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 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 209 390
Rank change year-on-year -126 +181 +30
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 611 751 498
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.51% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 1.71% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 415 300 288
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,813 £41,263
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £81,450
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.35% +15.00%

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 82,210 43,908 63,272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.10% 88.55% 80.74%
Number of salaries quoted 57,176 24,796 36,704
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 9 September 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 9 September 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 -104 558 £58,396 -2.67% 864
UK excluding London -123 407 £53,171 -3.33% 429
North of England +19 185 £50,000 -11.11% 101
Work from Home -35 162 £52,500 -8.70% 361
London -75 161 £82,500 +10.00% 550
North West +31 129 £53,839 -2.11% 57
Midlands -41 84 £51,356 -10.69% 60
South East -133 66 £60,000 +9.09% 96
West Midlands -29 57 £51,356 -10.69% 31
Yorkshire -21 42 £42,500 -19.05% 29
East of England -25 31 £60,000 +39.26% 42
East Midlands -33 27 £52,500 -8.70% 29
South West -73 24 £60,000 +29.03% 51
North East -53 14 £68,750 +19.57% 15
Scotland -61 10 £55,000 +0.26% 51
Wales -69 7 £53,171 -11.38% 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 19 (3.11%) Confluence
2 8 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (1.31%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.49%) Apache
3 3 (0.49%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.33%) SAS
5 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.16%) CMS
5 1 (0.16%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 50 (8.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.15%) 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 10 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.65%) Actimize
2 4 (0.65%) SAP PM
3 3 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.33%) FastStats
4 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.33%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.33%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.16%) Primavera
5 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.16%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 115 (18.82%) Power Platform
2 92 (15.06%) Azure
3 65 (10.64%) AWS
4 39 (6.38%) GCP
4 39 (6.38%) SaaS
5 29 (4.75%) Azure Data Factory
6 24 (3.93%) Google Analytics
7 23 (3.76%) Snowflake
8 17 (2.78%) dbt
8 17 (2.78%) Serverless
9 15 (2.45%) GitHub
10 13 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 13 (2.13%) Microsoft Purview
11 12 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (1.96%) Copilot Studio
11 12 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (1.80%) Anthropic Claude
12 11 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (1.47%) Amazon S3
14 8 (1.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.82%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.49%) DNS
2 3 (0.49%) Internet
2 3 (0.49%) Intranet
2 3 (0.49%) SSL
2 3 (0.49%) VPN
3 2 (0.33%) WebEx
4 1 (0.16%) 5G
4 1 (0.16%) Broadband
4 1 (0.16%) Firewall
4 1 (0.16%) GoToMeeting
4 1 (0.16%) Modbus
4 1 (0.16%) MQTT
4 1 (0.16%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.16%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (18.82%) Power BI
2 64 (10.47%) Data Warehouse
3 44 (7.20%) Tableau
4 27 (4.42%) Looker
5 26 (4.26%) BigQuery
6 24 (3.93%) Data Lake
7 18 (2.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 17 (2.78%) Power Query
8 17 (2.78%) Relational Database
9 14 (2.29%) Metadata
10 13 (2.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 12 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
11 12 (1.96%) MongoDB
12 11 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
12 11 (1.80%) SQL Server
13 9 (1.47%) Star Schema
14 7 (1.15%) NoSQL
15 5 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (0.82%) Semantic Layer
16 4 (0.65%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 42 (6.87%) JIRA
2 17 (2.78%) Git
3 9 (1.47%) 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 (0.33%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 197 (32.24%) Analytical Skills
2 195 (31.91%) Social Skills
3 183 (29.95%) Finance
4 75 (12.27%) Marketing
5 56 (9.17%) Influencing Skills
6 54 (8.84%) Public Sector
7 49 (8.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 49 (8.02%) Law
8 34 (5.56%) Retail
9 32 (5.24%) Banking
10 30 (4.91%) Telecoms
11 29 (4.75%) Legal
12 28 (4.58%) Manufacturing
13 23 (3.76%) Back Office
14 22 (3.60%) Military
15 14 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
16 11 (1.80%) Aerospace
17 10 (1.64%) Electronics
17 10 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
18 8 (1.31%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 119 (19.48%) Analyst
2 104 (17.02%) Senior
3 87 (14.24%) Lead
4 41 (6.71%) Data Analyst
5 38 (6.22%) Data Engineer
6 26 (4.26%) Software Engineer
7 25 (4.09%) Product Owner
8 24 (3.93%) Analytics Manager
8 24 (3.93%) Architect
8 24 (3.93%) Developer
9 23 (3.76%) Senior Manager
10 19 (3.11%) Data Manager
10 19 (3.11%) Performance Analyst
11 18 (2.95%) Data Architect
12 17 (2.78%) Senior Software Engineer
13 15 (2.45%) Data Scientist
13 15 (2.45%) Principal Engineer
13 15 (2.45%) Product Manager
14 14 (2.29%) Delivery Manager
14 14 (2.29%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (5.56%) Kafka
2 24 (3.93%) Spring
3 20 (3.27%) Terraform
4 12 (1.96%) Spring Boot
5 11 (1.80%) .NET
6 9 (1.47%) .NET Framework
6 9 (1.47%) ASP.NET
6 9 (1.47%) ASP.NET Core
6 9 (1.47%) ASP.NET Web API
6 9 (1.47%) Entity Framework
6 9 (1.47%) React
7 7 (1.15%) RESTful
8 6 (0.98%) PyTorch
8 6 (0.98%) REST
8 6 (0.98%) scikit-learn
8 6 (0.98%) TensorFlow
9 5 (0.82%) Node.js
10 4 (0.65%) AWS CDK
10 4 (0.65%) Middleware
10 4 (0.65%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 51 (8.35%) Product Ownership
2 44 (7.20%) Cloud Native
3 27 (4.42%) Onboarding
4 22 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
5 21 (3.44%) Management Information System
6 16 (2.62%) Analytical Mindset
7 14 (2.29%) Algorithms
8 12 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.47%) Blog
10 9 (1.47%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.47%) Replication
11 8 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.15%) Low-Code
12 7 (1.15%) Mobile App
13 6 (0.98%) AI Agents
13 6 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (0.98%) IoT
13 6 (0.98%) Marketing Technology
13 6 (0.98%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.15%) Linux
2 4 (0.65%) Windows
3 3 (0.49%) Android
3 3 (0.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 450 (73.65%) Decision-Making
2 282 (46.15%) Analytics
3 167 (27.33%) AI
4 147 (24.06%) Agile
5 146 (23.90%) Continuous Improvement
6 143 (23.40%) Business Intelligence
7 136 (22.26%) Problem-Solving
8 122 (19.97%) Stakeholder Management
9 98 (16.04%) Data Modelling
10 97 (15.88%) Roadmaps
11 95 (15.55%) Data Governance
12 86 (14.08%) Visualisation
13 82 (13.42%) Mentoring
14 74 (12.11%) Actionable Insight
15 69 (11.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 68 (11.13%) Data Science
17 62 (10.15%) ETL
17 62 (10.15%) Machine Learning
18 59 (9.66%) Workflow
19 58 (9.49%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 146 (23.90%) SQL
2 91 (14.89%) Python
3 26 (4.26%) Java
4 25 (4.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 21 (3.44%) JavaScript
6 15 (2.45%) TypeScript
7 14 (2.29%) R
8 12 (1.96%) C#
9 9 (1.47%) Kotlin
10 8 (1.31%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.98%) Scala
12 3 (0.49%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.33%) Bash
13 2 (0.33%) C++
13 2 (0.33%) Groovy
13 2 (0.33%) Ruby
14 1 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 76 (12.44%) Degree
2 44 (7.20%) Security Cleared
3 36 (5.89%) SC Cleared
4 15 (2.45%) ITIL Certification
5 12 (1.96%) ACCA
5 12 (1.96%) CIMA
6 10 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (1.64%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
8 8 (1.31%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (0.65%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.49%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.49%) CREST Certified
11 3 (0.49%) CSPO
11 3 (0.49%) PhD
11 3 (0.49%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 2 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.16%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (15.22%) Data Quality
2 41 (6.71%) GDPR
3 40 (6.55%) QA
4 22 (3.60%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.96%) GRC
6 7 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
6 7 (1.15%) SLA
7 6 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 3 (0.49%) AQAP
9 3 (0.49%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.49%) PMO
10 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.16%) GxP
10 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (2.13%) Docker
2 2 (0.33%) IAG
3 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (3.11%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.33%) Ansible
3 2 (0.33%) Grafana
3 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.33%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.33%) Rancher
4 1 (0.16%) Autotask
4 1 (0.16%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 89 (14.57%) Microsoft
2 40 (6.55%) Google
3 27 (4.42%) Databricks
3 27 (4.42%) SAP
4 12 (1.96%) Salesforce
5 8 (1.31%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.15%) Foundry
7 6 (0.98%) Dynatrace
7 6 (0.98%) Oracle
7 6 (0.98%) YouTube
8 5 (0.82%) HubSpot
8 5 (0.82%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.65%) Freshdesk
9 4 (0.65%) Splunk
9 4 (0.65%) TikTok
9 4 (0.65%) Workday
10 3 (0.49%) Alteryx
10 3 (0.49%) BiZZdesign
10 3 (0.49%) Pinterest
10 3 (0.49%) Snapchat