Data-Driven Decision Making Jobs

Data-Driven Decision Making
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Data-Driven Decision Making skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data-Driven Decision Making over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 379 409 501
Rank change year-on-year +30 +92 +108
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 479 408 868
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.63% 0.71% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.75% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 275 308 314
10th Percentile £41,263 £34,000 £36,963
25th Percentile £51,188 £38,130 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £90,000 £68,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,000 £85,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £49,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +22.45% -10.91% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data-Driven Decision Making falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 63,881 54,318 133,368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.08% 94.30% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 30,489 39,141 76,332
10th Percentile £34,000 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £78,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,439 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.69% - +5.00%

Data-Driven Decision Making
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK

Data-Driven Decision Making
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK

Data-Driven Decision Making
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK

Data-Driven Decision Making
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making within the UK over the 6 months to 31 October 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 +19 451 £65,000 +18.18% 182
UK excluding London +13 317 £60,000 +22.45% 123
London +68 156 £90,000 +29.96% 72
South East -28 115 £55,000 +4.66% 24
Work from Home -30 104 £62,500 +4.94% 100
North of England +5 83 £80,100 +94.18% 37
North West -14 61 £80,100 +135.59% 25
Midlands +2 59 £60,000 +20.00% 28
West Midlands +2 48 £60,000 +4.35% 25
South West -23 24 £52,500 +17.93% 11
Yorkshire +25 21 £65,000 +30.00% 9
Scotland +10 20 £64,375 +8.09% 8
East of England -52 13 £99,097 +140.23% 12
East Midlands -34 11 £82,500 +65.00% 3
Wales +19 2 - - 3
North East -36 1 - - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 £90,000 - 2

Data-Driven 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 16 (3.34%) SAS
1 16 (3.34%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.09%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.67%) Apache
4 5 (1.04%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.84%) Confluence
5 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.21%) CMS
Applications
1 23 (4.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.88%) Weka
3 7 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.63%) Trello
6 2 (0.42%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle Smart View
6 2 (0.42%) Sketch
7 1 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.21%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.21%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.21%) InDesign
7 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 28 (5.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (2.09%) Primavera
3 3 (0.63%) Magento
3 3 (0.63%) Shopify
4 2 (0.42%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.42%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.42%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.42%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 100 (20.88%) Power Platform
2 74 (15.45%) Azure
3 31 (6.47%) AWS
4 26 (5.43%) GCP
5 17 (3.55%) Azure Data Factory
6 16 (3.34%) Snowflake
7 15 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (2.30%) dbt
8 11 (2.30%) Power Automate
9 10 (2.09%) Serverless
10 9 (1.88%) SaaS
11 7 (1.46%) GitHub
12 6 (1.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (1.25%) Google Analytics
12 6 (1.25%) PowerApps
13 5 (1.04%) Microsoft 365
14 4 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (0.84%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (0.84%) OneDrive
15 3 (0.63%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.09%) Firewall
1 10 (2.09%) OSPF
2 6 (1.25%) WAN
3 3 (0.63%) Internet
4 1 (0.21%) Broadband
4 1 (0.21%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (20.88%) Power BI
2 75 (15.66%) Data Warehouse
3 42 (8.77%) Tableau
4 29 (6.05%) Data Lake
5 25 (5.22%) SQL Server
6 19 (3.97%) Looker
7 15 (3.13%) BigQuery
7 15 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 14 (2.92%) Big Data
9 13 (2.71%) Amazon QuickSight
9 13 (2.71%) Azure SQL Database
9 13 (2.71%) NoSQL
9 13 (2.71%) Power Query
10 11 (2.30%) Relational Database
10 11 (2.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 8 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (1.46%) Oracle Database
13 6 (1.25%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 6 (1.25%) Data Mining
14 5 (1.04%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 17 (3.55%) JIRA
2 10 (2.09%) Git
3 2 (0.42%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.21%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.21%) ERwin
4 1 (0.21%) GitLab
4 1 (0.21%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.21%) Subversion
General
1 208 (43.42%) Social Skills
2 161 (33.61%) Analytical Skills
3 116 (24.22%) Finance
4 53 (11.06%) Marketing
5 31 (6.47%) Law
6 28 (5.85%) Presentation Skills
6 28 (5.85%) Retail
7 17 (3.55%) Influencing Skills
8 16 (3.34%) Legal
9 13 (2.71%) Banking
10 12 (2.51%) Manufacturing
11 11 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (1.88%) Public Sector
13 7 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (1.25%) Automotive
14 6 (1.25%) Local Government
14 6 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (1.04%) Advertising
16 4 (0.84%) Telecoms
17 2 (0.42%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 101 (21.09%) Senior
2 74 (15.45%) Analyst
3 51 (10.65%) Product Manager
4 48 (10.02%) Senior Manager
5 42 (8.77%) Developer
6 33 (6.89%) Analytics Manager
7 30 (6.26%) Data Engineer
8 28 (5.85%) Senior Analytics Manager
9 27 (5.64%) SAP Manager
10 23 (4.80%) Data Analyst
11 21 (4.38%) Lead
12 18 (3.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 15 (3.13%) Insight Analyst
13 15 (3.13%) Product Owner
14 14 (2.92%) Architect
14 14 (2.92%) Senior Data Engineer
14 14 (2.92%) Senior Developer
15 13 (2.71%) Data Manager
16 12 (2.51%) Senior Product Manager
17 11 (2.30%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.92%) HTML
2 11 (2.30%) React
3 10 (2.09%) 802.1X
3 10 (2.09%) CSS
4 7 (1.46%) AngularJS
4 7 (1.46%) PySpark
4 7 (1.46%) RESTful
4 7 (1.46%) Vue
5 6 (1.25%) Oracle Fusion
6 5 (1.04%) .NET
7 4 (0.84%) .NET Framework
7 4 (0.84%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (0.84%) FastAPI
7 4 (0.84%) Flask
7 4 (0.84%) GraphQL
7 4 (0.84%) LangChain
7 4 (0.84%) Node.js
7 4 (0.84%) Pandas
8 3 (0.63%) JWT
8 3 (0.63%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 43 (8.98%) Product Ownership
2 28 (5.85%) Management Information System
3 23 (4.80%) Analytical Mindset
4 20 (4.18%) Data Structures
5 18 (3.76%) Onboarding
6 16 (3.34%) Data Centre
7 13 (2.71%) FMCG
8 11 (2.30%) Driving Licence
8 11 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (1.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 7 (1.46%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.25%) Reinsurance
11 6 (1.25%) Smart Energy
11 6 (1.25%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.04%) Insider Threat
12 5 (1.04%) Life Science
12 5 (1.04%) Security Operations Centre
13 4 (0.84%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.04%) Unix
2 3 (0.63%) Windows
3 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.21%) Android
4 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.21%) Linux
4 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.21%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (81.63%) Decision-Making
2 190 (39.67%) Analytics
3 160 (33.40%) Business Intelligence
4 119 (24.84%) Problem-Solving
5 105 (21.92%) Visualisation
6 104 (21.71%) Cybersecurity
7 99 (20.67%) Agile
8 96 (20.04%) Roadmaps
9 86 (17.95%) Continuous Improvement
10 83 (17.33%) Data Modelling
11 73 (15.24%) Data Analysis
12 70 (14.61%) Project Management
13 69 (14.41%) ETL
14 67 (13.99%) Data Visualisation
15 66 (13.78%) Data Management
16 65 (13.57%) Mentoring
17 61 (12.73%) Data Governance
18 58 (12.11%) Stakeholder Management
19 57 (11.90%) Data Science
20 53 (11.06%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 142 (29.65%) SQL
2 62 (12.94%) Python
3 21 (4.38%) R
4 16 (3.34%) JavaScript
5 13 (2.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 13 (2.71%) PowerShell
6 12 (2.51%) MATLAB
7 8 (1.67%) Java
8 7 (1.46%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.04%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.84%) C#
10 4 (0.84%) Go
11 3 (0.63%) Bicep
12 2 (0.42%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.21%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 136 (28.39%) Degree
2 57 (11.90%) Security Cleared
3 24 (5.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (5.01%) Master's Degree
4 14 (2.92%) DBS Check
5 10 (2.09%) PMI Certification
5 10 (2.09%) PMP
6 6 (1.25%) Numerate Degree
7 4 (0.84%) CBAP
7 4 (0.84%) CSPO
7 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (0.84%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.63%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.63%) MBA
9 2 (0.42%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.42%) HNC
9 2 (0.42%) IIBA
10 1 (0.21%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.21%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (11.48%) Data Quality
2 20 (4.18%) SLA
3 14 (2.92%) GDPR
4 13 (2.71%) Accessibility
5 11 (2.30%) QA
6 3 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.63%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (2.30%) Firmware
2 6 (1.25%) Docker
3 4 (0.84%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (1.25%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.84%) Terraform
3 2 (0.42%) Matomo
4 1 (0.21%) Ansible
4 1 (0.21%) SCCM
Vendors
1 50 (10.44%) Microsoft
2 32 (6.68%) SAP
3 26 (5.43%) Google
4 25 (5.22%) Oracle
5 24 (5.01%) Databricks
6 17 (3.55%) Salesforce
7 9 (1.88%) Cadence
7 9 (1.88%) Foundry
8 6 (1.25%) Extreme Networks
8 6 (1.25%) Juniper
9 5 (1.04%) BT
9 5 (1.04%) IFS
10 4 (0.84%) Alteryx
10 4 (0.84%) AppDynamics
10 4 (0.84%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.84%) Splunk
11 3 (0.63%) Palantir
11 3 (0.63%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 3 (0.63%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.63%) Workday