Decision-Making Job Trends in Somerset

Decision-Making
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Decision-Making skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 26 39
Rank change year-on-year -21 +13 +31
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 14 21 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Somerset 2.54% 4.76% 2.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.29% 6.05% 2.78%
Number of salaries quoted 9 11 7
10th Percentile £37,085 - £36,200
25th Percentile £46,084 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £77,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -38.71% +55.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £107,000 - £71,500
South West median annual salary £47,500 £43,491 £59,556
% change year-on-year +9.22% -26.97% +31.91%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 426 347 324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 77.31% 78.68% 86.63%
Number of salaries quoted 194 125 259
10th Percentile £26,825 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £71,750 £83,500 £70,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +2.94%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Decision-Making job vacancy trend in Somerset

Decision-Making
Salary Trend in Somerset

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Decision-Making

Decision-Making
Salary Histogram in Somerset

Salary distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in Somerset over the 6 months to 16 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Decision-Making in Somerset

Decision-Making
Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Decision-Making within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 16 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
Bath -16 4 £100,000 +29.03% 40
Taunton -12 3 £52,712 -
Weston-super-Mare - 2 £45,000 - 1
Yeovil - 1 - - 1
Portishead - 1 £47,021 - 1
Bridgwater - 1 - - 2
Castle Cary - 1 - -
Decision-Making
South West

Decision-Making
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) AutoCAD
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Power BI
2 2 (14.29%) Tableau
3 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 7 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Marketing
3 3 (21.43%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Manufacturing
3 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Retail
5 1 (7.14%) Brand Awareness
5 1 (7.14%) Police
Job Titles
1 2 (14.29%) Analyst
1 2 (14.29%) Business Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Account Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Applications Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Business Development Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Development Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Head of Applications
2 1 (7.14%) Head of Technology
2 1 (7.14%) Insight Analyst
2 1 (7.14%) Insight Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Lead
2 1 (7.14%) Product Owner
2 1 (7.14%) Report Analyst
2 1 (7.14%) Senior
2 1 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (7.14%) Senior Insight Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Driving Licence
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (7.14%) Cybercrime
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.14%) FMCG
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (28.57%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 3 (21.43%) Analytical Thinking
3 3 (21.43%) Analytics
3 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (21.43%) Logistics
3 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
4 2 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (14.29%) Agile
4 2 (14.29%) Business Development
4 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (14.29%) Customer Engagement
4 2 (14.29%) Customer-Centricity
4 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (14.29%) Data Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (14.29%) Visualisation
5 1 (7.14%) Cyber Intelligence
5 1 (7.14%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 1 (7.14%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Python
1 3 (21.43%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) Go
2 1 (7.14%) R
2 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Databricks