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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 36 60
Rank change year-on-year -30 +24 +4
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 297 283 427
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.41% 5.78% 3.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.28% 6.49% 4.57%
Number of salaries quoted 207 188 269
10th Percentile £32,300 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,998 £38,750 £39,087
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £51,716
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +1.52% +14.92%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,325 £87,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -8.33%

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 9,061 4,360 9,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 73.41% 89.05% 82.32%
Number of salaries quoted 5,322 2,625 7,105
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,640 £65,000 £61,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,591 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.02% +9.09% -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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -27 187 £59,764 +12.13% 137
East Midlands -35 108 £55,000 +15.79% 83
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 13 (4.38%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.03%) Confluence
3 8 (2.69%) CMS
4 5 (1.68%) nginx
5 4 (1.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.34%) Apache
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.34%) Drupal
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 51 (17.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.68%) Adobe Illustrator
4 5 (1.68%) Photoshop
5 4 (1.35%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.68%) Shopify
2 4 (1.35%) SAP ERP
2 4 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.01%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 2 (0.67%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.34%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.34%) Odoo
5 1 (0.34%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 76 (25.59%) Power Platform
2 56 (18.86%) Azure
3 38 (12.79%) AWS
4 16 (5.39%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (5.05%) Azure Data Factory
6 14 (4.71%) SaaS
7 12 (4.04%) Power Automate
8 11 (3.70%) Serverless
9 10 (3.37%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (3.03%) PowerApps
11 8 (2.69%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (2.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (2.02%) Smartsheet
14 5 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (1.68%) GitHub
14 5 (1.68%) Microsoft Copilot
15 4 (1.35%) GCP
15 4 (1.35%) Google Analytics
15 4 (1.35%) OneDrive
15 4 (1.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.35%) Wireless
2 3 (1.01%) Broadband
2 3 (1.01%) SSL
3 2 (0.67%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.34%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (24.58%) Power BI
2 15 (5.05%) Power Query
3 14 (4.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 14 (4.71%) Tableau
4 12 (4.04%) Metadata
5 11 (3.70%) SQL Server
6 10 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.68%) MySQL
9 5 (1.68%) Star Schema
10 4 (1.35%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.01%) Looker
11 3 (1.01%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.67%) Data Mining
12 2 (0.67%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.67%) Semantic Layer
13 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.34%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Development Applications
1 15 (5.05%) JIRA
2 9 (3.03%) Git
3 5 (1.68%) Burp Suite
3 5 (1.68%) Metasploit
3 5 (1.68%) Vite
4 4 (1.35%) JUnit
4 4 (1.35%) Maven
4 4 (1.35%) Mockito
5 3 (1.01%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.67%) JMeter
6 2 (0.67%) Locust
6 2 (0.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.34%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 123 (41.41%) Social Skills
2 93 (31.31%) Finance
3 91 (30.64%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (9.76%) Public Sector
5 27 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (8.42%) Marketing
6 25 (8.42%) Retail
7 22 (7.41%) Manufacturing
8 15 (5.05%) Influencing Skills
8 15 (5.05%) Law
9 14 (4.71%) Legal
9 14 (4.71%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.68%) Banking
11 5 (1.68%) Electronics
11 5 (1.68%) Games
11 5 (1.68%) Local Government
12 4 (1.35%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.01%) German Language
13 3 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (22.22%) Analyst
2 41 (13.80%) Senior
3 24 (8.08%) Data Analyst
4 23 (7.74%) Senior Analyst
5 22 (7.41%) Developer
6 16 (5.39%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 16 (5.39%) Data Manager
6 16 (5.39%) Lead
7 14 (4.71%) Architect
7 14 (4.71%) Consultant
8 13 (4.38%) Financial Analyst
9 11 (3.70%) Business Analyst
10 10 (3.37%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 10 (3.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 9 (3.03%) Data Engineer
11 9 (3.03%) Data Scientist
11 9 (3.03%) Governance Manager
11 9 (3.03%) Product Owner
12 8 (2.69%) IT Director
12 8 (2.69%) Senior Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.70%) React
2 10 (3.37%) AWS CDK
2 10 (3.37%) Next.js
3 9 (3.03%) REST
4 7 (2.36%) Flash
4 7 (2.36%) HTML
5 6 (2.02%) Vue
6 5 (1.68%) CSS
6 5 (1.68%) Laravel
6 5 (1.68%) LEMP Stack
6 5 (1.68%) Tailwind CSS
6 5 (1.68%) YAML
7 4 (1.35%) XML
8 3 (1.01%) JDBC
8 3 (1.01%) LDAP
8 3 (1.01%) PySpark
8 3 (1.01%) PyTorch
8 3 (1.01%) SAML
8 3 (1.01%) TensorFlow
8 3 (1.01%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.42%) Product Ownership
2 18 (6.06%) Management Information System
3 15 (5.05%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (4.71%) Analytical Mindset
5 10 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (3.03%) Security Posture
7 8 (2.69%) Driving Licence
8 7 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.68%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.68%) Insider Threat
9 5 (1.68%) NHS
10 4 (1.35%) Reference Data
11 3 (1.01%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.01%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.01%) Robotics
11 3 (1.01%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.67%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.03%) Linux
2 3 (1.01%) Android
3 2 (0.67%) Robot Operating System
3 2 (0.67%) Windows
4 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (31.65%) Problem-Solving
2 93 (31.31%) Continuous Improvement
3 83 (27.95%) Analytics
3 83 (27.95%) Business Intelligence
4 61 (20.54%) Agile
5 54 (18.18%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 46 (15.49%) Roadmaps
7 45 (15.15%) Data Modelling
8 40 (13.47%) Actionable Insight
9 39 (13.13%) CRM
10 37 (12.46%) Data Analysis
10 37 (12.46%) Mentoring
11 32 (10.77%) Visualisation
12 30 (10.10%) Stakeholder Management
13 29 (9.76%) AI
13 29 (9.76%) Cybersecurity
14 28 (9.43%) Data Governance
14 28 (9.43%) ETL
15 26 (8.75%) Data Protection
16 25 (8.42%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 76 (25.59%) SQL
2 36 (12.12%) Python
3 18 (6.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 14 (4.71%) R
5 11 (3.70%) T-SQL
6 10 (3.37%) TypeScript
7 9 (3.03%) Bash
8 7 (2.36%) Java
9 6 (2.02%) C
9 6 (2.02%) JavaScript
10 5 (1.68%) PHP
11 4 (1.35%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.01%) VBA
13 2 (0.67%) C++
14 1 (0.34%) Scala
Qualifications
1 42 (14.14%) Degree
2 24 (8.08%) Security Cleared
3 21 (7.07%) CIMA
4 20 (6.73%) ACCA
5 19 (6.40%) SC Cleared
6 17 (5.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (3.03%) CISSP
8 7 (2.36%) AAT
9 6 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (2.02%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (1.68%) CCNA
10 5 (1.68%) CEH
10 5 (1.68%) CISMP
10 5 (1.68%) CREST Certified
10 5 (1.68%) GIAC
10 5 (1.68%) GPEN
10 5 (1.68%) MCSE
10 5 (1.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 5 (1.68%) OSCP
10 5 (1.68%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (16.50%) Data Quality
2 23 (7.74%) QA
3 18 (6.06%) GDPR
4 14 (4.71%) Accessibility
5 10 (3.37%) Actionable Recommendations
6 9 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (2.69%) PMO
8 4 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.35%) NIST
8 4 (1.35%) SLA
9 3 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (1.01%) GRC
9 3 (1.01%) WCAG
10 2 (0.67%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.67%) P3O
10 2 (0.67%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.34%) COBIT
System Software
1 12 (4.04%) Docker
2 2 (0.67%) Firmware
3 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (2.36%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.68%) Nmap
3 4 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (1.35%) Terraform
4 2 (0.67%) Grafana
4 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.34%) Control-M
Vendors
1 44 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.05%) SAP
3 11 (3.70%) Databricks
3 11 (3.70%) Google
4 6 (2.02%) Oracle
5 5 (1.68%) Cisco
5 5 (1.68%) Sage
5 5 (1.68%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.68%) Workday
6 4 (1.35%) Ariba
6 4 (1.35%) Cognos
6 4 (1.35%) IBM
7 3 (1.01%) Adobe
7 3 (1.01%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.01%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.67%) Civica
8 2 (0.67%) Northgate
8 2 (0.67%) Orchard
9 1 (0.34%) Autodesk
9 1 (0.34%) VMware