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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 37 57
Rank change year-on-year -28 +20 +6
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 299 282 438
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.35% 5.64% 3.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.22% 6.34% 4.63%
Number of salaries quoted 211 185 275
10th Percentile £32,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,754 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £68,375 £73,750 £67,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,850 £87,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -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 9,279 4,450 9,456
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 72.88% 89.05% 82.21%
Number of salaries quoted 5,517 2,601 7,118
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £61,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -23 190 £57,500 +9.52% 149
East Midlands -24 107 £54,575 +14.89% 88
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 13 (4.35%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.68%) CMS
2 8 (2.68%) Confluence
3 5 (1.67%) nginx
4 4 (1.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.33%) Apache
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.33%) Drupal
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 47 (15.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.34%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.67%) Adobe Illustrator
4 5 (1.67%) Photoshop
5 4 (1.34%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.67%) Shopify
2 4 (1.34%) SAP ERP
2 4 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.00%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 2 (0.67%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.33%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.33%) Odoo
5 1 (0.33%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 74 (24.75%) Power Platform
2 53 (17.73%) Azure
3 37 (12.37%) AWS
4 15 (5.02%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (5.02%) SaaS
5 13 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (4.01%) Power Automate
6 12 (4.01%) Serverless
7 11 (3.68%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (3.01%) PowerApps
9 8 (2.68%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (2.01%) GitHub
10 6 (2.01%) Smartsheet
11 5 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (1.34%) GCP
12 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (1.34%) OneDrive
12 4 (1.34%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.68%) Wireless
2 3 (1.00%) Broadband
2 3 (1.00%) SSL
3 2 (0.67%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.33%) Internet
4 1 (0.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (23.75%) Power BI
2 15 (5.02%) Power Query
3 14 (4.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 13 (4.35%) Tableau
5 11 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (3.34%) Metadata
7 9 (3.01%) SQL Server
8 7 (2.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (2.01%) Star Schema
10 5 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (1.67%) MySQL
11 4 (1.34%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.00%) Looker
12 3 (1.00%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.67%) Data Mining
13 2 (0.67%) Delta Lake
13 2 (0.67%) Semantic Layer
14 1 (0.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.33%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Development Applications
1 15 (5.02%) JIRA
2 9 (3.01%) Git
3 5 (1.67%) Vite
4 4 (1.34%) Burp Suite
4 4 (1.34%) JUnit
4 4 (1.34%) Maven
4 4 (1.34%) Metasploit
4 4 (1.34%) Mockito
5 3 (1.00%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.67%) JMeter
6 2 (0.67%) Locust
6 2 (0.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.33%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 118 (39.46%) Social Skills
2 88 (29.43%) Finance
3 85 (28.43%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (9.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 29 (9.70%) Marketing
5 27 (9.03%) Public Sector
6 22 (7.36%) Retail
7 21 (7.02%) Manufacturing
8 16 (5.35%) Law
9 14 (4.68%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (4.01%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (3.68%) Legal
12 8 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.67%) Electronics
13 5 (1.67%) Games
13 5 (1.67%) Local Government
14 4 (1.34%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.34%) German Language
15 3 (1.00%) Spanish Language
15 3 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (20.40%) Analyst
2 40 (13.38%) Senior
3 23 (7.69%) Data Analyst
3 23 (7.69%) Developer
4 21 (7.02%) Senior Analyst
5 16 (5.35%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 15 (5.02%) Lead
7 13 (4.35%) Data Manager
8 12 (4.01%) Architect
8 12 (4.01%) Consultant
8 12 (4.01%) Financial Analyst
9 11 (3.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 10 (3.34%) Business Analyst
10 10 (3.34%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 9 (3.01%) Data Engineer
11 9 (3.01%) Data Scientist
11 9 (3.01%) Product Owner
12 8 (2.68%) IT Director
12 8 (2.68%) Technical Engineer
12 8 (2.68%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.01%) React
2 11 (3.68%) AWS CDK
2 11 (3.68%) Next.js
3 9 (3.01%) REST
4 7 (2.34%) HTML
5 6 (2.01%) Flash
5 6 (2.01%) Vue
6 5 (1.67%) CSS
6 5 (1.67%) Laravel
6 5 (1.67%) LEMP Stack
6 5 (1.67%) Tailwind CSS
6 5 (1.67%) YAML
7 4 (1.34%) XML
8 3 (1.00%) JDBC
8 3 (1.00%) LDAP
8 3 (1.00%) PySpark
8 3 (1.00%) PyTorch
8 3 (1.00%) SAML
8 3 (1.00%) TensorFlow
8 3 (1.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.03%) Product Ownership
2 20 (6.69%) Management Information System
3 15 (5.02%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (4.01%) Driving Licence
6 11 (3.68%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.01%) NHS
8 6 (2.01%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.67%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.34%) Insider Threat
10 4 (1.34%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.00%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.00%) Reference Data
11 3 (1.00%) Robotics
12 2 (0.67%) PMI
12 2 (0.67%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.01%) Linux
2 3 (1.00%) Android
3 2 (0.67%) Robot Operating System
3 2 (0.67%) Windows
4 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (31.44%) Continuous Improvement
1 94 (31.44%) Problem-Solving
2 82 (27.42%) Analytics
3 81 (27.09%) Business Intelligence
4 60 (20.07%) Agile
5 56 (18.73%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 47 (15.72%) Roadmaps
7 45 (15.05%) Data Modelling
8 41 (13.71%) CRM
9 37 (12.37%) Actionable Insight
9 37 (12.37%) Data Analysis
10 34 (11.37%) Mentoring
11 29 (9.70%) AI
11 29 (9.70%) Stakeholder Management
12 28 (9.36%) ETL
12 28 (9.36%) Visualisation
13 27 (9.03%) Cybersecurity
13 27 (9.03%) Data Protection
13 27 (9.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 25 (8.36%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 77 (25.75%) SQL
2 36 (12.04%) Python
3 16 (5.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 14 (4.68%) R
5 11 (3.68%) T-SQL
5 11 (3.68%) TypeScript
6 9 (3.01%) Bash
7 7 (2.34%) Java
8 6 (2.01%) C
8 6 (2.01%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.67%) PHP
10 4 (1.34%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.00%) VBA
12 2 (0.67%) C++
13 1 (0.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 41 (13.71%) Degree
2 22 (7.36%) CIMA
2 22 (7.36%) Security Cleared
3 21 (7.02%) ACCA
4 17 (5.69%) SC Cleared
5 16 (5.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.34%) CISSP
7 6 (2.01%) AAT
8 5 (1.67%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.34%) CCNA
9 4 (1.34%) CEH
9 4 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.34%) CISMP
9 4 (1.34%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (1.34%) CREST Certified
9 4 (1.34%) GIAC
9 4 (1.34%) GPEN
9 4 (1.34%) MCSE
9 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 4 (1.34%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 23 (7.69%) QA
3 15 (5.02%) GDPR
4 14 (4.68%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.68%) Actionable Recommendations
6 7 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (2.34%) PMO
7 4 (1.34%) SLA
8 3 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (1.00%) GRC
8 3 (1.00%) WCAG
9 2 (0.67%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.67%) NIST
9 2 (0.67%) P3O
9 2 (0.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (4.01%) Docker
2 2 (0.67%) Firmware
3 1 (0.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (2.34%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.34%) Nmap
2 4 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (1.34%) Terraform
3 2 (0.67%) Grafana
3 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.33%) Control-M
4 1 (0.33%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 42 (14.05%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.35%) SAP
3 11 (3.68%) Databricks
3 11 (3.68%) Google
4 6 (2.01%) Cognos
4 6 (2.01%) Oracle
5 5 (1.67%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.67%) Workday
6 4 (1.34%) Ariba
6 4 (1.34%) Cisco
6 4 (1.34%) IBM
6 4 (1.34%) Sage
7 3 (1.00%) Adobe
7 3 (1.00%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.67%) Civica
8 2 (0.67%) Northgate
8 2 (0.67%) Orchard
8 2 (0.67%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.33%) Autodesk
9 1 (0.33%) VMware