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 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 222 427
Rank change year-on-year -120 +205 +46
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 531 725 586
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.52% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 1.67% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 385 328 411
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £48,938 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,732 £60,609 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.45% +10.20% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,813 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £57,500 £52,550
% change year-on-year -7.53% +9.42% +0.10%

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 71,201 43,352 86,215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.63% 91.03% 82.05%
Number of salaries quoted 49,187 23,974 60,816
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,738 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.48% - -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 4 July 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 4 July 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 -107 477 £60,000 -1.22% 412
UK excluding London -74 357 £53,171 -7.53% 256
North of England +12 149 £57,500 - 64
Work from Home -51 149 £55,000 -6.18% 139
London -133 125 £80,000 +6.67% 209
North West +30 122 £57,500 - 34
Midlands -31 85 £48,500 -15.65% 44
South East -64 57 £50,000 -23.08% 75
West Midlands -28 56 £49,928 -13.17% 27
East of England -13 30 £60,000 +37.93% 24
East Midlands -20 29 £47,500 -17.39% 16
Yorkshire -35 21 £55,000 -4.35% 18
South West -97 17 £70,000 +50.54% 28
Scotland -11 15 £32,500 -60.61% 11
North East -41 6 £45,497 -20.87% 13
Wales -42 6 £52,835 -3.94% 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 15 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (2.26%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.69%) CMS
4 8 (1.51%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.51%) Confluence
5 6 (1.13%) Apache
6 4 (0.75%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.38%) nginx
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 44 (8.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.56%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.38%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.88%) SAP PM
2 7 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.38%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 2 (0.38%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.38%) Primavera
4 2 (0.38%) Shopify
5 1 (0.19%) FastStats
5 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.19%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.19%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.19%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.19%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 102 (19.21%) Azure
2 90 (16.95%) Power Platform
3 59 (11.11%) AWS
4 36 (6.78%) GCP
5 35 (6.59%) Azure Data Factory
6 27 (5.08%) SaaS
7 11 (2.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 11 (2.07%) Microsoft Purview
7 11 (2.07%) Serverless
8 10 (1.88%) GitHub
9 9 (1.69%) Amazon S3
9 9 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (1.69%) Snowflake
10 8 (1.51%) Microsoft Copilot
10 8 (1.51%) Power Automate
11 7 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (1.32%) dbt
12 6 (1.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 6 (1.13%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.13%) Broadband
2 4 (0.75%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.56%) Intranet
3 3 (0.56%) Modbus
4 1 (0.19%) Firewall
4 1 (0.19%) MQTT
4 1 (0.19%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.19%) WebEx
4 1 (0.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (16.95%) Power BI
2 54 (10.17%) Data Warehouse
3 51 (9.60%) Tableau
4 21 (3.95%) Data Lake
5 20 (3.77%) Metadata
5 20 (3.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 18 (3.39%) SQL Server
7 12 (2.26%) BigQuery
7 12 (2.26%) Power Query
8 11 (2.07%) Star Schema
9 10 (1.88%) Looker
10 9 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (1.69%) MongoDB
11 8 (1.51%) NoSQL
11 8 (1.51%) Relational Database
11 8 (1.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (1.32%) Big Data
13 6 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
14 5 (0.94%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 21 (3.95%) JIRA
2 19 (3.58%) Git
3 15 (2.82%) Postman
4 7 (1.32%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.75%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.56%) Selenium
6 3 (0.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.38%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.38%) Vite
8 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.19%) MLflow
8 1 (0.19%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 197 (37.10%) Social Skills
2 158 (29.76%) Analytical Skills
3 114 (21.47%) Finance
4 58 (10.92%) Law
5 54 (10.17%) Marketing
6 39 (7.34%) Legal
6 39 (7.34%) Public Sector
7 37 (6.97%) Telecoms
8 36 (6.78%) Influencing Skills
9 28 (5.27%) Manufacturing
10 26 (4.90%) Military
11 25 (4.71%) Back Office
12 24 (4.52%) Retail
13 21 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 15 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
15 10 (1.88%) Banking
16 9 (1.69%) Aerospace
16 9 (1.69%) Billing
16 9 (1.69%) Games
17 6 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 97 (18.27%) Senior
2 93 (17.51%) Analyst
3 76 (14.31%) Lead
4 54 (10.17%) Data Engineer
5 36 (6.78%) Data Analyst
6 32 (6.03%) Developer
7 24 (4.52%) Architect
8 19 (3.58%) Data Manager
8 19 (3.58%) Product Owner
9 18 (3.39%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 18 (3.39%) Data Architect
9 18 (3.39%) Data Scientist
9 18 (3.39%) Performance Analyst
10 16 (3.01%) Product Manager
10 16 (3.01%) Senior Manager
11 15 (2.82%) Microsoft Engineer
12 14 (2.64%) Platform Engineer
13 12 (2.26%) Principal Engineer
14 11 (2.07%) Performance Manager
14 11 (2.07%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (4.33%) Kafka
2 18 (3.39%) .NET
3 13 (2.45%) OpenAPI
3 13 (2.45%) RESTful
3 13 (2.45%) Swagger
4 12 (2.26%) REST
5 10 (1.88%) .NET Framework
6 9 (1.69%) ASP.NET
6 9 (1.69%) ASP.NET Core
6 9 (1.69%) ASP.NET Web API
6 9 (1.69%) Entity Framework
7 6 (1.13%) Node.js
7 6 (1.13%) Spring
8 5 (0.94%) JSON
8 5 (0.94%) React
8 5 (0.94%) Spring Boot
9 4 (0.75%) gRPC
9 4 (0.75%) Leaflet
9 4 (0.75%) OpenLayers
9 4 (0.75%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 41 (7.72%) Product Ownership
2 39 (7.34%) Cloud Native
3 25 (4.71%) Management Information System
4 19 (3.58%) Data Structures
5 17 (3.20%) Onboarding
6 15 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (2.64%) Algorithms
8 13 (2.45%) Analytical Mindset
8 13 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (2.07%) Social Media
10 7 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.32%) Low-Code
11 6 (1.13%) Replication
11 6 (1.13%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.94%) Blog
12 5 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (0.94%) IoT
12 5 (0.94%) Security Posture
13 4 (0.75%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.51%) Linux
2 4 (0.75%) Windows
3 1 (0.19%) Android
3 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 386 (72.69%) Decision-Making
2 263 (49.53%) Analytics
3 131 (24.67%) Agile
4 126 (23.73%) Business Intelligence
5 120 (22.60%) AI
5 120 (22.60%) Problem-Solving
6 119 (22.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 95 (17.89%) Roadmaps
8 90 (16.95%) Data Governance
9 88 (16.57%) Data Modelling
10 76 (14.31%) ETL
11 73 (13.75%) Stakeholder Management
12 69 (12.99%) Visualisation
13 65 (12.24%) CI/CD
14 63 (11.86%) Data Pipeline
15 58 (10.92%) Mentoring
15 58 (10.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 57 (10.73%) Actionable Insight
17 56 (10.55%) Data Analysis
18 54 (10.17%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 128 (24.11%) SQL
2 84 (15.82%) Python
3 20 (3.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 20 (3.77%) JavaScript
4 14 (2.64%) C#
5 12 (2.26%) R
6 11 (2.07%) Java
6 11 (2.07%) T-SQL
6 11 (2.07%) TypeScript
7 7 (1.32%) Bash
7 7 (1.32%) Scala
8 3 (0.56%) Kotlin
8 3 (0.56%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.56%) VBA
9 2 (0.38%) PHP
9 2 (0.38%) Ruby
10 1 (0.19%) Bicep
10 1 (0.19%) C++
10 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 59 (11.11%) Degree
2 26 (4.90%) Security Cleared
3 12 (2.26%) SC Cleared
4 11 (2.07%) Master's Degree
5 10 (1.88%) ACCA
5 10 (1.88%) CIMA
6 8 (1.51%) TOGAF Certification
7 7 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.94%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.94%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.75%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.56%) CSPO
10 3 (0.56%) MBA
11 2 (0.38%) HND
11 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.19%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.19%) CBAP
12 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (15.25%) Data Quality
2 28 (5.27%) GDPR
3 18 (3.39%) QA
4 13 (2.45%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.32%) SLA
6 6 (1.13%) PMO
7 5 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.75%) GRC
9 3 (0.56%) ISO 14001
9 3 (0.56%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (2.26%) Docker
2 2 (0.38%) IAG
3 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (4.71%) Terraform
2 18 (3.39%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.56%) Ansible
4 1 (0.19%) Autotask
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.19%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 81 (15.25%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.65%) SAP
3 27 (5.08%) Databricks
4 21 (3.95%) Google
5 10 (1.88%) Salesforce
6 8 (1.51%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.13%) Botify
7 6 (1.13%) Foundry
8 5 (0.94%) Alteryx
8 5 (0.94%) Oracle
9 4 (0.75%) Freshdesk
9 4 (0.75%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.56%) BiZZdesign
10 3 (0.56%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.56%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.56%) Pardot
10 3 (0.56%) Sage
10 3 (0.56%) Splunk
11 2 (0.38%) Cognos
11 2 (0.38%) NEC