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

Data-Driven Decision Making
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 324 325
Rank change year-on-year +135 +1 +122
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 437 258 241
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.04% 0.71% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 0.80% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 146 161 190
10th Percentile £39,205 £40,013 £33,875
25th Percentile £43,750 £49,236 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -15.61%
75th Percentile £68,750 £80,100 £61,123
90th Percentile £95,000 £101,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £55,050
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.07% -8.25%

All Process & 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 33,256 32,348 28,980
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 79.02% 88.54% 89.67%
Number of salaries quoted 19,033 14,675 21,473
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,250 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,778
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data-Driven Decision Making relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

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

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data-Driven Decision Making.

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

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 6 January 2026.

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 6 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
South East +85 163 £55,000 +1.62% 55
Scotland +67 105 £54,855 -34.01% 9
North of England +14 58 £60,000 -7.69% 32
Midlands +6 44 £58,750 -2.08% 34
West Midlands +16 40 £65,750 +9.58% 27
North West +12 33 £55,000 -13.73% 23
Northern Ireland - 22 £77,500 - 3
Yorkshire -8 19 £76,250 -7.58% 6
South West +8 17 £67,000 +7.20% 16
East of England +32 15 £52,500 -44.44% 20
Wales +16 13 £45,000 -43.75% 4
North East +9 6 - - 3
East Midlands -3 4 £39,449 -53.32% 7
Data-Driven Decision Making
UK

Data-Driven Decision Making
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (1.14%) Apache Spark
1 5 (1.14%) Confluence
1 5 (1.14%) IIS
1 5 (1.14%) SAS
2 4 (0.92%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (0.69%) Apache
3 3 (0.69%) CMS
3 3 (0.69%) nginx
3 3 (0.69%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.46%) CICS
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 62 (14.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.60%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.92%) Windchill
6 3 (0.69%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (0.69%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.46%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.46%) Trello
8 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 40 (9.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (2.29%) Shopify
3 6 (1.37%) SAP CO
3 6 (1.37%) SAP FI
3 6 (1.37%) SAP FI/CO
4 4 (0.92%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.23%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.23%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 88 (20.14%) Power Platform
2 55 (12.59%) SaaS
3 31 (7.09%) Azure
4 26 (5.95%) AWS
5 13 (2.97%) Snowflake
6 9 (2.06%) Asana
6 9 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (1.83%) GCP
8 7 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (1.60%) GitHub
9 5 (1.14%) Power Automate
9 5 (1.14%) Serverless
10 4 (0.92%) Amazon S3
10 4 (0.92%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (0.92%) dbt
11 3 (0.69%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (0.69%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (0.69%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.69%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.14%) Wireless
2 2 (0.46%) BGP
2 2 (0.46%) DHCP
2 2 (0.46%) DNS
2 2 (0.46%) Firewall
2 2 (0.46%) LAN
2 2 (0.46%) Network Security
2 2 (0.46%) OSPF
2 2 (0.46%) SD-WAN
2 2 (0.46%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.46%) VLAN
2 2 (0.46%) VPN
2 2 (0.46%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (19.91%) Power BI
2 46 (10.53%) Tableau
3 25 (5.72%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (3.20%) Metadata
5 12 (2.75%) Data Lake
5 12 (2.75%) SQL Server
6 8 (1.83%) Data Mining
6 8 (1.83%) SAP BW
7 7 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (1.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (1.37%) Big Data
8 6 (1.37%) Hadoop
8 6 (1.37%) Looker
9 5 (1.14%) BusinessObjects
9 5 (1.14%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.14%) Qlik Sense
9 5 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (0.92%) MS Access
10 4 (0.92%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 47 (10.76%) JIRA
2 31 (7.09%) Git
3 26 (5.95%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.92%) Toad
5 3 (0.69%) Vite
General
1 289 (66.13%) Social Skills
2 203 (46.45%) Analytical Skills
3 100 (22.88%) Finance
4 43 (9.84%) Marketing
5 35 (8.01%) Organisational Skills
6 24 (5.49%) Retail
7 22 (5.03%) Presentation Skills
8 19 (4.35%) Manufacturing
9 18 (4.12%) Games
10 16 (3.66%) Legal
11 14 (3.20%) Public Sector
12 12 (2.75%) Law
13 9 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 8 (1.83%) Banking
14 8 (1.83%) Military
14 8 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (1.83%) Telecoms
15 6 (1.37%) Local Government
16 5 (1.14%) Welsh Language
17 3 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 96 (21.97%) Innovation Manager
2 62 (14.19%) Analyst
3 59 (13.50%) Lead
4 58 (13.27%) Senior
5 34 (7.78%) Senior Manager
6 21 (4.81%) Data Analyst
7 20 (4.58%) Architect
8 18 (4.12%) Senior Architect
9 15 (3.43%) Data Engineer
10 13 (2.97%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 13 (2.97%) Product Manager
11 12 (2.75%) Senior Analyst
12 11 (2.52%) Data Manager
13 10 (2.29%) Business Analyst
14 9 (2.06%) Digital Product Manager
14 9 (2.06%) Product Owner
14 9 (2.06%) Report Analyst
15 8 (1.83%) Developer
15 8 (1.83%) Report Manager
15 8 (1.83%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.14%) Play Framework
2 4 (0.92%) Pandas
3 3 (0.69%) CSS
3 3 (0.69%) HTML
3 3 (0.69%) Laravel
3 3 (0.69%) LEMP Stack
3 3 (0.69%) Tailwind CSS
3 3 (0.69%) Vue
3 3 (0.69%) YAML
4 2 (0.46%) JSON
4 2 (0.46%) REST
5 1 (0.23%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.23%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.23%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (0.23%) NumPy
5 1 (0.23%) React
5 1 (0.23%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.23%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.23%) Swagger
5 1 (0.23%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 17 (3.89%) Management Information System
2 16 (3.66%) Analytical Mindset
3 14 (3.20%) Onboarding
3 14 (3.20%) Product Ownership
4 8 (1.83%) Algorithms
4 8 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.14%) NHS
6 5 (1.14%) Virtual Team
7 4 (0.92%) Cyber Security Posture
7 4 (0.92%) Reference Data
7 4 (0.92%) Security Posture
8 3 (0.69%) AI Agents
8 3 (0.69%) Driving Licence
8 3 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.46%) Cybercrime
9 2 (0.46%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.46%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.46%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.06%) Windows
2 4 (0.92%) Unix
2 4 (0.92%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.69%) Linux
4 2 (0.46%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (75.06%) Decision-Making
2 195 (44.62%) Analytics
3 192 (43.94%) Continuous Improvement
4 148 (33.87%) Stakeholder Management
5 126 (28.83%) AI
6 116 (26.54%) Customer Experience
7 102 (23.34%) Business Intelligence
8 80 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
9 79 (18.08%) ERP
10 71 (16.25%) Agile
11 59 (13.50%) Data Modelling
12 54 (12.36%) Strategic Thinking
13 53 (12.13%) Data Analysis
14 52 (11.90%) Critical Thinking
15 50 (11.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 48 (10.98%) Emotional Intelligence
16 48 (10.98%) Roadmaps
17 46 (10.53%) Project Management
18 45 (10.30%) Business Case
18 45 (10.30%) Financial Modelling
Programming Languages
1 75 (17.16%) SQL
2 42 (9.61%) Python
3 13 (2.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 11 (2.52%) R
5 7 (1.60%) T-SQL
6 6 (1.37%) Java
7 5 (1.14%) Scala
8 4 (0.92%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.92%) PHP
8 4 (0.92%) PowerShell
8 4 (0.92%) Shell Script
8 4 (0.92%) VB
9 3 (0.69%) Bash
10 2 (0.46%) COBOL
10 2 (0.46%) JCL
11 1 (0.23%) ABAP
11 1 (0.23%) C#
11 1 (0.23%) Go
11 1 (0.23%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 164 (37.53%) Degree
2 53 (12.13%) Master's Degree
3 44 (10.07%) MBA
4 29 (6.64%) PMI Certification
4 29 (6.64%) Security Cleared
5 28 (6.41%) PMP
6 7 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
6 7 (1.60%) SC Cleared
7 6 (1.37%) ACCA
7 6 (1.37%) CIMA
8 5 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.46%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.46%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.46%) CCIE
10 2 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.46%) CISSP
10 2 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.23%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (16.70%) Data Quality
2 30 (6.86%) QA
3 26 (5.95%) Def Stans
4 8 (1.83%) GDPR
5 7 (1.60%) PMO
6 6 (1.37%) Accessibility
7 5 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.23%) GMP
9 1 (0.23%) GRC
9 1 (0.23%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.23%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.23%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.23%) NEBOSH
9 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (1.60%) Docker
2 2 (0.46%) RACF
Systems Management
1 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
2 1 (0.23%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 86 (19.68%) SAP
2 53 (12.13%) Microsoft
3 26 (5.95%) Databricks
4 18 (4.12%) Anaplan
4 18 (4.12%) Genesys
4 18 (4.12%) ServiceNow
4 18 (4.12%) Verint
5 7 (1.60%) Oracle
6 6 (1.37%) Google
6 6 (1.37%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.14%) BT
8 4 (0.92%) HubSpot
8 4 (0.92%) NEC
9 2 (0.46%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.23%) Adobe
10 1 (0.23%) Informatica
10 1 (0.23%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.23%) Teradata
10 1 (0.23%) TIBCO