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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 51 59
Rank change year-on-year +13 +8 +3
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 417 253 509
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.34% 5.02% 3.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.82% 5.65% 4.56%
Number of salaries quoted 311 154 296
10th Percentile £31,550 £26,325 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,869 £40,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £54,700
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.02% +22.43%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £86,875
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 8,657 4,474 11,152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.44% 88.79% 78.70%
Number of salaries quoted 6,058 2,550 7,724
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.64% +2.63% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £76,250 £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 18 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 18 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 +3 248 £57,500 - 173
East Midlands +19 167 £55,000 +37.78% 103
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 (2.40%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.92%) Confluence
3 7 (1.68%) CMS
4 4 (0.96%) nginx
4 4 (0.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.48%) Apache
5 2 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.24%) Drupal
6 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 53 (12.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (5.04%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.96%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (0.96%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (2.16%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 5 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.96%) Shopify
4 2 (0.48%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.48%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.24%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.24%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 76 (18.23%) Power Platform
2 61 (14.63%) Azure
3 44 (10.55%) AWS
4 33 (7.91%) SaaS
5 17 (4.08%) Serverless
6 16 (3.84%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (3.36%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (3.12%) Azure Data Factory
9 10 (2.40%) Power Automate
10 8 (1.92%) PowerApps
11 7 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (1.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (1.20%) GitHub
12 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (1.20%) Smartsheet
13 4 (0.96%) Copilot Studio
13 4 (0.96%) GCP
13 4 (0.96%) Google Sheets
13 4 (0.96%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.08%) Wireless
2 8 (1.92%) Broadband
3 3 (0.72%) SSL
4 2 (0.48%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.48%) Internet
4 2 (0.48%) 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 (17.27%) Power BI
2 18 (4.32%) Power Query
3 13 (3.12%) Tableau
4 12 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (2.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 9 (2.16%) SQL Server
7 8 (1.92%) Star Schema
8 7 (1.68%) Metadata
9 5 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.20%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.96%) MySQL
11 3 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.72%) Delta Lake
11 3 (0.72%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.48%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.48%) Semantic Layer
13 1 (0.24%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.24%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.24%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 15 (3.60%) JIRA
2 12 (2.88%) Git
3 6 (1.44%) Burp Suite
3 6 (1.44%) Metasploit
4 4 (0.96%) JUnit
4 4 (0.96%) Maven
4 4 (0.96%) Mockito
4 4 (0.96%) Vite
5 3 (0.72%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.48%) JMeter
6 2 (0.48%) Locust
6 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.24%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 150 (35.97%) Social Skills
2 127 (30.46%) Finance
3 112 (26.86%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (10.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 40 (9.59%) Marketing
6 35 (8.39%) Public Sector
7 30 (7.19%) Retail
8 24 (5.76%) Influencing Skills
9 17 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
10 16 (3.84%) Legal
10 16 (3.84%) Manufacturing
11 13 (3.12%) Law
11 13 (3.12%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.68%) Social Housing
14 6 (1.44%) German Language
14 6 (1.44%) Local Government
15 4 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
16 2 (0.48%) Banking
16 2 (0.48%) Games
Job Titles
1 77 (18.47%) Analyst
2 48 (11.51%) Senior
3 39 (9.35%) Data Analyst
4 28 (6.71%) Developer
5 27 (6.47%) Senior Analyst
6 26 (6.24%) Lead
7 19 (4.56%) Senior Data Analyst
8 18 (4.32%) Architect
9 17 (4.08%) Business Manager
10 16 (3.84%) Business Analyst
10 16 (3.84%) Support Engineer
10 16 (3.84%) Technical Engineer
10 16 (3.84%) Technical Support
10 16 (3.84%) Technical Support Engineer
11 15 (3.60%) Accountant
11 15 (3.60%) Business Development Manager
11 15 (3.60%) Development Manager
12 13 (3.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 12 (2.88%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 12 (2.88%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.36%) AWS CDK
1 14 (3.36%) React
2 13 (3.12%) Next.js
3 10 (2.40%) REST
4 5 (1.20%) Vue
5 4 (0.96%) CSS
5 4 (0.96%) HTML
5 4 (0.96%) Laravel
5 4 (0.96%) LEMP Stack
5 4 (0.96%) Tailwind CSS
5 4 (0.96%) XML
5 4 (0.96%) YAML
6 3 (0.72%) .NET
6 3 (0.72%) JDBC
6 3 (0.72%) LDAP
6 3 (0.72%) PySpark
6 3 (0.72%) SAML
6 3 (0.72%) Web Services
7 2 (0.48%) Blazor
7 2 (0.48%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 39 (9.35%) Management Information System
2 23 (5.52%) Driving Licence
2 23 (5.52%) Product Ownership
3 20 (4.80%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (4.32%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (3.12%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (2.88%) NHS
7 8 (1.92%) Security Posture
8 7 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.44%) Insider Threat
9 6 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.20%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.20%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.20%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.20%) Robotics
11 3 (0.72%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.72%) Augmented Reality
11 3 (0.72%) BBC
11 3 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.92%) Linux
2 3 (0.72%) Android
2 3 (0.72%) Windows
3 2 (0.48%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (33.09%) Continuous Improvement
2 132 (31.65%) Problem-Solving
3 123 (29.50%) Analytics
4 94 (22.54%) Business Intelligence
5 77 (18.47%) Roadmaps
6 64 (15.35%) Agile
7 61 (14.63%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 60 (14.39%) CRM
8 60 (14.39%) Data Analysis
9 54 (12.95%) Actionable Insight
10 51 (12.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 50 (11.99%) AI
12 45 (10.79%) Data Modelling
13 44 (10.55%) Data Analytics
13 44 (10.55%) Data Management
14 43 (10.31%) Stakeholder Management
15 42 (10.07%) Mentoring
15 42 (10.07%) Risk Management
16 41 (9.83%) Cybersecurity
17 39 (9.35%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 99 (23.74%) SQL
2 50 (11.99%) Python
3 20 (4.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 13 (3.12%) R
4 13 (3.12%) TypeScript
5 11 (2.64%) T-SQL
6 8 (1.92%) Bash
7 7 (1.68%) Java
8 6 (1.44%) C
8 6 (1.44%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.96%) PHP
9 4 (0.96%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.72%) VBA
11 2 (0.48%) C#
11 2 (0.48%) C++
12 1 (0.24%) Bicep
12 1 (0.24%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 56 (13.43%) Degree
2 29 (6.95%) CIMA
3 28 (6.71%) ACCA
3 28 (6.71%) Security Cleared
4 23 (5.52%) SC Cleared
5 15 (3.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (2.64%) CISSP
7 6 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.20%) CITP
8 5 (1.20%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.96%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.72%) CCNA
10 3 (0.72%) CCSP
10 3 (0.72%) CEH
10 3 (0.72%) CIPD
10 3 (0.72%) CISM
10 3 (0.72%) CISMP
10 3 (0.72%) GIAC
10 3 (0.72%) MCSE
10 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (10.79%) Data Quality
2 23 (5.52%) QA
3 16 (3.84%) GDPR
4 14 (3.36%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.68%) Actionable Recommendations
6 7 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (1.44%) GRC
8 4 (0.96%) SLA
9 3 (0.72%) WCAG
10 2 (0.48%) NIST
10 2 (0.48%) P3O
10 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.48%) PMO
11 1 (0.24%) GxP
11 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.24%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.24%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 12 (2.88%) Docker
2 2 (0.48%) Firmware
3 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (1.68%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.44%) Nmap
2 6 (1.44%) Terraform
3 4 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.48%) EMC NetWorker
4 2 (0.48%) Grafana
4 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.24%) Ansible
5 1 (0.24%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 45 (10.79%) Microsoft
2 13 (3.12%) Cognos
2 13 (3.12%) SAP
3 12 (2.88%) Google
3 12 (2.88%) Workday
4 10 (2.40%) Databricks
5 9 (2.16%) IBM
6 8 (1.92%) Oracle
7 5 (1.20%) BT
7 5 (1.20%) HubSpot
8 4 (0.96%) Ariba
8 4 (0.96%) Cisco
8 4 (0.96%) OpenAI
8 4 (0.96%) Sage
8 4 (0.96%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.72%) Adobe
9 3 (0.72%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.72%) TOWER Software
10 2 (0.48%) NEC
11 1 (0.24%) QAD