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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 102 69
Rank change year-on-year +65 -33 +44
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 632 128 272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.18% 2.97% 4.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.22% 3.14% 4.75%
Number of salaries quoted 105 72 84
10th Percentile £35,700 £31,840 £41,075
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,829 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £59,166 £49,861
Median % change year-on-year -18.87% +18.66% -0.28%
75th Percentile £62,342 £73,644 £65,819
90th Percentile £86,500 £83,625 £75,875
UK median annual salary £54,995 £59,999 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.34% 0.00% +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 6,184 4,076 5,728
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 89.82% 94.61% 91.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,548 2,038 2,896
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,569 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,313 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 9 June 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 9 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +53 548 £42,500 -26.28% 20
Edinburgh -1 44 £65,000 +8.29% 18
Dundee - 10 £45,000 - 1
Fife -4 7 £43,200 - 1
Renfrewshire - 6 £36,678 -
Perthshire - 3 £30,000 - 1
Aberdeenshire +5 2 £45,000 +87.50% 1
Aberdeen -9 2 £45,000 - 4
Clackmannanshire - 2 £51,500 -
South Lanarkshire +2 1 £105,000 -
West Lothian -3 1 £27,500 -47.62% 1
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
1 124 (19.62%) Apache Spark
2 65 (10.28%) Apache
3 63 (9.97%) FileNet
4 19 (3.01%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (2.69%) Cloud Foundry
6 14 (2.22%) Camunda
7 11 (1.74%) CICS
8 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.32%) Confluence
10 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.32%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.16%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 11 (1.74%) Primavera
2 4 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 246 (38.92%) AWS
2 69 (10.92%) Azure
3 63 (9.97%) Amazon S3
4 48 (7.59%) GitHub
5 33 (5.22%) GCP
6 30 (4.75%) Power Platform
7 18 (2.85%) BlazeMeter
8 13 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (1.58%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (0.95%) Entra ID
12 4 (0.63%) IaaS
13 3 (0.47%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (0.47%) GitHub Actions
14 2 (0.32%) Azure DevOps
14 2 (0.32%) Fivetran
14 2 (0.32%) SaaS
15 1 (0.16%) Cloud Computing
15 1 (0.16%) Smartsheet
15 1 (0.16%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.69%) Kerberos
2 13 (2.06%) DSL
3 1 (0.16%) Firewall
3 1 (0.16%) MPLS
3 1 (0.16%) SDH
3 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.16%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (17.09%) NoSQL
2 78 (12.34%) Big Data
3 74 (11.71%) Elasticsearch
4 68 (10.76%) Hadoop
5 63 (9.97%) Apache Cassandra
6 30 (4.75%) Power BI
7 25 (3.96%) Tableau
8 24 (3.80%) Apache Hive
8 24 (3.80%) DB2
9 22 (3.48%) MongoDB
10 17 (2.69%) Amazon Aurora
10 17 (2.69%) CockroachDB
10 17 (2.69%) Data Lake
11 14 (2.22%) Impala
12 13 (2.06%) Relational Database
13 12 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (1.58%) HBase
15 6 (0.95%) Flink
16 4 (0.63%) RDBMS
17 2 (0.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 87 (13.77%) JUnit
2 65 (10.28%) Jenkins
3 62 (9.81%) Jasmine
4 45 (7.12%) Mockito
5 24 (3.80%) Maven
6 19 (3.01%) JMeter
7 18 (2.85%) Selenium
8 17 (2.69%) Cypress.io
8 17 (2.69%) Karma Test Runner
8 17 (2.69%) Protractor
8 17 (2.69%) WebDriver
9 15 (2.37%) LabVIEW
10 14 (2.22%) CircleCI
10 14 (2.22%) Gradle
10 14 (2.22%) Travis CI
11 11 (1.74%) ChangeMan
12 9 (1.42%) Git
13 6 (0.95%) JIRA
14 2 (0.32%) GitLab
14 2 (0.32%) Spinnaker
General
1 504 (79.75%) Finance
2 497 (78.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 483 (76.42%) Law
4 297 (46.99%) Marketing
5 147 (23.26%) Legal
6 89 (14.08%) Banking
7 88 (13.92%) Social Skills
8 56 (8.86%) Investment Banking
9 53 (8.39%) Analytical Skills
10 23 (3.64%) Manufacturing
11 22 (3.48%) Private Banking
12 20 (3.16%) Financial Institution
13 18 (2.85%) Presentation Skills
14 15 (2.37%) Electronics
15 14 (2.22%) Retail
16 7 (1.11%) Games
16 7 (1.11%) Public Sector
16 7 (1.11%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
18 4 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 381 (60.28%) Software Engineer
2 189 (29.91%) Java Engineer
2 189 (29.91%) Java Software Engineer
3 121 (19.15%) Senior
4 110 (17.41%) Lead
5 108 (17.09%) Full Stack Engineer
5 108 (17.09%) Full Stack Software Engineer
6 93 (14.72%) Lead Software Engineer
7 90 (14.24%) Senior Software Engineer
8 63 (9.97%) Software Engineering Director
9 58 (9.18%) Big Data Engineer
9 58 (9.18%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 46 (7.28%) Python Engineer
10 46 (7.28%) Python Software Engineer
11 44 (6.96%) AWS Engineer
11 44 (6.96%) AWS Software Engineer
11 44 (6.96%) Scala Engineer
11 44 (6.96%) Scala Software Engineer
12 42 (6.65%) Architect
13 39 (6.17%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (28.01%) Spring
2 150 (23.73%) React
3 128 (20.25%) AngularJS
4 111 (17.56%) Kafka
5 90 (14.24%) GraphQL
6 89 (14.08%) J2EE
7 80 (12.66%) Hibernate
8 69 (10.92%) Spring Boot
9 63 (9.97%) Spring Integration
10 46 (7.28%) HTML
11 45 (7.12%) CSS
12 38 (6.01%) Node.js
13 37 (5.85%) PySpark
13 37 (5.85%) REST
14 35 (5.54%) JMS
14 35 (5.54%) jQuery
14 35 (5.54%) JSON
14 35 (5.54%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 30 (4.75%) RESTful
16 23 (3.64%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 220 (34.81%) Cloud Native
2 88 (13.92%) Public Cloud
3 69 (10.92%) Product Ownership
4 43 (6.80%) Credit Risk
5 34 (5.38%) Management Information System
6 23 (3.64%) Data Structures
7 18 (2.85%) Market Risk
8 15 (2.37%) Taxonomies
9 11 (1.74%) Mainframe
9 11 (1.74%) Reference Data
9 11 (1.74%) VSAM
10 8 (1.27%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.95%) Video\Live Streaming
13 5 (0.79%) Data Centre
14 3 (0.47%) Driving Licence
14 3 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
15 2 (0.32%) Greenfield Project
15 2 (0.32%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.58%) Unix
2 8 (1.27%) Windows
3 6 (0.95%) Linux
4 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 497 (78.64%) Software Engineering
2 455 (71.99%) Agile
3 407 (64.40%) SDLC
4 390 (61.71%) Operational Stability
5 355 (56.17%) CI/CD
6 330 (52.22%) Machine Learning
7 316 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 195 (30.85%) Problem-Solving
9 178 (28.16%) Risk Management
10 139 (21.99%) Computer Science
11 130 (20.57%) Microservices
12 116 (18.35%) Full Stack Development
13 97 (15.35%) Tech Ops
14 67 (10.60%) Mathematics
15 63 (9.97%) AOP
15 63 (9.97%) Document Management
15 63 (9.97%) ETL
16 56 (8.86%) Analytics
17 52 (8.23%) Wealth Management
18 50 (7.91%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 402 (63.61%) Java
2 207 (32.75%) SQL
3 196 (31.01%) Python
4 71 (11.23%) Scala
5 48 (7.59%) TypeScript
6 44 (6.96%) JavaScript
7 31 (4.91%) C#
8 20 (3.16%) C++
9 15 (2.37%) C
10 14 (2.22%) PL/SQL
10 14 (2.22%) Ruby
11 11 (1.74%) COBOL
11 11 (1.74%) JCL
12 6 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.79%) Bash
14 4 (0.63%) R
15 3 (0.47%) PHP
16 2 (0.32%) PowerShell
17 1 (0.16%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 87 (13.77%) Degree
2 32 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
2 32 (5.06%) Master's Degree
3 23 (3.64%) Security Cleared
4 8 (1.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 8 (1.27%) SC Cleared
5 7 (1.11%) CISM
5 7 (1.11%) CISSP
6 6 (0.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (0.79%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (0.47%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.47%) PMP
9 2 (0.32%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.32%) HND
9 2 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.32%) PhD
10 1 (0.16%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.16%) CESG Certified Professional
10 1 (0.16%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (7.75%) SLA
2 33 (5.22%) Data Quality
3 11 (1.74%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.27%) QA
5 7 (1.11%) NIST
6 2 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.32%) GRC
7 1 (0.16%) GDPR
7 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (0.16%) NCSC
7 1 (0.16%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (1.74%) Time Sharing Option
2 10 (1.58%) HDFS
3 8 (1.27%) Docker
4 2 (0.32%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 113 (17.88%) Kubernetes
2 28 (4.43%) Terraform
3 7 (1.11%) Grafana
3 7 (1.11%) Graphite
4 3 (0.47%) Ansible
5 2 (0.32%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 104 (16.46%) Oracle
2 59 (9.34%) Databricks
3 41 (6.49%) Microsoft
4 19 (3.01%) Google
5 14 (2.22%) Pega
6 13 (2.06%) Alteryx
6 13 (2.06%) Cognos
6 13 (2.06%) Sybase
7 10 (1.58%) Cloudera
8 7 (1.11%) Splunk
9 4 (0.63%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.47%) SAP
11 2 (0.32%) Apple
12 1 (0.16%) Cisco
12 1 (0.16%) Informatica
12 1 (0.16%) Meraki
12 1 (0.16%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.16%) VMware