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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 24 62
Rank change year-on-year -11 +38 -17
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 133 61 35
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 4.33% 6.63% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.98% 8.16% 2.89%
Number of salaries quoted 111 8 22
10th Percentile £36,250 - £35,208
25th Percentile £42,500 £24,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,050 £56,693
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% +0.63% +7.99%
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £69,914
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,533 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%

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 2,225 748 1,209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 72.48% 81.30% 80.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,658 472 835
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £28,188 £35,092
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £74,985 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £93,634 £74,926 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,762
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.37% -10.78%

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 23 August 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 23 August 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 +14 113 £57,500 +79.41% 58
Durham -15 20 £44,777 -44.64% 10
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 10 (7.52%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (4.51%) Confluence
3 5 (3.76%) Apache
4 4 (3.01%) SharePoint
5 3 (2.26%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.26%) Jupyter
6 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (9.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 34 (25.56%) AWS
2 17 (12.78%) Azure
3 10 (7.52%) GCP
3 10 (7.52%) Power Platform
4 9 (6.77%) SaaS
5 8 (6.02%) Amazon S3
5 8 (6.02%) Google Analytics
6 5 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (3.76%) Google Tag Manager
6 5 (3.76%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (3.76%) Serverless
7 3 (2.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (2.26%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.26%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (2.26%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (1.50%) dbt
8 2 (1.50%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.50%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.75%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.50%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.77%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (7.52%) Power BI
3 8 (6.02%) Looker
4 7 (5.26%) Big Data
5 5 (3.76%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (3.76%) BigQuery
5 5 (3.76%) Metadata
6 4 (3.01%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.01%) Tableau
7 3 (2.26%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.26%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.50%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.50%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.75%) Data Hub
9 1 (0.75%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.75%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (7.52%) Git
2 6 (4.51%) JIRA
3 3 (2.26%) GitLab
4 2 (1.50%) MLflow
5 1 (0.75%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.75%) JMeter
5 1 (0.75%) Locust
General
1 75 (56.39%) Social Skills
2 39 (29.32%) Public Sector
3 33 (24.81%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (18.80%) Finance
5 19 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (11.28%) Marketing
7 14 (10.53%) Manufacturing
8 13 (9.77%) Legal
9 9 (6.77%) Electronics
10 8 (6.02%) Retail
10 8 (6.02%) Tech for Good
11 6 (4.51%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (3.76%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (3.01%) Banking
14 2 (1.50%) Telecoms
14 2 (1.50%) Wearables
15 1 (0.75%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 25 (18.80%) Lead
2 23 (17.29%) Senior
3 16 (12.03%) Analyst
3 16 (12.03%) Architect
4 12 (9.02%) Data Engineer
5 11 (8.27%) Business Analyst
6 10 (7.52%) Development Manager
7 9 (6.77%) Senior Architect
7 9 (6.77%) Technical Architect
8 8 (6.02%) Developer
8 8 (6.02%) Product Manager
8 8 (6.02%) Senior Technical Architect
9 7 (5.26%) Product Development Manager
9 7 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
9 7 (5.26%) Software Manager
9 7 (5.26%) Software Team Leader
9 7 (5.26%) Team Leader
10 6 (4.51%) Enterprise Architect
10 6 (4.51%) Sales Executive
10 6 (4.51%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.26%) CSS
1 7 (5.26%) HTML
2 6 (4.51%) LangChain
3 4 (3.01%) Flask
3 4 (3.01%) LlamaIndex
3 4 (3.01%) Terraform
4 3 (2.26%) .NET
4 3 (2.26%) PySpark
5 2 (1.50%) Node.js
5 2 (1.50%) React
5 2 (1.50%) React Native
5 2 (1.50%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.75%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.75%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (9.02%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.26%) FMCG
3 7 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (4.51%) Web Conferencing
5 5 (3.76%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.76%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.01%) AI Agents
6 4 (3.01%) Hedge funds
6 4 (3.01%) Life Science
6 4 (3.01%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (2.26%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (1.50%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.50%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.50%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.50%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.50%) PropTech
8 2 (1.50%) Raspberry Pi
9 1 (0.75%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (36.09%) Continuous Improvement
2 44 (33.08%) Mentoring
3 40 (30.08%) Agile
4 39 (29.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 32 (24.06%) Coaching
6 30 (22.56%) Stakeholder Management
7 25 (18.80%) Analytics
7 25 (18.80%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (15.79%) AI
9 20 (15.04%) Data Pipeline
10 19 (14.29%) Project Delivery
10 19 (14.29%) Validation
11 18 (13.53%) CI/CD
11 18 (13.53%) Data Modelling
11 18 (13.53%) Roadmaps
12 16 (12.03%) Machine Learning
12 16 (12.03%) Software Engineering
13 15 (11.28%) Business Intelligence
14 14 (10.53%) Architecture Governance
14 14 (10.53%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 33 (24.81%) Python
2 28 (21.05%) SQL
3 7 (5.26%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.01%) Java
5 3 (2.26%) Bash
5 3 (2.26%) C#
6 1 (0.75%) PHP
Qualifications
1 17 (12.78%) Security Cleared
2 16 (12.03%) Degree
3 11 (8.27%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.76%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.26%) ACCA
5 3 (2.26%) CIMA
5 3 (2.26%) IIBA
6 2 (1.50%) CCA
6 2 (1.50%) CIPD
6 2 (1.50%) Postgraduate
6 2 (1.50%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.75%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.75%) CBAP
7 1 (0.75%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.52%) QA
3 7 (5.26%) GDPR
4 3 (2.26%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.50%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.75%) SLA
6 1 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (6.77%) Docker
1 9 (6.77%) Firmware
2 7 (5.26%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (1.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.75%) Grafana
2 1 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 14 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.52%) Google
3 4 (3.01%) HubSpot
3 4 (3.01%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.26%) BMC
4 3 (2.26%) Workday
5 2 (1.50%) Databricks
6 1 (0.75%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.75%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.75%) Apple
6 1 (0.75%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.75%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.75%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.75%) Splunk