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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 270 449 402
Rank change year-on-year +179 -47 +230
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 382 347 428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.98% 0.47% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 0.57% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 161 259 75
10th Percentile £40,931 £36,250 £36,204
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,500 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,550 £57,654
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% -8.85% +24.71%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £71,875
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £76,650
UK median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +6.19%

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 36,163 61,036 55,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.74% 82.48% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 17,188 42,006 28,807
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,336 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 29 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 29 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 +69 111 £57,500 +15.00% 94
South East +65 84 £64,000 +21.79% 80
North West +26 81 £67,500 +28.57% 55
Midlands +85 78 £57,500 +4.55% 69
West Midlands +71 57 £57,500 +4.55% 56
South West +135 44 £47,500 -22.45% 24
Scotland +119 40 £82,500 +48.99% 19
Yorkshire +73 27 £57,500 +15.00% 30
East of England +49 22 £48,971 +0.71% 34
East Midlands +44 21 £57,500 +15.00% 10
Wales +40 4 £80,000 +45.45% 8
North East +42 3 £57,500 +15.00% 10
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 (6.02%) Jupyter
2 7 (1.83%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.31%) Apache
4 4 (1.05%) IBM Domino
5 2 (0.52%) CMS
6 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.26%) Drupal
6 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 86 (22.51%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (7.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (2.09%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.26%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 69 (18.06%) Azure
2 67 (17.54%) Power Platform
3 29 (7.59%) AWS
4 18 (4.71%) SaaS
5 17 (4.45%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (2.62%) GCP
6 10 (2.62%) Google Analytics
7 8 (2.09%) Miro
8 7 (1.83%) Snowflake
9 6 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (1.57%) Serverless
10 5 (1.31%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.31%) AWS IoT
10 5 (1.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (1.31%) Google Ads
11 4 (1.05%) Azure Stack
11 4 (1.05%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (0.79%) Amazon SageMaker
13 2 (0.52%) AWS Fargate
13 2 (0.52%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.31%) LoRaWAN
1 5 (1.31%) SMS
2 4 (1.05%) Firewall
2 4 (1.05%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (1.05%) Network Security
2 4 (1.05%) VPN
2 4 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (0.79%) Internet
4 1 (0.26%) 5G
4 1 (0.26%) Broadband
4 1 (0.26%) LTE
4 1 (0.26%) Modbus
4 1 (0.26%) MQTT
4 1 (0.26%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (17.54%) Power BI
2 34 (8.90%) SQL Server
3 30 (7.85%) Big Data
4 26 (6.81%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (4.45%) Data Lake
6 12 (3.14%) Tableau
7 11 (2.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (2.36%) Data Hub
9 6 (1.57%) MS Access
9 6 (1.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.31%) NoSQL
11 4 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.05%) MySQL
11 4 (1.05%) TimescaleDB
12 3 (0.79%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.79%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.52%) Metadata
13 2 (0.52%) Relational Database
13 2 (0.52%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 15 (3.93%) JIRA
2 5 (1.31%) Visual Studio
3 3 (0.79%) ERwin
3 3 (0.79%) Git
4 1 (0.26%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.26%) JUnit
4 1 (0.26%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 205 (53.66%) Social Skills
2 164 (42.93%) Finance
3 121 (31.68%) Marketing
4 110 (28.80%) Analytical Skills
5 78 (20.42%) Legal
6 52 (13.61%) Law
7 26 (6.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (5.76%) Banking
9 19 (4.97%) Manufacturing
10 17 (4.45%) Retail
11 10 (2.62%) Automotive
12 9 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.31%) Advertising
15 4 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (0.79%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.79%) Health Technology
17 2 (0.52%) Billing
17 2 (0.52%) Brand Awareness
18 1 (0.26%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 70 (18.32%) Customer Executive
2 57 (14.92%) Senior
3 41 (10.73%) Lead
4 32 (8.38%) Innovation Manager
5 29 (7.59%) Developer
5 29 (7.59%) Product Manager
6 28 (7.33%) Data Scientist
7 24 (6.28%) Analyst
8 23 (6.02%) Senior Data Scientist
9 22 (5.76%) SQL Developer
10 18 (4.71%) Data Engineer
11 16 (4.19%) Data Analytics Director
11 16 (4.19%) Database Developer
11 16 (4.19%) SQL Database Developer
12 10 (2.62%) Marketing Manager
13 9 (2.36%) Data Manager
14 8 (2.09%) Agile Product Owner
14 8 (2.09%) Product Marketing Manager
14 8 (2.09%) Product Owner
15 7 (1.83%) Marketing Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.57%) NestJS
1 6 (1.57%) React
1 6 (1.57%) RESTful
2 4 (1.05%) CSS
2 4 (1.05%) Node.js
2 4 (1.05%) XML
3 3 (0.79%) EDI
3 3 (0.79%) HTML
3 3 (0.79%) REST
4 2 (0.52%) Pyramid
4 2 (0.52%) React Native
5 1 (0.26%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.26%) D3.js
5 1 (0.26%) Highcharts JS
5 1 (0.26%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (0.26%) Next.js
5 1 (0.26%) PySpark
5 1 (0.26%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.26%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (0.26%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 39 (10.21%) Product Ownership
2 24 (6.28%) Algorithms
3 23 (6.02%) Cyberattack
4 16 (4.19%) FMCG
5 13 (3.40%) Analytical Mindset
6 11 (2.88%) IoT
7 10 (2.62%) Social Media
8 9 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (2.09%) Renewable Energy
10 7 (1.83%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.83%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.31%) Operational Technology
11 5 (1.31%) Replication
12 4 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.05%) Life Science
12 4 (1.05%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.79%) Data Centre
13 3 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (0.79%) Private Cloud
13 3 (0.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.05%) Windows
1 4 (1.05%) Windows Server
2 2 (0.52%) Linux
3 1 (0.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (83.77%) Decision-Making
2 182 (47.64%) Analytics
3 119 (31.15%) Problem-Solving
4 113 (29.58%) Artificial Intelligence
5 109 (28.53%) Business Intelligence
6 82 (21.47%) Visualisation
7 80 (20.94%) Continuous Improvement
8 72 (18.85%) Business Development
9 70 (18.32%) Contract Negotiation
10 68 (17.80%) Data Governance
11 63 (16.49%) Machine Learning
12 61 (15.97%) Stakeholder Management
13 58 (15.18%) Mentoring
14 57 (14.92%) Roadmaps
15 55 (14.40%) Data Analysis
16 53 (13.87%) Agile
16 53 (13.87%) Data Science
17 50 (13.09%) Customer Experience
18 45 (11.78%) Computer Science
19 44 (11.52%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 72 (18.85%) SQL
2 49 (12.83%) Python
3 28 (7.33%) Java
3 28 (7.33%) JavaScript
4 25 (6.54%) T-SQL
5 6 (1.57%) TypeScript
6 5 (1.31%) R
7 4 (1.05%) PHP
8 2 (0.52%) C#
8 2 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.52%) Scala
8 2 (0.52%) VB
9 1 (0.26%) Bash
9 1 (0.26%) Elixir
9 1 (0.26%) Erlang
9 1 (0.26%) F#
9 1 (0.26%) Haskell
9 1 (0.26%) Lisp
9 1 (0.26%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 96 (25.13%) Degree
2 30 (7.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (6.28%) Security Cleared
4 23 (6.02%) DV Cleared
5 21 (5.50%) DBS Check
6 10 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.31%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.79%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.79%) PMP
9 2 (0.52%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.52%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.26%) PhD
10 1 (0.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (7.33%) Accessibility
2 26 (6.81%) Data Quality
3 14 (3.66%) GDPR
4 7 (1.83%) QA
5 4 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.52%) IEC 62304
7 2 (0.52%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.26%) NCSC
8 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (7.59%) Docker
2 4 (1.05%) Hyper-V
2 4 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.26%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (6.02%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.05%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 103 (26.96%) Salesforce
2 73 (19.11%) Microsoft
3 24 (6.28%) Google
4 13 (3.40%) SAP
5 11 (2.88%) Databricks
6 6 (1.57%) Informatica
7 4 (1.05%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.05%) Hotjar
7 4 (1.05%) VMware
8 3 (0.79%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.52%) IBM
9 2 (0.52%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.52%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.26%) Ahrefs
10 1 (0.26%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.26%) Cognos
10 1 (0.26%) Oracle
10 1 (0.26%) Sybase