Decision-Making Jobs in Scotland

Decision-Making
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Decision-Making skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Decision-Making over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 92 107
Rank change year-on-year +60 +15 +4
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 708 147 150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.51% 3.12% 2.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.33% 3.31% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 112 83 73
10th Percentile £35,700 £31,753 £38,600
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,829 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,543 £60,047 £49,861
Median % change year-on-year -24.15% +20.43% -0.28%
75th Percentile £61,427 £80,627 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,433 £96,750 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Decision-Making is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,250 4,437 5,249
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.80% 94.24% 90.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,418 2,226 2,810
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024. 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 +58 616 £42,500 -29.17% 13
Edinburgh +12 55 £60,743 +1.16% 11
Dundee - 9 £45,000 - 2
Fife - 7 £43,200 - 1
Renfrewshire - 6 £36,678 - 3
Perthshire +6 3 £30,000 - 1
Aberdeen -9 3 £45,000 - 5
Aberdeenshire +7 2 £45,000 +87.50% 4
South Lanarkshire +2 2 £105,000 -
Clackmannanshire - 2 £51,500 -
West Lothian -4 1 £27,500 -47.62%
North Lanarkshire - 1 £37,500 -
South Ayrshire - 1 - - 1
East Lothian - 1 - -
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
1 153 (21.61%) Apache Spark
2 81 (11.44%) Apache
3 63 (8.90%) FileNet
4 25 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (2.82%) Camunda
6 17 (2.40%) Cloud Foundry
7 11 (1.55%) CICS
8 7 (0.99%) Confluence
9 6 (0.85%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.42%) SAS
11 2 (0.28%) Anypoint
Applications
1 20 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.42%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.14%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.14%) EViews
6 1 (0.14%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (1.55%) Primavera
2 4 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 295 (41.67%) AWS
2 75 (10.59%) Azure
3 63 (8.90%) Amazon S3
4 47 (6.64%) GitHub
5 39 (5.51%) GCP
6 35 (4.94%) Power Platform
7 19 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
8 18 (2.54%) BlazeMeter
9 16 (2.26%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (0.99%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (0.85%) Entra ID
12 5 (0.71%) Yammer
13 4 (0.56%) IaaS
13 4 (0.56%) SaaS
14 2 (0.28%) Fivetran
14 2 (0.28%) GitHub Actions
14 2 (0.28%) Vertex AI
15 1 (0.14%) Azure Sentinel
15 1 (0.14%) Smartsheet
15 1 (0.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.54%) DSL
2 17 (2.40%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.28%) Firewall
4 1 (0.14%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.14%) MPLS
4 1 (0.14%) SDH
4 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (16.10%) NoSQL
2 97 (13.70%) Big Data
3 82 (11.58%) Hadoop
4 75 (10.59%) Elasticsearch
5 63 (8.90%) Apache Cassandra
6 35 (4.94%) Power BI
7 32 (4.52%) Apache Hive
8 30 (4.24%) Tableau
9 29 (4.10%) DB2
10 28 (3.95%) MongoDB
11 22 (3.11%) Data Lake
12 17 (2.40%) Amazon Aurora
12 17 (2.40%) CockroachDB
13 16 (2.26%) HBase
13 16 (2.26%) Impala
14 14 (1.98%) Relational Database
15 10 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
15 10 (1.41%) Flink
16 4 (0.56%) RDBMS
17 3 (0.42%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 87 (12.29%) JUnit
2 70 (9.89%) Jenkins
3 62 (8.76%) Jasmine
4 45 (6.36%) Mockito
5 30 (4.24%) Maven
6 20 (2.82%) CircleCI
6 20 (2.82%) Gradle
6 20 (2.82%) Travis CI
7 19 (2.68%) JMeter
8 18 (2.54%) Selenium
9 17 (2.40%) Cypress.io
9 17 (2.40%) Karma Test Runner
9 17 (2.40%) Protractor
9 17 (2.40%) WebDriver
10 16 (2.26%) JIRA
11 15 (2.12%) LabVIEW
12 11 (1.55%) ChangeMan
13 9 (1.27%) Git
14 2 (0.28%) GitLab
14 2 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 586 (82.77%) Finance
2 568 (80.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 555 (78.39%) Law
4 340 (48.02%) Marketing
5 171 (24.15%) Legal
6 115 (16.24%) Banking
7 90 (12.71%) Social Skills
8 69 (9.75%) Analytical Skills
9 67 (9.46%) Investment Banking
10 32 (4.52%) Financial Institution
11 29 (4.10%) Presentation Skills
12 28 (3.95%) Private Banking
13 23 (3.25%) Manufacturing
14 16 (2.26%) Retail
15 15 (2.12%) Electronics
16 9 (1.27%) Public Sector
17 8 (1.13%) Telecoms
18 7 (0.99%) Games
19 5 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
20 4 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 432 (61.02%) Software Engineer
2 217 (30.65%) Java Engineer
2 217 (30.65%) Java Software Engineer
3 130 (18.36%) Senior
4 123 (17.37%) Full Stack Engineer
4 123 (17.37%) Full Stack Software Engineer
5 121 (17.09%) Lead
6 104 (14.69%) Lead Software Engineer
7 102 (14.41%) Senior Software Engineer
8 78 (11.02%) Software Engineering Director
9 69 (9.75%) Big Data Engineer
9 69 (9.75%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 54 (7.63%) Python Engineer
10 54 (7.63%) Python Software Engineer
11 50 (7.06%) AWS Engineer
11 50 (7.06%) AWS Software Engineer
11 50 (7.06%) Scala Engineer
11 50 (7.06%) Scala Software Engineer
12 47 (6.64%) Data Engineer
13 42 (5.93%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (29.10%) Spring
2 166 (23.45%) React
3 144 (20.34%) AngularJS
4 116 (16.38%) Kafka
5 93 (13.14%) Spring Boot
6 92 (12.99%) GraphQL
7 90 (12.71%) J2EE
8 80 (11.30%) Hibernate
9 63 (8.90%) Spring Integration
10 52 (7.34%) HTML
11 51 (7.20%) CSS
12 49 (6.92%) REST
13 43 (6.07%) PySpark
14 37 (5.23%) Node.js
15 36 (5.08%) RESTful
16 35 (4.94%) JMS
16 35 (4.94%) jQuery
16 35 (4.94%) JSON
16 35 (4.94%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 29 (4.10%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 242 (34.18%) Cloud Native
2 112 (15.82%) Public Cloud
3 81 (11.44%) Product Ownership
4 46 (6.50%) Credit Risk
5 41 (5.79%) Management Information System
6 23 (3.25%) Data Structures
7 21 (2.97%) Taxonomies
8 18 (2.54%) Market Risk
9 11 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (1.55%) Mainframe
9 11 (1.55%) Reference Data
9 11 (1.55%) VSAM
10 8 (1.13%) Algorithms
11 7 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (0.71%) Data Centre
13 3 (0.42%) Driving Licence
13 3 (0.42%) Self-Motivation
14 2 (0.28%) Cyber Threat
14 2 (0.28%) Security Posture
14 2 (0.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.26%) Unix
2 4 (0.56%) Windows
3 3 (0.42%) Linux
4 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 562 (79.38%) Software Engineering
2 524 (74.01%) Agile
3 462 (65.25%) SDLC
4 449 (63.42%) Operational Stability
5 401 (56.64%) CI/CD
6 370 (52.26%) Machine Learning
7 352 (49.72%) Artificial Intelligence
8 213 (30.08%) Problem-Solving
9 201 (28.39%) Risk Management
10 147 (20.76%) Microservices
11 143 (20.20%) Computer Science
12 132 (18.64%) Full Stack Development
13 109 (15.40%) Tech Ops
14 75 (10.59%) Analytics
15 72 (10.17%) ETL
16 68 (9.60%) Mathematics
17 65 (9.18%) Asset Management
18 63 (8.90%) AOP
18 63 (8.90%) Document Management
19 62 (8.76%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 459 (64.83%) Java
2 234 (33.05%) Python
3 233 (32.91%) SQL
4 87 (12.29%) Scala
5 53 (7.49%) TypeScript
6 43 (6.07%) JavaScript
7 32 (4.52%) C#
8 20 (2.82%) Ruby
9 19 (2.68%) PL/SQL
10 17 (2.40%) C++
11 15 (2.12%) C
12 11 (1.55%) COBOL
12 11 (1.55%) JCL
13 6 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.71%) R
15 2 (0.28%) Bash
15 2 (0.28%) PHP
15 2 (0.28%) PowerShell
16 1 (0.14%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.14%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 95 (13.42%) Degree
2 31 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
2 31 (4.38%) Master's Degree
3 24 (3.39%) Security Cleared
4 8 (1.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 8 (1.13%) SC Cleared
5 7 (0.99%) CISM
5 7 (0.99%) CISSP
6 6 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (0.71%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.42%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (0.42%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.42%) PMP
9 2 (0.28%) HND
9 2 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.28%) PhD
10 1 (0.14%) ACCA
10 1 (0.14%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.14%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (8.76%) SLA
2 38 (5.37%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.54%) Accessibility
4 7 (0.99%) NIST
5 6 (0.85%) QA
6 5 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.28%) GRC
8 1 (0.14%) CRD IV
8 1 (0.14%) GDPR
8 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.14%) NCSC
8 1 (0.14%) PMO
8 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (2.26%) HDFS
2 11 (1.55%) Time Sharing Option
3 4 (0.56%) Docker
4 2 (0.28%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 117 (16.53%) Kubernetes
2 31 (4.38%) Terraform
3 7 (0.99%) Grafana
3 7 (0.99%) Graphite
4 2 (0.28%) Ansible
4 2 (0.28%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.14%) CASB
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 111 (15.68%) Oracle
2 81 (11.44%) Databricks
3 44 (6.21%) Microsoft
4 21 (2.97%) Google
5 20 (2.82%) Pega
6 18 (2.54%) Alteryx
6 18 (2.54%) Cognos
6 18 (2.54%) Sybase
7 16 (2.26%) Cloudera
8 7 (0.99%) Splunk
9 6 (0.85%) Salesforce
9 6 (0.85%) ServiceNow
10 5 (0.71%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.42%) SAP
12 2 (0.28%) Apple
12 2 (0.28%) CA
12 2 (0.28%) MuleSoft
13 1 (0.14%) LogRhythm
13 1 (0.14%) Meraki
13 1 (0.14%) Trustwave