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 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 55 48
Rank change year-on-year +19 -7 +6
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 109 10 75
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 4.21% 1.37% 3.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.83% 1.61% 4.32%
Number of salaries quoted 73 7 66
10th Percentile £37,750 - £29,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £24,500 £35,023
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £29,000 £45,249
Median % change year-on-year +115.52% -35.91% -15.82%
75th Percentile £76,250 £62,075 £69,427
90th Percentile £86,250 £85,711 £74,750
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 1,869 621 1,736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 72.16% 84.95% 82.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,406 393 1,366
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 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £88,148 £76,852 £75,375
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 2 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 2 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 +10 73 £58,750 +135.00% 35
Durham +6 36 £75,000 -7.27% 8
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 7 (6.42%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.83%) Apache
2 2 (1.83%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.83%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.92%) Confluence
3 1 (0.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 19 (17.43%) AWS
2 10 (9.17%) Azure
3 6 (5.50%) GCP
4 3 (2.75%) Amazon S3
4 3 (2.75%) Power Platform
4 3 (2.75%) SaaS
5 2 (1.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (1.83%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (1.83%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (1.83%) dbt
5 2 (1.83%) Google Analytics
6 1 (0.92%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.92%) Dagster
6 1 (0.92%) Datadog
6 1 (0.92%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (0.92%) PaaS
6 1 (0.92%) Serverless
6 1 (0.92%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.50%) Big Data
2 5 (4.59%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.75%) Power BI
4 2 (1.83%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (1.83%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.83%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.83%) Looker
4 2 (1.83%) Tableau
5 1 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.92%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.92%) Data Hub
5 1 (0.92%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.92%) Metadata
5 1 (0.92%) MySQL
5 1 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (4.59%) Git
2 2 (1.83%) GitLab
2 2 (1.83%) MLflow
3 1 (0.92%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.92%) JIRA
3 1 (0.92%) JMeter
3 1 (0.92%) Locust
General
1 40 (36.70%) Social Skills
2 34 (31.19%) Marketing
3 32 (29.36%) Manufacturing
4 25 (22.94%) Public Sector
5 20 (18.35%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (18.35%) Finance
6 12 (11.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (5.50%) Legal
8 5 (4.59%) Tech for Good
9 4 (3.67%) Electronics
10 3 (2.75%) Banking
10 3 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.83%) Retail
11 2 (1.83%) Wearables
12 1 (0.92%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 35 (32.11%) Development Manager
2 33 (30.28%) Product Manager
3 32 (29.36%) Product Development Manager
4 11 (10.09%) Lead
5 10 (9.17%) Senior
6 8 (7.34%) Analyst
7 7 (6.42%) Accountant
7 7 (6.42%) Data Engineer
8 6 (5.50%) Architect
8 6 (5.50%) Business Analyst
8 6 (5.50%) Developer
8 6 (5.50%) Digital Transformation
9 5 (4.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 4 (3.67%) Senior Architect
10 4 (3.67%) Senior Manager
10 4 (3.67%) Systems Accountant
11 3 (2.75%) Business Development Manager
11 3 (2.75%) Sales Executive
11 3 (2.75%) Software Developer
11 3 (2.75%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.50%) LangChain
2 4 (3.67%) LlamaIndex
3 2 (1.83%) Node.js
3 2 (1.83%) PySpark
3 2 (1.83%) React
3 2 (1.83%) React Native
3 2 (1.83%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.92%) CSS
4 1 (0.92%) Flask
4 1 (0.92%) Gherkin
4 1 (0.92%) HTML
4 1 (0.92%) Laravel
4 1 (0.92%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 32 (29.36%) FMCG
2 7 (6.42%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.50%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.59%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.67%) AI Agents
5 4 (3.67%) Hedge funds
5 4 (3.67%) Life Science
6 2 (1.83%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.83%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.83%) PropTech
6 2 (1.83%) Raspberry Pi
6 2 (1.83%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.92%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.92%) PMI
7 1 (0.92%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (51.38%) Continuous Improvement
2 40 (36.70%) Project Delivery
3 35 (32.11%) Community of Practice
4 34 (31.19%) Project Management
5 32 (29.36%) Chemistry
5 32 (29.36%) Commercialisation
6 22 (20.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 21 (19.27%) Mentoring
8 20 (18.35%) Agile
9 16 (14.68%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (13.76%) AI
11 14 (12.84%) Data Pipeline
12 13 (11.93%) Analytics
12 13 (11.93%) Coaching
12 13 (11.93%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (10.09%) Machine Learning
13 11 (10.09%) Roadmaps
14 10 (9.17%) Validation
15 8 (7.34%) Business Analysis
15 8 (7.34%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (17.43%) Python
2 12 (11.01%) SQL
3 3 (2.75%) Java
4 2 (1.83%) Bash
5 1 (0.92%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.92%) PHP
Qualifications
1 40 (36.70%) Degree
2 8 (7.34%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.50%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.75%) ACCA
4 3 (2.75%) CIMA
5 2 (1.83%) IIBA
5 2 (1.83%) Postgraduate
5 2 (1.83%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.92%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.92%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.92%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.50%) Data Quality
1 6 (5.50%) QA
2 3 (2.75%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.75%) GDPR
3 2 (1.83%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.83%) PMO
4 1 (0.92%) P3O
4 1 (0.92%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (4.59%) Docker
2 4 (3.67%) Firmware
3 2 (1.83%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (2.75%) Terraform
2 2 (1.83%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.92%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (3.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.75%) BMC
2 3 (2.75%) Workday
3 2 (1.83%) Google
3 2 (1.83%) HubSpot
3 2 (1.83%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.92%) Alteryx
4 1 (0.92%) Databricks
4 1 (0.92%) Dataiku