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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 213 395
Rank change year-on-year -108 +182 +51
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 617 771 512
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 1.54% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 1.73% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 420 305 313
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £42,650 £45,357 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,125 £107,000 £97,350
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +10.00%

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 80,366 44,460 65,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.09% 88.73% 80.84%
Number of salaries quoted 55,743 25,365 40,240
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -6.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -6.86% -7.07%

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 31 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK

Data-Driven Decision Making
Top 16 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 31 August 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 -97 564 £57,500 -4.17% 433
UK excluding London -128 415 £53,171 -3.33% 235
North of England +11 194 £50,000 -13.04% 57
Work from Home -42 159 £52,500 -8.70% 166
London -78 158 £80,000 +6.67% 271
North West +44 140 £55,000 -4.35% 32
Midlands -33 84 £52,500 -8.70% 26
South East -124 68 £58,750 +6.82% 67
West Midlands -27 54 £51,356 -10.69% 20
Yorkshire -22 40 £42,500 -26.09% 18
East of England -3 32 £60,000 +39.26% 16
East Midlands -24 30 £52,500 -8.70% 6
South West -75 21 £60,000 +29.03% 43
North East -49 14 £68,750 +19.57% 7
Scotland -69 10 £55,000 +0.26% 21
Wales -67 6 £53,171 -11.38% 3

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 15 (2.43%) Confluence
2 8 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (1.30%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.49%) Apache
3 3 (0.49%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.49%) CMS
3 3 (0.49%) GeoServer
4 2 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 47 (7.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.65%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.49%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.46%) SAP PM
1 9 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.49%) Actimize
2 3 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.32%) Primavera
3 2 (0.32%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.32%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.16%) FastStats
4 1 (0.16%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
4 1 (0.16%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 108 (17.50%) Power Platform
2 92 (14.91%) Azure
3 72 (11.67%) AWS
4 42 (6.81%) GCP
5 36 (5.83%) SaaS
6 27 (4.38%) Azure Data Factory
7 24 (3.89%) Google Analytics
8 23 (3.73%) Snowflake
9 18 (2.92%) Serverless
10 17 (2.76%) dbt
11 15 (2.43%) GitHub
12 12 (1.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 12 (1.94%) Microsoft Purview
13 11 (1.78%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (1.78%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (1.62%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (1.46%) Amazon S3
16 8 (1.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 8 (1.30%) Copilot Studio
17 7 (1.13%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.97%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.49%) Intranet
2 3 (0.49%) Modbus
3 2 (0.32%) DNS
3 2 (0.32%) Internet
3 2 (0.32%) SSL
3 2 (0.32%) VPN
4 1 (0.16%) Broadband
4 1 (0.16%) Firewall
4 1 (0.16%) GoToMeeting
4 1 (0.16%) MQTT
4 1 (0.16%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.16%) WebEx
4 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (17.50%) Power BI
2 60 (9.72%) Data Warehouse
3 49 (7.94%) Tableau
4 27 (4.38%) Looker
5 26 (4.21%) BigQuery
6 24 (3.89%) Data Lake
7 17 (2.76%) Relational Database
7 17 (2.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 15 (2.43%) Power Query
9 13 (2.11%) Metadata
10 12 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (1.94%) MongoDB
10 12 (1.94%) SQL Server
10 12 (1.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 10 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (1.46%) NoSQL
12 9 (1.46%) Star Schema
13 5 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.81%) Geospatial Data
13 5 (0.81%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 38 (6.16%) JIRA
2 16 (2.59%) Git
3 10 (1.62%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.65%) Claude Code
4 4 (0.65%) Postman
4 4 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (0.49%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.49%) Selenium
6 2 (0.32%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 203 (32.90%) Social Skills
2 195 (31.60%) Analytical Skills
3 176 (28.53%) Finance
4 76 (12.32%) Marketing
5 56 (9.08%) Influencing Skills
6 54 (8.75%) Law
6 54 (8.75%) Public Sector
7 43 (6.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 37 (6.00%) Retail
9 35 (5.67%) Telecoms
10 33 (5.35%) Manufacturing
11 32 (5.19%) Legal
12 31 (5.02%) Banking
13 28 (4.54%) Back Office
14 27 (4.38%) Military
15 13 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
16 11 (1.78%) Aerospace
17 10 (1.62%) Electronics
17 10 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
18 8 (1.30%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 114 (18.48%) Analyst
2 110 (17.83%) Senior
3 90 (14.59%) Lead
4 40 (6.48%) Data Engineer
5 36 (5.83%) Data Analyst
6 28 (4.54%) Software Engineer
7 26 (4.21%) Architect
8 24 (3.89%) Analytics Manager
8 24 (3.89%) Developer
9 23 (3.73%) Senior Manager
10 22 (3.57%) Product Owner
11 19 (3.08%) Data Manager
11 19 (3.08%) Performance Analyst
12 18 (2.92%) Data Architect
13 17 (2.76%) Data Scientist
13 17 (2.76%) Senior Software Engineer
14 15 (2.43%) Principal Engineer
14 15 (2.43%) Product Manager
15 14 (2.27%) IT Analyst
16 13 (2.11%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (5.35%) Kafka
2 24 (3.89%) Spring
3 22 (3.57%) Terraform
4 15 (2.43%) .NET
5 12 (1.94%) Spring Boot
6 9 (1.46%) .NET Framework
6 9 (1.46%) ASP.NET
6 9 (1.46%) ASP.NET Core
6 9 (1.46%) ASP.NET Web API
6 9 (1.46%) Entity Framework
6 9 (1.46%) React
7 8 (1.30%) REST
8 7 (1.13%) Node.js
8 7 (1.13%) RESTful
9 6 (0.97%) PyTorch
9 6 (0.97%) scikit-learn
9 6 (0.97%) TensorFlow
10 4 (0.65%) AWS CDK
10 4 (0.65%) GraphQL
10 4 (0.65%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 48 (7.78%) Product Ownership
2 47 (7.62%) Cloud Native
3 28 (4.54%) Onboarding
4 22 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (3.57%) Management Information System
5 16 (2.59%) Algorithms
6 12 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
7 11 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.46%) Blog
8 9 (1.46%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (1.30%) Replication
9 8 (1.30%) Social Media
10 7 (1.13%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.13%) Low-Code
10 7 (1.13%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.13%) Security Posture
11 6 (0.97%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.97%) Linux
2 3 (0.49%) Android
2 3 (0.49%) Apple iOS
2 3 (0.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 451 (73.10%) Decision-Making
2 284 (46.03%) Analytics
3 164 (26.58%) AI
4 144 (23.34%) Agile
5 140 (22.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 137 (22.20%) Business Intelligence
7 136 (22.04%) Problem-Solving
8 116 (18.80%) Stakeholder Management
9 98 (15.88%) Roadmaps
10 94 (15.24%) Data Governance
11 88 (14.26%) Data Modelling
11 88 (14.26%) Visualisation
12 80 (12.97%) Mentoring
13 71 (11.51%) Actionable Insight
14 70 (11.35%) Data Science
15 69 (11.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 65 (10.53%) Machine Learning
17 61 (9.89%) CI/CD
18 59 (9.56%) Data Pipeline
18 59 (9.56%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 139 (22.53%) SQL
2 86 (13.94%) Python
3 28 (4.54%) Java
4 23 (3.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 23 (3.73%) JavaScript
5 15 (2.43%) TypeScript
6 14 (2.27%) C#
7 12 (1.94%) R
8 9 (1.46%) Kotlin
9 8 (1.30%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.97%) Scala
11 3 (0.49%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.32%) C++
12 2 (0.32%) Ruby
13 1 (0.16%) Bash
13 1 (0.16%) Groovy
13 1 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 75 (12.16%) Degree
2 39 (6.32%) Security Cleared
3 30 (4.86%) SC Cleared
4 15 (2.43%) ITIL Certification
5 11 (1.78%) ACCA
5 11 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (1.78%) CIMA
6 9 (1.46%) DV Cleared
6 9 (1.46%) TOGAF Certification
7 8 (1.30%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.65%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.49%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.49%) CSPO
10 3 (0.49%) PhD
10 3 (0.49%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 2 (0.32%) CREST Certified
11 2 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.16%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.16%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (14.26%) Data Quality
2 39 (6.32%) GDPR
3 34 (5.51%) QA
4 21 (3.40%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.94%) GRC
6 8 (1.30%) SLA
7 6 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 4 (0.65%) PMO
10 3 (0.49%) AQAP
10 3 (0.49%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.16%) GxP
11 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (1.94%) Docker
2 2 (0.32%) IAG
3 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (2.92%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.32%) Ansible
4 1 (0.16%) Autotask
4 1 (0.16%) Grafana
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.16%) Rancher
4 1 (0.16%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 85 (13.78%) Microsoft
2 43 (6.97%) Google
3 30 (4.86%) SAP
4 26 (4.21%) Databricks
5 12 (1.94%) Salesforce
6 8 (1.30%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.13%) Foundry
8 6 (0.97%) YouTube
9 5 (0.81%) Dynatrace
9 5 (0.81%) HubSpot
9 5 (0.81%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.65%) Freshdesk
10 4 (0.65%) Oracle
10 4 (0.65%) Splunk
10 4 (0.65%) TikTok
11 3 (0.49%) BiZZdesign
11 3 (0.49%) NCR
11 3 (0.49%) Pinterest
11 3 (0.49%) Sage
11 3 (0.49%) Veritas