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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 223 420
Rank change year-on-year -117 +197 +55
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 522 715 592
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.58% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 1.71% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 378 314 420
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,188 £50,125 £46,805
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,719 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% +7.94% -6.25%
75th Percentile £72,500 £83,438 £77,728
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £57,500 £52,550
% change year-on-year -7.53% +9.42% -

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 69,638 41,796 87,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.33% 92.22% 82.12%
Number of salaries quoted 48,019 22,539 62,354
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £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% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,679 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.36% - -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 25 June 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 25 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
England -107 471 £60,000 -1.22% 314
UK excluding London -69 351 £53,171 -7.53% 222
Work from Home -43 148 £57,500 - 106
North of England +1 145 £57,500 - 54
London -142 125 £80,000 +6.67% 144
North West +42 119 £57,500 - 30
Midlands -22 88 £48,500 -15.65% 44
West Midlands -16 61 £49,928 -13.17% 25
South East -64 54 £50,000 -23.08% 67
East of England -8 29 £60,000 +37.93% 20
East Midlands -34 27 £47,500 -17.39% 18
Yorkshire -40 20 £51,250 -10.87% 16
South West -86 16 £70,000 +50.54% 26
Scotland -17 15 £32,500 -60.61% 9
Wales -42 6 £52,835 -20.32% 6
North East -43 6 £45,497 -20.87% 9

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 17 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (2.11%) CMS
3 10 (1.92%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.53%) Apache
4 8 (1.53%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.53%) Confluence
5 4 (0.77%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.77%) nginx
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 41 (7.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.77%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.77%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.57%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.92%) SAP PM
2 7 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.77%) Shopify
5 2 (0.38%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (0.38%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.38%) Primavera
6 1 (0.19%) FastStats
6 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.19%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.19%) SAP BRIM
6 1 (0.19%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.19%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 103 (19.73%) Azure
2 90 (17.24%) Power Platform
3 62 (11.88%) AWS
4 35 (6.70%) GCP
5 33 (6.32%) Azure Data Factory
6 27 (5.17%) SaaS
7 11 (2.11%) Amazon S3
7 11 (2.11%) GitHub
7 11 (2.11%) Serverless
8 9 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (1.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (1.53%) Snowflake
10 7 (1.34%) Amazon Kinesis
10 7 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (1.34%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (1.34%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (1.15%) dbt
11 6 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.15%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.15%) Broadband
2 4 (0.77%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.57%) Intranet
3 3 (0.57%) 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 (17.24%) Power BI
2 52 (9.96%) Tableau
3 50 (9.58%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (3.83%) Metadata
4 20 (3.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 19 (3.64%) Data Lake
6 18 (3.45%) SQL Server
7 12 (2.30%) BigQuery
7 12 (2.30%) Power Query
8 11 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (2.11%) Star Schema
9 9 (1.72%) Looker
9 9 (1.72%) MongoDB
10 8 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (1.53%) NoSQL
10 8 (1.53%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 7 (1.34%) Big Data
11 7 (1.34%) MySQL
12 6 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 22 (4.21%) Git
2 19 (3.64%) JIRA
3 17 (3.26%) Postman
4 7 (1.34%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.77%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.77%) Vite
6 3 (0.57%) Selenium
6 3 (0.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.19%) MLflow
7 1 (0.19%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 188 (36.02%) Social Skills
2 151 (28.93%) Analytical Skills
3 108 (20.69%) Finance
4 59 (11.30%) Law
5 52 (9.96%) Marketing
6 39 (7.47%) Public Sector
7 37 (7.09%) Legal
8 36 (6.90%) Influencing Skills
8 36 (6.90%) Telecoms
9 26 (4.98%) Manufacturing
9 26 (4.98%) Military
10 25 (4.79%) Back Office
11 24 (4.60%) Retail
12 20 (3.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (1.92%) Banking
15 9 (1.72%) Aerospace
15 9 (1.72%) Billing
15 9 (1.72%) Games
16 4 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 93 (17.82%) Senior
2 92 (17.62%) Analyst
3 77 (14.75%) Lead
4 55 (10.54%) Data Engineer
5 37 (7.09%) Data Analyst
6 32 (6.13%) Developer
7 21 (4.02%) Architect
7 21 (4.02%) Product Owner
8 20 (3.83%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 18 (3.45%) Performance Analyst
10 17 (3.26%) Data Manager
11 16 (3.07%) Data Architect
11 16 (3.07%) Data Scientist
11 16 (3.07%) Senior Manager
12 15 (2.87%) Microsoft Engineer
13 14 (2.68%) Platform Engineer
13 14 (2.68%) Product Manager
14 12 (2.30%) Principal Engineer
15 11 (2.11%) Analytics Manager
15 11 (2.11%) Performance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.79%) Kafka
2 18 (3.45%) .NET
3 15 (2.87%) OpenAPI
3 15 (2.87%) RESTful
3 15 (2.87%) Swagger
4 11 (2.11%) REST
5 10 (1.92%) .NET Framework
6 9 (1.72%) ASP.NET
6 9 (1.72%) ASP.NET Core
6 9 (1.72%) ASP.NET Web API
6 9 (1.72%) Entity Framework
7 6 (1.15%) Node.js
7 6 (1.15%) Spring
8 5 (0.96%) CSS
8 5 (0.96%) HTML
8 5 (0.96%) JSON
8 5 (0.96%) Spring Boot
8 5 (0.96%) Vue
8 5 (0.96%) YAML
9 4 (0.77%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 40 (7.66%) Product Ownership
2 38 (7.28%) Cloud Native
3 24 (4.60%) Management Information System
4 21 (4.02%) Data Structures
5 16 (3.07%) Onboarding
5 16 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (2.49%) Algorithms
6 13 (2.49%) Analytical Mindset
6 13 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (1.92%) Social Media
8 6 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.15%) Low-Code
8 6 (1.15%) Replication
8 6 (1.15%) Virtual Team
9 5 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (0.96%) IoT
9 5 (0.96%) Security Posture
10 4 (0.77%) Cyber Defence
10 4 (0.77%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.92%) Linux
2 4 (0.77%) Windows
3 1 (0.19%) Android
3 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (71.65%) Decision-Making
2 259 (49.62%) Analytics
3 128 (24.52%) Business Intelligence
4 127 (24.33%) Agile
5 118 (22.61%) Problem-Solving
6 112 (21.46%) AI
7 108 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 96 (18.39%) Roadmaps
9 90 (17.24%) Data Governance
10 88 (16.86%) Data Modelling
11 78 (14.94%) ETL
12 69 (13.22%) Stakeholder Management
12 69 (13.22%) Visualisation
13 65 (12.45%) CI/CD
14 63 (12.07%) Data Pipeline
15 59 (11.30%) Data Analysis
16 56 (10.73%) Actionable Insight
17 54 (10.34%) Mentoring
18 53 (10.15%) DevOps
18 53 (10.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 132 (25.29%) SQL
2 85 (16.28%) Python
3 21 (4.02%) JavaScript
4 20 (3.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 14 (2.68%) C#
6 12 (2.30%) R
7 11 (2.11%) Bash
7 11 (2.11%) Java
7 11 (2.11%) T-SQL
7 11 (2.11%) TypeScript
8 7 (1.34%) Scala
9 4 (0.77%) PHP
10 3 (0.57%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.57%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.57%) VBA
11 2 (0.38%) Ruby
12 1 (0.19%) Bicep
12 1 (0.19%) C++
12 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 57 (10.92%) Degree
2 24 (4.60%) Security Cleared
3 12 (2.30%) SC Cleared
4 10 (1.92%) ACCA
4 10 (1.92%) CIMA
4 10 (1.92%) Master's Degree
5 7 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (0.96%) Azure Certification
7 5 (0.96%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.77%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.57%) CSPO
9 3 (0.57%) MBA
10 2 (0.38%) HND
10 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.19%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.19%) CBAP
11 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (15.52%) Data Quality
2 28 (5.36%) GDPR
3 19 (3.64%) QA
4 12 (2.30%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.15%) PMO
5 6 (1.15%) SLA
6 5 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.57%) GRC
8 3 (0.57%) ISO 14001
8 3 (0.57%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (2.68%) Docker
2 2 (0.38%) IAG
3 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (4.79%) Terraform
2 18 (3.45%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.57%) Ansible
4 1 (0.19%) Autotask
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.19%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 75 (14.37%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.75%) SAP
3 25 (4.79%) Databricks
4 19 (3.64%) Google
5 10 (1.92%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.34%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.15%) Botify
7 6 (1.15%) Foundry
8 5 (0.96%) Alteryx
8 5 (0.96%) Oracle
9 4 (0.77%) Freshdesk
10 3 (0.57%) BiZZdesign
10 3 (0.57%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.57%) Pardot
10 3 (0.57%) Sage
10 3 (0.57%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.57%) Splunk
11 2 (0.38%) Cognos
11 2 (0.38%) NEC
11 2 (0.38%) OpenAI