Data-Driven Decision Making Job Trends

Data-Driven Decision Making
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Data-Driven Decision Making skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 196 426
Rank change year-on-year -111 +230 +28
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 541 691 551
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.61% 1.65% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 1.78% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 336 328 418
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,931 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,828 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.94% -0.74%
75th Percentile £73,750 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,625 £102,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 66,274 38,859 81,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.13% 92.82% 85.77%
Number of salaries quoted 40,927 22,757 59,545
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

Data-Driven Decision Making
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Data-Driven Decision Making job vacancy trend in the UK

Data-Driven Decision Making
Salary Trend

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

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

Data-Driven Decision Making
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making over the 6 months to 24 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK

Data-Driven Decision Making
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 24 April 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
England -114 450 £60,000 -4.00% 284
UK excluding London -70 344 £55,000 -4.35% 218
London -78 152 £70,000 -6.67% 110
Work from Home -59 129 £65,750 +14.35% 132
North of England -33 128 £60,000 +4.35% 54
North West -6 92 £60,000 +4.35% 27
Midlands -57 66 £56,250 -2.17% 35
South East -72 50 £50,000 -17.70% 57
West Midlands -40 47 £57,500 - 18
Scotland -30 34 £32,500 -70.45% 9
Yorkshire -63 27 £90,000 +56.52% 20
East of England -36 23 £60,000 +14.29% 26
East Midlands -55 19 £37,500 -34.78% 17
South West -83 18 £70,000 +27.27% 30
Northern Ireland - 18 £77,500 - 5
Wales -20 9 £42,500 -46.88% 7
North East -30 9 £67,749 +17.82% 8

Data-Driven Decision Making
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 21 (3.88%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (2.59%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.40%) CMS
4 11 (2.03%) Apache
4 11 (2.03%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.48%) Confluence
6 5 (0.92%) IIS
6 5 (0.92%) nginx
7 4 (0.74%) Appian
7 4 (0.74%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.37%) CICS
8 2 (0.37%) MTS
9 1 (0.18%) Drupal
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 37 (6.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.92%) Adobe Illustrator
3 5 (0.92%) Photoshop
3 5 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.74%) Trello
5 3 (0.55%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.37%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.18%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 10 (1.85%) SAP PM
2 8 (1.48%) Shopify
3 5 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.74%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.37%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (0.37%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.37%) Primavera
6 1 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.18%) SAP BRIM
6 1 (0.18%) SAP PLM
6 1 (0.18%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 110 (20.33%) Power Platform
2 86 (15.90%) Azure
3 63 (11.65%) AWS
4 35 (6.47%) SaaS
5 25 (4.62%) Azure Data Factory
5 25 (4.62%) GCP
6 15 (2.77%) GitHub
7 14 (2.59%) Amazon S3
8 10 (1.85%) Amazon Kinesis
8 10 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (1.66%) Serverless
9 9 (1.66%) Snowflake
10 8 (1.48%) Asana
10 8 (1.48%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (1.48%) Power Automate
11 7 (1.29%) dbt
11 7 (1.29%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (1.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (1.11%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.11%) Broadband
1 6 (1.11%) Wireless
2 3 (0.55%) Modbus
2 3 (0.55%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.37%) Intranet
4 1 (0.18%) ADSL
4 1 (0.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (20.33%) Power BI
2 68 (12.57%) Tableau
3 42 (7.76%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (4.44%) Metadata
5 23 (4.25%) SQL Server
6 18 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 16 (2.96%) Power Query
8 15 (2.77%) Big Data
8 15 (2.77%) Data Lake
9 13 (2.40%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (2.03%) NoSQL
11 10 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
11 10 (1.85%) Apache Iceberg
11 10 (1.85%) Star Schema
12 9 (1.66%) Amazon QuickSight
12 9 (1.66%) Geospatial Data
12 9 (1.66%) Relational Database
13 8 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (1.29%) Hadoop
14 7 (1.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 27 (4.99%) JIRA
2 21 (3.88%) Git
2 21 (3.88%) Postman
3 5 (0.92%) MSI
3 5 (0.92%) Visual Studio
3 5 (0.92%) Vite
4 4 (0.74%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.37%) MLflow
5 2 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.18%) GitLab
6 1 (0.18%) SpecFlow
General
1 208 (38.45%) Social Skills
2 202 (37.34%) Analytical Skills
3 117 (21.63%) Finance
4 66 (12.20%) Law
5 63 (11.65%) Marketing
6 34 (6.28%) Legal
7 29 (5.36%) Games
7 29 (5.36%) Telecoms
8 28 (5.18%) Influencing Skills
9 26 (4.81%) Military
9 26 (4.81%) Retail
10 24 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
11 23 (4.25%) Back Office
11 23 (4.25%) Public Sector
12 21 (3.88%) Manufacturing
13 16 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 10 (1.85%) Banking
16 9 (1.66%) Billing
17 8 (1.48%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 112 (20.70%) Senior
2 88 (16.27%) Lead
3 87 (16.08%) Analyst
4 55 (10.17%) Data Engineer
5 37 (6.84%) Senior Manager
6 32 (5.91%) Architect
7 31 (5.73%) Data Analyst
8 22 (4.07%) Developer
9 21 (3.88%) Product Manager
10 20 (3.70%) Senior Architect
11 16 (2.96%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 16 (2.96%) Data Manager
11 16 (2.96%) Innovation Manager
12 14 (2.59%) Data Scientist
12 14 (2.59%) Performance Analyst
13 13 (2.40%) Business Analyst
13 13 (2.40%) Product Owner
14 11 (2.03%) Business Developer
15 10 (1.85%) Performance Manager
16 9 (1.66%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.51%) OpenAPI
1 19 (3.51%) RESTful
1 19 (3.51%) Swagger
2 15 (2.77%) Kafka
3 14 (2.59%) REST
4 9 (1.66%) .NET
4 9 (1.66%) Node.js
5 8 (1.48%) CSS
5 8 (1.48%) PyTorch
5 8 (1.48%) TensorFlow
6 7 (1.29%) JSON
7 6 (1.11%) HTML
7 6 (1.11%) React
7 6 (1.11%) scikit-learn
7 6 (1.11%) Vue
8 5 (0.92%) GraphQL
8 5 (0.92%) LEMP Stack
8 5 (0.92%) Play Framework
8 5 (0.92%) PySpark
8 5 (0.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (6.84%) Management Information System
2 31 (5.73%) Product Ownership
3 24 (4.44%) Data Structures
4 23 (4.25%) Cloud Native
5 22 (4.07%) Self-Motivation
6 19 (3.51%) Analytical Mindset
7 16 (2.96%) Algorithms
8 12 (2.22%) Social Media
9 11 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.48%) Onboarding
13 7 (1.29%) NHS
14 6 (1.11%) AI Agents
14 6 (1.11%) Reference Data
14 6 (1.11%) Virtual Team
15 5 (0.92%) Low-Code
15 5 (0.92%) Replication
16 4 (0.74%) Cyber Defence
16 4 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.66%) Linux
2 7 (1.29%) Windows
3 2 (0.37%) zOS
4 1 (0.18%) Android
4 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 417 (77.08%) Decision-Making
2 276 (51.02%) Analytics
3 151 (27.91%) Business Intelligence
4 150 (27.73%) Continuous Improvement
5 132 (24.40%) Problem-Solving
6 120 (22.18%) Agile
7 117 (21.63%) AI
8 93 (17.19%) Stakeholder Management
9 89 (16.45%) ETL
10 86 (15.90%) Roadmaps
11 85 (15.71%) Data Governance
11 85 (15.71%) Data Modelling
12 75 (13.86%) Visualisation
13 71 (13.12%) Actionable Insight
13 71 (13.12%) Data Analysis
14 62 (11.46%) Data Science
15 56 (10.35%) CI/CD
15 56 (10.35%) Data Pipeline
16 50 (9.24%) Project Management
17 47 (8.69%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 143 (26.43%) SQL
2 101 (18.67%) Python
3 19 (3.51%) R
4 17 (3.14%) JavaScript
5 16 (2.96%) Java
6 15 (2.77%) Bash
6 15 (2.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 12 (2.22%) T-SQL
8 9 (1.66%) Scala
9 6 (1.11%) PHP
9 6 (1.11%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.92%) Go
11 4 (0.74%) C#
12 3 (0.55%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.55%) VBA
13 2 (0.37%) COBOL
13 2 (0.37%) JCL
14 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.18%) SHACL
14 1 (0.18%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 90 (16.64%) Degree
2 29 (5.36%) PMI Certification
3 28 (5.18%) PMP
4 16 (2.96%) Security Cleared
5 13 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (1.85%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.48%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (1.29%) MBA
9 6 (1.11%) ACCA
9 6 (1.11%) CIMA
10 5 (0.92%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.92%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.92%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.92%) SC Cleared
11 3 (0.55%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.37%) HND
12 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (15.71%) Data Quality
2 16 (2.96%) QA
3 15 (2.77%) GDPR
4 10 (1.85%) Actionable Recommendations
5 9 (1.66%) SLA
6 8 (1.48%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.48%) PMO
7 4 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.55%) ISO 14001
8 3 (0.55%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.37%) GRC
10 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 16 (2.96%) Docker
2 2 (0.37%) RACF
3 1 (0.18%) IAG
Systems Management
1 19 (3.51%) Terraform
2 11 (2.03%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.29%) Ansible
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.18%) Autotask
5 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.18%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 60 (11.09%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.18%) Databricks
3 26 (4.81%) SAP
4 24 (4.44%) ServiceNow
5 21 (3.88%) Anaplan
6 20 (3.70%) Genesys
6 20 (3.70%) Verint
7 16 (2.96%) Google
8 14 (2.59%) Salesforce
9 11 (2.03%) HubSpot
10 6 (1.11%) Botify
11 5 (0.92%) BT
11 5 (0.92%) Foundry
11 5 (0.92%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.92%) Oracle
12 4 (0.74%) Alteryx
13 3 (0.55%) Informatica
13 3 (0.55%) Pardot
13 3 (0.55%) Sage
14 2 (0.37%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud