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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 25 32
Rank change year-on-year +7 +7 -7
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 223 229 329
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 5.72% 9.04% 7.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.36% 10.05% 8.57%
Number of salaries quoted 63 42 49
10th Percentile £33,570 £46,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,178 £52,186
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% +7.65% +108.74%
75th Percentile £86,875 £71,532 £67,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £83,738 £98,474
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -0.88%

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 2,667 2,279 3,837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 68.42% 89.94% 85.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,576 995 1,616
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,600 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,217 £41,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £38,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.16% -30.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £78,750 £82,250
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 14 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 14 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 +8 77 £55,000 -2.22% 151
Edinburgh +8 64 £78,750 +34.04% 152
Stirling +6 15 £52,000 - 3
Midlothian - 15 £65,000 - 101
West Lothian +1 10 - - 11
North Lanarkshire -3 9 £45,000 - 4
Aberdeen -6 8 £47,500 - 22
Inverclyde +3 7 - -
Renfrewshire -3 7 - - 10
Dundee -9 3 £155,000 +123.83% 5
South Lanarkshire -13 3 - -
North Ayrshire -4 1 - - 1
Highlands - 1 - - 1
Falkirk - 1 - -
Clackmannanshire - 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 3 (1.35%) Confluence
2 2 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.90%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.45%) Apache
Applications
1 14 (6.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (3.14%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.45%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (11.66%) Azure
2 25 (11.21%) AWS
3 11 (4.93%) Power Platform
4 7 (3.14%) SaaS
5 6 (2.69%) Azure AI
5 6 (2.69%) Azure Machine Learning
5 6 (2.69%) GCP
5 6 (2.69%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (2.69%) Snowflake
6 4 (1.79%) Amazon Bedrock
7 3 (1.35%) Alation
7 3 (1.35%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (1.35%) Collibra
7 3 (1.35%) Copilot Studio
7 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (1.35%) Vertex AI
8 2 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.45%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.45%) Azure Databricks
9 1 (0.45%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 46 (20.63%) Firewall
1 46 (20.63%) Network Security
1 46 (20.63%) VLAN
2 18 (8.07%) Broadband
3 1 (0.45%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.14%) Electronic Patient Records
1 7 (3.14%) Metadata
1 7 (3.14%) Power BI
2 6 (2.69%) Tableau
3 5 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.35%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.45%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.45%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.45%) Big Data
5 1 (0.45%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.45%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.45%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.45%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.45%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (1.79%) JIRA
2 2 (0.90%) Git
3 1 (0.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.45%) Maven
General
1 110 (49.33%) Social Skills
2 52 (23.32%) Finance
3 32 (14.35%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (8.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (8.52%) Public Sector
6 16 (7.17%) Marketing
7 14 (6.28%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (5.38%) Games
8 12 (5.38%) Law
9 9 (4.04%) Manufacturing
10 8 (3.59%) Banking
10 8 (3.59%) Billing
10 8 (3.59%) Legal
11 6 (2.69%) Financial Institution
11 6 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.79%) Private Banking
13 2 (0.90%) Electronics
13 2 (0.90%) Retail
13 2 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (27.35%) Senior
2 46 (20.63%) Security Engineer
2 46 (20.63%) Senior Security Engineer
3 27 (12.11%) Analyst
4 26 (11.66%) Lead
5 20 (8.97%) Business Development Manager
5 20 (8.97%) Business Manager
5 20 (8.97%) Development Manager
6 13 (5.83%) Consultant
7 11 (4.93%) Account Manager
8 10 (4.48%) Architect
9 9 (4.04%) Presales Consultant
9 9 (4.04%) Risk Manager
10 8 (3.59%) Data Manager
10 8 (3.59%) Finance Systems Analyst
10 8 (3.59%) Financial Analyst
10 8 (3.59%) Systems Analyst
11 7 (3.14%) Coordinator
11 7 (3.14%) Technical Manager
12 6 (2.69%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.79%) Hugging Face
1 4 (1.79%) PyTorch
2 3 (1.35%) LangChain
2 3 (1.35%) PySpark
2 3 (1.35%) Semantic Kernel
3 2 (0.90%) HTML
3 2 (0.90%) HTML5
3 2 (0.90%) Kafka
3 2 (0.90%) React
4 1 (0.45%) CSS
4 1 (0.45%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.45%) gRPC
4 1 (0.45%) Hibernate
4 1 (0.45%) JMS
4 1 (0.45%) Memcached
4 1 (0.45%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.45%) Redux
4 1 (0.45%) RESTful
4 1 (0.45%) Spring
4 1 (0.45%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.42%) AI Agents
2 19 (8.52%) Onboarding
3 12 (5.38%) Cyber Threat
3 12 (5.38%) Social Media
4 11 (4.93%) Cyberattack
4 11 (4.93%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.04%) SystemC
6 8 (3.59%) Cloud Native
6 8 (3.59%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (3.14%) NHS
8 5 (2.24%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.35%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.35%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.90%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.90%) Video on Demand
10 2 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (32.74%) Cybersecurity
2 56 (25.11%) AI
3 50 (22.42%) Continuous Improvement
3 50 (22.42%) Project Delivery
4 47 (21.08%) Business Continuity
4 47 (21.08%) Capacity Planning
5 46 (20.63%) BCP
5 46 (20.63%) Business Continuity Planning
5 46 (20.63%) Economics
5 46 (20.63%) Network Architecture
5 46 (20.63%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 39 (17.49%) Business Development
7 35 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (14.80%) Stakeholder Management
9 28 (12.56%) Business Strategy
10 27 (12.11%) Analytics
11 25 (11.21%) Line Management
12 24 (10.76%) LLM
12 24 (10.76%) Risk Management
13 23 (10.31%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 16 (7.17%) Python
2 6 (2.69%) Java
3 5 (2.24%) SQL
4 3 (1.35%) C
5 2 (0.90%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.90%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.45%) C++
6 1 (0.45%) Embedded C
6 1 (0.45%) Embedded C++
6 1 (0.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (4.93%) Degree
2 10 (4.48%) ACCA
2 10 (4.48%) CIMA
2 10 (4.48%) CISSP
3 9 (4.04%) CISM
4 7 (3.14%) ICAEW
5 4 (1.79%) PhD
6 3 (1.35%) CRISC
7 2 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (0.90%) CISA
7 2 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.90%) CSPO
7 2 (0.90%) CSSLP
7 2 (0.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (0.90%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.90%) PMP
7 2 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.45%) HNC
8 1 (0.45%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.28%) GDPR
2 12 (5.38%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.24%) GRC
5 3 (1.35%) SLA
6 2 (0.90%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.90%) COBIT
6 2 (0.90%) NIST
6 2 (0.90%) PMO
7 1 (0.45%) GAAP
7 1 (0.45%) IFRS
7 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.45%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.45%) QA
7 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (1.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.45%) Grafana
Vendors
1 26 (11.66%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.38%) Salesforce
3 6 (2.69%) Databricks
3 6 (2.69%) Foundry
4 5 (2.24%) Alteryx
4 5 (2.24%) Google
4 5 (2.24%) YouTube
5 4 (1.79%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.35%) Informatica
7 1 (0.45%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.45%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.45%) Infor
7 1 (0.45%) NEC
7 1 (0.45%) SAP
7 1 (0.45%) Splunk