Decision-Making Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Decision-Making
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Decision-Making skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 38 28
Rank change year-on-year +14 -10 +31
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 242 201 295
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 6.00% 5.94% 7.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.46% 6.47% 8.30%
Number of salaries quoted 105 72 100
10th Percentile £31,750 £41,263 £37,267
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £42,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £59,385 £55,050
Median % change year-on-year +5.25% +7.87% -11.92%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,125 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £90,000 £87,500
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
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 3,244 3,105 3,553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 80.48% 91.76% 89.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,761 1,382 2,457
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,500 £45,000 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £83,750
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 the Thames Valley

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

Decision-Making job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Decision-Making
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Decision-Making.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Decision-Making

Decision-Making
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

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 13 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
Berkshire +12 152 £65,000 +9.94% 222
Buckinghamshire +7 67 £53,750 -27.20% 58
Oxfordshire +28 23 £56,623 +7.63% 41
Decision-Making
South East

Decision-Making
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 7 (2.89%) SugarCRM
2 2 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.83%) CMS
2 2 (0.83%) Confluence
2 2 (0.83%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.83%) WordPress
Applications
1 46 (19.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (10.33%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (5.79%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (2.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 45 (18.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.48%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.41%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 72 (29.75%) Power Platform
2 43 (17.77%) SaaS
3 23 (9.50%) Azure
4 18 (7.44%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (3.72%) AWS
6 8 (3.31%) Power Automate
7 5 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.24%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (1.24%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (1.24%) GCP
9 2 (0.83%) Azure Storage
9 2 (0.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (0.83%) dbt
9 2 (0.83%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.83%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.41%) Azure AI
10 1 (0.41%) Copilot Studio
10 1 (0.41%) Fivetran
10 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.07%) Wireless
2 2 (0.83%) 5G
2 2 (0.83%) 802.11
2 2 (0.83%) DHCP
2 2 (0.83%) DNS
2 2 (0.83%) Ethernet
2 2 (0.83%) Firewall
2 2 (0.83%) Internet
2 2 (0.83%) LAN
2 2 (0.83%) Network Security
2 2 (0.83%) SSL
2 2 (0.83%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.83%) VLAN
2 2 (0.83%) VoIP
2 2 (0.83%) WAN
2 2 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.83%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (28.10%) Power BI
2 18 (7.44%) Data Lake
3 17 (7.02%) Metadata
4 13 (5.37%) Tableau
5 8 (3.31%) Power Query
6 7 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (2.89%) PowerPivot
7 6 (2.48%) SAP BW
8 5 (2.07%) Qlik Sense
9 2 (0.83%) Airbyte
9 2 (0.83%) Big Data
9 2 (0.83%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (0.83%) Looker
9 2 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.83%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (0.83%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.41%) Data Hub
10 1 (0.41%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (4.55%) JIRA
2 5 (2.07%) Git
3 3 (1.24%) MLflow
General
1 153 (63.22%) Social Skills
2 152 (62.81%) Finance
3 82 (33.88%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (12.81%) Marketing
5 27 (11.16%) Influencing Skills
6 24 (9.92%) Manufacturing
7 16 (6.61%) Presentation Skills
8 15 (6.20%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (5.79%) Pharmaceutical
10 12 (4.96%) Retail
11 7 (2.89%) Advertising
12 5 (2.07%) Electronics
12 5 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.65%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.83%) Brand Awareness
14 2 (0.83%) Games
14 2 (0.83%) Law
15 1 (0.41%) Health Technology
15 1 (0.41%) Italian Language
15 1 (0.41%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 66 (27.27%) Analyst
2 32 (13.22%) Senior
3 31 (12.81%) Financial Analyst
4 30 (12.40%) Data Analyst
4 30 (12.40%) Lead
5 20 (8.26%) Senior Manager
6 15 (6.20%) Development Manager
7 14 (5.79%) Development Project Manager
7 14 (5.79%) Project Manager
7 14 (5.79%) Senior Development Manager
7 14 (5.79%) Senior Project Manager
8 12 (4.96%) Commercial Analyst
8 12 (4.96%) Commercial Data Analyst
8 12 (4.96%) Procurement Analyst
8 12 (4.96%) Supply Chain Analyst
9 11 (4.55%) Developer
9 11 (4.55%) Sales Executive
10 10 (4.13%) Account Manager
11 9 (3.72%) Report Analyst
12 8 (3.31%) Sales Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.13%) FHIR
2 6 (2.48%) SAP CO-PA
3 4 (1.65%) React
4 3 (1.24%) Keras
4 3 (1.24%) scikit-learn
4 3 (1.24%) TensorFlow
5 2 (0.83%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.83%) Next.js
5 2 (0.83%) Node.js
5 2 (0.83%) RESTful
5 2 (0.83%) Snowpark
5 2 (0.83%) Web Services
6 1 (0.41%) .NET
6 1 (0.41%) CSS
6 1 (0.41%) Express.js
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.41%) REST
6 1 (0.41%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (0.41%) Spring
6 1 (0.41%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.44%) Management Information System
2 16 (6.61%) Analytical Mindset
2 16 (6.61%) Onboarding
3 13 (5.37%) Life Science
4 12 (4.96%) FMCG
5 10 (4.13%) Algorithms
5 10 (4.13%) Omics
6 7 (2.89%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.24%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.24%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.83%) BYOD
8 2 (0.83%) CCTV
8 2 (0.83%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (0.83%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.83%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (0.83%) IoT
8 2 (0.83%) iPad
8 2 (0.83%) NHS
8 2 (0.83%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.41%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.83%) Android
1 2 (0.83%) Apple iOS
1 2 (0.83%) Linux
1 2 (0.83%) Mac OS
1 2 (0.83%) Windows
1 2 (0.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (28.93%) ERP
2 69 (28.51%) Analytics
2 69 (28.51%) Business Intelligence
3 58 (23.97%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 41 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (16.12%) Business Case
5 39 (16.12%) Financial Modelling
5 39 (16.12%) Resource Allocation
5 39 (16.12%) Trade-off Analysis
6 38 (15.70%) AI
7 35 (14.46%) Computer Science
8 33 (13.64%) Machine Learning
9 32 (13.22%) Data Governance
10 30 (12.40%) Agile
11 27 (11.16%) Budgeting and Forecasting
11 27 (11.16%) Visualisation
12 26 (10.74%) ETL
13 25 (10.33%) Financial Analysis
14 24 (9.92%) Budgeting
14 24 (9.92%) Hematology
Programming Languages
1 44 (18.18%) SQL
2 28 (11.57%) Python
3 14 (5.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 13 (5.37%) VBA
5 3 (1.24%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.83%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.83%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.83%) R
6 2 (0.83%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.41%) Go
7 1 (0.41%) Java
7 1 (0.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 119 (49.17%) Degree
2 42 (17.36%) CIMA
2 42 (17.36%) Master's Degree
3 41 (16.94%) ACCA
4 39 (16.12%) MBA
5 14 (5.79%) PMI Certification
5 14 (5.79%) PMP
6 10 (4.13%) PhD
7 8 (3.31%) CISM
8 7 (2.89%) HNC
9 5 (2.07%) AAT
10 4 (1.65%) CISA
10 4 (1.65%) CISSP
10 4 (1.65%) DBS Check
10 4 (1.65%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 4 (1.65%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.83%) Security Cleared
12 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.92%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.79%) Accessibility
3 10 (4.13%) CDISC
3 10 (4.13%) GxP
3 10 (4.13%) HL7
4 7 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.65%) GRC
5 4 (1.65%) PMO
6 3 (1.24%) QA
7 2 (0.83%) GDPR
7 2 (0.83%) NCSC
8 1 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.41%) IFRS
System Software
1 4 (1.65%) Docker
2 2 (0.83%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (2.07%) Terraform
2 1 (0.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 75 (30.99%) SAP
2 41 (16.94%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.72%) Salesforce
4 6 (2.48%) BMC
4 6 (2.48%) Databricks
4 6 (2.48%) HubSpot
4 6 (2.48%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.83%) Cognos
5 2 (0.83%) Ruckus Wireless
5 2 (0.83%) VMware
5 2 (0.83%) Xero
6 1 (0.41%) Google
6 1 (0.41%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle