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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 29 51
Rank change year-on-year +9 +22 -35
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 242 220 131
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 5.76% 8.49% 3.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.43% 9.37% 4.50%
Number of salaries quoted 73 43 36
10th Percentile £33,212 £42,500 £35,510
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% +100.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,016 £76,500
90th Percentile £114,500 £85,000 £106,875
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%

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 2,869 2,348 2,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 68.26% 90.62% 83.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,677 1,012 1,422
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £38,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +44.74% -30.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,900 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 +9 78 £55,000 -2.22% 114
Edinburgh +11 68 £70,000 +21.74% 102
Midlothian - 22 £65,000 - 14
Stirling +6 16 £52,000 - 5
North Lanarkshire -1 9 £45,000 - 4
Aberdeen - 9 £47,500 - 18
West Lothian -2 8 - - 10
Renfrewshire -3 7 - - 7
South Lanarkshire -10 7 - - 1
Inverclyde - 7 - - 1
Dundee -7 4 £155,000 +123.83% 8
Fife -9 2 - - 4
North Ayrshire -3 1 - - 1
Highlands - 1 - - 5
Falkirk - 1 - - 1
Clackmannanshire - 1 - - 2
East Lothian - 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 (1.24%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.83%) Confluence
3 1 (0.41%) Apache
3 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 17 (7.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.89%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 31 (12.81%) AWS
2 28 (11.57%) Azure
3 16 (6.61%) Power Platform
4 8 (3.31%) SaaS
4 8 (3.31%) Snowflake
5 6 (2.48%) GCP
5 6 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (1.65%) Amazon Bedrock
7 3 (1.24%) Alation
7 3 (1.24%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (1.24%) Azure AI
7 3 (1.24%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (1.24%) Collibra
7 3 (1.24%) Copilot Studio
7 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.41%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.41%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.41%) dbt
8 1 (0.41%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 46 (19.01%) Firewall
1 46 (19.01%) Network Security
1 46 (19.01%) VLAN
2 15 (6.20%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.96%) Power BI
2 7 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (2.89%) Electronic Patient Records
2 7 (2.89%) Metadata
2 7 (2.89%) Tableau
3 3 (1.24%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.83%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.41%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.41%) Big Data
5 1 (0.41%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.41%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.41%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (1.65%) Git
2 3 (1.24%) JIRA
3 1 (0.41%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.41%) Maven
General
1 112 (46.28%) Social Skills
2 58 (23.97%) Finance
3 38 (15.70%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.68%) Public Sector
5 19 (7.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (6.61%) Marketing
7 13 (5.37%) Manufacturing
8 12 (4.96%) Games
8 12 (4.96%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (4.96%) Law
9 8 (3.31%) Banking
9 8 (3.31%) Billing
10 7 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.48%) Financial Institution
11 6 (2.48%) Legal
12 4 (1.65%) Private Banking
13 3 (1.24%) Electronics
13 3 (1.24%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 61 (25.21%) Senior
2 48 (19.83%) Security Engineer
3 46 (19.01%) Senior Security Engineer
4 26 (10.74%) Lead
5 24 (9.92%) Analyst
6 21 (8.68%) Business Development Manager
6 21 (8.68%) Business Manager
6 21 (8.68%) Development Manager
7 18 (7.44%) Account Manager
8 13 (5.37%) Consultant
9 10 (4.13%) Risk Manager
10 9 (3.72%) Developer
10 9 (3.72%) Presales Consultant
11 8 (3.31%) Architect
11 8 (3.31%) Data Manager
12 7 (2.89%) Coordinator
12 7 (2.89%) Service Owner
12 7 (2.89%) Technical Manager
13 6 (2.48%) Project Manager
14 5 (2.07%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.48%) React
2 4 (1.65%) Hugging Face
2 4 (1.65%) PyTorch
3 3 (1.24%) Terraform
4 2 (0.83%) .NET
4 2 (0.83%) .NET Framework
4 2 (0.83%) HTML
4 2 (0.83%) HTML5
4 2 (0.83%) Node.js
4 2 (0.83%) PySpark
4 2 (0.83%) REST
4 2 (0.83%) WinForms
5 1 (0.41%) CSS
5 1 (0.41%) Hibernate
5 1 (0.41%) JMS
5 1 (0.41%) Kafka
5 1 (0.41%) Memcached
5 1 (0.41%) Redux
5 1 (0.41%) RESTful
5 1 (0.41%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.98%) Onboarding
2 21 (8.68%) AI Agents
3 14 (5.79%) Cyber Threat
3 14 (5.79%) Management Information System
4 11 (4.55%) Cyberattack
5 10 (4.13%) Social Media
6 9 (3.72%) SystemC
7 8 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (2.89%) NHS
9 5 (2.07%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.65%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.24%) Reference Data
12 2 (0.83%) Cyber Defence
12 2 (0.83%) Driving Licence
12 2 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.83%) Hackathon
12 2 (0.83%) Low-Code
12 2 (0.83%) Video on Demand
12 2 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.24%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (28.93%) Cybersecurity
2 61 (25.21%) AI
3 60 (24.79%) Continuous Improvement
4 50 (20.66%) Project Delivery
5 47 (19.42%) Business Continuity
5 47 (19.42%) Capacity Planning
6 46 (19.01%) BCP
6 46 (19.01%) Business Continuity Planning
6 46 (19.01%) Economics
6 46 (19.01%) Network Architecture
6 46 (19.01%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 45 (18.60%) Business Development
8 42 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
9 41 (16.94%) Stakeholder Management
10 31 (12.81%) Customer Experience
11 29 (11.98%) Risk Management
12 28 (11.57%) Analytics
13 27 (11.16%) Business Strategy
14 26 (10.74%) CRM
14 26 (10.74%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (7.02%) Python
2 8 (3.31%) SQL
3 6 (2.48%) JavaScript
4 4 (1.65%) TypeScript
5 3 (1.24%) C
5 3 (1.24%) Java
6 2 (0.83%) C#
Qualifications
1 14 (5.79%) Degree
2 13 (5.37%) ACCA
2 13 (5.37%) CIMA
3 8 (3.31%) CISSP
4 7 (2.89%) CISM
4 7 (2.89%) ICAEW
5 4 (1.65%) PhD
6 2 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (0.83%) CISA
6 2 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.83%) CSPO
6 2 (0.83%) CSSLP
6 2 (0.83%) HND
6 2 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (0.83%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.83%) PMP
6 2 (0.83%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 2 (0.83%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.41%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.44%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.79%) GDPR
3 6 (2.48%) GRC
4 4 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.24%) SLA
6 2 (0.83%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.83%) PMO
7 1 (0.41%) GAAP
7 1 (0.41%) IFRS
7 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.41%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.41%) QA
7 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (1.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.07%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.41%) Grafana
Vendors
1 30 (12.40%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.85%) Salesforce
3 11 (4.55%) YouTube
4 5 (2.07%) Alteryx
4 5 (2.07%) Databricks
5 4 (1.65%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.24%) Foundry
6 3 (1.24%) Google
6 3 (1.24%) Informatica
7 1 (0.41%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.41%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.41%) NEC
7 1 (0.41%) SAP
7 1 (0.41%) Splunk