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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 55 39
Rank change year-on-year +32 -16 +9
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 121 6 80
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 5.43% 0.99% 4.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.56% 1.08% 4.72%
Number of salaries quoted 56 3 73
10th Percentile £38,750 £30,610 £29,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £33,775 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £39,100 £45,249
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% -13.59% -13.81%
75th Percentile £75,000 £62,963 £69,914
90th Percentile £77,125 £77,251 £79,748
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -7.60%

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 1,600 556 1,694
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 71.81% 91.30% 85.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,150 316 1,377
10th Percentile £29,225 £25,087 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,813 £32,375 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +2.63% -0.44%
75th Percentile £69,390 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £59,400 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.01% +8.00% -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 30 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 30 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
Tyne and Wear +9 63 £57,500 +68.87% 37
Durham +19 58 £75,000 -8.27% 6
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 5 (4.13%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.65%) Apache
2 2 (1.65%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.65%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.83%) Confluence
3 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 15 (12.40%) AWS
2 9 (7.44%) Azure
3 6 (4.96%) Power Platform
4 5 (4.13%) GCP
5 3 (2.48%) SaaS
6 2 (1.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (1.65%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.65%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (1.65%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (1.65%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.65%) dbt
7 1 (0.83%) Dagster
7 1 (0.83%) Datadog
7 1 (0.83%) PaaS
7 1 (0.83%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.96%) Power BI
1 6 (4.96%) Tableau
2 5 (4.13%) Big Data
3 3 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (1.65%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.65%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.83%) Data Hub
5 1 (0.83%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.83%) MySQL
5 1 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (2.48%) Git
2 2 (1.65%) GitLab
2 2 (1.65%) MLflow
3 1 (0.83%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.83%) JIRA
3 1 (0.83%) JMeter
3 1 (0.83%) Locust
General
1 54 (44.63%) Manufacturing
2 44 (36.36%) Marketing
3 28 (23.14%) Social Skills
4 21 (17.36%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (15.70%) Public Sector
6 13 (10.74%) Finance
7 6 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (4.13%) Legal
8 5 (4.13%) Tech for Good
9 4 (3.31%) Games
9 4 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.48%) Banking
11 2 (1.65%) Electronics
11 2 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.65%) Wearables
12 1 (0.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 56 (46.28%) Development Manager
2 43 (35.54%) Product Manager
3 42 (34.71%) Product Development Manager
4 12 (9.92%) Senior
5 8 (6.61%) Developer
5 8 (6.61%) Senior Manager
6 7 (5.79%) Accountant
6 7 (5.79%) Analyst
6 7 (5.79%) Architect
7 6 (4.96%) Business Analyst
7 6 (4.96%) Digital Transformation
7 6 (4.96%) Lead
7 6 (4.96%) Senior Architect
8 5 (4.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 5 (4.13%) Software Developer
9 4 (3.31%) Data Engineer
9 4 (3.31%) Systems Accountant
10 3 (2.48%) Portfolio Manager
11 2 (1.65%) Business Manager
11 2 (1.65%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.96%) LangChain
2 4 (3.31%) LlamaIndex
3 2 (1.65%) Node.js
3 2 (1.65%) PySpark
3 2 (1.65%) React
3 2 (1.65%) React Native
3 2 (1.65%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.83%) CSS
4 1 (0.83%) Flask
4 1 (0.83%) Gherkin
4 1 (0.83%) HTML
4 1 (0.83%) Laravel
4 1 (0.83%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 42 (34.71%) FMCG
2 12 (9.92%) Learning Management System
3 7 (5.79%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.13%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.31%) AI Agents
5 4 (3.31%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.31%) Life Science
6 2 (1.65%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.65%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.65%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.65%) Raspberry Pi
6 2 (1.65%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.83%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.83%) PMI
7 1 (0.83%) PropTech
7 1 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (55.37%) Continuous Improvement
2 48 (39.67%) Project Delivery
2 48 (39.67%) Project Management
3 44 (36.36%) Community of Practice
4 42 (34.71%) Chemistry
4 42 (34.71%) Commercialisation
5 17 (14.05%) Process Improvement
5 17 (14.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 16 (13.22%) Actionable Insight
6 16 (13.22%) Agile
7 15 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (11.57%) Mentoring
9 13 (10.74%) AI
9 13 (10.74%) Logistics
9 13 (10.74%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (8.26%) Data Pipeline
10 10 (8.26%) Validation
11 9 (7.44%) Coaching
12 8 (6.61%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 8 (6.61%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 15 (12.40%) Python
2 7 (5.79%) SQL
3 3 (2.48%) Java
4 2 (1.65%) Bash
5 1 (0.83%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.83%) PHP
Qualifications
1 49 (40.50%) Degree
2 12 (9.92%) CIPD
3 6 (4.96%) Security Cleared
4 5 (4.13%) PMI Certification
5 4 (3.31%) PMP
5 4 (3.31%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.48%) ACCA
6 3 (2.48%) CIMA
7 2 (1.65%) IIBA
7 2 (1.65%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.96%) QA
2 4 (3.31%) PMO
3 3 (2.48%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.48%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.83%) GDPR
4 1 (0.83%) P3O
4 1 (0.83%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (3.31%) Docker
2 2 (1.65%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (2.48%) Terraform
2 1 (0.83%) Grafana
2 1 (0.83%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (3.31%) Anaplan
1 4 (3.31%) Genesys
1 4 (3.31%) ServiceNow
1 4 (3.31%) Verint
2 3 (2.48%) BMC
2 3 (2.48%) Workday
3 2 (1.65%) HubSpot
3 2 (1.65%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.65%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.83%) Alteryx
4 1 (0.83%) Databricks
4 1 (0.83%) Dataiku