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 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 50 40 35
Rank change year-on-year -10 -5 +33
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 77 164 208
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.60% 6.08% 6.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.09% 6.57% 6.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 130 166
10th Percentile £130 £362 £338
25th Percentile £288 £463 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.09% +0.10% +17.65%
75th Percentile £550 £560 £541
90th Percentile £646 £601 £599
UK median daily rate £525 £539 £540
% change year-on-year -2.55% -0.23% +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 £43.86 £45.00
% change year-on-year -55.83% -2.53% +52.22%

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 1,884 2,495 3,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.04% 92.48% 93.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,766 2,240
10th Percentile £219 £260 £250
25th Percentile £369 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 55 48
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.25 £17.67
Median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £50.74 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

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 18 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 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +13 38 £400 -15.43% 14
Edinburgh -8 33 £444 -13.41% 14
South Lanarkshire -9 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 (5.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.30%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 15 (19.48%) AWS
2 9 (11.69%) Power Platform
3 6 (7.79%) Snowflake
4 3 (3.90%) npm
5 2 (2.60%) Azure
5 2 (2.60%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.30%) GCP
6 1 (1.30%) Google Data Studio
6 1 (1.30%) Google Sheets
6 1 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.30%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.90%) Firewall
2 2 (2.60%) FabricPath
2 2 (2.60%) LAN
2 2 (2.60%) NAS
2 2 (2.60%) NX-OS
2 2 (2.60%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (2.60%) SAN
2 2 (2.60%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.60%) VPN
2 2 (2.60%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.39%) Power BI
2 7 (9.09%) Tableau
3 5 (6.49%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (3.90%) Big Data
5 2 (2.60%) MariaDB
5 2 (2.60%) MySQL
6 1 (1.30%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.30%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.30%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (5.19%) JIRA
2 3 (3.90%) Cypress.io
3 2 (2.60%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.60%) Git
3 2 (2.60%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.60%) Selenium
General
1 23 (29.87%) Finance
2 22 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 20 (25.97%) Public Sector
4 18 (23.38%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (16.88%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (15.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (9.09%) Banking
9 6 (7.79%) Legal
10 3 (3.90%) Billing
11 1 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.30%) Marketing
11 1 (1.30%) Retail Banking
11 1 (1.30%) Tech for Good
11 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (29.87%) Lead
2 16 (20.78%) Analyst
3 8 (10.39%) Data Analyst
3 8 (10.39%) Full Stack Engineer
4 6 (7.79%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (7.79%) Java Engineer
4 6 (7.79%) Lead Data Analyst
5 5 (6.49%) Senior
6 4 (5.19%) Cisco Consultant
6 4 (5.19%) Consultant
6 4 (5.19%) Desktop Engineer
6 4 (5.19%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 4 (5.19%) Developer
6 4 (5.19%) Java Developer
6 4 (5.19%) PMO Analyst
6 4 (5.19%) Support Engineer
6 4 (5.19%) User Researcher
6 4 (5.19%) VMware Consultant
6 4 (5.19%) Windows Engineer
6 4 (5.19%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (15.58%) AngularJS
1 12 (15.58%) Spring
2 11 (14.29%) REST
3 9 (11.69%) CSS
3 9 (11.69%) HTML
3 9 (11.69%) JPA
3 9 (11.69%) Spring Boot
4 3 (3.90%) React
5 1 (1.30%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.30%) Regular Expression
5 1 (1.30%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.99%) Public Cloud
2 9 (11.69%) Management Information System
3 6 (7.79%) Credit Risk
4 4 (5.19%) Data Centre
4 4 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.90%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.90%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.60%) Equities
6 2 (2.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.60%) iPhone
6 2 (2.60%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (2.60%) VxBlock/Vblock
7 1 (1.30%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.30%) Clustering
7 1 (1.30%) PKI
7 1 (1.30%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.99%) Windows
2 4 (5.19%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.60%) Linux
3 2 (2.60%) Mac OS X
3 2 (2.60%) Unix
3 2 (2.60%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (32.47%) Agile
2 15 (19.48%) CI/CD
2 15 (19.48%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (19.48%) SDLC
3 13 (16.88%) Analytics
3 13 (16.88%) Risk Management
4 12 (15.58%) Artificial Intelligence
4 12 (15.58%) Full Stack Development
4 12 (15.58%) Machine Learning
4 12 (15.58%) Operational Stability
4 12 (15.58%) Software Engineering
5 11 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
6 10 (12.99%) Time Management
7 9 (11.69%) Data Protection
8 8 (10.39%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (10.39%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (10.39%) Information Security
8 8 (10.39%) Microservices
9 7 (9.09%) Impact Assessments
9 7 (9.09%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (20.78%) SQL
2 14 (18.18%) Java
3 9 (11.69%) TypeScript
4 4 (5.19%) Python
5 3 (3.90%) Perl
6 2 (2.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (22.08%) Degree
2 5 (6.49%) SC Cleared
2 5 (6.49%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.90%) CGEIT
3 3 (3.90%) CISA
3 3 (3.90%) CISM
3 3 (3.90%) CISSP
3 3 (3.90%) CRISC
3 3 (3.90%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 2 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.60%) ISEB
4 2 (2.60%) ISEB Practitioner
4 2 (2.60%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.30%) ACCA
5 1 (1.30%) APMG
5 1 (1.30%) CIMA
5 1 (1.30%) CIPD
5 1 (1.30%) CIPFA
5 1 (1.30%) IIBA
5 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.99%) PMO
2 8 (10.39%) Disclosure Scotland
3 6 (7.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.90%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.90%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (3.90%) NIST
4 3 (3.90%) PCI DSS
4 3 (3.90%) SLA
5 2 (2.60%) GDPR
5 2 (2.60%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.30%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.30%) QA
System Software
1 6 (7.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.19%) VMware NSX
2 4 (5.19%) vSphere
3 1 (1.30%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.30%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (2.60%) Ansible
1 2 (2.60%) Grafana
1 2 (2.60%) HP Quality Center
1 2 (2.60%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.60%) NetBackup
1 2 (2.60%) Prometheus
1 2 (2.60%) Terraform
1 2 (2.60%) vCenter Server
1 2 (2.60%) VxRail
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.30%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.79%) Alteryx
2 6 (7.79%) VMware
3 5 (6.49%) Oracle
4 4 (5.19%) Cisco
4 4 (5.19%) Dell
5 2 (2.60%) Apple
5 2 (2.60%) Cadence
5 2 (2.60%) Google
5 2 (2.60%) HP
5 2 (2.60%) Samsung
5 2 (2.60%) SAP
5 2 (2.60%) Veritas
5 2 (2.60%) Workday
6 1 (1.30%) Brandwatch
6 1 (1.30%) Databricks
6 1 (1.30%) Facebook
6 1 (1.30%) Hootsuite
6 1 (1.30%) Instagram
6 1 (1.30%) Twitter