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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 216 404
Rank change year-on-year -122 +188 +107
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 566 761 527
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 1.54% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 1.72% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 403 336 347
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £48,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +8.99%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £77,955
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £93,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +8.37%

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 74,528 44,262 72,639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.71% 89.78% 81.61%
Number of salaries quoted 51,427 25,101 49,118
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £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 26 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 26 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 -93 514 £60,000 -0.33% 340
UK excluding London -92 382 £53,171 -3.33% 178
North of England +18 171 £55,000 -4.35% 56
Work from Home -63 151 £52,500 -8.70% 121
North West +48 136 £56,500 -1.74% 27
London -112 136 £80,000 +6.67% 197
Midlands -29 93 £51,356 -10.69% 22
West Midlands -21 57 £51,356 -10.69% 17
South East -73 57 £50,000 -11.11% 61
East Midlands -27 36 £52,500 -8.70% 5
East of England -11 32 £60,000 +37.93% 11
Yorkshire -43 25 £47,085 -18.11% 20
South West -95 17 £60,000 +33.33% 14
North East -42 10 £68,750 +19.57% 9
Scotland -53 8 £72,500 +3.57% 5
Wales -54 6 £53,171 -11.38% 1

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 (1.94%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.41%) CMS
4 7 (1.24%) Confluence
5 5 (0.88%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.71%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.53%) Apache
8 2 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.18%) nginx
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 52 (9.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.53%) 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 (2.47%) SAP PM
2 8 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.35%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 2 (0.35%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.35%) Primavera
4 2 (0.35%) 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
1 101 (17.84%) Power Platform
2 99 (17.49%) Azure
3 64 (11.31%) AWS
4 35 (6.18%) GCP
5 34 (6.01%) Azure Data Factory
6 30 (5.30%) SaaS
7 14 (2.47%) Snowflake
8 13 (2.30%) Serverless
9 12 (2.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 12 (2.12%) Microsoft Purview
10 11 (1.94%) GitHub
10 11 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (1.77%) dbt
12 9 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (1.59%) Google Analytics
13 8 (1.41%) Amazon S3
13 8 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (1.41%) Power Automate
14 7 (1.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 7 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.71%) Broadband
1 4 (0.71%) Intranet
1 4 (0.71%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.53%) 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
1 101 (17.84%) Power BI
2 55 (9.72%) Data Warehouse
3 52 (9.19%) Tableau
4 23 (4.06%) Data Lake
5 22 (3.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 18 (3.18%) SQL Server
7 16 (2.83%) BigQuery
7 16 (2.83%) Power Query
8 15 (2.65%) Looker
8 15 (2.65%) Metadata
9 12 (2.12%) Relational Database
9 12 (2.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (1.94%) MongoDB
10 11 (1.94%) Star Schema
11 10 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (1.41%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.88%) GIS
13 5 (0.88%) SAP BW
14 4 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (4.24%) JIRA
2 16 (2.83%) Git
3 10 (1.77%) Postman
4 9 (1.59%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.71%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.53%) Selenium
6 3 (0.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.35%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.35%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.18%) Vite
General
1 207 (36.57%) Social Skills
2 171 (30.21%) Analytical Skills
3 127 (22.44%) Finance
4 66 (11.66%) Marketing
5 61 (10.78%) Law
6 49 (8.66%) Public Sector
7 42 (7.42%) Telecoms
8 41 (7.24%) Influencing Skills
9 39 (6.89%) Legal
10 32 (5.65%) Military
11 31 (5.48%) Back Office
12 29 (5.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 29 (5.12%) Manufacturing
13 27 (4.77%) Retail
14 14 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
15 10 (1.77%) Banking
16 9 (1.59%) Aerospace
16 9 (1.59%) Billing
17 8 (1.41%) Games
18 7 (1.24%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 104 (18.37%) Senior
2 102 (18.02%) Analyst
3 79 (13.96%) Lead
4 46 (8.13%) Data Engineer
5 39 (6.89%) Data Analyst
6 27 (4.77%) Developer
7 26 (4.59%) Architect
8 21 (3.71%) Data Manager
9 19 (3.36%) Data Scientist
9 19 (3.36%) Product Owner
10 18 (3.18%) Data Architect
10 18 (3.18%) Performance Analyst
10 18 (3.18%) Senior Manager
11 16 (2.83%) Analytics Manager
11 16 (2.83%) Software Engineer
12 15 (2.65%) Performance Manager
13 14 (2.47%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 14 (2.47%) Microsoft Engineer
13 14 (2.47%) Platform Engineer
14 13 (2.30%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (4.24%) Kafka
2 16 (2.83%) .NET
3 14 (2.47%) Spring
4 12 (2.12%) REST
5 9 (1.59%) .NET Framework
5 9 (1.59%) ASP.NET
5 9 (1.59%) ASP.NET Core
5 9 (1.59%) ASP.NET Web API
5 9 (1.59%) Entity Framework
5 9 (1.59%) RESTful
6 8 (1.41%) OpenAPI
6 8 (1.41%) Swagger
7 7 (1.24%) React
7 7 (1.24%) Spring Boot
8 6 (1.06%) Node.js
9 5 (0.88%) CSS
9 5 (0.88%) HTML
10 4 (0.71%) JSON
10 4 (0.71%) Leaflet
10 4 (0.71%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 44 (7.77%) Cloud Native
2 42 (7.42%) Product Ownership
3 24 (4.24%) Management Information System
4 21 (3.71%) Onboarding
5 16 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (2.65%) Algorithms
7 14 (2.47%) Data Structures
7 14 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (1.94%) Social Media
9 9 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.41%) Blog
10 8 (1.41%) IoT
10 8 (1.41%) Replication
11 7 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.24%) Low-Code
12 6 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
13 5 (0.88%) Security Posture
13 5 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.88%) Linux
2 4 (0.71%) Windows
3 1 (0.18%) Android
3 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 416 (73.50%) Decision-Making
2 274 (48.41%) Analytics
3 134 (23.67%) AI
4 132 (23.32%) Agile
5 131 (23.14%) Business Intelligence
6 129 (22.79%) Problem-Solving
7 121 (21.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 94 (16.61%) Data Governance
8 94 (16.61%) Roadmaps
9 91 (16.08%) Stakeholder Management
10 85 (15.02%) Visualisation
11 83 (14.66%) Data Modelling
12 66 (11.66%) Mentoring
13 64 (11.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 63 (11.13%) CI/CD
15 62 (10.95%) ETL
16 61 (10.78%) Machine Learning
17 60 (10.60%) Data Pipeline
18 59 (10.42%) Actionable Insight
18 59 (10.42%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 127 (22.44%) SQL
2 79 (13.96%) Python
3 24 (4.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 24 (4.24%) JavaScript
4 19 (3.36%) Java
5 14 (2.47%) TypeScript
6 13 (2.30%) C#
6 13 (2.30%) R
7 10 (1.77%) T-SQL
8 7 (1.24%) Scala
9 5 (0.88%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.53%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.53%) VBA
11 2 (0.35%) Bash
11 2 (0.35%) Ruby
12 1 (0.18%) Bicep
12 1 (0.18%) C++
12 1 (0.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 65 (11.48%) Degree
2 30 (5.30%) Security Cleared
3 18 (3.18%) SC Cleared
4 10 (1.77%) ACCA
4 10 (1.77%) CIMA
4 10 (1.77%) Master's Degree
5 9 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
6 7 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.24%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (0.71%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.53%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.53%) CSPO
10 3 (0.53%) MBA
11 2 (0.35%) HND
11 2 (0.35%) PhD
12 1 (0.18%) ICAEW
12 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.18%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (14.66%) Data Quality
2 36 (6.36%) GDPR
3 20 (3.53%) QA
4 17 (3.00%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.59%) SLA
6 7 (1.24%) GRC
7 6 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.71%) PMO
9 3 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (1.77%) Docker
2 2 (0.35%) IAG
3 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (3.89%) Terraform
2 16 (2.83%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.35%) Ansible
5 1 (0.18%) Autotask
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.18%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 85 (15.02%) Microsoft
2 35 (6.18%) SAP
3 28 (4.95%) Databricks
4 26 (4.59%) Google
5 12 (2.12%) Salesforce
6 8 (1.41%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.06%) Botify
7 6 (1.06%) Foundry
8 5 (0.88%) Alteryx
8 5 (0.88%) OpenAI
8 5 (0.88%) Oracle
8 5 (0.88%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.71%) Freshdesk
10 3 (0.53%) BiZZdesign
10 3 (0.53%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.53%) Palantir
10 3 (0.53%) Pardot
10 3 (0.53%) Sage
10 3 (0.53%) Splunk
11 2 (0.35%) NEC