Decision-Making Job Trends in the North East

Decision-Making
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Decision-Making skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 37 48
Rank change year-on-year +1 +11 +2
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 110 39 56
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 4.04% 4.53% 3.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.55% 5.47% 3.96%
Number of salaries quoted 89 7 46
10th Percentile £37,500 - £30,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £24,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £39,100 £45,249
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% -13.59% -13.81%
75th Percentile £78,000 £85,000 £69,914
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,711 £74,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -7.65%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,981 713 1,413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 72.80% 82.91% 81.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,491 460 1,079
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £28,188 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,563 £62,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Decision-Making relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Decision-Making job vacancy trend in the North East

Decision-Making
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Decision-Making.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Decision-Making

Decision-Making
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in the North East over the 6 months to 24 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Decision-Making in the North East

Decision-Making
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Decision-Making within the North East region over the 6 months to 24 July 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
Tyne and Wear +14 84 £57,500 +130.00% 49
Durham -11 26 £70,079 -13.36% 4
Decision-Making
England

Decision-Making
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 8 (7.27%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.73%) Apache
3 2 (1.82%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.82%) Confluence
3 2 (1.82%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.91%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.91%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 26 (23.64%) AWS
2 14 (12.73%) Azure
3 7 (6.36%) GCP
3 7 (6.36%) Power Platform
4 5 (4.55%) SaaS
5 4 (3.64%) Amazon S3
5 4 (3.64%) Google Analytics
6 2 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.82%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (1.82%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.82%) dbt
6 2 (1.82%) Google Tag Manager
6 2 (1.82%) Serverless
7 1 (0.91%) Dagster
7 1 (0.91%) Datadog
7 1 (0.91%) PaaS
7 1 (0.91%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.18%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (6.36%) Power BI
3 6 (5.45%) Big Data
4 4 (3.64%) Looker
4 4 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.64%) Tableau
5 2 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.82%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.82%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.82%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.82%) Metadata
5 2 (1.82%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.91%) Data Hub
6 1 (0.91%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.91%) MySQL
6 1 (0.91%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (8.18%) Git
2 2 (1.82%) GitLab
2 2 (1.82%) JIRA
2 2 (1.82%) MLflow
3 1 (0.91%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.91%) JMeter
3 1 (0.91%) Locust
General
1 52 (47.27%) Social Skills
2 31 (28.18%) Public Sector
3 23 (20.91%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (20.00%) Finance
4 22 (20.00%) Marketing
5 19 (17.27%) Manufacturing
6 17 (15.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (9.09%) Legal
8 8 (7.27%) Tech for Good
9 6 (5.45%) Electronics
10 4 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (3.64%) Retail
11 3 (2.73%) Banking
12 2 (1.82%) Wearables
13 1 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.91%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 21 (19.09%) Development Manager
2 19 (17.27%) Product Manager
3 18 (16.36%) Product Development Manager
4 16 (14.55%) Senior
5 14 (12.73%) Lead
6 11 (10.00%) Architect
7 10 (9.09%) Analyst
7 10 (9.09%) Data Engineer
8 8 (7.27%) Senior Architect
9 7 (6.36%) Accountant
9 7 (6.36%) Business Analyst
9 7 (6.36%) Senior Technical Architect
9 7 (6.36%) Technical Architect
10 6 (5.45%) Digital Transformation
11 5 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 5 (4.55%) Developer
12 4 (3.64%) Python Developer
12 4 (3.64%) Senior Manager
12 4 (3.64%) Systems Accountant
12 4 (3.64%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.45%) LangChain
2 4 (3.64%) CSS
2 4 (3.64%) Flask
2 4 (3.64%) HTML
2 4 (3.64%) LlamaIndex
3 2 (1.82%) Node.js
3 2 (1.82%) PySpark
3 2 (1.82%) React
3 2 (1.82%) React Native
3 2 (1.82%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.91%) Gherkin
4 1 (0.91%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.36%) FMCG
2 10 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.64%) AI Agents
4 4 (3.64%) Hedge funds
4 4 (3.64%) Life Science
4 4 (3.64%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (2.73%) Web Conferencing
6 2 (1.82%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.82%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.82%) PropTech
6 2 (1.82%) Raspberry Pi
6 2 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.91%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.91%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.91%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (43.64%) Continuous Improvement
2 31 (28.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 30 (27.27%) Mentoring
4 28 (25.45%) Project Delivery
5 27 (24.55%) Agile
6 22 (20.00%) Community of Practice
7 20 (18.18%) Project Management
8 18 (16.36%) Analytics
8 18 (16.36%) Chemistry
8 18 (16.36%) Commercialisation
8 18 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (16.36%) Stakeholder Management
9 17 (15.45%) Coaching
9 17 (15.45%) Data Pipeline
10 16 (14.55%) AI
10 16 (14.55%) CI/CD
11 13 (11.82%) Machine Learning
11 13 (11.82%) Validation
12 12 (10.91%) Data Modelling
12 12 (10.91%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 27 (24.55%) Python
2 18 (16.36%) SQL
3 4 (3.64%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.73%) Java
5 2 (1.82%) Bash
6 1 (0.91%) PHP
Qualifications
1 27 (24.55%) Degree
2 9 (8.18%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.36%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.73%) ACCA
4 3 (2.73%) CIMA
4 3 (2.73%) IIBA
5 2 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.82%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.82%) Postgraduate
5 2 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.91%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.91%) CBAP
6 1 (0.91%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.27%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.45%) QA
3 4 (3.64%) GDPR
4 3 (2.73%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.82%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.82%) PMO
6 1 (0.91%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (7.27%) Docker
2 6 (5.45%) Firmware
3 4 (3.64%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (2.73%) Terraform
2 2 (1.82%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.91%) Grafana
3 1 (0.91%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 7 (6.36%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.64%) Google
3 3 (2.73%) BMC
3 3 (2.73%) HubSpot
3 3 (2.73%) Salesforce
3 3 (2.73%) Workday
4 1 (0.91%) Alteryx
4 1 (0.91%) Apple
4 1 (0.91%) Databricks
4 1 (0.91%) Dataiku