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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 40 97
Rank change year-on-year +23 +57 -36
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 338 537 131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.32% 8.27% 3.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.66% 9.33% 3.34%
Number of salaries quoted 135 95 82
10th Percentile - £35,700 £34,639
25th Percentile - £40,800 £41,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £45,543 £58,596
Median % change year-on-year +13.40% -22.28% +17.52%
75th Percentile - £59,500 £72,108
90th Percentile £63,903 £67,500 £83,655
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,888 £59,556
% change year-on-year +8.72% -11.20% -0.74%

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 2,899 5,756 3,921
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 88.52% 88.64% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,368 2,495 2,045
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,250 £31,425
25th Percentile £32,951 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £62,342 £66,778 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

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 6 July 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 6 July 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 +40 91 £61,588 -2.04% 49
Glasgow +2 72 £51,645 +21.52% 63
Renfrewshire +3 59 £51,645 +40.81% 4
Inverclyde - 36 £51,645 - 5
East Ayrshire - 14 £60,000 - 1
Fife +2 13 £60,000 +38.89%
South Ayrshire -17 12 £60,000 - 1
Moray - 12 £60,000 -
North Lanarkshire +5 8 - - 8
South Lanarkshire - 4 - - 2
West Lothian +6 3 £50,000 +81.82% 4
Stirling -2 3 - - 3
Aberdeen +32 2 £45,000 +5.88% 7
Lanarkshire - 2 - - 19
Ayrshire - 2 - - 4
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - - 1
North Ayrshire - 2 - - 1
Dundee +4 1 £69,248 +72.50% 6
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 9 (2.66%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.30%) CMS
Applications
1 98 (28.99%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.30%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 8 (2.37%) Infor LN
1 8 (2.37%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 41 (12.13%) AWS
2 14 (4.14%) Azure
3 13 (3.85%) Power Platform
3 13 (3.85%) Snowflake
4 5 (1.48%) Amazon SageMaker
5 4 (1.18%) GitHub
5 4 (1.18%) SaaS
6 3 (0.89%) Amazon S3
6 3 (0.89%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (0.89%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (0.89%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (0.89%) Serverless
7 2 (0.59%) Collibra
7 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.30%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.30%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.30%) BlazeMeter
8 1 (0.30%) GCP
8 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.30%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.59%) FTP
2 1 (0.30%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.92%) Tableau
2 12 (3.55%) Power BI
3 10 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (2.66%) Apache Hive
4 9 (2.66%) Big Data
4 9 (2.66%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.07%) NoSQL
6 6 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.48%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (1.48%) DynamoDB
7 5 (1.48%) Hadoop
7 5 (1.48%) HBase
8 4 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.18%) Impala
8 4 (1.18%) KDB
8 4 (1.18%) Kdb+
8 4 (1.18%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.18%) Redshift Spectrum
8 4 (1.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (2.37%) Oracle Forms
2 5 (1.48%) Gradle
2 5 (1.48%) Maven
3 4 (1.18%) Git
3 4 (1.18%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.59%) ERwin
4 2 (0.59%) JIRA
4 2 (0.59%) JUnit
General
1 158 (46.75%) Social Skills
2 104 (30.77%) Presentation Skills
3 102 (30.18%) Finance
4 88 (26.04%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (17.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 55 (16.27%) Law
7 40 (11.83%) Electronics
8 36 (10.65%) Banking
9 33 (9.76%) Marketing
10 15 (4.44%) Legal
11 8 (2.37%) Police
11 8 (2.37%) Retail
12 7 (2.07%) Private Banking
12 7 (2.07%) Publishing
13 5 (1.48%) Front Office
13 5 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.48%) Public Sector
14 4 (1.18%) Brand Awareness
14 4 (1.18%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 132 (39.05%) Senior
2 54 (15.98%) Software Engineer
3 32 (9.47%) Innovation Manager
3 32 (9.47%) Java Engineer
3 32 (9.47%) Java Software Engineer
4 31 (9.17%) Lead
5 24 (7.10%) Principal Engineer
5 24 (7.10%) Software Assurance Engineer
6 17 (5.03%) Analyst
6 17 (5.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 17 (5.03%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 16 (4.73%) Senior Electrical Engineer
8 15 (4.44%) Lead Software Engineer
8 15 (4.44%) Python Engineer
8 15 (4.44%) Python Software Engineer
9 13 (3.85%) Developer
10 11 (3.25%) Java Developer
11 10 (2.96%) Data Manager
11 10 (2.96%) Full-Stack Developer
12 9 (2.66%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.80%) Spring
2 16 (4.73%) Spring Boot
3 14 (4.14%) React
4 13 (3.85%) Kafka
5 11 (3.25%) RESTful
6 9 (2.66%) AngularJS
7 8 (2.37%) REST
8 5 (1.48%) JPA
8 5 (1.48%) PySpark
9 1 (0.30%) .NET
9 1 (0.30%) CSS
9 1 (0.30%) FastAPI
9 1 (0.30%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 109 (32.25%) Management Information System
2 17 (5.03%) Cloud Native
3 8 (2.37%) Reference Data
4 5 (1.48%) FMCG
4 5 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (1.48%) Operational Technology
5 4 (1.18%) Derivative
5 4 (1.18%) Distributed Applications
5 4 (1.18%) Public Cloud
6 3 (0.89%) Social Media
7 2 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.59%) AS400
7 2 (0.59%) Digital Media
7 2 (0.59%) iSeries
7 2 (0.59%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.59%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.59%) Replication
8 1 (0.30%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.30%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.30%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.78%) Unix
2 2 (0.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (39.35%) Risk Management
2 109 (32.25%) Artificial Intelligence
3 100 (29.59%) Risk Assessment
4 81 (23.96%) Software Engineering
5 75 (22.19%) Problem-Solving
6 70 (20.71%) Agile
7 65 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
8 64 (18.93%) Analytics
9 55 (16.27%) Stakeholder Management
10 53 (15.68%) Operational Stability
11 50 (14.79%) SDLC
12 48 (14.20%) Machine Learning
13 45 (13.31%) CI/CD
14 39 (11.54%) Customer Experience
15 35 (10.36%) Data-Driven Decision Making
16 27 (7.99%) Business Intelligence
17 24 (7.10%) Software Assurance
17 24 (7.10%) Systems Engineering
18 23 (6.80%) Coaching
18 23 (6.80%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 39 (11.54%) Java
2 37 (10.95%) SQL
3 35 (10.36%) Python
4 8 (2.37%) PL/SQL
5 4 (1.18%) T-SQL
5 4 (1.18%) TypeScript
6 3 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.59%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.59%) RPG
7 2 (0.59%) RPG IV
8 1 (0.30%) R
8 1 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 147 (43.49%) BPSS Clearance
2 121 (35.80%) Degree
3 33 (9.76%) Chartered Engineer
4 16 (4.73%) Master's Degree
5 9 (2.66%) CRISC
6 8 (2.37%) ACCA
6 8 (2.37%) CIMA
7 2 (0.59%) CBAP
7 2 (0.59%) CISSP
7 2 (0.59%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.59%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.30%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.30%) CISA
8 1 (0.30%) CISM
8 1 (0.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.85%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.55%) IFRS
3 11 (3.25%) GAAP
4 9 (2.66%) COBIT
5 7 (2.07%) ITGC
6 5 (1.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.18%) NIST
8 3 (0.89%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.89%) GRC
8 3 (0.89%) QA
8 3 (0.89%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.59%) GDPR
10 1 (0.30%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.30%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (1.48%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (1.78%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.48%) Grafana
2 5 (1.48%) Terraform
3 4 (1.18%) Netcool
3 4 (1.18%) Netcool/OMNIbus
3 4 (1.18%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 26 (7.69%) Oracle
2 9 (2.66%) Databricks
2 9 (2.66%) SAP
3 8 (2.37%) Cognos
3 8 (2.37%) Infor
3 8 (2.37%) Microsoft
4 7 (2.07%) IBM
5 5 (1.48%) Cloudera
5 5 (1.48%) Dynatrace
5 5 (1.48%) Splunk
6 4 (1.18%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.59%) HubSpot
7 2 (0.59%) Informatica
7 2 (0.59%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.30%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.30%) Planview
8 1 (0.30%) StreamSets
8 1 (0.30%) Sybase