Data-Driven Decision Making Job Trends

Data-Driven Decision Making
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 7 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	352	221	357
Rank change year-on-year	-131	+136	+16
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making	622	621	466
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK	0.51%	1.21%	0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	0.69%	1.40%	0.83%
Number of salaries quoted	384	250	262
10^th Percentile	£37,500	£41,150	£41,263
25^th Percentile	£42,500	£45,656	£50,399
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£56,210	£60,000	£63,750
Median % change year-on-year	-6.32%	-5.88%	+21.31%
75^th Percentile	£80,000	£79,375	£90,000
90^th Percentile	£102,500	£100,250	£104,960
UK excluding London median annual salary	£52,500	£55,000	£60,000
% change year-on-year	-4.55%	-8.33%	+20.00%

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 citing process or methodology skills.

	6 months to 7 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing process or methodology skills	90,176	44,303	55,891
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK	73.60%	86.66%	82.63%
Number of salaries quoted	60,204	26,710	29,381
10^th Percentile	£31,250	£28,250	£33,875
25^th Percentile	£41,500	£35,500	£45,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£59,000	£54,000	£60,000
Median % change year-on-year	+9.26%	-10.00%	-
75^th Percentile	£77,500	£75,000	£78,750
90^th Percentile	£100,000	£95,000	£97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary	£55,000	£46,750	£54,000
% change year-on-year	+17.65%	-13.43%	+2.86%

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 Salary Trend

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 7 November 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 7 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
England	-90	562	£57,500	-4.17%	188
UK excluding London	-168	388	£52,500	-4.55%	129
Work from Home	-21	192	£52,500	-19.23%	71
London	-34	185	£75,000	-	97
North of England	+26	164	£45,505	-20.86%	21
North West	+2	96	£50,000	-9.09%	11
Midlands	-46	83	£51,356	-10.69%	17
South East	-162	72	£65,000	+18.18%	43
Yorkshire	+2	52	£42,500	-29.17%	8
West Midlands	-34	49	£51,356	-20.99%	9
East Midlands	-38	34	£52,500	+20.00%	8
East of England	-54	28	£54,355	+13.24%	16
South West	-76	24	£65,000	+8.33%	17
North East	-59	16	£52,500	-	2
Scotland	-78	13	£55,000	+0.26%	12
Wales	-82	4	£54,085	-16.79%	5

Data-Driven Decision Making Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 7 November 2026, job vacancies citing Data-Driven Decision Making also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads citing Data-Driven Decision Making.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Decision-Making	73.2%	455
2	Analytics	39.4%	245
3	Continuous Improvement	31.4%	195
4	AI	29.7%	185
5	Business Intelligence	28.1%	175
6	SQL	25.2%	157
7	Stakeholder Management	24.4%	152
8	Problem-Solving	24.3%	151
9	Agile	24.0%	149
9	Power BI	24.0%	149
9	Power Platform	24.0%	149
12	Roadmaps	18.0%	112
13	Microsoft	17.5%	109
14	Mentoring	16.1%	100
15	Data Quality	15.9%	99
16	Data Governance	15.3%	95
16	Python	15.3%	95
18	Data Modelling	15.1%	94
19	Azure	14.5%	90
20	Visualisation	14.3%	89
21	Actionable Insight	14.1%	88
22	Degree	13.3%	83
23	Stakeholder Engagement	12.1%	75
24	Data Warehouse	10.8%	67
25	Change Management	10.3%	64
25	Process Improvement	10.3%	64
25	Security Cleared	10.3%	64
28	Coaching	10.1%	63
28	Data Science	10.1%	63
30	AWS	10.0%	62

Data-Driven Decision Making Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Decision-Making	73.2%	455
2	Analytics	39.4%	245
3	Continuous Improvement	31.4%	195
4	AI	29.7%	185
5	Business Intelligence	28.1%	175
6	Stakeholder Management	24.4%	152
7	Problem-Solving	24.3%	151
8	Agile	24.0%	149
9	Roadmaps	18.0%	112
10	Mentoring	16.1%	100
11	Data Governance	15.3%	95
12	Data Modelling	15.1%	94
13	Visualisation	14.3%	89
14	Actionable Insight	14.1%	88
15	Stakeholder Engagement	12.1%	75
16	Change Management	10.3%	64
16	Process Improvement	10.3%	64
18	Coaching	10.1%	63
18	Data Science	10.1%	63
20	Data Engineering	10.0%	62