Decision-Making Job Trends in the East of England

Decision-Making
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Decision-Making skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 69 39
Rank change year-on-year +32 -30 +21
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 250 132 280
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 3.77% 3.81% 4.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.28% 4.27% 5.61%
Number of salaries quoted 157 47 127
10th Percentile £30,000 £41,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,460 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +16.33% -10.91%
75th Percentile £82,500 £65,000 £64,375
90th Percentile £117,500 £83,738 £79,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year - +10.09% -8.44%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,736 3,094 4,990
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 71.40% 89.27% 77.40%
Number of salaries quoted 3,303 1,655 3,648
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,125 £33,094
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £89,350 £75,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Decision-Making job vacancy trend in the East of England

Decision-Making
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Decision-Making.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Decision-Making

Decision-Making
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in the East of England over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Decision-Making in the East of England

Decision-Making
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Decision-Making within the East of England region over the 6 months to 13 July 2026. 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
Hertfordshire +8 102 £80,000 +39.13% 40
Cambridgeshire -2 62 £50,000 -16.67% 22
Bedfordshire +30 30 £45,000 -41.94% 19
Suffolk +15 27 £53,750 -5.70% 8
Essex -4 16 £45,000 -14.29% 21
Norfolk -12 13 £55,000 - 16
Decision-Making
England

Decision-Making
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 5 (2.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.20%) CMS
2 3 (1.20%) Confluence
3 1 (0.40%) Apache
3 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 22 (8.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (2.40%) Adobe Campaign
2 4 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.20%) Raiser’s Edge
4 1 (0.40%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 16 (6.40%) Power Platform
2 13 (5.20%) SaaS
3 11 (4.40%) Azure
4 9 (3.60%) AWS
5 7 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (2.40%) Snowflake
7 4 (1.60%) GCP
8 3 (1.20%) Asana
8 3 (1.20%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.20%) GitHub
8 3 (1.20%) Serverless
9 2 (0.80%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.80%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.80%) Figma
9 2 (0.80%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.40%) Adobe Analytics
10 1 (0.40%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (0.40%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.40%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.40%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.00%) Broadband
2 3 (1.20%) Internet
3 2 (0.80%) Firewall
3 2 (0.80%) IPv6
3 2 (0.80%) LAN
3 2 (0.80%) SMS
3 2 (0.80%) VPN
3 2 (0.80%) WAN
4 1 (0.40%) DHCP
4 1 (0.40%) DNS
4 1 (0.40%) Intranet
4 1 (0.40%) Network Security
4 1 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.40%) VLAN
4 1 (0.40%) VoIP
4 1 (0.40%) Wireless
4 1 (0.40%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.40%) Power BI
2 11 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (2.80%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.80%) Looker
4 2 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.80%) Star Schema
4 2 (0.80%) Tableau
5 1 (0.40%) Big Data
5 1 (0.40%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.40%) Redis
5 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.40%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (12.00%) JIRA
2 2 (0.80%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
General
1 84 (33.60%) Social Skills
2 65 (26.00%) Marketing
3 45 (18.00%) Finance
4 35 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (10.80%) Presentation Skills
6 16 (6.40%) Retail
7 13 (5.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (5.20%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (4.80%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (4.80%) Public Sector
9 10 (4.00%) Legal
10 7 (2.80%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.00%) Local Government
12 4 (1.60%) Environmental Health
12 4 (1.60%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.60%) Publishing
13 3 (1.20%) Law
13 3 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.80%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.80%) Games
Job Titles
1 45 (18.00%) Sales Executive
2 41 (16.40%) Senior
3 30 (12.00%) Analyst
4 25 (10.00%) Business Sales Executive
5 19 (7.60%) Senior Manager
6 16 (6.40%) New Business Sales Executive
6 16 (6.40%) Solutions Sales Executive
7 14 (5.60%) Account Executive
7 14 (5.60%) Lead
8 12 (4.80%) Business Development Executive
9 11 (4.40%) Consultant
9 11 (4.40%) IT Manager
10 10 (4.00%) Data Analyst
10 10 (4.00%) Data Engineer
10 10 (4.00%) Report Analyst
11 9 (3.60%) Campaign Manager
11 9 (3.60%) Development Manager
11 9 (3.60%) Sales Account Executive
11 9 (3.60%) Senior Account Executive
11 9 (3.60%) Senior Sales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.20%) React
2 2 (0.80%) Node.js
2 2 (0.80%) PySpark
3 1 (0.40%) CSS
3 1 (0.40%) HTML
3 1 (0.40%) Laravel
3 1 (0.40%) Playwright
3 1 (0.40%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 35 (14.00%) Onboarding
2 33 (13.20%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (6.40%) Social Media
4 10 (4.00%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.20%) Marketing Technology
6 7 (2.80%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.40%) Over-the-Top Content
8 5 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (2.00%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.60%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.60%) Embedded Systems
10 3 (1.20%) Clustering
10 3 (1.20%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.20%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.80%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.80%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.80%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.40%) Windows
2 4 (1.60%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (22.40%) Business Development
2 51 (20.40%) Analytics
3 47 (18.80%) Problem-Solving
4 46 (18.40%) B2B
5 41 (16.40%) CRM
6 37 (14.80%) Agile
7 35 (14.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (13.60%) Service Management
9 33 (13.20%) AI
10 31 (12.40%) ITIL
11 30 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
12 29 (11.60%) B2B Sales
12 29 (11.60%) Business Intelligence
12 29 (11.60%) ITSM
12 29 (11.60%) Service Delivery
13 27 (10.80%) SIAM
14 25 (10.00%) GTM Strategy
15 24 (9.60%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 24 (9.60%) Roadmaps
15 24 (9.60%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 20 (8.00%) SQL
2 10 (4.00%) Python
3 3 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (1.20%) Java
3 3 (1.20%) PowerShell
3 3 (1.20%) R
3 3 (1.20%) TypeScript
4 2 (0.80%) JavaScript
4 2 (0.80%) Rust
5 1 (0.40%) C#
5 1 (0.40%) PHP
5 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (13.60%) Degree
2 17 (6.80%) ACCA
2 17 (6.80%) CIMA
3 10 (4.00%) AAT
4 9 (3.60%) DBS Check
5 5 (2.00%) PMP
6 2 (0.80%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.80%) CCAB
6 2 (0.80%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.80%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.80%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.40%) SAFe Agilist
7 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.00%) IFRS
2 8 (3.20%) PMO
3 4 (1.60%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.20%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.20%) GDPR
5 2 (0.80%) GAAP
6 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.40%) GxP
6 1 (0.40%) QA
6 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (2.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.60%) Firmware
3 3 (1.20%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.80%) Docker
4 2 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.80%) Terraform
3 1 (0.40%) Grafana
3 1 (0.40%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.40%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 35 (14.00%) HubSpot
1 35 (14.00%) Salesforce
2 28 (11.20%) ServiceNow
3 27 (10.80%) BMC
4 21 (8.40%) Microsoft
5 20 (8.00%) Dell
6 10 (4.00%) Databricks
7 7 (2.80%) Adobe
8 6 (2.40%) Denodo
8 6 (2.40%) Informatica
8 6 (2.40%) Teradata
9 5 (2.00%) Google
9 5 (2.00%) SAP
10 3 (1.20%) Optimizely
10 3 (1.20%) Oracle
10 3 (1.20%) Palantir
11 2 (0.80%) ConnectWise
11 2 (0.80%) IBM
11 2 (0.80%) TippingPoint
11 2 (0.80%) VMware