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 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 33 36
Rank change year-on-year -26 +3 +47
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 80 184 601
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.49% 8.34% 9.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.54% 8.97% 10.41%
Number of salaries quoted 27 28 104
10th Percentile £42,750 £35,875 £34,335
25th Percentile £51,875 £50,296 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £58,750 £45,543
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% +29.00% -22.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,738 £62,342
90th Percentile £116,000 £87,500 £75,980
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £54,700
% change year-on-year - +9.69% -8.15%

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 2,260 2,052 5,771
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 70.23% 93.06% 88.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,285 837 2,571
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,929 £28,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £32,851 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £50,890 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.61% -3.07% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 15 June 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 15 June 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 +6 37 £72,500 +38.10% 24
Edinburgh -21 19 £55,000 -8.33% 19
West Lothian - 8 - - 2
Aberdeen -13 4 £47,500 +5.56% 2
Midlothian - 3 - - 11
Stirling -5 2 - - 3
North Lanarkshire -9 2 - - 1
Lanarkshire +9 1 - - 11
Falkirk - 1 - - 1
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
East Lothian - 1 - -
Perth and Kinross - 1 £127,500 -
Perthshire - 1 £127,500 - 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 (3.75%) Confluence
2 1 (1.25%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (5.00%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.25%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.50%) Azure
2 4 (5.00%) Azure AI
2 4 (5.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 4 (5.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (3.75%) AWS
3 3 (3.75%) Copilot Studio
3 3 (3.75%) GCP
3 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Copilot
3 3 (3.75%) Vertex AI
4 2 (2.50%) GitHub
4 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.25%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (1.25%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.25%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (1.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (22.50%) Broadband
2 1 (1.25%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.50%) Metadata
2 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.25%) Data Vault
2 1 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.25%) Delta Lake
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle ODI
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.25%) Power BI
2 1 (1.25%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (1.25%) Star Schema
2 1 (1.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (3.75%) JIRA
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle APEX
General
1 37 (46.25%) Social Skills
2 24 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (23.75%) Finance
4 14 (17.50%) Games
5 7 (8.75%) Public Sector
6 5 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (5.00%) Billing
7 4 (5.00%) Marketing
7 4 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.75%) Legal
9 2 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.50%) Retail
10 1 (1.25%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.25%) Automotive
10 1 (1.25%) Banking
10 1 (1.25%) Police
Job Titles
1 27 (33.75%) Analyst
2 12 (15.00%) Business Development Manager
2 12 (15.00%) Business Manager
2 12 (15.00%) Development Manager
2 12 (15.00%) Senior
3 8 (10.00%) Finance Systems Analyst
3 8 (10.00%) Financial Analyst
3 8 (10.00%) Systems Analyst
4 7 (8.75%) Lead
5 6 (7.50%) Architect
5 6 (7.50%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 5 (6.25%) Senior Manager
7 4 (5.00%) Governance Manager
7 4 (5.00%) Security Manager
7 4 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Data Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Forecast Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Project Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.75%) LangChain
1 3 (3.75%) Semantic Kernel
2 1 (1.25%) GraphQL
2 1 (1.25%) gRPC
2 1 (1.25%) JSON
2 1 (1.25%) Kafka
2 1 (1.25%) PySpark
2 1 (1.25%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.25%) REST
2 1 (1.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.00%) AI Agents
2 11 (13.75%) Cyber Threat
2 11 (13.75%) Cyberattack
2 11 (13.75%) Social Media
3 6 (7.50%) Management Information System
4 5 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 5 (6.25%) Onboarding
5 4 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.75%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (3.75%) Operational Technology
7 2 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.50%) IoT
7 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.50%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.25%) Robotics
8 1 (1.25%) Taxonomies
8 1 (1.25%) Video on Demand
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (30.00%) AI
2 20 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 16 (20.00%) Business Development
3 16 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 15 (18.75%) Information Security
4 15 (18.75%) Line Management
4 15 (18.75%) LLM
5 14 (17.50%) Agile
6 12 (15.00%) Analytics
7 11 (13.75%) Data Loss Prevention
7 11 (13.75%) Design Patterns
7 11 (13.75%) Human-in-the-Loop
7 11 (13.75%) Identity Access Management
7 11 (13.75%) Threat Modelling
8 10 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (11.25%) Business Strategy
10 8 (10.00%) Financial Analysis
10 8 (10.00%) Mentoring
10 8 (10.00%) Roadmaps
10 8 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (8.75%) Python
2 3 (3.75%) Java
3 2 (2.50%) SQL
4 1 (1.25%) C
4 1 (1.25%) C++
4 1 (1.25%) Embedded C
4 1 (1.25%) Embedded C++
4 1 (1.25%) Scala
4 1 (1.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (6.25%) Degree
2 4 (5.00%) ACCA
2 4 (5.00%) CIMA
2 4 (5.00%) CISM
2 4 (5.00%) CISSP
2 4 (5.00%) CRISC
2 4 (5.00%) ICAEW
3 2 (2.50%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.50%) MBA
4 1 (1.25%) CSPO
4 1 (1.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.25%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.25%) PMP
4 1 (1.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.75%) GDPR
2 4 (5.00%) COBIT
2 4 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.00%) NIST
3 2 (2.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (1.25%) Docker
Vendors
1 7 (8.75%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.25%) Google
3 4 (5.00%) Databricks
3 4 (5.00%) Foundry
4 3 (3.75%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.25%) Infor
5 1 (1.25%) Oracle
5 1 (1.25%) SAP