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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 216 410
Rank change year-on-year -130 +194 +70
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 553 761 540
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.55% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 1.72% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 398 334 360
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,915 £38,880
25th Percentile £43,750 £48,000 £47,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,190 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.02% +4.35% +2.68%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £90,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +5.77%

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 73,858 44,154 75,761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.61% 89.93% 81.83%
Number of salaries quoted 51,064 24,939 51,848
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,599 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,043 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.01% +0.08% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,528 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 23 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 23 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 -115 501 £60,000 -0.74% 345
UK excluding London -88 375 £53,171 -3.33% 169
North of England +19 166 £55,000 -4.35% 52
Work from Home -54 151 £52,500 -8.70% 120
North West +45 135 £55,750 -3.04% 25
London -119 128 £80,000 +6.67% 208
Midlands -27 92 £51,356 -10.69% 23
South East -61 57 £50,000 -13.04% 59
West Midlands -31 56 £51,356 -10.69% 15
East Midlands -22 36 £52,500 -8.70% 8
East of England -1 32 £60,000 +37.93% 10
Yorkshire -37 23 £47,500 -17.39% 18
South West -89 16 £60,000 +33.33% 12
North East -48 8 £52,500 -8.70% 9
Scotland -49 8 £72,500 +3.57% 4
Wales -47 6 £53,171 +1.16% 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 11 (1.99%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.63%) Confluence
4 8 (1.45%) CMS
5 5 (0.90%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.72%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.36%) Apache
7 2 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.18%) nginx
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 52 (9.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.54%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.18%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (2.53%) SAP PM
2 8 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.36%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 2 (0.36%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.36%) Primavera
4 2 (0.36%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.18%) FastStats
5 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.18%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.18%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.18%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 99 (17.90%) Azure
2 97 (17.54%) Power Platform
3 61 (11.03%) AWS
4 35 (6.33%) GCP
5 34 (6.15%) Azure Data Factory
6 30 (5.42%) SaaS
7 13 (2.35%) Snowflake
8 12 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 12 (2.17%) Microsoft Purview
9 11 (1.99%) dbt
9 11 (1.99%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (1.99%) Serverless
10 10 (1.81%) GitHub
11 9 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (1.45%) Google Analytics
12 8 (1.45%) Power Automate
13 7 (1.27%) Amazon S3
13 7 (1.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 7 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (1.27%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.72%) Broadband
1 4 (0.72%) Intranet
1 4 (0.72%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.54%) Modbus
3 1 (0.18%) Firewall
3 1 (0.18%) GoToMeeting
3 1 (0.18%) MQTT
3 1 (0.18%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.18%) WebEx
3 1 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (17.54%) Power BI
2 53 (9.58%) Data Warehouse
3 52 (9.40%) Tableau
4 22 (3.98%) Data Lake
5 21 (3.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 19 (3.44%) SQL Server
7 15 (2.71%) BigQuery
7 15 (2.71%) Metadata
7 15 (2.71%) Power Query
8 14 (2.53%) Looker
9 11 (1.99%) MongoDB
9 11 (1.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 11 (1.99%) Star Schema
10 9 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (1.45%) NoSQL
11 8 (1.45%) Relational Database
12 5 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.90%) Big Data
12 5 (0.90%) GIS
12 5 (0.90%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 24 (4.34%) JIRA
2 16 (2.89%) Git
3 10 (1.81%) Postman
4 9 (1.63%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.72%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.54%) Selenium
6 3 (0.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.36%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.36%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.18%) Vite
General
1 205 (37.07%) Social Skills
2 169 (30.56%) Analytical Skills
3 124 (22.42%) Finance
4 65 (11.75%) Marketing
5 61 (11.03%) Law
6 47 (8.50%) Public Sector
7 42 (7.59%) Telecoms
8 41 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
9 39 (7.05%) Legal
10 32 (5.79%) Military
11 31 (5.61%) Back Office
12 29 (5.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 29 (5.24%) Manufacturing
13 26 (4.70%) Retail
14 14 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (1.63%) Aerospace
15 9 (1.63%) Banking
15 9 (1.63%) Billing
16 8 (1.45%) Games
17 7 (1.27%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 98 (17.72%) Analyst
1 98 (17.72%) Senior
2 77 (13.92%) Lead
3 47 (8.50%) Data Engineer
4 37 (6.69%) Data Analyst
5 27 (4.88%) Developer
6 26 (4.70%) Architect
7 20 (3.62%) Data Manager
8 19 (3.44%) Data Scientist
9 18 (3.25%) Data Architect
9 18 (3.25%) Performance Analyst
9 18 (3.25%) Product Owner
9 18 (3.25%) Senior Manager
10 15 (2.71%) Analytics Manager
10 15 (2.71%) Performance Manager
11 14 (2.53%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 14 (2.53%) Microsoft Engineer
11 14 (2.53%) Platform Engineer
11 14 (2.53%) Product Manager
12 13 (2.35%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.44%) Kafka
2 17 (3.07%) .NET
3 12 (2.17%) REST
4 10 (1.81%) .NET Framework
5 9 (1.63%) ASP.NET
5 9 (1.63%) ASP.NET Core
5 9 (1.63%) ASP.NET Web API
5 9 (1.63%) Entity Framework
6 8 (1.45%) OpenAPI
6 8 (1.45%) RESTful
6 8 (1.45%) Spring
6 8 (1.45%) Swagger
7 7 (1.27%) Spring Boot
8 5 (0.90%) CSS
8 5 (0.90%) HTML
8 5 (0.90%) Node.js
8 5 (0.90%) React
9 4 (0.72%) JSON
9 4 (0.72%) Middleware
9 4 (0.72%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 43 (7.78%) Cloud Native
2 41 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 26 (4.70%) Management Information System
4 18 (3.25%) Onboarding
5 15 (2.71%) Data Structures
6 14 (2.53%) Algorithms
6 14 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (1.99%) Social Media
8 9 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.45%) IoT
9 8 (1.45%) Replication
10 7 (1.27%) Blog
10 7 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.27%) Low-Code
11 5 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (0.90%) Security Posture
11 5 (0.90%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.72%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.90%) Linux
2 4 (0.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 408 (73.78%) Decision-Making
2 270 (48.82%) Analytics
3 132 (23.87%) Agile
3 132 (23.87%) AI
4 129 (23.33%) Business Intelligence
5 125 (22.60%) Problem-Solving
6 120 (21.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 93 (16.82%) Data Governance
7 93 (16.82%) Roadmaps
8 90 (16.27%) Stakeholder Management
9 82 (14.83%) Data Modelling
9 82 (14.83%) Visualisation
10 67 (12.12%) Mentoring
11 63 (11.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 62 (11.21%) CI/CD
12 62 (11.21%) ETL
13 60 (10.85%) Actionable Insight
14 59 (10.67%) Data Pipeline
15 57 (10.31%) Machine Learning
16 54 (9.76%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 125 (22.60%) SQL
2 78 (14.10%) Python
3 23 (4.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 22 (3.98%) JavaScript
5 14 (2.53%) C#
6 13 (2.35%) Java
7 12 (2.17%) R
7 12 (2.17%) TypeScript
8 10 (1.81%) T-SQL
9 7 (1.27%) Scala
10 3 (0.54%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.54%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.54%) VBA
11 2 (0.36%) Bash
11 2 (0.36%) Ruby
12 1 (0.18%) Bicep
12 1 (0.18%) C++
12 1 (0.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 65 (11.75%) Degree
2 29 (5.24%) Security Cleared
3 17 (3.07%) SC Cleared
4 10 (1.81%) ACCA
4 10 (1.81%) CIMA
4 10 (1.81%) Master's Degree
5 9 (1.63%) TOGAF Certification
6 6 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.08%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.72%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.54%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.54%) CSPO
8 3 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (0.54%) MBA
9 2 (0.36%) HND
9 2 (0.36%) PhD
10 1 (0.18%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.18%) CBAP
10 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 33 (5.97%) GDPR
3 20 (3.62%) QA
4 17 (3.07%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.63%) SLA
6 7 (1.27%) GRC
7 6 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.72%) PMO
9 3 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (1.81%) Docker
2 2 (0.36%) IAG
3 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (3.98%) Terraform
2 15 (2.71%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.36%) Ansible
5 1 (0.18%) Autotask
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.18%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 85 (15.37%) Microsoft
2 35 (6.33%) SAP
3 28 (5.06%) Databricks
4 24 (4.34%) Google
5 12 (2.17%) Salesforce
6 8 (1.45%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.08%) Botify
7 6 (1.08%) Foundry
8 5 (0.90%) Alteryx
8 5 (0.90%) OpenAI
8 5 (0.90%) Oracle
8 5 (0.90%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.72%) Freshdesk
10 3 (0.54%) BiZZdesign
10 3 (0.54%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.54%) Palantir
10 3 (0.54%) Pardot
10 3 (0.54%) Sage
10 3 (0.54%) Splunk
11 2 (0.36%) NEC