Decision-Making Jobs in the South East

Decision-Making
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 65 35 76
Rank change year-on-year -30 +41 -25
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 387 933 532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 4.09% 5.39% 3.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.44% 6.44% 3.98%
Number of salaries quoted 147 450 184
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,378 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £46,651 £55,525
Median % change year-on-year +23.26% -15.98% -7.46%
75th Percentile £73,833 £63,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £71,550 £90,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,709 14,487 13,371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 92.03% 83.62% 94.47%
Number of salaries quoted 4,196 10,016 7,809
10th Percentile £29,500 £27,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in the South East

Decision-Making
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in the South East.

Salary trend for Decision-Making in the South East

Decision-Making
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in the South East over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Decision-Making in the South East

Decision-Making
Job Locations in the South 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 South East 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
Thames Valley -39 142 £65,000 +44.44% 185
Berkshire +14 110 £60,000 +14.18% 106
Hampshire +53 105 £52,500 -4.55% 107
Surrey -31 55 £58,856 +28.50% 64
Isle of Wight - 30 £60,000 -
Kent +20 25 £37,500 -47.55% 32
Buckinghamshire -66 19 £73,833 +64.07% 37
Middlesex -26 14 - - 12
Oxfordshire -2 13 £66,250 +76.67% 65
East Sussex +1 10 £53,750 -2.27% 30
West Sussex +32 7 £54,500 +28.24% 46
Decision-Making
England

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 15 (3.88%) Apache Spark
2 7 (1.81%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.78%) Confluence
3 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.52%) Apache
4 2 (0.52%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 38 (9.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (5.17%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (2.07%) Infor LN
1 8 (2.07%) SAP BPC
2 5 (1.29%) Dynamics GP
3 4 (1.03%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.26%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 59 (15.25%) Azure
2 56 (14.47%) Power Platform
3 26 (6.72%) AWS
4 15 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (3.62%) SaaS
6 12 (3.10%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (2.33%) GCP
8 5 (1.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (1.29%) PowerApps
9 4 (1.03%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (0.78%) Amazon S3
10 3 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (0.78%) Entra ID
10 3 (0.78%) OneDrive
10 3 (0.78%) Power Automate
10 3 (0.78%) Snowflake
11 2 (0.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (0.52%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (0.52%) Asana
11 2 (0.52%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.29%) Firewall
1 5 (1.29%) Network Security
2 4 (1.03%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (1.03%) VPN
3 2 (0.52%) SCCP
4 1 (0.26%) ADSL2
4 1 (0.26%) Broadband
4 1 (0.26%) DHCP
4 1 (0.26%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.26%) Intranet
4 1 (0.26%) SAN
4 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (13.70%) Power BI
2 23 (5.94%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (5.68%) Tableau
4 21 (5.43%) Data Lake
5 15 (3.88%) Big Data
6 13 (3.36%) Hadoop
6 13 (3.36%) NoSQL
7 9 (2.33%) SQL Server
8 8 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (2.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.03%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.78%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.78%) Electronic Patient Records
10 3 (0.78%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.52%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.52%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 9 (2.33%) JIRA
2 8 (2.07%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (1.03%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.78%) Git
5 2 (0.52%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (0.52%) DbUnit
5 2 (0.52%) jMock
5 2 (0.52%) JUnit
5 2 (0.52%) Maven
5 2 (0.52%) MLflow
5 2 (0.52%) Mockito
5 2 (0.52%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.26%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.26%) ERwin
General
1 137 (35.40%) Social Skills
2 112 (28.94%) Finance
3 109 (28.17%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (18.60%) Electronics
5 64 (16.54%) Law
6 57 (14.73%) Marketing
7 33 (8.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (5.17%) Manufacturing
9 18 (4.65%) Automotive
9 18 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
9 18 (4.65%) Telecoms
10 14 (3.62%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (3.62%) Public Sector
11 12 (3.10%) Legal
12 9 (2.33%) Local Government
13 8 (2.07%) Aerospace
13 8 (2.07%) Police
13 8 (2.07%) Retail
14 7 (1.81%) Advertising
14 7 (1.81%) Games
Job Titles
1 68 (17.57%) Senior
2 59 (15.25%) Lead
3 52 (13.44%) Analyst
4 48 (12.40%) Principal Engineer
5 46 (11.89%) Software Assurance Engineer
6 25 (6.46%) Data Analytics Director
6 25 (6.46%) Financial Analyst
7 22 (5.68%) Head of Analytics
8 20 (5.17%) Senior Electrical Engineer
9 18 (4.65%) Head of AI
10 14 (3.62%) Product Manager
11 13 (3.36%) Business Analyst
12 12 (3.10%) IT Manager
12 12 (3.10%) Marketing Manager
12 12 (3.10%) Product Marketing Manager
13 11 (2.84%) Data Engineer
13 11 (2.84%) Finance Business Analyst
14 10 (2.58%) Project Analyst
14 10 (2.58%) Sales Executive
15 9 (2.33%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.36%) Kafka
2 6 (1.55%) .NET
2 6 (1.55%) REST
3 5 (1.29%) Pandas
3 5 (1.29%) XML
4 4 (1.03%) CSS
4 4 (1.03%) HTML
5 3 (0.78%) AngularJS
5 3 (0.78%) HTML5 Canvas
5 3 (0.78%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (0.78%) NumPy
5 3 (0.78%) PyTorch
5 3 (0.78%) React
5 3 (0.78%) scikit-learn
5 3 (0.78%) TensorFlow
6 2 (0.52%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (0.52%) Hibernate
6 2 (0.52%) JPA
6 2 (0.52%) RESTful
6 2 (0.52%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 38 (9.82%) Management Information System
2 18 (4.65%) FMCG
3 16 (4.13%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.10%) Social Media
5 10 (2.58%) Cloud Native
6 8 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (1.81%) Algorithms
7 7 (1.81%) Housing Association
8 5 (1.29%) CMDB
8 5 (1.29%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.29%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.03%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.03%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.03%) Renewable Energy
9 4 (1.03%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.03%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.78%) Learning Management System
10 3 (0.78%) NHS
10 3 (0.78%) PACS
11 2 (0.52%) CESG
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.29%) Windows
1 5 (1.29%) Windows Server
2 3 (0.78%) Linux
3 1 (0.26%) Unix
3 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (32.04%) Analytics
2 111 (28.68%) Problem-Solving
3 93 (24.03%) Business Intelligence
4 81 (20.93%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 66 (17.05%) Roadmaps
6 64 (16.54%) Artificial Intelligence
6 64 (16.54%) Data Governance
7 58 (14.99%) Software Engineering
8 52 (13.44%) Continuous Improvement
9 51 (13.18%) Agile
9 51 (13.18%) Machine Learning
10 50 (12.92%) Systems Engineering
11 46 (11.89%) Actionable Insight
11 46 (11.89%) Data Modelling
11 46 (11.89%) Software Assurance
11 46 (11.89%) Stakeholder Management
12 39 (10.08%) Visualisation
13 38 (9.82%) Data Science
13 38 (9.82%) Data Strategy
14 36 (9.30%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 54 (13.95%) SQL
2 28 (7.24%) Python
3 14 (3.62%) Java
4 9 (2.33%) R
5 8 (2.07%) Scala
6 6 (1.55%) C#
6 6 (1.55%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.29%) C++
8 4 (1.03%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.78%) Bash
9 3 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.78%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.26%) Fortran
10 1 (0.26%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.26%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 144 (37.21%) Degree
2 86 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
3 47 (12.14%) Master's Degree
4 31 (8.01%) Security Cleared
5 24 (6.20%) SC Cleared
6 23 (5.94%) DV Cleared
7 20 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (4.65%) Azure Certification
9 10 (2.58%) ACCA
9 10 (2.58%) CIMA
9 10 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (2.33%) AWS Certification
11 7 (1.81%) MRICS
12 6 (1.55%) CISSP
12 6 (1.55%) PhD
13 5 (1.29%) PMI Certification
14 4 (1.03%) CESG Certified Professional
14 4 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (1.03%) PMP
14 4 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.94%) Accessibility
2 16 (4.13%) GDPR
3 15 (3.88%) Data Quality
4 13 (3.36%) QA
5 9 (2.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 8 (2.07%) GAAP
6 8 (2.07%) IFRS
7 6 (1.55%) SLA
8 4 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.03%) GMP
9 3 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.52%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.52%) NIST
11 1 (0.26%) COBIT
11 1 (0.26%) GRC
11 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 1 (0.26%) PMO
11 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (1.55%) Docker
2 5 (1.29%) Hyper-V
2 5 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.78%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.78%) Firmware
3 3 (0.78%) HDFS
4 1 (0.26%) Postfix
4 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.26%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 5 (1.29%) FortiGate
2 4 (1.03%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.52%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.26%) Grafana
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.26%) PaperCut
4 1 (0.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 67 (17.31%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.98%) Salesforce
3 26 (6.72%) SAP
4 12 (3.10%) Google
5 11 (2.84%) Oracle
6 10 (2.58%) Anaplan
7 9 (2.33%) Cognos
8 8 (2.07%) Infor
9 7 (1.81%) Databricks
9 7 (1.81%) VMware
10 6 (1.55%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.29%) Fortinet
11 5 (1.29%) Workday
12 4 (1.03%) Cisco
12 4 (1.03%) Informatica
13 3 (0.78%) Dell
14 2 (0.52%) Atlassian
14 2 (0.52%) HubSpot
14 2 (0.52%) Jaspersoft
15 1 (0.26%) Meraki