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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 54 40
Rank change year-on-year +28 -14 +4
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 110 10 83
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 5.38% 1.70% 4.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.52% 1.83% 5.13%
Number of salaries quoted 42 6 76
10th Percentile £38,895 £33,775 £29,500
25th Percentile £46,438 £43,663 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £67,500 £45,249
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% +49.18% -13.81%
75th Percentile £75,000 £84,457 £68,454
90th Percentile £76,250 £92,138 £78,718
England median annual salary £60,484 £61,644 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.88% +12.08% -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 1,463 545 1,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 71.58% 92.84% 86.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,020 319 1,318
10th Percentile £28,925 £26,100 £27,962
25th Percentile £37,500 £34,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -0.78%
75th Percentile £69,390 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,875 £82,500 £75,772
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 16 May 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 16 May 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
Durham +19 60 £75,000 +5.81% 11
Tyne and Wear +7 50 £57,500 +0.79% 38
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 3 (2.73%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.91%) Confluence
2 1 (0.91%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (9.09%) AWS
2 6 (5.45%) Azure
2 6 (5.45%) Power Platform
3 4 (3.64%) GCP
4 2 (1.82%) dbt
4 2 (1.82%) SaaS
5 1 (0.91%) Dagster
5 1 (0.91%) Datadog
5 1 (0.91%) PaaS
5 1 (0.91%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.45%) Power BI
1 6 (5.45%) Tableau
2 1 (0.91%) Big Data
2 1 (0.91%) Data Hub
2 1 (0.91%) Data Vault
2 1 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.91%) MySQL
2 1 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Git
2 1 (0.91%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.91%) JIRA
2 1 (0.91%) JMeter
2 1 (0.91%) Locust
2 1 (0.91%) MLflow
General
1 57 (51.82%) Manufacturing
2 43 (39.09%) Marketing
3 22 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 15 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (12.73%) Public Sector
6 13 (11.82%) Finance
7 5 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (4.55%) Tech for Good
8 4 (3.64%) Games
8 4 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.73%) Banking
9 3 (2.73%) Legal
10 1 (0.91%) Electronics
10 1 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.91%) Retail
10 1 (0.91%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 58 (52.73%) Development Manager
2 43 (39.09%) Product Manager
3 42 (38.18%) Product Development Manager
4 11 (10.00%) Senior
5 8 (7.27%) Developer
5 8 (7.27%) Senior Manager
6 7 (6.36%) Accountant
6 7 (6.36%) Analyst
7 6 (5.45%) Business Analyst
8 5 (4.55%) Architect
8 5 (4.55%) Digital Transformation
8 5 (4.55%) Senior Architect
8 5 (4.55%) Software Developer
9 4 (3.64%) Systems Accountant
10 3 (2.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 3 (2.73%) Lead
10 3 (2.73%) Portfolio Manager
11 2 (1.82%) Data Engineer
11 2 (1.82%) Governance Manager
11 2 (1.82%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.64%) LangChain
2 3 (2.73%) LlamaIndex
3 1 (0.91%) CSS
3 1 (0.91%) Flask
3 1 (0.91%) Gherkin
3 1 (0.91%) HTML
3 1 (0.91%) Laravel
3 1 (0.91%) Node.js
3 1 (0.91%) React
3 1 (0.91%) React Native
3 1 (0.91%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.91%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 42 (38.18%) FMCG
2 15 (13.64%) Learning Management System
3 5 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.73%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.73%) Life Science
6 2 (1.82%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.91%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.91%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.91%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.91%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.91%) PMI
7 1 (0.91%) PropTech
7 1 (0.91%) Raspberry Pi
7 1 (0.91%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.91%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (57.27%) Continuous Improvement
2 48 (43.64%) Project Delivery
3 47 (42.73%) Project Management
4 44 (40.00%) Community of Practice
5 42 (38.18%) Chemistry
5 42 (38.18%) Commercialisation
6 19 (17.27%) Actionable Insight
6 19 (17.27%) Process Improvement
7 16 (14.55%) Logistics
8 13 (11.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 12 (10.91%) Agile
10 11 (10.00%) Mentoring
11 10 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (8.18%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (7.27%) AI
13 8 (7.27%) Change Management
13 8 (7.27%) Validation
14 7 (6.36%) Business Analysis
14 7 (6.36%) Coaching
14 7 (6.36%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 9 (8.18%) Python
2 3 (2.73%) SQL
3 1 (0.91%) Java
3 1 (0.91%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.91%) PHP
Qualifications
1 48 (43.64%) Degree
2 15 (13.64%) CIPD
3 5 (4.55%) PMI Certification
4 4 (3.64%) PMP
5 3 (2.73%) ACCA
5 3 (2.73%) CIMA
6 2 (1.82%) IIBA
6 2 (1.82%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.91%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.91%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.64%) PMO
1 4 (3.64%) QA
2 3 (2.73%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.91%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.91%) P3O
3 1 (0.91%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (1.82%) Docker
2 1 (0.91%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (0.91%) Grafana
1 1 (0.91%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.91%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (3.64%) Anaplan
1 4 (3.64%) Genesys
1 4 (3.64%) ServiceNow
1 4 (3.64%) Verint
2 3 (2.73%) BMC
2 3 (2.73%) Workday
3 2 (1.82%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.82%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.91%) Alteryx
4 1 (0.91%) Databricks
4 1 (0.91%) Dataiku
4 1 (0.91%) HubSpot