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 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 210 421
Rank change year-on-year -111 +211 +42
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 512 699 547
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 1.60% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 1.72% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 340 325 409
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,104 £51,250 £47,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -4.56%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.42% -15.92%

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 68,096 40,631 82,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.48% 93.01% 85.54%
Number of salaries quoted 42,564 22,679 59,766
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,580 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,773 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% -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 7 May 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 7 May 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 -101 448 £60,000 -4.00% 296
UK excluding London -70 324 £55,000 -4.35% 196
London -97 145 £71,028 -5.30% 133
North of England -31 126 £60,000 +4.35% 54
Work from Home -37 124 £63,750 +10.87% 124
North West +8 94 £60,000 +4.35% 29
Midlands -37 69 £51,750 -10.00% 30
South East -53 51 £50,000 -11.11% 56
West Midlands -37 49 £56,250 -2.17% 14
East of England -5 30 £60,000 +14.29% 17
Yorkshire -57 25 £90,000 +56.52% 16
East Midlands -30 20 £37,500 -34.78% 16
Scotland -37 17 £32,500 -70.45% 8
South West -83 15 £73,750 +47.50% 24
Wales -18 11 £42,500 -46.88% 7
North East -24 7 £67,749 +17.82% 10
Northern Ireland - 7 £77,500 - 3

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 21 (4.10%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (2.34%) CMS
3 11 (2.15%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.15%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.95%) Apache
5 6 (1.17%) Confluence
6 5 (0.98%) IIS
6 5 (0.98%) nginx
7 4 (0.78%) Appian
7 4 (0.78%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.39%) MTS
9 1 (0.20%) CICS
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 37 (7.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.98%) Adobe Illustrator
2 5 (0.98%) Photoshop
2 5 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.59%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.39%) Trello
5 1 (0.20%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 10 (1.95%) SAP PM
2 7 (1.37%) Shopify
3 5 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.78%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.39%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (0.39%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.39%) Primavera
6 1 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.20%) SAP BRIM
6 1 (0.20%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.20%) SAP PLM
6 1 (0.20%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 102 (19.92%) Power Platform
2 86 (16.80%) Azure
3 62 (12.11%) AWS
4 35 (6.84%) SaaS
5 25 (4.88%) GCP
6 24 (4.69%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (2.34%) Amazon S3
7 12 (2.34%) GitHub
8 11 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (1.95%) Amazon Kinesis
10 9 (1.76%) Snowflake
11 8 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (1.56%) Power Automate
12 7 (1.37%) Serverless
13 6 (1.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (1.17%) dbt
13 6 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
14 5 (0.98%) Figma
14 5 (0.98%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.17%) Broadband
1 6 (1.17%) Wireless
2 3 (0.59%) Modbus
2 3 (0.59%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.39%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (19.92%) Power BI
2 69 (13.48%) Tableau
3 41 (8.01%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (4.30%) Metadata
5 21 (4.10%) SQL Server
6 18 (3.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 16 (3.13%) Data Lake
8 14 (2.73%) Big Data
9 12 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (2.15%) NoSQL
11 10 (1.95%) Amazon Athena
11 10 (1.95%) Power Query
12 9 (1.76%) Amazon QuickSight
12 9 (1.76%) Apache Iceberg
12 9 (1.76%) Geospatial Data
12 9 (1.76%) Relational Database
12 9 (1.76%) Star Schema
13 7 (1.37%) MySQL
14 6 (1.17%) Hadoop
15 5 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 21 (4.10%) Git
2 19 (3.71%) Postman
3 17 (3.32%) JIRA
4 5 (0.98%) MSI
4 5 (0.98%) Vite
5 4 (0.78%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.59%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.39%) MLflow
7 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.20%) GitLab
8 1 (0.20%) SpecFlow
General
1 182 (35.55%) Social Skills
2 170 (33.20%) Analytical Skills
3 110 (21.48%) Finance
4 64 (12.50%) Law
5 58 (11.33%) Marketing
6 32 (6.25%) Telecoms
7 30 (5.86%) Legal
8 29 (5.66%) Games
9 26 (5.08%) Influencing Skills
9 26 (5.08%) Military
10 25 (4.88%) Retail
11 24 (4.69%) Presentation Skills
12 22 (4.30%) Public Sector
13 20 (3.91%) Back Office
13 20 (3.91%) Manufacturing
14 12 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 9 (1.76%) Billing
17 8 (1.56%) Aerospace
18 7 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 112 (21.88%) Senior
2 83 (16.21%) Analyst
3 82 (16.02%) Lead
4 57 (11.13%) Data Engineer
5 38 (7.42%) Senior Manager
6 35 (6.84%) Architect
7 32 (6.25%) Data Analyst
8 20 (3.91%) Senior Architect
9 19 (3.71%) Developer
10 15 (2.93%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 15 (2.93%) Data Manager
10 15 (2.93%) Product Manager
11 14 (2.73%) Data Scientist
11 14 (2.73%) Microsoft Engineer
12 13 (2.54%) Business Analyst
12 13 (2.54%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (2.54%) Product Owner
13 12 (2.34%) Performance Analyst
14 10 (1.95%) Performance Manager
14 10 (1.95%) Report Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.32%) Kafka
1 17 (3.32%) OpenAPI
1 17 (3.32%) RESTful
1 17 (3.32%) Swagger
2 14 (2.73%) REST
3 11 (2.15%) .NET
4 9 (1.76%) Node.js
5 8 (1.56%) CSS
6 7 (1.37%) Middleware
6 7 (1.37%) PyTorch
6 7 (1.37%) TensorFlow
7 6 (1.17%) HTML
7 6 (1.17%) Vue
8 5 (0.98%) GraphQL
8 5 (0.98%) JSON
8 5 (0.98%) Laravel
8 5 (0.98%) LEMP Stack
8 5 (0.98%) Play Framework
8 5 (0.98%) Tailwind CSS
8 5 (0.98%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (5.86%) Product Ownership
2 29 (5.66%) Management Information System
3 25 (4.88%) Cloud Native
4 24 (4.69%) Data Structures
5 20 (3.91%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (2.93%) Algorithms
7 13 (2.54%) Analytical Mindset
7 13 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.95%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.95%) Social Media
9 9 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.17%) Low-Code
11 5 (0.98%) NHS
11 5 (0.98%) Replication
11 5 (0.98%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.78%) Cyber Defence
12 4 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.78%) IoT
12 4 (0.78%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.76%) Linux
2 5 (0.98%) Windows
3 1 (0.20%) Android
3 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 398 (77.73%) Decision-Making
2 256 (50.00%) Analytics
3 142 (27.73%) Business Intelligence
4 126 (24.61%) Problem-Solving
5 124 (24.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 116 (22.66%) Agile
7 95 (18.55%) AI
8 86 (16.80%) Roadmaps
9 83 (16.21%) Data Governance
10 82 (16.02%) ETL
11 80 (15.63%) Data Modelling
12 76 (14.84%) Stakeholder Management
13 68 (13.28%) Visualisation
14 66 (12.89%) Data Analysis
15 62 (12.11%) Actionable Insight
16 55 (10.74%) CI/CD
16 55 (10.74%) Data Pipeline
17 54 (10.55%) Data Science
18 47 (9.18%) Strategic Thinking
19 42 (8.20%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 134 (26.17%) SQL
2 95 (18.55%) Python
3 18 (3.52%) JavaScript
3 18 (3.52%) R
4 16 (3.13%) Java
5 15 (2.93%) Bash
6 13 (2.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 12 (2.34%) T-SQL
8 10 (1.95%) Scala
9 7 (1.37%) TypeScript
10 6 (1.17%) C#
11 5 (0.98%) PHP
12 4 (0.78%) Go
13 3 (0.59%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.59%) VBA
14 1 (0.20%) COBOL
14 1 (0.20%) JCL
14 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.20%) SHACL
14 1 (0.20%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 74 (14.45%) Degree
2 21 (4.10%) PMI Certification
2 21 (4.10%) PMP
3 17 (3.32%) Security Cleared
4 10 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.76%) ACCA
5 9 (1.76%) CIMA
5 9 (1.76%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.37%) MBA
7 6 (1.17%) SC Cleared
8 5 (0.98%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.98%) DBS Check
8 5 (0.98%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.39%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.39%) HND
9 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.20%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (15.63%) Data Quality
2 16 (3.13%) GDPR
3 15 (2.93%) QA
4 10 (1.95%) Actionable Recommendations
5 9 (1.76%) SLA
6 8 (1.56%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.56%) PMO
7 4 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.59%) ISO 14001
8 3 (0.59%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.39%) GRC
10 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 15 (2.93%) Docker
2 2 (0.39%) IAG
3 1 (0.20%) RACF
Systems Management
1 21 (4.10%) Terraform
2 12 (2.34%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.37%) Ansible
4 1 (0.20%) Autotask
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 1 (0.20%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 52 (10.16%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.47%) Databricks
3 26 (5.08%) SAP
4 24 (4.69%) ServiceNow
5 20 (3.91%) Anaplan
5 20 (3.91%) Genesys
5 20 (3.91%) Verint
6 16 (3.13%) Google
7 15 (2.93%) Salesforce
8 11 (2.15%) HubSpot
9 6 (1.17%) Botify
10 5 (0.98%) BT
10 5 (0.98%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.98%) Oracle
11 4 (0.78%) Alteryx
11 4 (0.78%) Foundry
12 3 (0.59%) Informatica
12 3 (0.59%) Pardot
12 3 (0.59%) Sage
13 2 (0.39%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud