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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 206 396
Rank change year-on-year -110 +190 +44
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 622 784 518
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.57% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 1.77% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 424 308 324
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,013
25th Percentile £42,650 £45,268 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,813 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,750 £97,275
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,085 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% - +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 79,979 44,380 67,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.09% 88.78% 80.65%
Number of salaries quoted 55,459 25,207 42,110
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,055
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.10% -8.99%

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 28 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 28 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 -100 568 £58,396 -2.67% 826
UK excluding London -99 420 £54,085 -1.66% 403
North of England +27 198 £50,000 -13.04% 94
Work from Home -29 159 £52,500 -8.70% 326
London -73 157 £80,000 +6.67% 530
North West +27 144 £55,000 -4.35% 55
Midlands -26 85 £52,500 -8.70% 52
South East -132 67 £58,750 +6.82% 102
West Midlands -28 54 £51,356 -10.69% 30
Yorkshire -25 40 £42,500 -26.09% 27
East of England -14 32 £60,000 +39.26% 39
East Midlands -26 31 £52,500 -8.70% 22
South West -77 22 £60,000 +29.03% 59
North East -42 14 £68,750 +19.57% 13
Scotland -74 10 £55,000 +0.26% 40
Wales -72 6 £53,171 -11.38% 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 15 (2.41%) Confluence
2 8 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (1.29%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.80%) CMS
4 3 (0.48%) Apache
4 3 (0.48%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.48%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 47 (7.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.64%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.48%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.45%) SAP PM
1 9 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.48%) Actimize
2 3 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.32%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.32%) Primavera
3 2 (0.32%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.32%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.16%) FastStats
4 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
4 1 (0.16%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 108 (17.36%) Power Platform
2 91 (14.63%) Azure
3 70 (11.25%) AWS
4 43 (6.91%) GCP
5 36 (5.79%) SaaS
6 27 (4.34%) Azure Data Factory
7 24 (3.86%) Google Analytics
8 23 (3.70%) Snowflake
9 17 (2.73%) dbt
9 17 (2.73%) Serverless
10 15 (2.41%) GitHub
11 12 (1.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 12 (1.93%) Microsoft Purview
12 11 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (1.45%) Amazon S3
15 8 (1.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 8 (1.29%) Copilot Studio
16 7 (1.13%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.96%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.48%) Intranet
2 3 (0.48%) Modbus
3 2 (0.32%) DNS
3 2 (0.32%) Internet
3 2 (0.32%) SSL
3 2 (0.32%) VPN
4 1 (0.16%) Broadband
4 1 (0.16%) Firewall
4 1 (0.16%) GoToMeeting
4 1 (0.16%) MQTT
4 1 (0.16%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.16%) WebEx
4 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (17.36%) Power BI
2 61 (9.81%) Data Warehouse
3 49 (7.88%) Tableau
4 27 (4.34%) Looker
5 26 (4.18%) BigQuery
6 22 (3.54%) Data Lake
7 17 (2.73%) Relational Database
7 17 (2.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 15 (2.41%) Power Query
9 13 (2.09%) Metadata
10 12 (1.93%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (1.93%) MongoDB
10 12 (1.93%) SQL Server
10 12 (1.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 9 (1.45%) NoSQL
11 9 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (1.45%) Star Schema
12 5 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.80%) Geospatial Data
12 5 (0.80%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 38 (6.11%) JIRA
2 15 (2.41%) Git
3 9 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.64%) Claude Code
4 4 (0.64%) Postman
4 4 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (0.48%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.48%) Selenium
6 2 (0.32%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 204 (32.80%) Social Skills
2 197 (31.67%) Analytical Skills
3 177 (28.46%) Finance
4 78 (12.54%) Marketing
5 57 (9.16%) Influencing Skills
6 55 (8.84%) Public Sector
7 54 (8.68%) Law
8 42 (6.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 40 (6.43%) Retail
10 35 (5.63%) Legal
10 35 (5.63%) Telecoms
11 34 (5.47%) Manufacturing
12 31 (4.98%) Banking
13 28 (4.50%) Back Office
14 27 (4.34%) Military
15 13 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
16 12 (1.93%) Aerospace
17 10 (1.61%) Electronics
17 10 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
18 8 (1.29%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 116 (18.65%) Senior
2 115 (18.49%) Analyst
3 93 (14.95%) Lead
4 39 (6.27%) Data Engineer
5 36 (5.79%) Data Analyst
6 28 (4.50%) Software Engineer
7 26 (4.18%) Architect
8 24 (3.86%) Analytics Manager
8 24 (3.86%) Developer
9 23 (3.70%) Senior Manager
10 22 (3.54%) Product Owner
11 19 (3.05%) Data Manager
11 19 (3.05%) Performance Analyst
12 18 (2.89%) Data Architect
13 17 (2.73%) Data Scientist
13 17 (2.73%) Senior Software Engineer
14 15 (2.41%) Principal Engineer
14 15 (2.41%) Product Manager
15 14 (2.25%) IT Analyst
16 13 (2.09%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (5.14%) Kafka
2 24 (3.86%) Spring
3 21 (3.38%) Terraform
4 15 (2.41%) .NET
5 12 (1.93%) Spring Boot
6 9 (1.45%) .NET Framework
6 9 (1.45%) ASP.NET
6 9 (1.45%) ASP.NET Core
6 9 (1.45%) ASP.NET Web API
6 9 (1.45%) Entity Framework
6 9 (1.45%) React
7 8 (1.29%) REST
8 7 (1.13%) Node.js
8 7 (1.13%) RESTful
9 6 (0.96%) PyTorch
9 6 (0.96%) scikit-learn
9 6 (0.96%) TensorFlow
10 4 (0.64%) AWS CDK
10 4 (0.64%) GraphQL
10 4 (0.64%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 47 (7.56%) Cloud Native
1 47 (7.56%) Product Ownership
2 26 (4.18%) Onboarding
3 22 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (3.54%) Management Information System
4 18 (2.89%) Algorithms
5 12 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
6 11 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (1.61%) Social Media
8 9 (1.45%) Blog
8 9 (1.45%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.13%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.13%) Low-Code
10 7 (1.13%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.13%) Replication
10 7 (1.13%) Security Posture
11 6 (0.96%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.96%) Linux
2 3 (0.48%) Android
2 3 (0.48%) Apple iOS
2 3 (0.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 452 (72.67%) Decision-Making
2 287 (46.14%) Analytics
3 163 (26.21%) AI
4 144 (23.15%) Agile
5 139 (22.35%) Continuous Improvement
6 138 (22.19%) Business Intelligence
7 137 (22.03%) Problem-Solving
8 116 (18.65%) Stakeholder Management
9 98 (15.76%) Roadmaps
10 93 (14.95%) Data Governance
11 88 (14.15%) Data Modelling
11 88 (14.15%) Visualisation
12 81 (13.02%) Mentoring
13 72 (11.58%) Actionable Insight
14 70 (11.25%) Data Science
15 69 (11.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 65 (10.45%) Machine Learning
17 60 (9.65%) CI/CD
18 57 (9.16%) Data Pipeline
18 57 (9.16%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 140 (22.51%) SQL
2 83 (13.34%) Python
3 28 (4.50%) Java
4 23 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 23 (3.70%) JavaScript
5 15 (2.41%) TypeScript
6 14 (2.25%) C#
7 12 (1.93%) R
8 9 (1.45%) Kotlin
9 8 (1.29%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.96%) Scala
11 3 (0.48%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.32%) Ruby
13 1 (0.16%) C++
13 1 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 75 (12.06%) Degree
2 39 (6.27%) Security Cleared
3 29 (4.66%) SC Cleared
4 15 (2.41%) ITIL Certification
5 12 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (1.77%) ACCA
6 11 (1.77%) CIMA
7 9 (1.45%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.45%) TOGAF Certification
8 8 (1.29%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.13%) 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
11 3 (0.48%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 2 (0.32%) CREST Certified
12 2 (0.32%) HND
12 2 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.16%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (13.83%) Data Quality
2 39 (6.27%) GDPR
3 34 (5.47%) QA
4 21 (3.38%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.93%) GRC
6 9 (1.45%) SLA
7 6 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 4 (0.64%) PMO
10 3 (0.48%) AQAP
10 3 (0.48%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.16%) GxP
11 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (1.77%) Docker
2 2 (0.32%) IAG
3 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (2.73%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.32%) Ansible
4 1 (0.16%) Autotask
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.16%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 86 (13.83%) Microsoft
2 46 (7.40%) Google
3 30 (4.82%) SAP
4 26 (4.18%) Databricks
5 12 (1.93%) Salesforce
6 8 (1.29%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.13%) Foundry
8 6 (0.96%) YouTube
9 5 (0.80%) HubSpot
9 5 (0.80%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.64%) Botify
10 4 (0.64%) Dynatrace
10 4 (0.64%) Freshdesk
10 4 (0.64%) Oracle
10 4 (0.64%) Splunk
10 4 (0.64%) TikTok
11 3 (0.48%) BiZZdesign
11 3 (0.48%) NCR
11 3 (0.48%) Pinterest
11 3 (0.48%) Veritas