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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 65 80
Rank change year-on-year +21 +15 +37
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 4,922 4,914 6,637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.02% 4.70% 4.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.84% 4.91% 4.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,595 2,059 3,031
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,500 £37,275
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +4.76%

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 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +14 3,959 £55,000 -8.33% 1,480
UK excluding London +18 3,417 £50,000 -6.98% 916
Work from Home +6 1,970 £56,500 -5.83% 598
London +39 1,264 £70,000 +0.58% 621
South East +48 922 £50,000 -16.67% 248
North of England -11 725 £52,500 -4.01% 231
Scotland +57 702 £45,543 -24.15% 53
Midlands +1 439 £52,500 +16.67% 138
North West +60 414 £50,000 -9.09% 130
West Midlands +4 293 £55,000 +32.02% 89
East of England +30 289 £47,500 -20.83% 100
South West -36 267 £50,250 +0.50% 121
Yorkshire -28 228 £56,500 +5.61% 69
East Midlands -6 139 £45,001 -21.74% 49
North East +6 83 £45,249 -13.81% 37
Wales +13 60 £42,500 -25.61% 31
Northern Ireland +36 16 £30,000 -33.33% 22
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
1 186 (3.78%) Apache Spark
2 107 (2.17%) Apache
3 74 (1.50%) SharePoint
4 62 (1.26%) FileNet
5 57 (1.16%) SAS
6 54 (1.10%) Confluence
7 40 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
8 38 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
9 27 (0.55%) CMS
10 20 (0.41%) Camunda
11 17 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
12 13 (0.26%) ArcGIS
13 12 (0.24%) Anypoint
13 12 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
14 11 (0.22%) CICS
14 11 (0.22%) OpenStack
15 8 (0.16%) Drupal
16 7 (0.14%) Jupyter
16 7 (0.14%) nginx
17 6 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 899 (18.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 227 (4.61%) Microsoft Office
3 127 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
5 29 (0.59%) MS Visio
5 29 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.28%) SPSS
7 7 (0.14%) Sketch
8 6 (0.12%) InVision
9 5 (0.10%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.081%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.081%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.081%) Siemens NX
10 4 (0.081%) Simulink
10 4 (0.081%) Stateflow
11 3 (0.061%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
11 3 (0.061%) Trello
12 2 (0.041%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.041%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 42 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.37%) iTrent
3 16 (0.33%) 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
7 8 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
8 7 (0.14%) SAP ERP
8 7 (0.14%) SAP PP
9 6 (0.12%) Elite 3E
9 6 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
10 5 (0.10%) SAP MM
10 5 (0.10%) SAP SD
10 5 (0.10%) SAP WM
11 4 (0.081%) SAP APO
11 4 (0.081%) SAP SCM
12 3 (0.061%) NetSuite
12 3 (0.061%) Oracle iProcurement
Cloud Services
1 610 (12.39%) AWS
2 488 (9.91%) Azure
3 462 (9.39%) Power Platform
4 177 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
5 159 (3.23%) GCP
6 152 (3.09%) SaaS
7 127 (2.58%) Amazon S3
8 77 (1.56%) Serverless
9 73 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
10 67 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
11 64 (1.30%) GitHub
12 57 (1.16%) PowerApps
13 51 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
14 50 (1.02%) IaaS
15 48 (0.98%) AWS CloudFormation
15 48 (0.98%) Power Automate
16 44 (0.89%) Amazon ECS
17 40 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
18 37 (0.75%) Amazon SQS
18 37 (0.75%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 467 (9.49%) Broadband
2 63 (1.28%) Firewall
3 45 (0.91%) DNS
4 42 (0.85%) WAN
5 33 (0.67%) VoIP
6 24 (0.49%) LAN
7 22 (0.45%) Network Security
7 22 (0.45%) Unified Communications
7 22 (0.45%) VPN
8 19 (0.39%) Internet
9 18 (0.37%) DHCP
9 18 (0.37%) DSL
9 18 (0.37%) Intranet
9 18 (0.37%) Kerberos
10 17 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
11 14 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
11 14 (0.28%) Wireless
12 13 (0.26%) TCP/IP
12 13 (0.26%) VLAN
13 9 (0.18%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 428 (8.70%) Power BI
2 259 (5.26%) Tableau
3 168 (3.41%) SQL Server
4 155 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
5 151 (3.07%) Big Data
6 140 (2.84%) NoSQL
7 106 (2.15%) Hadoop
8 97 (1.97%) BigQuery
8 97 (1.97%) Relational Database
9 78 (1.58%) Data Lake
10 77 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
11 69 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
12 64 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
13 59 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 49 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
15 48 (0.98%) DB2
16 47 (0.95%) MySQL
17 40 (0.81%) Apache Hive
18 37 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 34 (0.69%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 126 (2.56%) Jenkins
2 103 (2.09%) JIRA
3 100 (2.03%) Git
4 86 (1.75%) JUnit
5 61 (1.24%) Jasmine
6 44 (0.89%) Mockito
7 36 (0.73%) Artifactory
8 30 (0.61%) Maven
9 25 (0.51%) CircleCI
10 24 (0.49%) Selenium
11 23 (0.47%) JMeter
12 22 (0.45%) Cypress.io
12 22 (0.45%) WebDriver
13 20 (0.41%) Gradle
13 20 (0.41%) Travis CI
14 18 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 17 (0.35%) Karma Test Runner
15 17 (0.35%) Protractor
16 15 (0.30%) LabVIEW
17 11 (0.22%) ChangeMan
General
1 2,153 (43.74%) Social Skills
2 2,038 (41.41%) Finance
3 1,577 (32.04%) Analytical Skills
4 1,039 (21.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 691 (14.04%) Marketing
6 685 (13.92%) Law
7 602 (12.23%) Influencing Skills
8 453 (9.20%) Legal
9 397 (8.07%) Retail
10 245 (4.98%) Banking
11 225 (4.57%) Public Sector
12 179 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
13 144 (2.93%) Organisational Skills
14 111 (2.26%) Manufacturing
15 97 (1.97%) Telecoms
16 94 (1.91%) Games
16 94 (1.91%) Investment Banking
17 64 (1.30%) Front Office
18 51 (1.04%) Automotive
19 42 (0.85%) Police
Job Titles
1 1,246 (25.31%) Analyst
2 964 (19.59%) Senior
3 495 (10.06%) Software Engineer
4 456 (9.26%) Lead
5 332 (6.75%) Senior Analyst
6 282 (5.73%) Project Manager
7 242 (4.92%) Architect
8 218 (4.43%) Java Engineer
9 212 (4.31%) Java Software Engineer
10 196 (3.98%) Data Scientist
11 192 (3.90%) Business Analyst
12 188 (3.82%) Senior Manager
13 186 (3.78%) Data Analyst
13 186 (3.78%) Financial Analyst
14 175 (3.56%) Developer
15 157 (3.19%) Commercial Analyst
16 147 (2.99%) Consultant
17 136 (2.76%) Development Manager
18 127 (2.58%) Full Stack Engineer
18 127 (2.58%) Full Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 230 (4.67%) Spring
2 228 (4.63%) React
3 162 (3.29%) AngularJS
4 130 (2.64%) Kafka
5 125 (2.54%) .NET
5 125 (2.54%) J2EE
6 101 (2.05%) Spring Boot
7 97 (1.97%) GraphQL
7 97 (1.97%) HTML
8 92 (1.87%) Hibernate
9 87 (1.77%) CSS
10 84 (1.71%) PySpark
11 77 (1.56%) REST
12 68 (1.38%) Node.js
13 62 (1.26%) Spring Integration
14 57 (1.16%) Pandas
15 51 (1.04%) RESTful
16 46 (0.93%) JSON
17 40 (0.81%) TensorFlow
18 38 (0.77%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 370 (7.52%) Management Information System
2 268 (5.44%) Cloud Native
3 263 (5.34%) Algorithms
4 223 (4.53%) Self-Motivation
5 210 (4.27%) Product Ownership
6 149 (3.03%) Public Cloud
7 107 (2.17%) Driving Licence
8 103 (2.09%) Onboarding
9 98 (1.99%) Data Structures
10 66 (1.34%) Credit Risk
11 60 (1.22%) Social Media
12 56 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
13 55 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
13 55 (1.12%) IoT
14 52 (1.06%) Data Centre
15 51 (1.04%) NHS
16 50 (1.02%) Taxonomies
17 44 (0.89%) PMI
18 39 (0.79%) Tandem
19 35 (0.71%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 179 (3.64%) Windows
2 79 (1.61%) Linux
3 47 (0.95%) Windows Server
4 38 (0.77%) Windows 10
5 28 (0.57%) Unix
6 25 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
7 23 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
8 17 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
9 16 (0.33%) Windows 7
10 12 (0.24%) Mac OS
11 11 (0.22%) Android
11 11 (0.22%) Windows Vista
12 10 (0.20%) Apple iOS
13 3 (0.061%) Amazon Linux
13 3 (0.061%) Embedded Linux
13 3 (0.061%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.041%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.041%) VME
14 2 (0.041%) VMS
15 1 (0.020%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,897 (38.54%) Agile
2 1,526 (31.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1,137 (23.10%) Mentoring
4 848 (17.23%) Actionable Insight
5 754 (15.32%) Software Engineering
6 734 (14.91%) Analytics
7 727 (14.77%) Coaching
8 725 (14.73%) Project Management
9 649 (13.19%) Business Case
10 583 (11.84%) Artificial Intelligence
11 579 (11.76%) Machine Learning
12 567 (11.52%) Data Analysis
13 564 (11.46%) Business Intelligence
14 546 (11.09%) SDLC
15 537 (10.91%) CI/CD
16 528 (10.73%) Budgeting
17 520 (10.56%) Computer Science
18 500 (10.16%) Budgeting and Forecasting
19 490 (9.96%) Risk Management
20 469 (9.53%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 904 (18.37%) SQL
2 687 (13.96%) Python
3 610 (12.39%) Java
4 150 (3.05%) C#
5 138 (2.80%) JavaScript
6 113 (2.30%) Scala
7 108 (2.19%) R
8 86 (1.75%) TypeScript
9 68 (1.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 62 (1.26%) T-SQL
11 49 (1.00%) PowerShell
12 46 (0.93%) Go
13 43 (0.87%) C
14 40 (0.81%) C++
15 37 (0.75%) Bash
15 37 (0.75%) PHP
16 26 (0.53%) PL/SQL
17 25 (0.51%) Ruby
18 23 (0.47%) PL/1
19 19 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,116 (22.67%) Degree
2 477 (9.69%) ACCA
3 465 (9.45%) CIMA
4 286 (5.81%) Security Cleared
5 196 (3.98%) Master's Degree
6 166 (3.37%) SC Cleared
7 144 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
8 100 (2.03%) DBS Check
9 71 (1.44%) PMI Certification
10 66 (1.34%) CISSP
11 59 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 49 (1.00%) PhD
13 44 (0.89%) HNC
14 38 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
15 37 (0.75%) APMP
16 35 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
16 35 (0.71%) CISM
17 34 (0.69%) MBA
18 32 (0.65%) DV Cleared
19 30 (0.61%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (4.19%) Data Quality
2 167 (3.39%) QA
3 131 (2.66%) SLA
4 107 (2.17%) Accessibility
5 93 (1.89%) GDPR
5 93 (1.89%) PMO
6 70 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 66 (1.34%) NIST
8 62 (1.26%) Actionable Recommendations
9 25 (0.51%) GRC
10 23 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
11 18 (0.37%) ISO 9001
12 15 (0.30%) NCSC
13 14 (0.28%) IFRS
13 14 (0.28%) PCI DSS
14 12 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 12 (0.24%) NIST 800
15 9 (0.18%) COBIT
16 8 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 7 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 99 (2.01%) Active Directory
2 95 (1.93%) Docker
3 54 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.39%) Hyper-V
5 17 (0.35%) HDFS
6 16 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
7 13 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
9 8 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.081%) Firmware
11 4 (0.081%) NFS
12 1 (0.020%) KVM
12 1 (0.020%) RACF
Systems Management
1 226 (4.59%) Kubernetes
2 105 (2.13%) Terraform
3 25 (0.51%) SCCM
4 22 (0.45%) Ansible
5 20 (0.41%) 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 (0.081%) Functional Safety
12 3 (0.061%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.061%) SCOM
13 2 (0.041%) Dell DRAC
14 1 (0.020%) Computer Incident Response Team
14 1 (0.020%) EMC NetWorker
14 1 (0.020%) Kiali
14 1 (0.020%) Plesk
Vendors
1 1,067 (21.68%) Microsoft
2 197 (4.00%) Oracle
3 165 (3.35%) Google
4 147 (2.99%) Databricks
5 102 (2.07%) SAP
6 94 (1.91%) Salesforce
7 73 (1.48%) VMware
8 61 (1.24%) Alteryx
9 41 (0.83%) IBM
10 34 (0.69%) ServiceNow
11 26 (0.53%) Adobe
11 26 (0.53%) Cisco
11 26 (0.53%) Pega
12 22 (0.45%) Cognos
13 18 (0.37%) CA
13 18 (0.37%) Sybase
14 17 (0.35%) Cloudera
14 17 (0.35%) F5
15 16 (0.33%) Splunk
16 14 (0.28%) Informatica