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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 24 61
Rank change year-on-year -7 +37 -29
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 149 61 33
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 4.48% 6.48% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.32% 8.09% 2.96%
Number of salaries quoted 126 8 15
10th Percentile £35,000 - £35,092
25th Percentile £42,500 £24,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £76,109 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.73% +50.71% +18.82%
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £58,747
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,533 £67,180
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £56,282
% change year-on-year - +6.61% -6.20%

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 2,357 754 1,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 70.89% 80.13% 78.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,743 480 662
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,087 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £28,235 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.26%

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 September 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 September 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 +16 127 £55,000 +120.00% 94
Durham -16 20 £42,000 -47.50% 14
Northumberland - 2 £55,000 - 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 9 (6.04%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (4.03%) Confluence
3 5 (3.36%) Apache
3 5 (3.36%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.01%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.01%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.34%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 16 (10.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.36%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.34%) CATIA
3 2 (1.34%) Siemens NX
3 2 (1.34%) SOLIDWORKS
4 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.36%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.67%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 39 (26.17%) AWS
2 19 (12.75%) Azure
3 12 (8.05%) Power Platform
4 11 (7.38%) GCP
5 10 (6.71%) SaaS
6 8 (5.37%) Amazon S3
6 8 (5.37%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (5.37%) Google Analytics
6 8 (5.37%) Serverless
7 7 (4.70%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (4.03%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (3.36%) Amazon EMR
9 5 (3.36%) Google Tag Manager
10 3 (2.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (2.01%) Amazon ECR
11 2 (1.34%) dbt
11 2 (1.34%) Google Workspace
11 2 (1.34%) OneDrive
12 1 (0.67%) Datadog
12 1 (0.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.68%) Broadband
2 1 (0.67%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.72%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (8.05%) Power BI
3 8 (5.37%) Looker
4 7 (4.70%) Big Data
5 6 (4.03%) Metadata
6 5 (3.36%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (3.36%) BigQuery
7 4 (2.68%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.68%) Tableau
8 3 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (2.01%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.01%) Spark SQL
8 3 (2.01%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.34%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.67%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.67%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.67%) Metadata Repository
10 1 (0.67%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 9 (6.04%) Git
2 6 (4.03%) JIRA
3 3 (2.01%) GitLab
4 2 (1.34%) MLflow
5 1 (0.67%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.67%) JMeter
5 1 (0.67%) Locust
General
1 77 (51.68%) Social Skills
2 45 (30.20%) Public Sector
3 37 (24.83%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (18.12%) Finance
5 20 (13.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (10.07%) Manufacturing
7 14 (9.40%) Legal
8 13 (8.72%) Marketing
9 11 (7.38%) Electronics
10 8 (5.37%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (5.37%) Retail
10 8 (5.37%) Tech for Good
11 6 (4.03%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (2.68%) Banking
12 4 (2.68%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.34%) Financial Institution
13 2 (1.34%) Law
13 2 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.34%) Wearables
14 1 (0.67%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 27 (18.12%) Lead
1 27 (18.12%) Senior
2 18 (12.08%) Architect
2 18 (12.08%) Data Engineer
3 16 (10.74%) Analyst
4 10 (6.71%) Business Analyst
4 10 (6.71%) Senior Architect
5 9 (6.04%) Sales Executive
5 9 (6.04%) Software Manager
5 9 (6.04%) Software Team Leader
5 9 (6.04%) Team Leader
5 9 (6.04%) Technical Architect
6 8 (5.37%) Developer
6 8 (5.37%) Senior Technical Architect
7 7 (4.70%) Enterprise Architect
7 7 (4.70%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (4.03%) Development Manager
8 6 (4.03%) Digital Transformation
8 6 (4.03%) Senior Business Analyst
9 5 (3.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.70%) .NET
1 7 (4.70%) CSS
1 7 (4.70%) HTML
2 6 (4.03%) LangChain
2 6 (4.03%) PySpark
3 4 (2.68%) Flask
3 4 (2.68%) LlamaIndex
3 4 (2.68%) Terraform
4 3 (2.01%) React
5 2 (1.34%) Node.js
5 2 (1.34%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.34%) React Native
5 2 (1.34%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.67%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.67%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.67%) REST
6 1 (0.67%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.40%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (8.05%) Cloud Native
3 10 (6.71%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (4.70%) Web Conferencing
5 6 (4.03%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (4.03%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.36%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.36%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.68%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.68%) Life Science
7 4 (2.68%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (2.01%) FMCG
8 3 (2.01%) Hedge funds
8 3 (2.01%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.34%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (1.34%) Industry 4.0
9 2 (1.34%) IoT
9 2 (1.34%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.34%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (36.91%) Mentoring
2 46 (30.87%) Continuous Improvement
3 44 (29.53%) Agile
4 43 (28.86%) Coaching
5 40 (26.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 34 (22.82%) Analytics
7 33 (22.15%) Stakeholder Management
8 31 (20.81%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (16.11%) AI
10 23 (15.44%) CI/CD
11 22 (14.77%) Business Intelligence
12 21 (14.09%) Data Pipeline
13 19 (12.75%) Data Modelling
13 19 (12.75%) Roadmaps
14 18 (12.08%) Data Engineering
14 18 (12.08%) Project Delivery
14 18 (12.08%) Software Engineering
15 16 (10.74%) Machine Learning
15 16 (10.74%) Technical Leadership
15 16 (10.74%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 36 (24.16%) Python
2 34 (22.82%) SQL
3 11 (7.38%) JavaScript
4 7 (4.70%) C#
4 7 (4.70%) Java
5 3 (2.01%) Bash
5 3 (2.01%) C++
Qualifications
1 19 (12.75%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.74%) Degree
3 13 (8.72%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.36%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.36%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.68%) ACCA
5 4 (2.68%) CCA
5 4 (2.68%) CIMA
6 3 (2.01%) IIBA
7 2 (1.34%) CIPD
7 2 (1.34%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.34%) Postgraduate
7 2 (1.34%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.67%) CBAP
8 1 (0.67%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (12.75%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.04%) QA
3 7 (4.70%) GDPR
4 4 (2.68%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.01%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.67%) SLA
6 1 (0.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (7.38%) Firmware
2 9 (6.04%) Docker
2 9 (6.04%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (1.34%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.67%) Grafana
2 1 (0.67%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 15 (10.07%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.71%) Google
3 8 (5.37%) Salesforce
4 5 (3.36%) HubSpot
5 4 (2.68%) Workday
6 3 (2.01%) BMC
6 3 (2.01%) Oracle
7 2 (1.34%) Databricks
7 2 (1.34%) SAP
7 2 (1.34%) Siemens
8 1 (0.67%) Aderant
8 1 (0.67%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.67%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.67%) Apple
8 1 (0.67%) Dataiku
8 1 (0.67%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.67%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.67%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.67%) Splunk