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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 48 65
Rank change year-on-year 0 +17 +10
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 2,540 4,073 4,159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.19% 4.55% 4.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.52% 5.42% 5.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,007 2,322 1,690
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £35,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £43,162
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 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,999
% change year-on-year +9.09% -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 46,039 75,199 82,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.03% 84.05% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 22,875 54,702 49,146
10th Percentile £29,500 £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 £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.44% -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 30 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 30 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 +14 1,102 £72,500 +7.41% 1,610
North of England -52 400 £55,000 +5.77% 2,487
South East -29 392 £57,500 +21.05% 3,448
North West -55 277 £55,000 +10.00% 1,185
Midlands -4 272 £52,500 -4.49% 2,145
South West +51 193 £60,000 +20.00% 1,295
West Midlands -14 164 £57,468 +4.49% 1,169
East of England -28 145 £60,000 +26.32% 1,618
Yorkshire -8 117 £57,500 +4.55% 1,002
East Midlands +14 105 £39,919 -11.29% 836
North East -22 6 £39,100 -13.59% 310
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 (2.95%) SharePoint
2 40 (1.57%) Apache Spark
3 24 (0.94%) Jupyter
4 18 (0.71%) Confluence
5 12 (0.47%) Apache
5 12 (0.47%) CMS
6 9 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.24%) Moodle
9 4 (0.16%) IBM Domino
9 4 (0.16%) SAS
10 3 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.12%) Drupal
10 3 (0.12%) Kinematics
11 2 (0.079%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.079%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.079%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.039%) CICS
12 1 (0.039%) OpenEdge
12 1 (0.039%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 325 (12.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 182 (7.17%) Microsoft Office
3 180 (7.09%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.24%) Maya
6 6 (0.24%) SPSS
7 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.12%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.12%) Trello
9 2 (0.079%) Acrobat
9 2 (0.079%) Spreadsheet
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 (1.73%) 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 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.24%) Dynamics GP
8 6 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
8 6 (0.24%) Shopify
9 4 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
10 3 (0.12%) CiviCRM
11 2 (0.079%) iTrent
11 2 (0.079%) Oracle General Ledger
11 2 (0.079%) Oracle Payables
11 2 (0.079%) Oracle Receivables
11 2 (0.079%) SAP IBP
11 2 (0.079%) SAP Oil and Gas
11 2 (0.079%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 322 (12.68%) Power Platform
2 292 (11.50%) Azure
3 170 (6.69%) AWS
4 82 (3.23%) SaaS
5 72 (2.83%) GCP
6 54 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
7 51 (2.01%) Microsoft 365
8 36 (1.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 33 (1.30%) Snowflake
10 30 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
11 29 (1.14%) Google Analytics
12 28 (1.10%) Power Automate
13 27 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
13 27 (1.06%) PowerApps
14 25 (0.98%) Serverless
15 22 (0.87%) Amazon S3
16 20 (0.79%) Azure DevOps
16 20 (0.79%) Microsoft Copilot
17 18 (0.71%) dbt
18 17 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 24 (0.94%) Firewall
2 17 (0.67%) Network Security
3 11 (0.43%) VPN
4 10 (0.39%) WAN
5 9 (0.35%) VLAN
6 8 (0.31%) Unified Communications
7 7 (0.28%) Intranet
7 7 (0.28%) SAN
8 6 (0.24%) 5G
8 6 (0.24%) Internet
8 6 (0.24%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.24%) 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
1 288 (11.34%) Power BI
2 154 (6.06%) Tableau
3 123 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
4 60 (2.36%) SQL Server
5 54 (2.13%) Big Data
6 42 (1.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 41 (1.61%) Data Lake
8 38 (1.50%) Metadata
9 31 (1.22%) NoSQL
9 31 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 27 (1.06%) Relational Database
11 26 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
12 21 (0.83%) Hadoop
12 21 (0.83%) Power Query
13 20 (0.79%) Looker
14 19 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
15 18 (0.71%) BigQuery
16 16 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
17 15 (0.59%) Data Mining
18 12 (0.47%) GIS
Development Applications
1 53 (2.09%) JIRA
2 40 (1.57%) Git
3 30 (1.18%) Oracle Forms
4 16 (0.63%) Jenkins
5 14 (0.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 9 (0.35%) Visual Studio
7 7 (0.28%) GitLab
8 5 (0.20%) JUnit
8 5 (0.20%) Maven
8 5 (0.20%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.16%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (0.16%) DbUnit
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
11 2 (0.079%) MLflow
11 2 (0.079%) webpack
General
1 1,221 (48.07%) Finance
2 1,211 (47.68%) Social Skills
3 916 (36.06%) Analytical Skills
4 457 (17.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 422 (16.61%) Banking
6 395 (15.55%) Marketing
7 315 (12.40%) Financial Institution
8 295 (11.61%) French Language
9 293 (11.54%) German Language
10 250 (9.84%) Electronics
11 220 (8.66%) Legal
12 210 (8.27%) Law
13 97 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
14 88 (3.46%) Retail
15 85 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
16 70 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
17 68 (2.68%) Public Sector
18 65 (2.56%) Manufacturing
19 38 (1.50%) Games
20 37 (1.46%) Police
Job Titles
1 632 (24.88%) Analyst
2 318 (12.52%) Senior
3 296 (11.65%) Research Analyst
4 291 (11.46%) Credit Analyst
5 288 (11.34%) Lead
6 143 (5.63%) Principal Engineer
7 137 (5.39%) Software Assurance Engineer
8 123 (4.84%) Customer Executive
9 88 (3.46%) Business Manager
10 87 (3.43%) Architect
10 87 (3.43%) Business Analyst
11 83 (3.27%) Developer
12 78 (3.07%) Financial Analyst
13 74 (2.91%) Data Scientist
14 72 (2.83%) Development Manager
15 66 (2.60%) Business Development Manager
15 66 (2.60%) Data Engineer
16 65 (2.56%) Software Engineer
17 63 (2.48%) Data Analyst
18 62 (2.44%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (1.85%) .NET
2 27 (1.06%) Kafka
3 25 (0.98%) Pandas
4 24 (0.94%) CSS
5 23 (0.91%) React
5 23 (0.91%) REST
6 22 (0.87%) HTML
7 20 (0.79%) Spring
8 17 (0.67%) 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%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 308 (12.13%) Credit Risk
2 292 (11.50%) Fixed Income
3 166 (6.54%) Management Information System
4 125 (4.92%) Self-Motivation
5 104 (4.09%) Product Ownership
6 63 (2.48%) Social Media
7 60 (2.36%) Algorithms
8 51 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
9 48 (1.89%) FMCG
10 47 (1.85%) Cloud Native
11 27 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
12 26 (1.02%) Cyberattack
13 25 (0.98%) Onboarding
14 23 (0.91%) NHS
15 21 (0.83%) Data Structures
16 20 (0.79%) Data Centre
17 18 (0.71%) Marketing Technology
18 15 (0.59%) Derivative
18 15 (0.59%) Driving Licence
18 15 (0.59%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 56 (2.20%) Windows
2 23 (0.91%) Linux
3 17 (0.67%) Windows Vista
4 15 (0.59%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.39%) Unix
6 6 (0.24%) 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 (0.079%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.079%) 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
1 687 (27.05%) Problem-Solving
2 540 (21.26%) Analytics
3 515 (20.28%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 491 (19.33%) Risk Management
5 461 (18.15%) Business Intelligence
6 446 (17.56%) Business Strategy
7 382 (15.04%) Agile
8 350 (13.78%) Continuous Improvement
9 336 (13.23%) Asset Management
10 323 (12.72%) Financial Modelling
11 321 (12.64%) Portfolio Management
12 317 (12.48%) Software Engineering
13 316 (12.44%) Risk Assessment
14 295 (11.61%) Artificial Intelligence
15 290 (11.42%) Credit Risk Analysis
16 286 (11.26%) Stakeholder Management
17 282 (11.10%) Business Development
18 267 (10.51%) Visualisation
19 264 (10.39%) Roadmaps
20 259 (10.20%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 357 (14.06%) SQL
2 269 (10.59%) Python
3 77 (3.03%) Java
4 71 (2.80%) JavaScript
5 44 (1.73%) C#
6 35 (1.38%) R
7 27 (1.06%) C++
7 27 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 17 (0.67%) PowerShell
9 16 (0.63%) T-SQL
10 12 (0.47%) Scala
11 10 (0.39%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.28%) PHP
12 7 (0.28%) VBA
13 6 (0.24%) 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
1 843 (33.19%) Degree
2 444 (17.48%) Master's Degree
3 336 (13.23%) BPSS Clearance
4 293 (11.54%) CFA
5 94 (3.70%) Security Cleared
6 92 (3.62%) ACCA
7 90 (3.54%) CIMA
8 66 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 58 (2.28%) DV Cleared
10 51 (2.01%) DBS Check
11 50 (1.97%) SC Cleared
12 35 (1.38%) Azure Certification
13 28 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
14 23 (0.91%) CRISC
15 21 (0.83%) CCAB
15 21 (0.83%) PhD
16 20 (0.79%) AWS Certification
17 17 (0.67%) CISSP
18 16 (0.63%) PMI Certification
19 14 (0.55%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (6.73%) Data Quality
2 91 (3.58%) GDPR
3 74 (2.91%) Accessibility
4 70 (2.76%) QA
5 32 (1.26%) IFRS
6 28 (1.10%) GAAP
7 26 (1.02%) COBIT
8 21 (0.83%) NIST
9 20 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 15 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 14 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
11 14 (0.55%) PMO
12 12 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
13 11 (0.43%) ITGC
13 11 (0.43%) NCSC
14 9 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 9 (0.35%) SLA
15 5 (0.20%) PCI DSS
16 4 (0.16%) GMP
16 4 (0.16%) GRC
System Software
1 52 (2.05%) Docker
2 19 (0.75%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.35%) Hyper-V
3 9 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.16%) Firmware
5 3 (0.12%) HDFS
5 3 (0.12%) Postfix
6 2 (0.079%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.079%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.079%) vSphere
6 2 (0.079%) 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 (1.85%) Kubernetes
2 18 (0.71%) Terraform
3 13 (0.51%) Ansible
4 7 (0.28%) Grafana
5 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (0.24%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.20%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.079%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.079%) Kibana
7 2 (0.079%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.079%) 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
1 293 (11.54%) Bloomberg
2 285 (11.22%) Microsoft
3 212 (8.35%) Salesforce
4 133 (5.24%) SAP
5 89 (3.50%) Google
6 74 (2.91%) Oracle
7 58 (2.28%) Databricks
8 36 (1.42%) Cognos
9 28 (1.10%) Infor
9 28 (1.10%) YouTube
10 22 (0.87%) ServiceNow
11 18 (0.71%) Adobe
11 18 (0.71%) Informatica
12 16 (0.63%) IBM
13 15 (0.59%) VMware
14 14 (0.55%) HubSpot
15 12 (0.47%) Workday
16 11 (0.43%) Anaplan
17 10 (0.39%) Alteryx
18 9 (0.35%) Intel