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 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 57 46
Rank change year-on-year +16 -11 +12
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 2,390 1,344 3,448
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 3.58% 4.54% 4.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.12% 4.95% 5.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,633 617 1,739
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,050 £29,862
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £65,603
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,311 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £54,995
% change year-on-year - +9.10% -7.61%

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 46,698 27,127 61,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.00% 91.55% 80.95%
Number of salaries quoted 31,705 13,533 42,896
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,318
25th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 7 June 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 7 June 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
North of England +57 806 £55,000 +4.76% 480
South East +27 582 £57,500 +9.30% 584
North West +49 444 £55,000 +6.03% 281
Midlands +3 396 £56,000 +6.67% 276
Yorkshire +31 252 £56,000 +3.23% 150
West Midlands -8 234 £57,500 +0.11% 188
East of England +35 224 £60,050 +5.35% 122
South West +2 217 £52,500 -12.50% 195
East Midlands +21 160 £55,000 +37.78% 87
North East +29 110 £57,500 +47.06% 54
Scotland -33 74 £55,000 -8.33% 73
Wales -9 54 £54,283 +60.84% 51
Northern Ireland -10 39 £38,750 -63.58% 44
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 54 (2.26%) SharePoint
2 32 (1.34%) Confluence
3 19 (0.79%) CMS
4 17 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.42%) Apache
8 6 (0.25%) IIS
9 5 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.17%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.17%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.17%) nginx
10 4 (0.17%) Oracle Application Server
10 4 (0.17%) SAS
11 3 (0.13%) OpenEdge
12 2 (0.084%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.084%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.042%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.042%) Drupal
13 1 (0.042%) WordPress
Applications
1 254 (10.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 81 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 36 (1.51%) Microsoft Project
5 27 (1.13%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.42%) CATIA
6 10 (0.42%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.17%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.13%) Fusion 360
9 2 (0.084%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.042%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 24 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.67%) Adobe Campaign
2 16 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.42%) SAP CO
4 9 (0.38%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 8 (0.33%) SAP ERP
6 7 (0.29%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.25%) Dynamics GP
7 6 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.25%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.21%) SAP PM
8 5 (0.21%) Visualfiles
9 4 (0.17%) Shopify
10 3 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
10 3 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
10 3 (0.13%) Raiser’s Edge
11 2 (0.084%) Payment Gateway
11 2 (0.084%) Primavera
11 2 (0.084%) SAP BPC
11 2 (0.084%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 317 (13.26%) Power Platform
2 270 (11.30%) Azure
3 203 (8.49%) AWS
4 125 (5.23%) SaaS
5 86 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
6 57 (2.38%) GCP
7 51 (2.13%) Serverless
8 37 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
9 35 (1.46%) Entra ID
10 28 (1.17%) Azure Data Factory
10 28 (1.17%) Microsoft Purview
11 26 (1.09%) PowerApps
11 26 (1.09%) Snowflake
12 25 (1.05%) GitHub
13 22 (0.92%) Amazon S3
14 21 (0.88%) AWS CloudFormation
15 20 (0.84%) Power Automate
16 17 (0.71%) Dynamics 365
16 17 (0.71%) Microsoft Copilot
16 17 (0.71%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 74 (3.10%) Broadband
2 41 (1.72%) Firewall
3 27 (1.13%) Wireless
4 23 (0.96%) Network Security
5 13 (0.54%) DNS
5 13 (0.54%) VPN
6 11 (0.46%) Internet
7 10 (0.42%) TCP/IP
7 10 (0.42%) WAN
8 8 (0.33%) SMS
8 8 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (0.25%) LAN
9 6 (0.25%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.25%) VLAN
10 5 (0.21%) DHCP
10 5 (0.21%) Structured Cabling
11 4 (0.17%) BGP
12 3 (0.13%) MPLS
12 3 (0.13%) OSPF
12 3 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 303 (12.68%) Power BI
2 83 (3.47%) Tableau
3 65 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
4 42 (1.76%) SQL Server
5 30 (1.26%) Data Lake
6 29 (1.21%) Metadata
6 29 (1.21%) Relational Database
7 26 (1.09%) Power Query
8 23 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
8 23 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 22 (0.92%) NoSQL
10 21 (0.88%) Big Data
11 17 (0.71%) MySQL
11 17 (0.71%) Star Schema
12 16 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 12 (0.50%) Looker
14 11 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
14 11 (0.46%) Semantic Layer
15 10 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
16 9 (0.38%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 81 (3.39%) JIRA
2 54 (2.26%) Git
3 32 (1.34%) Rational DOORS
4 12 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
5 8 (0.33%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.33%) Yeoman
6 7 (0.29%) GitLab
7 6 (0.25%) Burp Suite
7 6 (0.25%) Metasploit
8 5 (0.21%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.21%) JUnit
8 5 (0.21%) MLflow
9 4 (0.17%) JMeter
9 4 (0.17%) Locust
9 4 (0.17%) Maven
9 4 (0.17%) Mockito
9 4 (0.17%) Vite
10 3 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (0.084%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.084%) Vagrant
General
1 843 (35.27%) Social Skills
2 657 (27.49%) Analytical Skills
3 636 (26.61%) Finance
4 295 (12.34%) Marketing
5 175 (7.32%) Public Sector
6 154 (6.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 154 (6.44%) Influencing Skills
7 147 (6.15%) Manufacturing
8 114 (4.77%) Retail
9 105 (4.39%) Organisational Skills
10 99 (4.14%) Legal
11 79 (3.31%) Law
12 73 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
13 58 (2.43%) Games
14 55 (2.30%) Local Government
15 52 (2.18%) Pharmaceutical
16 45 (1.88%) Aerospace
17 39 (1.63%) Telecoms
18 33 (1.38%) Electronics
19 15 (0.63%) Banking
Job Titles
1 379 (15.86%) Analyst
2 372 (15.56%) Senior
3 231 (9.67%) Lead
4 154 (6.44%) Development Manager
5 153 (6.40%) Data Analyst
6 122 (5.10%) Senior Manager
7 112 (4.69%) Sales Executive
8 108 (4.52%) Data Engineer
9 96 (4.02%) Architect
10 95 (3.97%) Developer
11 83 (3.47%) Business Manager
12 77 (3.22%) Product Manager
13 72 (3.01%) Senior Analyst
14 70 (2.93%) Data Manager
15 68 (2.85%) Business Development Manager
16 63 (2.64%) Systems Analyst
17 57 (2.38%) Consultant
18 54 (2.26%) Business Analyst
18 54 (2.26%) Financial Analyst
19 51 (2.13%) Business Development Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (1.80%) React
2 34 (1.42%) .NET
3 28 (1.17%) Node.js
4 27 (1.13%) PySpark
4 27 (1.13%) REST
5 19 (0.79%) LangChain
6 16 (0.67%) AWS CDK
6 16 (0.67%) Next.js
7 14 (0.59%) HTML
8 13 (0.54%) CSS
8 13 (0.54%) Kafka
8 13 (0.54%) Vue
9 11 (0.46%) XML
10 10 (0.42%) Middleware
10 10 (0.42%) TensorFlow
11 9 (0.38%) SAP CO-PA
12 8 (0.33%) AngularJS
12 8 (0.33%) MFC
12 8 (0.33%) Spring
12 8 (0.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 141 (5.90%) Self-Motivation
2 135 (5.65%) Management Information System
3 103 (4.31%) Onboarding
4 88 (3.68%) Product Ownership
5 75 (3.14%) Cloud Native
6 59 (2.47%) Driving Licence
7 54 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
8 50 (2.09%) FMCG
9 37 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
9 37 (1.55%) Social Media
10 33 (1.38%) Mobile App
11 31 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
11 31 (1.30%) NHS
12 28 (1.17%) Marketing Technology
13 27 (1.13%) Algorithms
13 27 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
14 25 (1.05%) Data Structures
15 23 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
16 21 (0.88%) AI Agents
16 21 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 42 (1.76%) Windows
2 31 (1.30%) Android
3 28 (1.17%) Linux
4 27 (1.13%) Apple iOS
5 13 (0.54%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.21%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.084%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.042%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.042%) Unix
8 1 (0.042%) VMS
8 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 619 (25.90%) Continuous Improvement
2 512 (21.42%) Analytics
3 501 (20.96%) Problem-Solving
4 439 (18.37%) Agile
5 389 (16.28%) Business Intelligence
6 327 (13.68%) AI
7 317 (13.26%) Stakeholder Management
8 307 (12.85%) Roadmaps
9 245 (10.25%) CRM
9 245 (10.25%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 244 (10.21%) Mentoring
11 238 (9.96%) Business Development
12 236 (9.87%) Project Management
13 218 (9.12%) Actionable Insight
14 183 (7.66%) Data Modelling
15 182 (7.62%) B2B
16 176 (7.36%) Data Analysis
17 175 (7.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 172 (7.20%) Coaching
19 166 (6.95%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 341 (14.27%) SQL
2 248 (10.38%) Python
3 58 (2.43%) Java
4 48 (2.01%) C#
5 43 (1.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 37 (1.55%) R
7 34 (1.42%) TypeScript
8 28 (1.17%) JavaScript
9 27 (1.13%) VBA
10 24 (1.00%) C++
11 20 (0.84%) Bash
12 19 (0.79%) T-SQL
13 14 (0.59%) Scala
14 12 (0.50%) PowerShell
15 10 (0.42%) MATLAB
16 7 (0.29%) C
17 6 (0.25%) Bicep
17 6 (0.25%) PHP
18 5 (0.21%) PL/SQL
19 4 (0.17%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 414 (17.32%) Degree
2 152 (6.36%) ACCA
2 152 (6.36%) CIMA
3 130 (5.44%) Security Cleared
4 117 (4.90%) DBS Check
5 96 (4.02%) SC Cleared
6 75 (3.14%) PMI Certification
7 68 (2.85%) PMP
8 53 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
9 39 (1.63%) Master's Degree
10 24 (1.00%) CISSP
11 21 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
12 20 (0.84%) AAT
13 17 (0.71%) CIPD
14 15 (0.63%) HNC
14 15 (0.63%) MBA
14 15 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
15 14 (0.59%) Azure Certification
15 14 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
16 13 (0.54%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 242 (10.13%) Data Quality
2 110 (4.60%) GDPR
3 96 (4.02%) Accessibility
4 92 (3.85%) QA
5 56 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 48 (2.01%) PMO
7 36 (1.51%) NIST
8 31 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
9 28 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
10 25 (1.05%) SLA
11 23 (0.96%) GRC
12 14 (0.59%) WCAG
13 13 (0.54%) ISO 9001
14 12 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 15288
15 10 (0.42%) IFRS
15 10 (0.42%) P3O
15 10 (0.42%) PCI DSS
16 8 (0.33%) NCSC
17 7 (0.29%) GAAP
18 6 (0.25%) COBIT
System Software
1 47 (1.97%) Docker
2 22 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.38%) Firmware
3 9 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.29%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.084%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.042%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 53 (2.22%) Terraform
2 35 (1.46%) Kubernetes
3 18 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (0.42%) Grafana
5 7 (0.29%) Ansible
6 6 (0.25%) Nmap
7 4 (0.17%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.17%) SCCM
7 4 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.084%) Control-M
8 2 (0.084%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.084%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (0.084%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.084%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.084%) Packer
8 2 (0.084%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.042%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.042%) Puppet
9 1 (0.042%) SQL Sentry
9 1 (0.042%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 320 (13.39%) Microsoft
2 104 (4.35%) Salesforce
3 84 (3.51%) SAP
4 82 (3.43%) Workday
5 67 (2.80%) HubSpot
6 63 (2.64%) Databricks
7 53 (2.22%) ServiceNow
8 49 (2.05%) Google
9 43 (1.80%) IBM
10 39 (1.63%) Oracle
11 37 (1.55%) BMC
12 29 (1.21%) Adobe
13 21 (0.88%) Sage
14 20 (0.84%) Dell
15 18 (0.75%) Cisco
16 14 (0.59%) Cognos
17 13 (0.54%) BT
18 11 (0.46%) Informatica
18 11 (0.46%) OpenAI
18 11 (0.46%) VMware