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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 60 51
Rank change year-on-year +37 -9 -20
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 692 257 380
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.43% 4.56% 4.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.27% 5.24% 5.01%
Number of salaries quoted 483 165 129
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,400 £36,850
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,869 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -17.39% +53.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,250 £78,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +1.69% +0.42%

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 11,036 4,906 7,582
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 70.61% 86.95% 80.42%
Number of salaries quoted 7,779 2,835 3,515
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,500 £32,063 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.78% -8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.64%

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 October 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 October 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 +29 429 £55,000 -6.38% 388
East Midlands +25 263 £48,500 +21.25% 245
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 8 (1.16%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.87%) SAS
3 5 (0.72%) Apache
3 5 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (0.72%) Confluence
4 2 (0.29%) WordPress
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 106 (15.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (5.20%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (3.90%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.87%) Notion
5 4 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 25 (3.61%) Primavera
1 25 (3.61%) SAP EHS
2 12 (1.73%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 10 (1.45%) Sonata
4 5 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.43%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.29%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.29%) Shopify
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.14%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.14%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.14%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 100 (14.45%) Power Platform
2 83 (11.99%) Azure
3 48 (6.94%) SaaS
4 46 (6.65%) AWS
5 33 (4.77%) Microsoft 365
6 25 (3.61%) Smartsheet
7 21 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
8 17 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
9 13 (1.88%) Serverless
10 12 (1.73%) GCP
11 11 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (1.45%) GitHub
13 8 (1.16%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (0.87%) Google Ads
15 5 (0.72%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (0.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 5 (0.72%) Entra ID
15 5 (0.72%) Snowflake
16 4 (0.58%) dbt
16 4 (0.58%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.46%) Wireless
2 6 (0.87%) Broadband
2 6 (0.87%) Internet
3 4 (0.58%) VLAN
4 3 (0.43%) Intranet
5 1 (0.14%) 5G
5 1 (0.14%) DHCP
5 1 (0.14%) Extranet
5 1 (0.14%) Firewall
5 1 (0.14%) LAN
5 1 (0.14%) LoRaWAN
5 1 (0.14%) Modbus
5 1 (0.14%) MQTT
5 1 (0.14%) Network Security
5 1 (0.14%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.14%) SNMP
5 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.14%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.14%) WAN
5 1 (0.14%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (13.87%) Power BI
2 25 (3.61%) Power Query
3 22 (3.18%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (3.18%) Tableau
4 16 (2.31%) Electronic Patient Records
5 15 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 13 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (1.59%) Metadata
7 11 (1.59%) Relational Database
7 11 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (1.30%) Delta Lake
9 8 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (0.87%) GIS
10 6 (0.87%) QlikView
10 6 (0.87%) SQL Server
11 5 (0.72%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.72%) Star Schema
12 4 (0.58%) Looker
12 4 (0.58%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 18 (2.60%) Git
2 13 (1.88%) JIRA
3 5 (0.72%) GitLab
4 4 (0.58%) Burp Suite
4 4 (0.58%) Metasploit
4 4 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.29%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.29%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.29%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.29%) JMeter
5 2 (0.29%) Postman
5 2 (0.29%) Selenium
5 2 (0.29%) SoapUI
5 2 (0.29%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 234 (33.82%) Social Skills
2 198 (28.61%) Analytical Skills
3 196 (28.32%) Finance
4 81 (11.71%) Public Sector
5 68 (9.83%) Marketing
6 58 (8.38%) Legal
7 56 (8.09%) Manufacturing
8 52 (7.51%) Influencing Skills
9 50 (7.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 41 (5.92%) Telecoms
11 36 (5.20%) Retail
12 26 (3.76%) Presentation Skills
13 22 (3.18%) Organisational Skills
14 15 (2.17%) Law
15 13 (1.88%) Automotive
16 11 (1.59%) Social Housing
17 10 (1.45%) Fire and Rescue
18 8 (1.16%) Banking
18 8 (1.16%) Local Government
19 5 (0.72%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 87 (12.57%) Analyst
2 77 (11.13%) Senior
3 75 (10.84%) Lead
4 65 (9.39%) Business Manager
5 49 (7.08%) Business Development Manager
5 49 (7.08%) Development Manager
6 48 (6.94%) Architect
7 45 (6.50%) Data Analyst
8 39 (5.64%) Data Engineer
9 26 (3.76%) Developer
10 24 (3.47%) Consultant
11 23 (3.32%) Data Architect
12 22 (3.18%) Accountant
12 22 (3.18%) Sales Executive
13 21 (3.03%) Senior Architect
14 20 (2.89%) Data Manager
15 17 (2.46%) Management Accountant
15 17 (2.46%) Presales Consultant
15 17 (2.46%) Senior Analyst
15 17 (2.46%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.17%) Kafka
2 13 (1.88%) Keycloak
2 13 (1.88%) PySpark
3 9 (1.30%) React
4 8 (1.16%) REST
5 7 (1.01%) AWS CDK
6 6 (0.87%) .NET
6 6 (0.87%) Next.js
6 6 (0.87%) XML
7 5 (0.72%) EDI
7 5 (0.72%) JSON
7 5 (0.72%) Terraform
8 4 (0.58%) Playwright
8 4 (0.58%) STL
9 3 (0.43%) Blazor
9 3 (0.43%) CSS
9 3 (0.43%) GraphQL
9 3 (0.43%) HTML
9 3 (0.43%) RESTful
10 2 (0.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 69 (9.97%) Management Information System
2 59 (8.53%) Driving Licence
3 48 (6.94%) Self-Motivation
4 39 (5.64%) NHS
5 28 (4.05%) PMI
6 22 (3.18%) Cloud Native
7 19 (2.75%) SystemC
8 16 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
9 15 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
11 11 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (1.59%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.16%) CCTV
13 7 (1.01%) IoT
14 6 (0.87%) AI Agents
14 6 (0.87%) Product Ownership
15 5 (0.72%) Algorithms
16 4 (0.58%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.87%) Windows
2 1 (0.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (32.66%) Continuous Improvement
2 185 (26.73%) Analytics
3 184 (26.59%) Problem-Solving
4 134 (19.36%) Business Intelligence
5 113 (16.33%) Agile
6 109 (15.75%) Stakeholder Management
7 100 (14.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 99 (14.31%) AI
9 98 (14.16%) Business Development
10 96 (13.87%) CRM
11 81 (11.71%) Roadmaps
12 72 (10.40%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 70 (10.12%) ERP
14 69 (9.97%) Data Management
15 67 (9.68%) Cybersecurity
15 67 (9.68%) Data Governance
16 63 (9.10%) Data Analytics
17 62 (8.96%) Risk Management
18 61 (8.82%) Commercial Awareness
19 59 (8.53%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 120 (17.34%) SQL
2 81 (11.71%) Python
3 27 (3.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 13 (1.88%) Go
5 12 (1.73%) Java
6 9 (1.30%) C++
6 9 (1.30%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.16%) C#
7 8 (1.16%) TypeScript
8 6 (0.87%) C
8 6 (0.87%) R
9 3 (0.43%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.14%) Bicep
10 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 104 (15.03%) Degree
2 62 (8.96%) Security Cleared
3 57 (8.24%) SC Cleared
4 39 (5.64%) ACCA
5 35 (5.06%) CIMA
6 28 (4.05%) PMI Certification
7 15 (2.17%) Azure Certification
8 14 (2.02%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.45%) CISSP
10 6 (0.87%) CIPD
10 6 (0.87%) CISM
11 5 (0.72%) CITP
11 5 (0.72%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.58%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.58%) CCSP
12 4 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.58%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 3 (0.43%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (12.43%) Data Quality
2 31 (4.48%) GDPR
3 27 (3.90%) QA
4 19 (2.75%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.59%) GRC
6 7 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.01%) PMO
7 5 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.58%) ISO 9001
8 4 (0.58%) SLA
9 3 (0.43%) AQAP
9 3 (0.43%) NCSC
9 3 (0.43%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.29%) ITGC
10 2 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.29%) WCAG
11 1 (0.14%) GxP
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 3 (0.43%) Active Directory
1 3 (0.43%) Docker
2 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (0.58%) Nmap
2 3 (0.43%) EMC NetWorker
3 2 (0.29%) Grafana
3 2 (0.29%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.29%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.14%) Ansible
4 1 (0.14%) Argo
4 1 (0.14%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 103 (14.88%) Microsoft
2 45 (6.50%) SAP
3 16 (2.31%) Google
4 15 (2.17%) Cognos
4 15 (2.17%) Oracle
4 15 (2.17%) Workday
5 12 (1.73%) IBM
5 12 (1.73%) Salesforce
6 10 (1.45%) Databricks
7 9 (1.30%) ServiceNow
7 9 (1.30%) YouTube
8 8 (1.16%) SYSPRO
9 5 (0.72%) BT
9 5 (0.72%) HubSpot
10 4 (0.58%) Adaptive Insights
10 4 (0.58%) Anaplan
10 4 (0.58%) Pega
10 4 (0.58%) Sage
11 3 (0.43%) Infor
11 3 (0.43%) Xero