Decision-Making Jobs in the Thames Valley

Decision-Making
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 26 69
Rank change year-on-year -42 +43 -6
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 135 469 240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.00% 6.97% 3.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.26% 8.20% 4.17%
Number of salaries quoted 63 248 79
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 -
25th Percentile £54,122 £40,375 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £45,000 £51,350
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% -12.37% -26.64%
75th Percentile £82,500 £57,500 £63,125
90th Percentile £99,500 £70,250 £82,500
South East median annual salary £65,000 £47,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +36.84% -20.83% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,171 5,717 5,753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.93% 85.00% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,238 3,953 3,124
10th Percentile £28,750 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,283 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.57% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £56,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -9.09% -

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in the Thames Valley

Decision-Making
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Decision-Making in the Thames Valley

Decision-Making
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Decision-Making in the Thames Valley

Decision-Making
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Decision-Making within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 8 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
Berkshire +10 98 £70,000 +33.21% 107
Buckinghamshire -68 19 £73,833 +64.07% 39
Oxfordshire -9 18 £66,250 +76.67% 47
Decision-Making
South East

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 6 (4.44%) Apache Spark
1 6 (4.44%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.48%) Apache
2 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.48%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 13 (9.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.74%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.74%) Notion
4 1 (0.74%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.96%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (1.48%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 24 (17.78%) Azure
2 19 (14.07%) AWS
3 12 (8.89%) Power Platform
4 6 (4.44%) SaaS
5 5 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.48%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.48%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.48%) GCP
7 2 (1.48%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.74%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.74%) AWS KMS
8 1 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.74%) Miro
8 1 (0.74%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.74%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.74%) Serverless
8 1 (0.74%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.96%) Firewall
1 4 (2.96%) Intrusion Detection
1 4 (2.96%) Network Security
1 4 (2.96%) VPN
2 1 (0.74%) Broadband
2 1 (0.74%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.74%) SCCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.63%) Data Lake
2 12 (8.89%) Power BI
3 10 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (4.44%) Hadoop
5 4 (2.96%) Big Data
6 3 (2.22%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.48%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.48%) MySQL
7 2 (1.48%) Pinecone
7 2 (1.48%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.48%) Weaviate
8 1 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.74%) Impala
8 1 (0.74%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.74%) PowerCenter
8 1 (0.74%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (2.22%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.48%) Git
2 2 (1.48%) JIRA
2 2 (1.48%) MLflow
3 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (0.74%) DbUnit
3 1 (0.74%) ERwin
3 1 (0.74%) jMock
3 1 (0.74%) JUnit
3 1 (0.74%) Maven
3 1 (0.74%) Mockito
3 1 (0.74%) SonarQube
General
1 45 (33.33%) Law
2 42 (31.11%) Finance
2 42 (31.11%) Social Skills
3 31 (22.96%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (22.96%) Marketing
4 12 (8.89%) Manufacturing
5 10 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.67%) Telecoms
7 7 (5.19%) Local Government
7 7 (5.19%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (5.19%) Social Housing
8 6 (4.44%) Automotive
8 6 (4.44%) Retail
9 4 (2.96%) Aeronautics
9 4 (2.96%) Aerospace
10 3 (2.22%) Electronics
11 2 (1.48%) Legal
11 2 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (22.22%) Lead
2 20 (14.81%) Senior
3 18 (13.33%) Data Analytics Director
4 12 (8.89%) Analyst
5 11 (8.15%) Architect
6 8 (5.93%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 6 (4.44%) IT Manager
7 6 (4.44%) SAP Architect
7 6 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.70%) Sales Executive
8 5 (3.70%) SAP Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.70%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 4 (2.96%) Commercial Analyst
9 4 (2.96%) Data Scientist
9 4 (2.96%) Enterprise Architect
9 4 (2.96%) Financial Analyst
9 4 (2.96%) Infrastructure Manager
9 4 (2.96%) Product Manager
9 4 (2.96%) Project Analyst
9 4 (2.96%) QA Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.96%) Kafka
2 3 (2.22%) scikit-learn
2 3 (2.22%) TensorFlow
3 2 (1.48%) Leaflet
3 2 (1.48%) NumPy
3 2 (1.48%) Pandas
3 2 (1.48%) PyTorch
3 2 (1.48%) REST
4 1 (0.74%) .NET
4 1 (0.74%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.74%) Bootstrap
4 1 (0.74%) CSS
4 1 (0.74%) HTML
4 1 (0.74%) Laravel
4 1 (0.74%) PowerMock
4 1 (0.74%) React
4 1 (0.74%) Spring Batch
4 1 (0.74%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.74%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (0.74%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.59%) FMCG
2 14 (10.37%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.19%) Housing Association
3 7 (5.19%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.70%) Social Media
5 4 (2.96%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.96%) Operational Technology
5 4 (2.96%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.22%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.22%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.22%) PMI
7 2 (1.48%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.74%) CCTV
8 1 (0.74%) CESG
8 1 (0.74%) Clustering
8 1 (0.74%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.74%) EPoS
8 1 (0.74%) IoT
8 1 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.96%) Windows
1 4 (2.96%) Windows Server
2 2 (1.48%) Linux
3 1 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (42.96%) Analytics
2 54 (40.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 46 (34.07%) Machine Learning
4 43 (31.85%) Artificial Intelligence
5 41 (30.37%) Business Intelligence
6 36 (26.67%) Data Governance
7 31 (22.96%) Continuous Improvement
8 28 (20.74%) Business Strategy
9 27 (20.00%) Data Strategy
10 22 (16.30%) Actionable Insight
10 22 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (15.56%) Business Transformation
11 21 (15.56%) Data Science
12 20 (14.81%) Roadmaps
13 19 (14.07%) Strategic Planning
14 18 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
15 17 (12.59%) Data Analytics
16 16 (11.85%) Data Modelling
17 15 (11.11%) Product Management
18 14 (10.37%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (13.33%) Python
2 13 (9.63%) SQL
3 6 (4.44%) R
4 5 (3.70%) C++
5 4 (2.96%) Java
6 2 (1.48%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.48%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.74%) Fortran
7 1 (0.74%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (0.74%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.74%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.74%) Scala
7 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.74%) VB
7 1 (0.74%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 63 (46.67%) Degree
2 9 (6.67%) Master's Degree
3 7 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (5.19%) MRICS
3 7 (5.19%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.70%) PhD
4 5 (3.70%) SAP Certification
5 3 (2.22%) CESG Certified Professional
5 3 (2.22%) CISSP
5 3 (2.22%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.22%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.22%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.48%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.48%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.48%) CISMP
6 2 (1.48%) HND
7 1 (0.74%) HNC
7 1 (0.74%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 1 (0.74%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (17.04%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.70%) QA
3 4 (2.96%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.96%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.96%) GMP
4 3 (2.22%) GDPR
5 2 (1.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.48%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (2.96%) Docker
1 4 (2.96%) Hyper-V
1 4 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.22%) HDFS
3 2 (1.48%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.74%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (2.96%) FortiGate
2 3 (2.22%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.48%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.74%) Grafana
4 1 (0.74%) PaperCut
4 1 (0.74%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 21 (15.56%) SAP
3 17 (12.59%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.96%) Databricks
4 4 (2.96%) Fortinet
4 4 (2.96%) VMware
5 3 (2.22%) Google
6 2 (1.48%) Cisco
6 2 (1.48%) Workday
7 1 (0.74%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.74%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.74%) Concur
7 1 (0.74%) Informatica
7 1 (0.74%) Intapp
7 1 (0.74%) Jaspersoft
7 1 (0.74%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.74%) Oracle
7 1 (0.74%) ServiceNow