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 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 52 60
Rank change year-on-year +18 +8 +3
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 466 253 495
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.58% 4.64% 3.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.13% 5.36% 4.65%
Number of salaries quoted 360 153 280
10th Percentile £32,450 £26,250 £32,590
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,754 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% +22.09%
75th Percentile £72,000 £67,500 £66,650
90th Percentile £83,875 £85,000 £86,375
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £54,700
% change year-on-year - +9.69% -8.11%

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 9,090 4,718 10,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.82% 86.49% 79.60%
Number of salaries quoted 6,443 2,775 7,220
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% +2.11% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,375 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 8 July 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 8 July 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 +10 277 £57,500 +4.55% 163
East Midlands +22 189 £58,589 +56.41% 123
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 (2.15%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.72%) Confluence
3 5 (1.07%) CMS
4 2 (0.43%) Apache
4 2 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.43%) nginx
5 1 (0.21%) Drupal
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 62 (13.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (4.51%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.07%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.43%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 12 (2.58%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 5 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.43%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.43%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.43%) Primavera
3 2 (0.43%) SAP EHS
3 2 (0.43%) Shopify
4 1 (0.21%) Exchequer
4 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.21%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 86 (18.45%) Power Platform
2 61 (13.09%) Azure
3 40 (8.58%) AWS
4 37 (7.94%) SaaS
5 17 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (3.65%) Serverless
6 16 (3.43%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (3.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (2.58%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (2.36%) Power Automate
10 9 (1.93%) PowerApps
11 7 (1.50%) Smartsheet
12 6 (1.29%) GCP
13 5 (1.07%) GitHub
13 5 (1.07%) Microsoft Copilot
14 4 (0.86%) Copilot Studio
14 4 (0.86%) Google Sheets
14 4 (0.86%) OneDrive
14 4 (0.86%) PaaS
15 3 (0.64%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.65%) Wireless
2 8 (1.72%) Broadband
3 3 (0.64%) SSL
4 2 (0.43%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.43%) Internet
4 2 (0.43%) Network Security
5 1 (0.21%) DHCP
5 1 (0.21%) DNS
5 1 (0.21%) Firewall
5 1 (0.21%) LAN
5 1 (0.21%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.21%) SNMP
5 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.21%) VLAN
5 1 (0.21%) VPN
5 1 (0.21%) WAN
5 1 (0.21%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (17.60%) Power BI
2 22 (4.72%) Power Query
3 20 (4.29%) Tableau
4 13 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (2.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 9 (1.93%) SQL Server
7 8 (1.72%) Metadata
8 7 (1.50%) Star Schema
9 6 (1.29%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.86%) Delta Lake
11 4 (0.86%) QlikView
11 4 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.64%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.43%) MySQL
13 2 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
13 2 (0.43%) Semantic Layer
14 1 (0.21%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.21%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 13 (2.79%) JIRA
2 10 (2.15%) Git
3 4 (0.86%) Burp Suite
3 4 (0.86%) Metasploit
4 3 (0.64%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.43%) JMeter
5 2 (0.43%) Locust
5 2 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.43%) Vite
6 1 (0.21%) GitLab
6 1 (0.21%) JUnit
6 1 (0.21%) Maven
6 1 (0.21%) Mockito
6 1 (0.21%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 161 (34.55%) Social Skills
2 138 (29.61%) Finance
3 127 (27.25%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (10.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 44 (9.44%) Marketing
6 43 (9.23%) Public Sector
7 34 (7.30%) Retail
8 27 (5.79%) Influencing Skills
8 27 (5.79%) Manufacturing
9 23 (4.94%) Organisational Skills
10 18 (3.86%) Legal
11 16 (3.43%) Telecoms
12 15 (3.22%) Law
13 10 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (1.72%) Local Government
15 7 (1.50%) Social Housing
16 6 (1.29%) German Language
17 4 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
18 3 (0.64%) Banking
19 2 (0.43%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 85 (18.24%) Analyst
2 53 (11.37%) Senior
3 41 (8.80%) Data Analyst
4 32 (6.87%) Lead
5 30 (6.44%) Developer
6 27 (5.79%) Senior Analyst
7 24 (5.15%) Architect
7 24 (5.15%) Business Manager
8 19 (4.08%) Accountant
8 19 (4.08%) Business Analyst
8 19 (4.08%) Senior Data Analyst
9 18 (3.86%) Business Development Manager
9 18 (3.86%) Development Manager
10 16 (3.43%) Data Manager
10 16 (3.43%) Support Engineer
10 16 (3.43%) Technical Engineer
10 16 (3.43%) Technical Support
10 16 (3.43%) Technical Support Engineer
11 15 (3.22%) Data Architect
12 14 (3.00%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.22%) React
2 14 (3.00%) AWS CDK
3 13 (2.79%) Next.js
4 9 (1.93%) REST
5 5 (1.07%) .NET
6 4 (0.86%) Kafka
6 4 (0.86%) PySpark
6 4 (0.86%) Vue
6 4 (0.86%) XML
7 3 (0.64%) Blazor
7 3 (0.64%) CSS
7 3 (0.64%) HTML
7 3 (0.64%) JDBC
7 3 (0.64%) LDAP
7 3 (0.64%) SAML
7 3 (0.64%) Web Services
8 2 (0.43%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.43%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.43%) EDI
8 2 (0.43%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 43 (9.23%) Management Information System
2 24 (5.15%) Driving Licence
3 21 (4.51%) Product Ownership
4 19 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (3.86%) Analytical Mindset
6 14 (3.00%) NHS
7 13 (2.79%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.93%) Cloud Native
8 9 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.29%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.29%) Robotics
10 6 (1.29%) Security Posture
11 4 (0.86%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.86%) Insider Threat
11 4 (0.86%) PMI
12 3 (0.64%) AI Agents
12 3 (0.64%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.64%) Android
1 3 (0.64%) Linux
1 3 (0.64%) Windows
2 2 (0.43%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (32.40%) Continuous Improvement
2 141 (30.26%) Analytics
3 140 (30.04%) Problem-Solving
4 106 (22.75%) Business Intelligence
5 83 (17.81%) Roadmaps
6 68 (14.59%) Agile
6 68 (14.59%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 64 (13.73%) CRM
8 63 (13.52%) Data Analysis
9 61 (13.09%) AI
10 58 (12.45%) Actionable Insight
10 58 (12.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 57 (12.23%) Stakeholder Management
12 53 (11.37%) Data Management
13 52 (11.16%) Data Analytics
13 52 (11.16%) Risk Management
14 51 (10.94%) Data Modelling
15 48 (10.30%) Mentoring
16 47 (10.09%) Cybersecurity
17 46 (9.87%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 105 (22.53%) SQL
2 58 (12.45%) Python
3 20 (4.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 13 (2.79%) TypeScript
5 11 (2.36%) R
5 11 (2.36%) T-SQL
6 6 (1.29%) Java
7 5 (1.07%) C#
7 5 (1.07%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.64%) Bash
8 3 (0.64%) C
8 3 (0.64%) VBA
9 2 (0.43%) C++
9 2 (0.43%) Go
9 2 (0.43%) PHP
10 1 (0.21%) Bicep
10 1 (0.21%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 68 (14.59%) Degree
2 30 (6.44%) CIMA
3 29 (6.22%) ACCA
4 27 (5.79%) Security Cleared
5 21 (4.51%) SC Cleared
6 10 (2.15%) CISSP
6 10 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.29%) CITP
7 6 (1.29%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.07%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.07%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (0.86%) CCSP
9 4 (0.86%) CIPD
9 4 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.86%) CISM
9 4 (0.86%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.86%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 3 (0.64%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (11.80%) Data Quality
2 20 (4.29%) QA
3 17 (3.65%) GDPR
4 15 (3.22%) Accessibility
5 11 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (2.15%) GRC
7 8 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.86%) SLA
10 3 (0.64%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.64%) WCAG
11 2 (0.43%) NIST
11 2 (0.43%) P3O
11 2 (0.43%) PMO
12 1 (0.21%) GxP
12 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.21%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.21%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.21%) PSD2
System Software
1 8 (1.72%) Docker
2 2 (0.43%) Firmware
3 1 (0.21%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (1.50%) Terraform
2 6 (1.29%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.86%) Grafana
3 4 (0.86%) Nmap
3 4 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.43%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (0.43%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.21%) Ansible
6 1 (0.21%) Argo
6 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 49 (10.52%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.43%) Cognos
2 16 (3.43%) SAP
3 15 (3.22%) Workday
4 14 (3.00%) Google
5 12 (2.58%) IBM
6 10 (2.15%) Databricks
7 6 (1.29%) Oracle
7 6 (1.29%) SYSPRO
8 5 (1.07%) BT
8 5 (1.07%) HubSpot
8 5 (1.07%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.86%) Ariba
9 4 (0.86%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.64%) Adobe
10 3 (0.64%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.64%) TOWER Software
11 2 (0.43%) NEC
11 2 (0.43%) Sage
12 1 (0.21%) Informatica