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

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 62 46
Rank change year-on-year +30 -16 -4
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 107 6 81
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 4.62% 0.90% 3.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.46% 1.01% 4.64%
Number of salaries quoted 60 3 74
10th Percentile £38,750 £30,610 £29,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £33,775 £33,674
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 £69,427
90th Percentile £78,325 £77,251 £79,405
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 1,656 597 1,746
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 71.44% 89.91% 83.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,215 346 1,402
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £28,625 £35,092
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +1.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £69,446 £65,375 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £74,258 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -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 8 June 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 8 June 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 62 £57,500 +68.87% 37
Durham +22 45 £75,000 -8.27% 10
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 (4.67%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.87%) Apache
2 2 (1.87%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.87%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.93%) Confluence
3 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.74%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 16 (14.95%) AWS
2 10 (9.35%) Azure
3 5 (4.67%) GCP
3 5 (4.67%) Power Platform
4 3 (2.80%) SaaS
5 2 (1.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (1.87%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (1.87%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (1.87%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (1.87%) Amazon S3
5 2 (1.87%) dbt
6 1 (0.93%) Dagster
6 1 (0.93%) Datadog
6 1 (0.93%) Google Analytics
6 1 (0.93%) PaaS
6 1 (0.93%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.67%) Big Data
1 5 (4.67%) Power BI
2 4 (3.74%) Tableau
3 3 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (1.87%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.87%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.93%) Data Hub
5 1 (0.93%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.93%) Looker
5 1 (0.93%) MySQL
5 1 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (2.80%) Git
2 2 (1.87%) GitLab
2 2 (1.87%) MLflow
3 1 (0.93%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.93%) JIRA
3 1 (0.93%) JMeter
3 1 (0.93%) Locust
General
1 41 (38.32%) Manufacturing
2 37 (34.58%) Marketing
3 31 (28.97%) Social Skills
4 22 (20.56%) Public Sector
5 18 (16.82%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (13.08%) Finance
7 9 (8.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (5.61%) Legal
9 5 (4.67%) Tech for Good
10 3 (2.80%) Banking
11 2 (1.87%) Electronics
11 2 (1.87%) Games
11 2 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.87%) Retail
11 2 (1.87%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 44 (41.12%) Development Manager
2 36 (33.64%) Product Manager
3 35 (32.71%) Product Development Manager
4 11 (10.28%) Senior
5 8 (7.48%) Analyst
5 8 (7.48%) Developer
6 7 (6.54%) Accountant
7 6 (5.61%) Architect
7 6 (5.61%) Business Analyst
7 6 (5.61%) Digital Transformation
7 6 (5.61%) Lead
7 6 (5.61%) Senior Manager
8 5 (4.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 5 (4.67%) Senior Architect
8 5 (4.67%) Software Developer
9 4 (3.74%) Data Engineer
9 4 (3.74%) Systems Accountant
10 3 (2.80%) Business Development Manager
10 3 (2.80%) Senior Technical Architect
10 3 (2.80%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.61%) LangChain
2 4 (3.74%) LlamaIndex
3 2 (1.87%) Node.js
3 2 (1.87%) PySpark
3 2 (1.87%) React
3 2 (1.87%) React Native
3 2 (1.87%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.93%) CSS
4 1 (0.93%) Flask
4 1 (0.93%) Gherkin
4 1 (0.93%) HTML
4 1 (0.93%) Laravel
4 1 (0.93%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 35 (32.71%) FMCG
2 7 (6.54%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.61%) Learning Management System
4 5 (4.67%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.67%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.74%) AI Agents
5 4 (3.74%) Life Science
6 2 (1.87%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.87%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.87%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.87%) PropTech
6 2 (1.87%) Raspberry Pi
6 2 (1.87%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.93%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.93%) PMI
7 1 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (53.27%) Continuous Improvement
2 41 (38.32%) Project Delivery
3 39 (36.45%) Project Management
4 38 (35.51%) Community of Practice
5 35 (32.71%) Chemistry
5 35 (32.71%) Commercialisation
6 19 (17.76%) Agile
6 19 (17.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 16 (14.95%) Mentoring
8 15 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (12.15%) AI
10 12 (11.21%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (9.35%) Data Pipeline
11 10 (9.35%) Validation
12 9 (8.41%) Actionable Insight
12 9 (8.41%) Coaching
12 9 (8.41%) Process Improvement
13 8 (7.48%) Analytics
13 8 (7.48%) Business Analysis
13 8 (7.48%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 15 (14.02%) Python
2 8 (7.48%) SQL
3 3 (2.80%) Java
4 2 (1.87%) Bash
5 1 (0.93%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.93%) PHP
Qualifications
1 40 (37.38%) Degree
2 6 (5.61%) CIPD
2 6 (5.61%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.74%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.80%) ACCA
4 3 (2.80%) CIMA
4 3 (2.80%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.87%) IIBA
5 2 (1.87%) PMP
5 2 (1.87%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.61%) QA
2 3 (2.80%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.80%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.87%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.87%) PMO
4 1 (0.93%) GDPR
4 1 (0.93%) P3O
4 1 (0.93%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (3.74%) Docker
2 2 (1.87%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (2.80%) Terraform
2 1 (0.93%) Grafana
2 1 (0.93%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (2.80%) BMC
1 3 (2.80%) Workday
2 2 (1.87%) Anaplan
2 2 (1.87%) Genesys
2 2 (1.87%) HubSpot
2 2 (1.87%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.87%) Salesforce
2 2 (1.87%) ServiceNow
2 2 (1.87%) Verint
3 1 (0.93%) Alteryx
3 1 (0.93%) Databricks
3 1 (0.93%) Dataiku
3 1 (0.93%) Google