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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 93 90
Rank change year-on-year +59 -3 +21
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 704 140 199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.49% 3.06% 3.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.37% 3.25% 3.71%
Number of salaries quoted 108 82 79
10th Percentile £35,700 £32,666 £41,200
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,829 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,772 £60,024 £49,861
Median % change year-on-year -22.08% +20.38% -0.28%
75th Percentile £62,342 £80,627 £65,000
90th Percentile £93,712 £98,375 £78,000
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 6,192 4,310 5,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.23% 94.31% 91.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,403 2,153 2,812
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,297 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,250 £42,000 £40,606
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +12.24%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,275
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 18 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 18 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 +55 617 £42,500 -26.28% 14
Edinburgh +4 49 £65,000 +6.08% 14
Dundee - 9 £45,000 - 2
Fife - 7 £43,200 -
Renfrewshire - 6 £36,678 - 2
Aberdeen -10 3 £45,000 - 3
Perthshire - 3 £30,000 - 1
Aberdeenshire +8 2 £45,000 +87.50% 2
South Lanarkshire +2 2 £105,000 -
Clackmannanshire - 2 £51,500 -
West Lothian -5 1 £27,500 -47.62%
North Lanarkshire - 1 £37,500 -
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 (21.73%) Apache Spark
2 81 (11.51%) Apache
3 63 (8.95%) FileNet
4 25 (3.55%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (2.84%) Camunda
6 17 (2.41%) Cloud Foundry
7 11 (1.56%) CICS
8 4 (0.57%) Confluence
9 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.43%) SAS
9 3 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.85%) 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
1 296 (42.05%) AWS
2 75 (10.65%) Azure
3 63 (8.95%) Amazon S3
4 48 (6.82%) GitHub
5 39 (5.54%) GCP
6 32 (4.55%) Power Platform
7 18 (2.56%) BlazeMeter
8 16 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (0.99%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (0.85%) Entra ID
12 4 (0.57%) IaaS
13 3 (0.43%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (0.43%) SaaS
14 2 (0.28%) Fivetran
14 2 (0.28%) Vertex AI
14 2 (0.28%) Yammer
15 1 (0.14%) Azure Data Factory
15 1 (0.14%) Cloud Computing
15 1 (0.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.56%) DSL
2 17 (2.41%) 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 (16.19%) NoSQL
2 97 (13.78%) Big Data
3 82 (11.65%) Hadoop
4 75 (10.65%) Elasticsearch
5 63 (8.95%) Apache Cassandra
6 32 (4.55%) Apache Hive
6 32 (4.55%) Power BI
7 30 (4.26%) Tableau
8 29 (4.12%) DB2
9 28 (3.98%) MongoDB
10 22 (3.13%) Data Lake
11 17 (2.41%) Amazon Aurora
11 17 (2.41%) CockroachDB
12 16 (2.27%) HBase
12 16 (2.27%) Impala
13 14 (1.99%) Relational Database
14 10 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (1.42%) Flink
15 4 (0.57%) RDBMS
16 2 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 87 (12.36%) JUnit
2 71 (10.09%) Jenkins
3 62 (8.81%) Jasmine
4 45 (6.39%) Mockito
5 30 (4.26%) 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 (2.41%) Cypress.io
9 17 (2.41%) Karma Test Runner
9 17 (2.41%) Protractor
9 17 (2.41%) WebDriver
10 15 (2.13%) LabVIEW
11 13 (1.85%) JIRA
12 11 (1.56%) ChangeMan
13 9 (1.28%) Git
14 2 (0.28%) GitLab
14 2 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 582 (82.67%) Finance
2 568 (80.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 553 (78.55%) Law
4 341 (48.44%) Marketing
5 168 (23.86%) Legal
6 111 (15.77%) Banking
7 89 (12.64%) Social Skills
8 67 (9.52%) Investment Banking
9 64 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
10 32 (4.55%) Financial Institution
11 29 (4.12%) Presentation Skills
12 28 (3.98%) Private Banking
13 23 (3.27%) Manufacturing
14 16 (2.27%) Retail
15 15 (2.13%) Electronics
16 7 (0.99%) Games
16 7 (0.99%) Public Sector
16 7 (0.99%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 431 (61.22%) Software Engineer
2 217 (30.82%) Java Engineer
2 217 (30.82%) Java Software Engineer
3 129 (18.32%) Senior
4 123 (17.47%) Full Stack Engineer
4 123 (17.47%) Full Stack Software Engineer
5 121 (17.19%) Lead
6 104 (14.77%) Lead Software Engineer
7 101 (14.35%) Senior Software Engineer
8 78 (11.08%) Software Engineering Director
9 69 (9.80%) Big Data Engineer
9 69 (9.80%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 54 (7.67%) Python Engineer
10 54 (7.67%) Python Software Engineer
11 50 (7.10%) AWS Engineer
11 50 (7.10%) AWS Software Engineer
11 50 (7.10%) Scala Engineer
11 50 (7.10%) Scala Software Engineer
12 47 (6.68%) Data Engineer
13 41 (5.82%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (29.26%) Spring
2 166 (23.58%) React
3 144 (20.45%) AngularJS
4 116 (16.48%) Kafka
5 93 (13.21%) Spring Boot
6 92 (13.07%) GraphQL
7 90 (12.78%) J2EE
8 80 (11.36%) Hibernate
9 63 (8.95%) Spring Integration
10 52 (7.39%) HTML
11 51 (7.24%) CSS
12 49 (6.96%) REST
13 43 (6.11%) PySpark
14 37 (5.26%) Node.js
15 36 (5.11%) RESTful
16 35 (4.97%) JMS
16 35 (4.97%) jQuery
16 35 (4.97%) JSON
16 35 (4.97%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 29 (4.12%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 243 (34.52%) Cloud Native
2 112 (15.91%) Public Cloud
3 81 (11.51%) Product Ownership
4 46 (6.53%) Credit Risk
5 39 (5.54%) Management Information System
6 23 (3.27%) Data Structures
7 21 (2.98%) 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 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (0.71%) Data Centre
13 5 (0.71%) Video\Live Streaming
14 3 (0.43%) Driving Licence
14 3 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
15 2 (0.28%) Cyber Threat
15 2 (0.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.27%) Unix
2 8 (1.14%) Windows
3 6 (0.85%) Linux
4 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 561 (79.69%) Software Engineering
2 520 (73.86%) Agile
3 462 (65.63%) SDLC
4 449 (63.78%) Operational Stability
5 403 (57.24%) CI/CD
6 373 (52.98%) Machine Learning
7 355 (50.43%) Artificial Intelligence
8 216 (30.68%) Problem-Solving
9 198 (28.13%) Risk Management
10 147 (20.88%) Microservices
11 144 (20.45%) Computer Science
12 131 (18.61%) Full Stack Development
13 108 (15.34%) Tech Ops
14 75 (10.65%) Analytics
15 72 (10.23%) ETL
16 68 (9.66%) Mathematics
17 64 (9.09%) Asset Management
18 63 (8.95%) AOP
18 63 (8.95%) Document Management
19 62 (8.81%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 459 (65.20%) Java
2 237 (33.66%) Python
3 233 (33.10%) SQL
4 87 (12.36%) Scala
5 53 (7.53%) TypeScript
6 43 (6.11%) JavaScript
7 31 (4.40%) C#
8 20 (2.84%) C++
8 20 (2.84%) Ruby
9 19 (2.70%) PL/SQL
10 15 (2.13%) C
11 11 (1.56%) COBOL
11 11 (1.56%) JCL
12 6 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.71%) Bash
13 5 (0.71%) R
14 2 (0.28%) PHP
14 2 (0.28%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.14%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.14%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 94 (13.35%) 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 (0.99%) CISM
5 7 (0.99%) 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 (8.81%) SLA
2 38 (5.40%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.56%) Accessibility
4 7 (0.99%) 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 (2.27%) HDFS
2 11 (1.56%) Time Sharing Option
3 8 (1.14%) Docker
4 2 (0.28%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 118 (16.76%) Kubernetes
2 33 (4.69%) Terraform
3 7 (0.99%) Grafana
3 7 (0.99%) Graphite
4 3 (0.43%) Ansible
5 2 (0.28%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 111 (15.77%) Oracle
2 81 (11.51%) Databricks
3 41 (5.82%) Microsoft
4 21 (2.98%) Google
5 20 (2.84%) Pega
6 18 (2.56%) Alteryx
6 18 (2.56%) Cognos
6 18 (2.56%) Sybase
7 16 (2.27%) Cloudera
8 7 (0.99%) Splunk
9 4 (0.57%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.43%) SAP
10 3 (0.43%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.28%) Apple
11 2 (0.28%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.14%) CA
12 1 (0.14%) Cisco
12 1 (0.14%) Informatica
12 1 (0.14%) Meraki
12 1 (0.14%) VMware