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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 49 40
Rank change year-on-year 0 -9 +13
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 1,660 1,676 1,901
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 3.91% 4.67% 5.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.99% 5.24% 6.21%
Number of salaries quoted 892 765 1,158
10th Percentile £30,350 £36,995 £25,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,171 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,123 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.97% +39.11% -22.73%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £84,964
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -12.00%

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 33,283 31,985 30,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.49% 89.04% 88.64%
Number of salaries quoted 19,187 14,363 22,780
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
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%

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 14 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 14 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 +19 470 £58,500 -11.70% 873
North of England +1 430 £52,500 -7.65% 538
Midlands -11 272 £57,500 - 337
North West -2 201 £47,250 -10.00% 240
West Midlands -5 159 £65,000 +13.04% 141
East of England -9 148 £57,500 -20.69% 347
South West -9 133 £47,500 +9.22% 322
Yorkshire -9 128 £58,750 -0.63% 223
Scotland +5 122 £54,855 +5.66% 92
East Midlands -16 110 £45,390 -19.95% 190
North East +52 101 £63,750 -8.02% 78
Wales +26 60 £48,122 -14.52% 122
Northern Ireland +7 28 £38,000 -57.06% 52
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 (1.57%) SharePoint
2 19 (1.14%) Confluence
3 11 (0.66%) WordPress
4 10 (0.60%) Apache Spark
5 8 (0.48%) CMS
6 7 (0.42%) SAS
6 7 (0.42%) SugarCRM
7 5 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.30%) IIS
8 4 (0.24%) Apache
8 4 (0.24%) Camunda
8 4 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.18%) Drupal
9 3 (0.18%) Joomla!
9 3 (0.18%) nginx
9 3 (0.18%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.12%) CICS
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 231 (13.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 140 (8.43%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.48%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.24%) AutoCAD
6 4 (0.24%) Fusion 360
7 3 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.18%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.12%) Revit
8 2 (0.12%) Trello
9 1 (0.060%) CATIA
9 1 (0.060%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 57 (3.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.72%) Shopify
3 11 (0.66%) SAP CO
4 8 (0.48%) Dynamics NAV
5 7 (0.42%) NetSuite
5 7 (0.42%) SAP Business One
6 6 (0.36%) NEC Housing
6 6 (0.36%) SAP ERP
7 5 (0.30%) SAP IBP
8 4 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
8 4 (0.24%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.18%) ResourceLink
9 3 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.18%) SAP APO
9 3 (0.18%) SAP PS
9 3 (0.18%) Unit4 Business World
10 2 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
10 2 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
10 2 (0.12%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 310 (18.67%) Power Platform
2 183 (11.02%) Azure
3 130 (7.83%) SaaS
4 96 (5.78%) AWS
5 62 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
6 46 (2.77%) Azure Data Factory
7 44 (2.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 42 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
9 28 (1.69%) Snowflake
10 26 (1.57%) GCP
11 22 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
12 21 (1.27%) PowerApps
13 19 (1.14%) GitHub
14 18 (1.08%) Power Automate
15 16 (0.96%) Amazon S3
16 15 (0.90%) Serverless
17 12 (0.72%) AWS Lambda
18 10 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
18 10 (0.60%) Google Analytics
19 9 (0.54%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.08%) Firewall
2 17 (1.02%) Network Security
3 14 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
4 12 (0.72%) Intrusion Detection
4 12 (0.72%) TCP/IP
4 12 (0.72%) Wireless
5 11 (0.66%) VLAN
6 10 (0.60%) Internet
6 10 (0.60%) WAN
7 9 (0.54%) LAN
7 9 (0.54%) Structured Cabling
8 8 (0.48%) VPN
9 6 (0.36%) VoIP
10 4 (0.24%) Bluetooth
10 4 (0.24%) DHCP
10 4 (0.24%) DNS
10 4 (0.24%) Modbus
10 4 (0.24%) Wireshark
10 4 (0.24%) ZigBee
11 2 (0.12%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 301 (18.13%) Power BI
2 96 (5.78%) Tableau
3 63 (3.80%) SQL Server
4 47 (2.83%) Data Lake
5 43 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
5 43 (2.59%) Metadata
6 40 (2.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 36 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
8 25 (1.51%) Power Query
9 21 (1.27%) BusinessObjects
10 18 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
11 16 (0.96%) Looker
12 15 (0.90%) MySQL
12 15 (0.90%) Relational Database
13 13 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 12 (0.72%) GIS
15 11 (0.66%) Data Mining
15 11 (0.66%) SAP BW
16 10 (0.60%) Big Data
16 10 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 48 (2.89%) JIRA
2 12 (0.72%) Git
3 11 (0.66%) Burp Suite
3 11 (0.66%) Metasploit
4 6 (0.36%) GitLab
4 6 (0.36%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (0.30%) Bitbucket
5 5 (0.30%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.24%) JUnit
6 4 (0.24%) Maven
6 4 (0.24%) Mockito
6 4 (0.24%) Toad
7 3 (0.18%) MLflow
7 3 (0.18%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.18%) Visual Website Optimizer
7 3 (0.18%) Vite
8 2 (0.12%) DBeaver
9 1 (0.060%) LSMW
9 1 (0.060%) Rational DOORS
General
1 760 (45.78%) Social Skills
2 620 (37.35%) Finance
3 589 (35.48%) Analytical Skills
4 276 (16.63%) Marketing
5 179 (10.78%) Manufacturing
6 119 (7.17%) Retail
7 111 (6.69%) Presentation Skills
8 97 (5.84%) Public Sector
9 96 (5.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 89 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
11 85 (5.12%) Law
12 74 (4.46%) Influencing Skills
13 57 (3.43%) Legal
14 34 (2.05%) Pharmaceutical
15 31 (1.87%) Banking
16 30 (1.81%) Telecoms
17 29 (1.75%) Electronics
18 28 (1.69%) Advertising
19 26 (1.57%) Games
19 26 (1.57%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 274 (16.51%) Analyst
2 218 (13.13%) Senior
3 127 (7.65%) Lead
4 109 (6.57%) Development Manager
5 105 (6.33%) Architect
6 90 (5.42%) Data Analyst
7 80 (4.82%) Product Manager
8 78 (4.70%) Financial Analyst
9 76 (4.58%) Developer
10 65 (3.92%) Senior Manager
11 64 (3.86%) Innovation Manager
12 60 (3.61%) Product Development Manager
13 54 (3.25%) Business Manager
14 52 (3.13%) Sales Executive
15 51 (3.07%) Consultant
16 46 (2.77%) Data Engineer
17 43 (2.59%) Senior Analyst
18 33 (1.99%) Business Intelligence Analyst
18 33 (1.99%) Report Analyst
19 32 (1.93%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (1.45%) REST
2 15 (0.90%) .NET
3 13 (0.78%) Flash
3 13 (0.78%) React
4 11 (0.66%) HTML
4 11 (0.66%) JSON
4 11 (0.66%) Spring
4 11 (0.66%) Spring Boot
5 10 (0.60%) FHIR
6 9 (0.54%) PySpark
6 9 (0.54%) XML
7 8 (0.48%) TensorFlow
8 7 (0.42%) Blazor
8 7 (0.42%) SAP CO-PA
8 7 (0.42%) scikit-learn
8 7 (0.42%) WinForms
8 7 (0.42%) WPF
9 6 (0.36%) Hibernate
9 6 (0.36%) Oracle Fusion
9 6 (0.36%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 133 (8.01%) Self-Motivation
2 102 (6.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 102 (6.14%) Management Information System
3 96 (5.78%) FMCG
4 59 (3.55%) Onboarding
5 52 (3.13%) Driving Licence
6 46 (2.77%) Product Ownership
7 43 (2.59%) Cloud Native
8 27 (1.63%) Security Posture
9 26 (1.57%) Virtual Team
10 23 (1.39%) Algorithms
10 23 (1.39%) Social Media
11 22 (1.33%) Learning Management System
12 21 (1.27%) Life Science
13 19 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
14 18 (1.08%) IoT
15 17 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
16 16 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
17 13 (0.78%) Cyber Threat
18 12 (0.72%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 33 (1.99%) Windows
2 20 (1.20%) Linux
3 10 (0.60%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.42%) Android
5 6 (0.36%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.24%) Kali Linux
6 4 (0.24%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.24%) Unix
7 2 (0.12%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.12%) zOS
8 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 479 (28.86%) Analytics
2 472 (28.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 424 (25.54%) Problem-Solving
4 371 (22.35%) Business Intelligence
5 294 (17.71%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 283 (17.05%) AI
7 268 (16.14%) Agile
8 255 (15.36%) Project Management
9 248 (14.94%) Stakeholder Management
10 200 (12.05%) Actionable Insight
11 183 (11.02%) Visualisation
12 176 (10.60%) ERP
13 161 (9.70%) CRM
14 157 (9.46%) Roadmaps
15 155 (9.34%) Data Analysis
16 146 (8.80%) Customer Experience
17 131 (7.89%) B2B
18 123 (7.41%) Cybersecurity
18 123 (7.41%) Process Improvement
19 116 (6.99%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 284 (17.11%) SQL
2 169 (10.18%) Python
3 56 (3.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 41 (2.47%) Java
5 40 (2.41%) R
6 33 (1.99%) VBA
7 15 (0.90%) T-SQL
8 14 (0.84%) C#
9 12 (0.72%) C++
9 12 (0.72%) JavaScript
9 12 (0.72%) TypeScript
10 10 (0.60%) PowerShell
11 7 (0.42%) Bash
11 7 (0.42%) Scala
12 5 (0.30%) C
12 5 (0.30%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.30%) Rust
13 4 (0.24%) PHP
13 4 (0.24%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 462 (27.83%) Degree
2 130 (7.83%) ACCA
3 128 (7.71%) CIMA
4 89 (5.36%) Master's Degree
5 70 (4.22%) DBS Check
5 70 (4.22%) Security Cleared
6 57 (3.43%) SC Cleared
7 54 (3.25%) MBA
8 47 (2.83%) CISSP
9 40 (2.41%) CISM
9 40 (2.41%) PMI Certification
10 38 (2.29%) PMP
11 31 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
12 30 (1.81%) CIPD
13 29 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
14 28 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
15 23 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
16 18 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
17 17 (1.02%) AAT
18 14 (0.84%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (7.83%) Data Quality
2 63 (3.80%) GDPR
3 56 (3.37%) QA
4 46 (2.77%) PMO
5 38 (2.29%) Accessibility
6 37 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 36 (2.17%) GRC
8 32 (1.93%) Actionable Recommendations
9 15 (0.90%) NIST
10 12 (0.72%) SLA
11 10 (0.60%) CDISC
11 10 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.60%) GxP
11 10 (0.60%) HL7
12 9 (0.54%) ISO 9001
12 9 (0.54%) NCSC
13 6 (0.36%) IFRS
14 5 (0.30%) GAAP
14 5 (0.30%) PCI DSS
15 4 (0.24%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 30 (1.81%) Docker
2 18 (1.08%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.24%) Firmware
5 3 (0.18%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.12%) KVM
6 2 (0.12%) RACF
6 2 (0.12%) RHEV
6 2 (0.12%) Xen
7 1 (0.060%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.060%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.060%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 19 (1.14%) Kubernetes
2 16 (0.96%) Terraform
3 11 (0.66%) Nmap
4 6 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.24%) 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 (0.060%) Ansible
8 1 (0.060%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.060%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 268 (16.14%) Microsoft
2 172 (10.36%) SAP
3 79 (4.76%) Salesforce
4 47 (2.83%) Databricks
4 47 (2.83%) ServiceNow
5 35 (2.11%) HubSpot
6 33 (1.99%) Oracle
7 26 (1.57%) Google
8 21 (1.27%) Anaplan
9 18 (1.08%) Cisco
9 18 (1.08%) Genesys
9 18 (1.08%) Verint
10 16 (0.96%) Workday
11 15 (0.90%) Sage
11 15 (0.90%) YouTube
12 13 (0.78%) BMC
13 11 (0.66%) Qualtrics
13 11 (0.66%) VMware
14 10 (0.60%) Autodesk
15 9 (0.54%) Xero