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 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 220 420
Rank change year-on-year -62 +200 +67
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 524 600 506
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.69% 1.42% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 1.52% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 304 300 390
10th Percentile £37,073 £43,625 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,813 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,499 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,500 £59,125 £52,550
% change year-on-year -1.06% +12.51% -12.42%

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 58,981 39,507 74,640
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.68% 93.49% 87.04%
Number of salaries quoted 35,808 22,230 56,250
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £29,079
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,887 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,410 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 21 March 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 21 March 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 -78 422 £62,500 -3.85% 296
UK excluding London -40 317 £58,500 -1.06% 226
London -60 156 £70,000 -6.67% 111
Work from Home -14 135 £67,500 +12.50% 118
North of England -42 88 £60,000 -0.33% 52
Midlands -28 63 £57,500 -4.17% 47
South East -24 62 £50,000 -11.11% 65
North West -14 59 £60,000 -4.30% 25
West Midlands -19 47 £57,500 -4.17% 23
Scotland -20 35 £32,500 -70.45% 11
East of England -2 22 £55,000 +2.33% 15
Yorkshire -41 22 £83,750 +39.58% 19
Northern Ireland - 22 £77,500 - 4
South West -54 17 £77,500 +40.91% 28
East Midlands -40 16 £39,449 -34.25% 24
Wales -17 10 £42,500 -46.88% 7
North East -18 7 £45,497 -24.17% 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 22 (4.20%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (2.48%) CMS
2 13 (2.48%) Confluence
3 11 (2.10%) Apache
3 11 (2.10%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.91%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.15%) SAS
6 5 (0.95%) IIS
6 5 (0.95%) nginx
7 4 (0.76%) Appian
7 4 (0.76%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.38%) CICS
8 2 (0.38%) MTS
9 1 (0.19%) Drupal
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 48 (9.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.53%) Trello
3 7 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.95%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (0.95%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.38%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.19%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (2.29%) Shopify
2 10 (1.91%) SAP PM
3 7 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.76%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.38%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.38%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 2 (0.38%) Primavera
7 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.19%) SAP PLM
7 1 (0.19%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 130 (24.81%) Power Platform
2 85 (16.22%) Azure
3 62 (11.83%) AWS
4 40 (7.63%) SaaS
5 26 (4.96%) GCP
6 19 (3.63%) Azure Data Factory
7 18 (3.44%) GitHub
8 12 (2.29%) Amazon S3
9 11 (2.10%) Snowflake
10 10 (1.91%) Amazon Kinesis
10 10 (1.91%) Google Analytics
11 9 (1.72%) Asana
11 9 (1.72%) Serverless
12 8 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (1.53%) Microsoft Copilot
12 8 (1.53%) PaaS
13 7 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (1.15%) Google Sheets
14 6 (1.15%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.15%) Broadband
1 6 (1.15%) Wireless
2 3 (0.57%) Modbus
2 3 (0.57%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.19%) 5G
3 1 (0.19%) ADSL
3 1 (0.19%) Internet
3 1 (0.19%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (24.43%) Power BI
2 68 (12.98%) Tableau
3 46 (8.78%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (5.34%) Metadata
5 21 (4.01%) SQL Server
6 20 (3.82%) Power Query
7 17 (3.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 14 (2.67%) Big Data
9 13 (2.48%) Data Lake
10 12 (2.29%) NoSQL
11 11 (2.10%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (1.91%) Amazon Athena
12 10 (1.91%) Apache Iceberg
12 10 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (1.72%) Amazon QuickSight
13 9 (1.72%) Geospatial Data
13 9 (1.72%) Relational Database
13 9 (1.72%) Star Schema
14 7 (1.34%) Hadoop
14 7 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 33 (6.30%) JIRA
2 21 (4.01%) Git
3 20 (3.82%) Postman
4 9 (1.72%) Visual Studio
5 5 (0.95%) MSI
5 5 (0.95%) Vite
6 4 (0.76%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.38%) MLflow
7 2 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.19%) GitLab
8 1 (0.19%) Selenium
8 1 (0.19%) SpecFlow
General
1 213 (40.65%) Social Skills
2 204 (38.93%) Analytical Skills
3 120 (22.90%) Finance
4 76 (14.50%) Marketing
5 52 (9.92%) Law
6 38 (7.25%) Legal
7 35 (6.68%) Retail
8 30 (5.73%) Games
9 29 (5.53%) Public Sector
10 27 (5.15%) Presentation Skills
11 26 (4.96%) Influencing Skills
11 26 (4.96%) Manufacturing
12 21 (4.01%) Telecoms
13 19 (3.63%) Organisational Skills
14 16 (3.05%) Military
15 15 (2.86%) Banking
16 14 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 13 (2.48%) Back Office
18 8 (1.53%) Billing
18 8 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 97 (18.51%) Senior
2 84 (16.03%) Analyst
3 76 (14.50%) Lead
4 52 (9.92%) Data Engineer
5 40 (7.63%) Senior Manager
6 37 (7.06%) Data Analyst
7 32 (6.11%) Architect
8 23 (4.39%) Product Manager
9 21 (4.01%) Developer
10 20 (3.82%) Senior Architect
11 16 (3.05%) Innovation Manager
12 15 (2.86%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 15 (2.86%) Data Manager
13 14 (2.67%) Product Owner
14 13 (2.48%) Business Analyst
14 13 (2.48%) Data Scientist
14 13 (2.48%) Senior Analyst
15 12 (2.29%) E-Commerce Manager
15 12 (2.29%) Performance Manager
16 11 (2.10%) Business Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.63%) OpenAPI
1 19 (3.63%) RESTful
1 19 (3.63%) Swagger
2 15 (2.86%) Kafka
2 15 (2.86%) REST
3 12 (2.29%) JSON
4 10 (1.91%) .NET
5 9 (1.72%) Node.js
6 8 (1.53%) CSS
7 7 (1.34%) PyTorch
7 7 (1.34%) React
7 7 (1.34%) TensorFlow
7 7 (1.34%) Vue
8 6 (1.15%) HTML
8 6 (1.15%) Middleware
9 5 (0.95%) Laravel
9 5 (0.95%) Play Framework
9 5 (0.95%) scikit-learn
9 5 (0.95%) Tailwind CSS
9 5 (0.95%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (7.06%) Management Information System
1 37 (7.06%) Product Ownership
2 24 (4.58%) Self-Motivation
3 23 (4.39%) Data Structures
4 19 (3.63%) Algorithms
5 18 (3.44%) Analytical Mindset
5 18 (3.44%) Cloud Native
6 16 (3.05%) Social Media
7 13 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.53%) NHS
11 7 (1.34%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.34%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.15%) Reference Data
13 5 (0.95%) AI Agents
13 5 (0.95%) Replication
14 4 (0.76%) Cyber Defence
14 4 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (0.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.53%) Windows
2 7 (1.34%) Linux
3 2 (0.38%) zOS
4 1 (0.19%) Android
4 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 411 (78.44%) Decision-Making
2 280 (53.44%) Analytics
3 169 (32.25%) Business Intelligence
4 151 (28.82%) Continuous Improvement
5 130 (24.81%) Agile
6 118 (22.52%) AI
6 118 (22.52%) Problem-Solving
7 100 (19.08%) Stakeholder Management
8 98 (18.70%) Roadmaps
9 94 (17.94%) ETL
10 88 (16.79%) Data Modelling
11 83 (15.84%) Visualisation
12 78 (14.89%) Data Analysis
12 78 (14.89%) Data Governance
13 76 (14.50%) Actionable Insight
14 65 (12.40%) Data Science
15 57 (10.88%) Machine Learning
16 54 (10.31%) Data Engineering
16 54 (10.31%) Project Management
17 53 (10.11%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 153 (29.20%) SQL
2 107 (20.42%) Python
3 23 (4.39%) R
4 18 (3.44%) JavaScript
5 16 (3.05%) Java
6 15 (2.86%) Bash
6 15 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 12 (2.29%) T-SQL
8 7 (1.34%) Scala
9 6 (1.15%) PHP
9 6 (1.15%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.95%) Go
11 4 (0.76%) C#
12 3 (0.57%) VBA
13 2 (0.38%) COBOL
13 2 (0.38%) JCL
14 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.19%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.19%) SHACL
14 1 (0.19%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 98 (18.70%) Degree
2 31 (5.92%) PMI Certification
3 30 (5.73%) PMP
4 12 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (2.29%) Security Cleared
5 11 (2.10%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.53%) ITIL Certification
7 7 (1.34%) MBA
8 6 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.95%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.57%) ACCA
10 3 (0.57%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.57%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.57%) CIMA
10 3 (0.57%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.57%) SC Cleared
11 2 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.38%) HND
12 1 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (15.46%) Data Quality
2 19 (3.63%) GDPR
2 19 (3.63%) QA
3 10 (1.91%) Actionable Recommendations
3 10 (1.91%) SLA
4 7 (1.34%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.15%) PMO
6 4 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.57%) ISO 14001
7 3 (0.57%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.19%) GMP
9 1 (0.19%) GRC
9 1 (0.19%) IFRS
9 1 (0.19%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.19%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (3.05%) Docker
2 2 (0.38%) RACF
Systems Management
1 18 (3.44%) Terraform
2 9 (1.72%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.95%) Ansible
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.19%) Autotask
5 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.19%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 72 (13.74%) Microsoft
2 31 (5.92%) Databricks
3 26 (4.96%) SAP
3 26 (4.96%) ServiceNow
4 21 (4.01%) Anaplan
5 20 (3.82%) Genesys
5 20 (3.82%) Verint
6 19 (3.63%) Google
7 16 (3.05%) Salesforce
8 11 (2.10%) HubSpot
9 8 (1.53%) Oracle
10 6 (1.15%) Botify
10 6 (1.15%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.95%) Alteryx
11 5 (0.95%) BT
11 5 (0.95%) Foundry
12 3 (0.57%) Informatica
12 3 (0.57%) Mercator
12 3 (0.57%) Workday
13 2 (0.38%) Pardot