Data-Driven Decision Making Job Trends in the City of London

Data-Driven Decision Making
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Data-Driven Decision Making skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 148 154
Rank change year-on-year +40 +6 +102
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 19 21 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.91% 0.77% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 0.81% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 11 14 18
10th Percentile £62,500 - £45,250
25th Percentile £68,125 £52,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £61,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +51.02% +11.36% -29.03%
75th Percentile £115,000 £75,938 £71,938
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £80,000
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £60,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +49.38% +9.55% -22.81%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

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 in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,828 2,592 2,711
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 87.63% 95.40% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,358 1,692 2,440
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £40,475
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

Data-Driven Decision Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data-Driven Decision Making relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Data-Driven Decision Making job vacancy trend in the City of London

Data-Driven Decision Making
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data-Driven Decision Making.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data-Driven Decision Making

Data-Driven Decision Making
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making in the City of London over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Data-Driven Decision Making in the City of London

Data-Driven Decision Making
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) Power Platform
2 5 (26.32%) Azure
3 3 (15.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 3 (15.79%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (15.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (47.37%) Power BI
2 7 (36.84%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (15.79%) Data Lake
3 3 (15.79%) Star Schema
4 2 (10.53%) Tableau
5 1 (5.26%) Big Data
5 1 (5.26%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
5 1 (5.26%) Looker
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 11 (57.89%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (47.37%) Finance
3 4 (21.05%) Law
3 4 (21.05%) Legal
4 3 (15.79%) Marketing
4 3 (15.79%) Retail
5 2 (10.53%) Back Office
5 2 (10.53%) Banking
5 2 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
6 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Lead
2 3 (15.79%) Architect
2 3 (15.79%) Azure Architect
2 3 (15.79%) Azure Data Architect
2 3 (15.79%) Data Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Finance Business Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Financial Business Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Financial Services Business Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Head of Analytics
4 1 (5.26%) Head of Data Analytics
4 1 (5.26%) Head of IT
4 1 (5.26%) Head of Strategy
4 1 (5.26%) Product Owner
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Reinsurance
2 1 (5.26%) Cybercrime
2 1 (5.26%) FMCG
2 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (89.47%) Decision-Making
2 14 (73.68%) Analytics
3 12 (63.16%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (63.16%) Data Governance
4 9 (47.37%) Actionable Insight
4 9 (47.37%) Data Modelling
4 9 (47.37%) Data Strategy
5 7 (36.84%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (31.58%) Agile
6 6 (31.58%) AI
6 6 (31.58%) Data Analysis
6 6 (31.58%) Data Engineering
7 5 (26.32%) Data Analytics
7 5 (26.32%) Data Science
7 5 (26.32%) ETL
7 5 (26.32%) Mentoring
8 4 (21.05%) Creative Thinking
8 4 (21.05%) Data Management
8 4 (21.05%) Data Visualisation
8 4 (21.05%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) SQL
2 4 (21.05%) Python
3 1 (5.26%) Java
3 1 (5.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
1 3 (15.79%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (36.84%) Data Quality
2 4 (21.05%) GDPR
3 2 (10.53%) QA
4 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (5.26%) SLA
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Databricks
3 1 (5.26%) HubSpot
3 1 (5.26%) Salesforce