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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 54 58
Rank change year-on-year +30 +4 -15
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 627 269 356
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.10% 4.74% 3.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.89% 5.56% 4.53%
Number of salaries quoted 457 157 128
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,869 £42,225
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,390 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.17% -17.47% +27.91%
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £65,827
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £56,600
% change year-on-year - +6.01% -5.67%

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 10,642 4,837 7,853
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.66% 85.14% 77.91%
Number of salaries quoted 7,600 2,900 4,142
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -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 11 September 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 11 September 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 +14 398 £55,000 - 206
East Midlands +22 229 £55,000 +37.50% 118
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 9 (1.44%) Confluence
2 6 (0.96%) SAS
2 6 (0.96%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.80%) Apache
3 5 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.32%) WordPress
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 86 (13.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (4.15%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (2.71%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.32%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 15 (2.39%) Primavera
1 15 (2.39%) SAP EHS
2 14 (2.23%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 6 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.48%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.32%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.32%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.32%) Shopify
7 1 (0.16%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.16%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.16%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 92 (14.67%) Power Platform
2 78 (12.44%) Azure
3 53 (8.45%) AWS
4 45 (7.18%) SaaS
5 25 (3.99%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
7 17 (2.71%) Smartsheet
8 15 (2.39%) GCP
9 14 (2.23%) Serverless
10 13 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (1.44%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (1.12%) GitHub
14 6 (0.96%) Google Ads
15 5 (0.80%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (0.80%) Power Automate
16 4 (0.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 4 (0.64%) Google Sheets
16 4 (0.64%) Meta Ads
16 4 (0.64%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.71%) Wireless
2 7 (1.12%) Broadband
3 5 (0.80%) Internet
4 3 (0.48%) VLAN
5 2 (0.32%) Network Security
6 1 (0.16%) DHCP
6 1 (0.16%) DNS
6 1 (0.16%) Firewall
6 1 (0.16%) LAN
6 1 (0.16%) LoRaWAN
6 1 (0.16%) Modbus
6 1 (0.16%) MQTT
6 1 (0.16%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.16%) SNMP
6 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.16%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.16%) VPN
6 1 (0.16%) WAN
6 1 (0.16%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (14.04%) Power BI
2 24 (3.83%) Power Query
3 23 (3.67%) Tableau
4 19 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (2.55%) Electronic Patient Records
6 12 (1.91%) Metadata
6 12 (1.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 11 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (1.12%) Delta Lake
10 7 (1.12%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.96%) QlikView
11 6 (0.96%) SQL Server
11 6 (0.96%) Star Schema
12 4 (0.64%) Crystal Reports
12 4 (0.64%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.64%) GIS
12 4 (0.64%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 17 (2.71%) JIRA
2 14 (2.23%) Git
3 5 (0.80%) GitLab
4 4 (0.64%) Burp Suite
4 4 (0.64%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.32%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.32%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.32%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.32%) JMeter
5 2 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.32%) Postman
5 2 (0.32%) Selenium
5 2 (0.32%) SoapUI
5 2 (0.32%) Zephyr
General
1 217 (34.61%) Social Skills
2 176 (28.07%) Finance
3 169 (26.95%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (11.80%) Public Sector
5 59 (9.41%) Marketing
6 47 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 47 (7.50%) Manufacturing
7 39 (6.22%) Influencing Skills
8 34 (5.42%) Retail
9 33 (5.26%) Legal
10 27 (4.31%) Presentation Skills
10 27 (4.31%) Telecoms
11 24 (3.83%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (2.23%) Law
13 10 (1.59%) Social Housing
14 8 (1.28%) Banking
14 8 (1.28%) Fire and Rescue
15 7 (1.12%) Local Government
16 6 (0.96%) German Language
17 4 (0.64%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 84 (13.40%) Analyst
2 74 (11.80%) Senior
3 63 (10.05%) Lead
4 55 (8.77%) Business Manager
5 47 (7.50%) Architect
6 42 (6.70%) Data Analyst
7 39 (6.22%) Business Development Manager
7 39 (6.22%) Development Manager
8 30 (4.78%) Data Engineer
9 25 (3.99%) Accountant
9 25 (3.99%) Consultant
10 23 (3.67%) Developer
11 22 (3.51%) Data Architect
11 22 (3.51%) Senior Analyst
12 20 (3.19%) Data Manager
12 20 (3.19%) Senior Architect
13 17 (2.71%) Presales Consultant
13 17 (2.71%) Senior Data Analyst
14 16 (2.55%) Technical Engineer
14 16 (2.55%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.91%) Kafka
2 11 (1.75%) PySpark
3 10 (1.59%) Keycloak
3 10 (1.59%) React
4 9 (1.44%) XML
5 8 (1.28%) AWS CDK
6 7 (1.12%) Next.js
6 7 (1.12%) REST
7 6 (0.96%) .NET
8 5 (0.80%) EDI
8 5 (0.80%) Terraform
9 4 (0.64%) JSON
9 4 (0.64%) Playwright
9 4 (0.64%) STL
10 3 (0.48%) Blazor
10 3 (0.48%) CSS
10 3 (0.48%) GraphQL
10 3 (0.48%) HTML
10 3 (0.48%) Middleware
10 3 (0.48%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 60 (9.57%) Management Information System
2 45 (7.18%) Self-Motivation
3 36 (5.74%) Driving Licence
4 30 (4.78%) NHS
5 19 (3.03%) Cloud Native
5 19 (3.03%) SystemC
6 18 (2.87%) PMI
7 15 (2.39%) Analytical Mindset
8 13 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (2.07%) Product Ownership
9 12 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.44%) Onboarding
12 6 (0.96%) IoT
12 6 (0.96%) Security Posture
13 5 (0.80%) Low-Code
14 4 (0.64%) Distributed Systems
14 4 (0.64%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.80%) Windows
2 1 (0.16%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (33.81%) Continuous Improvement
2 179 (28.55%) Problem-Solving
3 168 (26.79%) Analytics
4 122 (19.46%) Business Intelligence
5 102 (16.27%) Agile
6 98 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
7 96 (15.31%) AI
8 93 (14.83%) Roadmaps
9 88 (14.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 78 (12.44%) Business Development
11 74 (11.80%) CRM
12 72 (11.48%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 68 (10.85%) Cybersecurity
13 68 (10.85%) Risk Management
14 65 (10.37%) Data Management
15 62 (9.89%) Data Analysis
16 59 (9.41%) Coaching
17 58 (9.25%) Actionable Insight
18 57 (9.09%) Data Analytics
19 55 (8.77%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 111 (17.70%) SQL
2 69 (11.00%) Python
3 21 (3.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 11 (1.75%) Java
5 10 (1.59%) Go
6 9 (1.44%) JavaScript
6 9 (1.44%) TypeScript
7 7 (1.12%) C#
7 7 (1.12%) C++
8 6 (0.96%) R
8 6 (0.96%) T-SQL
9 5 (0.80%) C
10 1 (0.16%) Bicep
10 1 (0.16%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 93 (14.83%) Degree
2 56 (8.93%) Security Cleared
3 48 (7.66%) SC Cleared
4 34 (5.42%) ACCA
4 34 (5.42%) CIMA
5 18 (2.87%) PMI Certification
6 13 (2.07%) Azure Certification
6 13 (2.07%) CISSP
7 11 (1.75%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.96%) CISM
9 5 (0.80%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.80%) CITP
9 5 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (0.64%) CCSP
10 4 (0.64%) CIPD
10 4 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.64%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.48%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (11.48%) Data Quality
2 29 (4.63%) QA
3 22 (3.51%) GDPR
4 15 (2.39%) Accessibility
5 14 (2.23%) GRC
6 12 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (1.28%) PMO
8 7 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (0.80%) SLA
10 4 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.64%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.48%) AQAP
11 3 (0.48%) NCSC
11 3 (0.48%) NIST
12 2 (0.32%) ITGC
12 2 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.32%) WCAG
13 1 (0.16%) ISO 14001
13 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (0.32%) Docker
2 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (0.64%) Nmap
2 2 (0.32%) EMC NetWorker
2 2 (0.32%) Grafana
2 2 (0.32%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.32%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.16%) Ansible
3 1 (0.16%) Argo
3 1 (0.16%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 70 (11.16%) Microsoft
2 35 (5.58%) SAP
3 19 (3.03%) Google
4 18 (2.87%) Workday
5 17 (2.71%) Cognos
6 14 (2.23%) IBM
7 10 (1.59%) Databricks
8 9 (1.44%) Oracle
8 9 (1.44%) YouTube
9 8 (1.28%) SYSPRO
10 6 (0.96%) Salesforce
10 6 (0.96%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.80%) BT
11 5 (0.80%) HubSpot
12 4 (0.64%) Ariba
12 4 (0.64%) Pega
13 3 (0.48%) NCR
13 3 (0.48%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.48%) TOWER Software
13 3 (0.48%) Veritas