.59%) Risk Management
12 26 (11.16%) Line Management
13 22 (9.44%) Customer Experience
14 21 (9.01%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 16 (6.87%) Python
2 7 (3.00%) SQL
3 4 (1.72%) C
3 4 (1.72%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.29%) Java
5 2 (0.86%) C#
5 2 (0.86%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.43%) C++
6 1 (0.43%) Embedded C
6 1 (0.43%) Embedded C++
6 1 (0.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (5.58%) ACCA
1 13 (5.58%) CIMA
2 12 (5.15%) Degree
3 9 (3.86%) CISSP
4 8 (3.43%) CISM
5 7 (3.00%) ICAEW
6 4 (1.72%) PhD
7 2 (0.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (0.86%) CISA
7 2 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.86%) CRISC
7 2 (0.86%) CSPO
7 2 (0.86%) CSSLP
7 2 (0.86%) HND
7 2 (0.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (0.86%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.86%) PMP
7 2 (0.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (0.86%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.43%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.44%) Data Quality
2 14 (6.01%) GDPR
3 6 (2.58%) GRC
4 5 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.29%) SLA
6 2 (0.86%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.86%) PMO
7 1 (0.43%) COBIT
7 1 (0.43%) GAAP
7 1 (0.43%) IFRS
7 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.43%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.43%) NIST
7 1 (0.43%) QA
7 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (1.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.43%) Grafana
Vendors
1 26 (11.16%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.58%) Salesforce
3 6 (2.58%) Databricks
3 6 (2.58%) YouTube
4 5 (2.15%) Alteryx
5 4 (1.72%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.29%) Foundry
6 3 (1.29%) Informatica
7 1 (0.43%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.43%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.43%) Google
7 1 (0.43%) NEC
7 1 (0.43%) SAP
7 1 (0.43%) Splunk