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 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 49 31
Rank change year-on-year +1 -18 +40
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 278 371 357
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.06% 4.18% 6.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.87% 5.15% 7.38%
Number of salaries quoted 176 134 287
10th Percentile £30,125 £37,147 -
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,254 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,100 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.06% +90.33% -43.93%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,188 £52,739
90th Percentile £84,463 £83,000 £67,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%

All Process and 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 4,736 7,197 4,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.16% 81.05% 93.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,857 3,277 3,682
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £26,752
25th Percentile £32,125 £38,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,000 £64,688
90th Percentile £77,975 £79,335 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 29 October 2025.

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 29 October 2025. 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 +7 156 £63,750 +10.87% 140
East Midlands +9 120 £41,250 -25.00% 106
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 3 (1.08%) Confluence
2 2 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.72%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.72%) CMS
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.36%) SAS
3 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 44 (15.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (5.40%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.80%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.44%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.72%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.72%) Shopify
5 1 (0.36%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.36%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 56 (20.14%) Power Platform
2 38 (13.67%) Azure
3 14 (5.04%) AWS
4 12 (4.32%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (3.24%) SaaS
6 6 (2.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (1.80%) Power Automate
8 4 (1.44%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.44%) PaaS
8 4 (1.44%) PowerApps
8 4 (1.44%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 4 (1.44%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.08%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.08%) GitHub
9 3 (1.08%) Serverless
10 2 (0.72%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.72%) Network Security
2 1 (0.36%) ADSL2
2 1 (0.36%) BGP
2 1 (0.36%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (0.36%) Firewall
2 1 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.36%) OSPF
2 1 (0.36%) SAN
2 1 (0.36%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.36%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (19.06%) Power BI
2 21 (7.55%) Tableau
3 14 (5.04%) SQL Server
4 13 (4.68%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (2.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (2.16%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (1.80%) Data Mining
7 5 (1.80%) Metadata
7 5 (1.80%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.08%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.08%) Looker
8 3 (1.08%) MySQL
8 3 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.72%) Big Data
9 2 (0.72%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.72%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (5.04%) JIRA
2 3 (1.08%) Git
2 3 (1.08%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.72%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (0.72%) Burp Suite
3 2 (0.72%) DbUnit
3 2 (0.72%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.72%) jMock
3 2 (0.72%) JUnit
3 2 (0.72%) Maven
3 2 (0.72%) Metasploit
3 2 (0.72%) Mockito
3 2 (0.72%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.36%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 122 (43.88%) Social Skills
2 110 (39.57%) Finance
3 101 (36.33%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (16.55%) Retail
5 40 (14.39%) Marketing
6 39 (14.03%) Public Sector
7 32 (11.51%) Law
8 31 (11.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (7.19%) Legal
9 20 (7.19%) Manufacturing
10 17 (6.12%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (5.04%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (3.96%) Banking
13 7 (2.52%) Local Government
13 7 (2.52%) Social Housing
14 6 (2.16%) Financial Institution
14 6 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (2.16%) Telecoms
15 3 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.72%) Billing
Job Titles
1 62 (22.30%) Analyst
2 39 (14.03%) Senior
3 37 (13.31%) Lead
4 26 (9.35%) Data Analyst
5 20 (7.19%) Developer
6 17 (6.12%) Architect
7 15 (5.40%) Data Engineer
8 13 (4.68%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 13 (4.68%) Senior Analyst
9 12 (4.32%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 10 (3.60%) Customer Analyst
10 10 (3.60%) Digital Analyst
10 10 (3.60%) Digital Analytics Analyst
10 10 (3.60%) Enterprise Architect
10 10 (3.60%) Project Engineer
10 10 (3.60%) Project Manager
11 8 (2.88%) Analytics Developer
11 8 (2.88%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
11 8 (2.88%) Digital Analytics Developer
11 8 (2.88%) Digital Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.52%) .NET
2 6 (2.16%) React
3 5 (1.80%) Flash
3 5 (1.80%) HTML
4 4 (1.44%) AngularJS
4 4 (1.44%) REST
4 4 (1.44%) Spring
4 4 (1.44%) Spring Boot
5 2 (0.72%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (0.72%) Bootstrap
5 2 (0.72%) CSS
5 2 (0.72%) Hibernate
5 2 (0.72%) JPA
5 2 (0.72%) JSON
5 2 (0.72%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (0.72%) PowerMock
5 2 (0.72%) RESTful
5 2 (0.72%) SOAP
5 2 (0.72%) Spring Batch
5 2 (0.72%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.43%) Analytical Mindset
2 28 (10.07%) Management Information System
3 17 (6.12%) FMCG
4 15 (5.40%) Security Posture
5 13 (4.68%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (3.24%) Driving Licence
7 8 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.16%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.80%) Pricing Data
9 5 (1.80%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.44%) Cyber Security Posture
10 4 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.44%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.44%) Taxonomies
11 3 (1.08%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.08%) Credit Risk
11 3 (1.08%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.08%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.72%) Mashup
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.44%) Linux
2 3 (1.08%) Windows
3 2 (0.72%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (33.45%) Analytics
2 84 (30.22%) Problem-Solving
3 78 (28.06%) Business Intelligence
4 69 (24.82%) Continuous Improvement
5 57 (20.50%) Project Management
6 54 (19.42%) Stakeholder Management
7 51 (18.35%) CRM
8 46 (16.55%) Agile
9 42 (15.11%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 39 (14.03%) Data Management
10 39 (14.03%) Visualisation
11 38 (13.67%) Data Analysis
12 33 (11.87%) Risk Management
13 32 (11.51%) Actionable Insight
14 30 (10.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 29 (10.43%) Cybersecurity
15 29 (10.43%) ERP
16 28 (10.07%) Data Analytics
16 28 (10.07%) Data Science
17 27 (9.71%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 77 (27.70%) SQL
2 40 (14.39%) Python
3 11 (3.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 11 (3.96%) R
4 6 (2.16%) C#
4 6 (2.16%) JavaScript
4 6 (2.16%) TypeScript
5 5 (1.80%) Java
6 3 (1.08%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.72%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.36%) C++
8 1 (0.36%) VB
8 1 (0.36%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 71 (25.54%) Degree
2 15 (5.40%) Security Cleared
3 12 (4.32%) ACCA
3 12 (4.32%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.60%) CIMA
4 10 (3.60%) CISSP
4 10 (3.60%) Numerate Degree
5 9 (3.24%) TOGAF Certification
6 8 (2.88%) CISM
6 8 (2.88%) DBS Check
7 7 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.80%) AAT
8 5 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.44%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (1.44%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.08%) MCSE
10 3 (1.08%) PhD
10 3 (1.08%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.55%) PMO
1 21 (7.55%) QA
2 20 (7.19%) Data Quality
3 13 (4.68%) SLA
4 12 (4.32%) GDPR
5 10 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (2.52%) GRC
6 7 (2.52%) NIST
7 5 (1.80%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (1.80%) COBIT
7 5 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.08%) NCSC
9 2 (0.72%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.36%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 5 (1.80%) Docker
2 3 (1.08%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.72%) Postfix
4 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (1.08%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.72%) Grafana
2 2 (0.72%) Nmap
2 2 (0.72%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.36%) Ansible
3 1 (0.36%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 42 (15.11%) Salesforce
2 38 (13.67%) Microsoft
3 26 (9.35%) SAP
4 12 (4.32%) Oracle
4 12 (4.32%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.60%) Databricks
6 5 (1.80%) Sage
7 3 (1.08%) Cisco
8 2 (0.72%) Ahrefs
8 2 (0.72%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.72%) Ariba
8 2 (0.72%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.72%) Civica
8 2 (0.72%) Cognos
8 2 (0.72%) HubSpot
8 2 (0.72%) Jaspersoft
8 2 (0.72%) Northgate
9 1 (0.36%) Adaptive Insights
9 1 (0.36%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.36%) UiPath