Decision-Making Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Decision-Making
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Decision-Making skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 60 47
Rank change year-on-year +24 -13 +22
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 23 17 23
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 3.15% 2.16% 2.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.37% 2.50% 3.39%
Number of salaries quoted 17 7 19
10th Percentile £25,705 £47,250 £32,600
25th Percentile £41,250 £50,372 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,623 £52,609 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.63% +9.60% -4.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,136 £60,678
90th Percentile £80,500 £86,200 £64,085
South East median annual salary £58,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +8.33% -4.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 526 681 679
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 71.96% 86.64% 88.18%
Number of salaries quoted 369 334 562
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,650 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £40,135
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,170 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,750 £80,875 £79,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Decision-Making relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Decision-Making job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Decision-Making
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Decision-Making.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Decision-Making

Decision-Making
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Decision-Making in Oxfordshire

Decision-Making
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Decision-Making within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
Oxford +15 10 £58,801 -23.63% 35
Abingdon - 3 £39,929 -
Banbury - 2 £68,750 - 2
Bicester - 1 - - 2
Kidlington - 1 £52,500 -
Wallingford - 1 £50,000 -
Decision-Making
South East

Decision-Making
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 2 (8.70%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (8.70%) CMS
1 2 (8.70%) SharePoint
1 2 (8.70%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) Power Platform
2 5 (21.74%) Azure
3 3 (13.04%) AWS
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Storage
4 2 (8.70%) dbt
4 2 (8.70%) Snowflake
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.35%) Azure AI
5 1 (4.35%) Copilot Studio
5 1 (4.35%) Fivetran
5 1 (4.35%) GCP
5 1 (4.35%) Google Ads
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (4.35%) Power Automate
5 1 (4.35%) PowerApps
5 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) Wireless
2 2 (8.70%) DHCP
2 2 (8.70%) DNS
2 2 (8.70%) Ethernet
2 2 (8.70%) Firewall
2 2 (8.70%) SSL
2 2 (8.70%) TCP/IP
2 2 (8.70%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Power BI
2 3 (13.04%) Tableau
3 2 (8.70%) Airbyte
3 2 (8.70%) Looker
3 2 (8.70%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (8.70%) Spark SQL
4 1 (4.35%) BigQuery
4 1 (4.35%) Data Hub
4 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.35%) Metadata
4 1 (4.35%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Git
General
1 12 (52.17%) Social Skills
2 8 (34.78%) Finance
3 6 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (17.39%) Marketing
5 3 (13.04%) Retail
6 2 (8.70%) Brand Awareness
6 2 (8.70%) Law
7 1 (4.35%) General Ledger
7 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
7 1 (4.35%) Police
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Senior
2 4 (17.39%) Data Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Accountant
3 3 (13.04%) Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Data Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Information Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Security Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Head of IT
4 2 (8.70%) Information Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Information Security Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Management Accountant
4 2 (8.70%) Security Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Data Coordinator
5 1 (4.35%) Data Insight Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Financial Accountant
5 1 (4.35%) Insight Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) Snowpark
1 2 (8.70%) Web Services
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (4.35%) React
2 1 (4.35%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (8.70%) Driving Licence
2 2 (8.70%) Fibre Optics
2 2 (8.70%) iPad
3 1 (4.35%) Low-Code
3 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.35%) NHS
3 1 (4.35%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Android
1 2 (8.70%) Apple iOS
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
1 2 (8.70%) Mac OS
1 2 (8.70%) Windows
1 2 (8.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (26.09%) Data Architecture
3 5 (21.74%) Actionable Insight
3 5 (21.74%) Agile
3 5 (21.74%) AI
3 5 (21.74%) CI/CD
3 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (17.39%) Analytics
4 4 (17.39%) Data Modelling
5 3 (13.04%) Business Strategy
5 3 (13.04%) Cloud Security
5 3 (13.04%) Dashboard Development
5 3 (13.04%) ETL
5 3 (13.04%) Information Security
5 3 (13.04%) Line Management
5 3 (13.04%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (8.70%) Budgeting
6 2 (8.70%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) SQL
2 8 (34.78%) Python
3 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
3 2 (8.70%) T-SQL
4 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.35%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) ACCA
1 4 (17.39%) CIMA
2 3 (13.04%) Degree
3 2 (8.70%) AAT
3 2 (8.70%) CISM
3 2 (8.70%) CISSP
3 2 (8.70%) DBS Check
3 2 (8.70%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (4.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (26.09%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.70%) GRC
3 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Databricks
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.70%) VMware
3 2 (8.70%) Xero
4 1 (4.35%) Google
4 1 (4.35%) OpenAI
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle