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 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 337 368
Rank change year-on-year +109 +31 +144
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 595 431 398
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.98% 0.81% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 0.89% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 252 248 306
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,263 £34,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £41,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £58,528
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +11.06% -2.45%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £74,688
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -16.67%

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 49,036 48,491 50,448
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.83% 90.77% 89.96%
Number of salaries quoted 28,943 23,557 38,431
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,528
% change year-on-year -9.09% +6.74% -6.31%

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 16 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK

Data-Driven Decision Making
Top 17 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 16 January 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 +99 452 £65,000 - 375
UK excluding London +121 407 £57,500 -4.17% 348
South East +102 157 £55,000 +1.62% 106
London +39 149 £71,028 -17.65% 88
Work from Home +60 108 £66,500 +4.31% 124
Scotland +59 77 £38,000 -54.29% 19
North of England +12 56 £60,000 -7.69% 62
Midlands +21 48 £60,000 - 56
West Midlands +21 44 £65,000 +8.33% 30
North West +12 31 £55,000 -15.38% 25
Northern Ireland - 22 £77,500 - 8
South West +16 19 £73,250 +17.20% 40
Yorkshire -3 19 £71,250 -13.64% 27
East of England +28 14 £52,500 -44.44% 50
Wales +18 14 £43,750 -45.31% 14
North East +8 6 - - 12
East Midlands -11 4 £39,449 -53.32% 25

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 (2.69%) Confluence
2 15 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (1.68%) Apache
3 10 (1.68%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.01%) CMS
4 6 (1.01%) SAS
5 5 (0.84%) IIS
6 4 (0.67%) Appian
6 4 (0.67%) nginx
6 4 (0.67%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (0.67%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.34%) CICS
7 2 (0.34%) MTS
8 1 (0.17%) Drupal
Applications
1 82 (13.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.51%) Trello
5 7 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.67%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.67%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.67%) Windchill
7 3 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.17%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 44 (7.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (2.52%) Shopify
3 7 (1.18%) SAP CO
3 7 (1.18%) SAP FI
3 7 (1.18%) SAP FI/CO
4 6 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (1.01%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.67%) Magento
5 4 (0.67%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.50%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.17%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 1 (0.17%) SAP PLM
7 1 (0.17%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 139 (23.36%) Power Platform
2 80 (13.45%) SaaS
3 75 (12.61%) Azure
4 56 (9.41%) AWS
5 21 (3.53%) GCP
6 19 (3.19%) GitHub
7 17 (2.86%) Snowflake
8 15 (2.52%) Serverless
9 14 (2.35%) Azure Data Factory
9 14 (2.35%) Google Analytics
10 13 (2.18%) Amazon S3
11 11 (1.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 10 (1.68%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (1.51%) Asana
14 8 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (1.34%) Google Tag Manager
14 8 (1.34%) PaaS
15 7 (1.18%) Amazon Kinesis
15 7 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (1.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.01%) Wireless
2 1 (0.17%) 5G
2 1 (0.17%) ADSL
2 1 (0.17%) BGP
2 1 (0.17%) Broadband
2 1 (0.17%) DHCP
2 1 (0.17%) DNS
2 1 (0.17%) Firewall
2 1 (0.17%) Internet
2 1 (0.17%) LAN
2 1 (0.17%) Network Security
2 1 (0.17%) OSPF
2 1 (0.17%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.17%) VLAN
2 1 (0.17%) VPN
2 1 (0.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (23.03%) Power BI
2 66 (11.09%) Tableau
3 48 (8.07%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (4.20%) Metadata
5 23 (3.87%) Data Lake
6 17 (2.86%) Power Query
7 15 (2.52%) Amazon Redshift
8 14 (2.35%) SQL Server
9 13 (2.18%) Azure SQL Database
10 12 (2.02%) NoSQL
11 10 (1.68%) Apache Iceberg
12 9 (1.51%) Big Data
12 9 (1.51%) Looker
13 8 (1.34%) Data Mining
13 8 (1.34%) SAP BW
13 8 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
14 7 (1.18%) Amazon QuickSight
14 7 (1.18%) Hadoop
14 7 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 61 (10.25%) JIRA
2 42 (7.06%) Git
3 26 (4.37%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.85%) Postman
5 6 (1.01%) Visual Studio
6 5 (0.84%) MSI
7 4 (0.67%) Toad
7 4 (0.67%) Vite
8 2 (0.34%) MLflow
9 1 (0.17%) GitLab
9 1 (0.17%) Selenium
General
1 322 (54.12%) Social Skills
2 237 (39.83%) Analytical Skills
3 175 (29.41%) Finance
4 85 (14.29%) Marketing
5 40 (6.72%) Organisational Skills
6 34 (5.71%) Law
6 34 (5.71%) Legal
7 33 (5.55%) Retail
8 28 (4.71%) Presentation Skills
9 26 (4.37%) Public Sector
10 22 (3.70%) Games
10 22 (3.70%) Manufacturing
11 16 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 13 (2.18%) Banking
12 13 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (2.18%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.34%) Military
13 8 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (1.01%) Local Government
14 6 (1.01%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 99 (16.64%) Lead
2 84 (14.12%) Analyst
2 84 (14.12%) Senior
3 64 (10.76%) Innovation Manager
4 46 (7.73%) Senior Manager
5 43 (7.23%) Architect
6 36 (6.05%) Data Engineer
7 30 (5.04%) Data Analyst
8 20 (3.36%) Developer
8 20 (3.36%) Senior Architect
9 19 (3.19%) Product Manager
10 16 (2.69%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 16 (2.69%) Senior Analyst
11 14 (2.35%) Business Analyst
12 13 (2.18%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 13 (2.18%) Data Manager
12 13 (2.18%) Product Owner
13 12 (2.02%) Digital Product Manager
14 10 (1.68%) Business Intelligence Manager
14 10 (1.68%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.52%) REST
2 12 (2.02%) OpenAPI
2 12 (2.02%) React
2 12 (2.02%) Swagger
3 11 (1.85%) RESTful
3 11 (1.85%) Vue
4 10 (1.68%) Kafka
4 10 (1.68%) Middleware
5 9 (1.51%) PyTorch
6 8 (1.34%) AngularJS
6 8 (1.34%) CSS
6 8 (1.34%) JSON
6 8 (1.34%) TensorFlow
7 7 (1.18%) scikit-learn
8 6 (1.01%) HTML
9 5 (0.84%) Pandas
9 5 (0.84%) Play Framework
10 4 (0.67%) Django
10 4 (0.67%) Laravel
10 4 (0.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (6.89%) Product Ownership
2 32 (5.38%) Management Information System
3 25 (4.20%) Self-Motivation
4 22 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 16 (2.69%) Onboarding
6 13 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (2.02%) Data Structures
8 11 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (1.68%) Algorithms
10 9 (1.51%) Cloud Native
10 9 (1.51%) Low-Code
10 9 (1.51%) Social Media
11 7 (1.18%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.84%) AI Agents
13 5 (0.84%) NHS
13 5 (0.84%) Reinsurance
14 4 (0.67%) Augmented Reality
14 4 (0.67%) Hackathon
14 4 (0.67%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.51%) Windows
2 5 (0.84%) Linux
3 4 (0.67%) Unix
3 4 (0.67%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.34%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 459 (77.14%) Decision-Making
2 277 (46.55%) Analytics
3 216 (36.30%) Continuous Improvement
4 172 (28.91%) Business Intelligence
5 159 (26.72%) AI
6 149 (25.04%) Stakeholder Management
7 130 (21.85%) Agile
8 128 (21.51%) Problem-Solving
9 112 (18.82%) Data Modelling
10 98 (16.47%) Roadmaps
11 93 (15.63%) Customer Experience
12 90 (15.13%) Data Analysis
13 85 (14.29%) ERP
14 77 (12.94%) ETL
15 71 (11.93%) Visualisation
16 69 (11.60%) Actionable Insight
17 68 (11.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 64 (10.76%) Strategic Thinking
19 63 (10.59%) Data Governance
20 57 (9.58%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 139 (23.36%) SQL
2 95 (15.97%) Python
3 20 (3.36%) JavaScript
4 18 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 17 (2.86%) R
6 11 (1.85%) Bash
6 11 (1.85%) Java
7 9 (1.51%) T-SQL
8 6 (1.01%) Scala
9 5 (0.84%) Go
9 5 (0.84%) PHP
9 5 (0.84%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.67%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.67%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.67%) VB
11 2 (0.34%) ABAP
11 2 (0.34%) COBOL
11 2 (0.34%) JCL
12 1 (0.17%) C#
12 1 (0.17%) C++
Qualifications
1 203 (34.12%) Degree
2 58 (9.75%) Master's Degree
3 44 (7.39%) MBA
4 37 (6.22%) Security Cleared
5 32 (5.38%) PMI Certification
6 31 (5.21%) PMP
7 13 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (2.02%) TOGAF Certification
9 11 (1.85%) SC Cleared
10 7 (1.18%) ACCA
10 7 (1.18%) CIMA
10 7 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.84%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.84%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.84%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.34%) DV Cleared
14 2 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (17.48%) Data Quality
2 39 (6.55%) QA
3 26 (4.37%) Def Stans
4 24 (4.03%) GDPR
5 14 (2.35%) SLA
6 12 (2.02%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.51%) PMO
8 6 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.50%) ISO 14001
10 3 (0.50%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.34%) IFRS
12 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.17%) GRC
12 1 (0.17%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.17%) NEBOSH
12 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (2.86%) Docker
2 2 (0.34%) RACF
Systems Management
1 8 (1.34%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.18%) Terraform
3 5 (0.84%) Ansible
4 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 91 (15.29%) SAP
2 74 (12.44%) Microsoft
3 31 (5.21%) Databricks
4 26 (4.37%) ServiceNow
5 21 (3.53%) Anaplan
5 21 (3.53%) Salesforce
6 20 (3.36%) Genesys
6 20 (3.36%) Verint
7 18 (3.03%) Google
8 9 (1.51%) HubSpot
8 9 (1.51%) Oracle
9 5 (0.84%) BT
9 5 (0.84%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.67%) Alteryx
10 4 (0.67%) NEC
10 4 (0.67%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 4 (0.67%) Workday
11 3 (0.50%) Ariba
11 3 (0.50%) Mercator
11 3 (0.50%) Sage