Decision-Making Jobs in Scotland

Decision-Making
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Decision-Making skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Decision-Making over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 97 110
Rank change year-on-year +64 +13 +7
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 703 146 152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.51% 3.15% 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.35% 3.35% 2.89%
Number of salaries quoted 109 86 74
10th Percentile £35,700 £32,028 £40,300
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,829 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,543 £60,024 £49,861
Median % change year-on-year -24.12% +20.38% -0.28%
75th Percentile £62,342 £80,627 £65,000
90th Percentile £93,308 £91,875 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Decision-Making is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,194 4,363 5,255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.63% 94.19% 90.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,405 2,187 2,799
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,392 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,500 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +8.49% +8.16%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 7 May 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 7 May 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 +55 615 £42,500 -27.75% 16
Edinburgh -3 50 £65,000 +8.25% 12
Dundee - 9 £45,000 - 2
Fife - 7 £43,200 - 1
Renfrewshire - 6 £36,678 - 4
Perthshire +6 3 £30,000 - 1
Aberdeen -10 3 £45,000 - 4
Aberdeenshire +8 2 £45,000 +87.50% 3
South Lanarkshire +2 2 £105,000 -
Clackmannanshire - 2 £51,500 -
West Lothian -4 1 £27,500 -47.62%
North Lanarkshire - 1 £37,500 - 1
South Ayrshire - 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
1 153 (21.76%) Apache Spark
2 81 (11.52%) Apache
3 63 (8.96%) FileNet
4 25 (3.56%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (2.84%) Camunda
6 17 (2.42%) Cloud Foundry
7 11 (1.56%) CICS
8 5 (0.71%) Confluence
9 4 (0.57%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.43%) SAS
11 2 (0.28%) Anypoint
Applications
1 18 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.28%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.14%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.14%) EViews
5 1 (0.14%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (1.56%) Primavera
2 4 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 295 (41.96%) AWS
2 74 (10.53%) Azure
3 63 (8.96%) Amazon S3
4 47 (6.69%) GitHub
5 39 (5.55%) GCP
6 33 (4.69%) Power Platform
7 18 (2.56%) BlazeMeter
8 16 (2.28%) Amazon EKS
8 16 (2.28%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (0.85%) Entra ID
11 4 (0.57%) IaaS
12 3 (0.43%) SaaS
12 3 (0.43%) Yammer
13 2 (0.28%) Fivetran
13 2 (0.28%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (0.28%) Vertex AI
14 1 (0.14%) Azure Data Factory
14 1 (0.14%) Smartsheet
14 1 (0.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.56%) DSL
2 17 (2.42%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.14%) Firewall
3 1 (0.14%) MPLS
3 1 (0.14%) SDH
3 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (16.22%) NoSQL
2 97 (13.80%) Big Data
3 82 (11.66%) Hadoop
4 75 (10.67%) Elasticsearch
5 63 (8.96%) Apache Cassandra
6 33 (4.69%) Power BI
7 32 (4.55%) Apache Hive
8 30 (4.27%) Tableau
9 29 (4.13%) DB2
10 28 (3.98%) MongoDB
11 22 (3.13%) Data Lake
12 17 (2.42%) Amazon Aurora
12 17 (2.42%) CockroachDB
13 16 (2.28%) HBase
13 16 (2.28%) Impala
14 14 (1.99%) Relational Database
15 10 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
15 10 (1.42%) Flink
16 4 (0.57%) RDBMS
17 2 (0.28%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 87 (12.38%) JUnit
2 70 (9.96%) Jenkins
3 62 (8.82%) Jasmine
4 45 (6.40%) Mockito
5 30 (4.27%) Maven
6 20 (2.84%) CircleCI
6 20 (2.84%) Gradle
6 20 (2.84%) Travis CI
7 19 (2.70%) JMeter
8 18 (2.56%) Selenium
9 17 (2.42%) Cypress.io
9 17 (2.42%) Karma Test Runner
9 17 (2.42%) Protractor
9 17 (2.42%) WebDriver
10 15 (2.13%) LabVIEW
11 14 (1.99%) JIRA
12 11 (1.56%) ChangeMan
13 9 (1.28%) Git
14 2 (0.28%) GitLab
14 2 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 583 (82.93%) Finance
2 568 (80.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 553 (78.66%) Law
4 341 (48.51%) Marketing
5 168 (23.90%) Legal
6 112 (15.93%) Banking
7 89 (12.66%) Social Skills
8 67 (9.53%) Investment Banking
9 65 (9.25%) Analytical Skills
10 32 (4.55%) Financial Institution
11 29 (4.13%) Presentation Skills
12 28 (3.98%) Private Banking
13 23 (3.27%) Manufacturing
14 16 (2.28%) Retail
15 15 (2.13%) Electronics
16 9 (1.28%) Public Sector
17 7 (1.00%) Games
17 7 (1.00%) Telecoms
18 4 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
18 4 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 431 (61.31%) Software Engineer
2 217 (30.87%) Java Engineer
2 217 (30.87%) Java Software Engineer
3 129 (18.35%) Senior
4 123 (17.50%) Full Stack Engineer
4 123 (17.50%) Full Stack Software Engineer
5 121 (17.21%) Lead
6 104 (14.79%) Lead Software Engineer
7 101 (14.37%) Senior Software Engineer
8 78 (11.10%) Software Engineering Director
9 69 (9.82%) Big Data Engineer
9 69 (9.82%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 54 (7.68%) Python Engineer
10 54 (7.68%) Python Software Engineer
11 50 (7.11%) AWS Engineer
11 50 (7.11%) AWS Software Engineer
11 50 (7.11%) Scala Engineer
11 50 (7.11%) Scala Software Engineer
12 47 (6.69%) Data Engineer
13 42 (5.97%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (29.30%) Spring
2 166 (23.61%) React
3 144 (20.48%) AngularJS
4 116 (16.50%) Kafka
5 93 (13.23%) Spring Boot
6 92 (13.09%) GraphQL
7 90 (12.80%) J2EE
8 80 (11.38%) Hibernate
9 63 (8.96%) Spring Integration
10 52 (7.40%) HTML
11 51 (7.25%) CSS
12 49 (6.97%) REST
13 43 (6.12%) PySpark
14 37 (5.26%) Node.js
15 36 (5.12%) RESTful
16 35 (4.98%) JMS
16 35 (4.98%) jQuery
16 35 (4.98%) JSON
16 35 (4.98%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 29 (4.13%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 242 (34.42%) Cloud Native
2 112 (15.93%) Public Cloud
3 81 (11.52%) Product Ownership
4 46 (6.54%) Credit Risk
5 39 (5.55%) Management Information System
6 23 (3.27%) Data Structures
7 21 (2.99%) Taxonomies
8 18 (2.56%) Market Risk
9 11 (1.56%) Mainframe
9 11 (1.56%) Reference Data
9 11 (1.56%) VSAM
10 10 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.14%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (0.71%) Data Centre
14 3 (0.43%) Driving Licence
14 3 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (0.43%) Video\Live Streaming
15 2 (0.28%) Life Science
15 2 (0.28%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.28%) Unix
2 5 (0.71%) Windows
3 4 (0.57%) Linux
4 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 561 (79.80%) Software Engineering
2 522 (74.25%) Agile
3 462 (65.72%) SDLC
4 449 (63.87%) Operational Stability
5 401 (57.04%) CI/CD
6 371 (52.77%) Machine Learning
7 353 (50.21%) Artificial Intelligence
8 214 (30.44%) Problem-Solving
9 200 (28.45%) Risk Management
10 147 (20.91%) Microservices
11 144 (20.48%) Computer Science
12 131 (18.63%) Full Stack Development
13 108 (15.36%) Tech Ops
14 75 (10.67%) Analytics
15 72 (10.24%) ETL
16 68 (9.67%) Mathematics
17 64 (9.10%) Asset Management
18 63 (8.96%) AOP
18 63 (8.96%) Document Management
19 62 (8.82%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 459 (65.29%) Java
2 235 (33.43%) Python
3 233 (33.14%) SQL
4 87 (12.38%) Scala
5 53 (7.54%) TypeScript
6 43 (6.12%) JavaScript
7 31 (4.41%) C#
8 20 (2.84%) Ruby
9 19 (2.70%) PL/SQL
10 18 (2.56%) C++
11 15 (2.13%) C
12 11 (1.56%) COBOL
12 11 (1.56%) JCL
13 6 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.71%) R
15 3 (0.43%) Bash
16 2 (0.28%) PHP
16 2 (0.28%) PowerShell
17 1 (0.14%) Kotlin
17 1 (0.14%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 94 (13.37%) Degree
2 32 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 32 (4.55%) Master's Degree
3 24 (3.41%) Security Cleared
4 8 (1.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 8 (1.14%) SC Cleared
5 7 (1.00%) CISM
5 7 (1.00%) CISSP
6 6 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (0.71%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.43%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (0.43%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.43%) PMP
9 2 (0.28%) HND
9 2 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.28%) PhD
10 1 (0.14%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.14%) CESG Certified Professional
10 1 (0.14%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (8.82%) SLA
2 38 (5.41%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.56%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.00%) NIST
5 6 (0.85%) QA
6 3 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.28%) GRC
8 1 (0.14%) CRD IV
8 1 (0.14%) GDPR
8 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.14%) NCSC
8 1 (0.14%) PMO
8 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (2.28%) HDFS
2 11 (1.56%) Time Sharing Option
3 5 (0.71%) Docker
4 2 (0.28%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 117 (16.64%) Kubernetes
2 31 (4.41%) Terraform
3 7 (1.00%) Grafana
3 7 (1.00%) Graphite
4 2 (0.28%) Ansible
4 2 (0.28%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 111 (15.79%) Oracle
2 81 (11.52%) Databricks
3 42 (5.97%) Microsoft
4 21 (2.99%) Google
5 20 (2.84%) Pega
6 18 (2.56%) Alteryx
6 18 (2.56%) Cognos
6 18 (2.56%) Sybase
7 16 (2.28%) Cloudera
8 7 (1.00%) Splunk
9 6 (0.85%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.57%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.43%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.43%) SAP
12 2 (0.28%) Apple
12 2 (0.28%) MuleSoft
13 1 (0.14%) CA
13 1 (0.14%) Cisco
13 1 (0.14%) Informatica
13 1 (0.14%) Meraki