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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 26 61
Rank change year-on-year -11 +35 -13
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 126 54 40
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 4.30% 6.05% 2.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.90% 7.35% 3.28%
Number of salaries quoted 105 8 28
10th Percentile £36,750 - £35,064
25th Percentile £42,500 £24,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,050 £56,075
Median % change year-on-year +0.79% +1.74% +4.33%
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £69,914
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,533 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 2,136 735 1,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 72.83% 82.40% 81.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,595 471 883
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £28,188 £35,710
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £46,968
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -4.19% -6.07%
75th Percentile £71,250 £61,875 £61,250
90th Percentile £91,375 £78,250 £71,991
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £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 11 August 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 11 August 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 +9 105 £57,500 +79.41% 62
Durham -18 21 £57,539 -28.86% 11
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 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.97%) Confluence
3 4 (3.17%) Apache
3 4 (3.17%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.59%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.59%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (8.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 33 (26.19%) AWS
2 16 (12.70%) Azure
3 10 (7.94%) GCP
3 10 (7.94%) Power Platform
4 9 (7.14%) SaaS
5 8 (6.35%) Google Analytics
6 7 (5.56%) Amazon S3
7 5 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (3.97%) Google Tag Manager
7 5 (3.97%) Serverless
8 4 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.59%) Amazon ECR
9 2 (1.59%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (1.59%) dbt
9 2 (1.59%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.59%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.79%) Dagster
10 1 (0.79%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.79%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.32%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (7.94%) Power BI
3 8 (6.35%) Looker
4 6 (4.76%) Big Data
5 5 (3.97%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (3.97%) BigQuery
5 5 (3.97%) Metadata
6 4 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.17%) Tableau
7 2 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.59%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.59%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.59%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.59%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.79%) Data Hub
8 1 (0.79%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.79%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (7.94%) Git
2 5 (3.97%) JIRA
3 2 (1.59%) GitLab
3 2 (1.59%) MLflow
4 1 (0.79%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.79%) JMeter
4 1 (0.79%) Locust
General
1 69 (54.76%) Social Skills
2 38 (30.16%) Public Sector
3 30 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (19.05%) Finance
5 19 (15.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (12.70%) Marketing
7 13 (10.32%) Manufacturing
8 11 (8.73%) Legal
9 8 (6.35%) Electronics
9 8 (6.35%) Tech for Good
10 6 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (4.76%) Retail
11 4 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (2.38%) Banking
13 2 (1.59%) Wearables
14 1 (0.79%) Social Housing
14 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (18.25%) Lead
2 21 (16.67%) Senior
3 15 (11.90%) Analyst
4 14 (11.11%) Architect
5 12 (9.52%) Development Manager
6 11 (8.73%) Data Engineer
7 10 (7.94%) Business Analyst
7 10 (7.94%) Product Manager
8 9 (7.14%) Product Development Manager
8 9 (7.14%) Senior Architect
8 9 (7.14%) Technical Architect
9 8 (6.35%) Developer
9 8 (6.35%) Senior Technical Architect
10 7 (5.56%) Accountant
11 6 (4.76%) Digital Transformation
11 6 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (4.76%) Software Manager
11 6 (4.76%) Software Team Leader
11 6 (4.76%) Team Leader
12 5 (3.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.56%) CSS
1 7 (5.56%) HTML
2 6 (4.76%) LangChain
3 4 (3.17%) Flask
3 4 (3.17%) LlamaIndex
4 3 (2.38%) .NET
5 2 (1.59%) Node.js
5 2 (1.59%) PySpark
5 2 (1.59%) React
5 2 (1.59%) React Native
5 2 (1.59%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.79%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.79%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.32%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (8.73%) Cloud Native
3 9 (7.14%) FMCG
4 6 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (3.97%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.97%) Web Conferencing
6 4 (3.17%) AI Agents
6 4 (3.17%) Hedge funds
6 4 (3.17%) Life Science
6 4 (3.17%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.59%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.59%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.59%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (1.59%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.59%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.59%) PropTech
8 2 (1.59%) Raspberry Pi
9 1 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (38.10%) Continuous Improvement
2 42 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 38 (30.16%) Agile
4 36 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 29 (23.02%) Coaching
6 28 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
7 23 (18.25%) Analytics
8 22 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (15.87%) Project Delivery
10 19 (15.08%) AI
11 18 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
12 17 (13.49%) CI/CD
12 17 (13.49%) Validation
13 16 (12.70%) Data Modelling
13 16 (12.70%) Machine Learning
13 16 (12.70%) Roadmaps
14 15 (11.90%) Software Engineering
15 14 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
15 14 (11.11%) Community of Practice
15 14 (11.11%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 31 (24.60%) Python
2 26 (20.63%) SQL
3 7 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.38%) C#
4 3 (2.38%) Java
5 2 (1.59%) Bash
6 1 (0.79%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (14.29%) Degree
2 15 (11.90%) Security Cleared
3 10 (7.94%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.97%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.97%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.38%) ACCA
5 3 (2.38%) CIMA
5 3 (2.38%) IIBA
6 2 (1.59%) CIPD
6 2 (1.59%) Postgraduate
6 2 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.79%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.79%) CBAP
7 1 (0.79%) CCA
7 1 (0.79%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.32%) Data Quality
2 9 (7.14%) QA
3 7 (5.56%) GDPR
4 3 (2.38%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.59%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.79%) SLA
6 1 (0.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (6.35%) Docker
1 8 (6.35%) Firmware
2 6 (4.76%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (2.38%) Terraform
2 2 (1.59%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.79%) Grafana
3 1 (0.79%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 12 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.94%) Google
3 4 (3.17%) HubSpot
4 3 (2.38%) BMC
4 3 (2.38%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.38%) Workday
5 1 (0.79%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.79%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.79%) Apple
5 1 (0.79%) Databricks
5 1 (0.79%) Dataiku
5 1 (0.79%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.79%) SolarWinds
5 1 (0.79%) Splunk