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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 46 33
Rank change year-on-year -14 -13 +30
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 273 308 469
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.10% 5.19% 5.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.94% 5.64% 6.50%
Number of salaries quoted 169 173 347
10th Percentile £32,900 £36,399 £26,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,754 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +41.18% -18.66%
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £84,640 £92,500 £79,249
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,100 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.99% +18.36% -10.57%

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 6,935 5,458 7,215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 78.86% 91.98% 85.89%
Number of salaries quoted 3,895 2,435 5,858
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,036 £34,771
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £49,748
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.53% -5.24%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 16 February 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 16 February 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 -3 157 £62,500 +4.17% 142
East Midlands -19 113 £48,500 -11.17% 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 10 (3.66%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.20%) Confluence
3 5 (1.83%) CMS
4 4 (1.47%) nginx
4 4 (1.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 39 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.83%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (1.47%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (1.47%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.73%) Trello
6 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.47%) SAP ERP
1 4 (1.47%) Shopify
2 3 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.73%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.37%) Exchequer
4 1 (0.37%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.37%) Odoo
4 1 (0.37%) Primavera
4 1 (0.37%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 65 (23.81%) Power Platform
2 47 (17.22%) Azure
3 27 (9.89%) AWS
4 14 (5.13%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (2.93%) Power Automate
6 8 (2.93%) SaaS
7 7 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 7 (2.56%) PowerApps
8 6 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.83%) GitHub
9 5 (1.83%) Serverless
10 4 (1.47%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.47%) Google Analytics
10 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (1.47%) PaaS
11 3 (1.10%) Copilot Studio
11 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (1.10%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.73%) SSL
2 1 (0.37%) BGP
2 1 (0.37%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (0.37%) Firewall
2 1 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.37%) Network Security
2 1 (0.37%) OSPF
2 1 (0.37%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.37%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (22.71%) Power BI
2 18 (6.59%) Tableau
3 13 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (4.76%) SQL Server
4 12 (4.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 11 (4.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (3.66%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (3.66%) Metadata
7 7 (2.56%) Power Query
8 5 (1.83%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.83%) Looker
9 4 (1.47%) Data Mining
9 4 (1.47%) MySQL
9 4 (1.47%) Star Schema
10 3 (1.10%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (0.73%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
11 2 (0.73%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.73%) SAP BW
11 2 (0.73%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 14 (5.13%) JIRA
2 8 (2.93%) Git
3 7 (2.56%) Burp Suite
3 7 (2.56%) Metasploit
4 4 (1.47%) JUnit
4 4 (1.47%) Maven
4 4 (1.47%) Mockito
4 4 (1.47%) Vite
5 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.37%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.37%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 125 (45.79%) Social Skills
2 100 (36.63%) Analytical Skills
3 96 (35.16%) Finance
4 43 (15.75%) Public Sector
5 41 (15.02%) Retail
6 29 (10.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (8.79%) Marketing
8 21 (7.69%) Law
9 19 (6.96%) Manufacturing
10 14 (5.13%) Legal
11 12 (4.40%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (4.03%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (2.93%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (2.93%) Telecoms
14 6 (2.20%) Banking
14 6 (2.20%) Local Government
15 4 (1.47%) Aerospace
15 4 (1.47%) Electronics
15 4 (1.47%) Games
16 3 (1.10%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 63 (23.08%) Analyst
2 50 (18.32%) Senior
3 31 (11.36%) Lead
4 23 (8.42%) Developer
4 23 (8.42%) Senior Analyst
5 22 (8.06%) Data Analyst
6 16 (5.86%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 16 (5.86%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 15 (5.49%) Data Engineer
8 13 (4.76%) Financial Analyst
9 11 (4.03%) Architect
9 11 (4.03%) Report Analyst
9 11 (4.03%) Senior Financial Analyst
9 11 (4.03%) Senior Reporting Analyst
10 10 (3.66%) Consultant
10 10 (3.66%) Data Manager
11 9 (3.30%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
11 9 (3.30%) Digital Analyst
12 8 (2.93%) Customer Analyst
12 8 (2.93%) Project Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.03%) Flash
2 9 (3.30%) REST
3 7 (2.56%) HTML
4 6 (2.20%) React
5 5 (1.83%) CSS
5 5 (1.83%) Vue
6 4 (1.47%) Laravel
6 4 (1.47%) LEMP Stack
6 4 (1.47%) Tailwind CSS
6 4 (1.47%) YAML
7 3 (1.10%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.10%) PySpark
7 3 (1.10%) PyTorch
7 3 (1.10%) Spring
7 3 (1.10%) TensorFlow
8 2 (0.73%) .NET
8 2 (0.73%) JDBC
8 2 (0.73%) JSON
8 2 (0.73%) LDAP
8 2 (0.73%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.89%) Management Information System
2 26 (9.52%) Analytical Mindset
3 18 (6.59%) FMCG
4 17 (6.23%) Security Posture
4 17 (6.23%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (5.86%) Product Ownership
6 9 (3.30%) Driving Licence
7 7 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (2.56%) Insider Threat
8 6 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.83%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.83%) Cyber Security Posture
9 5 (1.83%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.47%) Reference Data
11 3 (1.10%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.10%) NHS
11 3 (1.10%) PMI
11 3 (1.10%) Robotics
11 3 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.93%) Linux
2 2 (0.73%) Robot Operating System
2 2 (0.73%) Windows
3 1 (0.37%) Android
3 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (35.16%) Analytics
2 92 (33.70%) Problem-Solving
3 91 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 79 (28.94%) Continuous Improvement
5 50 (18.32%) Agile
5 50 (18.32%) CRM
6 49 (17.95%) Project Management
7 45 (16.48%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 36 (13.19%) Actionable Insight
9 35 (12.82%) Data Management
10 34 (12.45%) ERP
11 32 (11.72%) Stakeholder Management
11 32 (11.72%) Visualisation
12 29 (10.62%) Cybersecurity
12 29 (10.62%) Data Analysis
13 27 (9.89%) Mentoring
13 27 (9.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 26 (9.52%) Change Management
14 26 (9.52%) Data Governance
14 26 (9.52%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 69 (25.27%) SQL
2 43 (15.75%) Python
3 12 (4.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 11 (4.03%) R
5 9 (3.30%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.93%) Bash
6 8 (2.93%) Java
7 6 (2.20%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.47%) C
8 4 (1.47%) PHP
8 4 (1.47%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.10%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.73%) C++
10 2 (0.73%) VBA
11 1 (0.37%) C#
11 1 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 72 (26.37%) Degree
2 24 (8.79%) Security Cleared
3 22 (8.06%) ACCA
4 21 (7.69%) SC Cleared
5 20 (7.33%) CIMA
6 18 (6.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (4.40%) CISSP
8 11 (4.03%) AAT
8 11 (4.03%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (3.66%) CompTIA Security+
10 8 (2.93%) MCSE
10 8 (2.93%) Numerate Degree
10 8 (2.93%) PMI Certification
11 7 (2.56%) CCNA
11 7 (2.56%) CEH
11 7 (2.56%) CISMP
11 7 (2.56%) GIAC
11 7 (2.56%) GPEN
11 7 (2.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 7 (2.56%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (12.45%) Data Quality
2 26 (9.52%) QA
3 19 (6.96%) GDPR
4 18 (6.59%) PMO
5 11 (4.03%) Actionable Recommendations
5 11 (4.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (2.56%) NIST
7 4 (1.47%) COBIT
7 4 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.47%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.10%) SLA
9 2 (0.73%) GRC
9 2 (0.73%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.73%) NCSC
9 2 (0.73%) P3O
10 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (4.03%) Docker
2 3 (1.10%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (2.93%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.56%) Nmap
3 3 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.10%) Terraform
4 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.37%) Ansible
5 1 (0.37%) Control-M
5 1 (0.37%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 41 (15.02%) Microsoft
2 28 (10.26%) Salesforce
2 28 (10.26%) SAP
3 9 (3.30%) Databricks
4 8 (2.93%) Cisco
5 7 (2.56%) Google
5 7 (2.56%) Oracle
5 7 (2.56%) Sage
5 7 (2.56%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.10%) Civica
6 3 (1.10%) Northgate
7 2 (0.73%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.73%) Orchard
7 2 (0.73%) Workday
8 1 (0.37%) Adaptive Insights
8 1 (0.37%) Autodesk
8 1 (0.37%) BMC
8 1 (0.37%) Genesys
8 1 (0.37%) IBM
8 1 (0.37%) NEC