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

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 97 75
Rank change year-on-year +60 -22 +39
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 660 130 257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.55% 3.00% 4.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.56% 3.18% 4.56%
Number of salaries quoted 103 72 83
10th Percentile £35,700 £31,840 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,746 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,543 £59,166 £49,861
Median % change year-on-year -23.02% +18.66% -0.28%
75th Percentile £62,342 £73,983 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,487 £83,625 £76,000
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 6,251 4,089 5,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 90.46% 94.43% 91.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,526 2,054 2,888
10th Percentile £28,375 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,813 £41,250
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 £68,750
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 6 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 6 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 +57 578 £42,500 -26.28% 21
Edinburgh +4 44 £65,000 +8.25% 21
Dundee - 10 £45,000 - 1
Fife -2 7 £43,200 - 1
Renfrewshire - 6 £36,678 -
Aberdeen -11 3 £45,000 - 4
Perthshire - 3 £30,000 - 1
Aberdeenshire +4 2 £45,000 +87.50% 1
Clackmannanshire - 2 £51,500 -
South Lanarkshire +2 1 £105,000 -
West Lothian -4 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
1 138 (20.91%) Apache Spark
2 74 (11.21%) Apache
3 63 (9.55%) FileNet
4 22 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (2.58%) Camunda
5 17 (2.58%) Cloud Foundry
6 11 (1.67%) CICS
7 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.30%) Confluence
9 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.15%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 11 (1.67%) Primavera
2 4 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 268 (40.61%) AWS
2 70 (10.61%) Azure
3 63 (9.55%) Amazon S3
4 48 (7.27%) GitHub
5 35 (5.30%) GCP
6 30 (4.55%) Power Platform
7 18 (2.73%) BlazeMeter
8 13 (1.97%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (1.97%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (1.06%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (0.91%) Entra ID
11 4 (0.61%) IaaS
12 3 (0.45%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (0.30%) Fivetran
13 2 (0.30%) SaaS
14 1 (0.15%) Azure Data Factory
14 1 (0.15%) Cloud Computing
14 1 (0.15%) Smartsheet
14 1 (0.15%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.58%) Kerberos
2 15 (2.27%) DSL
3 1 (0.15%) Firewall
3 1 (0.15%) MPLS
3 1 (0.15%) SDH
3 1 (0.15%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.15%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (16.82%) NoSQL
2 85 (12.88%) Big Data
3 74 (11.21%) Elasticsearch
3 74 (11.21%) Hadoop
4 63 (9.55%) Apache Cassandra
5 30 (4.55%) Power BI
6 27 (4.09%) Apache Hive
6 27 (4.09%) Tableau
7 26 (3.94%) DB2
8 24 (3.64%) MongoDB
9 19 (2.88%) Data Lake
10 17 (2.58%) Amazon Aurora
10 17 (2.58%) CockroachDB
11 14 (2.12%) Impala
12 13 (1.97%) HBase
12 13 (1.97%) Relational Database
13 10 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
14 9 (1.36%) Flink
15 4 (0.61%) RDBMS
16 2 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 87 (13.18%) JUnit
2 68 (10.30%) Jenkins
3 62 (9.39%) Jasmine
4 45 (6.82%) Mockito
5 27 (4.09%) Maven
6 19 (2.88%) JMeter
7 18 (2.73%) Selenium
8 17 (2.58%) CircleCI
8 17 (2.58%) Cypress.io
8 17 (2.58%) Gradle
8 17 (2.58%) Karma Test Runner
8 17 (2.58%) Protractor
8 17 (2.58%) Travis CI
8 17 (2.58%) WebDriver
9 15 (2.27%) LabVIEW
10 11 (1.67%) ChangeMan
11 9 (1.36%) Git
12 8 (1.21%) JIRA
13 2 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (0.30%) Spinnaker
General
1 535 (81.06%) Finance
2 527 (79.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 513 (77.73%) Law
4 315 (47.73%) Marketing
5 157 (23.79%) Legal
6 97 (14.70%) Banking
7 89 (13.48%) Social Skills
8 61 (9.24%) Investment Banking
9 56 (8.48%) Analytical Skills
10 25 (3.79%) Financial Institution
10 25 (3.79%) Private Banking
11 23 (3.48%) Manufacturing
11 23 (3.48%) Presentation Skills
12 15 (2.27%) Electronics
13 14 (2.12%) Retail
14 7 (1.06%) Games
14 7 (1.06%) Public Sector
14 7 (1.06%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 401 (60.76%) Software Engineer
2 203 (30.76%) Java Engineer
2 203 (30.76%) Java Software Engineer
3 123 (18.64%) Senior
4 115 (17.42%) Lead
5 114 (17.27%) Full Stack Engineer
5 114 (17.27%) Full Stack Software Engineer
6 98 (14.85%) Lead Software Engineer
7 95 (14.39%) Senior Software Engineer
8 71 (10.76%) Software Engineering Director
9 61 (9.24%) Big Data Engineer
9 61 (9.24%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 49 (7.42%) Python Engineer
10 49 (7.42%) Python Software Engineer
11 47 (7.12%) AWS Engineer
11 47 (7.12%) AWS Software Engineer
11 47 (7.12%) Scala Engineer
11 47 (7.12%) Scala Software Engineer
12 41 (6.21%) Architect
13 39 (5.91%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (29.09%) Spring
2 159 (24.09%) React
3 137 (20.76%) AngularJS
4 113 (17.12%) Kafka
5 90 (13.64%) GraphQL
6 89 (13.48%) J2EE
7 81 (12.27%) Spring Boot
8 80 (12.12%) Hibernate
9 63 (9.55%) Spring Integration
10 49 (7.42%) HTML
11 48 (7.27%) CSS
12 43 (6.52%) REST
13 40 (6.06%) PySpark
14 38 (5.76%) Node.js
15 35 (5.30%) JMS
15 35 (5.30%) jQuery
15 35 (5.30%) JSON
15 35 (5.30%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 33 (5.00%) RESTful
17 23 (3.48%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 231 (35.00%) Cloud Native
2 98 (14.85%) Public Cloud
3 74 (11.21%) Product Ownership
4 43 (6.52%) Credit Risk
5 36 (5.45%) Management Information System
6 23 (3.48%) Data Structures
7 18 (2.73%) Market Risk
7 18 (2.73%) Taxonomies
8 11 (1.67%) Mainframe
8 11 (1.67%) Reference Data
8 11 (1.67%) VSAM
9 9 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.21%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (0.91%) Video\Live Streaming
13 5 (0.76%) Data Centre
14 3 (0.45%) Driving Licence
14 3 (0.45%) Self-Motivation
15 2 (0.30%) Cyber Threat
15 2 (0.30%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.97%) Unix
2 8 (1.21%) Windows
3 6 (0.91%) Linux
4 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 525 (79.55%) Software Engineering
2 479 (72.58%) Agile
3 429 (65.00%) SDLC
4 415 (62.88%) Operational Stability
5 373 (56.52%) CI/CD
6 349 (52.88%) Machine Learning
7 332 (50.30%) Artificial Intelligence
8 206 (31.21%) Problem-Solving
9 187 (28.33%) Risk Management
10 141 (21.36%) Computer Science
11 139 (21.06%) Microservices
12 122 (18.48%) Full Stack Development
13 102 (15.45%) Tech Ops
14 67 (10.15%) Mathematics
15 66 (10.00%) ETL
16 63 (9.55%) Analytics
16 63 (9.55%) AOP
16 63 (9.55%) Document Management
17 55 (8.33%) Asset Management
17 55 (8.33%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 427 (64.70%) Java
2 216 (32.73%) SQL
3 213 (32.27%) Python
4 76 (11.52%) Scala
5 51 (7.73%) TypeScript
6 44 (6.67%) JavaScript
7 31 (4.70%) C#
8 20 (3.03%) C++
9 17 (2.58%) Ruby
10 16 (2.42%) PL/SQL
11 15 (2.27%) C
12 11 (1.67%) COBOL
12 11 (1.67%) JCL
13 6 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.76%) Bash
15 4 (0.61%) R
16 3 (0.45%) PHP
17 2 (0.30%) PowerShell
18 1 (0.15%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 89 (13.48%) Degree
2 32 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 32 (4.85%) Master's Degree
3 23 (3.48%) Security Cleared
4 8 (1.21%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 8 (1.21%) SC Cleared
5 7 (1.06%) CISM
5 7 (1.06%) CISSP
6 6 (0.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (0.76%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (0.45%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.45%) PMP
9 2 (0.30%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.30%) HND
9 2 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.30%) PhD
10 1 (0.15%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.15%) CESG Certified Professional
10 1 (0.15%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (8.18%) SLA
2 35 (5.30%) Data Quality
3 14 (2.12%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.06%) NIST
5 6 (0.91%) QA
6 2 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.30%) GRC
7 1 (0.15%) GDPR
7 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (0.15%) NCSC
7 1 (0.15%) PMO
7 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (1.97%) HDFS
2 11 (1.67%) Time Sharing Option
3 8 (1.21%) Docker
4 2 (0.30%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 115 (17.42%) Kubernetes
2 30 (4.55%) Terraform
3 7 (1.06%) Grafana
3 7 (1.06%) Graphite
4 3 (0.45%) Ansible
5 2 (0.30%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 106 (16.06%) Oracle
2 68 (10.30%) Databricks
3 39 (5.91%) Microsoft
4 19 (2.88%) Google
5 17 (2.58%) Pega
6 15 (2.27%) Alteryx
6 15 (2.27%) Cognos
6 15 (2.27%) Sybase
7 13 (1.97%) Cloudera
8 7 (1.06%) Splunk
9 4 (0.61%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.45%) SAP
11 2 (0.30%) Apple
12 1 (0.15%) CA
12 1 (0.15%) Cisco
12 1 (0.15%) Informatica
12 1 (0.15%) Meraki
12 1 (0.15%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.15%) VMware