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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 56 51
Rank change year-on-year +24 -5 0
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 113 17 73
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 4.32% 2.19% 3.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.98% 2.60% 4.31%
Number of salaries quoted 77 7 64
10th Percentile £38,250 - £29,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £24,500 £35,069
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £29,000 £45,249
Median % change year-on-year +115.52% -35.91% -13.81%
75th Percentile £76,250 £62,075 £68,454
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,711 £75,650
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £54,995
% change year-on-year - +9.10% -7.61%

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 1,889 655 1,695
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 72.29% 84.41% 82.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,420 413 1,331
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £28,188 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 5 July 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 5 July 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 +11 76 £60,000 +140.00% 35
Durham +8 37 £72,539 -10.31% 8
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 7 (6.19%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.77%) Apache
2 2 (1.77%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.77%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.88%) Confluence
3 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 21 (18.58%) AWS
2 12 (10.62%) Azure
3 6 (5.31%) GCP
4 5 (4.42%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.65%) Amazon S3
5 3 (2.65%) SaaS
6 2 (1.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (1.77%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.77%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (1.77%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (1.77%) dbt
6 2 (1.77%) Google Analytics
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.88%) Dagster
7 1 (0.88%) Datadog
7 1 (0.88%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (0.88%) PaaS
7 1 (0.88%) Serverless
7 1 (0.88%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.19%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (5.31%) Big Data
3 5 (4.42%) Power BI
4 4 (3.54%) Tableau
5 2 (1.77%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.77%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.77%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.77%) Looker
5 2 (1.77%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.88%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.88%) Data Hub
6 1 (0.88%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.88%) Metadata
6 1 (0.88%) MySQL
6 1 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (4.42%) Git
2 2 (1.77%) GitLab
2 2 (1.77%) MLflow
3 1 (0.88%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.88%) JIRA
3 1 (0.88%) JMeter
3 1 (0.88%) Locust
General
1 44 (38.94%) Social Skills
2 34 (30.09%) Marketing
3 32 (28.32%) Manufacturing
4 27 (23.89%) Public Sector
5 20 (17.70%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (17.70%) Finance
6 14 (12.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (7.08%) Legal
8 5 (4.42%) Tech for Good
9 4 (3.54%) Electronics
10 3 (2.65%) Banking
10 3 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.77%) Retail
11 2 (1.77%) Wearables
12 1 (0.88%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 35 (30.97%) Development Manager
2 33 (29.20%) Product Manager
3 32 (28.32%) Product Development Manager
4 12 (10.62%) Senior
5 11 (9.73%) Lead
6 9 (7.96%) Data Engineer
7 8 (7.08%) Analyst
7 8 (7.08%) Architect
8 7 (6.19%) Accountant
9 6 (5.31%) Business Analyst
9 6 (5.31%) Developer
9 6 (5.31%) Digital Transformation
9 6 (5.31%) Senior Architect
10 5 (4.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 5 (4.42%) Senior Technical Architect
10 5 (4.42%) Technical Architect
11 4 (3.54%) Senior Manager
11 4 (3.54%) Systems Accountant
12 3 (2.65%) Business Manager
12 3 (2.65%) Sales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.31%) LangChain
2 4 (3.54%) LlamaIndex
3 2 (1.77%) Node.js
3 2 (1.77%) PySpark
3 2 (1.77%) React
3 2 (1.77%) React Native
3 2 (1.77%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.88%) CSS
4 1 (0.88%) Flask
4 1 (0.88%) Gherkin
4 1 (0.88%) HTML
4 1 (0.88%) Laravel
4 1 (0.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 32 (28.32%) FMCG
2 8 (7.08%) Cloud Native
3 7 (6.19%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.42%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.54%) AI Agents
5 4 (3.54%) Hedge funds
5 4 (3.54%) Life Science
6 2 (1.77%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.77%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.77%) PropTech
6 2 (1.77%) Raspberry Pi
6 2 (1.77%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.88%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.88%) PMI
7 1 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (51.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 40 (35.40%) Project Delivery
3 35 (30.97%) Community of Practice
4 34 (30.09%) Project Management
5 32 (28.32%) Chemistry
5 32 (28.32%) Commercialisation
6 26 (23.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 23 (20.35%) Mentoring
8 22 (19.47%) Agile
9 16 (14.16%) Data Pipeline
9 16 (14.16%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (13.27%) AI
10 15 (13.27%) Analytics
11 13 (11.50%) Coaching
11 13 (11.50%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (9.73%) Machine Learning
12 11 (9.73%) Roadmaps
13 10 (8.85%) CI/CD
13 10 (8.85%) Data Modelling
13 10 (8.85%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 21 (18.58%) Python
2 14 (12.39%) SQL
3 3 (2.65%) Java
4 2 (1.77%) Bash
5 1 (0.88%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.88%) PHP
Qualifications
1 40 (35.40%) Degree
2 8 (7.08%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.31%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.65%) ACCA
4 3 (2.65%) CIMA
5 2 (1.77%) IIBA
5 2 (1.77%) Postgraduate
5 2 (1.77%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.88%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.31%) Data Quality
1 6 (5.31%) QA
2 3 (2.65%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.65%) GDPR
3 2 (1.77%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.77%) PMO
4 1 (0.88%) P3O
4 1 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (4.42%) Docker
2 4 (3.54%) Firmware
3 2 (1.77%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (2.65%) Terraform
2 2 (1.77%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.88%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (3.54%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.65%) BMC
2 3 (2.65%) Workday
3 2 (1.77%) Google
3 2 (1.77%) HubSpot
3 2 (1.77%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.88%) Alteryx
4 1 (0.88%) Databricks
4 1 (0.88%) Dataiku