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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 41 30
Rank change year-on-year -19 -11 +39
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 268 393 335
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.95% 4.90% 6.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.83% 5.69% 7.50%
Number of salaries quoted 161 177 258
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 -
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £29,104
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +88.98% -46.10%
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,250 £51,742
90th Percentile £84,375 £90,350 £66,250
England median annual salary £61,240 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.79% +5.00% -

All Process and 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 5,552 6,904 4,465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.89% 86.13% 92.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3,383 3,083 3,503
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,656 £38,750 £36,334
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -4.22%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 6 December 2025.

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 6 December 2025. 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 -12 157 £62,500 +13.64% 264
East Midlands -2 110 £45,000 -21.19% 173
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 4 (1.49%) Confluence
2 3 (1.12%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.12%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.75%) CMS
4 1 (0.37%) nginx
4 1 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 40 (14.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (5.22%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.75%) Trello
6 1 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.37%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (1.49%) SAP ERP
2 3 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.75%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.75%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.75%) Shopify
4 1 (0.37%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.37%) Odoo
4 1 (0.37%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 51 (19.03%) Power Platform
2 32 (11.94%) Azure
3 14 (5.22%) AWS
4 9 (3.36%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (2.99%) SaaS
6 5 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (1.87%) Power Automate
7 4 (1.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (1.49%) GitHub
7 4 (1.49%) Google Analytics
7 4 (1.49%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 4 (1.49%) Snowflake
8 3 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.12%) PaaS
8 3 (1.12%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.75%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (0.75%) Asana
9 2 (0.75%) Serverless
9 2 (0.75%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.37%) BGP
1 1 (0.37%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (0.37%) Firewall
1 1 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (0.37%) Network Security
1 1 (0.37%) OSPF
1 1 (0.37%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.37%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (18.28%) Power BI
2 20 (7.46%) Tableau
3 11 (4.10%) SQL Server
4 10 (3.73%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (3.36%) Metadata
6 8 (2.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (2.24%) Data Mining
8 5 (1.87%) Looker
9 4 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.12%) Big Data
10 3 (1.12%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.75%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
11 2 (0.75%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.75%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (0.75%) MySQL
11 2 (0.75%) Power Query
11 2 (0.75%) SAP BW
11 2 (0.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 16 (5.97%) JIRA
2 3 (1.12%) Burp Suite
2 3 (1.12%) Metasploit
3 2 (0.75%) Git
4 1 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.37%) Vite
General
1 118 (44.03%) Social Skills
2 106 (39.55%) Analytical Skills
3 96 (35.82%) Finance
4 47 (17.54%) Retail
5 39 (14.55%) Public Sector
6 36 (13.43%) Marketing
7 28 (10.45%) Law
8 25 (9.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (7.84%) Manufacturing
10 20 (7.46%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (4.85%) Legal
12 9 (3.36%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (2.99%) Banking
14 7 (2.61%) Local Government
15 6 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (2.24%) Telecoms
16 4 (1.49%) Aerospace
16 4 (1.49%) Electronics
16 4 (1.49%) Social Housing
17 2 (0.75%) Games
Job Titles
1 59 (22.01%) Analyst
2 46 (17.16%) Senior
3 32 (11.94%) Lead
4 22 (8.21%) Data Analyst
5 20 (7.46%) Senior Analyst
6 17 (6.34%) Architect
7 15 (5.60%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 15 (5.60%) Data Engineer
8 14 (5.22%) Developer
9 11 (4.10%) Financial Analyst
9 11 (4.10%) Report Analyst
9 11 (4.10%) Senior Financial Analyst
9 11 (4.10%) Senior Reporting Analyst
10 10 (3.73%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 10 (3.73%) Enterprise Architect
10 10 (3.73%) Project Engineer
11 9 (3.36%) Digital Analyst
11 9 (3.36%) Project Manager
12 8 (2.99%) Product Specialist
12 8 (2.99%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.10%) Flash
2 7 (2.61%) HTML
3 4 (1.49%) React
4 3 (1.12%) .NET
4 3 (1.12%) CSS
5 2 (0.75%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.75%) JSON
5 2 (0.75%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (0.75%) PySpark
5 2 (0.75%) REST
5 2 (0.75%) Spring
5 2 (0.75%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.37%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.37%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (0.37%) Laravel
6 1 (0.37%) Node.js
6 1 (0.37%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.37%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (0.37%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.37%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.82%) Analytical Mindset
2 19 (7.09%) Management Information System
3 18 (6.72%) FMCG
4 17 (6.34%) Security Posture
5 16 (5.97%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (3.73%) Driving Licence
7 7 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (2.24%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.87%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.49%) Cyber Security Posture
10 4 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.49%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.49%) Reference Data
11 3 (1.12%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.12%) Credit Risk
11 3 (1.12%) Insider Threat
12 2 (0.75%) Low-Code
12 2 (0.75%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.75%) Windows
2 1 (0.37%) Linux
2 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (35.45%) Analytics
2 87 (32.46%) Problem-Solving
3 76 (28.36%) Business Intelligence
4 68 (25.37%) Continuous Improvement
5 60 (22.39%) Project Management
6 40 (14.93%) CRM
6 40 (14.93%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 40 (14.93%) Stakeholder Management
7 37 (13.81%) Agile
8 36 (13.43%) Visualisation
9 34 (12.69%) Data Management
9 34 (12.69%) ERP
10 33 (12.31%) Actionable Insight
11 31 (11.57%) Data Analysis
12 28 (10.45%) Cybersecurity
13 26 (9.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 25 (9.33%) Change Management
14 25 (9.33%) Data Science
14 25 (9.33%) Data Visualisation
15 24 (8.96%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 64 (23.88%) SQL
2 41 (15.30%) Python
3 13 (4.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 11 (4.10%) R
5 7 (2.61%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.49%) T-SQL
6 4 (1.49%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.12%) C#
7 3 (1.12%) Java
8 1 (0.37%) Bash
8 1 (0.37%) C++
8 1 (0.37%) PHP
8 1 (0.37%) VB
Qualifications
1 68 (25.37%) Degree
2 19 (7.09%) ACCA
3 17 (6.34%) CIMA
4 15 (5.60%) Security Cleared
5 12 (4.48%) CISSP
6 11 (4.10%) AAT
6 11 (4.10%) SC Cleared
7 9 (3.36%) CISM
7 9 (3.36%) DBS Check
7 9 (3.36%) TOGAF Certification
8 8 (2.99%) Numerate Degree
9 7 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (2.24%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (1.49%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.49%) MCSE
11 4 (1.49%) PMI Certification
12 3 (1.12%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.07%) Data Quality
2 24 (8.96%) PMO
3 18 (6.72%) QA
4 13 (4.85%) GDPR
4 13 (4.85%) SLA
5 10 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (2.61%) GRC
6 7 (2.61%) NIST
7 6 (2.24%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (1.87%) COBIT
8 5 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.75%) NCSC
9 2 (0.75%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 3 (1.12%) Docker
2 2 (0.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.12%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.12%) Nmap
2 1 (0.37%) Ansible
2 1 (0.37%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (14.93%) Microsoft
2 36 (13.43%) Salesforce
3 27 (10.07%) SAP
4 13 (4.85%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.73%) Databricks
6 6 (2.24%) Oracle
6 6 (2.24%) Sage
7 5 (1.87%) Google
8 4 (1.49%) Cisco
9 3 (1.12%) Civica
9 3 (1.12%) Northgate
10 2 (0.75%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.75%) Ariba
11 1 (0.37%) Anaplan
11 1 (0.37%) Blue Prism
11 1 (0.37%) Foundry
11 1 (0.37%) Guidewire
11 1 (0.37%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.37%) Meraki
11 1 (0.37%) Verint