Decision-Making Jobs in Manchester

Decision-Making
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 29 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 43 70
Rank change year-on-year +4 +27 +30
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 167 286 217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 7.01% 4.82% 4.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.47% 5.76% 5.07%
Number of salaries quoted 87 189 82
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £44,125 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,500 £53,416
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -5.46% -2.88%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,350 £77,500 £82,767
North West median annual salary £51,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.00% -9.09% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,235 4,968 4,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 93.79% 83.68% 96.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,279 3,554 2,484
10th Percentile £29,500 £30,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,501 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -9.48% +5.45%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,164 £81,250 £83,750
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in Manchester

Decision-Making
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Decision-Making in Manchester

Decision-Making
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in Manchester over the 6 months to 29 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Decision-Making in Manchester

Decision-Making
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Decision-Making within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 29 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
Bolton -13 20 £50,000 -16.67% 34
Cheadle - 6 - - 1
Salford +20 3 £82,801 - 5
Oldham -6 3 £44,002 - 4
Stockport - 1 - - 24
Wigan - 1 £39,000 - 2
Decision-Making
North West

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 4 (2.40%) IBM Domino
2 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.80%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.20%) CMS
4 1 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.60%) Confluence
Applications
1 29 (17.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (16.77%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (5.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.60%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.80%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 28 (16.77%) Azure
2 20 (11.98%) Power Platform
3 16 (9.58%) AWS
4 10 (5.99%) GCP
5 8 (4.79%) SaaS
6 5 (2.99%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (2.40%) Cloud Composer
8 3 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.20%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.20%) Google Analytics
9 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (1.20%) Serverless
9 2 (1.20%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.60%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.60%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.20%) Network Security
1 2 (1.20%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.60%) Firewall
2 1 (0.60%) Internet
2 1 (0.60%) MPLS
2 1 (0.60%) VoIP
2 1 (0.60%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.78%) Power BI
2 8 (4.79%) Tableau
3 7 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (3.59%) GIS
5 4 (2.40%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.80%) Looker
6 3 (1.80%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.20%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.20%) Metadata
7 2 (1.20%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.60%) Big Data
8 1 (0.60%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.60%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.60%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (0.60%) Power Query
8 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (1.80%) WaveMaker
2 2 (1.20%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.20%) JIRA
3 1 (0.60%) Git
General
1 99 (59.28%) Finance
2 92 (55.09%) Social Skills
3 73 (43.71%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (15.57%) Marketing
5 19 (11.38%) Organisational Skills
6 18 (10.78%) Banking
7 15 (8.98%) Legal
8 11 (6.59%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (4.79%) Retail
10 7 (4.19%) Manufacturing
11 6 (3.59%) Law
12 5 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (2.99%) Public Sector
13 4 (2.40%) Arabic Language
13 4 (2.40%) German Language
13 4 (2.40%) Health Technology
13 4 (2.40%) Italian Language
14 3 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (1.80%) Private Banking
15 2 (1.20%) Police
Job Titles
1 41 (24.55%) Analyst
2 21 (12.57%) Lead
3 13 (7.78%) Financial Analyst
3 13 (7.78%) Senior
3 13 (7.78%) Vendor Manager
4 12 (7.19%) Customer Executive
4 12 (7.19%) Risk Manager
5 10 (5.99%) Developer
6 8 (4.79%) Commercial Analyst
7 7 (4.19%) Architect
8 6 (3.59%) Applications Support
8 6 (3.59%) Applications Support Analyst
8 6 (3.59%) Business Analyst
8 6 (3.59%) ERP Analyst
8 6 (3.59%) ERP Support
8 6 (3.59%) Support Analyst
9 5 (2.99%) Head of Engineering
9 5 (2.99%) Senior Developer
9 5 (2.99%) Technology Risk Manager
10 4 (2.40%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.99%) CSS
1 5 (2.99%) HTML
2 4 (2.40%) .NET
2 4 (2.40%) .NET Core
2 4 (2.40%) ASP.NET
3 3 (1.80%) CSS3
3 3 (1.80%) Hibernate
3 3 (1.80%) HTML5
3 3 (1.80%) Spring
3 3 (1.80%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.20%) Kafka
4 2 (1.20%) Software Packaging
4 2 (1.20%) XGBoost
5 1 (0.60%) D3.js
5 1 (0.60%) Pandas
5 1 (0.60%) Plotly
5 1 (0.60%) pytest
5 1 (0.60%) REST
5 1 (0.60%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.60%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 28 (16.77%) Social Media
2 15 (8.98%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (7.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 12 (7.19%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.40%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.40%) NHS
6 2 (1.20%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.20%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.20%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.20%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.60%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.60%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.60%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.60%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.60%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.18%) Windows
1 17 (10.18%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (37.72%) Problem-Solving
2 48 (28.74%) Continuous Improvement
3 37 (22.16%) Agile
4 31 (18.56%) Actionable Insight
4 31 (18.56%) Business Intelligence
5 27 (16.17%) Analytics
6 26 (15.57%) Contract Negotiation
7 25 (14.97%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 25 (14.97%) Risk Management
8 23 (13.77%) Stakeholder Management
9 19 (11.38%) Budgeting
9 19 (11.38%) Service Delivery
10 18 (10.78%) Artificial Intelligence
10 18 (10.78%) Business Development
10 18 (10.78%) Market Research
11 17 (10.18%) Visualisation
12 16 (9.58%) Data Management
12 16 (9.58%) Financial Analysis
12 16 (9.58%) Performance Metrics
13 15 (8.98%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 17 (10.18%) Python
2 14 (8.38%) SQL
3 9 (5.39%) JavaScript
4 5 (2.99%) C#
4 5 (2.99%) PHP
5 4 (2.40%) Java
6 2 (1.20%) Bash
6 2 (1.20%) Go
6 2 (1.20%) VBA
7 1 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.60%) R
7 1 (0.60%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 38 (22.75%) Degree
2 28 (16.77%) DBS Check
3 18 (10.78%) Master's Degree
4 11 (6.59%) ACCA
4 11 (6.59%) CIMA
5 10 (5.99%) CRISC
6 3 (1.80%) CBAP
6 3 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.80%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.80%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.20%) AAT
7 2 (1.20%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.60%) CISA
8 1 (0.60%) CISSP
8 1 (0.60%) MCP
8 1 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.60%) PhD
8 1 (0.60%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.99%) COBIT
2 8 (4.79%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.79%) ITGC
3 7 (4.19%) QA
4 6 (3.59%) Accessibility
4 6 (3.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (2.40%) NIST
6 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.20%) NCSC
7 1 (0.60%) GDPR
7 1 (0.60%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.60%) PERC
System Software
1 6 (3.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (3.59%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.80%) Terraform
3 2 (1.20%) Ansible
Vendors
1 34 (20.36%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.78%) Salesforce
3 10 (5.99%) Google
4 9 (5.39%) SAP
5 5 (2.99%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.40%) Cognos
7 2 (1.20%) Cisco
8 1 (0.60%) Hotjar
8 1 (0.60%) Informatica
8 1 (0.60%) Instagram
8 1 (0.60%) Monzo
8 1 (0.60%) Oracle
8 1 (0.60%) Planview
8 1 (0.60%) Samsung
8 1 (0.60%) TikTok
8 1 (0.60%) YouTube