Decision-Making Job Trends in the South West

Decision-Making
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Decision-Making skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 51 79
Rank change year-on-year -9 +28 -14
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 133 180 170
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.62% 4.34% 3.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.65% 5.07% 4.00%
Number of salaries quoted 94 113 99
10th Percentile £30,575 £34,404 £37,050
25th Percentile £42,119 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £43,491 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.22% -27.52% +32.89%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,250 £81,250 £96,539
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -4.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,639 3,549 4,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.62% 85.58% 89.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,498 1,776 3,216
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,454 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,627
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Decision-Making job vacancy trend in the South West

Decision-Making
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Decision-Making.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Decision-Making

Decision-Making
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in the South West over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Decision-Making in the South West

Decision-Making
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 14 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
Bristol +13 63 £60,000 -11.11% 68
Devon -20 19 £47,500 +9.22% 50
Gloucestershire +21 14 £57,500 -16.67% 57
Somerset -24 14 £47,500 -38.71% 53
Wiltshire +7 13 £43,227 +8.07% 43
Dorset -6 6 £45,000 -17.34% 39
Cornwall -12 3 £55,000 +19.57%
Decision-Making
England

Decision-Making
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (3.01%) Confluence
2 2 (1.50%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (0.75%) SAS
Applications
1 24 (18.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.01%) AutoCAD
3 4 (3.01%) Fusion 360
4 2 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.50%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.75%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (2.26%) SAP APO
1 3 (2.26%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 43 (32.33%) Power Platform
2 25 (18.80%) Azure
3 11 (8.27%) AWS
4 5 (3.76%) Amazon S3
5 4 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (3.01%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (3.01%) Google Workspace
5 4 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (3.01%) Serverless
6 3 (2.26%) Amazon SageMaker
6 3 (2.26%) SaaS
6 3 (2.26%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.50%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.50%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (1.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (1.50%) Azure Stack
7 2 (1.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.50%) Intacct
8 1 (0.75%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.26%) Structured Cabling
1 3 (2.26%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.75%) Broadband
2 1 (0.75%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (31.58%) Power BI
2 12 (9.02%) SQL Server
3 11 (8.27%) Tableau
4 8 (6.02%) Power Query
5 5 (3.76%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (3.01%) Metadata
6 4 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.26%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.50%) Ataccama
8 2 (1.50%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.50%) OLAP
8 2 (1.50%) Oracle ODI
8 2 (1.50%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.50%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.75%) DB2
9 1 (0.75%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.75%) GIS
Development Applications
1 5 (3.76%) JIRA
2 2 (1.50%) DBeaver
2 2 (1.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 49 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 48 (36.09%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (24.81%) Finance
4 22 (16.54%) Manufacturing
5 11 (8.27%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (7.52%) Marketing
7 9 (6.77%) Retail
8 5 (3.76%) Banking
8 5 (3.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.76%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (3.76%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.76%) Public Sector
9 4 (3.01%) Dutch Language
9 4 (3.01%) Electronics
9 4 (3.01%) French Language
9 4 (3.01%) Spanish Language
10 3 (2.26%) Law
11 2 (1.50%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.50%) Games
11 2 (1.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (13.53%) Analyst
1 18 (13.53%) Senior
2 15 (11.28%) Architect
3 10 (7.52%) Sales Executive
4 9 (6.77%) Sales Manager
5 8 (6.02%) Support Supervisor
5 8 (6.02%) Technical Support
5 8 (6.02%) Technical Support Supervisor
6 7 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 7 (5.26%) Data Scientist
7 6 (4.51%) Data Engineer
7 6 (4.51%) Developer
7 6 (4.51%) Power BI Analyst
8 5 (3.76%) Financial Analyst
9 4 (3.01%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 4 (3.01%) Business Manager
9 4 (3.01%) IT Support
9 4 (3.01%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 4 (3.01%) Senior Developer
9 4 (3.01%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.01%) React
2 2 (1.50%) .NET
2 2 (1.50%) Spring
2 2 (1.50%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.75%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.75%) EDI
3 1 (0.75%) JSON
3 1 (0.75%) Keycloak
3 1 (0.75%) Middleware
3 1 (0.75%) NumPy
3 1 (0.75%) OAuth
3 1 (0.75%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.75%) Pandas
3 1 (0.75%) PySpark
3 1 (0.75%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.75%) RESTful
3 1 (0.75%) scikit-learn
3 1 (0.75%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.53%) Analytical Mindset
1 14 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (6.02%) GNSS
2 8 (6.02%) Satnav
3 5 (3.76%) Driving Licence
4 4 (3.01%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.01%) e-Learning
4 4 (3.01%) FMCG
4 4 (3.01%) IoT
4 4 (3.01%) Life Science
4 4 (3.01%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.26%) EPoS
6 2 (1.50%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.50%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.50%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.50%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.50%) PKI
6 2 (1.50%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.01%) Linux
1 4 (3.01%) Mac OS
1 4 (3.01%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (39.10%) Analytics
2 47 (35.34%) Business Intelligence
3 46 (34.59%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (27.07%) Continuous Improvement
5 25 (18.80%) AI
6 23 (17.29%) B2B
7 19 (14.29%) Roadmaps
8 18 (13.53%) Machine Learning
9 17 (12.78%) Visualisation
10 15 (11.28%) Actionable Insight
10 15 (11.28%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 15 (11.28%) Project Management
10 15 (11.28%) Test Automation
11 14 (10.53%) Agile
11 14 (10.53%) Process Improvement
12 13 (9.77%) Computer Science
12 13 (9.77%) Customer Service
12 13 (9.77%) Data Science
13 12 (9.02%) Collaborative Culture
13 12 (9.02%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 21 (15.79%) SQL
2 19 (14.29%) Python
3 10 (7.52%) R
4 6 (4.51%) Java
5 5 (3.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (2.26%) C#
6 3 (2.26%) C++
6 3 (2.26%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.75%) Go
7 1 (0.75%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.75%) Scala
7 1 (0.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 33 (24.81%) Degree
2 10 (7.52%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.02%) ACCA
3 8 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (5.26%) CIMA
5 6 (4.51%) SC Cleared
6 4 (3.01%) A+ Certification
6 4 (3.01%) CISM
6 4 (3.01%) CISSP
6 4 (3.01%) MCP
6 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.01%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (2.26%) PMI Certification
7 3 (2.26%) PMP
8 2 (1.50%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.50%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.50%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.75%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.02%) Data Quality
1 8 (6.02%) ISO 9001
2 5 (3.76%) GDPR
3 4 (3.01%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.01%) ISO 13485
4 3 (2.26%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.50%) GRC
5 2 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.50%) NCSC
5 2 (1.50%) NIST
5 2 (1.50%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.75%) GAAP
6 1 (0.75%) IFRS
6 1 (0.75%) ISO 19650
6 1 (0.75%) P3O
6 1 (0.75%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.01%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.75%) Control-M
2 1 (0.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (21.80%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.02%) Autodesk
3 4 (3.01%) SAP
4 3 (2.26%) Databricks
5 2 (1.50%) Anaplan
5 2 (1.50%) Genesys
5 2 (1.50%) Oracle
5 2 (1.50%) Sage
5 2 (1.50%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.50%) Verint
6 1 (0.75%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.75%) BMC
6 1 (0.75%) IBM
6 1 (0.75%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.75%) Talend
6 1 (0.75%) Teradata
6 1 (0.75%) TikTok
6 1 (0.75%) Ubiquiti