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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 35 100
Rank change year-on-year +14 +65 -16
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 303 701 134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.18% 10.29% 2.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.99% 11.26% 3.15%
Number of salaries quoted 126 106 76
10th Percentile - £35,700 £32,924
25th Percentile - £41,250 £39,829
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £49,000 £60,024
Median % change year-on-year +5.40% -18.37% +20.38%
75th Percentile - £62,342 £80,627
90th Percentile £60,625 £94,519 £101,956
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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 2,758 6,226 4,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.64% 91.40% 94.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,306 2,433 2,111
10th Percentile £30,650 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 28 May 2025.

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 May 2025. 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
Edinburgh +35 88 £60,000 -7.69% 52
Renfrewshire +3 59 £51,645 +40.81% 46
Inverclyde - 36 £51,645 -
Glasgow 0 32 £51,645 +21.52% 69
East Ayrshire - 18 £60,000 -
Fife -1 15 £60,000 +38.89%
South Ayrshire -18 15 £60,000 -
Moray - 15 £60,000 -
North Lanarkshire +3 8 - - 2
South Lanarkshire 0 4 - - 1
Aberdeen +30 2 £45,000 - 10
North Ayrshire - 2 - -
Lanarkshire - 2 - - 6
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
Stirling - 2 - - 1
Ayrshire - 2 - - 2
Dumfries and Galloway - 1 £31,000 -
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 3 (0.99%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.33%) CMS
2 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 98 (32.34%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (0.33%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 8 (2.64%) Infor LN
1 8 (2.64%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (7.92%) AWS
2 12 (3.96%) Power Platform
3 9 (2.97%) Snowflake
4 6 (1.98%) Azure
5 4 (1.32%) Amazon SageMaker
5 4 (1.32%) SaaS
6 3 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (0.99%) GitHub
7 2 (0.66%) Amazon S3
7 2 (0.66%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (0.66%) Collibra
7 2 (0.66%) dbt
7 2 (0.66%) GCP
7 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (0.66%) Serverless
8 1 (0.33%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.33%) BlazeMeter
8 1 (0.33%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.66%) FTP
2 1 (0.33%) Intranet
2 1 (0.33%) Network Security
2 1 (0.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.26%) Tableau
2 11 (3.63%) Power BI
3 5 (1.65%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.32%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.99%) Amazon QuickSight
5 3 (0.99%) Apache Hive
5 3 (0.99%) Big Data
5 3 (0.99%) DB2
5 3 (0.99%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.66%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.66%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.66%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.66%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.66%) HBase
6 2 (0.66%) Looker
7 1 (0.33%) MySQL
7 1 (0.33%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (2.64%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (0.99%) Git
3 2 (0.66%) ERwin
3 2 (0.66%) Gradle
3 2 (0.66%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.66%) JIRA
3 2 (0.66%) JUnit
3 2 (0.66%) Maven
4 1 (0.33%) GitLab
General
1 156 (51.49%) Social Skills
2 102 (33.66%) Presentation Skills
3 85 (28.05%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (20.13%) Finance
5 53 (17.49%) Electronics
6 25 (8.25%) Banking
7 21 (6.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (5.28%) Law
9 13 (4.29%) Marketing
10 8 (2.64%) Legal
10 8 (2.64%) Police
11 5 (1.65%) Retail
12 4 (1.32%) Publishing
13 3 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.99%) Private Banking
14 2 (0.66%) Automotive
14 2 (0.66%) Brand Awareness
14 2 (0.66%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.66%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 129 (42.57%) Senior
2 37 (12.21%) Principal Engineer
2 37 (12.21%) Software Assurance Engineer
3 32 (10.56%) Innovation Manager
4 23 (7.59%) Lead
5 16 (5.28%) Senior Electrical Engineer
5 16 (5.28%) Software Engineer
6 14 (4.62%) Analyst
7 10 (3.30%) Team Leader
8 9 (2.97%) Data Manager
9 8 (2.64%) Accountant
9 8 (2.64%) Java Engineer
9 8 (2.64%) Java Software Engineer
9 8 (2.64%) Project Accountant
9 8 (2.64%) Risk Manager
9 8 (2.64%) Senior Accountant
10 7 (2.31%) Developer
10 7 (2.31%) Governance Analyst
10 7 (2.31%) Risk Analyst
11 6 (1.98%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.64%) Spring
2 6 (1.98%) React
2 6 (1.98%) RESTful
3 5 (1.65%) Spring Boot
4 4 (1.32%) Kafka
5 3 (0.99%) AngularJS
5 3 (0.99%) REST
6 2 (0.66%) FastAPI
6 2 (0.66%) JPA
7 1 (0.33%) .NET
7 1 (0.33%) CSS
7 1 (0.33%) OpenCV
7 1 (0.33%) OpenVINO
7 1 (0.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 109 (35.97%) Management Information System
2 5 (1.65%) Algorithms
2 5 (1.65%) Cloud Native
3 3 (0.99%) Social Media
4 2 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (0.66%) AS400
4 2 (0.66%) Credit Risk
4 2 (0.66%) FMCG
4 2 (0.66%) iSeries
4 2 (0.66%) Learning Management System
4 2 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (0.66%) Mobile App
4 2 (0.66%) Mobile Banking
4 2 (0.66%) Operational Technology
4 2 (0.66%) Public Cloud
4 2 (0.66%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.33%) Derivative
5 1 (0.33%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (0.33%) Replication
5 1 (0.33%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.32%) Linux
2 3 (0.99%) Unix
3 2 (0.66%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (44.22%) Risk Management
2 100 (33.00%) Risk Assessment
3 75 (24.75%) Artificial Intelligence
4 67 (22.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 62 (20.46%) Analytics
6 56 (18.48%) Software Engineering
7 54 (17.82%) Problem-Solving
8 53 (17.49%) Stakeholder Management
9 39 (12.87%) Customer Experience
10 37 (12.21%) Software Assurance
10 37 (12.21%) Systems Engineering
11 35 (11.55%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 33 (10.89%) Agile
13 23 (7.59%) Business Intelligence
14 21 (6.93%) Machine Learning
15 20 (6.60%) Coaching
16 18 (5.94%) Visualisation
17 16 (5.28%) CI/CD
18 15 (4.95%) Operational Stability
18 15 (4.95%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 22 (7.26%) Python
2 21 (6.93%) SQL
3 11 (3.63%) Java
4 3 (0.99%) JavaScript
4 3 (0.99%) PL/SQL
5 2 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.66%) RPG
5 2 (0.66%) RPG IV
5 2 (0.66%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.33%) Bash
6 1 (0.33%) C++
6 1 (0.33%) R
6 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 160 (52.81%) BPSS Clearance
2 125 (41.25%) Degree
3 33 (10.89%) Chartered Engineer
4 19 (6.27%) Master's Degree
5 12 (3.96%) CRISC
6 8 (2.64%) ACCA
6 8 (2.64%) CIMA
7 4 (1.32%) Security Cleared
8 3 (0.99%) PhD
9 2 (0.66%) CBAP
9 2 (0.66%) CISSP
9 2 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.66%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.33%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.33%) CISA
10 1 (0.33%) CISM
10 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.96%) COBIT
2 11 (3.63%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.97%) IFRS
4 8 (2.64%) GAAP
5 7 (2.31%) ITGC
6 6 (1.98%) NIST
7 5 (1.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.66%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.66%) GDPR
9 2 (0.66%) QA
10 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.33%) NCSC
10 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (0.66%) HDFS
2 1 (0.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.99%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.66%) Grafana
2 2 (0.66%) Terraform
3 1 (0.33%) Netcool
3 1 (0.33%) Netcool/OMNIbus
3 1 (0.33%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 15 (4.95%) Oracle
2 9 (2.97%) SAP
3 8 (2.64%) Cognos
3 8 (2.64%) Infor
4 6 (1.98%) Microsoft
5 4 (1.32%) IBM
6 3 (0.99%) Databricks
7 2 (0.66%) Cloudera
7 2 (0.66%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.66%) HubSpot
7 2 (0.66%) Informatica
7 2 (0.66%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.66%) Splunk
8 1 (0.33%) Planview
8 1 (0.33%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.33%) StreamSets
8 1 (0.33%) Sybase