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

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 67 80
Rank change year-on-year +22 +13 +38
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 4,970 4,693 7,065
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.02% 4.68% 4.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.87% 4.89% 4.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,609 1,955 3,090
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,192 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £93,750 £99,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +2.86%

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 84,701 95,929 153,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.52% 95.60% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 59,701 56,502 82,944
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 14 May 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 14 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
England +13 4,010 £55,000 -8.33% 1,774
UK excluding London +15 3,431 £50,000 -4.76% 1,130
Work from Home +7 1,955 £55,000 -8.33% 755
London +42 1,298 £67,500 -1.92% 680
South East +47 926 £45,802 -20.34% 299
North of England -11 722 £52,014 -2.78% 277
Scotland +61 703 £45,543 -24.10% 55
Midlands +6 457 £54,700 +21.56% 198
North West +53 418 £50,000 -8.26% 164
West Midlands +6 306 £55,000 +32.02% 122
East of England +23 291 £47,500 -13.64% 110
South West -43 262 £50,000 - 153
Yorkshire -29 221 £55,000 +2.80% 84
East Midlands -1 142 £45,001 -18.18% 76
North East +5 83 £45,249 -13.81% 32
Wales +19 59 £42,500 -23.86% 48
Northern Ireland +36 14 £30,000 -33.33% 15
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
1 180 (3.62%) Apache Spark
2 100 (2.01%) Apache
3 70 (1.41%) SharePoint
4 63 (1.27%) FileNet
5 61 (1.23%) SAS
6 51 (1.03%) Confluence
7 39 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
8 38 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
9 26 (0.52%) CMS
10 20 (0.40%) Camunda
11 17 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
12 13 (0.26%) ArcGIS
12 13 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
13 11 (0.22%) CICS
13 11 (0.22%) OpenStack
14 8 (0.16%) Drupal
15 7 (0.14%) Jupyter
15 7 (0.14%) nginx
16 6 (0.12%) IBM Notes
16 6 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 908 (18.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 235 (4.73%) Microsoft Office
3 137 (2.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 42 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
5 30 (0.60%) MS Visio
6 29 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
7 17 (0.34%) SPSS
8 7 (0.14%) Sketch
9 6 (0.12%) InVision
10 5 (0.10%) 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
12 3 (0.060%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.060%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.060%) Trello
13 2 (0.040%) EViews
13 2 (0.040%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 40 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.36%) iTrent
3 16 (0.32%) 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 8 (0.16%) NEC Housing
8 7 (0.14%) SAP ERP
9 6 (0.12%) Elite 3E
9 6 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
9 6 (0.12%) Oracle Financials
10 5 (0.10%) SAP MM
10 5 (0.10%) SAP PP
10 5 (0.10%) SAP SD
10 5 (0.10%) SAP WM
11 4 (0.080%) NetSuite
11 4 (0.080%) SAP APO
11 4 (0.080%) SAP SCM
12 3 (0.060%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 612 (12.31%) AWS
2 482 (9.70%) Azure
3 458 (9.22%) Power Platform
4 170 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
5 156 (3.14%) GCP
6 146 (2.94%) SaaS
7 126 (2.54%) Amazon S3
8 81 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
9 75 (1.51%) Serverless
10 65 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
11 64 (1.29%) GitHub
12 50 (1.01%) PowerApps
13 49 (0.99%) IaaS
14 45 (0.91%) Amazon EC2
15 44 (0.89%) Power Automate
16 43 (0.87%) AWS CloudFormation
17 39 (0.78%) Snowflake
18 38 (0.76%) Amazon ECS
18 38 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
19 37 (0.74%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 467 (9.40%) Broadband
2 60 (1.21%) Firewall
3 45 (0.91%) WAN
4 41 (0.82%) DNS
5 33 (0.66%) VoIP
6 25 (0.50%) LAN
7 23 (0.46%) Network Security
8 22 (0.44%) Unified Communications
9 21 (0.42%) VPN
10 19 (0.38%) Internet
11 18 (0.36%) DSL
11 18 (0.36%) Kerberos
12 17 (0.34%) DHCP
12 17 (0.34%) Intranet
13 16 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
14 14 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
15 13 (0.26%) VLAN
15 13 (0.26%) Wireless
16 12 (0.24%) TCP/IP
17 9 (0.18%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 421 (8.47%) Power BI
2 267 (5.37%) Tableau
3 166 (3.34%) SQL Server
4 155 (3.12%) Data Warehouse
5 143 (2.88%) Big Data
6 142 (2.86%) NoSQL
7 103 (2.07%) Hadoop
8 94 (1.89%) BigQuery
9 91 (1.83%) Relational Database
10 80 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
11 75 (1.51%) Data Lake
12 65 (1.31%) Apache Cassandra
13 63 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
14 58 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 48 (0.97%) DB2
16 44 (0.89%) MySQL
17 43 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
18 38 (0.76%) Apache Hive
19 37 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 34 (0.68%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 118 (2.37%) Git
2 117 (2.35%) Jenkins
3 100 (2.01%) JIRA
4 87 (1.75%) JUnit
5 62 (1.25%) Jasmine
6 45 (0.91%) Mockito
7 32 (0.64%) Maven
8 30 (0.60%) Artifactory
9 25 (0.50%) CircleCI
10 23 (0.46%) JMeter
10 23 (0.46%) Selenium
11 21 (0.42%) WebDriver
12 20 (0.40%) Cypress.io
12 20 (0.40%) Gradle
12 20 (0.40%) Travis CI
13 18 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 17 (0.34%) Karma Test Runner
14 17 (0.34%) Protractor
15 15 (0.30%) LabVIEW
16 12 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
General
1 2,173 (43.72%) Social Skills
2 2,041 (41.07%) Finance
3 1,562 (31.43%) Analytical Skills
4 1,062 (21.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 700 (14.08%) Marketing
6 696 (14.00%) Law
7 609 (12.25%) Influencing Skills
8 462 (9.30%) Legal
9 399 (8.03%) Retail
10 225 (4.53%) Banking
10 225 (4.53%) Public Sector
11 182 (3.66%) Presentation Skills
12 141 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
13 114 (2.29%) Manufacturing
14 95 (1.91%) Investment Banking
15 92 (1.85%) Games
15 92 (1.85%) Telecoms
16 64 (1.29%) Front Office
17 52 (1.05%) Automotive
18 43 (0.87%) Police
Job Titles
1 1,249 (25.13%) Analyst
2 993 (19.98%) Senior
3 505 (10.16%) Software Engineer
4 462 (9.30%) Lead
5 331 (6.66%) Senior Analyst
6 283 (5.69%) Project Manager
7 238 (4.79%) Architect
8 223 (4.49%) Java Engineer
9 217 (4.37%) Java Software Engineer
10 209 (4.21%) Data Scientist
11 193 (3.88%) Senior Manager
12 189 (3.80%) Business Analyst
13 185 (3.72%) Data Analyst
14 184 (3.70%) Financial Analyst
15 173 (3.48%) Developer
16 158 (3.18%) Commercial Analyst
17 156 (3.14%) Development Manager
18 133 (2.68%) Business Manager
19 129 (2.60%) Full Stack Engineer
19 129 (2.60%) Full Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 233 (4.69%) Spring
2 231 (4.65%) React
3 161 (3.24%) AngularJS
4 129 (2.60%) .NET
5 127 (2.56%) Kafka
6 120 (2.41%) J2EE
7 103 (2.07%) Spring Boot
8 98 (1.97%) HTML
9 96 (1.93%) PySpark
10 95 (1.91%) GraphQL
11 93 (1.87%) Hibernate
12 85 (1.71%) CSS
13 76 (1.53%) REST
14 68 (1.37%) Pandas
15 63 (1.27%) Spring Integration
16 62 (1.25%) Node.js
17 53 (1.07%) TensorFlow
18 52 (1.05%) RESTful
19 45 (0.91%) JSON
20 43 (0.87%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 386 (7.77%) Management Information System
2 279 (5.61%) Algorithms
3 276 (5.55%) Cloud Native
4 232 (4.67%) Self-Motivation
5 211 (4.25%) Product Ownership
6 152 (3.06%) Public Cloud
7 107 (2.15%) Driving Licence
7 107 (2.15%) Onboarding
8 101 (2.03%) Data Structures
9 70 (1.41%) Credit Risk
10 60 (1.21%) Social Media
11 55 (1.11%) Data Centre
11 55 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
12 54 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
12 54 (1.09%) IoT
13 51 (1.03%) NHS
13 51 (1.03%) Taxonomies
14 44 (0.89%) PMI
15 35 (0.70%) Client/Server
16 33 (0.66%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 178 (3.58%) Windows
2 86 (1.73%) Linux
3 45 (0.91%) Windows Server
4 38 (0.76%) Windows 10
5 29 (0.58%) 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%) Windows 7
10 14 (0.28%) Android
11 13 (0.26%) Apple iOS
12 12 (0.24%) Mac OS
13 11 (0.22%) Windows Vista
14 8 (0.16%) VME
15 3 (0.060%) Amazon Linux
15 3 (0.060%) Embedded Linux
15 3 (0.060%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.040%) Ubuntu
16 2 (0.040%) VMS
17 1 (0.020%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,877 (37.77%) Agile
2 1,536 (30.91%) Problem-Solving
3 1,138 (22.90%) Mentoring
4 835 (16.80%) Actionable Insight
5 759 (15.27%) Software Engineering
6 750 (15.09%) Coaching
7 743 (14.95%) Project Management
8 723 (14.55%) Analytics
9 646 (13.00%) Business Case
10 601 (12.09%) Artificial Intelligence
11 599 (12.05%) Machine Learning
12 572 (11.51%) Data Analysis
13 560 (11.27%) Business Intelligence
14 552 (11.11%) SDLC
15 537 (10.80%) Computer Science
16 529 (10.64%) Budgeting
16 529 (10.64%) CI/CD
17 508 (10.22%) Budgeting and Forecasting
18 489 (9.84%) Risk Management
19 468 (9.42%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 931 (18.73%) SQL
2 698 (14.04%) Python
3 616 (12.39%) Java
4 150 (3.02%) C#
5 141 (2.84%) JavaScript
6 113 (2.27%) Scala
7 110 (2.21%) R
8 90 (1.81%) TypeScript
9 64 (1.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 60 (1.21%) T-SQL
11 52 (1.05%) PowerShell
12 44 (0.89%) C
13 43 (0.87%) C++
14 41 (0.82%) Go
15 37 (0.74%) Bash
16 36 (0.72%) PHP
17 26 (0.52%) PL/SQL
17 26 (0.52%) Ruby
18 23 (0.46%) PL/1
19 20 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,149 (23.12%) Degree
2 478 (9.62%) ACCA
3 465 (9.36%) CIMA
4 289 (5.81%) Security Cleared
5 210 (4.23%) Master's Degree
6 167 (3.36%) SC Cleared
7 148 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 112 (2.25%) DBS Check
9 74 (1.49%) PMI Certification
10 67 (1.35%) CISSP
11 60 (1.21%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 50 (1.01%) PhD
13 46 (0.93%) HNC
14 39 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
15 37 (0.74%) APMP
15 37 (0.74%) CISM
16 36 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
17 34 (0.68%) MBA
17 34 (0.68%) Numerate Degree
18 32 (0.64%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 208 (4.19%) Data Quality
2 173 (3.48%) QA
3 130 (2.62%) SLA
4 106 (2.13%) Accessibility
5 95 (1.91%) GDPR
6 94 (1.89%) PMO
7 76 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 72 (1.45%) NIST
9 44 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
10 26 (0.52%) GRC
11 24 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
12 18 (0.36%) ISO 9001
13 16 (0.32%) NCSC
14 15 (0.30%) IFRS
15 14 (0.28%) PCI DSS
16 13 (0.26%) NIST 800
17 12 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 9 (0.18%) COBIT
19 8 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
20 7 (0.14%) CDISC
System Software
1 96 (1.93%) Active Directory
2 90 (1.81%) Docker
3 53 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.36%) Hyper-V
5 17 (0.34%) HDFS
6 16 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
7 13 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
9 7 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.080%) Firmware
11 4 (0.080%) NFS
12 1 (0.020%) KVM
12 1 (0.020%) RACF
Systems Management
1 222 (4.47%) Kubernetes
2 96 (1.93%) Terraform
3 27 (0.54%) SCCM
4 22 (0.44%) Ansible
5 21 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
7 9 (0.18%) Grafana
8 7 (0.14%) Graphite
9 6 (0.12%) Autotask
9 6 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (0.10%) Puppet
11 4 (0.080%) Functional Safety
12 3 (0.060%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.060%) SCOM
13 2 (0.040%) Dell DRAC
14 1 (0.020%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 1 (0.020%) Computer Incident Response Team
14 1 (0.020%) FTK
14 1 (0.020%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 1,086 (21.85%) Microsoft
2 200 (4.02%) Oracle
3 159 (3.20%) Databricks
3 159 (3.20%) Google
4 99 (1.99%) SAP
5 80 (1.61%) Salesforce
6 72 (1.45%) VMware
7 59 (1.19%) Alteryx
8 41 (0.82%) IBM
9 32 (0.64%) ServiceNow
10 27 (0.54%) Cisco
11 26 (0.52%) Adobe
11 26 (0.52%) Pega
12 22 (0.44%) Cognos
13 18 (0.36%) CA
13 18 (0.36%) Capita
13 18 (0.36%) Sybase
14 17 (0.34%) Cloudera
14 17 (0.34%) F5
15 16 (0.32%) Splunk