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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 44 34
Rank change year-on-year -16 -10 +31
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 277 308 457
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.08% 5.23% 5.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.92% 5.68% 6.34%
Number of salaries quoted 176 175 338
10th Percentile £34,375 £36,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £43,247 £38,754 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £42,820
Median % change year-on-year - +34.28% -18.44%
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,375 £60,296
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £83,759
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -9.84%

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 7,073 5,426 7,209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 78.57% 92.17% 85.86%
Number of salaries quoted 4,001 2,466 5,853
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,754 £34,834
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £49,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.53% -5.24%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,354 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 20 February 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 20 February 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 -9 157 £62,500 +4.17% 162
East Midlands -19 117 £51,058 +2.12% 98
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 (3.61%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.53%) CMS
3 6 (2.17%) Confluence
4 5 (1.81%) nginx
5 4 (1.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.36%) Drupal
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 39 (14.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.81%) Adobe Illustrator
2 5 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.81%) Photoshop
2 5 (1.81%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.72%) Trello
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.81%) Shopify
2 4 (1.44%) SAP ERP
3 3 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.72%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.36%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.36%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.36%) Odoo
5 1 (0.36%) Primavera
5 1 (0.36%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 65 (23.47%) Power Platform
2 49 (17.69%) Azure
3 29 (10.47%) AWS
4 14 (5.05%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (3.25%) Power Automate
7 8 (2.89%) PowerApps
7 8 (2.89%) SaaS
8 7 (2.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.17%) GitHub
9 6 (2.17%) Serverless
10 5 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (1.44%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.44%) Google Analytics
11 4 (1.44%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (1.44%) PaaS
12 3 (1.08%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.08%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.08%) SSL
2 1 (0.36%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.36%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (22.38%) Power BI
2 18 (6.50%) Tableau
3 13 (4.69%) SQL Server
4 12 (4.33%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (4.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 11 (3.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (3.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (3.61%) Metadata
7 8 (2.89%) Power Query
8 5 (1.81%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.81%) Looker
8 5 (1.81%) MySQL
9 4 (1.44%) Data Mining
9 4 (1.44%) Star Schema
10 3 (1.08%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (0.72%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
11 2 (0.72%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.72%) SAP BW
11 2 (0.72%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 14 (5.05%) JIRA
2 9 (3.25%) Git
3 7 (2.53%) Burp Suite
3 7 (2.53%) Metasploit
4 5 (1.81%) Vite
5 4 (1.44%) JUnit
5 4 (1.44%) Maven
5 4 (1.44%) Mockito
6 2 (0.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.36%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 128 (46.21%) Social Skills
2 99 (35.74%) Analytical Skills
3 98 (35.38%) Finance
4 45 (16.25%) Public Sector
5 39 (14.08%) Retail
6 28 (10.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (7.94%) Marketing
8 19 (6.86%) Law
9 18 (6.50%) Manufacturing
10 14 (5.05%) Legal
11 12 (4.33%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (3.97%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (2.89%) Telecoms
14 7 (2.53%) Local Government
15 6 (2.17%) Banking
16 4 (1.44%) Aerospace
16 4 (1.44%) Electronics
16 4 (1.44%) Games
17 3 (1.08%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 64 (23.10%) Analyst
2 48 (17.33%) Senior
3 29 (10.47%) Lead
4 24 (8.66%) Developer
5 23 (8.30%) Senior Analyst
6 22 (7.94%) Data Analyst
7 17 (6.14%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 16 (5.78%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 14 (5.05%) Data Engineer
10 13 (4.69%) Financial Analyst
11 11 (3.97%) Consultant
11 11 (3.97%) Data Manager
11 11 (3.97%) Report Analyst
11 11 (3.97%) Senior Financial Analyst
11 11 (3.97%) Senior Reporting Analyst
12 10 (3.61%) Architect
13 9 (3.25%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
13 9 (3.25%) Digital Analyst
13 9 (3.25%) IT Director
14 8 (2.89%) Customer Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.97%) Flash
2 10 (3.61%) REST
3 8 (2.89%) HTML
4 7 (2.53%) React
5 6 (2.17%) CSS
5 6 (2.17%) Vue
6 5 (1.81%) Laravel
6 5 (1.81%) LEMP Stack
6 5 (1.81%) Tailwind CSS
6 5 (1.81%) YAML
7 3 (1.08%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.08%) AWS CDK
7 3 (1.08%) JDBC
7 3 (1.08%) Next.js
7 3 (1.08%) PySpark
7 3 (1.08%) PyTorch
7 3 (1.08%) SAML
7 3 (1.08%) Spring
7 3 (1.08%) TensorFlow
7 3 (1.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.03%) Management Information System
2 24 (8.66%) Analytical Mindset
3 18 (6.50%) Product Ownership
4 17 (6.14%) Security Posture
5 16 (5.78%) FMCG
5 16 (5.78%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (3.25%) Driving Licence
7 7 (2.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (2.53%) Insider Threat
8 6 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.81%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.81%) Cyber Security Posture
9 5 (1.81%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.44%) NHS
10 4 (1.44%) Reference Data
11 3 (1.08%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.25%) Linux
2 2 (0.72%) Android
2 2 (0.72%) Robot Operating System
2 2 (0.72%) Windows
3 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (34.66%) Analytics
2 92 (33.21%) Problem-Solving
3 89 (32.13%) Business Intelligence
4 80 (28.88%) Continuous Improvement
5 54 (19.49%) Agile
6 48 (17.33%) CRM
7 46 (16.61%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 46 (16.61%) Project Management
8 37 (13.36%) Actionable Insight
9 33 (11.91%) Data Management
10 32 (11.55%) ERP
10 32 (11.55%) Stakeholder Management
10 32 (11.55%) Visualisation
11 31 (11.19%) Cybersecurity
12 29 (10.47%) Mentoring
12 29 (10.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 28 (10.11%) Data Analysis
13 28 (10.11%) Data Modelling
14 27 (9.75%) Roadmaps
15 26 (9.39%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 69 (24.91%) SQL
2 42 (15.16%) Python
3 12 (4.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 11 (3.97%) R
5 10 (3.61%) JavaScript
6 9 (3.25%) Bash
7 8 (2.89%) Java
8 7 (2.53%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.81%) C
9 5 (1.81%) PHP
10 4 (1.44%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.44%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.72%) C++
11 2 (0.72%) VBA
12 1 (0.36%) C#
12 1 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 70 (25.27%) Degree
2 24 (8.66%) Security Cleared
3 22 (7.94%) ACCA
4 21 (7.58%) SC Cleared
5 20 (7.22%) CIMA
6 19 (6.86%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (4.33%) CISSP
8 11 (3.97%) AAT
9 10 (3.61%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (3.61%) CompTIA Security+
10 8 (2.89%) MCSE
10 8 (2.89%) Numerate Degree
10 8 (2.89%) PMI Certification
11 7 (2.53%) CEH
11 7 (2.53%) CISMP
11 7 (2.53%) CREST Certified
11 7 (2.53%) GIAC
11 7 (2.53%) GPEN
11 7 (2.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 7 (2.53%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (12.64%) Data Quality
2 25 (9.03%) QA
3 19 (6.86%) GDPR
4 18 (6.50%) PMO
5 11 (3.97%) Actionable Recommendations
5 11 (3.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (2.53%) NIST
7 4 (1.44%) COBIT
7 4 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.44%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.08%) SLA
9 2 (0.72%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.72%) GRC
9 2 (0.72%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.72%) NCSC
9 2 (0.72%) P3O
System Software
1 12 (4.33%) Docker
2 3 (1.08%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.36%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (2.89%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.53%) Nmap
3 4 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.72%) Terraform
5 1 (0.36%) Control-M
Vendors
1 42 (15.16%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.39%) Salesforce
2 26 (9.39%) SAP
3 9 (3.25%) Databricks
4 8 (2.89%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.53%) Cisco
5 7 (2.53%) Google
5 7 (2.53%) Oracle
5 7 (2.53%) Sage
6 3 (1.08%) Civica
6 3 (1.08%) Northgate
7 2 (0.72%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.72%) Orchard
7 2 (0.72%) Workday
8 1 (0.36%) Adaptive Insights
8 1 (0.36%) Anaplan
8 1 (0.36%) Foundry
8 1 (0.36%) Palantir
8 1 (0.36%) Talend
8 1 (0.36%) Verint