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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 100 53
Rank change year-on-year +65 -47 +53
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 484 121 319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 8.49% 3.19% 5.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.67% 3.32% 5.67%
Number of salaries quoted 81 77 87
10th Percentile £37,631 £36,439 £38,213
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,806 £49,861
Median % change year-on-year -14.97% +17.94% +10.80%
75th Percentile £62,342 £72,433 £68,275
90th Percentile £76,500 £84,250 £77,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,556 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.65% -0.74% +9.09%

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 5,004 3,640 5,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 87.82% 95.94% 92.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,133 1,969 3,041
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,555 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,548 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +52 406 £45,250 -22.79% 5
Edinburgh +16 47 £65,000 +10.93% 3
Dundee - 10 £40,144 - 1
Aberdeen -4 5 £42,500 -22.73%
Renfrewshire - 5 £44,436 -
Fife -6 2 £43,200 - 1
West Lothian -7 1 £27,500 -47.62%
North Lanarkshire - 1 £37,500 -
Stirling - 1 £31,500 - 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 63 (13.02%) FileNet
2 59 (12.19%) Apache Spark
3 26 (5.37%) Apache
4 17 (3.51%) Cloud Foundry
5 11 (2.27%) CICS
6 9 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.83%) SAS
8 2 (0.41%) Confluence
8 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (2.89%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.21%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.21%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (2.27%) Primavera
2 4 (0.83%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 140 (28.93%) AWS
2 63 (13.02%) Amazon S3
3 56 (11.57%) Azure
4 50 (10.33%) GitHub
5 27 (5.58%) GCP
6 21 (4.34%) Power Platform
7 18 (3.72%) BlazeMeter
8 10 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (1.45%) Entra ID
10 4 (0.83%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (0.83%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (0.83%) IaaS
10 4 (0.83%) SaaS
11 3 (0.62%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (0.41%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (0.41%) Fivetran
12 2 (0.41%) Snowflake
13 1 (0.21%) Cloud Computing
13 1 (0.21%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.51%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.21%) Firewall
2 1 (0.21%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (18.60%) NoSQL
2 72 (14.88%) Elasticsearch
3 63 (13.02%) Apache Cassandra
4 41 (8.47%) Big Data
5 40 (8.26%) Hadoop
6 21 (4.34%) Power BI
7 17 (3.51%) Amazon Aurora
7 17 (3.51%) CockroachDB
8 16 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (3.31%) Tableau
9 14 (2.89%) Apache Hive
9 14 (2.89%) Impala
10 11 (2.27%) DB2
10 11 (2.27%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.45%) MongoDB
12 5 (1.03%) Data Lake
12 5 (1.03%) SQL Server
13 3 (0.62%) MySQL
13 3 (0.62%) Power Query
13 3 (0.62%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 87 (17.98%) JUnit
2 62 (12.81%) Jasmine
3 52 (10.74%) Jenkins
4 45 (9.30%) Mockito
5 19 (3.93%) JMeter
6 18 (3.72%) Selenium
7 17 (3.51%) Cypress.io
7 17 (3.51%) Karma Test Runner
7 17 (3.51%) Protractor
7 17 (3.51%) WebDriver
8 15 (3.10%) LabVIEW
9 11 (2.27%) ChangeMan
10 10 (2.07%) Git
10 10 (2.07%) Maven
11 7 (1.45%) JIRA
12 3 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.62%) Spinnaker
13 2 (0.41%) GitLab
14 1 (0.21%) Cucumber
14 1 (0.21%) LoadRunner
General
1 371 (76.65%) Finance
2 354 (73.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 341 (70.45%) Law
4 218 (45.04%) Marketing
5 105 (21.69%) Legal
6 75 (15.50%) Social Skills
7 48 (9.92%) Banking
8 40 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
9 36 (7.44%) Investment Banking
10 21 (4.34%) Manufacturing
11 15 (3.10%) Electronics
12 14 (2.89%) Retail
13 7 (1.45%) Games
13 7 (1.45%) Public Sector
14 6 (1.24%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.62%) Private Banking
18 2 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
18 2 (0.41%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 272 (56.20%) Software Engineer
2 135 (27.89%) Java Engineer
2 135 (27.89%) Java Software Engineer
3 95 (19.63%) Senior
4 85 (17.56%) Lead
5 68 (14.05%) Lead Software Engineer
6 66 (13.64%) Full Stack Engineer
6 66 (13.64%) Full Stack Software Engineer
7 65 (13.43%) Senior Software Engineer
8 46 (9.50%) Architect
9 40 (8.26%) Big Data Engineer
9 40 (8.26%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 39 (8.06%) Python Engineer
10 39 (8.06%) Python Software Engineer
11 29 (5.99%) Software Engineering Director
12 28 (5.79%) Data Engineer
12 28 (5.79%) Java Architect
12 28 (5.79%) Principal Architect
13 26 (5.37%) AWS Engineer
13 26 (5.37%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (24.59%) Spring
2 115 (23.76%) React
3 98 (20.25%) Kafka
4 94 (19.42%) AngularJS
5 87 (17.98%) J2EE
6 82 (16.94%) GraphQL
7 80 (16.53%) Hibernate
8 63 (13.02%) Spring Integration
9 38 (7.85%) CSS
9 38 (7.85%) HTML
9 38 (7.85%) Node.js
10 35 (7.23%) JMS
10 35 (7.23%) jQuery
10 35 (7.23%) JSON
10 35 (7.23%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 23 (4.75%) OAuth
12 20 (4.13%) REST
13 19 (3.93%) PySpark
14 17 (3.51%) Jest
15 15 (3.10%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 167 (34.50%) Cloud Native
2 44 (9.09%) Credit Risk
3 43 (8.88%) Public Cloud
4 38 (7.85%) Product Ownership
5 19 (3.93%) Management Information System
6 18 (3.72%) Market Risk
7 17 (3.51%) Data Structures
8 11 (2.27%) Mainframe
8 11 (2.27%) Reference Data
8 11 (2.27%) VSAM
9 8 (1.65%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.24%) Video\Live Streaming
11 5 (1.03%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.03%) Renewable Energy
12 2 (0.41%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.41%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.41%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.41%) Freedom of Information
12 2 (0.41%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.41%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.65%) Windows
2 6 (1.24%) Linux
3 1 (0.21%) Android
3 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 362 (74.79%) Software Engineering
2 336 (69.42%) Agile
3 287 (59.30%) SDLC
4 265 (54.75%) Operational Stability
5 247 (51.03%) CI/CD
6 240 (49.59%) Artificial Intelligence
7 239 (49.38%) Machine Learning
8 149 (30.79%) Problem-Solving
9 136 (28.10%) Risk Management
10 134 (27.69%) Computer Science
11 95 (19.63%) Microservices
12 73 (15.08%) Full Stack Development
13 72 (14.88%) Tech Ops
14 66 (13.64%) Mathematics
15 63 (13.02%) AOP
15 63 (13.02%) Document Management
16 45 (9.30%) Regtech
16 45 (9.30%) Unit Testing
17 44 (9.09%) Data Architecture
18 40 (8.26%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 278 (57.44%) Java
2 143 (29.55%) SQL
3 115 (23.76%) Python
4 46 (9.50%) JavaScript
5 44 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 40 (8.26%) Scala
7 28 (5.79%) C#
8 20 (4.13%) C++
9 15 (3.10%) C
10 11 (2.27%) COBOL
10 11 (2.27%) JCL
11 8 (1.65%) Bash
12 5 (1.03%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.62%) PHP
14 2 (0.41%) R
14 2 (0.41%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.21%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 76 (15.70%) Degree
2 32 (6.61%) Computer Science Degree
2 32 (6.61%) Master's Degree
3 22 (4.55%) Security Cleared
4 8 (1.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 8 (1.65%) SC Cleared
5 7 (1.45%) CISM
5 7 (1.45%) CISSP
6 6 (1.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (1.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.41%) PhD
8 2 (0.41%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.41%) PMP
9 1 (0.21%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.21%) CESG Certified Professional
9 1 (0.21%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.21%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.10%) SLA
2 14 (2.89%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.07%) GAAP
3 10 (2.07%) IFRS
3 10 (2.07%) Solvency II
4 9 (1.86%) QA
5 7 (1.45%) NIST
6 6 (1.24%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.21%) GDPR
8 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.21%) NCSC
8 1 (0.21%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (2.27%) Time Sharing Option
2 9 (1.86%) Docker
3 3 (0.62%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 104 (21.49%) Kubernetes
2 22 (4.55%) Terraform
3 7 (1.45%) Grafana
3 7 (1.45%) Graphite
4 4 (0.83%) Ansible
5 3 (0.62%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 91 (18.80%) Oracle
2 37 (7.64%) Microsoft
3 20 (4.13%) Google
4 16 (3.31%) Databricks
5 7 (1.45%) Splunk
6 4 (0.83%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.62%) SAP
8 2 (0.41%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.41%) Apple
9 1 (0.21%) Cisco
9 1 (0.21%) Meraki
9 1 (0.21%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.21%) VMware