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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 38 58
Rank change year-on-year -24 +20 +6
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 302 286 418
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.58% 5.90% 3.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.47% 6.57% 4.62%
Number of salaries quoted 208 193 273
10th Percentile £31,865 £35,000 £29,862
25th Percentile £43,500 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £70,313 £74,144 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,375 £87,050 £87,250
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 8,707 4,353 9,050
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 74.38% 89.77% 82.47%
Number of salaries quoted 5,119 2,584 6,996
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,349 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +8.10% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,640 £65,000 £62,200
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 12 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 12 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 -18 187 £60,000 +10.80% 122
East Midlands -29 113 £53,325 +12.26% 89
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 12 (3.97%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.31%) Confluence
3 8 (2.65%) CMS
4 5 (1.66%) nginx
5 4 (1.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.33%) Apache
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.33%) Drupal
6 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 55 (18.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.66%) Adobe Illustrator
3 5 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.66%) Photoshop
4 4 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.66%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.66%) Shopify
2 4 (1.32%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.99%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 3 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.66%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.33%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.33%) Odoo
5 1 (0.33%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 79 (26.16%) Power Platform
2 59 (19.54%) Azure
3 40 (13.25%) AWS
4 16 (5.30%) Azure Data Factory
5 15 (4.97%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (3.97%) Power Automate
6 12 (3.97%) SaaS
7 9 (2.98%) PowerApps
7 9 (2.98%) Serverless
8 8 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (2.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 8 (2.65%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (1.99%) Smartsheet
10 5 (1.66%) GCP
10 5 (1.66%) GitHub
11 4 (1.32%) Google Analytics
11 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (1.32%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.99%) Broadband
1 3 (0.99%) SSL
2 2 (0.66%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (25.17%) Power BI
2 16 (5.30%) Tableau
3 15 (4.97%) Power Query
3 15 (4.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 12 (3.97%) Metadata
5 11 (3.64%) SQL Server
6 10 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (3.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (2.32%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (1.66%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.66%) MySQL
8 5 (1.66%) Star Schema
9 3 (0.99%) Looker
9 3 (0.99%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.66%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 2 (0.66%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.66%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.66%) SAP BW
10 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 17 (5.63%) JIRA
2 9 (2.98%) Git
3 7 (2.32%) Burp Suite
3 7 (2.32%) Metasploit
4 5 (1.66%) Vite
5 4 (1.32%) JUnit
5 4 (1.32%) Maven
5 4 (1.32%) Mockito
6 3 (0.99%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.66%) JMeter
7 2 (0.66%) Locust
7 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.33%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 138 (45.70%) Social Skills
2 97 (32.12%) Analytical Skills
3 96 (31.79%) Finance
4 37 (12.25%) Public Sector
5 30 (9.93%) Retail
6 27 (8.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (8.61%) Manufacturing
8 24 (7.95%) Marketing
9 16 (5.30%) Legal
10 15 (4.97%) Law
10 15 (4.97%) Organisational Skills
11 14 (4.64%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.99%) Local Government
14 5 (1.66%) Banking
14 5 (1.66%) Electronics
14 5 (1.66%) Games
14 5 (1.66%) Telecoms
15 4 (1.32%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.99%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 73 (24.17%) Analyst
2 44 (14.57%) Senior
3 25 (8.28%) Senior Analyst
4 24 (7.95%) Data Analyst
4 24 (7.95%) Developer
5 19 (6.29%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 17 (5.63%) Lead
7 15 (4.97%) Data Manager
7 15 (4.97%) Financial Analyst
8 13 (4.30%) Consultant
9 12 (3.97%) Architect
9 12 (3.97%) Business Analyst
9 12 (3.97%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 11 (3.64%) Data Engineer
11 10 (3.31%) Senior Financial Analyst
12 9 (2.98%) Data Scientist
12 9 (2.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 9 (2.98%) Governance Manager
12 9 (2.98%) Report Analyst
12 9 (2.98%) Senior Reporting Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.31%) React
2 9 (2.98%) Flash
2 9 (2.98%) REST
3 8 (2.65%) AWS CDK
3 8 (2.65%) Next.js
4 7 (2.32%) HTML
5 6 (1.99%) Vue
6 5 (1.66%) CSS
6 5 (1.66%) Laravel
6 5 (1.66%) LEMP Stack
6 5 (1.66%) Tailwind CSS
6 5 (1.66%) YAML
7 3 (0.99%) JDBC
7 3 (0.99%) LDAP
7 3 (0.99%) PySpark
7 3 (0.99%) PyTorch
7 3 (0.99%) SAML
7 3 (0.99%) TensorFlow
7 3 (0.99%) Web Services
7 3 (0.99%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (8.61%) Product Ownership
2 18 (5.96%) Management Information System
3 15 (4.97%) Security Posture
3 15 (4.97%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (4.30%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (2.32%) Insider Threat
7 6 (1.99%) Driving Licence
7 6 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.99%) NHS
8 5 (1.66%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.32%) Reference Data
10 3 (0.99%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.99%) Cloud Native
10 3 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.99%) Low-Code
10 3 (0.99%) PMI
10 3 (0.99%) Robotics
10 3 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.98%) Linux
2 3 (0.99%) Android
3 2 (0.66%) Robot Operating System
3 2 (0.66%) Windows
4 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (30.79%) Problem-Solving
2 89 (29.47%) Continuous Improvement
3 88 (29.14%) Analytics
4 87 (28.81%) Business Intelligence
5 64 (21.19%) Agile
6 56 (18.54%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 47 (15.56%) Data Modelling
8 44 (14.57%) Roadmaps
9 42 (13.91%) Actionable Insight
10 38 (12.58%) Data Analysis
11 37 (12.25%) Visualisation
12 36 (11.92%) CRM
12 36 (11.92%) Mentoring
13 32 (10.60%) Stakeholder Management
14 31 (10.26%) Cybersecurity
15 30 (9.93%) ETL
16 29 (9.60%) AI
16 29 (9.60%) Project Management
17 28 (9.27%) Data Governance
18 26 (8.61%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 77 (25.50%) SQL
2 39 (12.91%) Python
3 18 (5.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 14 (4.64%) R
5 11 (3.64%) T-SQL
6 10 (3.31%) TypeScript
7 9 (2.98%) Bash
8 8 (2.65%) Java
8 8 (2.65%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.99%) C
10 5 (1.66%) PHP
11 4 (1.32%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.99%) VBA
13 2 (0.66%) C++
14 1 (0.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 54 (17.88%) Degree
2 30 (9.93%) Security Cleared
3 25 (8.28%) ACCA
3 25 (8.28%) CIMA
4 24 (7.95%) SC Cleared
5 19 (6.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (4.64%) CISSP
7 10 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (3.31%) CompTIA Security+
8 9 (2.98%) AAT
9 7 (2.32%) CCNA
9 7 (2.32%) CEH
9 7 (2.32%) CISMP
9 7 (2.32%) CREST Certified
9 7 (2.32%) GIAC
9 7 (2.32%) GPEN
9 7 (2.32%) MCSE
9 7 (2.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 7 (2.32%) OSCP
10 6 (1.99%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (16.23%) Data Quality
2 25 (8.28%) QA
3 20 (6.62%) GDPR
4 14 (4.64%) Accessibility
4 14 (4.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (3.97%) Actionable Recommendations
6 11 (3.64%) PMO
7 8 (2.65%) NIST
8 6 (1.99%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.32%) GRC
9 4 (1.32%) SLA
10 3 (0.99%) COBIT
10 3 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.99%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.99%) WCAG
11 2 (0.66%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.66%) P3O
12 1 (0.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (4.30%) Docker
2 2 (0.66%) Firmware
3 1 (0.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (2.65%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.32%) Nmap
3 4 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (1.32%) Terraform
4 2 (0.66%) Grafana
4 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.33%) Control-M
Vendors
1 49 (16.23%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.97%) SAP
3 13 (4.30%) Databricks
4 11 (3.64%) Google
5 7 (2.32%) Cisco
5 7 (2.32%) Sage
6 6 (1.99%) Oracle
6 6 (1.99%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.66%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.66%) Workday
8 4 (1.32%) Cognos
8 4 (1.32%) IBM
9 3 (0.99%) Adobe
9 3 (0.99%) Ariba
9 3 (0.99%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.66%) Civica
10 2 (0.66%) Northgate
10 2 (0.66%) Orchard
11 1 (0.33%) BMC
11 1 (0.33%) Informatica