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 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 43 29
Rank change year-on-year -17 -14 +33
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 267 328 441
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.30% 5.23% 6.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.11% 5.75% 7.17%
Number of salaries quoted 161 180 333
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 -
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,753 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £38,500
Median % change year-on-year - +49.35% -28.70%
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,250 £55,000
90th Percentile £84,375 £89,900 £77,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -8.00%

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 6,497 5,707 6,154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 80.35% 90.92% 86.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,627 2,540 5,053
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,754 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 24 January 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 24 January 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 0 160 £62,788 +9.20% 172
East Midlands -21 104 £45,390 -19.95% 290
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 6 (2.25%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.87%) Confluence
3 4 (1.50%) CMS
3 4 (1.50%) nginx
3 4 (1.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 35 (13.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.50%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.50%) Photoshop
4 3 (1.12%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.75%) Trello
6 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.50%) SAP ERP
1 4 (1.50%) Shopify
2 3 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.75%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.75%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.37%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.37%) Odoo
4 1 (0.37%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 57 (21.35%) Power Platform
2 40 (14.98%) Azure
3 23 (8.61%) AWS
4 10 (3.75%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (2.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 6 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (2.25%) Power Automate
6 6 (2.25%) SaaS
7 5 (1.87%) GitHub
7 5 (1.87%) Google Analytics
8 4 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.50%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.12%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (0.75%) Asana
10 2 (0.75%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (0.75%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.75%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.75%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.37%) BGP
1 1 (0.37%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (0.37%) Firewall
1 1 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (0.37%) Network Security
1 1 (0.37%) OSPF
1 1 (0.37%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.37%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (20.22%) Power BI
2 16 (5.99%) Tableau
3 11 (4.12%) SQL Server
4 10 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (3.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 8 (3.00%) Metadata
6 8 (3.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (1.87%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.87%) Data Mining
7 5 (1.87%) Looker
7 5 (1.87%) Power Query
8 4 (1.50%) MySQL
9 3 (1.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.75%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 2 (0.75%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.75%) SAP BW
10 2 (0.75%) Semantic Layer
10 2 (0.75%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (5.24%) JIRA
2 7 (2.62%) Burp Suite
2 7 (2.62%) Git
2 7 (2.62%) Metasploit
3 4 (1.50%) JUnit
3 4 (1.50%) Maven
3 4 (1.50%) Mockito
3 4 (1.50%) Vite
4 1 (0.37%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.37%) SpecFlow
General
1 117 (43.82%) Social Skills
2 95 (35.58%) Analytical Skills
3 94 (35.21%) Finance
4 45 (16.85%) Retail
5 43 (16.10%) Public Sector
6 27 (10.11%) Marketing
7 26 (9.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (9.36%) Law
9 21 (7.87%) Manufacturing
10 16 (5.99%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (4.49%) Legal
12 9 (3.37%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (3.00%) Telecoms
14 7 (2.62%) Local Government
14 7 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (2.25%) Banking
16 4 (1.50%) Aerospace
16 4 (1.50%) Electronics
17 3 (1.12%) Games
17 3 (1.12%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 63 (23.60%) Analyst
2 54 (20.22%) Senior
3 32 (11.99%) Lead
4 23 (8.61%) Data Analyst
4 23 (8.61%) Senior Analyst
5 18 (6.74%) Developer
6 15 (5.62%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 14 (5.24%) Data Engineer
8 13 (4.87%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 13 (4.87%) Financial Analyst
9 11 (4.12%) Report Analyst
9 11 (4.12%) Senior Financial Analyst
9 11 (4.12%) Senior Reporting Analyst
10 10 (3.75%) Architect
10 10 (3.75%) Project Engineer
11 9 (3.37%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
11 9 (3.37%) Digital Analyst
12 8 (3.00%) Customer Analyst
12 8 (3.00%) Data Manager
12 8 (3.00%) IT Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.12%) Flash
2 9 (3.37%) HTML
3 7 (2.62%) REST
4 5 (1.87%) CSS
4 5 (1.87%) Vue
5 4 (1.50%) Laravel
5 4 (1.50%) LEMP Stack
5 4 (1.50%) React
5 4 (1.50%) Tailwind CSS
5 4 (1.50%) YAML
6 3 (1.12%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.12%) PySpark
6 3 (1.12%) Spring
7 2 (0.75%) .NET
7 2 (0.75%) EDI
7 2 (0.75%) JSON
7 2 (0.75%) PyTorch
7 2 (0.75%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.75%) TensorFlow
8 1 (0.37%) Flutter
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.11%) Analytical Mindset
2 23 (8.61%) Management Information System
3 20 (7.49%) Security Posture
4 18 (6.74%) FMCG
5 17 (6.37%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (5.24%) Product Ownership
7 10 (3.75%) Driving Licence
8 7 (2.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (2.62%) Insider Threat
9 6 (2.25%) Cyber Security Posture
10 4 (1.50%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.50%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.50%) Reference Data
11 3 (1.12%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.12%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.12%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.12%) PMI
11 3 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.00%) Linux
2 3 (1.12%) Windows
3 1 (0.37%) Android
3 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.37%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (36.70%) Analytics
2 87 (32.58%) Problem-Solving
3 81 (30.34%) Business Intelligence
4 75 (28.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 54 (20.22%) Project Management
6 44 (16.48%) Agile
7 42 (15.73%) CRM
8 40 (14.98%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 38 (14.23%) Actionable Insight
10 35 (13.11%) ERP
11 33 (12.36%) Data Management
12 32 (11.99%) Stakeholder Management
13 31 (11.61%) Cybersecurity
14 30 (11.24%) Visualisation
15 27 (10.11%) Change Management
15 27 (10.11%) Data Analysis
15 27 (10.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 25 (9.36%) Risk Management
17 23 (8.61%) Data Governance
17 23 (8.61%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 67 (25.09%) SQL
2 39 (14.61%) Python
3 13 (4.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (3.37%) JavaScript
4 9 (3.37%) R
5 8 (3.00%) Bash
5 8 (3.00%) Java
6 4 (1.50%) C
6 4 (1.50%) PHP
6 4 (1.50%) PL/SQL
6 4 (1.50%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.12%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.37%) C#
8 1 (0.37%) C++
8 1 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 70 (26.22%) Degree
2 23 (8.61%) Security Cleared
3 22 (8.24%) ACCA
4 20 (7.49%) CIMA
4 20 (7.49%) SC Cleared
5 17 (6.37%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (4.49%) CISSP
7 11 (4.12%) AAT
7 11 (4.12%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (3.75%) CompTIA Security+
9 8 (3.00%) MCSE
9 8 (3.00%) Numerate Degree
10 7 (2.62%) CCNA
10 7 (2.62%) CEH
10 7 (2.62%) CISMP
10 7 (2.62%) CREST Certified
10 7 (2.62%) GIAC
10 7 (2.62%) GPEN
10 7 (2.62%) MCP
10 7 (2.62%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.86%) QA
2 26 (9.74%) Data Quality
3 21 (7.87%) PMO
4 16 (5.99%) GDPR
5 12 (4.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (3.37%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (2.62%) NIST
7 7 (2.62%) SLA
8 5 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.50%) COBIT
9 4 (1.50%) PCI DSS
10 3 (1.12%) GRC
11 2 (0.75%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.75%) NCSC
11 2 (0.75%) P3O
12 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 11 (4.12%) Docker
2 2 (0.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (3.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.62%) Nmap
3 3 (1.12%) Terraform
4 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.37%) Ansible
5 1 (0.37%) Control-M
5 1 (0.37%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 45 (16.85%) Microsoft
2 30 (11.24%) Salesforce
3 28 (10.49%) SAP
4 8 (3.00%) Cisco
4 8 (3.00%) Databricks
4 8 (3.00%) Oracle
4 8 (3.00%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.62%) Sage
6 6 (2.25%) Google
7 3 (1.12%) Civica
7 3 (1.12%) Northgate
8 2 (0.75%) Ariba
8 2 (0.75%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.75%) Workday
9 1 (0.37%) Autodesk
9 1 (0.37%) BMC
9 1 (0.37%) Genesys
9 1 (0.37%) IBM
9 1 (0.37%) NEC
9 1 (0.37%) Orchard