Decision-Making Jobs in Scotland

Decision-Making
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Decision-Making skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Decision-Making over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 34 96
Rank change year-on-year +13 +62 -5
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 298 702 142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.10% 10.50% 3.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.90% 11.37% 3.26%
Number of salaries quoted 135 108 83
10th Percentile - £35,700 £32,845
25th Percentile - £41,250 £39,829
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £46,772 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% -22.05% +20.33%
75th Percentile - £62,342 £80,627
90th Percentile £69,435 £93,712 £96,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -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 2,735 6,175 4,351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.71% 92.38% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,355 2,389 2,175
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,133
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,650 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Decision-Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in Scotland

Decision-Making
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in Scotland.

Salary trend for Decision-Making in Scotland

Decision-Making
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 May 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 16 May 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
Edinburgh +35 91 £60,000 -7.69% 57
Renfrewshire +2 59 £51,645 +40.81% 38
Inverclyde - 36 £51,645 -
Glasgow -1 24 £51,645 +21.52% 72
East Ayrshire - 18 £60,000 -
Fife -4 15 £60,000 +38.89% 4
South Ayrshire -20 15 £60,000 -
Moray - 15 £60,000 -
North Lanarkshire +4 8 - -
South Lanarkshire 0 4 - -
Aberdeen +26 2 £45,000 - 14
North Ayrshire - 2 - -
Lanarkshire - 2 - - 6
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
Stirling - 2 - - 2
Ayrshire - 2 - - 2
Dumfries and Galloway - 1 £31,000 - 2
Decision-Making
UK

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (1.34%) SAS
2 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.34%) CMS
Applications
1 98 (32.89%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (0.34%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 8 (2.68%) Infor LN
1 8 (2.68%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (5.03%) AWS
2 13 (4.36%) Power Platform
3 8 (2.68%) Snowflake
4 4 (1.34%) Amazon SageMaker
4 4 (1.34%) SaaS
5 3 (1.01%) Azure
5 3 (1.01%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (1.01%) OCI
6 2 (0.67%) Amazon S3
6 2 (0.67%) dbt
6 2 (0.67%) GCP
6 2 (0.67%) GitHub
7 1 (0.34%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.34%) BlazeMeter
7 1 (0.34%) Collibra
7 1 (0.34%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.34%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.67%) FTP
2 1 (0.34%) Intranet
2 1 (0.34%) Network Security
2 1 (0.34%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.38%) Tableau
2 12 (4.03%) Power BI
3 4 (1.34%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.34%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.01%) Amazon QuickSight
4 3 (1.01%) DB2
5 2 (0.67%) Data Mining
5 2 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.67%) Looker
5 2 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.67%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.34%) Metadata
6 1 (0.34%) MySQL
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (0.34%) Power Query
6 1 (0.34%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.34%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.34%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (2.68%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (1.01%) Git
3 2 (0.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.67%) JIRA
3 2 (0.67%) JUnit
4 1 (0.34%) ERwin
4 1 (0.34%) GitLab
General
1 159 (53.36%) Social Skills
2 102 (34.23%) Presentation Skills
3 91 (30.54%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (19.13%) Finance
5 53 (17.79%) Electronics
6 27 (9.06%) Banking
7 10 (3.36%) Legal
8 8 (2.68%) Police
9 5 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.34%) Marketing
11 3 (1.01%) Law
11 3 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.01%) Publishing
12 2 (0.67%) Automotive
12 2 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.67%) Retail
12 2 (0.67%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.34%) Front Office
13 1 (0.34%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.34%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 129 (43.29%) Senior
2 37 (12.42%) Principal Engineer
2 37 (12.42%) Software Assurance Engineer
3 32 (10.74%) Innovation Manager
4 21 (7.05%) Lead
5 18 (6.04%) Analyst
6 16 (5.37%) Senior Electrical Engineer
7 11 (3.69%) Data Manager
8 10 (3.36%) Team Leader
9 9 (3.02%) Risk Manager
10 8 (2.68%) Accountant
10 8 (2.68%) Project Accountant
10 8 (2.68%) Senior Accountant
11 7 (2.35%) Analytics Manager
11 7 (2.35%) Data Analytics Manager
11 7 (2.35%) Governance Analyst
11 7 (2.35%) Risk Analyst
12 5 (1.68%) Data Analyst
12 5 (1.68%) Developer
12 5 (1.68%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.34%) React
1 4 (1.34%) RESTful
2 2 (0.67%) AngularJS
2 2 (0.67%) FastAPI
2 2 (0.67%) PySpark
2 2 (0.67%) Spring
2 2 (0.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.34%) Compass CSS Framework
3 1 (0.34%) CSS
3 1 (0.34%) Kafka
3 1 (0.34%) OpenCV
3 1 (0.34%) OpenVINO
Miscellaneous
1 109 (36.58%) Management Information System
2 8 (2.68%) Algorithms
3 7 (2.35%) Credit Risk
4 5 (1.68%) Learning Management System
5 2 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (0.67%) AS400
5 2 (0.67%) iSeries
5 2 (0.67%) Mobile App
5 2 (0.67%) Mobile Banking
5 2 (0.67%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.34%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.34%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.34%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.34%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.34%) Replication
6 1 (0.34%) SCADA
6 1 (0.34%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.34%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.34%) Social Media
6 1 (0.34%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.34%) Linux
2 2 (0.67%) Windows
3 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (45.30%) Risk Management
2 100 (33.56%) Risk Assessment
3 73 (24.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 67 (22.48%) Analytics
5 64 (21.48%) Artificial Intelligence
6 56 (18.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 52 (17.45%) Problem-Solving
8 42 (14.09%) Software Engineering
9 38 (12.75%) Customer Experience
10 37 (12.42%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 37 (12.42%) Software Assurance
10 37 (12.42%) Systems Engineering
11 28 (9.40%) Business Intelligence
12 25 (8.39%) Coaching
13 23 (7.72%) Agile
14 20 (6.71%) Visualisation
15 18 (6.04%) Data Visualisation
16 17 (5.70%) Data Analytics
17 14 (4.70%) Data Science
18 13 (4.36%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (6.71%) Python
1 20 (6.71%) SQL
2 3 (1.01%) Java
2 3 (1.01%) JavaScript
3 2 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (0.67%) RPG
3 2 (0.67%) RPG IV
4 1 (0.34%) Bash
4 1 (0.34%) C++
4 1 (0.34%) R
4 1 (0.34%) Scala
4 1 (0.34%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 160 (53.69%) BPSS Clearance
2 128 (42.95%) Degree
3 33 (11.07%) Chartered Engineer
4 22 (7.38%) Master's Degree
5 16 (5.37%) CRISC
6 8 (2.68%) ACCA
6 8 (2.68%) CIMA
7 6 (2.01%) PhD
8 4 (1.34%) Security Cleared
9 2 (0.67%) CBAP
9 2 (0.67%) CISSP
9 2 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.67%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.34%) CISA
10 1 (0.34%) CISM
10 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.37%) COBIT
2 11 (3.69%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.69%) IFRS
3 8 (2.68%) GAAP
4 7 (2.35%) ITGC
5 6 (2.01%) NIST
6 5 (1.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.67%) CRD IV
8 2 (0.67%) IFRS 9
8 2 (0.67%) QA
9 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.34%) GDPR
9 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.34%) NCSC
9 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (0.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.34%) Grafana
Vendors
1 14 (4.70%) Oracle
2 11 (3.69%) SAP
3 8 (2.68%) Cognos
3 8 (2.68%) Infor
4 5 (1.68%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.01%) IBM
6 2 (0.67%) HubSpot
6 2 (0.67%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.67%) Workday
7 1 (0.34%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.34%) Informatica
7 1 (0.34%) Planview
7 1 (0.34%) Splunk
7 1 (0.34%) StreamSets
7 1 (0.34%) Sybase