Decision-Making Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Decision-Making
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Decision-Making skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 45 44
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 +14
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 1,718 1,733 1,746
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.11% 4.72% 5.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.18% 5.34% 6.06%
Number of salaries quoted 882 788 1,139
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £40,625 £41,263 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,634 £57,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.98% +35.29% -22.73%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -10.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 33,150 32,442 28,807
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 79.27% 88.40% 90.15%
Number of salaries quoted 18,938 14,769 21,448
10th Percentile £27,707 £31,250 £28,290
25th Percentile £33,000 £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 £83,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Decision-Making job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Decision-Making
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Decision-Making
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Decision-Making in the UK excluding London

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 Decision-Making within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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 +18 480 £57,500 -11.54% 489
North of England +1 443 £52,500 -7.41% 350
Midlands -12 272 £55,100 -3.50% 254
North West -6 211 £47,250 -10.00% 179
Scotland +12 160 £54,855 -2.21% 64
West Midlands -13 160 £65,000 +13.04% 157
East of England -10 145 £57,500 -20.69% 168
South West -15 134 £47,500 +9.22% 162
Yorkshire -6 128 £60,000 +5.82% 134
East Midlands -12 109 £45,390 -19.95% 89
North East +48 104 £62,500 -9.82% 40
Wales +22 60 £48,122 -14.52% 40
Northern Ireland +8 27 £43,500 -43.51% 11
Decision-Making
UK

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 26 (1.51%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.05%) Confluence
3 11 (0.64%) WordPress
4 9 (0.52%) Apache Spark
4 9 (0.52%) SugarCRM
5 8 (0.47%) CMS
6 7 (0.41%) SAS
7 5 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.29%) IIS
8 4 (0.23%) Apache
8 4 (0.23%) Camunda
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.17%) Drupal
9 3 (0.17%) Joomla!
9 3 (0.17%) nginx
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.17%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.12%) CICS
10 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.058%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 239 (13.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 139 (8.09%) Microsoft Office
3 34 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.47%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.23%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.23%) Fusion 360
8 3 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.17%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.12%) Revit
9 2 (0.12%) Trello
10 1 (0.058%) CATIA
10 1 (0.058%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 56 (3.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.70%) NetSuite
2 12 (0.70%) Shopify
3 9 (0.52%) SAP CO
4 8 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
5 7 (0.41%) SAP Business One
6 6 (0.35%) NEC Housing
6 6 (0.35%) SAP ERP
7 5 (0.29%) SAP IBP
8 4 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
8 4 (0.23%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.17%) ResourceLink
9 3 (0.17%) SAP APO
9 3 (0.17%) SAP PS
9 3 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
10 2 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
10 2 (0.12%) Primavera
10 2 (0.12%) Sage X3
10 2 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 307 (17.87%) Power Platform
2 178 (10.36%) Azure
3 132 (7.68%) SaaS
4 87 (5.06%) AWS
5 60 (3.49%) Microsoft 365
6 45 (2.62%) Azure Data Factory
7 43 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 42 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
9 26 (1.51%) Snowflake
10 24 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
10 24 (1.40%) GCP
11 21 (1.22%) PowerApps
12 19 (1.11%) GitHub
12 19 (1.11%) Power Automate
13 14 (0.81%) Amazon S3
14 10 (0.58%) Cloud Computing
14 10 (0.58%) Google Analytics
14 10 (0.58%) Microsoft Copilot
14 10 (0.58%) Serverless
15 9 (0.52%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 16 (0.93%) Firewall
2 15 (0.87%) Network Security
3 12 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
3 12 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
4 11 (0.64%) TCP/IP
4 11 (0.64%) Wireless
5 10 (0.58%) VLAN
5 10 (0.58%) WAN
6 9 (0.52%) LAN
7 8 (0.47%) Internet
7 8 (0.47%) Structured Cabling
8 7 (0.41%) VPN
9 6 (0.35%) VoIP
10 4 (0.23%) Bluetooth
10 4 (0.23%) Modbus
10 4 (0.23%) Wireshark
10 4 (0.23%) ZigBee
11 3 (0.17%) DHCP
11 3 (0.17%) DNS
12 2 (0.12%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 297 (17.29%) Power BI
2 98 (5.70%) Tableau
3 62 (3.61%) SQL Server
4 46 (2.68%) Data Lake
5 42 (2.44%) Metadata
6 41 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
7 40 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 36 (2.10%) Azure SQL Database
9 28 (1.63%) Power Query
10 22 (1.28%) BusinessObjects
11 18 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
12 16 (0.93%) Looker
13 15 (0.87%) MySQL
14 14 (0.81%) Relational Database
15 12 (0.70%) GIS
15 12 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 11 (0.64%) Data Mining
16 11 (0.64%) SAP BW
17 10 (0.58%) Big Data
17 10 (0.58%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 50 (2.91%) JIRA
2 13 (0.76%) Git
3 10 (0.58%) Burp Suite
3 10 (0.58%) Metasploit
4 6 (0.35%) GitLab
4 6 (0.35%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (0.29%) Bitbucket
5 5 (0.29%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.23%) Toad
6 4 (0.23%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.17%) JUnit
7 3 (0.17%) Maven
7 3 (0.17%) MLflow
7 3 (0.17%) Mockito
7 3 (0.17%) Visual Website Optimizer
7 3 (0.17%) Vite
8 1 (0.058%) ESLint
8 1 (0.058%) GCC
8 1 (0.058%) Storybook
General
1 801 (46.62%) Social Skills
2 638 (37.14%) Finance
3 624 (36.32%) Analytical Skills
4 292 (17.00%) Marketing
5 188 (10.94%) Manufacturing
6 125 (7.28%) Retail
7 114 (6.64%) Presentation Skills
8 98 (5.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 96 (5.59%) Public Sector
10 86 (5.01%) Organisational Skills
11 83 (4.83%) Law
12 69 (4.02%) Legal
13 66 (3.84%) Influencing Skills
14 34 (1.98%) Banking
15 32 (1.86%) Pharmaceutical
16 29 (1.69%) Advertising
16 29 (1.69%) Electronics
17 27 (1.57%) Telecoms
18 26 (1.51%) Games
19 25 (1.46%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 281 (16.36%) Analyst
2 218 (12.69%) Senior
3 129 (7.51%) Lead
4 117 (6.81%) Development Manager
5 105 (6.11%) Architect
6 96 (5.59%) Data Analyst
6 96 (5.59%) Innovation Manager
7 88 (5.12%) Product Manager
8 84 (4.89%) Financial Analyst
9 69 (4.02%) Developer
9 69 (4.02%) Product Development Manager
10 66 (3.84%) Senior Manager
11 56 (3.26%) Business Manager
12 50 (2.91%) Sales Executive
13 49 (2.85%) Consultant
14 45 (2.62%) Data Engineer
14 45 (2.62%) Senior Analyst
15 36 (2.10%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 32 (1.86%) Commercial Analyst
16 32 (1.86%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (1.34%) REST
2 17 (0.99%) .NET
3 13 (0.76%) Flash
3 13 (0.76%) React
4 12 (0.70%) HTML
5 11 (0.64%) JSON
5 11 (0.64%) Spring
5 11 (0.64%) Spring Boot
6 10 (0.58%) FHIR
7 9 (0.52%) PySpark
7 9 (0.52%) XML
8 8 (0.47%) TensorFlow
9 7 (0.41%) Blazor
9 7 (0.41%) Oracle Fusion
9 7 (0.41%) scikit-learn
9 7 (0.41%) WinForms
9 7 (0.41%) WPF
10 6 (0.35%) Hibernate
10 6 (0.35%) Pandas
11 5 (0.29%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 135 (7.86%) Self-Motivation
2 105 (6.11%) FMCG
3 103 (6.00%) Management Information System
4 100 (5.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 71 (4.13%) Onboarding
6 55 (3.20%) Driving Licence
7 45 (2.62%) Product Ownership
8 40 (2.33%) Cloud Native
9 28 (1.63%) Security Posture
10 26 (1.51%) Virtual Team
11 23 (1.34%) Algorithms
11 23 (1.34%) Social Media
12 22 (1.28%) Learning Management System
13 21 (1.22%) Life Science
14 18 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
14 18 (1.05%) IoT
15 16 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
16 15 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
17 12 (0.70%) Cyber Threat
17 12 (0.70%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 32 (1.86%) Windows
2 18 (1.05%) Linux
3 9 (0.52%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.41%) Android
5 6 (0.35%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.23%) Kali Linux
6 4 (0.23%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.23%) Unix
7 2 (0.12%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.12%) zOS
8 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 519 (30.21%) Continuous Improvement
2 506 (29.45%) Analytics
3 434 (25.26%) Problem-Solving
4 368 (21.42%) Business Intelligence
5 328 (19.09%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 313 (18.22%) AI
7 278 (16.18%) Stakeholder Management
8 267 (15.54%) Project Management
9 258 (15.02%) Agile
10 195 (11.35%) Actionable Insight
11 185 (10.77%) Visualisation
12 184 (10.71%) ERP
13 178 (10.36%) Customer Experience
14 173 (10.07%) CRM
15 163 (9.49%) Data Analysis
16 155 (9.02%) Roadmaps
17 131 (7.63%) B2B
18 128 (7.45%) Process Improvement
19 124 (7.22%) Cybersecurity
20 123 (7.16%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 291 (16.94%) SQL
2 163 (9.49%) Python
3 55 (3.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 38 (2.21%) Java
4 38 (2.21%) R
5 35 (2.04%) VBA
6 16 (0.93%) C#
7 15 (0.87%) T-SQL
8 13 (0.76%) C++
9 12 (0.70%) JavaScript
9 12 (0.70%) TypeScript
10 9 (0.52%) PowerShell
11 7 (0.41%) Scala
12 6 (0.35%) Bash
13 5 (0.29%) Rust
13 5 (0.29%) VB
14 4 (0.23%) C
14 4 (0.23%) PHP
14 4 (0.23%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 470 (27.36%) Degree
2 136 (7.92%) ACCA
3 134 (7.80%) CIMA
4 91 (5.30%) Master's Degree
5 68 (3.96%) Security Cleared
6 65 (3.78%) DBS Check
7 55 (3.20%) SC Cleared
8 53 (3.08%) MBA
9 46 (2.68%) CISSP
10 41 (2.39%) CISM
11 36 (2.10%) PMI Certification
12 34 (1.98%) PMP
13 32 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
14 31 (1.80%) TOGAF Certification
15 29 (1.69%) CIPD
16 28 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
17 21 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
18 17 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
19 16 (0.93%) AAT
20 13 (0.76%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (7.74%) Data Quality
2 73 (4.25%) GDPR
3 55 (3.20%) QA
4 44 (2.56%) PMO
5 41 (2.39%) Accessibility
6 35 (2.04%) GRC
6 35 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 31 (1.80%) Actionable Recommendations
8 15 (0.87%) SLA
9 13 (0.76%) NIST
10 10 (0.58%) CDISC
10 10 (0.58%) GxP
10 10 (0.58%) HL7
11 9 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
11 9 (0.52%) ISO 9001
11 9 (0.52%) NCSC
12 6 (0.35%) IFRS
13 5 (0.29%) COBIT
13 5 (0.29%) GAAP
13 5 (0.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (1.69%) Docker
2 17 (0.99%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.23%) Firmware
5 2 (0.12%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.12%) KVM
5 2 (0.12%) RACF
5 2 (0.12%) RHEV
5 2 (0.12%) Xen
6 1 (0.058%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.058%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 17 (0.99%) Kubernetes
2 16 (0.93%) Terraform
3 10 (0.58%) Nmap
4 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.23%) Nessus
7 2 (0.12%) Control-M
7 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 2 (0.12%) Nagios
7 2 (0.12%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.058%) Ansible
8 1 (0.058%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.058%) Grafana
8 1 (0.058%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 269 (15.66%) Microsoft
2 173 (10.07%) SAP
3 75 (4.37%) Salesforce
4 61 (3.55%) ServiceNow
5 53 (3.08%) Databricks
6 36 (2.10%) Oracle
7 33 (1.92%) HubSpot
8 31 (1.80%) Workday
9 27 (1.57%) Google
10 21 (1.22%) Anaplan
11 18 (1.05%) Genesys
11 18 (1.05%) Verint
12 17 (0.99%) Cisco
13 16 (0.93%) YouTube
14 14 (0.81%) Sage
15 12 (0.70%) BMC
16 11 (0.64%) Qualtrics
17 10 (0.58%) Autodesk
17 10 (0.58%) VMware
17 10 (0.58%) Xero