Decision-Making Job Trends in Essex

Decision-Making
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Essex requiring Decision-Making skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 17 46
Rank change year-on-year -43 +29 -26
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 3 36 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Essex 0.41% 7.74% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 9.84% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 4
10th Percentile - £76,475 £25,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £76,813 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £78,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.98% +31.25% -27.27%
75th Percentile £61,250 £86,875 £83,750
90th Percentile - £94,750 -
East of England median annual salary £57,500 £72,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -20.69% +61.11% -30.77%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 590 366 360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 80.27% 78.71% 87.80%
Number of salaries quoted 338 141 264
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,500 £23,425
25th Percentile £30,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,000 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% -2.35% +1.43%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £75,900 £75,000 £87,500
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Decision-Making job vacancy trend in Essex

Decision-Making
Salary Trend in Essex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Decision-Making.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Decision-Making

Decision-Making
Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Decision-Making within the Essex region over the 6 months to 31 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
Chelmsford -9 3 £57,500 -35.03% 41
Decision-Making
East of England

Decision-Making
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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:

Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Power BI
2 2 (66.67%) Tableau
3 1 (33.33%) Power Query
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Financial Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Lead
3 1 (33.33%) Lead
3 1 (33.33%) Power BI Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Data Extraction
2 2 (66.67%) Data Management
2 2 (66.67%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Financial Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft