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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 51 62
Rank change year-on-year +19 +11 -1
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 501 263 427
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.70% 4.65% 3.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.31% 5.44% 4.45%
Number of salaries quoted 388 160 227
10th Percentile £31,865 £26,250 £35,552
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,754 £41,254
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £54,700
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -8.59% +27.21%
75th Percentile £72,000 £67,500 £66,575
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £81,504
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -7.99%

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 9,439 4,831 9,589
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.68% 85.46% 78.71%
Number of salaries quoted 6,715 2,887 6,216
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -4.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,250 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £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 22 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 22 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 +9 296 £56,000 +1.82% 152
East Midlands +28 205 £58,589 +46.77% 101
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 (1.80%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.40%) Confluence
3 4 (0.80%) CMS
4 3 (0.60%) Apache
4 3 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.20%) Drupal
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.20%) nginx
5 1 (0.20%) SAS
5 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 72 (14.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (4.19%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.40%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.20%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 13 (2.59%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 6 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.80%) Primavera
3 4 (0.80%) SAP EHS
4 3 (0.60%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.40%) Adobe Campaign
5 2 (0.40%) Shopify
6 1 (0.20%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.20%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.20%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.20%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 90 (17.96%) Power Platform
2 67 (13.37%) Azure
3 44 (8.78%) SaaS
4 40 (7.98%) AWS
5 19 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
6 17 (3.39%) Serverless
7 15 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (2.59%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (2.20%) Power Automate
10 9 (1.80%) PowerApps
10 9 (1.80%) Smartsheet
11 7 (1.40%) GCP
12 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Copilot
13 4 (0.80%) Copilot Studio
13 4 (0.80%) Google Ads
13 4 (0.80%) Google Sheets
13 4 (0.80%) OneDrive
13 4 (0.80%) PaaS
13 4 (0.80%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.39%) Wireless
2 8 (1.60%) Broadband
3 3 (0.60%) SSL
4 2 (0.40%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.40%) Internet
4 2 (0.40%) Network Security
5 1 (0.20%) DHCP
5 1 (0.20%) DNS
5 1 (0.20%) Firewall
5 1 (0.20%) LAN
5 1 (0.20%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.20%) SNMP
5 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.20%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.20%) VLAN
5 1 (0.20%) VPN
5 1 (0.20%) WAN
5 1 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (16.97%) Power BI
2 25 (4.99%) Power Query
3 22 (4.39%) Tableau
4 16 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (2.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 9 (1.80%) Metadata
7 8 (1.60%) SQL Server
8 7 (1.40%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.40%) Star Schema
9 6 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (1.00%) QlikView
11 4 (0.80%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.40%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
12 2 (0.40%) NoSQL
13 1 (0.20%) Data Mining
13 1 (0.20%) DTS
Development Applications
1 14 (2.79%) JIRA
2 10 (2.00%) Git
3 4 (0.80%) Burp Suite
3 4 (0.80%) Metasploit
4 2 (0.40%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.40%) JMeter
4 2 (0.40%) Locust
4 2 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.20%) GitLab
5 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.20%) Vite
General
1 173 (34.53%) Social Skills
2 147 (29.34%) Finance
3 140 (27.94%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (9.38%) Marketing
5 45 (8.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 45 (8.98%) Public Sector
6 36 (7.19%) Retail
7 29 (5.79%) Influencing Skills
7 29 (5.79%) Manufacturing
8 24 (4.79%) Organisational Skills
9 22 (4.39%) Legal
10 16 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
10 16 (3.19%) Telecoms
11 15 (2.99%) Law
12 7 (1.40%) Local Government
12 7 (1.40%) Social Housing
13 6 (1.20%) German Language
14 4 (0.80%) Banking
14 4 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.80%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 86 (17.17%) Analyst
2 55 (10.98%) Senior
3 42 (8.38%) Data Analyst
4 38 (7.58%) Lead
5 30 (5.99%) Business Manager
6 27 (5.39%) Architect
6 27 (5.39%) Developer
7 25 (4.99%) Senior Analyst
8 21 (4.19%) Accountant
8 21 (4.19%) Business Development Manager
8 21 (4.19%) Development Manager
9 19 (3.79%) Senior Data Analyst
10 18 (3.59%) Business Analyst
10 18 (3.59%) Data Engineer
10 18 (3.59%) Data Manager
11 17 (3.39%) Data Architect
12 16 (3.19%) Support Engineer
12 16 (3.19%) Technical Engineer
12 16 (3.19%) Technical Support
12 16 (3.19%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.79%) AWS CDK
1 14 (2.79%) React
2 13 (2.59%) Next.js
3 7 (1.40%) Kafka
3 7 (1.40%) REST
4 6 (1.20%) XML
5 5 (1.00%) Keycloak
6 4 (0.80%) .NET
6 4 (0.80%) PySpark
7 3 (0.60%) Blazor
7 3 (0.60%) JDBC
7 3 (0.60%) LDAP
7 3 (0.60%) SAML
7 3 (0.60%) Web Services
8 2 (0.40%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.40%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (0.40%) GraphQL
8 2 (0.40%) Middleware
8 2 (0.40%) Semantic Kernel
8 2 (0.40%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 48 (9.58%) Management Information System
2 24 (4.79%) Driving Licence
2 24 (4.79%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (3.59%) Analytical Mindset
4 17 (3.39%) NHS
5 16 (3.19%) Product Ownership
6 15 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.80%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.40%) PMI
10 6 (1.20%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.20%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.00%) Robotics
12 4 (0.80%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (0.80%) Insider Threat
13 3 (0.60%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.60%) Windows
2 2 (0.40%) Android
3 1 (0.20%) Linux
3 1 (0.20%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 150 (29.94%) Analytics
2 150 (29.94%) Problem-Solving
3 113 (22.55%) Business Intelligence
4 85 (16.97%) Roadmaps
5 76 (15.17%) Agile
6 73 (14.57%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 73 (14.57%) Stakeholder Management
7 69 (13.77%) CRM
8 67 (13.37%) Data Analysis
9 66 (13.17%) AI
10 63 (12.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 60 (11.98%) Data Management
12 57 (11.38%) Actionable Insight
12 57 (11.38%) Risk Management
13 54 (10.78%) Data Analytics
14 51 (10.18%) Cybersecurity
14 51 (10.18%) Data Governance
14 51 (10.18%) Mentoring
15 49 (9.78%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 106 (21.16%) SQL
2 62 (12.38%) Python
3 22 (4.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 13 (2.59%) TypeScript
5 11 (2.20%) T-SQL
6 9 (1.80%) R
7 5 (1.00%) C#
7 5 (1.00%) Go
7 5 (1.00%) Java
8 4 (0.80%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.60%) C
9 3 (0.60%) VBA
10 1 (0.20%) Bash
10 1 (0.20%) Bicep
10 1 (0.20%) C++
10 1 (0.20%) PHP
10 1 (0.20%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 74 (14.77%) Degree
2 32 (6.39%) CIMA
3 31 (6.19%) ACCA
4 30 (5.99%) Security Cleared
5 24 (4.79%) SC Cleared
6 11 (2.20%) CISSP
7 9 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (1.80%) PMI Certification
8 8 (1.60%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.20%) CITP
9 6 (1.20%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.00%) CISM
11 4 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.80%) CCSP
11 4 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.80%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.80%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 4 (0.80%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.60%) CIPD
13 2 (0.40%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (11.98%) Data Quality
2 20 (3.99%) QA
3 19 (3.79%) GDPR
4 15 (2.99%) Accessibility
5 13 (2.59%) GRC
6 11 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.80%) SLA
11 3 (0.60%) WCAG
12 2 (0.40%) NIST
12 2 (0.40%) P3O
12 2 (0.40%) PMO
13 1 (0.20%) GxP
13 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.20%) ISO 14001
13 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.20%) PSD2
System Software
1 5 (1.00%) Docker
2 2 (0.40%) Firmware
3 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (1.40%) Terraform
2 4 (0.80%) Grafana
2 4 (0.80%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.80%) Nmap
2 4 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.40%) EMC NetWorker
4 2 (0.40%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.20%) Ansible
5 1 (0.20%) Argo
5 1 (0.20%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 54 (10.78%) Microsoft
2 20 (3.99%) SAP
3 17 (3.39%) Cognos
4 16 (3.19%) Google
5 15 (2.99%) Workday
6 13 (2.59%) IBM
7 9 (1.80%) Databricks
8 7 (1.40%) SYSPRO
9 5 (1.00%) BT
9 5 (1.00%) HubSpot
9 5 (1.00%) Oracle
9 5 (1.00%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.00%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.80%) Ariba
11 3 (0.60%) Adobe
11 3 (0.60%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.60%) TOWER Software
12 2 (0.40%) NEC
13 1 (0.20%) QAD
13 1 (0.20%) VMware