Data-Driven Decision Making Jobs

Data-Driven Decision Making
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Data-Driven Decision Making skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data-Driven Decision Making over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 230 442 477
Rank change year-on-year +212 +35 +100
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 709 548 644
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.35% 0.56% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 0.65% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 342 409 181
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,025 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £90,000 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £53,025 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.44% -15.16% +35.19%

All Process and 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 49,113 84,749 99,226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.34% 85.94% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 26,713 59,834 58,282
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,000 £72,500 £81,750
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Data-Driven Decision Making
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data-Driven Decision Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK

Data-Driven Decision Making
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making.

Salary trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK

Data-Driven Decision Making
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

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 4 May 2025. 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 +190 629 £62,500 +8.70% 901
UK excluding London +197 390 £57,500 +8.44% 422
London +147 267 £75,000 +3.45% 598
Work from Home +190 187 £57,500 -7.00% 455
North of England +97 114 £58,750 +14.63% 96
Midlands +92 84 £57,500 +4.55% 47
South East +87 82 £57,500 +9.42% 174
North West +40 82 £65,000 +13.04% 66
West Midlands +80 67 £57,500 +4.55% 33
South West +133 46 £52,500 -16.00% 36
Scotland +127 41 £110,000 +84.70% 28
Yorkshire +92 28 £57,500 +15.00% 25
East of England +57 20 £52,500 +17.32% 37
East Midlands +44 17 £57,500 +17.95% 9
North East +45 4 £57,500 +15.00% 5
Wales +35 4 £80,000 +45.45% 8

Data-Driven Decision Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 23 (3.24%) Jupyter
2 13 (1.83%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.41%) IBM Domino
4 9 (1.27%) Apache
5 6 (0.85%) Confluence
5 6 (0.85%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.56%) CMS
7 3 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.28%) Drupal
9 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 149 (21.02%) Microsoft Office
2 66 (9.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.85%) Trello
4 4 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.14%) Notion
5 1 (0.14%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 12 (1.69%) Salesforce CRM
2 10 (1.41%) Raiser’s Edge
3 4 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.42%) Dynamics GP
4 3 (0.42%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.28%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.14%) iTrent
6 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.14%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 116 (16.36%) Power Platform
2 104 (14.67%) Azure
3 37 (5.22%) AWS
4 36 (5.08%) Google Analytics
5 29 (4.09%) SaaS
6 22 (3.10%) Azure Data Factory
7 18 (2.54%) GCP
7 18 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
8 17 (2.40%) Snowflake
9 14 (1.97%) Google Ads
10 11 (1.55%) Google Sheets
11 10 (1.41%) Power Automate
12 9 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (1.27%) Miro
12 9 (1.27%) Serverless
13 7 (0.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (0.99%) dbt
14 6 (0.85%) Datadog
14 6 (0.85%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.71%) LoRaWAN
1 5 (0.71%) Network Security
1 5 (0.71%) SMS
2 4 (0.56%) Firewall
2 4 (0.56%) Internet
2 4 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (0.56%) VPN
2 4 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.14%) 5G
3 1 (0.14%) Broadband
3 1 (0.14%) Intranet
3 1 (0.14%) Modbus
3 1 (0.14%) MQTT
3 1 (0.14%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (16.08%) Power BI
2 61 (8.60%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (5.08%) SQL Server
3 36 (5.08%) Tableau
4 35 (4.94%) Big Data
5 24 (3.39%) Data Lake
6 15 (2.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 13 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (1.27%) Data Hub
9 8 (1.13%) BigQuery
9 8 (1.13%) Metadata
10 7 (0.99%) NoSQL
10 7 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (0.85%) Power Query
12 5 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.71%) Looker
12 5 (0.71%) MS Access
12 5 (0.71%) MySQL
13 4 (0.56%) MongoDB
13 4 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 28 (3.95%) JIRA
2 8 (1.13%) Visual Studio
3 6 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
4 5 (0.71%) Git
5 4 (0.56%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.56%) JUnit
6 2 (0.28%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.28%) ERwin
6 2 (0.28%) Selenium
6 2 (0.28%) TestNG
6 2 (0.28%) TestRail
7 1 (0.14%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.14%) GitLab
General
1 392 (55.29%) Social Skills
2 270 (38.08%) Finance
3 208 (29.34%) Marketing
4 205 (28.91%) Analytical Skills
5 141 (19.89%) Legal
6 66 (9.31%) Law
7 51 (7.19%) Retail
8 36 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 28 (3.95%) Banking
10 20 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (2.68%) Manufacturing
12 16 (2.26%) Public Sector
13 13 (1.83%) Advertising
14 10 (1.41%) Front Office
14 10 (1.41%) Games
14 10 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (1.13%) Aviation
15 8 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.85%) Agriculture
17 5 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 123 (17.35%) Customer Executive
2 92 (12.98%) Lead
3 83 (11.71%) Senior
4 66 (9.31%) Analyst
5 50 (7.05%) Product Manager
6 42 (5.92%) Developer
7 32 (4.51%) Data Scientist
7 32 (4.51%) Innovation Manager
8 31 (4.37%) Data Engineer
9 24 (3.39%) Senior Data Scientist
10 22 (3.10%) SQL Developer
11 19 (2.68%) Product Owner
12 18 (2.54%) Data Analyst
13 16 (2.26%) Data Analytics Director
13 16 (2.26%) Database Developer
13 16 (2.26%) IT Manager
13 16 (2.26%) SQL Database Developer
14 14 (1.97%) Senior Manager
15 13 (1.83%) Data Manager
16 10 (1.41%) Database Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.41%) .NET
2 7 (0.99%) HTML
2 7 (0.99%) RESTful
3 6 (0.85%) EDI
3 6 (0.85%) NestJS
3 6 (0.85%) React
4 5 (0.71%) CSS
4 5 (0.71%) REST
4 5 (0.71%) XML
5 4 (0.56%) JSON
5 4 (0.56%) Node.js
6 3 (0.42%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (0.42%) Pandas
7 2 (0.28%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.28%) NumPy
7 2 (0.28%) Pyramid
7 2 (0.28%) React Native
7 2 (0.28%) scikit-learn
7 2 (0.28%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.28%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 76 (10.72%) Product Ownership
2 33 (4.65%) FMCG
3 29 (4.09%) Algorithms
4 28 (3.95%) Analytical Mindset
5 27 (3.81%) Management Information System
6 26 (3.67%) Social Media
7 23 (3.24%) Cyberattack
8 20 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.83%) Cloud Native
9 13 (1.83%) IoT
10 10 (1.41%) Onboarding
11 9 (1.27%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
12 6 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (0.85%) Mobile Games
13 5 (0.71%) Credit Risk
13 5 (0.71%) Mobile App
13 5 (0.71%) Operational Technology
14 4 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (0.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.71%) Linux
1 5 (0.71%) Windows
1 5 (0.71%) Windows Server
2 4 (0.56%) Unix
3 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 578 (81.52%) Decision-Making
2 288 (40.62%) Analytics
3 200 (28.21%) Problem-Solving
4 163 (22.99%) Business Intelligence
5 148 (20.87%) Continuous Improvement
6 142 (20.03%) Artificial Intelligence
7 136 (19.18%) Business Development
8 134 (18.90%) Roadmaps
9 128 (18.05%) Visualisation
10 124 (17.49%) Contract Negotiation
11 108 (15.23%) Agile
11 108 (15.23%) Stakeholder Management
12 102 (14.39%) Actionable Insight
13 100 (14.10%) Data Analysis
14 99 (13.96%) Data Governance
15 90 (12.69%) Project Management
16 88 (12.41%) Machine Learning
17 85 (11.99%) Data Science
18 80 (11.28%) Data Strategy
19 68 (9.59%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 146 (20.59%) SQL
2 100 (14.10%) Python
3 34 (4.80%) T-SQL
4 32 (4.51%) JavaScript
5 30 (4.23%) Java
6 11 (1.55%) R
7 6 (0.85%) TypeScript
8 5 (0.71%) C#
8 5 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (0.71%) VBA
9 4 (0.56%) PHP
9 4 (0.56%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.42%) Scala
10 3 (0.42%) VB
11 2 (0.28%) C++
12 1 (0.14%) F#
12 1 (0.14%) Lisp
12 1 (0.14%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.14%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.14%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 156 (22.00%) Degree
2 34 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (3.95%) DBS Check
4 27 (3.81%) Security Cleared
5 25 (3.53%) DV Cleared
6 14 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.41%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.13%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.85%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.71%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.71%) PMP
11 4 (0.56%) ACCA
11 4 (0.56%) HND
12 3 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.42%) SC Cleared
13 2 (0.28%) CIMA
13 2 (0.28%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.28%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 2 (0.28%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (7.33%) Data Quality
2 37 (5.22%) GDPR
3 36 (5.08%) Accessibility
4 17 (2.40%) QA
5 9 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.42%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.28%) IEC 62304
8 2 (0.28%) ISO 13485
8 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.28%) SLA
9 1 (0.14%) GRC
9 1 (0.14%) MiFID
9 1 (0.14%) NCSC
9 1 (0.14%) NIST
9 1 (0.14%) PSD2
System Software
1 35 (4.94%) Docker
2 5 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.56%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 29 (4.09%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.56%) FortiGate
3 3 (0.42%) Ansible
4 2 (0.28%) Grafana
4 2 (0.28%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.14%) Matomo
5 1 (0.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 172 (24.26%) Salesforce
2 113 (15.94%) Microsoft
3 54 (7.62%) Google
4 27 (3.81%) SAP
5 24 (3.39%) Databricks
6 8 (1.13%) Informatica
6 8 (1.13%) Oracle
7 6 (0.85%) Adobe
7 6 (0.85%) HubSpot
8 5 (0.71%) VMware
8 5 (0.71%) Workday
9 4 (0.56%) Fortinet
9 4 (0.56%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.56%) Xero
9 4 (0.56%) Zoho
10 3 (0.42%) IBM
11 2 (0.28%) Sybase
11 2 (0.28%) Tealium
12 1 (0.14%) Hotjar
12 1 (0.14%) Intapp