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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 214 424
Rank change year-on-year -116 +210 +38
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 505 700 583
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.58% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 1.71% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 358 306 415
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,550 £51,250 £46,620
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,743 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.22% +10.44% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,835 £57,500 £52,550
% change year-on-year -6.37% +9.42% -4.50%

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 66,839 40,980 87,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.86% 92.69% 82.42%
Number of salaries quoted 45,659 21,831 62,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £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 £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 10 June 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 10 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 -109 452 £60,000 -1.22% 207
UK excluding London -60 340 £53,835 -6.37% 152
North of England +4 139 £57,500 - 35
Work from Home -30 138 £57,500 - 96
London -116 120 £71,121 -3.56% 94
North West +45 112 £57,500 - 20
Midlands -24 78 £47,500 -17.39% 29
West Midlands -24 55 £51,750 -10.00% 20
South East -48 55 £50,000 -22.48% 47
East of England -5 30 £60,000 +37.93% 10
East Midlands -26 23 £37,500 -38.78% 9
Yorkshire -53 20 £51,250 -10.87% 12
South West -79 16 £81,250 +71.05% 21
Scotland -10 14 £32,500 -60.61% 6
Wales -38 8 £52,500 -34.38% 6
North East -36 7 £43,999 -23.48% 5
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 4

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 (3.37%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (2.18%) CMS
2 11 (2.18%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.58%) Apache
3 8 (1.58%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.19%) Confluence
5 4 (0.79%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.79%) IIS
5 4 (0.79%) nginx
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 40 (7.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.79%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.79%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.59%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.20%) SPSS
6 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.98%) SAP PM
2 5 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.79%) Shopify
4 3 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.40%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (0.40%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.40%) Primavera
6 1 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.20%) SAP BRIM
6 1 (0.20%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 97 (19.21%) Azure
2 93 (18.42%) Power Platform
3 61 (12.08%) AWS
4 32 (6.34%) GCP
5 30 (5.94%) Azure Data Factory
5 30 (5.94%) SaaS
6 10 (1.98%) Amazon S3
7 9 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (1.78%) GitHub
7 9 (1.78%) Snowflake
8 8 (1.58%) Amazon Kinesis
8 8 (1.58%) Serverless
9 7 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (1.39%) Power Automate
10 6 (1.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (1.19%) dbt
11 5 (0.99%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (0.99%) PowerApps
12 4 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (0.79%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.19%) Broadband
2 4 (0.79%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.59%) Intranet
3 3 (0.59%) Modbus
4 2 (0.40%) Wireless
5 1 (0.20%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (18.42%) Power BI
2 61 (12.08%) Tableau
3 43 (8.51%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (3.96%) SQL Server
5 19 (3.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 17 (3.37%) Metadata
7 15 (2.97%) Data Lake
8 13 (2.57%) Power Query
9 12 (2.38%) NoSQL
10 11 (2.18%) Big Data
10 11 (2.18%) Star Schema
11 10 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (1.78%) BigQuery
12 9 (1.78%) MongoDB
12 9 (1.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 8 (1.58%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (1.58%) Looker
13 8 (1.58%) Relational Database
14 7 (1.39%) Amazon QuickSight
14 7 (1.39%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 20 (3.96%) Git
2 16 (3.17%) Postman
3 15 (2.97%) JIRA
4 5 (0.99%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.79%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.79%) Vite
6 3 (0.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.20%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.20%) MLflow
7 1 (0.20%) MSI
7 1 (0.20%) Selenium
7 1 (0.20%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 170 (33.66%) Social Skills
2 152 (30.10%) Analytical Skills
3 105 (20.79%) Finance
4 63 (12.48%) Law
5 54 (10.69%) Marketing
6 37 (7.33%) Telecoms
7 33 (6.53%) Legal
8 31 (6.14%) Public Sector
9 27 (5.35%) Influencing Skills
9 27 (5.35%) Military
10 25 (4.95%) Back Office
11 22 (4.36%) Manufacturing
12 20 (3.96%) Retail
13 18 (3.56%) Games
14 16 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 11 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
16 10 (1.98%) Aerospace
16 10 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (1.78%) Billing
18 8 (1.58%) Banking
Job Titles
1 101 (20.00%) Senior
2 91 (18.02%) Analyst
3 78 (15.45%) Lead
4 56 (11.09%) Data Engineer
5 36 (7.13%) Data Analyst
6 29 (5.74%) Developer
7 26 (5.15%) Senior Manager
8 23 (4.55%) Architect
9 20 (3.96%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 18 (3.56%) Performance Analyst
10 18 (3.56%) Product Owner
11 15 (2.97%) Data Scientist
11 15 (2.97%) Microsoft Engineer
12 14 (2.77%) Platform Engineer
13 13 (2.57%) Data Manager
13 13 (2.57%) Principal Engineer
13 13 (2.57%) Product Manager
14 10 (1.98%) Business Developer
14 10 (1.98%) Performance Manager
15 9 (1.78%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (4.75%) Kafka
2 18 (3.56%) .NET
3 14 (2.77%) OpenAPI
3 14 (2.77%) RESTful
3 14 (2.77%) Swagger
4 11 (2.18%) REST
5 10 (1.98%) .NET Framework
6 9 (1.78%) ASP.NET
6 9 (1.78%) ASP.NET Core
6 9 (1.78%) ASP.NET Web API
6 9 (1.78%) Entity Framework
7 6 (1.19%) Node.js
8 5 (0.99%) CSS
8 5 (0.99%) HTML
8 5 (0.99%) JSON
8 5 (0.99%) Middleware
8 5 (0.99%) Vue
8 5 (0.99%) YAML
9 4 (0.79%) LEMP Stack
9 4 (0.79%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 33 (6.53%) Product Ownership
2 31 (6.14%) Cloud Native
3 23 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 21 (4.16%) Data Structures
5 17 (3.37%) Algorithms
5 17 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (2.57%) Analytical Mindset
6 13 (2.57%) Onboarding
7 10 (1.98%) Social Media
8 7 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.39%) Low-Code
9 6 (1.19%) Replication
10 5 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (0.99%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.79%) Cyber Defence
11 4 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.79%) IoT
11 4 (0.79%) NHS
11 4 (0.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.98%) Linux
2 4 (0.79%) Windows
3 1 (0.20%) Android
3 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (72.67%) Decision-Making
2 248 (49.11%) Analytics
3 132 (26.14%) Business Intelligence
4 120 (23.76%) Agile
5 117 (23.17%) Problem-Solving
6 107 (21.19%) Continuous Improvement
7 95 (18.81%) AI
8 83 (16.44%) Data Governance
8 83 (16.44%) Roadmaps
9 78 (15.45%) ETL
10 76 (15.05%) Data Modelling
11 70 (13.86%) Visualisation
12 62 (12.28%) Stakeholder Management
13 60 (11.88%) CI/CD
14 59 (11.68%) Actionable Insight
14 59 (11.68%) Data Analysis
15 58 (11.49%) Data Pipeline
16 52 (10.30%) Data Science
17 49 (9.70%) DevOps
18 47 (9.31%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 132 (26.14%) SQL
2 90 (17.82%) Python
3 20 (3.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 20 (3.96%) JavaScript
4 18 (3.56%) R
5 14 (2.77%) C#
6 13 (2.57%) Java
7 12 (2.38%) Bash
7 12 (2.38%) T-SQL
8 11 (2.18%) TypeScript
9 9 (1.78%) Scala
10 4 (0.79%) PHP
11 3 (0.59%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.59%) VBA
12 1 (0.20%) Bicep
12 1 (0.20%) C++
12 1 (0.20%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 61 (12.08%) Degree
2 23 (4.55%) Security Cleared
3 12 (2.38%) SC Cleared
4 10 (1.98%) ACCA
4 10 (1.98%) CIMA
4 10 (1.98%) Master's Degree
5 9 (1.78%) PMI Certification
5 9 (1.78%) PMP
6 7 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.19%) MBA
8 5 (0.99%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.99%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.59%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.40%) HND
10 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.20%) CBAP
11 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.20%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (14.26%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.16%) GDPR
3 16 (3.17%) QA
4 10 (1.98%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.78%) Actionable Recommendations
6 8 (1.58%) PMO
7 4 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.79%) SLA
8 3 (0.59%) ISO 14001
8 3 (0.59%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.20%) GRC
9 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (2.18%) Docker
2 2 (0.40%) IAG
3 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (4.75%) Terraform
2 16 (3.17%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.59%) Ansible
4 1 (0.20%) Autotask
4 1 (0.20%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 69 (13.66%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.54%) SAP
3 23 (4.55%) Databricks
4 17 (3.37%) Google
5 12 (2.38%) ServiceNow
6 11 (2.18%) Salesforce
7 9 (1.78%) Anaplan
7 9 (1.78%) Genesys
7 9 (1.78%) Verint
8 8 (1.58%) HubSpot
9 6 (1.19%) Botify
10 5 (0.99%) Alteryx
10 5 (0.99%) Foundry
10 5 (0.99%) Oracle
11 4 (0.79%) BT
11 4 (0.79%) Freshdesk
11 4 (0.79%) Sage
12 3 (0.59%) Pardot
13 2 (0.40%) Cognos
13 2 (0.40%) NEC