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

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 68 77
Rank change year-on-year +24 +9 +39
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 5,020 4,503 7,751
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.86% 4.63% 4.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.78% 4.85% 4.85%
Number of salaries quoted 2,600 1,901 3,120
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,067 £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 £53,348
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.59% +1.61%

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 86,886 92,843 159,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.13% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,763 54,795 82,800
10th Percentile £29,250 £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 29 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 29 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 +17 4,073 £55,000 -7.60% 1,837
UK excluding London +16 3,458 £50,000 -4.76% 1,155
Work from Home +7 1,946 £55,000 -8.33% 757
London +38 1,324 £67,500 -3.57% 711
South East +45 940 £47,500 -13.64% 282
North of England -9 735 £52,000 -2.80% 300
Scotland +62 688 £48,000 -20.00% 76
Midlands +2 470 £54,969 +22.15% 198
North West +49 435 £50,000 -8.12% 181
West Midlands +14 325 £55,000 +37.50% 129
East of England +24 286 £47,500 -13.64% 122
South West -46 264 £50,000 - 167
Yorkshire -31 220 £55,000 +2.80% 96
East Midlands -13 136 £45,000 -18.18% 69
North East +9 80 £45,249 -13.81% 25
Wales +14 62 £42,500 -23.86% 38
Northern Ireland +32 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
1 178 (3.55%) Apache Spark
2 99 (1.97%) Apache
3 71 (1.41%) SharePoint
4 63 (1.25%) FileNet
5 55 (1.10%) Confluence
6 53 (1.06%) SAS
7 40 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
8 38 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
9 24 (0.48%) 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
1 923 (18.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 250 (4.98%) Microsoft Office
3 150 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (0.86%) 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 Premiere
13 2 (0.040%) LaTeX
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
1 618 (12.31%) AWS
2 497 (9.90%) Azure
3 453 (9.02%) Power Platform
4 169 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
5 155 (3.09%) GCP
6 145 (2.89%) SaaS
7 121 (2.41%) Amazon S3
8 78 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
9 72 (1.43%) Serverless
10 62 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
10 62 (1.24%) GitHub
11 49 (0.98%) IaaS
11 49 (0.98%) PowerApps
12 44 (0.88%) Power Automate
13 41 (0.82%) Snowflake
14 39 (0.78%) Amazon EC2
14 39 (0.78%) AWS CloudFormation
15 38 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
16 35 (0.70%) Azure DevOps
16 35 (0.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 467 (9.30%) Broadband
2 63 (1.25%) Firewall
3 46 (0.92%) WAN
4 41 (0.82%) DNS
5 33 (0.66%) VoIP
6 27 (0.54%) Network Security
7 26 (0.52%) 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 11 (0.22%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 416 (8.29%) Power BI
2 281 (5.60%) Tableau
3 169 (3.37%) SQL Server
4 162 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
5 145 (2.89%) NoSQL
6 142 (2.83%) Big Data
7 103 (2.05%) Hadoop
8 93 (1.85%) BigQuery
9 92 (1.83%) Relational Database
10 79 (1.57%) Data Lake
10 79 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
11 65 (1.29%) Apache Cassandra
12 57 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
13 56 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
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 98 (1.95%) JIRA
4 87 (1.73%) 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%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 17 (0.34%) Cypress.io
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 2,213 (44.08%) Social Skills
2 2,047 (40.78%) Finance
3 1,563 (31.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1,062 (21.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 697 (13.88%) Law
6 690 (13.75%) Marketing
7 608 (12.11%) Influencing Skills
8 473 (9.42%) Legal
9 430 (8.57%) Retail
10 224 (4.46%) Public Sector
11 214 (4.26%) Banking
12 190 (3.78%) Presentation Skills
13 138 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
14 114 (2.27%) Manufacturing
15 93 (1.85%) Investment Banking
16 91 (1.81%) Games
17 90 (1.79%) Telecoms
18 60 (1.20%) Front Office
19 54 (1.08%) Automotive
20 43 (0.86%) Police
Job Titles
1 1,268 (25.26%) Analyst
2 998 (19.88%) Senior
3 499 (9.94%) Software Engineer
4 469 (9.34%) Lead
5 335 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
6 282 (5.62%) Project Manager
7 242 (4.82%) Architect
8 218 (4.34%) Java Engineer
9 214 (4.26%) Data Scientist
10 212 (4.22%) Java Software Engineer
11 202 (4.02%) Data Analyst
12 196 (3.90%) Senior Manager
13 192 (3.82%) Development Manager
14 189 (3.76%) Business Analyst
15 184 (3.67%) Financial Analyst
16 169 (3.37%) 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 (4.58%) React
2 228 (4.54%) Spring
3 159 (3.17%) AngularJS
4 130 (2.59%) .NET
5 127 (2.53%) Kafka
6 115 (2.29%) J2EE
7 102 (2.03%) PySpark
8 99 (1.97%) Spring Boot
9 98 (1.95%) HTML
10 95 (1.89%) GraphQL
11 93 (1.85%) Hibernate
12 87 (1.73%) CSS
13 75 (1.49%) REST
14 73 (1.45%) Pandas
15 63 (1.25%) Node.js
15 63 (1.25%) Spring Integration
15 63 (1.25%) TensorFlow
16 54 (1.08%) RESTful
17 50 (1.00%) scikit-learn
18 45 (0.90%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 386 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 288 (5.74%) Algorithms
3 275 (5.48%) Cloud Native
4 222 (4.42%) Self-Motivation
5 212 (4.22%) Product Ownership
6 147 (2.93%) Public Cloud
7 109 (2.17%) Onboarding
8 107 (2.13%) Driving Licence
9 103 (2.05%) Data Structures
10 65 (1.29%) Credit Risk
11 63 (1.25%) 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 34 (0.68%) Taxonomies
19 33 (0.66%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 181 (3.61%) Windows
2 88 (1.75%) Linux
3 46 (0.92%) 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%) 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 1,846 (36.77%) Agile
2 1,546 (30.80%) Problem-Solving
3 1,132 (22.55%) Mentoring
4 850 (16.93%) Actionable Insight
5 758 (15.10%) Coaching
6 747 (14.88%) Software Engineering
7 741 (14.76%) Project Management
8 727 (14.48%) Analytics
9 642 (12.79%) Business Case
10 605 (12.05%) Machine Learning
11 600 (11.95%) Artificial Intelligence
12 578 (11.51%) Data Analysis
13 559 (11.14%) Business Intelligence
14 551 (10.98%) Computer Science
15 541 (10.78%) SDLC
16 530 (10.56%) Budgeting
17 526 (10.48%) Budgeting and Forecasting
18 511 (10.18%) CI/CD
19 496 (9.88%) Risk Management
20 469 (9.34%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 945 (18.82%) SQL
2 702 (13.98%) Python
3 603 (12.01%) Java
4 151 (3.01%) C#
5 141 (2.81%) JavaScript
6 113 (2.25%) Scala
7 112 (2.23%) R
8 89 (1.77%) TypeScript
9 61 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 60 (1.20%) T-SQL
11 54 (1.08%) 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%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,163 (23.17%) Degree
2 480 (9.56%) ACCA
3 465 (9.26%) CIMA
4 293 (5.84%) Security Cleared
5 209 (4.16%) Master's Degree
6 166 (3.31%) SC Cleared
7 159 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 126 (2.51%) DBS Check
9 75 (1.49%) PMI Certification
10 71 (1.41%) 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 33 (0.66%) DV Cleared
20 31 (0.62%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 219 (4.36%) Data Quality
2 169 (3.37%) QA
3 132 (2.63%) SLA
4 112 (2.23%) Accessibility
5 99 (1.97%) GDPR
6 93 (1.85%) PMO
7 79 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 71 (1.41%) 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 17 (0.34%) 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 94 (1.87%) Active Directory
2 90 (1.79%) 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 (4.34%) Kubernetes
2 91 (1.81%) 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%) Istio
13 1 (0.020%) Kiali
13 1 (0.020%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 1,102 (21.95%) Microsoft
2 199 (3.96%) Oracle
3 168 (3.35%) Databricks
4 154 (3.07%) Google
5 100 (1.99%) SAP
6 84 (1.67%) Salesforce
7 73 (1.45%) VMware
8 57 (1.14%) Alteryx
9 40 (0.80%) IBM
10 35 (0.70%) ServiceNow
11 28 (0.56%) Adobe
12 27 (0.54%) Cisco
13 25 (0.50%) Pega
14 21 (0.42%) Cognos
15 20 (0.40%) CA
15 20 (0.40%) Splunk
16 18 (0.36%) Capita
17 17 (0.34%) F5
17 17 (0.34%) Sybase
18 16 (0.32%) BT