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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 21 36
Rank change year-on-year -45 +15 +52
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 84 164 675
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.50% 8.55% 10.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.45% 9.28% 11.64%
Number of salaries quoted 17 44 114
10th Percentile £37,200 £36,275 £35,700
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £45,543
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +31.74% -24.15%
75th Percentile £76,250 £82,958 £60,717
90th Percentile £122,000 £99,925 £72,303
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 2,433 1,767 5,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 72.45% 92.13% 92.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,323 897 2,406
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,987 £28,625
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -9.19%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,750 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 23 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 23 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 -10 36 £58,750 -38.16% 17
Edinburgh -36 25 £56,250 -7.40% 15
North Lanarkshire -11 5 - - 3
Renfrewshire -9 3 - -
West Lothian - 3 - - 4
Lanarkshire +1 2 - - 15
South Lanarkshire -10 2 - - 2
Stirling -14 2 - - 6
Ayrshire -1 1 - -
East Ayrshire -2 1 - -
North Ayrshire -5 1 - -
West Dunbartonshire -7 1 - -
Aberdeen -16 1 - - 2
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 (2.38%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.38%) Confluence
2 1 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.19%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (1.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Infor CloudSuite
1 1 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (19.05%) Azure
2 8 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
2 8 (9.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 7 (8.33%) GitHub
4 6 (7.14%) GitHub Copilot
4 6 (7.14%) Snowflake
5 5 (5.95%) GCP
5 5 (5.95%) Power Platform
6 4 (4.76%) AWS
7 3 (3.57%) Azure AI
7 3 (3.57%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (3.57%) Vertex AI
8 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.19%) Copilot Studio
9 1 (1.19%) dbt
9 1 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (1.19%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.14%) Broadband
2 1 (1.19%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.33%) Metadata
2 6 (7.14%) Data Lake
3 4 (4.76%) Power BI
4 2 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.38%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (2.38%) Tableau
5 1 (1.19%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.19%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.19%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (1.19%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (1.19%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.19%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.19%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (3.57%) JIRA
2 1 (1.19%) Oracle APEX
General
1 43 (51.19%) Social Skills
2 36 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (30.95%) Finance
4 7 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.95%) Marketing
7 4 (4.76%) Games
7 4 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (4.76%) Legal
8 3 (3.57%) Banking
8 3 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.38%) Advertising
9 2 (2.38%) Retail
10 1 (1.19%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.19%) Automotive
10 1 (1.19%) Billing
10 1 (1.19%) Law
10 1 (1.19%) Police
10 1 (1.19%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (21.43%) Analyst
2 16 (19.05%) Innovation Manager
3 8 (9.52%) Finance Systems Analyst
3 8 (9.52%) Financial Analyst
3 8 (9.52%) Senior
3 8 (9.52%) Systems Analyst
4 7 (8.33%) Architect
4 7 (8.33%) Lead
5 6 (7.14%) Senior Manager
6 5 (5.95%) Engineering Manager
7 4 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 4 (4.76%) Data Manager
7 4 (4.76%) Governance Manager
7 4 (4.76%) Security Manager
8 3 (3.57%) Data Analyst
8 3 (3.57%) Forecast Analyst
8 3 (3.57%) Project Analyst
8 3 (3.57%) Project Manager
8 3 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.38%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.57%) LangChain
1 3 (3.57%) Semantic Kernel
2 2 (2.38%) Kafka
3 1 (1.19%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.19%) gRPC
3 1 (1.19%) JSON
3 1 (1.19%) PySpark
3 1 (1.19%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.19%) REST
3 1 (1.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.10%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (5.95%) Management Information System
3 5 (5.95%) Social Media
4 4 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (3.57%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (2.38%) Digital Media
6 2 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.38%) IoT
6 2 (2.38%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.38%) Operational Technology
6 2 (2.38%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.19%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.19%) PMI
7 1 (1.19%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.19%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (50.00%) Analytics
2 38 (45.24%) Continuous Improvement
3 36 (42.86%) AI
4 25 (29.76%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 22 (26.19%) Customer Experience
6 21 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 20 (23.81%) Agile
8 19 (22.62%) Critical Thinking
8 19 (22.62%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (19.05%) Emotional Intelligence
10 11 (13.10%) Coaching
10 11 (13.10%) Data Engineering
11 10 (11.90%) Data Pipeline
11 10 (11.90%) Observability
12 9 (10.71%) Data Modelling
13 8 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
13 8 (9.52%) CI/CD
13 8 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
13 8 (9.52%) Financial Analysis
13 8 (9.52%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (14.29%) Python
2 9 (10.71%) SQL
3 6 (7.14%) T-SQL
4 4 (4.76%) Java
5 2 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.19%) C
6 1 (1.19%) C++
6 1 (1.19%) Embedded C
6 1 (1.19%) Embedded C++
6 1 (1.19%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (5.95%) Degree
2 4 (4.76%) CISM
2 4 (4.76%) CISSP
2 4 (4.76%) CRISC
3 3 (3.57%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.38%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.38%) MBA
4 2 (2.38%) PMP
5 1 (1.19%) ACCA
5 1 (1.19%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.19%) CIMA
5 1 (1.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.19%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (1.19%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.52%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.76%) COBIT
2 4 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.76%) NIST
3 1 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.19%) GRC
3 1 (1.19%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.19%) Docker
Vendors
1 9 (10.71%) Databricks
2 5 (5.95%) Google
2 5 (5.95%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.57%) Foundry
4 1 (1.19%) Anaplan
4 1 (1.19%) Computacenter
4 1 (1.19%) Genesys
4 1 (1.19%) Infor
4 1 (1.19%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.19%) Oracle
4 1 (1.19%) SAP
4 1 (1.19%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.19%) Verint