Decision-Making Jobs in the North of England

Decision-Making
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Decision-Making skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Decision-Making over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 47 37
Rank change year-on-year -50 -10 +51
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 394 733 1,185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.40% 4.05% 7.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.61% 4.94% 7.37%
Number of salaries quoted 185 553 233
10th Percentile £34,853 £30,125 £34,145
25th Percentile £40,500 £38,084 £41,227
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,528 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.74% -3.69% +7.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,968 £67,978
90th Percentile £84,000 £83,759 £81,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,913 14,844 16,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 94.30% 81.98% 96.68%
Number of salaries quoted 5,415 11,360 7,881
10th Percentile £25,250 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Decision-Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in the North of England

Decision-Making
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in the North of England.

Salary trend for Decision-Making in the North of England

Decision-Making
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in the North of England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Decision-Making in the North of England

Decision-Making
Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 28 May 2025. 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
North West -55 271 £55,500 +11.00% 352
Yorkshire -4 117 £56,250 +2.27% 171
North East -20 6 £39,100 -13.59% 68
Decision-Making
England

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 35 (8.88%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.27%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.02%) Apache
3 4 (1.02%) IBM Domino
4 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.51%) CMS
5 2 (0.51%) Confluence
6 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.25%) SAS
6 1 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 51 (12.94%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (8.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.52%) SPSS
5 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.25%) GNU Octave
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 34 (8.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.52%) Infor LN
2 6 (1.52%) SAP BPC
3 3 (0.76%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 42 (10.66%) Azure
2 36 (9.14%) Power Platform
3 24 (6.09%) AWS
4 17 (4.31%) GCP
5 10 (2.54%) SaaS
6 6 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (1.52%) Serverless
7 5 (1.27%) Amazon S3
7 5 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.27%) Google Analytics
7 5 (1.27%) Snowflake
8 4 (1.02%) Cloud Composer
8 4 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (0.76%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (0.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (0.76%) OCI
9 3 (0.76%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 2 (0.51%) dbt
10 2 (0.51%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.52%) Firewall
1 6 (1.52%) Network Security
2 3 (0.76%) BGP
2 3 (0.76%) OSPF
2 3 (0.76%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.76%) VLAN
2 3 (0.76%) VPN
3 2 (0.51%) DNS
3 2 (0.51%) Unified Communications
3 2 (0.51%) VoIP
4 1 (0.25%) DHCP
4 1 (0.25%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.25%) Internet
4 1 (0.25%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.25%) MPLS
4 1 (0.25%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.88%) Power BI
2 29 (7.36%) Tableau
3 15 (3.81%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (1.78%) BigQuery
4 7 (1.78%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.52%) Looker
6 5 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (1.27%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.27%) GIS
6 5 (1.27%) Power Query
7 4 (1.02%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.02%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.76%) Data Hub
8 3 (0.76%) Metadata
9 2 (0.51%) Big Data
9 2 (0.51%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.51%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.25%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (2.03%) JIRA
2 6 (1.52%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (0.51%) Git
3 2 (0.51%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.25%) ESLint
4 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.25%) Storybook
4 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.25%) WaveMaker
4 1 (0.25%) webpack
General
1 201 (51.02%) Finance
2 168 (42.64%) Social Skills
3 123 (31.22%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (16.24%) Marketing
5 52 (13.20%) Legal
6 40 (10.15%) Electronics
7 36 (9.14%) Banking
8 23 (5.84%) Organisational Skills
9 17 (4.31%) Presentation Skills
10 16 (4.06%) Law
11 14 (3.55%) Retail
12 10 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (2.54%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (1.78%) Retail Banking
14 6 (1.52%) Police
15 5 (1.27%) Advertising
15 5 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (1.02%) German Language
16 4 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 75 (19.04%) Analyst
2 44 (11.17%) Senior
3 42 (10.66%) Lead
4 38 (9.64%) Customer Executive
5 28 (7.11%) Principal Engineer
5 28 (7.11%) Software Assurance Engineer
6 23 (5.84%) Financial Analyst
7 22 (5.58%) Administrator
8 16 (4.06%) Finance Systems Analyst
8 16 (4.06%) Product Manager
8 16 (4.06%) Systems Administrator
8 16 (4.06%) Systems Analyst
9 15 (3.81%) Architect
10 13 (3.30%) Developer
10 13 (3.30%) Vendor Manager
11 12 (3.05%) Risk Manager
11 12 (3.05%) Senior Electrical Engineer
12 11 (2.79%) Data Analyst
12 11 (2.79%) Data Engineer
13 9 (2.28%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.54%) .NET
2 8 (2.03%) .NET Core
3 7 (1.78%) Spring
3 7 (1.78%) Spring Boot
4 5 (1.27%) AngularJS
4 5 (1.27%) CSS
4 5 (1.27%) React
4 5 (1.27%) RESTful
5 4 (1.02%) ASP.NET
5 4 (1.02%) HTML
6 3 (0.76%) CSS3
6 3 (0.76%) HTML5
7 2 (0.51%) Hibernate
7 2 (0.51%) Next.js
8 1 (0.25%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.25%) JWT
8 1 (0.25%) MassTransit
8 1 (0.25%) Material-UI
8 1 (0.25%) MediatR
8 1 (0.25%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 38 (9.64%) Management Information System
2 25 (6.35%) Social Media
3 21 (5.33%) Product Ownership
4 15 (3.81%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (3.30%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (3.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 7 (1.78%) NHS
7 6 (1.52%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.52%) Mainframe
8 4 (1.02%) Digital Media
8 4 (1.02%) Hackathon
9 3 (0.76%) Data Centre
9 3 (0.76%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.76%) Pricing Data
9 3 (0.76%) Private Cloud
9 3 (0.76%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.51%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.51%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.51%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 27 (6.85%) Windows
2 17 (4.31%) Windows Vista
3 3 (0.76%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.51%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.25%) Android
5 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.25%) Unix
5 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (32.99%) Problem-Solving
2 104 (26.40%) Continuous Improvement
3 87 (22.08%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 77 (19.54%) Agile
5 65 (16.50%) Analytics
5 65 (16.50%) Business Intelligence
6 53 (13.45%) Process Improvement
7 52 (13.20%) Contract Negotiation
8 48 (12.18%) Business Development
9 46 (11.68%) ERP
10 43 (10.91%) Risk Management
11 41 (10.41%) Software Engineering
12 40 (10.15%) Budgeting
12 40 (10.15%) Visualisation
13 39 (9.90%) Actionable Insight
13 39 (9.90%) Stakeholder Management
14 35 (8.88%) Artificial Intelligence
14 35 (8.88%) Data Management
15 32 (8.12%) Financial Analysis
15 32 (8.12%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (9.90%) SQL
2 32 (8.12%) Python
3 13 (3.30%) JavaScript
4 11 (2.79%) C#
4 11 (2.79%) Java
5 4 (1.02%) PHP
6 3 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (0.76%) MATLAB
6 3 (0.76%) R
7 2 (0.51%) Bash
7 2 (0.51%) Go
7 2 (0.51%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.51%) VBA
8 1 (0.25%) ActionScript
8 1 (0.25%) C
8 1 (0.25%) C++
8 1 (0.25%) Lisp
8 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.25%) VB
8 1 (0.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 116 (29.44%) Degree
2 89 (22.59%) BPSS Clearance
3 46 (11.68%) ACCA
3 46 (11.68%) CIMA
4 33 (8.38%) Master's Degree
5 31 (7.87%) DBS Check
6 16 (4.06%) CCAB
7 13 (3.30%) CRISC
8 7 (1.78%) Security Cleared
9 5 (1.27%) SC Cleared
10 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.76%) PhD
11 3 (0.76%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.76%) PMP
12 2 (0.51%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.51%) CBAP
12 2 (0.51%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.25%) APMG
13 1 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (14.21%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.55%) COBIT
3 11 (2.79%) QA
4 9 (2.28%) GDPR
4 9 (2.28%) NIST
5 8 (2.03%) ITGC
6 7 (1.78%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.52%) GAAP
7 6 (1.52%) IFRS
7 6 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (1.02%) NCSC
9 3 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.51%) PMO
11 1 (0.25%) GRC
11 1 (0.25%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.25%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.25%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.25%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.25%) PERC
System Software
1 6 (1.52%) Docker
2 3 (0.76%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.25%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.27%) Ansible
1 5 (1.27%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.51%) Kibana
2 2 (0.51%) Terraform
3 1 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.25%) Grafana
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 49 (12.44%) SAP
2 45 (11.42%) Salesforce
3 36 (9.14%) Microsoft
4 17 (4.31%) Google
5 12 (3.05%) Oracle
6 10 (2.54%) Cognos
7 7 (1.78%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.52%) Infor
8 6 (1.52%) Symantec
8 6 (1.52%) VMware
9 5 (1.27%) Broadcom
10 3 (0.76%) Planview
11 2 (0.51%) Cisco
11 2 (0.51%) Databricks
11 2 (0.51%) Hotjar
11 2 (0.51%) HubSpot
12 1 (0.25%) IBM
12 1 (0.25%) Informatica
12 1 (0.25%) McAfee
12 1 (0.25%) Samsung