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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 55 57
Rank change year-on-year +20 +2 +4
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 471 256 483
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.61% 4.64% 3.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.17% 5.38% 4.53%
Number of salaries quoted 366 154 279
10th Percentile £31,775 £26,250 £32,580
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,783 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £51,193 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.32% -2.49% +22.09%
75th Percentile £71,813 £67,500 £66,650
90th Percentile £84,375 £85,000 £86,500
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 9,112 4,757 10,664
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.83% 86.19% 79.57%
Number of salaries quoted 6,461 2,803 7,215
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +3.16% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,250 £65,000 £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 9 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 9 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 +7 280 £57,500 +4.55% 182
East Midlands +24 191 £58,589 +56.41% 115
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 (2.12%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.70%) Confluence
3 5 (1.06%) CMS
4 2 (0.42%) Apache
4 2 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.42%) 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 63 (13.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (4.46%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.42%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.42%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.42%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (2.55%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 6 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.64%) Dynamics GP
4 3 (0.64%) Primavera
4 3 (0.64%) SAP EHS
5 2 (0.42%) Adobe Campaign
5 2 (0.42%) Shopify
6 1 (0.21%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.21%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 86 (18.26%) Power Platform
2 63 (13.38%) Azure
3 40 (8.49%) AWS
4 39 (8.28%) SaaS
5 18 (3.82%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (3.61%) Azure Data Factory
6 17 (3.61%) Serverless
7 15 (3.18%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (2.76%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (2.34%) Power Automate
10 9 (1.91%) PowerApps
11 8 (1.70%) Smartsheet
12 6 (1.27%) GCP
13 5 (1.06%) GitHub
13 5 (1.06%) Microsoft Copilot
14 4 (0.85%) Copilot Studio
14 4 (0.85%) Google Sheets
14 4 (0.85%) OneDrive
14 4 (0.85%) PaaS
15 3 (0.64%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.61%) Wireless
2 8 (1.70%) Broadband
3 3 (0.64%) SSL
4 2 (0.42%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.42%) Internet
4 2 (0.42%) 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 81 (17.20%) Power BI
2 22 (4.67%) Power Query
3 20 (4.25%) Tableau
4 13 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (2.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 9 (1.91%) SQL Server
7 8 (1.70%) Metadata
8 7 (1.49%) Star Schema
9 6 (1.27%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.85%) Delta Lake
11 4 (0.85%) QlikView
11 4 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.64%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
13 2 (0.42%) MySQL
13 2 (0.42%) Semantic Layer
14 1 (0.21%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.21%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 14 (2.97%) JIRA
2 10 (2.12%) Git
3 4 (0.85%) Burp Suite
3 4 (0.85%) Metasploit
4 3 (0.64%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.42%) JMeter
5 2 (0.42%) Locust
5 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.42%) 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
1 164 (34.82%) Social Skills
2 136 (28.87%) Finance
3 127 (26.96%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (9.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 45 (9.55%) Marketing
6 43 (9.13%) Public Sector
7 34 (7.22%) Retail
8 27 (5.73%) Manufacturing
9 26 (5.52%) Influencing Skills
10 24 (5.10%) Organisational Skills
11 18 (3.82%) Legal
12 17 (3.61%) Telecoms
13 14 (2.97%) Law
14 12 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (1.70%) Local Government
16 7 (1.49%) Social Housing
17 6 (1.27%) German Language
18 4 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
19 3 (0.64%) Banking
20 2 (0.42%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 84 (17.83%) Analyst
2 54 (11.46%) Senior
3 41 (8.70%) Data Analyst
4 34 (7.22%) Lead
5 30 (6.37%) Developer
6 27 (5.73%) Senior Analyst
7 25 (5.31%) Business Manager
8 24 (5.10%) Architect
9 20 (4.25%) Accountant
10 19 (4.03%) Business Analyst
10 19 (4.03%) Business Development Manager
10 19 (4.03%) Development Manager
10 19 (4.03%) Senior Data Analyst
11 16 (3.40%) Data Manager
11 16 (3.40%) Support Engineer
11 16 (3.40%) Technical Engineer
11 16 (3.40%) Technical Support
11 16 (3.40%) Technical Support Engineer
12 15 (3.18%) Data Architect
12 15 (3.18%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.18%) React
2 14 (2.97%) AWS CDK
3 13 (2.76%) Next.js
4 9 (1.91%) REST
5 5 (1.06%) .NET
5 5 (1.06%) Kafka
6 4 (0.85%) PySpark
6 4 (0.85%) Vue
6 4 (0.85%) 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%) Keycloak
7 3 (0.64%) LDAP
7 3 (0.64%) SAML
7 3 (0.64%) Web Services
8 2 (0.42%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.42%) EDI
8 2 (0.42%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 44 (9.34%) Management Information System
2 24 (5.10%) Driving Licence
3 21 (4.46%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (4.25%) Product Ownership
5 18 (3.82%) Analytical Mindset
6 14 (2.97%) NHS
7 13 (2.76%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.91%) Cloud Native
8 9 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.27%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.27%) Robotics
10 6 (1.27%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.06%) PMI
12 4 (0.85%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (0.85%) Insider Threat
13 3 (0.64%) AI Agents
13 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 (0.42%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (32.27%) Continuous Improvement
2 142 (30.15%) Analytics
3 141 (29.94%) Problem-Solving
4 105 (22.29%) Business Intelligence
5 84 (17.83%) Roadmaps
6 69 (14.65%) Agile
7 68 (14.44%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 66 (14.01%) CRM
9 63 (13.38%) Data Analysis
10 62 (13.16%) AI
11 61 (12.95%) Stakeholder Management
12 59 (12.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 58 (12.31%) Actionable Insight
14 53 (11.25%) Data Management
14 53 (11.25%) Risk Management
15 52 (11.04%) Data Analytics
16 51 (10.83%) Data Modelling
17 49 (10.40%) Cybersecurity
18 48 (10.19%) Mentoring
19 46 (9.77%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 105 (22.29%) SQL
2 59 (12.53%) Python
3 20 (4.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 13 (2.76%) TypeScript
5 11 (2.34%) R
5 11 (2.34%) T-SQL
6 6 (1.27%) Java
7 5 (1.06%) C#
7 5 (1.06%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.64%) Bash
8 3 (0.64%) C
8 3 (0.64%) Go
8 3 (0.64%) VBA
9 2 (0.42%) C++
9 2 (0.42%) PHP
10 1 (0.21%) Bicep
10 1 (0.21%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 67 (14.23%) Degree
2 29 (6.16%) CIMA
3 28 (5.94%) ACCA
3 28 (5.94%) Security Cleared
4 22 (4.67%) SC Cleared
5 10 (2.12%) CISSP
5 10 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (1.49%) PMI Certification
7 6 (1.27%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.27%) CITP
8 5 (1.06%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (0.85%) CCSP
9 4 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.85%) CISM
9 4 (0.85%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.85%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 3 (0.64%) CIPD
11 2 (0.42%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (11.68%) Data Quality
2 20 (4.25%) QA
3 17 (3.61%) GDPR
4 15 (3.18%) Accessibility
5 11 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (2.12%) GRC
7 8 (1.70%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.85%) SLA
10 3 (0.64%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.64%) WCAG
11 2 (0.42%) NIST
11 2 (0.42%) P3O
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%) PMO
12 1 (0.21%) PSD2
System Software
1 8 (1.70%) Docker
2 2 (0.42%) Firmware
3 1 (0.21%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (1.49%) Terraform
2 6 (1.27%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.85%) Grafana
3 4 (0.85%) Nmap
3 4 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.42%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (0.42%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.21%) Ansible
6 1 (0.21%) Argo
6 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 50 (10.62%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.61%) SAP
3 16 (3.40%) Cognos
4 14 (2.97%) Google
4 14 (2.97%) Workday
5 12 (2.55%) IBM
6 10 (2.12%) Databricks
7 6 (1.27%) Oracle
7 6 (1.27%) SYSPRO
8 5 (1.06%) BT
8 5 (1.06%) HubSpot
8 5 (1.06%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.85%) Ariba
9 4 (0.85%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.85%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.64%) Adobe
10 3 (0.64%) TOWER Software
11 2 (0.42%) NEC
12 1 (0.21%) QAD
12 1 (0.21%) VMware