Data-Driven Decision Making Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data-Driven Decision Making
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data-Driven Decision Making skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data-Driven Decision Making over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 266 455 370
Rank change year-on-year +189 -85 +255
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 393 330 455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.00% 0.47% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 0.55% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 179 249 70
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,425
25th Percentile £48,750 £43,375 £44,653
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,550 £59,744
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% -12.04% +30.26%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,100 £85,000 £77,975
UK median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% -15.38% +18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data-Driven 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,661 59,520 56,714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.93% 83.89% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 17,979 41,130 29,107
10th Percentile £26,929 £27,218 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

Data-Driven Decision Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data-Driven Decision Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK excluding London

Data-Driven Decision Making
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK excluding London

Data-Driven Decision Making
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK excluding London

Data-Driven Decision Making
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
North of England +83 114 £57,500 +15.00% 97
South East +76 87 £57,500 +9.42% 168
North West +26 83 £65,000 +15.56% 62
Midlands +94 80 £57,500 +4.55% 59
West Midlands +80 62 £57,500 +4.55% 47
South West +130 45 £47,500 -24.00% 32
Scotland +108 42 £102,500 +85.11% 28
Yorkshire +83 27 £57,500 +15.00% 27
East of England +51 22 £53,471 +9.97% 34
East Midlands +39 18 £57,500 +15.00% 9
North East +42 4 £57,500 +15.00% 10
Wales +33 4 £80,000 +45.45% 5
Data-Driven Decision Making
UK

Data-Driven Decision Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 23 (5.85%) Jupyter
2 7 (1.78%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.53%) IBM Domino
4 5 (1.27%) Apache
5 2 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.51%) CMS
6 1 (0.25%) Drupal
6 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 87 (22.14%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (8.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.51%) Trello
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.25%) Notion
Business Applications
1 8 (2.04%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.25%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.25%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 68 (17.30%) Azure
2 65 (16.54%) Power Platform
3 28 (7.12%) AWS
4 16 (4.07%) Azure Data Factory
5 15 (3.82%) SaaS
6 12 (3.05%) GCP
7 10 (2.54%) Google Analytics
8 9 (2.29%) Miro
9 7 (1.78%) Snowflake
10 6 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (1.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (1.53%) Serverless
11 5 (1.27%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.27%) AWS IoT
11 5 (1.27%) Google Ads
12 4 (1.02%) Azure Stack
12 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (1.02%) Power Automate
13 3 (0.76%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.27%) LoRaWAN
1 5 (1.27%) SMS
2 4 (1.02%) Firewall
2 4 (1.02%) Internet
2 4 (1.02%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (1.02%) Network Security
2 4 (1.02%) VPN
2 4 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.25%) 5G
3 1 (0.25%) Broadband
3 1 (0.25%) Modbus
3 1 (0.25%) MQTT
3 1 (0.25%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (16.54%) Power BI
2 31 (7.89%) Big Data
3 30 (7.63%) SQL Server
4 25 (6.36%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (4.58%) Data Lake
6 11 (2.80%) Tableau
7 9 (2.29%) Data Hub
7 9 (2.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (1.27%) MS Access
8 5 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (1.02%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.02%) TimescaleDB
10 3 (0.76%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.76%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.76%) MySQL
11 2 (0.51%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.51%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.51%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (4.83%) JIRA
2 4 (1.02%) Visual Studio
3 3 (0.76%) ERwin
3 3 (0.76%) Git
4 2 (0.51%) JUnit
5 1 (0.25%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.25%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.25%) Selenium
5 1 (0.25%) TestNG
5 1 (0.25%) TestRail
5 1 (0.25%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 215 (54.71%) Social Skills
2 161 (40.97%) Finance
3 120 (30.53%) Marketing
4 109 (27.74%) Analytical Skills
5 78 (19.85%) Legal
6 50 (12.72%) Law
7 25 (6.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (5.09%) Banking
9 17 (4.33%) Manufacturing
9 17 (4.33%) Retail
10 8 (2.04%) Automotive
10 8 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.27%) Advertising
13 4 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.76%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.76%) Public Sector
15 2 (0.51%) Aviation
15 2 (0.51%) Billing
15 2 (0.51%) Games
Job Titles
1 70 (17.81%) Customer Executive
2 57 (14.50%) Senior
3 43 (10.94%) Lead
4 32 (8.14%) Innovation Manager
4 32 (8.14%) Product Manager
5 30 (7.63%) Developer
6 29 (7.38%) Data Scientist
7 23 (5.85%) Analyst
7 23 (5.85%) Senior Data Scientist
8 21 (5.34%) SQL Developer
9 17 (4.33%) Data Engineer
10 16 (4.07%) Data Analytics Director
10 16 (4.07%) Database Developer
10 16 (4.07%) SQL Database Developer
11 10 (2.54%) Product Owner
12 9 (2.29%) Data Manager
13 8 (2.04%) Agile Product Owner
14 7 (1.78%) Data Analyst
14 7 (1.78%) Marketing Executive
14 7 (1.78%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.53%) NestJS
1 6 (1.53%) React
1 6 (1.53%) RESTful
2 5 (1.27%) XML
3 4 (1.02%) CSS
3 4 (1.02%) Node.js
4 3 (0.76%) EDI
4 3 (0.76%) HTML
4 3 (0.76%) REST
5 2 (0.51%) Pyramid
5 2 (0.51%) React Native
6 1 (0.25%) D3.js
6 1 (0.25%) Highcharts JS
6 1 (0.25%) Kafka
6 1 (0.25%) PySpark
6 1 (0.25%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.25%) Spring
6 1 (0.25%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.25%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.25%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 41 (10.43%) Product Ownership
2 25 (6.36%) Algorithms
3 23 (5.85%) Cyberattack
4 16 (4.07%) FMCG
5 13 (3.31%) Analytical Mindset
6 11 (2.80%) IoT
7 8 (2.04%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.04%) Renewable Energy
7 8 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.78%) Social Media
9 5 (1.27%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.27%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.02%) Life Science
10 4 (1.02%) Replication
10 4 (1.02%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.76%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.76%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.02%) Windows
1 4 (1.02%) Windows Server
2 2 (0.51%) Linux
3 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (82.44%) Decision-Making
2 181 (46.06%) Analytics
3 127 (32.32%) Problem-Solving
4 114 (29.01%) Artificial Intelligence
5 108 (27.48%) Business Intelligence
6 84 (21.37%) Continuous Improvement
7 81 (20.61%) Visualisation
8 72 (18.32%) Business Development
8 72 (18.32%) Data Governance
9 70 (17.81%) Contract Negotiation
10 68 (17.30%) Machine Learning
11 63 (16.03%) Roadmaps
12 61 (15.52%) Agile
12 61 (15.52%) Stakeholder Management
13 60 (15.27%) Data Analysis
14 57 (14.50%) Mentoring
15 56 (14.25%) Data Science
16 51 (12.98%) Actionable Insight
17 49 (12.47%) Customer Experience
18 46 (11.70%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 71 (18.07%) SQL
2 50 (12.72%) Python
3 28 (7.12%) Java
3 28 (7.12%) JavaScript
4 25 (6.36%) T-SQL
5 6 (1.53%) R
5 6 (1.53%) TypeScript
6 4 (1.02%) PHP
7 3 (0.76%) VB
8 2 (0.51%) C#
8 2 (0.51%) Scala
9 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.25%) Elixir
9 1 (0.25%) Erlang
9 1 (0.25%) F#
9 1 (0.25%) Haskell
9 1 (0.25%) Lisp
9 1 (0.25%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.25%) VBA
9 1 (0.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 99 (25.19%) Degree
2 31 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (6.62%) Security Cleared
4 24 (6.11%) DV Cleared
5 21 (5.34%) DBS Check
6 10 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.53%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.76%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.76%) PMP
10 2 (0.51%) HND
10 2 (0.51%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.51%) SC Cleared
10 2 (0.51%) Tableau Certification
11 1 (0.25%) APMP
11 1 (0.25%) CSQE
11 1 (0.25%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.25%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.38%) Accessibility
2 26 (6.62%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.05%) GDPR
4 9 (2.29%) QA
5 4 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.51%) IEC 62304
7 2 (0.51%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.25%) NCSC
8 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (7.38%) Docker
2 4 (1.02%) Hyper-V
2 4 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.25%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (5.85%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.02%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 101 (25.70%) Salesforce
2 76 (19.34%) Microsoft
3 24 (6.11%) Google
4 15 (3.82%) SAP
5 12 (3.05%) Databricks
6 6 (1.53%) Informatica
7 4 (1.02%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.02%) VMware
8 3 (0.76%) HubSpot
8 3 (0.76%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.51%) Adobe
9 2 (0.51%) Hotjar
9 2 (0.51%) IBM
9 2 (0.51%) Oracle
9 2 (0.51%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.51%) Workday
9 2 (0.51%) Zoho
10 1 (0.25%) Cognos
10 1 (0.25%) EMC
10 1 (0.25%) Sybase