Decision-Making Jobs in the Midlands

Decision-Making
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Decision-Making skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Decision-Making over the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 61 65
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 +11
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 276 499 390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.95% 3.63% 4.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.46% 4.57% 5.01%
Number of salaries quoted 157 280 213
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,590 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,869 £41,250 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,387 £52,500 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.22% +22.09% -15.60%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,650 £58,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,375 £71,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £54,700 £59,526
% change year-on-year +9.69% -8.11% -0.79%

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 6,187 10,921 7,784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.64% 79.47% 96.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2,824 7,320 4,453
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.64% -12.00% +4.17%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Decision-Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in the Midlands

Decision-Making
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Decision-Making in the Midlands

Decision-Making
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in the Midlands over the 6 months to 7 July 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 7 July 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 -16 167 £55,000 - 219
East Midlands +12 106 £39,919 -13.69% 132
Decision-Making
England

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (3.62%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.17%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.72%) CMS
3 2 (0.72%) Jupyter
3 2 (0.72%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 35 (12.68%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (10.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.36%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.36%) Revit
4 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (3.62%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.81%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.45%) Infor LN
3 4 (1.45%) SAP BPC
4 3 (1.09%) Shopify
5 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.36%) iTrent
5 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 58 (21.01%) Power Platform
2 49 (17.75%) Azure
3 21 (7.61%) Azure Data Factory
4 13 (4.71%) AWS
4 13 (4.71%) PowerApps
5 12 (4.35%) Power Automate
6 10 (3.62%) IaaS
6 10 (3.62%) PaaS
6 10 (3.62%) SaaS
7 7 (2.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (2.17%) GitHub
8 6 (2.17%) Google Ads
8 6 (2.17%) Google Analytics
9 5 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (1.81%) Amazon S3
9 5 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.81%) Serverless
10 4 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (1.09%) Boomi
11 3 (1.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.45%) SMS
1 4 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (1.09%) VLAN
3 2 (0.72%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.72%) WAN
4 1 (0.36%) 5G
4 1 (0.36%) ADSL2
4 1 (0.36%) Firewall
4 1 (0.36%) Internet
4 1 (0.36%) LoRaWAN
4 1 (0.36%) Modbus
4 1 (0.36%) MQTT
4 1 (0.36%) Network Security
4 1 (0.36%) SAN
4 1 (0.36%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (20.65%) Power BI
2 22 (7.97%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (7.25%) Tableau
4 18 (6.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 14 (5.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 13 (4.71%) SQL Server
7 10 (3.62%) Star Schema
8 7 (2.54%) Big Data
8 7 (2.54%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (2.17%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.45%) Metadata
11 3 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.09%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.09%) Parquet
11 3 (1.09%) Spark SQL
12 2 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.72%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 11 (3.99%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 7 (2.54%) JIRA
3 6 (2.17%) Git
3 6 (2.17%) Oracle Forms
3 6 (2.17%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.09%) GitLab
4 3 (1.09%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.72%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (0.72%) DbUnit
5 2 (0.72%) jMock
5 2 (0.72%) JUnit
5 2 (0.72%) Maven
5 2 (0.72%) Mockito
5 2 (0.72%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.36%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.36%) FitNesse
6 1 (0.36%) Newman
6 1 (0.36%) Postman
6 1 (0.36%) Vite
General
1 134 (48.55%) Finance
2 107 (38.77%) Social Skills
3 86 (31.16%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (22.10%) Marketing
5 39 (14.13%) Legal
6 25 (9.06%) Law
7 24 (8.70%) Retail
8 20 (7.25%) Electronics
8 20 (7.25%) Public Sector
9 15 (5.43%) Manufacturing
10 14 (5.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (4.71%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (4.71%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (3.62%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (2.90%) Police
14 6 (2.17%) Banking
14 6 (2.17%) Financial Institution
15 5 (1.81%) Automotive
15 5 (1.81%) Social Housing
16 4 (1.45%) Billing
Job Titles
1 44 (15.94%) Analyst
2 27 (9.78%) Senior
3 26 (9.42%) Customer Executive
4 22 (7.97%) Developer
5 16 (5.80%) Lead
6 15 (5.43%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 14 (5.07%) Business Analyst
8 13 (4.71%) Architect
8 13 (4.71%) Sales Representative
9 12 (4.35%) Data Analyst
9 12 (4.35%) Power BI Developer
9 12 (4.35%) Principal Engineer
9 12 (4.35%) Software Assurance Engineer
9 12 (4.35%) Systems Analyst
10 11 (3.99%) Business Developer
10 11 (3.99%) SQL Developer
11 10 (3.62%) Data Engineer
11 10 (3.62%) Data Scientist
11 10 (3.62%) ETL Developer
11 10 (3.62%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.45%) .NET
1 4 (1.45%) React
2 3 (1.09%) AngularJS
2 3 (1.09%) EDI
2 3 (1.09%) PySpark
2 3 (1.09%) REST
2 3 (1.09%) XGBoost
3 2 (0.72%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (0.72%) Bootstrap
3 2 (0.72%) CSS
3 2 (0.72%) Hibernate
3 2 (0.72%) HTML
3 2 (0.72%) JSON
3 2 (0.72%) PowerMock
3 2 (0.72%) SOAP
3 2 (0.72%) Spring
3 2 (0.72%) Spring Batch
3 2 (0.72%) Spring Cloud
3 2 (0.72%) Web Services
3 2 (0.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.42%) Management Information System
2 12 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (3.26%) Taxonomies
4 8 (2.90%) Marketing Technology
5 7 (2.54%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (2.54%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.81%) Driving Licence
6 5 (1.81%) Pricing Data
6 5 (1.81%) Replication
6 5 (1.81%) Social Media
7 4 (1.45%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.09%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.09%) NHS
8 3 (1.09%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.72%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.72%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.17%) Linux
2 3 (1.09%) Windows
2 3 (1.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (33.70%) Problem-Solving
2 74 (26.81%) Analytics
3 67 (24.28%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 66 (23.91%) Business Intelligence
5 50 (18.12%) CRM
6 47 (17.03%) Stakeholder Management
7 44 (15.94%) Data Analysis
8 40 (14.49%) Agile
9 39 (14.13%) Artificial Intelligence
10 37 (13.41%) Continuous Improvement
11 36 (13.04%) Business Development
11 36 (13.04%) Project Management
12 31 (11.23%) Actionable Insight
12 31 (11.23%) ETL
13 30 (10.87%) Roadmaps
13 30 (10.87%) Software Engineering
13 30 (10.87%) Visualisation
14 26 (9.42%) Contract Negotiation
15 25 (9.06%) Data Modelling
16 24 (8.70%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 67 (24.28%) SQL
2 31 (11.23%) Python
3 9 (3.26%) Java
4 7 (2.54%) R
5 5 (1.81%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.45%) C#
6 4 (1.45%) C++
7 3 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (1.09%) T-SQL
7 3 (1.09%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.72%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.36%) C
9 1 (0.36%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 46 (16.67%) Degree
2 24 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 12 (4.35%) Master's Degree
4 9 (3.26%) ACCA
4 9 (3.26%) CIMA
5 7 (2.54%) Security Cleared
6 6 (2.17%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.81%) SC Cleared
8 4 (1.45%) PhD
9 3 (1.09%) CBAP
9 3 (1.09%) IIBA
9 3 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (1.09%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.72%) CITP
10 2 (0.72%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.36%) CCNP
11 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.06%) Data Quality
2 18 (6.52%) GDPR
3 10 (3.62%) QA
4 6 (2.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 6 (2.17%) PMO
5 4 (1.45%) GAAP
5 4 (1.45%) IFRS
6 2 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 2 (0.72%) NCSC
6 2 (0.72%) SLA
7 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.36%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (2.17%) Docker
2 2 (0.72%) Postfix
3 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (0.72%) Grafana
1 2 (0.72%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.72%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 40 (14.49%) Salesforce
2 28 (10.14%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.43%) SAP
4 12 (4.35%) Databricks
4 12 (4.35%) Oracle
5 8 (2.90%) Alteryx
5 8 (2.90%) Cognos
6 7 (2.54%) Google
7 4 (1.45%) Ahrefs
7 4 (1.45%) IBM
7 4 (1.45%) Infor
8 3 (1.09%) Informatica
8 3 (1.09%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.72%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.72%) Avaya
9 2 (0.72%) Cisco
9 2 (0.72%) Facebook
9 2 (0.72%) Jaspersoft
9 2 (0.72%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.72%) SolarWinds