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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 38 53
Rank change year-on-year -23 +15 +7
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 278 290 428
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.61% 5.97% 4.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.43% 6.61% 4.91%
Number of salaries quoted 189 195 292
10th Percentile £31,910 £35,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £43,500 £38,750 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £74,572 £65,250
90th Percentile £84,410 £86,850 £86,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £67,820 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.84% +23.31% -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 8,101 4,389 8,712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 75.99% 90.38% 83.01%
Number of salaries quoted 4,692 2,597 6,817
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,822 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,501
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 29 March 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 29 March 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 -22 170 £60,000 +4.35% 134
East Midlands -29 106 £51,058 +7.49% 94
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 11 (3.96%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.88%) CMS
2 8 (2.88%) Confluence
3 5 (1.80%) nginx
4 4 (1.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.36%) Apache
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.36%) Drupal
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 48 (17.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.80%) Adobe Illustrator
3 5 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.80%) Photoshop
4 4 (1.44%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.72%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.80%) Shopify
2 4 (1.44%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.72%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.36%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.36%) Exchequer
4 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.36%) Odoo
4 1 (0.36%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 71 (25.54%) Power Platform
2 54 (19.42%) Azure
3 37 (13.31%) AWS
4 14 (5.04%) Azure Data Factory
5 13 (4.68%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (3.96%) SaaS
7 10 (3.60%) Power Automate
8 9 (3.24%) PowerApps
8 9 (3.24%) Serverless
9 8 (2.88%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (2.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (2.16%) GitHub
11 6 (2.16%) Smartsheet
12 4 (1.44%) Google Analytics
12 4 (1.44%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (1.44%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (1.44%) PaaS
13 3 (1.08%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.08%) SSL
2 2 (0.72%) Bluetooth
2 2 (0.72%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (24.46%) Power BI
2 13 (4.68%) Tableau
3 12 (4.32%) Power Query
3 12 (4.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 11 (3.96%) Metadata
5 10 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (3.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (3.24%) SQL Server
7 7 (2.52%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (1.80%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.80%) MySQL
8 5 (1.80%) Star Schema
9 4 (1.44%) Looker
10 3 (1.08%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.72%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
11 2 (0.72%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.72%) SAP BW
11 2 (0.72%) Semantic Layer
11 2 (0.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 15 (5.40%) JIRA
2 10 (3.60%) Git
3 7 (2.52%) Burp Suite
3 7 (2.52%) Metasploit
4 5 (1.80%) Vite
5 4 (1.44%) JUnit
5 4 (1.44%) Maven
5 4 (1.44%) Mockito
6 3 (1.08%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.72%) JMeter
7 2 (0.72%) Locust
7 2 (0.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.36%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 129 (46.40%) Social Skills
2 89 (32.01%) Analytical Skills
3 85 (30.58%) Finance
4 40 (14.39%) Public Sector
5 29 (10.43%) Retail
6 25 (8.99%) Manufacturing
7 24 (8.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (6.83%) Marketing
9 17 (6.12%) Legal
10 16 (5.76%) Law
11 12 (4.32%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (4.32%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (4.32%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (2.52%) Local Government
12 7 (2.52%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.80%) Banking
13 5 (1.80%) Electronics
13 5 (1.80%) Games
14 4 (1.44%) Aerospace
15 3 (1.08%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 64 (23.02%) Analyst
2 42 (15.11%) Senior
3 23 (8.27%) Senior Analyst
4 22 (7.91%) Developer
5 20 (7.19%) Data Analyst
6 15 (5.40%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 15 (5.40%) Lead
7 14 (5.04%) Financial Analyst
8 12 (4.32%) Consultant
8 12 (4.32%) Data Engineer
8 12 (4.32%) Data Manager
9 11 (3.96%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 10 (3.60%) Business Analyst
10 10 (3.60%) Report Analyst
10 10 (3.60%) Senior Financial Analyst
10 10 (3.60%) Senior Reporting Analyst
11 9 (3.24%) Architect
11 9 (3.24%) Data Scientist
11 9 (3.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 8 (2.88%) Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.60%) Flash
1 10 (3.60%) React
1 10 (3.60%) REST
2 7 (2.52%) AWS CDK
2 7 (2.52%) HTML
2 7 (2.52%) Next.js
3 6 (2.16%) Vue
4 5 (1.80%) CSS
4 5 (1.80%) Laravel
4 5 (1.80%) LEMP Stack
4 5 (1.80%) Tailwind CSS
4 5 (1.80%) YAML
5 3 (1.08%) JDBC
5 3 (1.08%) LDAP
5 3 (1.08%) PySpark
5 3 (1.08%) PyTorch
5 3 (1.08%) SAML
5 3 (1.08%) TensorFlow
5 3 (1.08%) Web Services
6 2 (0.72%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.91%) Product Ownership
2 16 (5.76%) Management Information System
2 16 (5.76%) Security Posture
2 16 (5.76%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (4.32%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (2.52%) Driving Licence
4 7 (2.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (2.52%) Insider Threat
5 5 (1.80%) Data Structures
5 5 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.80%) NHS
6 4 (1.44%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.44%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.08%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.08%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.08%) PMI
7 3 (1.08%) Robotics
7 3 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.24%) Linux
2 3 (1.08%) Android
3 2 (0.72%) Robot Operating System
3 2 (0.72%) Windows
4 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (30.22%) Problem-Solving
2 82 (29.50%) Analytics
3 80 (28.78%) Business Intelligence
3 80 (28.78%) Continuous Improvement
4 60 (21.58%) Agile
5 53 (19.06%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 38 (13.67%) Data Modelling
6 38 (13.67%) Roadmaps
7 37 (13.31%) Actionable Insight
8 35 (12.59%) Mentoring
9 32 (11.51%) CRM
9 32 (11.51%) Visualisation
10 31 (11.15%) Cybersecurity
10 31 (11.15%) Stakeholder Management
11 29 (10.43%) Data Analysis
12 28 (10.07%) Data Governance
12 28 (10.07%) Project Management
13 27 (9.71%) AI
14 25 (8.99%) ETL
15 24 (8.63%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 70 (25.18%) SQL
2 40 (14.39%) Python
3 16 (5.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 14 (5.04%) R
5 10 (3.60%) TypeScript
6 9 (3.24%) Bash
6 9 (3.24%) Java
6 9 (3.24%) T-SQL
7 8 (2.88%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.16%) C
9 5 (1.80%) PHP
10 4 (1.44%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.08%) VBA
12 2 (0.72%) C++
13 1 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 52 (18.71%) Degree
2 27 (9.71%) Security Cleared
3 25 (8.99%) ACCA
4 24 (8.63%) CIMA
5 22 (7.91%) SC Cleared
6 19 (6.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (4.68%) CISSP
8 10 (3.60%) AAT
8 10 (3.60%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (3.60%) CompTIA Security+
9 7 (2.52%) CCNA
9 7 (2.52%) CEH
9 7 (2.52%) CISMP
9 7 (2.52%) CREST Certified
9 7 (2.52%) GIAC
9 7 (2.52%) GPEN
9 7 (2.52%) MCSE
9 7 (2.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 7 (2.52%) OSCP
9 7 (2.52%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (15.47%) Data Quality
2 22 (7.91%) QA
3 20 (7.19%) GDPR
4 13 (4.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (4.32%) Actionable Recommendations
6 11 (3.96%) PMO
7 10 (3.60%) Accessibility
8 8 (2.88%) NIST
9 6 (2.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (1.44%) COBIT
11 3 (1.08%) GRC
11 3 (1.08%) PCI DSS
11 3 (1.08%) WCAG
12 2 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.72%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.72%) P3O
12 2 (0.72%) SLA
13 1 (0.36%) NCSC
System Software
1 14 (5.04%) Docker
2 2 (0.72%) Firmware
3 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (3.24%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.52%) Nmap
3 4 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (1.44%) Terraform
4 2 (0.72%) Grafana
4 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.36%) Control-M
Vendors
1 46 (16.55%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.32%) Databricks
2 12 (4.32%) SAP
3 9 (3.24%) Google
4 7 (2.52%) Cisco
4 7 (2.52%) Sage
5 6 (2.16%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.80%) Oracle
6 5 (1.80%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.08%) Cognos
7 3 (1.08%) IBM
7 3 (1.08%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.08%) Workday
8 2 (0.72%) Adobe
8 2 (0.72%) Ariba
8 2 (0.72%) Civica
8 2 (0.72%) Northgate
8 2 (0.72%) Orchard
9 1 (0.36%) BMC
9 1 (0.36%) Informatica