Decision-Making Job Trends in the City of London

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 Decision-Making skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 53 71
Rank change year-on-year +26 +18 +31
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 146 136 103
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 6.97% 5.01% 3.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.95% 5.25% 3.80%
Number of salaries quoted 110 67 90
10th Percentile £42,150 £49,600 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.29% -9.33%
75th Percentile £88,438 £97,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £126,250 £90,250
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £68,500
% change year-on-year - +9.49% -8.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

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 1,837 2,590 2,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 87.64% 95.47% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,364 1,691 2,434
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £40,750
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% - -

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Decision-Making job vacancy trend in the City of London

Decision-Making
Salary Trend in the City of London

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

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

Decision-Making
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in the City of London over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Decision-Making in the City of London

Decision-Making
Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Decision-Making within the City of London region over the 6 months to 30 December 2025. 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
London Bridge -1 1 £112,500 -6.25%
Decision-Making
Central London

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 4 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (2.74%) Confluence
2 2 (1.37%) Apache
2 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.37%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.68%) CMS
3 1 (0.68%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.68%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (9.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.37%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (1.37%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.37%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.68%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 42 (28.77%) Power Platform
2 39 (26.71%) Azure
3 18 (12.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (6.85%) AWS
5 8 (5.48%) GCP
5 8 (5.48%) SaaS
6 7 (4.79%) Snowflake
7 6 (4.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (4.11%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.42%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (2.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (2.05%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.37%) Alation
10 2 (1.37%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 2 (1.37%) Cloud Composer
10 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (1.37%) Tessian
10 2 (1.37%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.37%) DKIM
1 2 (1.37%) DMARC
1 2 (1.37%) Firewall
1 2 (1.37%) Network Security
1 2 (1.37%) VPN
2 1 (0.68%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (28.77%) Power BI
2 23 (15.75%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (9.59%) Data Lake
4 12 (8.22%) SQL Server
5 11 (7.53%) Tableau
6 6 (4.11%) Power Query
7 4 (2.74%) BigQuery
8 3 (2.05%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (2.05%) GIS
8 3 (2.05%) QGIS
8 3 (2.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (2.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (2.05%) Star Schema
9 2 (1.37%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.37%) DataStage
9 2 (1.37%) KDB
9 2 (1.37%) Looker
9 2 (1.37%) Metadata
9 2 (1.37%) QlikView
10 1 (0.68%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 4 (2.74%) JIRA
2 2 (1.37%) ER Studio
2 2 (1.37%) ERwin
2 2 (1.37%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (0.68%) Git
General
1 81 (55.48%) Finance
2 54 (36.99%) Social Skills
3 50 (34.25%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (11.64%) Legal
5 14 (9.59%) Retail
6 12 (8.22%) Banking
6 12 (8.22%) Influencing Skills
6 12 (8.22%) Law
7 11 (7.53%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (6.16%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (5.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (5.48%) Marketing
10 7 (4.79%) Public Sector
11 5 (3.42%) German Language
12 4 (2.74%) Financial Institution
12 4 (2.74%) Front Office
13 3 (2.05%) Telecoms
14 2 (1.37%) Advertising
14 2 (1.37%) Back Office
14 2 (1.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (23.29%) Analyst
1 34 (23.29%) Senior
2 21 (14.38%) Lead
3 19 (13.01%) Developer
4 14 (9.59%) Data Analyst
5 13 (8.90%) Data Engineer
6 12 (8.22%) Senior Analyst
7 11 (7.53%) Financial Analyst
7 11 (7.53%) Senior Data Engineer
8 9 (6.16%) Senior Manager
9 8 (5.48%) Architect
9 8 (5.48%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 7 (4.79%) Senior Financial Analyst
11 6 (4.11%) Consultant
11 6 (4.11%) Risk Manager
11 6 (4.11%) Senior Risk Manager
11 6 (4.11%) Technical Leader
12 5 (3.42%) Data Architect
12 5 (3.42%) IT Manager
12 5 (3.42%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.42%) REST
1 5 (3.42%) SOAP
2 4 (2.74%) Hugging Face
3 3 (2.05%) .NET
3 3 (2.05%) Kafka
4 2 (1.37%) LangChain
4 2 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.37%) React
5 1 (0.68%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.68%) CrewAI
5 1 (0.68%) LangGraph
5 1 (0.68%) PySpark
5 1 (0.68%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.68%) Streamlit
5 1 (0.68%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.16%) Management Information System
2 7 (4.79%) Algorithms
2 7 (4.79%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (3.42%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.42%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.42%) Video Conferencing
4 4 (2.74%) Derivative
4 4 (2.74%) Reinsurance
5 3 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.37%) ASIC
6 2 (1.37%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.37%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (1.37%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.37%) FMCG
6 2 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.37%) OTC Derivatives
6 2 (1.37%) PKI
6 2 (1.37%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.37%) Windows
2 1 (0.68%) Unix
2 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (34.25%) Business Intelligence
2 48 (32.88%) Analytics
3 40 (27.40%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (26.71%) Agile
4 39 (26.71%) Data Modelling
5 33 (22.60%) ETL
6 30 (20.55%) Data Governance
7 29 (19.86%) Stakeholder Management
8 27 (18.49%) Actionable Insight
8 27 (18.49%) AI
9 25 (17.12%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (15.75%) Data Analysis
11 22 (15.07%) Data Pipeline
12 20 (13.70%) Roadmaps
13 18 (12.33%) Data Analytics
13 18 (12.33%) Risk Management
13 18 (12.33%) Visualisation
14 17 (11.64%) Cybersecurity
14 17 (11.64%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 17 (11.64%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 42 (28.77%) SQL
2 35 (23.97%) Python
3 11 (7.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (6.16%) T-SQL
5 6 (4.11%) Java
5 6 (4.11%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.74%) C#
7 3 (2.05%) C++
7 3 (2.05%) VBA
8 2 (1.37%) R
9 1 (0.68%) Scala
9 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (17.12%) Degree
2 9 (6.16%) ACCA
2 9 (6.16%) CIMA
3 7 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (4.11%) CISM
4 6 (4.11%) CISSP
4 6 (4.11%) Master's Degree
5 5 (3.42%) CISA
5 5 (3.42%) CRISC
6 4 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.74%) Security Cleared
7 3 (2.05%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.05%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.37%) CBAP
8 2 (1.37%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.37%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 2 (1.37%) MBA
8 2 (1.37%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.68%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.01%) Data Quality
2 16 (10.96%) QA
3 9 (6.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (4.79%) GDPR
4 7 (4.79%) SLA
5 6 (4.11%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (2.74%) PMO
7 3 (2.05%) EMIR
7 3 (2.05%) MiFID
8 2 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (1.37%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (2.05%) Docker
2 1 (0.68%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.68%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.37%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (23.29%) Microsoft
2 19 (13.01%) Databricks
3 7 (4.79%) Oracle
3 7 (4.79%) ServiceNow
4 6 (4.11%) Google
5 5 (3.42%) Hitachi
6 4 (2.74%) Informatica
6 4 (2.74%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.05%) Anaplan
7 3 (2.05%) IBM
7 3 (2.05%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.37%) SAP
9 1 (0.68%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.68%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (0.68%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.68%) Gemalto
9 1 (0.68%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.68%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.68%) Thales
9 1 (0.68%) VMware