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 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 49 65
Rank change year-on-year +1 +16 +8
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 2,571 4,185 3,811
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.21% 4.34% 4.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.60% 5.27% 4.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,052 2,336 1,650
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £35,491
25th Percentile £44,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £80,156 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £99,750 £91,250 £98,825
UK median annual salary £57,670 £54,700 £59,999
% change year-on-year +5.43% -8.83% 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 45,943 79,375 77,425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.13% 82.25% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 23,247 56,512 47,789
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,440 £34,020
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £45,750
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 £97,500 £92,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year - -9.54% +1.33%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 +15 1,136 £75,000 +11.11% 10,045
South East -28 400 £57,500 +19.79% 5,116
North of England -49 386 £54,250 +6.54% 4,307
Midlands -5 277 £52,500 -4.02% 3,100
North West -54 265 £51,000 +2.00% 2,266
South West +57 191 £60,000 +20.00% 2,018
West Midlands -9 171 £57,468 +4.49% 1,726
East of England -30 144 £57,000 +20.00% 2,530
Yorkshire -9 114 £57,500 +4.55% 1,694
East Midlands +7 103 £39,919 -11.29% 1,353
North East -24 7 £34,050 -24.75% 352
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 80 (3.11%) SharePoint
2 40 (1.56%) Apache Spark
3 24 (0.93%) Confluence
4 23 (0.89%) Jupyter
5 12 (0.47%) Apache
6 9 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.31%) CMS
7 8 (0.31%) Moodle
8 7 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.19%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.16%) IBM Domino
10 4 (0.16%) WordPress
11 3 (0.12%) Kinematics
12 2 (0.078%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.078%) Skype for Business
13 1 (0.039%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.039%) CICS
13 1 (0.039%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.039%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 322 (12.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 194 (7.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 193 (7.51%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.47%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.23%) Maya
7 3 (0.12%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.12%) Trello
8 2 (0.078%) Acrobat
8 2 (0.078%) SPSS
9 1 (0.039%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.039%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.039%) CapCut
9 1 (0.039%) GNU Octave
9 1 (0.039%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.039%) Revit
9 1 (0.039%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 47 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 28 (1.09%) Infor LN
2 28 (1.09%) SAP BPC
3 25 (0.97%) NetSuite
4 11 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
5 10 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.31%) Dynamics GP
6 8 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.27%) Shopify
8 6 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
9 5 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
10 3 (0.12%) Raiser’s Edge
10 3 (0.12%) SAP IBP
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%) Payment Gateway
11 2 (0.078%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 335 (13.03%) Power Platform
2 305 (11.86%) Azure
3 194 (7.55%) AWS
4 95 (3.70%) SaaS
5 80 (3.11%) GCP
6 52 (2.02%) Azure Data Factory
7 46 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
8 36 (1.40%) Snowflake
9 34 (1.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 33 (1.28%) Google Analytics
11 31 (1.21%) Power Automate
12 30 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
13 29 (1.13%) PowerApps
13 29 (1.13%) Serverless
14 26 (1.01%) Cloud Computing
15 23 (0.89%) Amazon S3
16 21 (0.82%) Azure DevOps
16 21 (0.82%) Microsoft Copilot
17 18 (0.70%) PaaS
18 17 (0.66%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 27 (1.05%) Firewall
2 18 (0.70%) Network Security
3 12 (0.47%) VPN
4 11 (0.43%) VLAN
4 11 (0.43%) WAN
5 10 (0.39%) Intranet
6 9 (0.35%) Unified Communications
7 7 (0.27%) 5G
7 7 (0.27%) SAN
7 7 (0.27%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.23%) Internet
8 6 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (0.19%) 4G
9 5 (0.19%) SMS
10 4 (0.16%) BGP
10 4 (0.16%) Broadband
10 4 (0.16%) DHCP
10 4 (0.16%) DNS
10 4 (0.16%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (0.16%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 304 (11.82%) Power BI
2 151 (5.87%) Tableau
3 128 (4.98%) Data Warehouse
4 69 (2.68%) SQL Server
5 55 (2.14%) Big Data
6 43 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 42 (1.63%) Metadata
8 39 (1.52%) Data Lake
9 32 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 31 (1.21%) NoSQL
11 27 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
11 27 (1.05%) Relational Database
12 23 (0.89%) Hadoop
13 22 (0.86%) BigQuery
13 22 (0.86%) Power Query
14 21 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
14 21 (0.82%) Looker
15 15 (0.58%) GIS
16 14 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
17 13 (0.51%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 61 (2.37%) JIRA
2 44 (1.71%) Git
3 30 (1.17%) Oracle Forms
4 20 (0.78%) Jenkins
5 15 (0.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 9 (0.35%) Visual Studio
7 7 (0.27%) GitLab
7 7 (0.27%) JUnit
7 7 (0.27%) Maven
8 5 (0.19%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.16%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (0.16%) DbUnit
9 4 (0.16%) git-flow
9 4 (0.16%) jMock
9 4 (0.16%) Mockito
10 3 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.12%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.12%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.12%) ERwin
10 3 (0.12%) WaveMaker
General
1 1,291 (50.21%) Finance
2 1,236 (48.07%) Social Skills
3 960 (37.34%) Analytical Skills
4 481 (18.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 443 (17.23%) Banking
6 442 (17.19%) Marketing
7 313 (12.17%) Financial Institution
8 284 (11.05%) French Language
9 281 (10.93%) German Language
10 252 (9.80%) Law
11 231 (8.98%) Legal
12 195 (7.58%) Electronics
13 99 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
14 98 (3.81%) Retail
15 92 (3.58%) Organisational Skills
16 77 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
17 74 (2.88%) Manufacturing
17 74 (2.88%) Public Sector
18 36 (1.40%) Games
19 35 (1.36%) Police
Job Titles
1 629 (24.47%) Analyst
2 338 (13.15%) Senior
3 319 (12.41%) Lead
4 284 (11.05%) Research Analyst
5 279 (10.85%) Credit Analyst
6 127 (4.94%) Customer Executive
7 97 (3.77%) Business Manager
8 96 (3.73%) Architect
9 95 (3.70%) Principal Engineer
10 90 (3.50%) Developer
10 90 (3.50%) Software Assurance Engineer
11 85 (3.31%) Financial Analyst
12 82 (3.19%) Business Analyst
13 81 (3.15%) Software Engineer
14 78 (3.03%) Development Manager
15 72 (2.80%) Data Scientist
16 71 (2.76%) Business Development Manager
17 65 (2.53%) Data Analyst
18 62 (2.41%) Data Engineer
19 60 (2.33%) Senior Electrical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (2.14%) .NET
2 33 (1.28%) Kafka
2 33 (1.28%) React
3 29 (1.13%) CSS
3 29 (1.13%) REST
4 27 (1.05%) Pandas
5 26 (1.01%) Spring
6 25 (0.97%) HTML
7 19 (0.74%) Spring Boot
8 17 (0.66%) AngularJS
8 17 (0.66%) PySpark
8 17 (0.66%) RESTful
9 16 (0.62%) .NET Core
9 16 (0.62%) Node.js
10 15 (0.58%) TensorFlow
11 13 (0.51%) scikit-learn
12 11 (0.43%) XML
13 10 (0.39%) Hibernate
14 8 (0.31%) ASP.NET
14 8 (0.31%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 294 (11.44%) Credit Risk
2 280 (10.89%) Fixed Income
3 172 (6.69%) Management Information System
4 126 (4.90%) Self-Motivation
5 111 (4.32%) Product Ownership
6 74 (2.88%) Social Media
7 61 (2.37%) Algorithms
8 60 (2.33%) Cloud Native
9 59 (2.29%) FMCG
10 55 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
11 32 (1.24%) Onboarding
12 26 (1.01%) Cyberattack
13 24 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
13 24 (0.93%) NHS
14 23 (0.89%) Data Structures
15 21 (0.82%) Data Centre
16 20 (0.78%) Driving Licence
17 18 (0.70%) Derivative
17 18 (0.70%) Marketing Technology
18 16 (0.62%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 61 (2.37%) Windows
2 22 (0.86%) Linux
3 17 (0.66%) Windows Vista
4 16 (0.62%) Windows Server
5 14 (0.54%) Unix
6 6 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.19%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.16%) Android
8 4 (0.16%) Robot Operating System
8 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
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
1 735 (28.59%) Problem-Solving
2 560 (21.78%) Analytics
3 514 (19.99%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 488 (18.98%) Risk Management
5 485 (18.86%) Business Intelligence
6 436 (16.96%) Business Strategy
7 431 (16.76%) Agile
8 350 (13.61%) Continuous Improvement
9 319 (12.41%) Financial Modelling
10 317 (12.33%) Artificial Intelligence
11 315 (12.25%) Asset Management
12 310 (12.06%) Portfolio Management
13 305 (11.86%) Risk Assessment
14 302 (11.75%) Business Development
15 289 (11.24%) Stakeholder Management
16 283 (11.01%) Software Engineering
17 280 (10.89%) Roadmaps
18 277 (10.77%) Credit Risk Analysis
19 269 (10.46%) Visualisation
20 267 (10.39%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 371 (14.43%) SQL
2 280 (10.89%) Python
3 87 (3.38%) Java
4 82 (3.19%) JavaScript
5 48 (1.87%) C#
6 34 (1.32%) R
7 30 (1.17%) C++
8 26 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 18 (0.70%) PowerShell
9 18 (0.70%) T-SQL
10 16 (0.62%) TypeScript
11 11 (0.43%) Scala
12 7 (0.27%) Bash
12 7 (0.27%) C
12 7 (0.27%) PHP
12 7 (0.27%) VBA
13 5 (0.19%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.12%) Go
14 3 (0.12%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.12%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 833 (32.40%) Degree
2 436 (16.96%) Master's Degree
3 282 (10.97%) CFA
4 267 (10.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 98 (3.81%) ACCA
5 98 (3.81%) Security Cleared
6 96 (3.73%) CIMA
7 67 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 61 (2.37%) DV Cleared
9 56 (2.18%) SC Cleared
10 54 (2.10%) DBS Check
11 33 (1.28%) Azure Certification
12 29 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
13 22 (0.86%) AWS Certification
14 21 (0.82%) CCAB
15 18 (0.70%) PhD
15 18 (0.70%) PMI Certification
16 17 (0.66%) CISSP
16 17 (0.66%) CRISC
17 16 (0.62%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (6.65%) Data Quality
2 96 (3.73%) GDPR
3 77 (2.99%) QA
4 73 (2.84%) Accessibility
5 31 (1.21%) IFRS
6 28 (1.09%) GAAP
7 23 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 20 (0.78%) COBIT
9 16 (0.62%) NIST
9 16 (0.62%) PMO
10 15 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
10 15 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 12 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
12 11 (0.43%) ITGC
12 11 (0.43%) NCSC
12 11 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.35%) SLA
14 5 (0.19%) GRC
15 4 (0.16%) GMP
15 4 (0.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 55 (2.14%) Docker
2 21 (0.82%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.35%) Hyper-V
4 8 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.27%) Firmware
6 3 (0.12%) HDFS
6 3 (0.12%) Postfix
6 3 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.078%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.078%) vSphere
7 2 (0.078%) XenApp
8 1 (0.039%) ACF2
8 1 (0.039%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.039%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 1 (0.039%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.039%) RACF
8 1 (0.039%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 51 (1.98%) Kubernetes
2 20 (0.78%) Terraform
3 14 (0.54%) Ansible
4 8 (0.31%) Grafana
5 6 (0.23%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.19%) FortiGate
7 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.078%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.078%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.078%) SCCM
9 1 (0.039%) EnCase
9 1 (0.039%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.039%) FTK
9 1 (0.039%) Matomo
9 1 (0.039%) PaperCut
9 1 (0.039%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.039%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.039%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.039%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 301 (11.71%) Microsoft
2 280 (10.89%) Bloomberg
3 227 (8.83%) Salesforce
4 140 (5.45%) SAP
5 99 (3.85%) Google
6 75 (2.92%) Oracle
7 60 (2.33%) Databricks
8 37 (1.44%) Cognos
9 30 (1.17%) YouTube
10 28 (1.09%) Infor
11 24 (0.93%) ServiceNow
12 20 (0.78%) Informatica
13 18 (0.70%) HubSpot
14 17 (0.66%) Adobe
15 15 (0.58%) IBM
16 13 (0.51%) Workday
17 12 (0.47%) Alteryx
18 11 (0.43%) Anaplan
19 10 (0.39%) Cisco
19 10 (0.39%) VMware