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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 52 57
Rank change year-on-year +29 +5 -24
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 694 264 373
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.40% 4.74% 3.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.29% 5.47% 4.80%
Number of salaries quoted 492 163 126
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,600 £36,625
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,869 £41,675
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,592 £47,500 £55,641
Median % change year-on-year +10.72% -14.63% +40.86%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £66,650
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £77,056
England median annual salary £59,250 £60,000 £57,311
% change year-on-year -1.25% +4.69% -3.77%

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 11,041 4,829 7,764
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 70.05% 86.76% 79.80%
Number of salaries quoted 7,823 2,828 3,680
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £46,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.75% -7.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,025
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.44%

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 September 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 September 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 +26 432 £55,000 -1.35% 381
East Midlands +27 262 £50,000 +25.00% 197
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 9 (1.30%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.01%) Confluence
3 6 (0.86%) SAS
4 4 (0.58%) Apache
4 4 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.29%) WordPress
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 106 (15.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (4.90%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (3.89%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.29%) Notion
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 25 (3.60%) Primavera
1 25 (3.60%) SAP EHS
2 13 (1.87%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 10 (1.44%) Sonata
4 5 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.43%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.29%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 2 (0.29%) Shopify
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.14%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
8 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.14%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.14%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 99 (14.27%) Power Platform
2 82 (11.82%) Azure
3 49 (7.06%) AWS
4 48 (6.92%) SaaS
5 32 (4.61%) Microsoft 365
6 25 (3.60%) Smartsheet
7 21 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
8 14 (2.02%) GCP
9 13 (1.87%) Serverless
10 10 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (1.30%) GitHub
12 8 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (0.86%) Google Ads
14 5 (0.72%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (0.72%) Power Automate
14 5 (0.72%) Snowflake
15 4 (0.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 4 (0.58%) Google Sheets
15 4 (0.58%) Meta Ads
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.45%) Wireless
2 6 (0.86%) Broadband
3 5 (0.72%) Internet
4 4 (0.58%) VLAN
5 3 (0.43%) Intranet
6 2 (0.29%) Network Security
7 1 (0.14%) DHCP
7 1 (0.14%) Extranet
7 1 (0.14%) Firewall
7 1 (0.14%) LAN
7 1 (0.14%) LoRaWAN
7 1 (0.14%) Modbus
7 1 (0.14%) MQTT
7 1 (0.14%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.14%) SNMP
7 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.14%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.14%) VPN
7 1 (0.14%) WAN
7 1 (0.14%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (13.69%) Power BI
2 26 (3.75%) Power Query
3 25 (3.60%) Tableau
4 20 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (2.31%) Electronic Patient Records
6 15 (2.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 14 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 12 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (1.59%) Metadata
10 9 (1.30%) Delta Lake
10 9 (1.30%) Relational Database
11 8 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (1.01%) SQL Server
13 6 (0.86%) GIS
13 6 (0.86%) QlikView
14 5 (0.72%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.72%) Star Schema
15 4 (0.58%) Crystal Reports
15 4 (0.58%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 16 (2.31%) Git
2 15 (2.16%) JIRA
3 5 (0.72%) GitLab
4 4 (0.58%) Burp Suite
4 4 (0.58%) Metasploit
4 4 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.29%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.29%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.29%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.29%) JMeter
5 2 (0.29%) Postman
5 2 (0.29%) Selenium
5 2 (0.29%) SoapUI
5 2 (0.29%) Zephyr
General
1 237 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 197 (28.39%) Finance
3 195 (28.10%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (12.39%) Public Sector
5 71 (10.23%) Marketing
6 57 (8.21%) Legal
7 56 (8.07%) Manufacturing
8 51 (7.35%) Influencing Skills
9 49 (7.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 39 (5.62%) Telecoms
11 34 (4.90%) Retail
12 27 (3.89%) Presentation Skills
13 24 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (2.02%) Law
15 12 (1.73%) Automotive
16 11 (1.59%) Social Housing
17 10 (1.44%) Fire and Rescue
18 8 (1.15%) Banking
18 8 (1.15%) Local Government
19 6 (0.86%) German Language
Job Titles
1 90 (12.97%) Analyst
2 78 (11.24%) Lead
2 78 (11.24%) Senior
3 64 (9.22%) Business Manager
4 48 (6.92%) Business Development Manager
4 48 (6.92%) Development Manager
5 47 (6.77%) Architect
6 44 (6.34%) Data Analyst
7 36 (5.19%) Data Engineer
8 27 (3.89%) Developer
9 25 (3.60%) Accountant
9 25 (3.60%) Consultant
10 22 (3.17%) Sales Executive
11 21 (3.03%) Data Architect
12 20 (2.88%) Data Manager
12 20 (2.88%) Senior Analyst
12 20 (2.88%) Senior Architect
13 17 (2.45%) Management Accountant
13 17 (2.45%) Presales Consultant
13 17 (2.45%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.02%) Kafka
2 13 (1.87%) PySpark
3 12 (1.73%) Keycloak
4 9 (1.30%) React
5 7 (1.01%) AWS CDK
5 7 (1.01%) REST
5 7 (1.01%) XML
6 6 (0.86%) .NET
6 6 (0.86%) Next.js
7 5 (0.72%) EDI
7 5 (0.72%) Terraform
8 4 (0.58%) JSON
8 4 (0.58%) Playwright
8 4 (0.58%) STL
9 3 (0.43%) Blazor
9 3 (0.43%) CSS
9 3 (0.43%) GraphQL
9 3 (0.43%) HTML
9 3 (0.43%) Middleware
9 3 (0.43%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 67 (9.65%) Management Information System
2 57 (8.21%) Driving Licence
3 50 (7.20%) Self-Motivation
4 40 (5.76%) NHS
5 28 (4.03%) PMI
6 21 (3.03%) Cloud Native
7 19 (2.74%) SystemC
8 17 (2.45%) Analytical Mindset
9 15 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
11 11 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (1.44%) Onboarding
13 9 (1.30%) Product Ownership
14 8 (1.15%) CCTV
15 6 (0.86%) IoT
16 5 (0.72%) Algorithms
16 5 (0.72%) Security Posture
17 4 (0.58%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.86%) Windows
2 1 (0.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (33.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 189 (27.23%) Problem-Solving
3 184 (26.51%) Analytics
4 131 (18.88%) Business Intelligence
5 113 (16.28%) Agile
6 104 (14.99%) Stakeholder Management
7 99 (14.27%) AI
8 98 (14.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 97 (13.98%) Business Development
10 95 (13.69%) CRM
11 87 (12.54%) Roadmaps
12 72 (10.37%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 71 (10.23%) Cybersecurity
14 67 (9.65%) Data Management
14 67 (9.65%) ERP
15 66 (9.51%) Risk Management
16 65 (9.37%) Data Analysis
17 63 (9.08%) Data Analytics
18 61 (8.79%) Actionable Insight
19 60 (8.65%) Commercial Awareness
Programming Languages
1 118 (17.00%) SQL
2 77 (11.10%) Python
3 24 (3.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 12 (1.73%) Go
5 11 (1.59%) Java
6 9 (1.30%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.15%) C#
7 8 (1.15%) C++
7 8 (1.15%) TypeScript
8 5 (0.72%) C
8 5 (0.72%) R
8 5 (0.72%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.14%) Bicep
9 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 106 (15.27%) Degree
2 65 (9.37%) Security Cleared
3 59 (8.50%) SC Cleared
4 39 (5.62%) ACCA
5 35 (5.04%) CIMA
6 28 (4.03%) PMI Certification
7 14 (2.02%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.87%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.59%) CISSP
10 6 (0.86%) CIPD
10 6 (0.86%) CISM
11 5 (0.72%) CITP
11 5 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.58%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.58%) CCSP
12 4 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.58%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.58%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 3 (0.43%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (11.38%) Data Quality
2 27 (3.89%) GDPR
2 27 (3.89%) QA
3 17 (2.45%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.73%) GRC
5 9 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.15%) PMO
7 6 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.72%) SLA
9 4 (0.58%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.43%) AQAP
10 3 (0.43%) NCSC
11 2 (0.29%) ITGC
11 2 (0.29%) NIST
11 2 (0.29%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.29%) WCAG
12 1 (0.14%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 2 (0.29%) Docker
2 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (0.58%) Nmap
2 3 (0.43%) EMC NetWorker
3 2 (0.29%) Grafana
3 2 (0.29%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.29%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.14%) Ansible
4 1 (0.14%) Argo
4 1 (0.14%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 93 (13.40%) Microsoft
2 45 (6.48%) SAP
3 18 (2.59%) Google
4 17 (2.45%) Workday
5 16 (2.31%) Cognos
6 14 (2.02%) Oracle
7 13 (1.87%) IBM
8 9 (1.30%) Databricks
8 9 (1.30%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.30%) YouTube
9 8 (1.15%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.15%) SYSPRO
10 5 (0.72%) BT
10 5 (0.72%) HubSpot
11 4 (0.58%) Pega
11 4 (0.58%) Sage
12 3 (0.43%) Infor
12 3 (0.43%) NCR
12 3 (0.43%) TOWER Software
12 3 (0.43%) Veritas