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 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 37 48
Rank change year-on-year -28 +11 +10
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 275 295 444
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.66% 5.88% 4.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.46% 6.42% 5.23%
Number of salaries quoted 185 196 307
10th Percentile £31,730 £35,125 £28,000
25th Percentile £43,497 £38,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +15.79% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £64,375
90th Percentile £84,820 £87,375 £84,964
England median annual salary £62,500 £68,525 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.79% +24.59% -8.33%

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 7,937 4,598 8,482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 76.81% 91.63% 83.64%
Number of salaries quoted 4,523 2,573 6,669
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,822 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,603 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,986 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 22 March 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 22 March 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 -24 163 £60,000 +4.35% 132
East Midlands -27 110 £51,058 +7.49% 86
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 11 (4.00%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.91%) CMS
3 7 (2.55%) Confluence
4 5 (1.82%) nginx
5 4 (1.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.36%) Apache
7 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.36%) Drupal
7 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 51 (18.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.82%) Adobe Illustrator
3 5 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.82%) Photoshop
4 4 (1.45%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.73%) Trello
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.82%) Shopify
2 4 (1.45%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.73%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (0.73%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.36%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.36%) Exchequer
4 1 (0.36%) Odoo
4 1 (0.36%) Primavera
4 1 (0.36%) Raiser’s Edge
4 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 70 (25.45%) Power Platform
2 50 (18.18%) Azure
3 36 (13.09%) AWS
4 13 (4.73%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (4.36%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (4.00%) SaaS
7 10 (3.64%) Power Automate
8 9 (3.27%) PowerApps
8 9 (3.27%) Serverless
9 8 (2.91%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.18%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (2.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (2.18%) GitHub
11 6 (2.18%) Smartsheet
12 4 (1.45%) Google Analytics
12 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (1.45%) PaaS
13 3 (1.09%) Amazon S3
13 3 (1.09%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.09%) SSL
2 2 (0.73%) Bluetooth
2 2 (0.73%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (24.36%) Power BI
2 15 (5.45%) Tableau
3 12 (4.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 11 (4.00%) Power Query
5 10 (3.64%) Metadata
5 10 (3.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (3.27%) SQL Server
7 7 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (1.82%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.82%) MySQL
8 5 (1.82%) Star Schema
9 4 (1.45%) Looker
10 3 (1.09%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.73%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
11 2 (0.73%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.73%) SAP BW
11 2 (0.73%) Semantic Layer
11 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 14 (5.09%) JIRA
2 10 (3.64%) Git
3 7 (2.55%) Burp Suite
3 7 (2.55%) Metasploit
4 5 (1.82%) Vite
5 4 (1.45%) JUnit
5 4 (1.45%) Maven
5 4 (1.45%) Mockito
6 3 (1.09%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.73%) JMeter
7 2 (0.73%) Locust
7 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.36%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 130 (47.27%) Social Skills
2 89 (32.36%) Analytical Skills
3 86 (31.27%) Finance
4 44 (16.00%) Public Sector
5 32 (11.64%) Retail
6 25 (9.09%) Manufacturing
7 24 (8.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (8.00%) Marketing
9 17 (6.18%) Legal
10 15 (5.45%) Law
11 12 (4.36%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (4.36%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (2.91%) Local Government
13 8 (2.91%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.82%) Banking
14 5 (1.82%) Electronics
14 5 (1.82%) Games
15 4 (1.45%) Aerospace
16 3 (1.09%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 64 (23.27%) Analyst
2 40 (14.55%) Senior
3 22 (8.00%) Developer
3 22 (8.00%) Senior Analyst
4 21 (7.64%) Data Analyst
5 18 (6.55%) Lead
6 16 (5.82%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 14 (5.09%) Financial Analyst
8 12 (4.36%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 12 (4.36%) Consultant
8 12 (4.36%) Data Engineer
9 11 (4.00%) Data Manager
10 10 (3.64%) Report Analyst
10 10 (3.64%) Senior Financial Analyst
10 10 (3.64%) Senior Reporting Analyst
11 9 (3.27%) Business Analyst
11 9 (3.27%) Data Scientist
11 9 (3.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 8 (2.91%) IT Director
12 8 (2.91%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.64%) Flash
1 10 (3.64%) React
1 10 (3.64%) REST
2 7 (2.55%) AWS CDK
2 7 (2.55%) HTML
2 7 (2.55%) Next.js
3 6 (2.18%) Vue
4 5 (1.82%) CSS
4 5 (1.82%) Laravel
4 5 (1.82%) LEMP Stack
4 5 (1.82%) Tailwind CSS
4 5 (1.82%) YAML
5 3 (1.09%) JDBC
5 3 (1.09%) LDAP
5 3 (1.09%) PySpark
5 3 (1.09%) PyTorch
5 3 (1.09%) SAML
5 3 (1.09%) TensorFlow
5 3 (1.09%) Web Services
6 2 (0.73%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.00%) Product Ownership
2 19 (6.91%) Management Information System
3 17 (6.18%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (5.82%) Security Posture
5 15 (5.45%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (2.91%) Driving Licence
7 7 (2.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.55%) Insider Threat
8 5 (1.82%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.82%) NHS
9 4 (1.45%) FMCG
9 4 (1.45%) Reference Data
10 3 (1.09%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.09%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.09%) PMI
10 3 (1.09%) Robotics
10 3 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.27%) Linux
2 3 (1.09%) Android
3 2 (0.73%) Robot Operating System
3 2 (0.73%) Windows
4 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (30.91%) Problem-Solving
2 84 (30.55%) Analytics
3 82 (29.82%) Business Intelligence
3 82 (29.82%) Continuous Improvement
4 58 (21.09%) Agile
5 51 (18.55%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 36 (13.09%) Actionable Insight
6 36 (13.09%) CRM
7 35 (12.73%) Roadmaps
8 34 (12.36%) Mentoring
9 33 (12.00%) Data Modelling
9 33 (12.00%) Project Management
9 33 (12.00%) Visualisation
10 32 (11.64%) Cybersecurity
11 31 (11.27%) Data Analysis
12 30 (10.91%) Stakeholder Management
13 25 (9.09%) Data Governance
13 25 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 24 (8.73%) AI
15 23 (8.36%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 68 (24.73%) SQL
2 42 (15.27%) Python
3 16 (5.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 14 (5.09%) R
5 10 (3.64%) TypeScript
6 9 (3.27%) Bash
6 9 (3.27%) Java
6 9 (3.27%) T-SQL
7 8 (2.91%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.18%) C
9 5 (1.82%) PHP
10 4 (1.45%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.09%) VBA
12 2 (0.73%) C++
13 1 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 58 (21.09%) Degree
2 26 (9.45%) Security Cleared
3 24 (8.73%) ACCA
4 23 (8.36%) CIMA
5 22 (8.00%) SC Cleared
6 19 (6.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (4.73%) CISSP
8 10 (3.64%) AAT
8 10 (3.64%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (3.64%) CompTIA Security+
9 8 (2.91%) PMI Certification
10 7 (2.55%) CCNA
10 7 (2.55%) CEH
10 7 (2.55%) CISMP
10 7 (2.55%) CREST Certified
10 7 (2.55%) GIAC
10 7 (2.55%) GPEN
10 7 (2.55%) MCSE
10 7 (2.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 7 (2.55%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (14.18%) Data Quality
2 22 (8.00%) QA
3 20 (7.27%) GDPR
4 13 (4.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (4.36%) Actionable Recommendations
5 12 (4.36%) PMO
6 9 (3.27%) Accessibility
7 8 (2.91%) NIST
8 5 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.45%) COBIT
9 4 (1.45%) PCI DSS
10 3 (1.09%) GRC
10 3 (1.09%) WCAG
11 2 (0.73%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.73%) NCSC
11 2 (0.73%) P3O
11 2 (0.73%) SLA
12 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 14 (5.09%) Docker
2 2 (0.73%) Firmware
3 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (3.27%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.55%) Nmap
3 4 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (1.45%) Terraform
4 2 (0.73%) Grafana
4 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.36%) Control-M
Vendors
1 45 (16.36%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.45%) SAP
3 10 (3.64%) Databricks
4 9 (3.27%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.91%) Google
6 7 (2.55%) Cisco
6 7 (2.55%) Sage
7 6 (2.18%) Oracle
7 6 (2.18%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.45%) Workday
9 3 (1.09%) Cognos
9 3 (1.09%) IBM
10 2 (0.73%) Adobe
10 2 (0.73%) Civica
10 2 (0.73%) Northgate
10 2 (0.73%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.73%) Orchard
11 1 (0.36%) Adaptive Insights
11 1 (0.36%) Ariba
11 1 (0.36%) Genesys