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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 23 33
Rank change year-on-year -52 +10 +56
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 76 160 621
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.43% 8.14% 10.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.17% 8.77% 11.79%
Number of salaries quoted 21 42 134
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,252 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £55,823 £43,200
Median % change year-on-year +29.88% +29.22% -28.06%
75th Percentile £85,000 £79,648 £57,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £98,296 £67,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +22.73% -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 2,397 1,825 5,265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 76.68% 92.83% 92.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,260 921 2,301
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £39,359 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -10.58%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 -17 28 £85,000 -1.16% 26
Edinburgh -38 26 £57,500 -4.76% 16
North Lanarkshire -14 5 - -
Renfrewshire -9 3 - -
West Lothian - 3 - - 2
Lanarkshire 0 2 - - 16
South Lanarkshire -11 2 - - 1
Stirling -12 2 - - 1
Ayrshire -2 1 - -
North Ayrshire -5 1 - -
East Ayrshire -6 1 - -
West Dunbartonshire -9 1 - -
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 (2.63%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.63%) Confluence
2 1 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.32%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (1.32%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Infor CloudSuite
Cloud Services
1 17 (22.37%) Azure
2 9 (11.84%) AWS
2 9 (11.84%) Azure Data Factory
2 9 (11.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 8 (10.53%) GitHub
4 7 (9.21%) GitHub Copilot
4 7 (9.21%) Snowflake
5 5 (6.58%) GCP
5 5 (6.58%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.95%) Azure AI
6 3 (3.95%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (3.95%) SaaS
6 3 (3.95%) Vertex AI
7 2 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.32%) dbt
8 1 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.89%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.53%) Metadata
2 7 (9.21%) Data Lake
3 5 (6.58%) Power BI
4 2 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.63%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (2.63%) Tableau
5 1 (1.32%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.32%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.32%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (1.32%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (1.32%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.32%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.32%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (3.95%) JIRA
2 1 (1.32%) Oracle APEX
General
1 40 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 38 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (32.89%) Finance
4 6 (7.89%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (7.89%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.58%) Financial Institution
6 4 (5.26%) Games
7 3 (3.95%) Banking
7 3 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.95%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.95%) Legal
7 3 (3.95%) Marketing
7 3 (3.95%) Retail
8 2 (2.63%) Advertising
8 2 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.32%) Billing
9 1 (1.32%) Front Office
9 1 (1.32%) Law
9 1 (1.32%) Police
9 1 (1.32%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (21.05%) Innovation Manager
2 10 (13.16%) Analyst
3 8 (10.53%) Lead
4 7 (9.21%) Senior
5 6 (7.89%) Architect
6 5 (6.58%) Engineering Manager
6 5 (6.58%) Head of Data Management
6 5 (6.58%) Head of Risk Management
7 4 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 4 (5.26%) Data Manager
7 4 (5.26%) Security Manager
7 4 (5.26%) Senior Manager
8 3 (3.95%) Forecast Analyst
8 3 (3.95%) Governance Manager
8 3 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.63%) Account Manager
9 2 (2.63%) Head of Sales
9 2 (2.63%) Project Manager
9 2 (2.63%) Senior Analyst
9 2 (2.63%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.95%) LangChain
1 3 (3.95%) Semantic Kernel
2 1 (1.32%) JSON
2 1 (1.32%) Kafka
2 1 (1.32%) PySpark
2 1 (1.32%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.58%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.95%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.95%) Social Media
5 2 (2.63%) Digital Media
5 2 (2.63%) IoT
5 2 (2.63%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.63%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.63%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.32%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.32%) Life Science
6 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.32%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (59.21%) Analytics
1 45 (59.21%) Continuous Improvement
2 39 (51.32%) AI
3 27 (35.53%) Customer Experience
4 26 (34.21%) Agile
4 26 (34.21%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 22 (28.95%) Stakeholder Management
6 19 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
7 17 (22.37%) Data Engineering
7 17 (22.37%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (21.05%) Emotional Intelligence
9 14 (18.42%) DevOps
10 13 (17.11%) CI/CD
10 13 (17.11%) Coaching
10 13 (17.11%) Risk Management
11 12 (15.79%) Test Automation
12 11 (14.47%) Data Pipeline
12 11 (14.47%) Observability
13 10 (13.16%) Data Modelling
14 9 (11.84%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 13 (17.11%) Python
2 12 (15.79%) SQL
3 7 (9.21%) T-SQL
4 4 (5.26%) Java
5 2 (2.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.32%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (10.53%) CRISC
2 6 (7.89%) AWS Certification
3 5 (6.58%) Degree
4 3 (3.95%) CISM
4 3 (3.95%) CISSP
5 2 (2.63%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.63%) MBA
5 2 (2.63%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.32%) ACCA
6 1 (1.32%) CIMA
6 1 (1.32%) PMP
6 1 (1.32%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.84%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.26%) NIST
3 3 (3.95%) COBIT
3 3 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.63%) GRC
5 1 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.32%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.32%) PMO
5 1 (1.32%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (1.32%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 11 (14.47%) Databricks
2 5 (6.58%) Google
3 4 (5.26%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.95%) Foundry
5 2 (2.63%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.32%) Anaplan
6 1 (1.32%) Charles River
6 1 (1.32%) Computacenter
6 1 (1.32%) Genesys
6 1 (1.32%) Infor
6 1 (1.32%) Oracle
6 1 (1.32%) Verint