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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 52 56
Rank change year-on-year +15 +4 +3
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 410 255 501
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.32% 5.09% 3.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.78% 5.73% 4.57%
Number of salaries quoted 305 156 295
10th Percentile £31,370 £26,375 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,869 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £54,939
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.44% +22.96%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,500 £85,000 £87,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 8,574 4,454 10,964
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.43% 88.90% 78.98%
Number of salaries quoted 6,000 2,526 7,655
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,300 £49,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% +3.16% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,625 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -4 244 £57,500 - 177
East Midlands +25 164 £55,000 +37.78% 96
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 (2.44%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.95%) Confluence
3 7 (1.71%) CMS
4 4 (0.98%) nginx
4 4 (0.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.24%) Apache
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.24%) Drupal
5 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 52 (12.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (5.12%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.22%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.98%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (0.98%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (2.20%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 5 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.98%) Shopify
4 2 (0.49%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.49%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.24%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.24%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 76 (18.54%) Power Platform
2 62 (15.12%) Azure
3 44 (10.73%) AWS
4 32 (7.80%) SaaS
5 17 (4.15%) Serverless
6 16 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (3.41%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (3.17%) Azure Data Factory
9 10 (2.44%) Power Automate
10 8 (1.95%) PowerApps
11 7 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (1.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (1.22%) GitHub
13 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Copilot
13 5 (1.22%) Smartsheet
14 4 (0.98%) Copilot Studio
14 4 (0.98%) GCP
14 4 (0.98%) Google Sheets
14 4 (0.98%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.15%) Wireless
2 8 (1.95%) Broadband
3 3 (0.73%) SSL
4 2 (0.49%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.49%) Internet
4 2 (0.49%) Network Security
5 1 (0.24%) DHCP
5 1 (0.24%) DNS
5 1 (0.24%) Firewall
5 1 (0.24%) LAN
5 1 (0.24%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.24%) SNMP
5 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.24%) VLAN
5 1 (0.24%) VPN
5 1 (0.24%) WAN
5 1 (0.24%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (17.56%) Power BI
2 19 (4.63%) Power Query
3 13 (3.17%) Tableau
4 12 (2.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 10 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (2.20%) SQL Server
7 8 (1.95%) Star Schema
8 7 (1.71%) Metadata
9 5 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.22%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.98%) Delta Lake
10 4 (0.98%) MySQL
10 4 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.73%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.49%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.49%) Semantic Layer
13 1 (0.24%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.24%) Parquet
13 1 (0.24%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 15 (3.66%) JIRA
2 11 (2.68%) Git
3 7 (1.71%) Burp Suite
3 7 (1.71%) Metasploit
4 4 (0.98%) JUnit
4 4 (0.98%) Maven
4 4 (0.98%) Mockito
4 4 (0.98%) Vite
5 3 (0.73%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.49%) JMeter
6 2 (0.49%) Locust
6 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.24%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 148 (36.10%) Social Skills
2 123 (30.00%) Finance
3 110 (26.83%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (10.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 39 (9.51%) Marketing
6 35 (8.54%) Public Sector
7 31 (7.56%) Retail
8 24 (5.85%) Influencing Skills
9 16 (3.90%) Legal
9 16 (3.90%) Manufacturing
10 15 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
11 14 (3.41%) Law
12 12 (2.93%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (1.71%) Social Housing
15 6 (1.46%) German Language
15 6 (1.46%) Local Government
16 4 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
17 2 (0.49%) Banking
17 2 (0.49%) Games
Job Titles
1 77 (18.78%) Analyst
2 47 (11.46%) Senior
3 38 (9.27%) Data Analyst
4 29 (7.07%) Developer
5 26 (6.34%) Lead
5 26 (6.34%) Senior Analyst
6 18 (4.39%) Senior Data Analyst
7 17 (4.15%) Architect
7 17 (4.15%) Business Manager
8 16 (3.90%) Business Analyst
8 16 (3.90%) Support Engineer
8 16 (3.90%) Technical Engineer
8 16 (3.90%) Technical Support
8 16 (3.90%) Technical Support Engineer
9 15 (3.66%) Business Development Manager
9 15 (3.66%) Development Manager
10 13 (3.17%) Accountant
10 13 (3.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 12 (2.93%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 12 (2.93%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.41%) AWS CDK
1 14 (3.41%) React
2 13 (3.17%) Next.js
3 10 (2.44%) REST
4 5 (1.22%) Vue
5 4 (0.98%) CSS
5 4 (0.98%) HTML
5 4 (0.98%) Laravel
5 4 (0.98%) LEMP Stack
5 4 (0.98%) PySpark
5 4 (0.98%) Tailwind CSS
5 4 (0.98%) XML
5 4 (0.98%) YAML
6 3 (0.73%) .NET
6 3 (0.73%) JDBC
6 3 (0.73%) LDAP
6 3 (0.73%) SAML
6 3 (0.73%) Web Services
7 2 (0.49%) EDI
7 2 (0.49%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 39 (9.51%) Management Information System
2 23 (5.61%) Driving Licence
2 23 (5.61%) Product Ownership
3 19 (4.63%) Analytical Mindset
3 19 (4.63%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (2.68%) NHS
6 9 (2.20%) Security Posture
7 7 (1.71%) Insider Threat
8 6 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.22%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.22%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.22%) Robotics
10 4 (0.98%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.73%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.73%) Augmented Reality
11 3 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (0.73%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.95%) Linux
2 3 (0.73%) Android
2 3 (0.73%) Windows
3 2 (0.49%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (32.68%) Continuous Improvement
2 131 (31.95%) Problem-Solving
3 122 (29.76%) Analytics
4 93 (22.68%) Business Intelligence
5 76 (18.54%) Roadmaps
6 64 (15.61%) Agile
7 60 (14.63%) Data Analysis
8 59 (14.39%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 56 (13.66%) CRM
10 54 (13.17%) Actionable Insight
11 51 (12.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 48 (11.71%) AI
13 45 (10.98%) Data Modelling
14 43 (10.49%) Data Analytics
14 43 (10.49%) Mentoring
15 42 (10.24%) Data Management
16 41 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
16 41 (10.00%) Risk Management
16 41 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
17 39 (9.51%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 98 (23.90%) SQL
2 51 (12.44%) Python
3 21 (5.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 13 (3.17%) R
4 13 (3.17%) TypeScript
5 11 (2.68%) T-SQL
6 8 (1.95%) Bash
7 7 (1.71%) Java
8 6 (1.46%) C
8 6 (1.46%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.98%) PHP
9 4 (0.98%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.73%) VBA
11 2 (0.49%) C#
11 2 (0.49%) C++
12 1 (0.24%) Bicep
12 1 (0.24%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.24%) Scala
Qualifications
1 57 (13.90%) Degree
2 29 (7.07%) Security Cleared
3 27 (6.59%) CIMA
4 26 (6.34%) ACCA
5 24 (5.85%) SC Cleared
6 16 (3.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (2.93%) CISSP
8 7 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.22%) CITP
9 5 (1.22%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.98%) CCNA
10 4 (0.98%) CEH
10 4 (0.98%) CISMP
10 4 (0.98%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (0.98%) CREST Certified
10 4 (0.98%) GPEN
10 4 (0.98%) MCSE
10 4 (0.98%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (0.98%) OSCP
10 4 (0.98%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (10.49%) Data Quality
2 23 (5.61%) QA
3 16 (3.90%) GDPR
4 14 (3.41%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.95%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (1.46%) GRC
9 4 (0.98%) SLA
10 3 (0.73%) WCAG
11 2 (0.49%) NIST
11 2 (0.49%) P3O
11 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.49%) PMO
12 1 (0.24%) GxP
12 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.24%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.24%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 11 (2.68%) Docker
2 2 (0.49%) Firmware
3 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (1.71%) Kubernetes
1 7 (1.71%) Nmap
1 7 (1.71%) Terraform
2 4 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.49%) EMC NetWorker
3 2 (0.49%) Grafana
3 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.24%) Ansible
4 1 (0.24%) Control-M
4 1 (0.24%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 46 (11.22%) Microsoft
2 13 (3.17%) Cognos
2 13 (3.17%) SAP
3 12 (2.93%) Google
3 12 (2.93%) Workday
4 10 (2.44%) Databricks
4 10 (2.44%) IBM
5 8 (1.95%) Oracle
6 5 (1.22%) BT
6 5 (1.22%) Cisco
6 5 (1.22%) HubSpot
7 4 (0.98%) Ariba
7 4 (0.98%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.98%) Sage
7 4 (0.98%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.73%) Adobe
8 3 (0.73%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.73%) TOWER Software
9 2 (0.49%) NEC
10 1 (0.24%) QAD