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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 203 430
Rank change year-on-year -108 +227 +27
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 514 709 546
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.62% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 1.74% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 348 327 404
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,828 £51,250 £46,805
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,182 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.93% +11.24% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,063 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,750 £57,500 £52,550
% change year-on-year -4.78% +9.42% -12.04%

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 66,794 40,810 82,365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.89% 93.32% 85.22%
Number of salaries quoted 42,940 22,598 59,746
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £79,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 12 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 12 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 -107 448 £60,000 -4.00% 324
UK excluding London -60 331 £54,750 -4.78% 236
London -105 138 £71,028 -5.30% 136
North of England -5 132 £60,000 +4.35% 60
Work from Home -33 126 £62,500 +8.70% 117
North West +24 100 £60,000 +4.35% 28
Midlands -44 69 £47,500 -17.39% 37
South East -45 51 £50,000 -13.04% 66
West Midlands -41 48 £51,750 -10.00% 19
East of England -6 31 £60,000 +12.21% 24
Yorkshire -56 25 £90,000 +56.52% 22
East Midlands -28 21 £37,500 -34.78% 18
Scotland -25 17 £32,500 -68.29% 11
South West -77 15 £73,750 +47.50% 28
Wales -17 12 £42,500 -46.88% 10
North East -33 7 £67,749 +17.82% 11
Northern Ireland - 6 £77,500 - 4

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 23 (4.47%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (2.33%) CMS
2 12 (2.33%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.95%) Apache
3 10 (1.95%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.97%) IIS
4 5 (0.97%) nginx
5 4 (0.78%) Appian
5 4 (0.78%) Confluence
5 4 (0.78%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 39 (7.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.97%) Adobe Illustrator
2 5 (0.97%) Photoshop
2 5 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.58%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.39%) Trello
5 1 (0.19%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 10 (1.95%) SAP PM
2 6 (1.17%) Shopify
3 5 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.97%) 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 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.19%) SAP BRIM
6 1 (0.19%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.19%) SAP PLM
6 1 (0.19%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 105 (20.43%) Power Platform
2 90 (17.51%) Azure
3 62 (12.06%) AWS
4 37 (7.20%) SaaS
5 27 (5.25%) GCP
6 26 (5.06%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (2.33%) Amazon S3
7 12 (2.33%) GitHub
8 11 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (1.95%) Amazon Kinesis
10 9 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (1.75%) Snowflake
11 8 (1.56%) dbt
11 8 (1.56%) Power Automate
12 7 (1.36%) Serverless
13 6 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (0.97%) Figma
14 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Copilot
14 5 (0.97%) PowerApps
14 5 (0.97%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.17%) Broadband
1 6 (1.17%) Wireless
2 4 (0.78%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.58%) Modbus
4 2 (0.39%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (20.43%) Power BI
2 71 (13.81%) Tableau
3 43 (8.37%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (4.09%) SQL Server
5 20 (3.89%) Metadata
5 20 (3.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 16 (3.11%) Data Lake
7 14 (2.72%) Big Data
8 12 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (2.14%) NoSQL
9 11 (2.14%) Power Query
10 10 (1.95%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (1.95%) Star Schema
11 9 (1.75%) Amazon QuickSight
11 9 (1.75%) Apache Iceberg
11 9 (1.75%) Geospatial Data
11 9 (1.75%) Relational Database
12 8 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (1.36%) Looker
13 7 (1.36%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 20 (3.89%) Git
2 18 (3.50%) Postman
3 16 (3.11%) JIRA
4 5 (0.97%) MSI
4 5 (0.97%) Vite
5 4 (0.78%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (0.58%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.39%) MLflow
8 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.19%) GitLab
8 1 (0.19%) SpecFlow
General
1 177 (34.44%) Social Skills
2 167 (32.49%) Analytical Skills
3 109 (21.21%) Finance
4 63 (12.26%) Law
5 55 (10.70%) Marketing
6 33 (6.42%) Telecoms
7 29 (5.64%) Games
8 28 (5.45%) Legal
9 26 (5.06%) Influencing Skills
9 26 (5.06%) Military
10 24 (4.67%) Presentation Skills
10 24 (4.67%) Retail
11 23 (4.47%) Public Sector
12 20 (3.89%) Back Office
12 20 (3.89%) Manufacturing
13 12 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 11 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (1.75%) Billing
16 8 (1.56%) Aerospace
17 7 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 112 (21.79%) Senior
2 84 (16.34%) Analyst
2 84 (16.34%) Lead
3 56 (10.89%) Data Engineer
4 38 (7.39%) Senior Manager
5 35 (6.81%) Architect
6 34 (6.61%) Data Analyst
7 23 (4.47%) Developer
8 20 (3.89%) Senior Architect
9 18 (3.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 14 (2.72%) Data Scientist
10 14 (2.72%) Microsoft Engineer
10 14 (2.72%) Product Manager
10 14 (2.72%) Product Owner
11 13 (2.53%) Data Manager
11 13 (2.53%) Platform Engineer
12 12 (2.33%) Business Analyst
12 12 (2.33%) Performance Analyst
13 11 (2.14%) Report Manager
14 10 (1.95%) Performance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.50%) Kafka
2 16 (3.11%) OpenAPI
2 16 (3.11%) RESTful
2 16 (3.11%) Swagger
3 14 (2.72%) REST
4 13 (2.53%) .NET
5 9 (1.75%) Node.js
6 8 (1.56%) CSS
7 7 (1.36%) Middleware
7 7 (1.36%) PyTorch
7 7 (1.36%) TensorFlow
8 6 (1.17%) HTML
8 6 (1.17%) Vue
9 5 (0.97%) .NET Framework
9 5 (0.97%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.97%) JSON
9 5 (0.97%) Laravel
9 5 (0.97%) LEMP Stack
9 5 (0.97%) Play Framework
9 5 (0.97%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (5.64%) Product Ownership
2 27 (5.25%) Management Information System
3 25 (4.86%) Cloud Native
4 23 (4.47%) Data Structures
5 19 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (2.92%) Algorithms
8 13 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
9 11 (2.14%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.95%) Social Media
11 6 (1.17%) Low-Code
12 5 (0.97%) Replication
12 5 (0.97%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.78%) Cyber Defence
13 4 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (0.78%) IoT
13 4 (0.78%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.95%) Linux
2 4 (0.78%) Windows
3 1 (0.19%) Android
3 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 393 (76.46%) Decision-Making
2 256 (49.81%) Analytics
3 144 (28.02%) Business Intelligence
4 128 (24.90%) Problem-Solving
5 127 (24.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 115 (22.37%) Agile
7 94 (18.29%) AI
8 86 (16.73%) Roadmaps
9 81 (15.76%) ETL
10 80 (15.56%) Data Governance
11 78 (15.18%) Data Modelling
12 73 (14.20%) Stakeholder Management
13 67 (13.04%) Visualisation
14 64 (12.45%) Actionable Insight
14 64 (12.45%) Data Analysis
15 57 (11.09%) CI/CD
16 54 (10.51%) Data Pipeline
17 53 (10.31%) Data Science
18 48 (9.34%) Strategic Thinking
19 46 (8.95%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 132 (25.68%) SQL
2 97 (18.87%) Python
3 21 (4.09%) JavaScript
4 20 (3.89%) R
5 17 (3.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 16 (3.11%) Java
7 15 (2.92%) Bash
8 13 (2.53%) T-SQL
9 10 (1.95%) Scala
9 10 (1.95%) TypeScript
10 8 (1.56%) C#
11 5 (0.97%) PHP
12 4 (0.78%) Go
13 3 (0.58%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.58%) VBA
14 1 (0.19%) Bicep
14 1 (0.19%) C++
14 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.19%) SHACL
14 1 (0.19%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 74 (14.40%) Degree
2 21 (4.09%) PMI Certification
2 21 (4.09%) PMP
2 21 (4.09%) Security Cleared
3 10 (1.95%) ACCA
3 10 (1.95%) CIMA
4 9 (1.75%) Master's Degree
4 9 (1.75%) SC Cleared
5 8 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.36%) MBA
7 5 (0.97%) Azure Certification
7 5 (0.97%) DBS Check
7 5 (0.97%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.39%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.39%) HND
8 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.19%) ICAEW
9 1 (0.19%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (15.18%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.31%) GDPR
3 16 (3.11%) QA
4 10 (1.95%) Actionable Recommendations
5 9 (1.75%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.75%) SLA
6 8 (1.56%) PMO
7 4 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
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 15 (2.92%) Docker
2 2 (0.39%) IAG
3 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (4.47%) Terraform
2 15 (2.92%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.36%) Ansible
4 1 (0.19%) Autotask
4 1 (0.19%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 57 (11.09%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.25%) SAP
3 26 (5.06%) Databricks
4 24 (4.67%) ServiceNow
5 20 (3.89%) Anaplan
5 20 (3.89%) Genesys
5 20 (3.89%) Verint
6 16 (3.11%) Google
7 13 (2.53%) Salesforce
8 11 (2.14%) HubSpot
9 6 (1.17%) Botify
10 5 (0.97%) BT
10 5 (0.97%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.97%) Oracle
11 4 (0.78%) Alteryx
11 4 (0.78%) Foundry
12 3 (0.58%) Informatica
12 3 (0.58%) Pardot
12 3 (0.58%) Sage
13 2 (0.39%) Cognos