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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 263 403
Rank change year-on-year -22 +140 +84
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 492 524 485
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.70% 1.15% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 1.23% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 272 271 382
10th Percentile £36,275 £42,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £48,438 £52,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,197 £52,550
% change year-on-year -4.48% +14.55% -12.42%

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 55,531 42,488 69,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.63% 93.22% 87.90%
Number of salaries quoted 33,358 21,624 53,124
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,900 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 3 March 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 3 March 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 -27 394 £65,000 - 405
UK excluding London +2 293 £57,500 -4.48% 323
London -27 155 £71,028 -5.30% 124
Work from Home -4 121 £67,000 +10.30% 154
South East +4 68 £54,750 -0.45% 88
North of England -32 62 £60,000 -4.00% 74
Midlands -22 57 £60,000 - 58
West Midlands +8 46 £65,000 +8.33% 30
Scotland -20 36 £35,250 -67.95% 17
North West -10 32 £55,000 -15.38% 36
Yorkshire -27 24 £77,500 +27.59% 26
Northern Ireland - 22 £77,500 - 7
South West -32 21 £73,750 +25.11% 39
East of England +12 19 £80,000 +48.84% 34
East Midlands -24 11 £39,449 -28.28% 27
Wales 0 10 £42,500 -46.88% 11
North East -10 6 - - 12

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 (4.27%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (2.85%) Confluence
3 12 (2.44%) Apache
3 12 (2.44%) Apache Spark
4 11 (2.24%) CMS
5 9 (1.83%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.22%) SAS
7 5 (1.02%) IIS
7 5 (1.02%) nginx
8 4 (0.81%) Appian
9 2 (0.41%) CICS
9 2 (0.41%) MTS
10 1 (0.20%) Drupal
10 1 (0.20%) GeoServer
Applications
1 54 (10.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.83%) Trello
3 8 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (1.02%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (1.02%) Photoshop
5 5 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (0.41%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.20%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (3.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (2.44%) Shopify
3 6 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (1.02%) SAP PM
5 4 (0.81%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.41%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.20%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.20%) SAP PLM
7 1 (0.20%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 141 (28.66%) Power Platform
2 81 (16.46%) Azure
3 57 (11.59%) AWS
4 51 (10.37%) SaaS
5 24 (4.88%) GCP
6 19 (3.86%) Azure Data Factory
6 19 (3.86%) GitHub
7 14 (2.85%) Amazon S3
7 14 (2.85%) Snowflake
8 10 (2.03%) Google Analytics
8 10 (2.03%) Serverless
9 9 (1.83%) Amazon Kinesis
9 9 (1.83%) Asana
9 9 (1.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 9 (1.83%) Microsoft Copilot
10 8 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (1.63%) PaaS
11 7 (1.42%) Power Automate
12 6 (1.22%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.22%) Broadband
1 6 (1.22%) Wireless
2 1 (0.20%) 5G
2 1 (0.20%) ADSL
2 1 (0.20%) Internet
2 1 (0.20%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (28.25%) Power BI
2 70 (14.23%) Tableau
3 51 (10.37%) Data Warehouse
4 31 (6.30%) Metadata
5 19 (3.86%) Power Query
6 16 (3.25%) SQL Server
7 15 (3.05%) Amazon Redshift
7 15 (3.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 14 (2.85%) Big Data
8 14 (2.85%) Data Lake
9 12 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (2.24%) Apache Iceberg
11 10 (2.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 9 (1.83%) Amazon Athena
12 9 (1.83%) Amazon QuickSight
12 9 (1.83%) NoSQL
12 9 (1.83%) Relational Database
13 8 (1.63%) Star Schema
14 7 (1.42%) Hadoop
14 7 (1.42%) Looker
Development Applications
1 35 (7.11%) JIRA
2 21 (4.27%) Git
3 20 (4.07%) Postman
4 8 (1.63%) Visual Studio
5 5 (1.02%) MSI
5 5 (1.02%) Vite
6 2 (0.41%) MLflow
6 2 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.20%) GitLab
7 1 (0.20%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.20%) Selenium
7 1 (0.20%) SpecFlow
General
1 219 (44.51%) Social Skills
2 196 (39.84%) Analytical Skills
3 139 (28.25%) Finance
4 75 (15.24%) Marketing
5 47 (9.55%) Law
6 37 (7.52%) Retail
7 34 (6.91%) Legal
8 28 (5.69%) Games
8 28 (5.69%) Presentation Skills
9 23 (4.67%) Public Sector
10 19 (3.86%) Telecoms
11 18 (3.66%) Influencing Skills
12 17 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (3.05%) Banking
13 15 (3.05%) Manufacturing
14 14 (2.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 13 (2.64%) Military
16 8 (1.63%) Back Office
16 8 (1.63%) Financial Institution
16 8 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 91 (18.50%) Analyst
2 85 (17.28%) Senior
3 53 (10.77%) Lead
4 46 (9.35%) Data Engineer
5 44 (8.94%) Senior Manager
6 38 (7.72%) Data Analyst
7 33 (6.71%) Architect
8 21 (4.27%) Product Manager
9 20 (4.07%) Developer
9 20 (4.07%) Senior Architect
10 17 (3.46%) Senior Analyst
11 16 (3.25%) Innovation Manager
12 15 (3.05%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 14 (2.85%) Data Manager
14 13 (2.64%) Business Analyst
15 12 (2.44%) Product Owner
16 11 (2.24%) Business Developer
16 11 (2.24%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 11 (2.24%) Digital Product Manager
17 9 (1.83%) Business Intelligence Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.86%) OpenAPI
1 19 (3.86%) RESTful
1 19 (3.86%) Swagger
2 14 (2.85%) Kafka
2 14 (2.85%) REST
3 12 (2.44%) JSON
4 8 (1.63%) CSS
4 8 (1.63%) React
4 8 (1.63%) Vue
5 7 (1.42%) Middleware
5 7 (1.42%) PyTorch
5 7 (1.42%) TensorFlow
6 6 (1.22%) HTML
6 6 (1.22%) Node.js
7 5 (1.02%) GraphQL
7 5 (1.02%) Laravel
7 5 (1.02%) LEMP Stack
7 5 (1.02%) Play Framework
7 5 (1.02%) scikit-learn
7 5 (1.02%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.93%) Product Ownership
2 34 (6.91%) Management Information System
3 24 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
4 22 (4.47%) Data Structures
5 21 (4.27%) Analytical Mindset
6 17 (3.46%) Algorithms
7 14 (2.85%) Social Media
8 13 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (2.44%) Cloud Native
10 11 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.63%) NHS
12 8 (1.63%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.22%) Onboarding
13 6 (1.22%) Reference Data
14 5 (1.02%) AI Agents
14 5 (1.02%) Reinsurance
15 4 (0.81%) e-Learning
15 4 (0.81%) Hackathon
15 4 (0.81%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.63%) Windows
2 7 (1.42%) Linux
3 2 (0.41%) zOS
4 1 (0.20%) Android
4 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 392 (79.67%) Decision-Making
2 255 (51.83%) Analytics
3 177 (35.98%) Business Intelligence
4 151 (30.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 130 (26.42%) Agile
6 115 (23.37%) Problem-Solving
7 114 (23.17%) AI
8 104 (21.14%) Roadmaps
9 101 (20.53%) Stakeholder Management
10 98 (19.92%) ETL
11 91 (18.50%) Data Modelling
12 82 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
12 82 (16.67%) Visualisation
13 79 (16.06%) Data Analysis
14 75 (15.24%) Data Governance
15 62 (12.60%) Data Science
16 57 (11.59%) Data Engineering
17 56 (11.38%) Translating Business Requirements
18 55 (11.18%) Data Visualisation
19 53 (10.77%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 155 (31.50%) SQL
2 109 (22.15%) Python
3 21 (4.27%) R
4 17 (3.46%) JavaScript
5 15 (3.05%) Bash
6 13 (2.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 13 (2.64%) Java
7 9 (1.83%) T-SQL
8 7 (1.42%) Scala
9 6 (1.22%) PHP
9 6 (1.22%) TypeScript
10 5 (1.02%) Go
11 3 (0.61%) VBA
12 2 (0.41%) COBOL
12 2 (0.41%) JCL
13 1 (0.20%) ABAP
13 1 (0.20%) Bicep
13 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.20%) SHACL
13 1 (0.20%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 116 (23.58%) Degree
2 32 (6.50%) PMI Certification
3 31 (6.30%) PMP
4 27 (5.49%) Master's Degree
5 19 (3.86%) MBA
6 15 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (2.64%) Security Cleared
8 7 (1.42%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (1.22%) ACCA
9 6 (1.22%) CIMA
10 5 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.02%) SC Cleared
11 4 (0.81%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.81%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.81%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.61%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.61%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (17.28%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.27%) GDPR
3 19 (3.86%) QA
4 12 (2.44%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.03%) Actionable Recommendations
5 10 (2.03%) SLA
6 6 (1.22%) PMO
7 4 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.61%) ISO 14001
8 3 (0.61%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.20%) GAAP
10 1 (0.20%) GMP
10 1 (0.20%) GRC
10 1 (0.20%) IFRS
10 1 (0.20%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.20%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (3.66%) Docker
2 2 (0.41%) RACF
Systems Management
1 12 (2.44%) Terraform
2 9 (1.83%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.02%) Ansible
4 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 66 (13.41%) Microsoft
2 35 (7.11%) SAP
3 30 (6.10%) Databricks
4 26 (5.28%) ServiceNow
5 21 (4.27%) Anaplan
6 20 (4.07%) Genesys
6 20 (4.07%) Verint
7 18 (3.66%) Google
8 13 (2.64%) Salesforce
9 12 (2.44%) HubSpot
10 6 (1.22%) Alteryx
10 6 (1.22%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.22%) Oracle
11 5 (1.02%) BT
11 5 (1.02%) Foundry
12 4 (0.81%) Botify
12 4 (0.81%) Workday
13 3 (0.61%) Informatica
13 3 (0.61%) Mercator
14 2 (0.41%) Sage