Decision-Making Jobs in England

Decision-Making
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Decision-Making skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Decision-Making over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 48 64
Rank change year-on-year 0 +16 +11
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 2,557 4,075 4,078
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.19% 4.54% 4.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.52% 5.40% 5.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,016 2,322 1,679
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £35,482
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -7.60% -0.79%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £97,750
UK median annual salary £59,878 £55,000 £59,999
% change year-on-year +8.87% -8.33% 0.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,342 75,409 81,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.97% 83.96% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 23,102 54,812 48,959
10th Percentile £29,250 £29,000 £34,452
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Decision-Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in England

Decision-Making
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Decision-Making in England

Decision-Making
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Decision-Making in England

Decision-Making
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 31 May 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 +12 1,102 £72,500 +7.41% 2,547
North of England -49 404 £55,000 +4.76% 557
South East -29 396 £57,500 +21.05% 525
North West -52 279 £55,000 +10.00% 328
Midlands -10 277 £52,500 -4.49% 358
South West +55 196 £60,000 +20.00% 217
West Midlands -14 167 £57,468 +4.49% 234
East of England -31 145 £60,000 +26.32% 166
Yorkshire -10 119 £56,250 +2.27% 164
East Midlands +16 107 £39,960 -11.20% 117
North East -21 6 £39,100 -13.59% 71
Decision-Making
UK

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 75 (2.93%) SharePoint
2 40 (1.56%) Apache Spark
3 24 (0.94%) Jupyter
4 19 (0.74%) Confluence
5 12 (0.47%) Apache
6 11 (0.43%) CMS
7 9 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.23%) Moodle
10 4 (0.16%) IBM Domino
10 4 (0.16%) SAS
11 3 (0.12%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.12%) Drupal
11 3 (0.12%) Kinematics
12 2 (0.078%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.078%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.078%) Skype for Business
12 2 (0.078%) WordPress
13 1 (0.039%) OpenEdge
13 1 (0.039%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 316 (12.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 187 (7.31%) Microsoft Office
3 182 (7.12%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.23%) Maya
6 6 (0.23%) SPSS
7 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.12%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.12%) Trello
9 2 (0.078%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.039%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.039%) CapCut
10 1 (0.039%) GNU Octave
10 1 (0.039%) Revit
Business Applications
1 44 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 28 (1.10%) Infor LN
2 28 (1.10%) SAP BPC
3 25 (0.98%) NetSuite
4 11 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
5 10 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.35%) Raiser’s Edge
7 7 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.23%) Dynamics GP
8 6 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
8 6 (0.23%) Shopify
9 4 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
10 3 (0.12%) CiviCRM
11 2 (0.078%) iTrent
11 2 (0.078%) NEC Housing
11 2 (0.078%) Oracle General Ledger
11 2 (0.078%) Oracle Payables
11 2 (0.078%) Oracle Receivables
11 2 (0.078%) SAP IBP
11 2 (0.078%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 323 (12.63%) Power Platform
2 293 (11.46%) Azure
3 172 (6.73%) AWS
4 84 (3.29%) SaaS
5 72 (2.82%) GCP
6 54 (2.11%) Azure Data Factory
7 51 (1.99%) Microsoft 365
8 36 (1.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 33 (1.29%) Snowflake
10 30 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
10 30 (1.17%) Google Analytics
11 28 (1.10%) Power Automate
12 27 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
12 27 (1.06%) PowerApps
13 25 (0.98%) Serverless
14 22 (0.86%) Amazon S3
15 20 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
15 20 (0.78%) Microsoft Copilot
16 19 (0.74%) dbt
17 17 (0.66%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 24 (0.94%) Firewall
2 17 (0.66%) Network Security
3 11 (0.43%) VPN
4 10 (0.39%) WAN
5 9 (0.35%) VLAN
6 8 (0.31%) Intranet
6 8 (0.31%) Unified Communications
7 7 (0.27%) SAN
8 6 (0.23%) 5G
8 6 (0.23%) Internet
8 6 (0.23%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (0.20%) Intrusion Detection
9 5 (0.20%) SMS
10 4 (0.16%) 4G
10 4 (0.16%) Broadband
10 4 (0.16%) DHCP
10 4 (0.16%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.12%) Ethernet
11 3 (0.12%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 289 (11.30%) Power BI
2 154 (6.02%) Tableau
3 123 (4.81%) Data Warehouse
4 61 (2.39%) SQL Server
5 54 (2.11%) Big Data
6 42 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 41 (1.60%) Data Lake
8 39 (1.53%) Metadata
9 31 (1.21%) NoSQL
9 31 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 27 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
10 27 (1.06%) Relational Database
11 21 (0.82%) Hadoop
11 21 (0.82%) Power Query
12 20 (0.78%) Looker
13 19 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
14 18 (0.70%) BigQuery
15 16 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
16 15 (0.59%) Data Mining
17 12 (0.47%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 54 (2.11%) JIRA
2 41 (1.60%) Git
3 30 (1.17%) Oracle Forms
4 17 (0.66%) Jenkins
5 14 (0.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 9 (0.35%) Visual Studio
7 7 (0.27%) GitLab
8 6 (0.23%) JUnit
8 6 (0.23%) Maven
9 5 (0.20%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.16%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (0.16%) DbUnit
10 4 (0.16%) jMock
10 4 (0.16%) Mockito
11 3 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.12%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.12%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.12%) ERwin
12 2 (0.078%) MLflow
12 2 (0.078%) webpack
General
1 1,225 (47.91%) Finance
2 1,214 (47.48%) Social Skills
3 913 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
4 452 (17.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 416 (16.27%) Banking
6 406 (15.88%) Marketing
7 306 (11.97%) Financial Institution
8 285 (11.15%) French Language
9 283 (11.07%) German Language
10 251 (9.82%) Electronics
11 224 (8.76%) Legal
12 214 (8.37%) Law
13 100 (3.91%) Organisational Skills
14 89 (3.48%) Retail
15 86 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
16 73 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
17 69 (2.70%) Public Sector
18 67 (2.62%) Manufacturing
19 38 (1.49%) Games
20 37 (1.45%) Police
Job Titles
1 623 (24.36%) Analyst
2 320 (12.51%) Senior
3 292 (11.42%) Lead
4 286 (11.18%) Research Analyst
5 281 (10.99%) Credit Analyst
6 143 (5.59%) Principal Engineer
7 137 (5.36%) Software Assurance Engineer
8 127 (4.97%) Customer Executive
9 88 (3.44%) Architect
9 88 (3.44%) Business Manager
10 87 (3.40%) Business Analyst
11 84 (3.29%) Developer
12 79 (3.09%) Financial Analyst
13 74 (2.89%) Data Scientist
14 72 (2.82%) Development Manager
15 68 (2.66%) Data Engineer
16 67 (2.62%) Software Engineer
17 66 (2.58%) Business Development Manager
18 64 (2.50%) Data Analyst
18 64 (2.50%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (1.88%) .NET
2 27 (1.06%) Kafka
3 26 (1.02%) Pandas
3 26 (1.02%) React
4 24 (0.94%) CSS
5 23 (0.90%) REST
6 22 (0.86%) HTML
7 21 (0.82%) Spring
8 17 (0.66%) PySpark
9 16 (0.63%) .NET Core
9 16 (0.63%) RESTful
9 16 (0.63%) Spring Boot
10 15 (0.59%) AngularJS
10 15 (0.59%) TensorFlow
11 13 (0.51%) scikit-learn
12 11 (0.43%) EDI
12 11 (0.43%) Node.js
12 11 (0.43%) XML
13 8 (0.31%) ASP.NET
13 8 (0.31%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 298 (11.65%) Credit Risk
2 282 (11.03%) Fixed Income
3 168 (6.57%) Management Information System
4 125 (4.89%) Self-Motivation
5 108 (4.22%) Product Ownership
6 66 (2.58%) Social Media
7 60 (2.35%) Algorithms
8 51 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
9 49 (1.92%) FMCG
10 47 (1.84%) Cloud Native
11 27 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
11 27 (1.06%) Onboarding
12 26 (1.02%) Cyberattack
13 23 (0.90%) NHS
14 21 (0.82%) Data Structures
15 20 (0.78%) Data Centre
16 18 (0.70%) Marketing Technology
17 16 (0.63%) Driving Licence
18 15 (0.59%) Derivative
18 15 (0.59%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 56 (2.19%) Windows
2 23 (0.90%) Linux
3 17 (0.66%) Windows Vista
4 15 (0.59%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.39%) Unix
6 6 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.16%) Android
7 4 (0.16%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
9 2 (0.078%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.078%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.039%) Android TV
10 1 (0.039%) Debian
10 1 (0.039%) VMS
10 1 (0.039%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 692 (27.06%) Problem-Solving
2 548 (21.43%) Analytics
3 520 (20.34%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 486 (19.01%) Risk Management
5 464 (18.15%) Business Intelligence
6 436 (17.05%) Business Strategy
7 391 (15.29%) Agile
8 351 (13.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 326 (12.75%) Asset Management
10 319 (12.48%) Software Engineering
11 315 (12.32%) Financial Modelling
12 311 (12.16%) Portfolio Management
13 307 (12.01%) Risk Assessment
14 297 (11.62%) Artificial Intelligence
15 287 (11.22%) Stakeholder Management
16 286 (11.18%) Business Development
17 280 (10.95%) Credit Risk Analysis
18 269 (10.52%) Roadmaps
19 267 (10.44%) Visualisation
20 262 (10.25%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 359 (14.04%) SQL
2 272 (10.64%) Python
3 79 (3.09%) Java
4 73 (2.85%) JavaScript
5 44 (1.72%) C#
6 35 (1.37%) R
7 27 (1.06%) C++
7 27 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 17 (0.66%) PowerShell
9 16 (0.63%) T-SQL
10 12 (0.47%) Scala
11 11 (0.43%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.27%) PHP
12 7 (0.27%) VBA
13 6 (0.23%) Bash
14 5 (0.20%) C
14 5 (0.20%) MATLAB
15 4 (0.16%) VB
16 3 (0.12%) Go
16 3 (0.12%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 839 (32.81%) Degree
2 436 (17.05%) Master's Degree
3 336 (13.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 284 (11.11%) CFA
5 97 (3.79%) Security Cleared
6 92 (3.60%) ACCA
7 90 (3.52%) CIMA
8 66 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
9 59 (2.31%) DV Cleared
10 53 (2.07%) SC Cleared
11 51 (1.99%) DBS Check
12 35 (1.37%) Azure Certification
13 28 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
14 23 (0.90%) CRISC
15 21 (0.82%) CCAB
15 21 (0.82%) PhD
16 20 (0.78%) AWS Certification
17 17 (0.66%) CISSP
17 17 (0.66%) PMI Certification
18 15 (0.59%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (6.77%) Data Quality
2 91 (3.56%) GDPR
3 73 (2.85%) Accessibility
4 71 (2.78%) QA
5 32 (1.25%) IFRS
6 28 (1.10%) GAAP
7 26 (1.02%) COBIT
8 21 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 21 (0.82%) NIST
9 15 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 14 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
10 14 (0.55%) PMO
11 12 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
12 11 (0.43%) ITGC
12 11 (0.43%) NCSC
13 9 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.35%) SLA
14 5 (0.20%) GRC
14 5 (0.20%) PCI DSS
15 4 (0.16%) GMP
System Software
1 52 (2.03%) Docker
2 19 (0.74%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.35%) Hyper-V
3 9 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.20%) Firmware
5 3 (0.12%) HDFS
5 3 (0.12%) Postfix
6 2 (0.078%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.078%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.078%) vSphere
6 2 (0.078%) XenApp
7 1 (0.039%) ACF2
7 1 (0.039%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.039%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 1 (0.039%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.039%) RACF
7 1 (0.039%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.039%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 47 (1.84%) Kubernetes
2 18 (0.70%) Terraform
3 13 (0.51%) Ansible
4 7 (0.27%) Grafana
5 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (0.23%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.20%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.078%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.078%) Kibana
7 2 (0.078%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.078%) SCCM
8 1 (0.039%) EnCase
8 1 (0.039%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.039%) FTK
8 1 (0.039%) Matomo
8 1 (0.039%) PaperCut
8 1 (0.039%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.039%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.039%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 286 (11.18%) Microsoft
2 283 (11.07%) Bloomberg
3 218 (8.53%) Salesforce
4 134 (5.24%) SAP
5 91 (3.56%) Google
6 75 (2.93%) Oracle
7 58 (2.27%) Databricks
8 37 (1.45%) Cognos
9 28 (1.10%) Infor
9 28 (1.10%) YouTube
10 22 (0.86%) ServiceNow
11 18 (0.70%) Adobe
11 18 (0.70%) Informatica
12 16 (0.63%) IBM
13 15 (0.59%) HubSpot
13 15 (0.59%) VMware
14 13 (0.51%) Workday
15 11 (0.43%) Anaplan
16 10 (0.39%) Alteryx
17 9 (0.35%) Cisco