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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 27 65
Rank change year-on-year -3 +38 -35
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 192 61 28
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 5.32% 6.22% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.46% 7.55% 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 150 8 7
10th Percentile £35,000 - £33,655
25th Percentile £42,692 £24,500 £41,921
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £76,109 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.73% +50.71% +25.01%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £58,974
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,533 £69,020
England median annual salary £58,015 £60,000 £59,125
% change year-on-year -3.31% +1.48% +1.94%

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 2,574 808 1,063
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 71.32% 82.45% 79.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,912 499 538
10th Percentile £32,750 £25,086 £25,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £28,250 £35,023
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 +20 156 £55,000 +120.00% 59
Durham -10 30 £42,000 -47.50%
Northumberland - 5 £67,500 - 2
Cleveland - 1 £54,000 -
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 8 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.13%) Confluence
3 5 (2.60%) Apache
3 5 (2.60%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.56%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.56%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.04%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.52%) WebLogic
Applications
1 19 (9.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.60%) MS Visio
4 4 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.04%) CATIA
5 2 (1.04%) Siemens NX
5 2 (1.04%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (2.60%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (1.04%) iTrent
3 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.52%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 43 (22.40%) AWS
2 23 (11.98%) Azure
3 16 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 13 (6.77%) GCP
5 10 (5.21%) SaaS
6 9 (4.69%) Google Analytics
7 8 (4.17%) Amazon S3
7 8 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (4.17%) Serverless
8 7 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (2.60%) Amazon EMR
10 5 (2.60%) Google Tag Manager
11 3 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.56%) Amazon ECR
11 3 (1.56%) Snowflake
12 2 (1.04%) dbt
12 2 (1.04%) Google Workspace
12 2 (1.04%) OneDrive
13 1 (0.52%) n8n
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.08%) Broadband
2 3 (1.56%) LAN
2 3 (1.56%) WAN
3 1 (0.52%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.33%) Power BI
2 13 (6.77%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (4.69%) Looker
4 7 (3.65%) BigQuery
5 6 (3.13%) Big Data
5 6 (3.13%) Metadata
6 5 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (2.08%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.56%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.56%) Spark SQL
8 3 (1.56%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.56%) Tableau
9 2 (1.04%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.52%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.52%) Metadata Repository
10 1 (0.52%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 11 (5.73%) Git
2 6 (3.13%) JIRA
3 3 (1.56%) GitLab
4 2 (1.04%) MLflow
General
1 98 (51.04%) Social Skills
2 53 (27.60%) Public Sector
3 49 (25.52%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (20.31%) Finance
5 25 (13.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (13.02%) Manufacturing
6 18 (9.38%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (7.29%) Electronics
8 13 (6.77%) Legal
9 11 (5.73%) Marketing
10 9 (4.69%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (4.69%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (4.69%) Retail
11 6 (3.13%) Tech for Good
12 5 (2.60%) Telecoms
13 4 (2.08%) Banking
14 2 (1.04%) Advertising
14 2 (1.04%) Financial Institution
14 2 (1.04%) Law
14 2 (1.04%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 38 (19.79%) Senior
2 30 (15.63%) Lead
3 23 (11.98%) Data Engineer
4 22 (11.46%) Analyst
5 20 (10.42%) Architect
6 15 (7.81%) Developer
7 12 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
8 11 (5.73%) Senior Architect
9 10 (5.21%) Business Analyst
9 10 (5.21%) Sales Executive
9 10 (5.21%) Software Manager
9 10 (5.21%) Software Team Leader
9 10 (5.21%) Team Leader
9 10 (5.21%) Technical Architect
10 9 (4.69%) Service Manager
11 8 (4.17%) Business Manager
11 8 (4.17%) Senior Technical Architect
12 7 (3.65%) Enterprise Architect
12 7 (3.65%) MI Developer
12 7 (3.65%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.17%) .NET
2 7 (3.65%) CSS
2 7 (3.65%) HTML
3 6 (3.13%) LangChain
3 6 (3.13%) PySpark
4 4 (2.08%) Flask
4 4 (2.08%) LlamaIndex
5 3 (1.56%) React
5 3 (1.56%) Terraform
6 2 (1.04%) Node.js
6 2 (1.04%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.04%) React Native
6 2 (1.04%) REST
6 2 (1.04%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.52%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.52%) Spring
7 1 (0.52%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.52%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.29%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (6.77%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.77%) Onboarding
3 12 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 11 (5.73%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (4.17%) Web Conferencing
6 7 (3.65%) Product Ownership
7 6 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.60%) Driving Licence
9 4 (2.08%) AI Agents
9 4 (2.08%) CCTV
9 4 (2.08%) Life Science
9 4 (2.08%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (1.56%) Hedge funds
10 3 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.56%) Marketing Technology
11 2 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (1.04%) Industry 4.0
11 2 (1.04%) PropTech
11 2 (1.04%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (31.77%) Mentoring
2 56 (29.17%) Continuous Improvement
3 51 (26.56%) Coaching
4 48 (25.00%) Agile
4 48 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 41 (21.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 39 (20.31%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (19.79%) Analytics
8 31 (16.15%) Roadmaps
9 29 (15.10%) AI
10 26 (13.54%) Business Intelligence
11 25 (13.02%) Data Engineering
11 25 (13.02%) Data Pipeline
12 23 (11.98%) CI/CD
12 23 (11.98%) Project Delivery
13 21 (10.94%) Business Strategy
13 21 (10.94%) Technical Leadership
14 20 (10.42%) Data Modelling
15 19 (9.90%) Software Engineering
16 18 (9.38%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 43 (22.40%) SQL
2 39 (20.31%) Python
3 11 (5.73%) JavaScript
4 8 (4.17%) C#
5 7 (3.65%) Java
6 3 (1.56%) Bash
6 3 (1.56%) C++
7 1 (0.52%) R
Qualifications
1 24 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 23 (11.98%) Degree
3 19 (9.90%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.17%) ACCA
4 8 (4.17%) CIMA
5 7 (3.65%) CIPD
6 6 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.60%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.08%) CCA
9 2 (1.04%) IIBA
9 2 (1.04%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.04%) Postgraduate
9 2 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.52%) CBAP
10 1 (0.52%) HNC
10 1 (0.52%) HND
10 1 (0.52%) MRICS
10 1 (0.52%) NVQ Level 3
10 1 (0.52%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.46%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.69%) GDPR
2 9 (4.69%) QA
3 4 (2.08%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.08%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.04%) PMO
5 1 (0.52%) GMP
5 1 (0.52%) SLA
5 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (6.25%) Firmware
2 10 (5.21%) Embedded Firmware
3 9 (4.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.04%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 18 (9.38%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.73%) Google
3 8 (4.17%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.60%) HubSpot
4 5 (2.60%) YouTube
5 4 (2.08%) Databricks
5 4 (2.08%) Oracle
6 3 (1.56%) Workday
7 2 (1.04%) BMC
7 2 (1.04%) SAP
7 2 (1.04%) Siemens
8 1 (0.52%) Aderant
8 1 (0.52%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.52%) Apple
8 1 (0.52%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.52%) Pega
8 1 (0.52%) Sage
8 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.52%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.52%) Splunk