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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 210 380
Rank change year-on-year -110 +170 +78
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 628 762 520
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.59% 1.52% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 1.71% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 437 323 331
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,902 £40,013
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% -3.33% +9.04%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £94,250 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%

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 requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 78,515 44,640 67,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.47% 89.25% 80.94%
Number of salaries quoted 54,079 25,322 43,171
10th Percentile £30,975 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,236 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 16 August 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 16 August 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 -79 572 £57,500 -4.17% 514
UK excluding London -101 420 £52,500 -4.55% 294
North of England +26 199 £50,000 -13.04% 80
London -89 162 £80,000 +6.67% 286
Work from Home -28 159 £52,500 -8.70% 173
North West +50 146 £55,000 -4.35% 47
Midlands -21 88 £51,356 -10.69% 37
South East -115 67 £50,000 -4.95% 86
West Midlands -29 54 £51,356 -8.70% 22
Yorkshire -19 39 £42,500 -26.09% 23
East Midlands -21 34 £52,500 -8.70% 15
East of England -22 29 £58,105 +36.72% 22
South West -82 19 £60,000 +37.58% 32
North East -52 14 £68,750 +19.57% 10
Scotland -60 12 £55,000 -21.43% 22
Wales -60 6 £53,171 -18.20% 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 12 (1.91%) Confluence
2 8 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (1.27%) CMS
2 8 (1.27%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.48%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.48%) GeoServer
4 2 (0.32%) Apache
4 2 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.16%) nginx
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 50 (7.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.64%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (2.23%) SAP PM
2 8 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.32%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 2 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.32%) Primavera
4 2 (0.32%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.32%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.16%) Actimize
5 1 (0.16%) FastStats
5 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.16%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 115 (18.31%) Power Platform
2 97 (15.45%) Azure
3 72 (11.46%) AWS
4 42 (6.69%) GCP
5 33 (5.25%) SaaS
6 29 (4.62%) Azure Data Factory
7 23 (3.66%) Snowflake
8 22 (3.50%) Google Analytics
9 17 (2.71%) Serverless
10 16 (2.55%) GitHub
11 15 (2.39%) dbt
12 13 (2.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 12 (1.91%) Microsoft Purview
14 11 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
15 10 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
15 10 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
16 9 (1.43%) Amazon S3
17 8 (1.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 8 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
18 7 (1.11%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.64%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.48%) Broadband
2 3 (0.48%) Intranet
2 3 (0.48%) Modbus
3 1 (0.16%) Firewall
3 1 (0.16%) GoToMeeting
3 1 (0.16%) MQTT
3 1 (0.16%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.16%) WebEx
3 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (18.31%) Power BI
2 63 (10.03%) Data Warehouse
3 54 (8.60%) Tableau
4 26 (4.14%) Looker
5 25 (3.98%) BigQuery
6 23 (3.66%) Data Lake
7 19 (3.03%) Relational Database
7 19 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 16 (2.55%) Power Query
9 15 (2.39%) SQL Server
10 13 (2.07%) Metadata
11 12 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
11 12 (1.91%) MongoDB
11 12 (1.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 9 (1.43%) NoSQL
12 9 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (1.43%) Star Schema
13 5 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.80%) MySQL
13 5 (0.80%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 36 (5.73%) JIRA
2 16 (2.55%) Git
3 9 (1.43%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.96%) Postman
5 4 (0.64%) Claude Code
5 4 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (0.48%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.48%) Selenium
6 3 (0.48%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.16%) Vite
General
1 218 (34.71%) Social Skills
2 199 (31.69%) Analytical Skills
3 170 (27.07%) Finance
4 81 (12.90%) Marketing
5 61 (9.71%) Law
6 55 (8.76%) Public Sector
7 54 (8.60%) Influencing Skills
8 41 (6.53%) Retail
9 40 (6.37%) Telecoms
10 38 (6.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 37 (5.89%) Legal
12 33 (5.25%) Back Office
13 32 (5.10%) Manufacturing
13 32 (5.10%) Military
14 28 (4.46%) Banking
15 15 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
16 14 (2.23%) Aerospace
17 10 (1.59%) Electronics
18 9 (1.43%) Games
18 9 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 120 (19.11%) Senior
2 118 (18.79%) Analyst
3 91 (14.49%) Lead
4 43 (6.85%) Data Engineer
5 38 (6.05%) Data Analyst
6 28 (4.46%) Software Engineer
7 26 (4.14%) Architect
8 24 (3.82%) Analytics Manager
8 24 (3.82%) Developer
9 23 (3.66%) Senior Manager
10 22 (3.50%) Product Owner
11 20 (3.18%) Data Scientist
12 19 (3.03%) Data Manager
12 19 (3.03%) Performance Analyst
13 18 (2.87%) Data Architect
14 17 (2.71%) Senior Software Engineer
15 16 (2.55%) Performance Manager
16 14 (2.23%) IT Analyst
16 14 (2.23%) Principal Engineer
16 14 (2.23%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (5.10%) Kafka
2 24 (3.82%) Spring
3 15 (2.39%) .NET
4 12 (1.91%) Spring Boot
5 9 (1.43%) .NET Framework
5 9 (1.43%) ASP.NET
5 9 (1.43%) ASP.NET Core
5 9 (1.43%) ASP.NET Web API
5 9 (1.43%) Entity Framework
5 9 (1.43%) React
5 9 (1.43%) REST
6 8 (1.27%) RESTful
7 7 (1.11%) Node.js
8 6 (0.96%) PyTorch
8 6 (0.96%) scikit-learn
8 6 (0.96%) TensorFlow
9 4 (0.64%) GraphQL
9 4 (0.64%) HTML
9 4 (0.64%) Middleware
9 4 (0.64%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 48 (7.64%) Cloud Native
2 47 (7.48%) Product Ownership
3 25 (3.98%) Onboarding
4 22 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (3.50%) Management Information System
5 20 (3.18%) Algorithms
6 12 (1.91%) Social Media
7 11 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.43%) Blog
9 9 (1.43%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.27%) Replication
11 7 (1.11%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.11%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.11%) Mobile App
12 6 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.96%) IoT
12 6 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.80%) Linux
2 3 (0.48%) Android
2 3 (0.48%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 454 (72.29%) Decision-Making
2 297 (47.29%) Analytics
3 159 (25.32%) AI
4 147 (23.41%) Agile
5 144 (22.93%) Business Intelligence
6 139 (22.13%) Problem-Solving
7 134 (21.34%) Continuous Improvement
8 109 (17.36%) Stakeholder Management
9 99 (15.76%) Data Governance
9 99 (15.76%) Roadmaps
10 96 (15.29%) Visualisation
11 86 (13.69%) Data Modelling
12 77 (12.26%) Mentoring
13 74 (11.78%) Data Science
14 72 (11.46%) Actionable Insight
15 71 (11.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 70 (11.15%) Machine Learning
17 63 (10.03%) CI/CD
18 61 (9.71%) Data Pipeline
19 57 (9.08%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 140 (22.29%) SQL
2 87 (13.85%) Python
3 28 (4.46%) Java
4 25 (3.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 24 (3.82%) JavaScript
6 16 (2.55%) TypeScript
7 15 (2.39%) R
8 14 (2.23%) C#
9 10 (1.59%) T-SQL
10 9 (1.43%) Kotlin
11 6 (0.96%) Scala
12 3 (0.48%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.32%) Ruby
13 2 (0.32%) VBA
14 1 (0.16%) Bash
14 1 (0.16%) C++
14 1 (0.16%) PHP
Qualifications
1 74 (11.78%) Degree
2 37 (5.89%) Security Cleared
3 24 (3.82%) SC Cleared
4 15 (2.39%) ITIL Certification
5 12 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (1.59%) ACCA
6 10 (1.59%) CIMA
6 10 (1.59%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
8 8 (1.27%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (0.64%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.48%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.48%) CSPO
11 3 (0.48%) PhD
12 2 (0.32%) HND
13 1 (0.16%) ICAEW
13 1 (0.16%) MBA
13 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.16%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (14.01%) Data Quality
2 41 (6.53%) GDPR
3 25 (3.98%) QA
4 21 (3.34%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.75%) GRC
6 9 (1.43%) SLA
7 8 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 4 (0.64%) PMO
11 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.16%) GxP
11 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (1.91%) Docker
2 2 (0.32%) IAG
3 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (3.50%) Terraform
2 17 (2.71%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.32%) Ansible
5 1 (0.16%) Autotask
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.16%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 88 (14.01%) Microsoft
2 46 (7.32%) Google
3 34 (5.41%) SAP
4 27 (4.30%) Databricks
5 12 (1.91%) Salesforce
6 8 (1.27%) Foundry
6 8 (1.27%) OpenAI
7 6 (0.96%) Botify
8 5 (0.80%) HubSpot
8 5 (0.80%) Oracle
8 5 (0.80%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.64%) Alteryx
9 4 (0.64%) Dynatrace
9 4 (0.64%) Freshdesk
9 4 (0.64%) Splunk
10 3 (0.48%) BiZZdesign
10 3 (0.48%) Palantir
10 3 (0.48%) Pardot
10 3 (0.48%) TikTok
10 3 (0.48%) YouTube