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

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 68 77
Rank change year-on-year +24 +9 +37
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 5,011 4,532 7,776
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.88% 4.66% 4.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.80% 4.87% 4.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2,600 1,911 3,145
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,162 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,999 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% 0.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £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 86,445 93,025 160,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.24% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,550 54,985 83,280
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 28 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 28 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 +16 4,063 £55,000 -7.60% 1,833
UK excluding London +14 3,455 £50,000 -4.76% 1,150
Work from Home +8 1,950 £55,000 -8.33% 759
London +42 1,318 £67,500 -3.57% 709
South East +44 938 £46,651 -15.18% 285
North of England -14 737 £52,014 -2.78% 294
Scotland +69 690 £49,000 -18.33% 70
Midlands +5 467 £54,819 +21.82% 196
North West +46 435 £50,000 -8.12% 177
West Midlands +13 323 £55,000 +37.50% 129
East of England +24 286 £47,500 -13.64% 124
South West -49 263 £50,000 - 170
Yorkshire -33 222 £55,000 +2.80% 95
East Midlands -1 135 £45,000 -18.18% 67
North East +4 80 £45,249 -13.81% 24
Wales +12 61 £42,500 -23.86% 38
Northern Ireland +27 14 £30,000 -33.33% 11
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
1 178 (3.55%) Apache Spark
2 99 (1.98%) Apache
3 71 (1.42%) SharePoint
4 63 (1.26%) FileNet
5 59 (1.18%) SAS
6 53 (1.06%) Confluence
7 40 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
8 38 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
9 23 (0.46%) CMS
10 19 (0.38%) 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
1 921 (18.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 250 (4.99%) Microsoft Office
3 150 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 42 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
5 31 (0.62%) MS Visio
6 29 (0.58%) 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
12 3 (0.060%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.060%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.060%) Trello
13 2 (0.040%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.040%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 39 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.36%) iTrent
3 15 (0.30%) 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 8 (0.16%) 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
11 4 (0.080%) SAP SCM
12 3 (0.060%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 612 (12.21%) AWS
2 493 (9.84%) Azure
3 454 (9.06%) Power Platform
4 169 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
5 160 (3.19%) GCP
6 144 (2.87%) SaaS
7 121 (2.41%) Amazon S3
8 78 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
9 72 (1.44%) Serverless
10 63 (1.26%) GitHub
11 62 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
12 49 (0.98%) IaaS
12 49 (0.98%) PowerApps
13 44 (0.88%) Power Automate
14 40 (0.80%) Snowflake
15 39 (0.78%) Amazon EC2
15 39 (0.78%) AWS CloudFormation
16 37 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
17 35 (0.70%) Azure Data Factory
17 35 (0.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 467 (9.32%) Broadband
2 62 (1.24%) Firewall
3 45 (0.90%) WAN
4 41 (0.82%) DNS
5 33 (0.66%) VoIP
6 26 (0.52%) Network Security
7 25 (0.50%) LAN
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%) DSL
11 17 (0.34%) Intranet
11 17 (0.34%) Kerberos
12 16 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
13 14 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
14 13 (0.26%) VLAN
14 13 (0.26%) Wireless
15 12 (0.24%) TCP/IP
16 10 (0.20%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 418 (8.34%) Power BI
2 281 (5.61%) Tableau
3 169 (3.37%) SQL Server
4 160 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
5 145 (2.89%) NoSQL
6 142 (2.83%) Big Data
7 103 (2.06%) Hadoop
8 93 (1.86%) BigQuery
9 92 (1.84%) Relational Database
10 79 (1.58%) Data Lake
10 79 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
11 65 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
12 57 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 56 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
14 47 (0.94%) DB2
15 46 (0.92%) MySQL
16 40 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 37 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
17 37 (0.74%) Apache Hive
18 33 (0.66%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 129 (2.57%) Git
2 114 (2.27%) Jenkins
3 97 (1.94%) JIRA
4 87 (1.74%) JUnit
5 62 (1.24%) Jasmine
6 45 (0.90%) Mockito
7 31 (0.62%) Maven
8 26 (0.52%) Artifactory
9 24 (0.48%) CircleCI
10 21 (0.42%) JMeter
10 21 (0.42%) Selenium
11 19 (0.38%) Gradle
11 19 (0.38%) Travis CI
11 19 (0.38%) WebDriver
12 18 (0.36%) Cypress.io
12 18 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 17 (0.34%) Karma Test Runner
13 17 (0.34%) Protractor
14 15 (0.30%) LabVIEW
15 12 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
General
1 2,205 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 2,053 (40.97%) Finance
3 1,566 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1,057 (21.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 693 (13.83%) Law
6 690 (13.77%) Marketing
7 607 (12.11%) Influencing Skills
8 470 (9.38%) Legal
9 432 (8.62%) Retail
10 224 (4.47%) Public Sector
11 219 (4.37%) Banking
12 189 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
13 139 (2.77%) Organisational Skills
14 113 (2.26%) Manufacturing
15 93 (1.86%) Investment Banking
16 91 (1.82%) Games
17 90 (1.80%) Telecoms
18 60 (1.20%) Front Office
19 53 (1.06%) Automotive
20 43 (0.86%) Police
Job Titles
1 1,267 (25.28%) Analyst
2 1,003 (20.02%) Senior
3 499 (9.96%) Software Engineer
4 466 (9.30%) Lead
5 338 (6.75%) Senior Analyst
6 281 (5.61%) Project Manager
7 239 (4.77%) Architect
8 218 (4.35%) Java Engineer
9 214 (4.27%) Data Scientist
10 212 (4.23%) Java Software Engineer
11 199 (3.97%) Data Analyst
12 196 (3.91%) Senior Manager
13 192 (3.83%) Development Manager
14 189 (3.77%) Business Analyst
15 184 (3.67%) Financial Analyst
16 171 (3.41%) Developer
17 164 (3.27%) Business Manager
18 158 (3.15%) Commercial Analyst
19 139 (2.77%) Business Development Manager
20 127 (2.53%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 230 (4.59%) React
2 228 (4.55%) Spring
3 159 (3.17%) AngularJS
4 130 (2.59%) .NET
5 127 (2.53%) Kafka
6 115 (2.29%) J2EE
7 101 (2.02%) PySpark
8 99 (1.98%) Spring Boot
9 98 (1.96%) HTML
10 95 (1.90%) GraphQL
11 93 (1.86%) Hibernate
12 87 (1.74%) CSS
13 75 (1.50%) REST
14 73 (1.46%) Pandas
15 63 (1.26%) Node.js
15 63 (1.26%) Spring Integration
15 63 (1.26%) TensorFlow
16 54 (1.08%) RESTful
17 50 (1.00%) scikit-learn
18 45 (0.90%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 384 (7.66%) Management Information System
2 288 (5.75%) Algorithms
3 275 (5.49%) Cloud Native
4 222 (4.43%) Self-Motivation
5 210 (4.19%) Product Ownership
6 147 (2.93%) Public Cloud
7 108 (2.16%) Onboarding
8 107 (2.14%) Driving Licence
9 102 (2.04%) Data Structures
10 68 (1.36%) Credit Risk
11 61 (1.22%) 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 51 (1.02%) NHS
16 45 (0.90%) PMI
17 36 (0.72%) Client/Server
18 34 (0.68%) Taxonomies
19 33 (0.66%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 180 (3.59%) Windows
2 88 (1.76%) Linux
3 45 (0.90%) 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 15 (0.30%) Android
11 14 (0.28%) 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 1,846 (36.84%) Agile
2 1,539 (30.71%) Problem-Solving
3 1,138 (22.71%) Mentoring
4 848 (16.92%) Actionable Insight
5 760 (15.17%) Coaching
6 747 (14.91%) Software Engineering
7 740 (14.77%) Project Management
8 731 (14.59%) Analytics
9 641 (12.79%) Business Case
10 606 (12.09%) Artificial Intelligence
11 605 (12.07%) Machine Learning
12 575 (11.47%) Data Analysis
13 560 (11.18%) Business Intelligence
14 549 (10.96%) Computer Science
15 541 (10.80%) SDLC
16 530 (10.58%) Budgeting
17 526 (10.50%) Budgeting and Forecasting
18 513 (10.24%) CI/CD
19 496 (9.90%) Risk Management
20 467 (9.32%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 947 (18.90%) SQL
2 707 (14.11%) Python
3 603 (12.03%) Java
4 151 (3.01%) C#
5 142 (2.83%) JavaScript
6 113 (2.26%) Scala
7 112 (2.24%) R
8 89 (1.78%) TypeScript
9 61 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 60 (1.20%) T-SQL
11 53 (1.06%) PowerShell
12 44 (0.88%) C
12 44 (0.88%) C++
13 38 (0.76%) Bash
14 37 (0.74%) Go
15 35 (0.70%) PHP
16 25 (0.50%) PL/SQL
16 25 (0.50%) Ruby
17 23 (0.46%) PL/1
18 19 (0.38%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 1,161 (23.17%) Degree
2 480 (9.58%) ACCA
3 465 (9.28%) CIMA
4 292 (5.83%) Security Cleared
5 208 (4.15%) Master's Degree
6 166 (3.31%) SC Cleared
7 157 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 124 (2.47%) DBS Check
9 76 (1.52%) PMI Certification
10 70 (1.40%) CISSP
11 60 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 55 (1.10%) PhD
13 46 (0.92%) HNC
14 40 (0.80%) 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 32 (0.64%) DV Cleared
19 32 (0.64%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 218 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 171 (3.41%) QA
3 132 (2.63%) SLA
4 110 (2.20%) Accessibility
5 97 (1.94%) GDPR
6 93 (1.86%) PMO
7 78 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 71 (1.42%) NIST
9 41 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
10 27 (0.54%) GRC
11 25 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
12 19 (0.38%) ISO 9001
13 17 (0.34%) IFRS
14 16 (0.32%) NCSC
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 7 (0.14%) CDISC
19 7 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 94 (1.88%) Active Directory
2 90 (1.80%) Docker
3 54 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.36%) Hyper-V
5 17 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.32%) 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
5 23 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (0.22%) 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 (0.100%) Puppet
11 4 (0.080%) Functional Safety
12 3 (0.060%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.060%) SCOM
13 2 (0.040%) Dell DRAC
13 2 (0.040%) Progress Chef
14 1 (0.020%) Kiali
14 1 (0.020%) Oracle ZFS
14 1 (0.020%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 1,098 (21.91%) Microsoft
2 199 (3.97%) Oracle
3 169 (3.37%) Databricks
4 160 (3.19%) Google
5 100 (2.00%) SAP
6 82 (1.64%) Salesforce
7 73 (1.46%) VMware
8 57 (1.14%) Alteryx
9 40 (0.80%) IBM
10 34 (0.68%) ServiceNow
11 27 (0.54%) Adobe
11 27 (0.54%) Cisco
12 25 (0.50%) Pega
13 21 (0.42%) Cognos
14 20 (0.40%) CA
15 19 (0.38%) Splunk
16 18 (0.36%) Capita
17 17 (0.34%) F5
17 17 (0.34%) Sybase
18 16 (0.32%) Cloudera