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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 22 64
Rank change year-on-year -10 +42 -24
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 142 60 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 4.42% 6.55% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.19% 8.23% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 119 7 17
10th Percentile £35,000 - £35,092
25th Percentile £42,000 £24,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £75,000 £56,075
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +33.75% +9.41%
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £69,914
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,711 £74,300
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £56,075
% change year-on-year - +7.00% -6.54%

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 2,294 729 1,128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 71.46% 79.59% 78.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,702 460 741
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £28,188 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £44,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +24.29% -6.84% -5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £61,250 £62,200
90th Percentile £95,000 £74,332 £77,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 4 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 4 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 +18 121 £55,000 +120.00% 78
Durham -18 20 £42,000 -48.07% 16
Northumberland - 1 £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 10 (7.04%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (4.23%) Confluence
3 5 (3.52%) Apache
4 4 (2.82%) SharePoint
5 3 (2.11%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.11%) Jupyter
6 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 15 (10.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.52%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.70%) CATIA
3 1 (0.70%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.70%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 5 (3.52%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.70%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.70%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.70%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 39 (27.46%) AWS
2 18 (12.68%) Azure
3 11 (7.75%) GCP
3 11 (7.75%) Power Platform
4 9 (6.34%) SaaS
5 8 (5.63%) Amazon S3
5 8 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (5.63%) Google Analytics
5 8 (5.63%) Serverless
6 6 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (3.52%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (3.52%) Google Tag Manager
8 3 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.11%) Amazon ECR
9 2 (1.41%) dbt
9 2 (1.41%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.41%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.70%) Datadog
10 1 (0.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.82%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.15%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (7.75%) Power BI
3 8 (5.63%) Looker
4 7 (4.93%) Big Data
5 6 (4.23%) Metadata
6 5 (3.52%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (3.52%) BigQuery
7 4 (2.82%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.82%) Tableau
8 3 (2.11%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (2.11%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.11%) Spark SQL
9 2 (1.41%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.41%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.70%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.70%) Metadata Repository
10 1 (0.70%) MySQL
10 1 (0.70%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 10 (7.04%) Git
2 6 (4.23%) JIRA
3 3 (2.11%) GitLab
4 2 (1.41%) MLflow
5 1 (0.70%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.70%) JMeter
5 1 (0.70%) Locust
General
1 77 (54.23%) Social Skills
2 43 (30.28%) Public Sector
3 36 (25.35%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (18.31%) Finance
5 21 (14.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (9.86%) Legal
6 14 (9.86%) Manufacturing
7 13 (9.15%) Marketing
8 10 (7.04%) Electronics
9 8 (5.63%) Retail
9 8 (5.63%) Tech for Good
10 7 (4.93%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (4.23%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (2.82%) Banking
12 4 (2.82%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.41%) Financial Institution
13 2 (1.41%) Law
13 2 (1.41%) Wearables
14 1 (0.70%) Billing
14 1 (0.70%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 26 (18.31%) Lead
2 24 (16.90%) Senior
3 17 (11.97%) Architect
4 16 (11.27%) Analyst
4 16 (11.27%) Data Engineer
5 10 (7.04%) Business Analyst
5 10 (7.04%) Senior Architect
6 9 (6.34%) Technical Architect
7 8 (5.63%) Developer
7 8 (5.63%) Development Manager
7 8 (5.63%) Sales Executive
7 8 (5.63%) Senior Technical Architect
7 8 (5.63%) Software Manager
7 8 (5.63%) Software Team Leader
7 8 (5.63%) Team Leader
8 7 (4.93%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (4.23%) Digital Transformation
9 6 (4.23%) Enterprise Architect
9 6 (4.23%) Product Manager
9 6 (4.23%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.93%) CSS
1 7 (4.93%) HTML
2 6 (4.23%) .NET
2 6 (4.23%) LangChain
2 6 (4.23%) PySpark
3 4 (2.82%) Flask
3 4 (2.82%) LlamaIndex
3 4 (2.82%) Terraform
4 2 (1.41%) Node.js
4 2 (1.41%) React
4 2 (1.41%) React Native
4 2 (1.41%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.70%) Gherkin
5 1 (0.70%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.86%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (8.45%) Cloud Native
3 10 (7.04%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (4.23%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.23%) Web Conferencing
5 5 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.52%) FMCG
6 4 (2.82%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.82%) Hedge funds
6 4 (2.82%) Life Science
6 4 (2.82%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.82%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (2.11%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.41%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.41%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.41%) PropTech
8 2 (1.41%) Raspberry Pi
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (35.21%) Mentoring
2 46 (32.39%) Continuous Improvement
3 45 (31.69%) Agile
4 39 (27.46%) Coaching
4 39 (27.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 32 (22.54%) Stakeholder Management
6 30 (21.13%) Analytics
7 27 (19.01%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (15.49%) AI
8 22 (15.49%) CI/CD
9 20 (14.08%) Data Pipeline
10 19 (13.38%) Business Intelligence
10 19 (13.38%) Data Modelling
11 18 (12.68%) Project Delivery
11 18 (12.68%) Roadmaps
12 17 (11.97%) Software Engineering
12 17 (11.97%) Validation
13 16 (11.27%) Data Engineering
13 16 (11.27%) Machine Learning
14 14 (9.86%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 33 (23.24%) Python
2 32 (22.54%) SQL
3 10 (7.04%) JavaScript
4 7 (4.93%) Java
5 6 (4.23%) C#
6 3 (2.11%) Bash
6 3 (2.11%) C++
7 1 (0.70%) PHP
Qualifications
1 17 (11.97%) Security Cleared
2 16 (11.27%) Degree
3 11 (7.75%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.52%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.82%) CCA
6 3 (2.11%) ACCA
6 3 (2.11%) CIMA
6 3 (2.11%) IIBA
7 2 (1.41%) CIPD
7 2 (1.41%) Postgraduate
7 2 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.70%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.70%) CBAP
8 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.70%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.38%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.04%) QA
3 7 (4.93%) GDPR
4 4 (2.82%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.11%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.70%) SLA
6 1 (0.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (7.04%) Firmware
2 9 (6.34%) Docker
3 8 (5.63%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (1.41%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.70%) Grafana
2 1 (0.70%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 15 (10.56%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.04%) Google
3 7 (4.93%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.82%) HubSpot
4 4 (2.82%) Workday
5 3 (2.11%) BMC
6 2 (1.41%) Databricks
6 2 (1.41%) SAP
7 1 (0.70%) Aderant
7 1 (0.70%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.70%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.70%) Apple
7 1 (0.70%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.70%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.70%) Oracle
7 1 (0.70%) Siemens
7 1 (0.70%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.70%) Splunk