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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 53 56
Rank change year-on-year +19 +3 +3
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 454 253 502
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.53% 4.83% 3.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.07% 5.54% 4.60%
Number of salaries quoted 347 152 283
10th Percentile £32,500 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,840 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,387 £54,700
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% -4.23% +28.71%
75th Percentile £72,000 £67,500 £67,075
90th Percentile £84,250 £85,000 £87,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £54,995
% change year-on-year - +9.10% -7.61%

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 8,946 4,568 10,911
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.57% 87.26% 79.15%
Number of salaries quoted 6,314 2,669 7,448
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,700 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% +2.11% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,438 £63,750 £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 1 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 1 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 +3 272 £57,500 +4.55% 183
East Midlands +23 182 £58,589 +46.77% 112
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 (2.20%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.76%) Confluence
3 6 (1.32%) CMS
4 3 (0.66%) nginx
5 2 (0.44%) Apache
5 2 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.22%) Drupal
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 58 (12.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (4.63%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.66%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (0.66%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.44%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (2.20%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 5 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.66%) Shopify
4 2 (0.44%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.44%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.22%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.22%) Primavera
5 1 (0.22%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.22%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 80 (17.62%) Power Platform
2 61 (13.44%) Azure
3 42 (9.25%) AWS
4 37 (8.15%) SaaS
5 17 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (3.74%) Serverless
6 15 (3.30%) AWS CloudFormation
6 15 (3.30%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
7 11 (2.42%) Power Automate
8 9 (1.98%) PowerApps
9 6 (1.32%) GitHub
9 6 (1.32%) Smartsheet
10 5 (1.10%) GCP
10 5 (1.10%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (0.88%) Copilot Studio
11 4 (0.88%) Google Sheets
11 4 (0.88%) OneDrive
11 4 (0.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.74%) Wireless
2 8 (1.76%) Broadband
3 3 (0.66%) SSL
4 2 (0.44%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.44%) Internet
4 2 (0.44%) Network Security
5 1 (0.22%) DHCP
5 1 (0.22%) DNS
5 1 (0.22%) Firewall
5 1 (0.22%) LAN
5 1 (0.22%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.22%) SNMP
5 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.22%) VLAN
5 1 (0.22%) VPN
5 1 (0.22%) WAN
5 1 (0.22%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (16.74%) Power BI
2 19 (4.19%) Power Query
3 17 (3.74%) Tableau
4 12 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (2.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 9 (1.98%) SQL Server
7 8 (1.76%) Metadata
8 6 (1.32%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.32%) Star Schema
9 5 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.66%) Delta Lake
10 3 (0.66%) MySQL
10 3 (0.66%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.66%) QlikView
10 3 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.44%) Semantic Layer
12 1 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.22%) DTS
Development Applications
1 14 (3.08%) JIRA
2 10 (2.20%) Git
3 5 (1.10%) Burp Suite
3 5 (1.10%) Metasploit
4 3 (0.66%) Cucumber
4 3 (0.66%) Vite
5 2 (0.44%) JMeter
5 2 (0.44%) JUnit
5 2 (0.44%) Locust
5 2 (0.44%) Maven
5 2 (0.44%) Mockito
5 2 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.22%) GitLab
6 1 (0.22%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 157 (34.58%) Social Skills
2 132 (29.07%) Finance
3 123 (27.09%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (10.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 43 (9.47%) Marketing
6 42 (9.25%) Public Sector
7 32 (7.05%) Retail
8 27 (5.95%) Influencing Skills
9 25 (5.51%) Manufacturing
10 22 (4.85%) Organisational Skills
11 17 (3.74%) Legal
12 16 (3.52%) Telecoms
13 15 (3.30%) Law
14 8 (1.76%) Local Government
14 8 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (1.54%) Social Housing
16 6 (1.32%) German Language
17 4 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
18 2 (0.44%) Banking
18 2 (0.44%) Games
Job Titles
1 81 (17.84%) Analyst
2 54 (11.89%) Senior
3 40 (8.81%) Data Analyst
4 30 (6.61%) Lead
5 29 (6.39%) Developer
6 27 (5.95%) Senior Analyst
7 23 (5.07%) Architect
7 23 (5.07%) Business Manager
8 19 (4.19%) Business Analyst
8 19 (4.19%) Senior Data Analyst
9 18 (3.96%) Accountant
9 18 (3.96%) Business Development Manager
9 18 (3.96%) Development Manager
10 16 (3.52%) Support Engineer
10 16 (3.52%) Technical Engineer
10 16 (3.52%) Technical Support
10 16 (3.52%) Technical Support Engineer
11 15 (3.30%) Data Architect
11 15 (3.30%) Data Manager
12 13 (2.86%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.30%) React
2 14 (3.08%) AWS CDK
3 13 (2.86%) Next.js
4 9 (1.98%) REST
5 5 (1.10%) .NET
5 5 (1.10%) Vue
6 4 (0.88%) CSS
6 4 (0.88%) HTML
6 4 (0.88%) XML
7 3 (0.66%) Blazor
7 3 (0.66%) JDBC
7 3 (0.66%) Kafka
7 3 (0.66%) Laravel
7 3 (0.66%) LDAP
7 3 (0.66%) LEMP Stack
7 3 (0.66%) PySpark
7 3 (0.66%) SAML
7 3 (0.66%) Tailwind CSS
7 3 (0.66%) Web Services
7 3 (0.66%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (9.03%) Management Information System
2 23 (5.07%) Driving Licence
3 22 (4.85%) Product Ownership
4 20 (4.41%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (3.96%) Analytical Mindset
6 13 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (2.86%) NHS
7 9 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.76%) Cloud Native
8 8 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.54%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.32%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.32%) Robotics
11 5 (1.10%) Insider Threat
12 4 (0.88%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (0.66%) AI Agents
13 3 (0.66%) Embedded Systems
13 3 (0.66%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.10%) Linux
2 3 (0.66%) Android
2 3 (0.66%) Windows
3 2 (0.44%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (32.60%) Continuous Improvement
2 137 (30.18%) Problem-Solving
3 132 (29.07%) Analytics
4 100 (22.03%) Business Intelligence
5 83 (18.28%) Roadmaps
6 68 (14.98%) Agile
7 67 (14.76%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 64 (14.10%) CRM
9 61 (13.44%) Data Analysis
10 59 (13.00%) AI
11 57 (12.56%) Actionable Insight
11 57 (12.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 53 (11.67%) Stakeholder Management
13 49 (10.79%) Data Management
13 49 (10.79%) Risk Management
14 48 (10.57%) Data Analytics
14 48 (10.57%) Data Modelling
15 47 (10.35%) Cybersecurity
15 47 (10.35%) Mentoring
16 44 (9.69%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 100 (22.03%) SQL
2 55 (12.11%) Python
3 18 (3.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 13 (2.86%) TypeScript
5 12 (2.64%) R
6 11 (2.42%) T-SQL
7 6 (1.32%) Java
7 6 (1.32%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.10%) Bash
9 4 (0.88%) C
9 4 (0.88%) C#
10 3 (0.66%) PHP
10 3 (0.66%) VBA
11 2 (0.44%) C++
11 2 (0.44%) Go
11 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.22%) Bicep
12 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 63 (13.88%) Degree
2 31 (6.83%) CIMA
3 30 (6.61%) ACCA
4 29 (6.39%) Security Cleared
5 23 (5.07%) SC Cleared
6 11 (2.42%) CISSP
6 11 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.32%) CITP
8 5 (1.10%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.10%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.10%) PMI Certification
9 4 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (0.88%) CCSP
9 4 (0.88%) CIPD
9 4 (0.88%) CISM
9 4 (0.88%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 3 (0.66%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.66%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (11.01%) Data Quality
2 22 (4.85%) QA
3 15 (3.30%) GDPR
4 14 (3.08%) Accessibility
5 11 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.98%) GRC
7 8 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.88%) SLA
11 3 (0.66%) WCAG
12 2 (0.44%) NIST
12 2 (0.44%) P3O
12 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.44%) PMO
13 1 (0.22%) GxP
13 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.22%) ISO 14001
13 1 (0.22%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 10 (2.20%) Docker
2 2 (0.44%) Firmware
3 1 (0.22%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (1.54%) Kubernetes
1 7 (1.54%) Terraform
2 5 (1.10%) Nmap
3 4 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.66%) Grafana
4 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.44%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.22%) Ansible
6 1 (0.22%) Argo
6 1 (0.22%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 47 (10.35%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.08%) Cognos
2 14 (3.08%) SAP
3 13 (2.86%) Google
3 13 (2.86%) Workday
4 10 (2.20%) IBM
5 9 (1.98%) Databricks
6 6 (1.32%) Oracle
7 5 (1.10%) BT
7 5 (1.10%) HubSpot
8 4 (0.88%) Ariba
8 4 (0.88%) OpenAI
8 4 (0.88%) ServiceNow
8 4 (0.88%) SYSPRO
9 3 (0.66%) Adobe
9 3 (0.66%) Sage
9 3 (0.66%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.66%) TOWER Software
10 2 (0.44%) Cisco
10 2 (0.44%) NEC