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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 220 421
Rank change year-on-year -106 +201 +40
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 515 696 567
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 1.59% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 1.71% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 354 301 409
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,931 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,188 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,743 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.22% +10.44% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £57,500 £52,550
% change year-on-year -7.53% +9.42% -6.37%

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 68,107 40,669 85,373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.51% 93.11% 83.11%
Number of salaries quoted 45,062 21,401 61,158
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,114 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -93 453 £60,000 -1.93% 408
UK excluding London -66 342 £53,171 -7.53% 241
Work from Home -35 137 £55,000 -4.35% 160
North of England -8 136 £60,000 +4.35% 66
London -119 126 £70,000 -3.45% 214
North West +36 107 £60,000 +4.35% 36
Midlands -47 77 £47,500 -17.39% 41
West Midlands -41 54 £48,000 -16.52% 24
South East -53 54 £50,000 -21.88% 59
East of England -17 30 £60,000 +22.52% 21
East Midlands -27 23 £37,500 -38.78% 17
Yorkshire -50 21 £56,875 -1.09% 22
Scotland -13 17 £32,500 -60.61% 13
South West -80 16 £77,500 +63.16% 30
Wales -31 9 £47,500 -40.63% 9
North East -31 8 £45,497 -20.87% 10
Northern Ireland - 5 - - 7

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 17 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (2.33%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.14%) CMS
4 9 (1.75%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.55%) Apache
6 5 (0.97%) IIS
7 4 (0.78%) Confluence
7 4 (0.78%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.78%) nginx
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 41 (7.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.78%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.78%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.58%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.19%) SPSS
6 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.94%) SAP PM
2 5 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.78%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.78%) Shopify
4 2 (0.39%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 2 (0.39%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.39%) Primavera
5 1 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.19%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.19%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 105 (20.39%) Power Platform
2 98 (19.03%) Azure
3 60 (11.65%) AWS
4 33 (6.41%) SaaS
5 31 (6.02%) GCP
6 30 (5.83%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (1.94%) Amazon S3
8 9 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (1.75%) Snowflake
9 8 (1.55%) Amazon Kinesis
9 8 (1.55%) GitHub
9 8 (1.55%) Serverless
10 7 (1.36%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (1.36%) Power Automate
11 6 (1.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (1.17%) dbt
12 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (0.97%) PowerApps
13 4 (0.78%) Figma
13 4 (0.78%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.17%) Broadband
2 4 (0.78%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.78%) Wireless
3 3 (0.58%) Intranet
3 3 (0.58%) Modbus
4 1 (0.19%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (20.39%) Power BI
2 67 (13.01%) Tableau
3 43 (8.35%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (3.88%) SQL Server
4 20 (3.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 17 (3.30%) Metadata
6 15 (2.91%) Data Lake
7 13 (2.52%) Big Data
7 13 (2.52%) Power Query
8 12 (2.33%) NoSQL
8 12 (2.33%) Star Schema
9 10 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (1.75%) MongoDB
10 9 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 8 (1.55%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (1.55%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.55%) Geospatial Data
11 8 (1.55%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.36%) Apache Iceberg
12 7 (1.36%) Looker
Development Applications
1 19 (3.69%) Git
2 16 (3.11%) Postman
3 13 (2.52%) JIRA
4 5 (0.97%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.78%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.78%) Vite
6 3 (0.58%) MSI
6 3 (0.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.19%) MLflow
7 1 (0.19%) Selenium
7 1 (0.19%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 165 (32.04%) Social Skills
2 163 (31.65%) Analytical Skills
3 109 (21.17%) Finance
4 61 (11.84%) Law
5 56 (10.87%) Marketing
6 34 (6.60%) Telecoms
7 30 (5.83%) Legal
8 29 (5.63%) Games
8 29 (5.63%) Public Sector
9 25 (4.85%) Influencing Skills
10 24 (4.66%) Military
11 22 (4.27%) Presentation Skills
12 20 (3.88%) Back Office
12 20 (3.88%) Manufacturing
12 20 (3.88%) Retail
13 16 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 11 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (1.75%) Billing
16 8 (1.55%) Aerospace
16 8 (1.55%) Banking
Job Titles
1 115 (22.33%) Senior
2 86 (16.70%) Analyst
3 81 (15.73%) Lead
4 56 (10.87%) Data Engineer
5 38 (7.38%) Senior Manager
6 36 (6.99%) Data Analyst
7 33 (6.41%) Architect
8 28 (5.44%) Developer
9 20 (3.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 20 (3.88%) Senior Architect
10 15 (2.91%) Data Scientist
10 15 (2.91%) Microsoft Engineer
10 15 (2.91%) Product Owner
11 14 (2.72%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (2.52%) Data Manager
12 13 (2.52%) Principal Engineer
12 13 (2.52%) Product Manager
13 12 (2.33%) Performance Analyst
14 10 (1.94%) Business Developer
14 10 (1.94%) Performance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.85%) Kafka
2 18 (3.50%) .NET
3 14 (2.72%) OpenAPI
3 14 (2.72%) RESTful
3 14 (2.72%) Swagger
4 11 (2.14%) REST
5 10 (1.94%) .NET Framework
6 9 (1.75%) ASP.NET
6 9 (1.75%) ASP.NET Core
6 9 (1.75%) ASP.NET Web API
6 9 (1.75%) Entity Framework
7 6 (1.17%) CSS
7 6 (1.17%) Middleware
7 6 (1.17%) Node.js
8 5 (0.97%) HTML
8 5 (0.97%) JSON
8 5 (0.97%) Play Framework
8 5 (0.97%) Vue
9 4 (0.78%) Leaflet
9 4 (0.78%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 30 (5.83%) Cloud Native
1 30 (5.83%) Product Ownership
2 26 (5.05%) Management Information System
3 21 (4.08%) Data Structures
4 18 (3.50%) Algorithms
4 18 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (2.52%) Analytical Mindset
6 13 (2.52%) Onboarding
7 10 (1.94%) Social Media
8 8 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.36%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.17%) Replication
11 5 (0.97%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.78%) Cyber Defence
12 4 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.78%) IoT
12 4 (0.78%) NHS
12 4 (0.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.75%) Linux
2 4 (0.78%) Windows
3 1 (0.19%) Android
3 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (74.17%) Decision-Making
2 250 (48.54%) Analytics
3 146 (28.35%) Business Intelligence
4 124 (24.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 121 (23.50%) Problem-Solving
6 120 (23.30%) Agile
7 96 (18.64%) AI
8 80 (15.53%) Roadmaps
9 79 (15.34%) ETL
10 78 (15.15%) Data Governance
11 77 (14.95%) Data Modelling
12 69 (13.40%) Stakeholder Management
13 68 (13.20%) Visualisation
14 63 (12.23%) Actionable Insight
15 61 (11.84%) Data Analysis
16 59 (11.46%) CI/CD
17 57 (11.07%) Data Pipeline
18 52 (10.10%) Data Science
19 47 (9.13%) DevOps
20 46 (8.93%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 134 (26.02%) SQL
2 93 (18.06%) Python
3 21 (4.08%) JavaScript
4 20 (3.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 19 (3.69%) R
6 15 (2.91%) Java
7 14 (2.72%) C#
8 12 (2.33%) Bash
8 12 (2.33%) T-SQL
9 11 (2.14%) Scala
9 11 (2.14%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.78%) PHP
11 3 (0.58%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.58%) VBA
12 1 (0.19%) Bicep
12 1 (0.19%) C++
12 1 (0.19%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.19%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 74 (14.37%) Degree
2 24 (4.66%) Security Cleared
3 20 (3.88%) PMI Certification
3 20 (3.88%) PMP
4 12 (2.33%) SC Cleared
5 10 (1.94%) ACCA
5 10 (1.94%) CIMA
5 10 (1.94%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.36%) MBA
7 5 (0.97%) Azure Certification
7 5 (0.97%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.78%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.39%) HND
9 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.19%) ICAEW
10 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.19%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (14.56%) Data Quality
2 20 (3.88%) GDPR
3 16 (3.11%) QA
4 10 (1.94%) Actionable Recommendations
5 9 (1.75%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.55%) PMO
7 4 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.78%) SLA
8 3 (0.58%) ISO 14001
8 3 (0.58%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.39%) GRC
10 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 10 (1.94%) Docker
2 2 (0.39%) IAG
3 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (4.47%) Terraform
2 16 (3.11%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.58%) Ansible
4 1 (0.19%) Autotask
4 1 (0.19%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 70 (13.59%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.44%) SAP
3 24 (4.66%) Databricks
3 24 (4.66%) ServiceNow
4 20 (3.88%) Anaplan
4 20 (3.88%) Genesys
4 20 (3.88%) Verint
5 15 (2.91%) Google
6 13 (2.52%) Salesforce
7 10 (1.94%) HubSpot
8 6 (1.17%) Botify
9 5 (0.97%) Alteryx
9 5 (0.97%) BT
9 5 (0.97%) Foundry
9 5 (0.97%) Oracle
10 4 (0.78%) Freshdesk
11 3 (0.58%) Pardot
11 3 (0.58%) Sage
12 2 (0.39%) Cognos
12 2 (0.39%) NEC