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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 45 35
Rank change year-on-year -5 -10 +44
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 79 153 211
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.68% 5.68% 6.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.23% 6.14% 6.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 118 169
10th Percentile £130 £363 £338
25th Percentile £288 £463 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £558 £556 £544
90th Percentile £652 £596 £600
UK median daily rate £514 £550 £544
% change year-on-year -6.55% +1.06% +9.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 9
10th Percentile - £59.18 £25.28
25th Percentile - £59.41 £25.50
Median hourly rate £21.64 £59.79 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -63.81% +25.87% -
75th Percentile - £60.17 £55.75
90th Percentile - £60.40 £56.42
UK median hourly rate £19.38 £43.43 £45.00
% change year-on-year -55.39% -3.49% +58.26%

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 1,869 2,492 3,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 87.17% 92.43% 93.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,156 1,739 2,252
10th Percentile £219 £250 £250
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £566 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 54 51
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.24 £11.25 £17.61
Median hourly rate £19.50 £14.50 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +34.48% -61.26% -6.43%
75th Percentile £40.94 £35.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £66.09 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

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

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 June 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 2 June 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 +17 40 £400 -15.43% 27
Edinburgh -5 33 £444 -11.20% 20
South Lanarkshire -5 3 £550 +9.34%
Fife +1 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 (5.06%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (10.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (5.06%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.27%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 15 (18.99%) AWS
2 10 (12.66%) Power Platform
3 6 (7.59%) Snowflake
4 3 (3.80%) Azure
4 3 (3.80%) npm
5 2 (2.53%) Adverity
5 2 (2.53%) GCP
5 2 (2.53%) Google Data Studio
5 2 (2.53%) Google Sheets
5 2 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.53%) Sprout Social
6 1 (1.27%) OCI
6 1 (1.27%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.80%) Firewall
2 2 (2.53%) FabricPath
2 2 (2.53%) LAN
2 2 (2.53%) NX-OS
2 2 (2.53%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (2.53%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.53%) VPN
2 2 (2.53%) VSAN
3 1 (1.27%) NAS
3 1 (1.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.39%) Power BI
2 8 (10.13%) Tableau
3 5 (6.33%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (3.80%) Big Data
5 2 (2.53%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.53%) MariaDB
5 2 (2.53%) MySQL
6 1 (1.27%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.27%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (5.06%) JIRA
2 3 (3.80%) Cypress.io
3 2 (2.53%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.53%) Selenium
4 1 (1.27%) Git
4 1 (1.27%) Jenkins
General
1 26 (32.91%) Social Skills
2 23 (29.11%) Finance
2 23 (29.11%) Public Sector
3 19 (24.05%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (16.46%) Organisational Skills
5 12 (15.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (12.66%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (8.86%) Banking
8 6 (7.59%) Legal
9 2 (2.53%) Billing
9 2 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.53%) Marketing
10 1 (1.27%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.27%) Tech for Good
10 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (32.91%) Lead
2 17 (21.52%) Analyst
3 8 (10.13%) Data Analyst
3 8 (10.13%) Full Stack Engineer
4 6 (7.59%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (7.59%) Java Engineer
4 6 (7.59%) Lead Data Analyst
4 6 (7.59%) Senior
5 4 (5.06%) Cisco Consultant
5 4 (5.06%) Consultant
5 4 (5.06%) Desktop Engineer
5 4 (5.06%) Desktop Support
5 4 (5.06%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 4 (5.06%) Developer
5 4 (5.06%) Java Developer
5 4 (5.06%) PMO Analyst
5 4 (5.06%) Support Engineer
5 4 (5.06%) VMware Consultant
5 4 (5.06%) Windows Engineer
5 4 (5.06%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (15.19%) AngularJS
1 12 (15.19%) Spring
2 10 (12.66%) REST
3 9 (11.39%) CSS
3 9 (11.39%) HTML
3 9 (11.39%) JPA
3 9 (11.39%) Spring Boot
4 3 (3.80%) React
5 2 (2.53%) Regular Expression
6 1 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (1.27%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.39%) Management Information System
1 9 (11.39%) Public Cloud
2 6 (7.59%) Credit Risk
3 4 (5.06%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.06%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.80%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.80%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.53%) Equities
5 2 (2.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.53%) iPhone
5 2 (2.53%) Social Media
5 2 (2.53%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (2.53%) VxBlock/Vblock
6 1 (1.27%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.27%) Clustering
6 1 (1.27%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.66%) Windows
2 3 (3.80%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.53%) Linux
3 2 (2.53%) Mac OS X
3 2 (2.53%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (35.44%) Agile
2 17 (21.52%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (18.99%) SDLC
4 14 (17.72%) Analytics
4 14 (17.72%) CI/CD
5 13 (16.46%) Risk Management
6 12 (15.19%) Artificial Intelligence
6 12 (15.19%) Full Stack Development
6 12 (15.19%) Machine Learning
6 12 (15.19%) Operational Stability
6 12 (15.19%) Software Engineering
7 11 (13.92%) Actionable Insight
7 11 (13.92%) Project Management
8 10 (12.66%) Time Management
9 9 (11.39%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (11.39%) Cybersecurity
9 9 (11.39%) Information Security
10 8 (10.13%) Microservices
10 8 (10.13%) Project Governance
11 7 (8.86%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 17 (21.52%) SQL
2 14 (17.72%) Java
3 9 (11.39%) TypeScript
4 4 (5.06%) Python
5 2 (2.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.53%) Perl
6 1 (1.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (21.52%) Degree
2 6 (7.59%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.33%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.80%) CGEIT
4 3 (3.80%) CISA
4 3 (3.80%) CISM
4 3 (3.80%) CISSP
4 3 (3.80%) CRISC
4 3 (3.80%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 2 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.53%) ISEB
5 2 (2.53%) ISEB Practitioner
5 2 (2.53%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.27%) ACCA
6 1 (1.27%) CIMA
6 1 (1.27%) CIPD
6 1 (1.27%) CIPFA
6 1 (1.27%) IIBA
6 1 (1.27%) MCSE
6 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.66%) PMO
2 9 (11.39%) Disclosure Scotland
3 6 (7.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.80%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (3.80%) NIST
4 3 (3.80%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.53%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.53%) GDPR
5 2 (2.53%) HIPAA
5 2 (2.53%) SLA
6 1 (1.27%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.27%) QA
System Software
1 6 (7.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.06%) VMware NSX
2 4 (5.06%) vSphere
3 1 (1.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.27%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (2.53%) HP Quality Center
1 2 (2.53%) vCenter Server
1 2 (2.53%) VxRail
2 1 (1.27%) Ansible
2 1 (1.27%) Grafana
2 1 (1.27%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.27%) NetBackup
2 1 (1.27%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.27%) SCCM
2 1 (1.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (13.92%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.59%) Alteryx
2 6 (7.59%) VMware
3 5 (6.33%) Oracle
4 4 (5.06%) Cisco
4 4 (5.06%) Dell
5 3 (3.80%) Google
6 2 (2.53%) Apple
6 2 (2.53%) Brandwatch
6 2 (2.53%) Cadence
6 2 (2.53%) Facebook
6 2 (2.53%) Hootsuite
6 2 (2.53%) HP
6 2 (2.53%) Instagram
6 2 (2.53%) Samsung
6 2 (2.53%) SAP
6 2 (2.53%) Twitter
6 2 (2.53%) Workday
6 2 (2.53%) YouTube
7 1 (1.27%) Databricks