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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 217 427
Rank change year-on-year -117 +210 +44
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 532 717 590
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.54% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 1.68% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 385 321 416
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,719 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% +10.40% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £57,500 £52,550
% change year-on-year -7.53% +9.42% +0.10%

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 70,838 42,616 86,708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.43% 91.47% 82.17%
Number of salaries quoted 48,971 23,341 61,278
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.34% - -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 1 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 1 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 -104 478 £60,000 -1.22% 419
UK excluding London -76 356 £53,171 -7.53% 259
Work from Home -38 148 £57,500 - 153
North of England +1 147 £57,500 - 61
London -133 127 £80,000 +6.67% 225
North West +38 120 £57,500 - 33
Midlands -39 87 £48,000 -16.52% 43
West Midlands -30 59 £49,928 -13.17% 27
South East -61 56 £50,000 -23.08% 71
East of England -9 30 £60,000 +37.93% 22
East Midlands -27 28 £45,750 -20.43% 15
Yorkshire -42 21 £55,000 -4.35% 18
South West -87 17 £70,000 +53.01% 28
Scotland -7 15 £32,500 -60.61% 10
Wales -45 6 £52,835 -3.94% 23
North East -49 6 £45,497 -20.87% 11

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 16 (3.01%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (2.26%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.88%) CMS
4 8 (1.50%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.50%) Confluence
5 7 (1.32%) Apache
6 4 (0.75%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.56%) nginx
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 42 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.56%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (0.56%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.56%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.88%) SAP PM
2 7 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.56%) Shopify
5 2 (0.38%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (0.38%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.38%) Primavera
6 1 (0.19%) FastStats
6 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.19%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.19%) SAP BRIM
6 1 (0.19%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.19%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 103 (19.36%) Azure
2 92 (17.29%) Power Platform
3 61 (11.47%) AWS
4 36 (6.77%) GCP
5 34 (6.39%) Azure Data Factory
6 27 (5.08%) SaaS
7 11 (2.07%) GitHub
7 11 (2.07%) Serverless
8 10 (1.88%) Amazon S3
8 10 (1.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 10 (1.88%) Microsoft Purview
9 9 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (1.69%) Snowflake
10 8 (1.50%) Microsoft Copilot
10 8 (1.50%) Power Automate
11 7 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (1.32%) dbt
12 6 (1.13%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (1.13%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.13%) Broadband
2 4 (0.75%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.56%) Intranet
3 3 (0.56%) Modbus
4 1 (0.19%) Firewall
4 1 (0.19%) MQTT
4 1 (0.19%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.19%) WebEx
4 1 (0.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (17.29%) Power BI
2 53 (9.96%) Data Warehouse
3 52 (9.77%) Tableau
4 21 (3.95%) Metadata
5 20 (3.76%) Data Lake
5 20 (3.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 18 (3.38%) SQL Server
7 12 (2.26%) BigQuery
7 12 (2.26%) Power Query
8 11 (2.07%) Star Schema
9 10 (1.88%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (1.88%) Looker
10 9 (1.69%) MongoDB
11 8 (1.50%) NoSQL
11 8 (1.50%) Relational Database
11 8 (1.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (1.32%) Big Data
13 6 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (1.13%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 21 (3.95%) Git
1 21 (3.95%) JIRA
2 16 (3.01%) Postman
3 7 (1.32%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.75%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.56%) Selenium
5 3 (0.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (0.56%) Vite
6 2 (0.38%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.19%) MLflow
7 1 (0.19%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 195 (36.65%) Social Skills
2 155 (29.14%) Analytical Skills
3 114 (21.43%) Finance
4 59 (11.09%) Law
5 55 (10.34%) Marketing
6 39 (7.33%) Public Sector
7 38 (7.14%) Legal
8 37 (6.95%) Influencing Skills
9 36 (6.77%) Telecoms
10 28 (5.26%) Manufacturing
11 26 (4.89%) Military
12 25 (4.70%) Back Office
13 24 (4.51%) Retail
14 21 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 15 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
16 10 (1.88%) Banking
17 9 (1.69%) Aerospace
17 9 (1.69%) Billing
17 9 (1.69%) Games
18 6 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 97 (18.23%) Senior
2 92 (17.29%) Analyst
3 77 (14.47%) Lead
4 55 (10.34%) Data Engineer
5 37 (6.95%) Data Analyst
6 33 (6.20%) Developer
7 22 (4.14%) Architect
8 20 (3.76%) Product Owner
9 19 (3.57%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 19 (3.57%) Data Manager
10 18 (3.38%) Data Scientist
10 18 (3.38%) Performance Analyst
11 17 (3.20%) Data Architect
12 16 (3.01%) Product Manager
12 16 (3.01%) Senior Manager
13 15 (2.82%) Microsoft Engineer
14 14 (2.63%) Platform Engineer
15 12 (2.26%) Principal Engineer
16 11 (2.07%) Performance Manager
16 11 (2.07%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (4.51%) Kafka
2 18 (3.38%) .NET
3 14 (2.63%) OpenAPI
3 14 (2.63%) RESTful
3 14 (2.63%) Swagger
4 11 (2.07%) REST
5 10 (1.88%) .NET Framework
6 9 (1.69%) ASP.NET
6 9 (1.69%) ASP.NET Core
6 9 (1.69%) ASP.NET Web API
6 9 (1.69%) Entity Framework
7 6 (1.13%) Node.js
7 6 (1.13%) Spring
8 5 (0.94%) JSON
8 5 (0.94%) React
8 5 (0.94%) Spring Boot
9 4 (0.75%) .NET Core
9 4 (0.75%) gRPC
9 4 (0.75%) OpenLayers
9 4 (0.75%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 41 (7.71%) Product Ownership
2 39 (7.33%) Cloud Native
3 25 (4.70%) Management Information System
4 20 (3.76%) Data Structures
5 17 (3.20%) Onboarding
6 15 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (2.63%) Algorithms
8 13 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
8 13 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (2.07%) Social Media
10 7 (1.32%) Low-Code
11 6 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.13%) Replication
11 6 (1.13%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.94%) Blog
12 5 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (0.94%) IoT
12 5 (0.94%) Security Posture
13 4 (0.75%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.69%) Linux
2 4 (0.75%) Windows
3 1 (0.19%) Android
3 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 385 (72.37%) Decision-Making
2 264 (49.62%) Analytics
3 131 (24.62%) Agile
4 128 (24.06%) Business Intelligence
5 121 (22.74%) Problem-Solving
6 119 (22.37%) AI
7 115 (21.62%) Continuous Improvement
8 97 (18.23%) Roadmaps
9 91 (17.11%) Data Governance
10 89 (16.73%) Data Modelling
11 78 (14.66%) ETL
12 71 (13.35%) Stakeholder Management
13 70 (13.16%) Visualisation
14 66 (12.41%) CI/CD
15 64 (12.03%) Data Pipeline
16 58 (10.90%) Data Analysis
17 57 (10.71%) Actionable Insight
17 57 (10.71%) Mentoring
18 55 (10.34%) DevOps
18 55 (10.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 131 (24.62%) SQL
2 86 (16.17%) Python
3 20 (3.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 20 (3.76%) JavaScript
4 14 (2.63%) C#
5 12 (2.26%) R
6 11 (2.07%) Java
6 11 (2.07%) T-SQL
6 11 (2.07%) TypeScript
7 9 (1.69%) Bash
8 7 (1.32%) Scala
9 3 (0.56%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.56%) PHP
9 3 (0.56%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.56%) VBA
10 2 (0.38%) Ruby
11 1 (0.19%) Bicep
11 1 (0.19%) C++
11 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 59 (11.09%) Degree
2 26 (4.89%) Security Cleared
3 12 (2.26%) SC Cleared
4 11 (2.07%) Master's Degree
5 10 (1.88%) ACCA
5 10 (1.88%) CIMA
6 7 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (0.94%) Azure Certification
7 5 (0.94%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.75%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.56%) CSPO
9 3 (0.56%) MBA
10 2 (0.38%) HND
10 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.19%) CBAP
11 1 (0.19%) ICAEW
11 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.19%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (15.60%) Data Quality
2 28 (5.26%) GDPR
3 18 (3.38%) QA
4 13 (2.44%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.13%) PMO
5 6 (1.13%) SLA
6 5 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.56%) GRC
7 3 (0.56%) ISO 14001
7 3 (0.56%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (2.44%) Docker
2 2 (0.38%) IAG
3 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (4.70%) Terraform
2 18 (3.38%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.56%) Ansible
4 1 (0.19%) Autotask
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.19%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 80 (15.04%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.64%) SAP
3 26 (4.89%) Databricks
4 21 (3.95%) Google
5 10 (1.88%) Salesforce
6 8 (1.50%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.13%) Botify
7 6 (1.13%) Foundry
8 5 (0.94%) Alteryx
8 5 (0.94%) Oracle
9 4 (0.75%) Freshdesk
10 3 (0.56%) BiZZdesign
10 3 (0.56%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.56%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.56%) Pardot
10 3 (0.56%) Sage
10 3 (0.56%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.56%) Splunk
11 2 (0.38%) Ariba
11 2 (0.38%) Cognizant