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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 35 53
Rank change year-on-year -33 +18 +10
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 294 284 434
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.32% 5.69% 3.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.18% 6.38% 4.60%
Number of salaries quoted 207 189 271
10th Percentile £31,820 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,754 £39,543
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.14% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £67,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,300 £87,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -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 9,253 4,451 9,436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 73.12% 89.13% 82.20%
Number of salaries quoted 5,488 2,605 7,106
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £61,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £59,773 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.38% +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 April 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 April 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 -29 186 £57,500 +7.88% 145
East Midlands -33 106 £54,575 +14.89% 79
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 13 (4.42%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.72%) CMS
2 8 (2.72%) Confluence
3 5 (1.70%) nginx
4 4 (1.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.34%) Apache
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.34%) Drupal
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 47 (15.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.40%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.70%) Adobe Illustrator
4 5 (1.70%) Photoshop
5 4 (1.36%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.70%) Shopify
2 4 (1.36%) SAP ERP
2 4 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.02%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 2 (0.68%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.34%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.34%) Odoo
5 1 (0.34%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 72 (24.49%) Power Platform
2 54 (18.37%) Azure
3 38 (12.93%) AWS
4 16 (5.44%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (5.10%) SaaS
6 13 (4.42%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (4.08%) Power Automate
8 11 (3.74%) Serverless
9 10 (3.40%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (3.06%) PowerApps
11 8 (2.72%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (2.04%) Smartsheet
13 5 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (1.70%) GitHub
13 5 (1.70%) Microsoft Copilot
14 4 (1.36%) GCP
14 4 (1.36%) Google Analytics
14 4 (1.36%) OneDrive
14 4 (1.36%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.38%) Wireless
2 3 (1.02%) Broadband
2 3 (1.02%) SSL
3 2 (0.68%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.34%) Internet
4 1 (0.34%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (23.47%) Power BI
2 15 (5.10%) Power Query
3 14 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 12 (4.08%) Tableau
5 10 (3.40%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (3.40%) Metadata
6 9 (3.06%) SQL Server
7 7 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (1.70%) MySQL
8 5 (1.70%) Star Schema
9 4 (1.36%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.02%) Looker
10 3 (1.02%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.68%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.68%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.68%) Semantic Layer
12 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.34%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Development Applications
1 14 (4.76%) JIRA
2 9 (3.06%) Git
3 5 (1.70%) Burp Suite
3 5 (1.70%) Metasploit
3 5 (1.70%) Vite
4 4 (1.36%) JUnit
4 4 (1.36%) Maven
4 4 (1.36%) Mockito
5 3 (1.02%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.68%) JMeter
6 2 (0.68%) Locust
6 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.34%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 117 (39.80%) Social Skills
2 87 (29.59%) Finance
3 85 (28.91%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (9.52%) Marketing
5 27 (9.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (9.18%) Public Sector
6 24 (8.16%) Retail
7 22 (7.48%) Manufacturing
8 15 (5.10%) Law
9 14 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (4.08%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (4.08%) Legal
11 8 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.70%) Electronics
12 5 (1.70%) Games
12 5 (1.70%) Local Government
13 4 (1.36%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.36%) German Language
14 3 (1.02%) Spanish Language
14 3 (1.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (21.09%) Analyst
2 40 (13.61%) Senior
3 23 (7.82%) Data Analyst
4 22 (7.48%) Developer
4 22 (7.48%) Senior Analyst
5 16 (5.44%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 14 (4.76%) Data Manager
6 14 (4.76%) Lead
7 12 (4.08%) Architect
7 12 (4.08%) Consultant
7 12 (4.08%) Financial Analyst
8 10 (3.40%) Business Analyst
8 10 (3.40%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 10 (3.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 9 (3.06%) Data Engineer
9 9 (3.06%) Data Scientist
9 9 (3.06%) Product Owner
10 8 (2.72%) Business Developer
10 8 (2.72%) Governance Manager
10 8 (2.72%) IT Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.74%) React
2 10 (3.40%) AWS CDK
2 10 (3.40%) Next.js
3 9 (3.06%) REST
4 7 (2.38%) HTML
5 6 (2.04%) Flash
5 6 (2.04%) Vue
6 5 (1.70%) CSS
6 5 (1.70%) Laravel
6 5 (1.70%) LEMP Stack
6 5 (1.70%) Tailwind CSS
6 5 (1.70%) YAML
7 4 (1.36%) XML
8 3 (1.02%) JDBC
8 3 (1.02%) LDAP
8 3 (1.02%) PySpark
8 3 (1.02%) PyTorch
8 3 (1.02%) SAML
8 3 (1.02%) TensorFlow
8 3 (1.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.16%) Product Ownership
2 19 (6.46%) Management Information System
3 15 (5.10%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (4.42%) Analytical Mindset
5 11 (3.74%) Driving Licence
6 10 (3.40%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (2.72%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.70%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.70%) Insider Threat
9 5 (1.70%) NHS
10 4 (1.36%) Reference Data
11 3 (1.02%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.02%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.02%) Robotics
12 2 (0.68%) Marketing Technology
12 2 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.06%) Linux
2 3 (1.02%) Android
3 2 (0.68%) Robot Operating System
3 2 (0.68%) Windows
4 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (31.63%) Continuous Improvement
1 93 (31.63%) Problem-Solving
2 80 (27.21%) Analytics
3 79 (26.87%) Business Intelligence
4 58 (19.73%) Agile
5 56 (19.05%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 47 (15.99%) Roadmaps
7 44 (14.97%) Data Modelling
8 40 (13.61%) CRM
9 38 (12.93%) Actionable Insight
10 36 (12.24%) Data Analysis
11 32 (10.88%) Mentoring
12 29 (9.86%) Stakeholder Management
13 28 (9.52%) ETL
13 28 (9.52%) Visualisation
14 27 (9.18%) AI
14 27 (9.18%) Cybersecurity
15 26 (8.84%) Data Governance
15 26 (8.84%) Data Protection
15 26 (8.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 74 (25.17%) SQL
2 36 (12.24%) Python
3 16 (5.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 14 (4.76%) R
5 11 (3.74%) T-SQL
6 10 (3.40%) TypeScript
7 9 (3.06%) Bash
8 7 (2.38%) Java
9 6 (2.04%) C
9 6 (2.04%) JavaScript
10 5 (1.70%) PHP
11 4 (1.36%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.02%) VBA
13 2 (0.68%) C++
14 1 (0.34%) Scala
Qualifications
1 40 (13.61%) Degree
2 24 (8.16%) Security Cleared
3 21 (7.14%) CIMA
4 20 (6.80%) ACCA
5 19 (6.46%) SC Cleared
6 17 (5.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (3.06%) CISSP
8 6 (2.04%) AAT
8 6 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (2.04%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (1.70%) CCNA
9 5 (1.70%) CEH
9 5 (1.70%) CISMP
9 5 (1.70%) CREST Certified
9 5 (1.70%) GIAC
9 5 (1.70%) GPEN
9 5 (1.70%) MCSE
9 5 (1.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 5 (1.70%) OSCP
9 5 (1.70%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (15.99%) Data Quality
2 23 (7.82%) QA
3 16 (5.44%) GDPR
4 14 (4.76%) Accessibility
5 9 (3.06%) Actionable Recommendations
6 8 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (2.72%) PMO
7 4 (1.36%) SLA
8 3 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (1.02%) GRC
8 3 (1.02%) NIST
8 3 (1.02%) WCAG
9 2 (0.68%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.68%) P3O
9 2 (0.68%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (4.08%) Docker
2 2 (0.68%) Firmware
3 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (2.38%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.70%) Nmap
3 4 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (1.36%) Terraform
4 2 (0.68%) Grafana
4 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.34%) Control-M
5 1 (0.34%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 44 (14.97%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.10%) SAP
3 11 (3.74%) Databricks
3 11 (3.74%) Google
4 6 (2.04%) Oracle
5 5 (1.70%) Cisco
5 5 (1.70%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.70%) Workday
6 4 (1.36%) Ariba
6 4 (1.36%) Cognos
6 4 (1.36%) IBM
6 4 (1.36%) Sage
7 3 (1.02%) Adobe
7 3 (1.02%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.68%) Civica
8 2 (0.68%) Northgate
8 2 (0.68%) Orchard
8 2 (0.68%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.34%) Autodesk
9 1 (0.34%) VMware