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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 60 57
Rank change year-on-year +37 -3 -29
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 727 255 377
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.62% 4.60% 4.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.52% 5.30% 5.01%
Number of salaries quoted 507 162 129
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £37,400
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,869 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -13.91% +55.75%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,290
England median annual salary £58,015 £60,000 £59,125
% change year-on-year -3.31% +1.48% +1.94%

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 11,142 4,812 7,520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 70.86% 86.87% 80.65%
Number of salaries quoted 7,863 2,810 3,415
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,125 £32,219 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,390 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.16% -9.22% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 +32 454 £52,842 -11.93% 203
East Midlands +27 273 £50,000 +25.00% 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 8 (1.10%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.83%) SAS
3 5 (0.69%) Apache
3 5 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (0.69%) Confluence
4 3 (0.41%) WordPress
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 109 (14.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (5.09%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (3.71%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (1.10%) Notion
5 4 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.28%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 25 (3.44%) Primavera
1 25 (3.44%) SAP EHS
2 12 (1.65%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 10 (1.38%) Sonata
4 6 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.41%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.28%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.28%) Shopify
7 1 (0.14%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.14%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.14%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.14%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 111 (15.27%) Power Platform
2 88 (12.10%) Azure
3 50 (6.88%) SaaS
4 46 (6.33%) AWS
5 36 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
6 25 (3.44%) Smartsheet
7 21 (2.89%) Azure Data Factory
8 20 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
9 13 (1.79%) GCP
10 12 (1.65%) Serverless
11 11 (1.51%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (1.38%) GitHub
13 8 (1.10%) Entra ID
14 7 (0.96%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (0.83%) Google Ads
15 6 (0.83%) Snowflake
16 5 (0.69%) AWS Lambda
17 4 (0.55%) Amazon EMR
17 4 (0.55%) dbt
17 4 (0.55%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.34%) Wireless
2 6 (0.83%) Internet
3 5 (0.69%) Broadband
4 4 (0.55%) VLAN
5 3 (0.41%) Intranet
6 1 (0.14%) DHCP
6 1 (0.14%) DNS
6 1 (0.14%) Extranet
6 1 (0.14%) Firewall
6 1 (0.14%) LAN
6 1 (0.14%) LoRaWAN
6 1 (0.14%) Modbus
6 1 (0.14%) Network Security
6 1 (0.14%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.14%) SNMP
6 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.14%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.14%) VPN
6 1 (0.14%) WAN
6 1 (0.14%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (14.58%) Power BI
2 26 (3.58%) Power Query
3 25 (3.44%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (3.30%) Tableau
5 21 (2.89%) Relational Database
6 16 (2.20%) Electronic Patient Records
7 15 (2.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 13 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (1.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (1.38%) Metadata
11 9 (1.24%) Delta Lake
12 8 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.83%) GIS
13 6 (0.83%) QlikView
13 6 (0.83%) SQL Server
14 5 (0.69%) BigQuery
14 5 (0.69%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.69%) Looker
14 5 (0.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (3.44%) Git
2 13 (1.79%) JIRA
3 5 (0.69%) GitLab
4 4 (0.55%) Burp Suite
4 4 (0.55%) Metasploit
4 4 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.28%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.28%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.28%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.28%) JMeter
5 2 (0.28%) Postman
5 2 (0.28%) Selenium
5 2 (0.28%) SoapUI
5 2 (0.28%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.14%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 244 (33.56%) Social Skills
2 216 (29.71%) Analytical Skills
3 208 (28.61%) Finance
4 82 (11.28%) Public Sector
5 71 (9.77%) Marketing
6 63 (8.67%) Manufacturing
7 59 (8.12%) Legal
8 55 (7.57%) Influencing Skills
9 51 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 42 (5.78%) Telecoms
11 36 (4.95%) Retail
12 27 (3.71%) Presentation Skills
13 21 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
14 16 (2.20%) Law
15 15 (2.06%) Automotive
16 11 (1.51%) Social Housing
17 10 (1.38%) Fire and Rescue
18 8 (1.10%) Banking
18 8 (1.10%) Local Government
19 6 (0.83%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 90 (12.38%) Analyst
2 81 (11.14%) Senior
3 78 (10.73%) Lead
4 66 (9.08%) Business Manager
5 52 (7.15%) Architect
6 49 (6.74%) Business Development Manager
6 49 (6.74%) Data Engineer
6 49 (6.74%) Development Manager
7 46 (6.33%) Data Analyst
8 29 (3.99%) Developer
9 24 (3.30%) Consultant
9 24 (3.30%) Data Architect
10 22 (3.03%) Accountant
10 22 (3.03%) Sales Executive
10 22 (3.03%) Senior Architect
11 20 (2.75%) Data Manager
12 18 (2.48%) Senior Analyst
12 18 (2.48%) Senior Data Analyst
13 17 (2.34%) Presales Consultant
13 17 (2.34%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.20%) PySpark
2 15 (2.06%) Kafka
3 13 (1.79%) Keycloak
4 8 (1.10%) .NET
4 8 (1.10%) React
4 8 (1.10%) REST
5 6 (0.83%) AWS CDK
5 6 (0.83%) XML
6 5 (0.69%) EDI
6 5 (0.69%) JSON
6 5 (0.69%) Next.js
6 5 (0.69%) Terraform
7 4 (0.55%) HTML
7 4 (0.55%) Playwright
7 4 (0.55%) STL
8 3 (0.41%) Blazor
8 3 (0.41%) CSS
8 3 (0.41%) GraphQL
8 3 (0.41%) RESTful
9 2 (0.28%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 73 (10.04%) Management Information System
2 62 (8.53%) Driving Licence
3 56 (7.70%) Self-Motivation
4 39 (5.36%) NHS
5 28 (3.85%) PMI
6 23 (3.16%) Cloud Native
7 19 (2.61%) SystemC
8 16 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
8 16 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
9 14 (1.93%) Onboarding
10 12 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
11 11 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.24%) IoT
14 8 (1.10%) AI Agents
14 8 (1.10%) CCTV
15 6 (0.83%) Product Ownership
16 5 (0.69%) Algorithms
16 5 (0.69%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.10%) Windows
2 2 (0.28%) Linux
3 1 (0.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (32.32%) Continuous Improvement
2 200 (27.51%) Analytics
3 196 (26.96%) Problem-Solving
4 145 (19.94%) Business Intelligence
5 121 (16.64%) Stakeholder Management
6 114 (15.68%) Agile
7 104 (14.31%) AI
8 102 (14.03%) CRM
8 102 (14.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 99 (13.62%) Business Development
10 85 (11.69%) Roadmaps
11 75 (10.32%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 72 (9.90%) Data Governance
13 71 (9.77%) Data Management
13 71 (9.77%) ERP
14 69 (9.49%) Actionable Insight
15 68 (9.35%) Cybersecurity
15 68 (9.35%) Data Analytics
16 67 (9.22%) Data Modelling
17 65 (8.94%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 138 (18.98%) SQL
2 86 (11.83%) Python
3 30 (4.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 13 (1.79%) Go
4 13 (1.79%) Java
5 11 (1.51%) JavaScript
6 10 (1.38%) C#
6 10 (1.38%) C++
7 7 (0.96%) C
7 7 (0.96%) TypeScript
8 6 (0.83%) R
9 3 (0.41%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.14%) Bicep
10 1 (0.14%) PHP
10 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.14%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 107 (14.72%) Degree
2 65 (8.94%) Security Cleared
3 59 (8.12%) SC Cleared
4 41 (5.64%) ACCA
5 37 (5.09%) CIMA
6 28 (3.85%) PMI Certification
7 15 (2.06%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.93%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.38%) CISSP
10 6 (0.83%) CIPD
10 6 (0.83%) CISM
11 5 (0.69%) CITP
11 5 (0.69%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.55%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.55%) CCSP
12 4 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.55%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 3 (0.41%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (13.89%) Data Quality
2 34 (4.68%) GDPR
3 29 (3.99%) QA
4 22 (3.03%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.51%) GRC
5 11 (1.51%) PMO
6 7 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
6 7 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.55%) ISO 9001
8 4 (0.55%) SLA
9 3 (0.41%) AQAP
9 3 (0.41%) NCSC
9 3 (0.41%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.28%) ITGC
10 2 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.28%) WCAG
11 1 (0.14%) GxP
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 6 (0.83%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.41%) Docker
3 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (0.55%) Nmap
2 3 (0.41%) EMC NetWorker
3 2 (0.28%) Grafana
3 2 (0.28%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.28%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.14%) Ansible
4 1 (0.14%) Argo
4 1 (0.14%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 116 (15.96%) Microsoft
2 47 (6.46%) SAP
3 18 (2.48%) Google
4 17 (2.34%) Oracle
5 15 (2.06%) Cognos
5 15 (2.06%) Salesforce
5 15 (2.06%) Workday
6 13 (1.79%) Databricks
6 13 (1.79%) IBM
7 10 (1.38%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.24%) YouTube
9 8 (1.10%) SYSPRO
10 6 (0.83%) Adaptive Insights
10 6 (0.83%) Anaplan
11 5 (0.69%) BT
11 5 (0.69%) HubSpot
12 4 (0.55%) Pega
12 4 (0.55%) Sage
13 3 (0.41%) Infor
13 3 (0.41%) NCR