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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 26 45
Rank change year-on-year +8 +19 -27
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 236 222 183
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 5.75% 8.73% 4.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.46% 9.65% 5.68%
Number of salaries quoted 72 43 40
10th Percentile £33,212 £42,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,855 £51,093
Median % change year-on-year +0.26% +7.36% +104.37%
75th Percentile £78,750 £71,532 £76,500
90th Percentile £114,750 £83,738 £104,375
UK median annual salary £58,799 £60,000 £56,850
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.54% +3.36%

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 2,789 2,301 3,221
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 67.92% 90.48% 84.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,655 993 1,501
10th Percentile £29,100 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,011 £32,000 £40,250
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 £95,000 £75,980 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%

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 28 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 28 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 +12 79 £55,000 +12.82% 114
Edinburgh +13 67 £70,000 +19.15% 90
Midlothian - 18 £65,000 - 17
Stirling +5 16 £52,000 - 2
North Lanarkshire -2 9 £45,000 - 2
Aberdeen - 9 £47,500 - 18
West Lothian -3 8 - - 10
Renfrewshire -4 7 - - 4
Inverclyde - 7 - -
South Lanarkshire -10 5 - - 1
Dundee -8 4 £155,000 +123.83% 5
Fife -8 2 - - 2
North Ayrshire -4 1 - - 1
Highlands - 1 - - 2
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 (1.27%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.85%) Confluence
3 1 (0.42%) Apache
3 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 16 (6.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.97%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 27 (11.44%) AWS
2 26 (11.02%) Azure
3 16 (6.78%) Power Platform
4 8 (3.39%) SaaS
4 8 (3.39%) Snowflake
5 6 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (1.69%) Amazon Bedrock
6 4 (1.69%) GCP
7 3 (1.27%) Alation
7 3 (1.27%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (1.27%) Azure AI
7 3 (1.27%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (1.27%) Collibra
7 3 (1.27%) Copilot Studio
7 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.42%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.42%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.42%) dbt
8 1 (0.42%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 46 (19.49%) Firewall
1 46 (19.49%) Network Security
1 46 (19.49%) VLAN
2 15 (6.36%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.08%) Power BI
2 7 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (2.97%) Electronic Patient Records
2 7 (2.97%) Metadata
2 7 (2.97%) Tableau
3 3 (1.27%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.85%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.42%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.42%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.42%) Big Data
5 1 (0.42%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.42%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.42%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.42%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (1.69%) Git
2 3 (1.27%) JIRA
3 1 (0.42%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.42%) Maven
General
1 113 (47.88%) Social Skills
2 59 (25.00%) Finance
3 38 (16.10%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.90%) Public Sector
5 19 (8.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (7.20%) Marketing
7 13 (5.51%) Manufacturing
8 12 (5.08%) Games
8 12 (5.08%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (5.08%) Law
9 9 (3.81%) Banking
10 8 (3.39%) Billing
11 7 (2.97%) Legal
11 7 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (2.54%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.69%) Private Banking
14 3 (1.27%) Electronics
14 3 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.27%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.85%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 60 (25.42%) Senior
2 46 (19.49%) Security Engineer
2 46 (19.49%) Senior Security Engineer
3 26 (11.02%) Analyst
3 26 (11.02%) Lead
4 21 (8.90%) Business Development Manager
4 21 (8.90%) Business Manager
4 21 (8.90%) Development Manager
5 14 (5.93%) Account Manager
6 13 (5.51%) Consultant
7 10 (4.24%) Risk Manager
8 9 (3.81%) Presales Consultant
9 8 (3.39%) Architect
9 8 (3.39%) Data Manager
9 8 (3.39%) Developer
10 7 (2.97%) Coordinator
10 7 (2.97%) Finance Systems Analyst
10 7 (2.97%) Financial Analyst
10 7 (2.97%) Systems Analyst
10 7 (2.97%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.69%) Hugging Face
1 4 (1.69%) PyTorch
1 4 (1.69%) React
2 2 (0.85%) .NET
2 2 (0.85%) .NET Framework
2 2 (0.85%) HTML
2 2 (0.85%) HTML5
2 2 (0.85%) PySpark
2 2 (0.85%) REST
2 2 (0.85%) WinForms
3 1 (0.42%) CSS
3 1 (0.42%) Hibernate
3 1 (0.42%) JMS
3 1 (0.42%) Kafka
3 1 (0.42%) Memcached
3 1 (0.42%) Redux
3 1 (0.42%) RESTful
3 1 (0.42%) Spring
3 1 (0.42%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.59%) Onboarding
2 21 (8.90%) AI Agents
3 14 (5.93%) Management Information System
4 12 (5.08%) Cyber Threat
5 11 (4.66%) Cyberattack
5 11 (4.66%) Social Media
6 9 (3.81%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (3.81%) SystemC
7 7 (2.97%) NHS
8 5 (2.12%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.69%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.27%) Reference Data
11 2 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.85%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.85%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.85%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.85%) Video on Demand
11 2 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (28.81%) Cybersecurity
2 57 (24.15%) AI
2 57 (24.15%) Continuous Improvement
3 50 (21.19%) Project Delivery
4 47 (19.92%) Business Continuity
4 47 (19.92%) Capacity Planning
5 46 (19.49%) BCP
5 46 (19.49%) Business Continuity Planning
5 46 (19.49%) Economics
5 46 (19.49%) Network Architecture
5 46 (19.49%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 43 (18.22%) Business Development
7 39 (16.53%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (16.53%) Stakeholder Management
8 28 (11.86%) Business Strategy
9 27 (11.44%) Analytics
9 27 (11.44%) Risk Management
10 26 (11.02%) Line Management
11 25 (10.59%) Customer Experience
12 22 (9.32%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 15 (6.36%) Python
2 8 (3.39%) SQL
3 4 (1.69%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.27%) C
4 3 (1.27%) Java
5 2 (0.85%) C#
5 2 (0.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (5.51%) ACCA
1 13 (5.51%) CIMA
2 12 (5.08%) Degree
3 8 (3.39%) CISSP
4 7 (2.97%) CISM
4 7 (2.97%) ICAEW
5 4 (1.69%) PhD
6 2 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (0.85%) CISA
6 2 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.85%) CSPO
6 2 (0.85%) CSSLP
6 2 (0.85%) HND
6 2 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (0.85%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.85%) PMP
6 2 (0.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 2 (0.85%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.42%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.42%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.20%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.93%) GDPR
3 6 (2.54%) GRC
4 4 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.27%) SLA
6 2 (0.85%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.85%) PMO
7 1 (0.42%) GAAP
7 1 (0.42%) IFRS
7 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.42%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.42%) QA
7 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (0.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.27%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.42%) Grafana
Vendors
1 27 (11.44%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.36%) Salesforce
3 8 (3.39%) YouTube
4 5 (2.12%) Alteryx
4 5 (2.12%) Databricks
5 4 (1.69%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.27%) Foundry
6 3 (1.27%) Informatica
7 1 (0.42%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.42%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.42%) Google
7 1 (0.42%) NEC
7 1 (0.42%) SAP
7 1 (0.42%) Splunk