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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 209 393
Rank change year-on-year -106 +184 +51
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 623 775 519
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 1.55% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 1.74% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 429 317 328
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,009
25th Percentile £42,000 £45,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,870 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% -0.22% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%

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 78,774 44,506 67,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.34% 89.17% 80.88%
Number of salaries quoted 54,302 25,213 43,010
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 19 August 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 19 August 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 -77 569 £57,500 -4.17% 622
UK excluding London -91 420 £52,500 -4.55% 355
North of England +38 201 £50,000 -13.04% 91
London -88 157 £80,000 +6.67% 360
Work from Home -26 155 £52,500 -8.70% 247
North West +43 148 £55,000 -4.35% 52
Midlands -34 88 £51,356 -10.69% 48
South East -113 67 £50,000 -9.09% 96
West Midlands -26 55 £51,356 -10.69% 27
Yorkshire -11 39 £42,500 -26.09% 23
East Midlands -17 33 £52,500 -8.70% 21
East of England -16 30 £60,000 +41.18% 34
South West -68 18 £60,000 +33.33% 39
North East -45 14 £68,750 +19.57% 16
Scotland -67 10 £55,000 -11.90% 32
Wales -57 6 £53,171 -18.20% 6

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 (1.77%) Confluence
2 8 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (1.28%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.12%) CMS
4 3 (0.48%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.48%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.32%) Apache
5 2 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 50 (8.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.64%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (2.25%) SAP PM
2 8 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.32%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 2 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.32%) Primavera
4 2 (0.32%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.32%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.16%) Actimize
5 1 (0.16%) FastStats
5 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.16%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 114 (18.30%) Power Platform
2 93 (14.93%) Azure
3 71 (11.40%) AWS
4 43 (6.90%) GCP
5 33 (5.30%) SaaS
6 28 (4.49%) Azure Data Factory
7 24 (3.85%) Snowflake
8 23 (3.69%) Google Analytics
9 17 (2.73%) Serverless
10 16 (2.57%) dbt
11 15 (2.41%) GitHub
12 13 (2.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 12 (1.93%) Microsoft Purview
14 11 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
15 10 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
15 10 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
16 9 (1.44%) Amazon S3
17 8 (1.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 8 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
18 7 (1.12%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.80%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.48%) Intranet
2 3 (0.48%) Modbus
3 1 (0.16%) Broadband
3 1 (0.16%) DNS
3 1 (0.16%) Firewall
3 1 (0.16%) GoToMeeting
3 1 (0.16%) Internet
3 1 (0.16%) MQTT
3 1 (0.16%) SSL
3 1 (0.16%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.16%) VPN
3 1 (0.16%) WebEx
3 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (18.30%) Power BI
2 60 (9.63%) Data Warehouse
3 53 (8.51%) Tableau
4 27 (4.33%) Looker
5 26 (4.17%) BigQuery
6 23 (3.69%) Data Lake
7 18 (2.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 17 (2.73%) Relational Database
9 16 (2.57%) Power Query
10 14 (2.25%) SQL Server
11 13 (2.09%) Metadata
12 12 (1.93%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (1.93%) MongoDB
12 12 (1.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 9 (1.44%) NoSQL
13 9 (1.44%) Star Schema
14 8 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
15 5 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (0.80%) Geospatial Data
16 4 (0.64%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 35 (5.62%) JIRA
2 15 (2.41%) Git
3 9 (1.44%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.64%) Claude Code
4 4 (0.64%) Postman
4 4 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (0.48%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.48%) Selenium
5 3 (0.48%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 212 (34.03%) Social Skills
2 198 (31.78%) Analytical Skills
3 170 (27.29%) Finance
4 79 (12.68%) Marketing
5 61 (9.79%) Law
6 55 (8.83%) Influencing Skills
6 55 (8.83%) Public Sector
7 42 (6.74%) Retail
8 40 (6.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 40 (6.42%) Telecoms
9 37 (5.94%) Legal
10 33 (5.30%) Back Office
10 33 (5.30%) Manufacturing
11 32 (5.14%) Military
12 28 (4.49%) Banking
13 15 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (2.25%) Aerospace
15 10 (1.61%) Electronics
16 9 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
17 8 (1.28%) Games
Job Titles
1 120 (19.26%) Senior
2 115 (18.46%) Analyst
3 91 (14.61%) Lead
4 42 (6.74%) Data Engineer
5 36 (5.78%) Data Analyst
6 28 (4.49%) Software Engineer
7 26 (4.17%) Architect
8 24 (3.85%) Analytics Manager
8 24 (3.85%) Developer
9 23 (3.69%) Senior Manager
10 20 (3.21%) Data Scientist
10 20 (3.21%) Product Owner
11 19 (3.05%) Data Manager
11 19 (3.05%) Performance Analyst
12 18 (2.89%) Data Architect
13 17 (2.73%) Senior Software Engineer
14 16 (2.57%) Performance Manager
15 15 (2.41%) Principal Engineer
16 14 (2.25%) IT Analyst
16 14 (2.25%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (5.14%) Kafka
2 24 (3.85%) Spring
3 15 (2.41%) .NET
4 12 (1.93%) Spring Boot
5 9 (1.44%) .NET Framework
5 9 (1.44%) ASP.NET
5 9 (1.44%) ASP.NET Core
5 9 (1.44%) ASP.NET Web API
5 9 (1.44%) Entity Framework
5 9 (1.44%) React
6 8 (1.28%) REST
7 7 (1.12%) Node.js
7 7 (1.12%) RESTful
8 6 (0.96%) PyTorch
8 6 (0.96%) scikit-learn
8 6 (0.96%) TensorFlow
9 4 (0.64%) AWS CDK
9 4 (0.64%) GraphQL
9 4 (0.64%) Middleware
10 3 (0.48%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 48 (7.70%) Cloud Native
2 45 (7.22%) Product Ownership
3 24 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 22 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (3.53%) Management Information System
5 20 (3.21%) Algorithms
6 11 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (1.77%) Social Media
7 10 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (1.44%) Blog
9 8 (1.28%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (1.28%) Replication
10 7 (1.12%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.12%) Low-Code
10 7 (1.12%) Mobile App
11 6 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (0.96%) IoT
11 6 (0.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.80%) Linux
2 3 (0.48%) Android
2 3 (0.48%) Apple iOS
2 3 (0.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 449 (72.07%) Decision-Making
2 290 (46.55%) Analytics
3 155 (24.88%) AI
4 143 (22.95%) Agile
4 143 (22.95%) Business Intelligence
5 137 (21.99%) Problem-Solving
6 134 (21.51%) Continuous Improvement
7 109 (17.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 98 (15.73%) Roadmaps
9 97 (15.57%) Data Governance
10 96 (15.41%) Visualisation
11 85 (13.64%) Data Modelling
12 78 (12.52%) Mentoring
13 74 (11.88%) Data Science
14 71 (11.40%) Actionable Insight
15 69 (11.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 66 (10.59%) Machine Learning
17 63 (10.11%) CI/CD
18 60 (9.63%) Data Pipeline
19 56 (8.99%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 136 (21.83%) SQL
2 82 (13.16%) Python
3 28 (4.49%) Java
4 25 (4.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 23 (3.69%) JavaScript
6 15 (2.41%) TypeScript
7 14 (2.25%) C#
7 14 (2.25%) R
8 10 (1.61%) T-SQL
9 9 (1.44%) Kotlin
10 6 (0.96%) Scala
11 3 (0.48%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.32%) Ruby
12 2 (0.32%) VBA
13 1 (0.16%) C++
Qualifications
1 76 (12.20%) Degree
2 38 (6.10%) Security Cleared
3 26 (4.17%) SC Cleared
4 15 (2.41%) ITIL Certification
5 12 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (1.61%) ACCA
6 10 (1.61%) CIMA
7 9 (1.44%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.44%) TOGAF Certification
8 8 (1.28%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (0.64%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.48%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.48%) CSPO
11 3 (0.48%) PhD
12 2 (0.32%) HND
12 2 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.16%) CBAP
13 1 (0.16%) CREST Certified
13 1 (0.16%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (13.80%) Data Quality
2 40 (6.42%) GDPR
3 27 (4.33%) QA
4 21 (3.37%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.77%) GRC
6 9 (1.44%) SLA
7 7 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 4 (0.64%) PMO
11 1 (0.16%) AQAP
11 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.16%) GxP
11 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (1.77%) Docker
2 2 (0.32%) IAG
3 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (3.53%) Terraform
2 17 (2.73%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.32%) Ansible
5 1 (0.16%) Autotask
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.16%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 87 (13.96%) Microsoft
2 47 (7.54%) Google
3 33 (5.30%) SAP
4 26 (4.17%) Databricks
5 12 (1.93%) Salesforce
6 8 (1.28%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.12%) Foundry
8 6 (0.96%) Botify
9 5 (0.80%) HubSpot
9 5 (0.80%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.64%) Alteryx
10 4 (0.64%) Dynatrace
10 4 (0.64%) Freshdesk
10 4 (0.64%) Oracle
10 4 (0.64%) Splunk
11 3 (0.48%) BiZZdesign
11 3 (0.48%) Pardot
11 3 (0.48%) Sage
11 3 (0.48%) TikTok
11 3 (0.48%) YouTube