Decision-Making Contracts in Scotland

Decision-Making
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Decision-Making skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Decision-Making over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 40 37
Rank change year-on-year -13 -3 +30
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 75 166 207
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.48% 6.01% 6.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.93% 6.49% 6.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 130 166
10th Percentile £155 £363 £338
25th Percentile £297 £463 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £506 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.03% +1.20% +17.65%
75th Percentile £556 £570 £543
90th Percentile £646 £626 £600
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £540
% change year-on-year -2.33% -0.46% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 8
10th Percentile - £59.18 £25.28
25th Percentile - £59.41 £25.44
Median hourly rate £21.64 £59.79 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -63.81% +25.87% +66.67%
75th Percentile - £60.17 £55.77
90th Percentile - £60.40 £56.71
UK median hourly rate £19.38 £46.25 £44.96
% change year-on-year -58.11% +2.87% +52.08%

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 contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,907 2,556 3,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.41% 92.51% 93.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,157 1,817 2,272
10th Percentile £225 £260 £250
25th Percentile £375 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £550
90th Percentile £652 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 55 51
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.78 £18.90
Median hourly rate £19.50 £16.50 £39.99
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -58.74% -2.46%
75th Percentile £48.00 £50.74 £49.76
90th Percentile £61.10 £67.13 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in Scotland over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in Scotland

Decision-Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Decision-Making within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +16 38 £400 -15.43% 16
Edinburgh -7 31 £438 -15.68% 16
South Lanarkshire -9 3 £550 +9.34%
Fife 0 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 4 (5.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (9.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.33%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 15 (20.00%) AWS
2 8 (10.67%) Power Platform
3 6 (8.00%) Snowflake
4 3 (4.00%) npm
5 2 (2.67%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.33%) Azure
6 1 (1.33%) GCP
6 1 (1.33%) Google Data Studio
6 1 (1.33%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.67%) FabricPath
1 2 (2.67%) Firewall
1 2 (2.67%) LAN
1 2 (2.67%) NAS
1 2 (2.67%) NX-OS
1 2 (2.67%) Remote Desktop
1 2 (2.67%) SAN
1 2 (2.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (2.67%) VPN
1 2 (2.67%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.67%) Power BI
2 7 (9.33%) Tableau
3 4 (5.33%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (4.00%) Big Data
5 2 (2.67%) MariaDB
5 2 (2.67%) MySQL
6 1 (1.33%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.33%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.33%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (5.33%) JIRA
2 3 (4.00%) Cypress.io
3 2 (2.67%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.67%) Git
3 2 (2.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.67%) Selenium
General
1 24 (32.00%) Finance
2 21 (28.00%) Social Skills
3 19 (25.33%) Public Sector
4 18 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (16.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (16.00%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (10.67%) Banking
8 6 (8.00%) Legal
9 4 (5.33%) Billing
10 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.33%) Marketing
10 1 (1.33%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.33%) Tech for Good
10 1 (1.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (30.67%) Lead
2 16 (21.33%) Analyst
3 8 (10.67%) Data Analyst
3 8 (10.67%) Full Stack Engineer
4 6 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (8.00%) Java Engineer
4 6 (8.00%) Lead Data Analyst
5 5 (6.67%) Senior
6 4 (5.33%) Architect
6 4 (5.33%) Cisco Consultant
6 4 (5.33%) Consultant
6 4 (5.33%) Developer
6 4 (5.33%) Java Developer
6 4 (5.33%) PMO Analyst
6 4 (5.33%) User Researcher
6 4 (5.33%) VMware Consultant
7 3 (4.00%) Desktop Engineer
7 3 (4.00%) Desktop Support
7 3 (4.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 3 (4.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (16.00%) AngularJS
1 12 (16.00%) Spring
2 11 (14.67%) REST
3 9 (12.00%) CSS
3 9 (12.00%) HTML
3 9 (12.00%) JPA
3 9 (12.00%) Spring Boot
4 3 (4.00%) React
5 1 (1.33%) Regular Expression
5 1 (1.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.67%) Public Cloud
2 9 (12.00%) Management Information System
3 6 (8.00%) Credit Risk
4 4 (5.33%) Data Centre
4 4 (5.33%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (4.00%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.67%) Equities
6 2 (2.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.67%) VxBlock/Vblock
7 1 (1.33%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.33%) Clustering
7 1 (1.33%) iPhone
7 1 (1.33%) Social Media
7 1 (1.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.67%) Windows
2 3 (4.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.67%) Linux
3 2 (2.67%) Mac OS X
3 2 (2.67%) Unix
4 1 (1.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (33.33%) Agile
2 15 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 15 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (20.00%) SDLC
3 13 (17.33%) Analytics
3 13 (17.33%) Risk Management
4 12 (16.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 12 (16.00%) Full Stack Development
4 12 (16.00%) Machine Learning
4 12 (16.00%) Operational Stability
4 12 (16.00%) Software Engineering
5 11 (14.67%) Actionable Insight
6 9 (12.00%) Data Protection
6 9 (12.00%) Time Management
7 8 (10.67%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (10.67%) Information Security
7 8 (10.67%) Microservices
8 7 (9.33%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (9.33%) Impact Assessments
9 6 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 16 (21.33%) SQL
2 14 (18.67%) Java
3 9 (12.00%) TypeScript
4 4 (5.33%) Python
5 3 (4.00%) Perl
6 2 (2.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (21.33%) Degree
2 4 (5.33%) SC Cleared
2 4 (5.33%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.00%) CGEIT
3 3 (4.00%) CISA
3 3 (4.00%) CISM
3 3 (4.00%) CISSP
3 3 (4.00%) CRISC
3 3 (4.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 2 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.67%) ISEB
4 2 (2.67%) ISEB Practitioner
4 2 (2.67%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.33%) APMG
5 1 (1.33%) IIBA
5 1 (1.33%) MCSE
5 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.33%) PMO
2 7 (9.33%) Disclosure Scotland
3 6 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (5.33%) SLA
5 3 (4.00%) Accessibility
5 3 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (4.00%) NIST
5 3 (4.00%) PCI DSS
6 2 (2.67%) GDPR
6 2 (2.67%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.33%) Data Quality
7 1 (1.33%) QA
System Software
1 6 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.33%) VMware NSX
2 4 (5.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (2.67%) Ansible
1 2 (2.67%) Grafana
1 2 (2.67%) HP Quality Center
1 2 (2.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.67%) NetBackup
1 2 (2.67%) Prometheus
1 2 (2.67%) Terraform
1 2 (2.67%) vCenter Server
1 2 (2.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 11 (14.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.00%) Alteryx
2 6 (8.00%) VMware
3 4 (5.33%) Cisco
3 4 (5.33%) Dell
3 4 (5.33%) Oracle
4 2 (2.67%) Apple
4 2 (2.67%) Cadence
4 2 (2.67%) Google
4 2 (2.67%) SAP
4 2 (2.67%) Veritas
4 2 (2.67%) Workday
5 1 (1.33%) Brandwatch
5 1 (1.33%) Databricks
5 1 (1.33%) Facebook
5 1 (1.33%) Hootsuite
5 1 (1.33%) HP
5 1 (1.33%) Instagram
5 1 (1.33%) Samsung
5 1 (1.33%) Twitter