Decision-Making Jobs

Decision-Making
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 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 45 68 77
Rank change year-on-year +23 +9 +40
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 5,009 4,391 7,861
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.76% 4.63% 4.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.69% 4.85% 4.85%
Number of salaries quoted 2,593 1,877 3,136
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,525 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,526 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% -0.79% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £93,750 £99,050 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £53,325
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.55% +1.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,980 90,493 162,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.59% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,356 54,578 82,967
10th Percentile £29,284 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Decision-Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in the UK

Decision-Making
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making.

Salary trend for Decision-Making in the UK

Decision-Making
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Decision-Making in the UK

Decision-Making
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Decision-Making within the UK 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +16 4,079 £55,000 -6.39% 1,914
UK excluding London +10 3,451 £50,000 -4.76% 1,087
Work from Home +6 1,941 £55,385 -7.69% 777
London +40 1,323 £67,500 -3.57% 847
South East +41 938 £46,651 -15.18% 271
North of England -11 742 £51,500 -1.90% 288
Scotland +59 673 £48,000 -18.08% 65
Midlands 0 476 £54,939 +22.09% 188
North West +50 440 £50,000 -7.97% 181
West Midlands +11 328 £55,000 +37.50% 113
East of England +18 287 £47,500 -13.64% 116
South West -48 260 £50,000 -0.99% 156
Yorkshire -30 222 £55,000 +4.27% 82
East Midlands 0 139 £45,000 -18.18% 75
North East +2 80 £45,249 -13.81% 29
Wales +15 62 £42,500 -25.12% 28
Northern Ireland +27 14 £30,000 -33.33% 10
Channel Islands - 1 - -

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 172 (3.43%) Apache Spark
2 97 (1.94%) Apache
3 73 (1.46%) SharePoint
4 63 (1.26%) FileNet
5 55 (1.10%) Confluence
6 53 (1.06%) SAS
7 40 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
8 37 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
9 24 (0.48%) CMS
10 18 (0.36%) Camunda
11 17 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
12 13 (0.26%) ArcGIS
12 13 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
13 11 (0.22%) CICS
14 9 (0.18%) OpenStack
15 8 (0.16%) Drupal
15 8 (0.16%) Jupyter
16 7 (0.14%) nginx
17 6 (0.12%) IBM Notes
17 6 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 931 (18.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 257 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
3 158 (3.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
5 31 (0.62%) MS Visio
6 28 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
7 15 (0.30%) SPSS
8 7 (0.14%) Sketch
9 6 (0.12%) InVision
10 5 (0.100%) Photoshop
11 4 (0.080%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.080%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.080%) Siemens NX
11 4 (0.080%) Simulink
11 4 (0.080%) Stateflow
11 4 (0.080%) Trello
12 3 (0.060%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.060%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.040%) Adobe Premiere
13 2 (0.040%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 39 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.36%) iTrent
3 14 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.26%) Infor SunSystems
4 13 (0.26%) Primavera
5 11 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
6 10 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
7 9 (0.18%) NEC Housing
8 7 (0.14%) SAP ERP
9 6 (0.12%) Elite 3E
9 6 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
10 5 (0.100%) Oracle Financials
10 5 (0.100%) SAP MM
10 5 (0.100%) SAP PP
10 5 (0.100%) SAP SD
10 5 (0.100%) SAP WM
11 4 (0.080%) NetSuite
11 4 (0.080%) SAP APO
12 3 (0.060%) Endur
12 3 (0.060%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 610 (12.18%) AWS
2 495 (9.88%) Azure
3 452 (9.02%) Power Platform
4 169 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
5 154 (3.07%) GCP
6 145 (2.89%) SaaS
7 121 (2.42%) Amazon S3
8 78 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
9 72 (1.44%) Serverless
10 62 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
10 62 (1.24%) GitHub
11 49 (0.98%) IaaS
12 48 (0.96%) PowerApps
13 44 (0.88%) Power Automate
14 41 (0.82%) Snowflake
15 39 (0.78%) Amazon EC2
15 39 (0.78%) AWS CloudFormation
16 38 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
17 35 (0.70%) Azure Data Factory
18 34 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 467 (9.32%) Broadband
2 63 (1.26%) Firewall
3 47 (0.94%) WAN
4 41 (0.82%) DNS
5 33 (0.66%) VoIP
6 26 (0.52%) LAN
7 24 (0.48%) Network Security
8 22 (0.44%) Unified Communications
9 21 (0.42%) VPN
10 18 (0.36%) Internet
11 17 (0.34%) DHCP
11 17 (0.34%) Intranet
11 17 (0.34%) Kerberos
11 17 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
12 16 (0.32%) DSL
13 13 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
13 13 (0.26%) VLAN
13 13 (0.26%) Wireless
14 12 (0.24%) TCP/IP
15 11 (0.22%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 414 (8.27%) Power BI
2 280 (5.59%) Tableau
3 166 (3.31%) SQL Server
4 160 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
5 144 (2.87%) NoSQL
6 136 (2.72%) Big Data
7 99 (1.98%) Hadoop
8 93 (1.86%) BigQuery
9 91 (1.82%) Relational Database
10 79 (1.58%) Data Lake
10 79 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
11 65 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
12 57 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
13 56 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 46 (0.92%) DB2
14 46 (0.92%) MySQL
15 40 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 37 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
17 34 (0.68%) Apache Hive
18 32 (0.64%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 130 (2.60%) Git
2 113 (2.26%) Jenkins
3 99 (1.98%) JIRA
4 87 (1.74%) JUnit
5 62 (1.24%) Jasmine
6 45 (0.90%) Mockito
7 30 (0.60%) Maven
8 26 (0.52%) Artifactory
9 23 (0.46%) CircleCI
10 20 (0.40%) JMeter
10 20 (0.40%) Selenium
11 18 (0.36%) Gradle
11 18 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 18 (0.36%) Travis CI
11 18 (0.36%) WebDriver
12 17 (0.34%) Cypress.io
12 17 (0.34%) Karma Test Runner
12 17 (0.34%) Protractor
13 15 (0.30%) LabVIEW
14 12 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
General
1 2,224 (44.40%) Social Skills
2 2,036 (40.65%) Finance
3 1,560 (31.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1,044 (20.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 684 (13.66%) Marketing
6 683 (13.64%) Law
7 602 (12.02%) Influencing Skills
8 470 (9.38%) Legal
9 436 (8.70%) Retail
10 224 (4.47%) Public Sector
11 209 (4.17%) Banking
12 187 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
13 139 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
14 114 (2.28%) Manufacturing
15 91 (1.82%) Investment Banking
16 90 (1.80%) Games
16 90 (1.80%) Telecoms
17 59 (1.18%) Front Office
18 54 (1.08%) Automotive
19 43 (0.86%) Police
Job Titles
1 1,268 (25.31%) Analyst
2 994 (19.84%) Senior
3 487 (9.72%) Software Engineer
4 462 (9.22%) Lead
5 334 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
6 280 (5.59%) Project Manager
7 241 (4.81%) Architect
8 214 (4.27%) Data Scientist
8 214 (4.27%) Java Engineer
9 208 (4.15%) Java Software Engineer
10 203 (4.05%) Data Analyst
10 203 (4.05%) Development Manager
11 195 (3.89%) Senior Manager
12 188 (3.75%) Business Analyst
13 184 (3.67%) Financial Analyst
14 175 (3.49%) Business Manager
15 166 (3.31%) Developer
16 158 (3.15%) Commercial Analyst
17 150 (2.99%) Business Development Manager
18 125 (2.50%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 228 (4.55%) React
2 224 (4.47%) Spring
3 157 (3.13%) AngularJS
4 129 (2.58%) .NET
5 126 (2.52%) Kafka
6 115 (2.30%) J2EE
7 101 (2.02%) PySpark
8 98 (1.96%) HTML
9 95 (1.90%) Spring Boot
10 94 (1.88%) GraphQL
11 93 (1.86%) Hibernate
12 87 (1.74%) CSS
13 73 (1.46%) Pandas
13 73 (1.46%) REST
14 64 (1.28%) Node.js
15 63 (1.26%) Spring Integration
15 63 (1.26%) TensorFlow
16 53 (1.06%) RESTful
17 50 (1.00%) scikit-learn
18 45 (0.90%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 386 (7.71%) Management Information System
2 288 (5.75%) Algorithms
3 270 (5.39%) Cloud Native
4 223 (4.45%) Self-Motivation
5 210 (4.19%) Product Ownership
6 141 (2.81%) Public Cloud
7 110 (2.20%) Onboarding
8 107 (2.14%) Driving Licence
9 104 (2.08%) Data Structures
10 65 (1.30%) Credit Risk
11 63 (1.26%) Social Media
12 55 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
12 55 (1.10%) IoT
13 54 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
14 53 (1.06%) Data Centre
15 52 (1.04%) NHS
16 45 (0.90%) PMI
17 36 (0.72%) Client/Server
18 33 (0.66%) CCTV
18 33 (0.66%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 181 (3.61%) Windows
2 88 (1.76%) Linux
3 46 (0.92%) Windows Server
4 38 (0.76%) Windows 10
5 28 (0.56%) Unix
6 26 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
7 25 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
8 19 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
9 17 (0.34%) Android
9 17 (0.34%) Windows 7
10 16 (0.32%) Apple iOS
11 12 (0.24%) Mac OS
12 11 (0.22%) Windows Vista
13 8 (0.16%) VME
14 3 (0.060%) Amazon Linux
14 3 (0.060%) Embedded Linux
14 3 (0.060%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.040%) Ubuntu
15 2 (0.040%) VMS
16 1 (0.020%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,832 (36.57%) Agile
2 1,546 (30.86%) Problem-Solving
3 1,131 (22.58%) Mentoring
4 846 (16.89%) Actionable Insight
5 760 (15.17%) Coaching
6 739 (14.75%) Project Management
7 732 (14.61%) Software Engineering
8 720 (14.37%) Analytics
9 643 (12.84%) Business Case
10 596 (11.90%) Machine Learning
11 591 (11.80%) Artificial Intelligence
12 576 (11.50%) Data Analysis
13 556 (11.10%) Business Intelligence
14 546 (10.90%) Computer Science
15 530 (10.58%) Budgeting
16 529 (10.56%) Budgeting and Forecasting
17 526 (10.50%) SDLC
18 498 (9.94%) CI/CD
19 488 (9.74%) Risk Management
20 468 (9.34%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 937 (18.71%) SQL
2 694 (13.86%) Python
3 591 (11.80%) Java
4 150 (2.99%) C#
5 142 (2.83%) JavaScript
6 112 (2.24%) R
7 107 (2.14%) Scala
8 89 (1.78%) TypeScript
9 59 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 59 (1.18%) T-SQL
10 54 (1.08%) PowerShell
11 44 (0.88%) C
11 44 (0.88%) C++
12 38 (0.76%) Bash
13 37 (0.74%) Go
14 35 (0.70%) PHP
15 24 (0.48%) PL/SQL
15 24 (0.48%) Ruby
16 23 (0.46%) PL/1
17 19 (0.38%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 1,164 (23.24%) Degree
2 481 (9.60%) ACCA
3 465 (9.28%) CIMA
4 294 (5.87%) Security Cleared
5 209 (4.17%) Master's Degree
6 167 (3.33%) SC Cleared
7 159 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 125 (2.50%) DBS Check
9 74 (1.48%) PMI Certification
10 71 (1.42%) CISSP
11 60 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 55 (1.10%) PhD
13 47 (0.94%) HNC
14 41 (0.82%) CISM
15 38 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
16 37 (0.74%) APMP
17 36 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
18 35 (0.70%) Numerate Degree
19 34 (0.68%) DV Cleared
20 30 (0.60%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 219 (4.37%) Data Quality
2 169 (3.37%) QA
3 128 (2.56%) SLA
4 111 (2.22%) Accessibility
5 99 (1.98%) GDPR
6 95 (1.90%) PMO
7 79 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 71 (1.42%) NIST
9 42 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
10 27 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
10 27 (0.54%) GRC
11 19 (0.38%) ISO 9001
12 18 (0.36%) IFRS
13 16 (0.32%) NCSC
14 14 (0.28%) PCI DSS
15 13 (0.26%) NIST 800
16 12 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 9 (0.18%) COBIT
18 8 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 7 (0.14%) CDISC
System Software
1 93 (1.86%) Active Directory
2 92 (1.84%) Docker
3 54 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.36%) Hyper-V
5 17 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (0.30%) HDFS
7 13 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
9 7 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.100%) Firmware
10 5 (0.100%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.080%) NFS
12 1 (0.020%) KVM
Systems Management
1 218 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 91 (1.82%) Terraform
3 27 (0.54%) SCCM
4 24 (0.48%) Ansible
4 24 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
6 9 (0.18%) Grafana
7 7 (0.14%) Graphite
8 6 (0.12%) Autotask
8 6 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (0.100%) Puppet
10 4 (0.080%) Functional Safety
11 3 (0.060%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.060%) SCOM
12 2 (0.040%) Dell DRAC
12 2 (0.040%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.020%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 1 (0.020%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 1 (0.020%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 1,109 (22.14%) Microsoft
2 198 (3.95%) Oracle
3 162 (3.23%) Databricks
4 154 (3.07%) Google
5 98 (1.96%) SAP
6 83 (1.66%) Salesforce
7 73 (1.46%) VMware
8 56 (1.12%) Alteryx
9 40 (0.80%) IBM
10 35 (0.70%) ServiceNow
11 28 (0.56%) Adobe
12 27 (0.54%) Cisco
13 24 (0.48%) Pega
14 21 (0.42%) CA
15 20 (0.40%) Cognos
15 20 (0.40%) Splunk
16 18 (0.36%) Capita
16 18 (0.36%) YouTube
17 17 (0.34%) F5
18 16 (0.32%) Sybase