Decision-Making Job Trends in the Midlands

Decision-Making
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Decision-Making skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 52 58
Rank change year-on-year +18 +6 +3
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 458 253 509
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.55% 4.76% 3.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.10% 5.48% 4.66%
Number of salaries quoted 350 152 286
10th Percentile £32,450 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,840 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,387 £53,600
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% -2.26% +26.12%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £67,288
90th Percentile £83,875 £85,000 £86,875
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -7.60%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,979 4,617 10,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.67% 86.88% 79.12%
Number of salaries quoted 6,341 2,705 7,444
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% +2.11% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,875 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Decision-Making job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Decision-Making
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Decision-Making.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Decision-Making

Decision-Making
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in the Midlands over the 6 months to 3 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Decision-Making in the Midlands

Decision-Making
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Decision-Making within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 July 2026. 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
West Midlands +8 272 £57,500 +4.55% 192
East Midlands +29 186 £58,589 +46.77% 124
Decision-Making
England

Decision-Making
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (2.18%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.75%) Confluence
3 6 (1.31%) CMS
4 3 (0.66%) nginx
5 2 (0.44%) Apache
5 2 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.22%) Drupal
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 61 (13.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (4.59%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.66%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (0.66%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (2.40%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 5 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.66%) Shopify
4 2 (0.44%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.44%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.44%) Primavera
4 2 (0.44%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.22%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.22%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 81 (17.69%) Power Platform
2 60 (13.10%) Azure
3 42 (9.17%) AWS
4 36 (7.86%) SaaS
5 17 (3.71%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (3.71%) Serverless
6 15 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
6 15 (3.28%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
7 11 (2.40%) Power Automate
8 9 (1.97%) PowerApps
9 7 (1.53%) Smartsheet
10 6 (1.31%) GitHub
11 5 (1.09%) GCP
11 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (0.87%) Copilot Studio
12 4 (0.87%) Google Sheets
12 4 (0.87%) OneDrive
12 4 (0.87%) PaaS
13 3 (0.66%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.71%) Wireless
2 8 (1.75%) Broadband
3 3 (0.66%) SSL
4 2 (0.44%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.44%) Internet
4 2 (0.44%) Network Security
5 1 (0.22%) DHCP
5 1 (0.22%) DNS
5 1 (0.22%) Firewall
5 1 (0.22%) LAN
5 1 (0.22%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.22%) SNMP
5 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.22%) VLAN
5 1 (0.22%) VPN
5 1 (0.22%) WAN
5 1 (0.22%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (16.81%) Power BI
2 20 (4.37%) Power Query
3 18 (3.93%) Tableau
4 12 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (2.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 9 (1.97%) SQL Server
7 8 (1.75%) Metadata
8 6 (1.31%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.31%) Star Schema
9 5 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.66%) Delta Lake
10 3 (0.66%) MySQL
10 3 (0.66%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.66%) QlikView
10 3 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.44%) Semantic Layer
12 1 (0.22%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.22%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 13 (2.84%) JIRA
2 10 (2.18%) Git
3 5 (1.09%) Burp Suite
3 5 (1.09%) Metasploit
4 3 (0.66%) Cucumber
4 3 (0.66%) Vite
5 2 (0.44%) JMeter
5 2 (0.44%) JUnit
5 2 (0.44%) Locust
5 2 (0.44%) Maven
5 2 (0.44%) Mockito
5 2 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.22%) GitLab
6 1 (0.22%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 159 (34.72%) Social Skills
2 135 (29.48%) Finance
3 123 (26.86%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (10.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 42 (9.17%) Marketing
5 42 (9.17%) Public Sector
6 33 (7.21%) Retail
7 27 (5.90%) Influencing Skills
8 25 (5.46%) Manufacturing
9 22 (4.80%) Organisational Skills
10 18 (3.93%) Legal
11 16 (3.49%) Telecoms
12 15 (3.28%) Law
13 8 (1.75%) Local Government
13 8 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (1.53%) Social Housing
15 6 (1.31%) German Language
16 4 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
17 2 (0.44%) Banking
17 2 (0.44%) Games
Job Titles
1 84 (18.34%) Analyst
2 54 (11.79%) Senior
3 41 (8.95%) Data Analyst
4 30 (6.55%) Developer
4 30 (6.55%) Lead
5 27 (5.90%) Senior Analyst
6 23 (5.02%) Architect
6 23 (5.02%) Business Manager
7 19 (4.15%) Business Analyst
7 19 (4.15%) Senior Data Analyst
8 18 (3.93%) Accountant
8 18 (3.93%) Business Development Manager
8 18 (3.93%) Development Manager
9 16 (3.49%) Support Engineer
9 16 (3.49%) Technical Engineer
9 16 (3.49%) Technical Support
9 16 (3.49%) Technical Support Engineer
10 15 (3.28%) Data Architect
10 15 (3.28%) Data Manager
11 13 (2.84%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.28%) React
2 14 (3.06%) AWS CDK
3 13 (2.84%) Next.js
4 9 (1.97%) REST
5 5 (1.09%) .NET
5 5 (1.09%) Vue
6 4 (0.87%) CSS
6 4 (0.87%) HTML
6 4 (0.87%) XML
7 3 (0.66%) Blazor
7 3 (0.66%) JDBC
7 3 (0.66%) Kafka
7 3 (0.66%) Laravel
7 3 (0.66%) LDAP
7 3 (0.66%) LEMP Stack
7 3 (0.66%) PySpark
7 3 (0.66%) SAML
7 3 (0.66%) Tailwind CSS
7 3 (0.66%) Web Services
7 3 (0.66%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (9.17%) Management Information System
2 24 (5.24%) Driving Licence
3 22 (4.80%) Product Ownership
4 20 (4.37%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (3.93%) Analytical Mindset
6 13 (2.84%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (2.84%) NHS
7 9 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.75%) Cloud Native
8 8 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.53%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.31%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.31%) Robotics
11 5 (1.09%) Insider Threat
12 4 (0.87%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (0.87%) PMI
13 3 (0.66%) Augmented Reality
13 3 (0.66%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.09%) Linux
2 3 (0.66%) Android
2 3 (0.66%) Windows
3 2 (0.44%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (32.53%) Continuous Improvement
2 139 (30.35%) Problem-Solving
3 134 (29.26%) Analytics
4 101 (22.05%) Business Intelligence
5 82 (17.90%) Roadmaps
6 69 (15.07%) Agile
7 67 (14.63%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 64 (13.97%) CRM
9 61 (13.32%) Data Analysis
10 60 (13.10%) AI
11 58 (12.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 57 (12.45%) Actionable Insight
13 54 (11.79%) Stakeholder Management
14 50 (10.92%) Data Management
15 49 (10.70%) Data Analytics
15 49 (10.70%) Risk Management
16 48 (10.48%) Data Modelling
16 48 (10.48%) Mentoring
17 47 (10.26%) Cybersecurity
18 44 (9.61%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 101 (22.05%) SQL
2 55 (12.01%) Python
3 18 (3.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 13 (2.84%) TypeScript
5 12 (2.62%) R
6 11 (2.40%) T-SQL
7 6 (1.31%) Java
7 6 (1.31%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.09%) Bash
9 4 (0.87%) C
9 4 (0.87%) C#
10 3 (0.66%) PHP
10 3 (0.66%) VBA
11 2 (0.44%) C++
11 2 (0.44%) Go
11 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.22%) Bicep
12 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 65 (14.19%) Degree
2 31 (6.77%) CIMA
3 30 (6.55%) ACCA
4 29 (6.33%) Security Cleared
5 23 (5.02%) SC Cleared
6 11 (2.40%) CISSP
6 11 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.31%) CITP
7 6 (1.31%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.09%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.09%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (0.87%) CCSP
9 4 (0.87%) CIPD
9 4 (0.87%) CISM
9 4 (0.87%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.87%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 3 (0.66%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (11.14%) Data Quality
2 22 (4.80%) QA
3 15 (3.28%) Accessibility
3 15 (3.28%) GDPR
4 11 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (2.18%) GRC
6 8 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.87%) SLA
10 3 (0.66%) WCAG
11 2 (0.44%) NIST
11 2 (0.44%) P3O
11 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.44%) PMO
12 1 (0.22%) GxP
12 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.22%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.22%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 10 (2.18%) Docker
2 2 (0.44%) Firmware
3 1 (0.22%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (1.53%) Kubernetes
1 7 (1.53%) Terraform
2 5 (1.09%) Nmap
3 4 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.66%) Grafana
4 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.44%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.22%) Ansible
6 1 (0.22%) Argo
6 1 (0.22%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 47 (10.26%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.49%) SAP
3 15 (3.28%) Cognos
4 14 (3.06%) Workday
5 13 (2.84%) Google
6 11 (2.40%) IBM
7 9 (1.97%) Databricks
8 6 (1.31%) Oracle
9 5 (1.09%) BT
9 5 (1.09%) HubSpot
10 4 (0.87%) Ariba
10 4 (0.87%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.87%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.87%) SYSPRO
11 3 (0.66%) Adobe
11 3 (0.66%) Sage
11 3 (0.66%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.66%) TOWER Software
12 2 (0.44%) Cisco
12 2 (0.44%) NEC