Data-Driven Decision Making Jobs

Data-Driven Decision Making
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Data-Driven Decision Making skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data-Driven Decision Making over the 6 months leading up to 6 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 374 374 543
Rank change year-on-year 0 +169 +76
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 498 413 673
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.70% 0.77% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.82% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 301 323 278
10th Percentile £41,263 £34,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,188 £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £90,000 £70,000 £76,875
90th Percentile £105,000 £85,000 £95,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,555 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +21.11% -4.76% -

All Process and 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 62,866 50,261 118,879
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 87.89% 94.08% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 29,357 36,398 72,456
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,784 £52,500 £53,406
% change year-on-year +4.35% -1.70% +6.81%

Data-Driven Decision Making
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data-Driven Decision Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK

Data-Driven Decision Making
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making.

Salary trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK

Data-Driven Decision Making
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making over the 6 months to 6 December 2024.

Salary histogram for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK

Data-Driven Decision Making
Top 15 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 6 December 2024. 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 +2 465 £65,000 +18.07% 378
UK excluding London -8 328 £60,555 +21.11% 192
London +44 158 £90,000 +33.33% 216
Work from Home -21 126 £62,500 +4.94% 221
South East -16 113 £57,500 +9.42% 49
North of England -9 89 £80,100 +60.20% 56
North West -20 67 £80,100 +94.18% 29
Midlands +3 62 £60,000 +20.00% 30
West Midlands -6 53 £60,000 - 19
South West -17 27 £55,000 +17.54% 9
Scotland +11 22 £71,875 +20.69% 25
Yorkshire +22 20 £73,750 +32.22% 22
East of England -53 15 £94,500 +136.25% 17
East Midlands -24 9 £82,500 +65.00% 11
North East -36 2 £60,000 +118.18% 6

Data-Driven Decision Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (3.21%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.61%) SAS
3 11 (2.21%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.81%) Apache
5 6 (1.20%) IBM Domino
6 5 (1.00%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.80%) Confluence
8 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.20%) CMS
9 1 (0.20%) Umbraco
Applications
1 38 (7.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.81%) Weka
4 5 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.00%) Trello
5 4 (0.80%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.40%) Oracle Smart View
6 2 (0.40%) Sketch
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.20%) Notion
7 1 (0.20%) Simulink
7 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 28 (5.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (2.01%) Primavera
3 3 (0.60%) Dynamics GP
3 3 (0.60%) Magento
3 3 (0.60%) Shopify
4 2 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.40%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.40%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.40%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.40%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 106 (21.29%) Power Platform
2 72 (14.46%) Azure
3 29 (5.82%) AWS
4 24 (4.82%) GCP
5 18 (3.61%) Snowflake
6 17 (3.41%) Power Automate
7 16 (3.21%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (2.21%) dbt
11 10 (2.01%) SaaS
12 9 (1.81%) Serverless
13 8 (1.61%) Google Analytics
13 8 (1.61%) PowerApps
14 6 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (1.20%) GitHub
14 6 (1.20%) OCI
15 5 (1.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 5 (1.00%) OneDrive
16 4 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.01%) Firewall
1 10 (2.01%) OSPF
2 6 (1.20%) WAN
3 4 (0.80%) Internet
4 1 (0.20%) Broadband
4 1 (0.20%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (21.29%) Power BI
2 77 (15.46%) Data Warehouse
3 38 (7.63%) Tableau
4 26 (5.22%) SQL Server
5 25 (5.02%) Data Lake
6 20 (4.02%) BigQuery
7 18 (3.61%) Looker
8 17 (3.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 15 (3.01%) Big Data
10 13 (2.61%) Azure SQL Database
10 13 (2.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 12 (2.41%) NoSQL
12 11 (2.21%) Power Query
13 10 (2.01%) Amazon QuickSight
14 9 (1.81%) Relational Database
15 7 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
15 7 (1.41%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 6 (1.20%) Data Mining
16 6 (1.20%) Oracle Database
17 5 (1.00%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 23 (4.62%) JIRA
2 10 (2.01%) Git
3 2 (0.40%) Cucumber
3 2 (0.40%) JUnit
3 2 (0.40%) Selenium
3 2 (0.40%) Terragrunt
3 2 (0.40%) TestNG
3 2 (0.40%) TestRail
4 1 (0.20%) ERwin
4 1 (0.20%) GitLab
4 1 (0.20%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.20%) Subversion
General
1 223 (44.78%) Social Skills
2 178 (35.74%) Analytical Skills
3 116 (23.29%) Finance
4 59 (11.85%) Marketing
5 32 (6.43%) Retail
6 31 (6.22%) Law
7 28 (5.62%) Presentation Skills
8 19 (3.82%) Influencing Skills
8 19 (3.82%) Legal
9 12 (2.41%) Banking
10 11 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (2.01%) Manufacturing
11 10 (2.01%) Public Sector
12 6 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.00%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.80%) Advertising
14 4 (0.80%) Automotive
14 4 (0.80%) Aviation
14 4 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.60%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 96 (19.28%) Senior
2 71 (14.26%) Analyst
3 62 (12.45%) Product Manager
4 53 (10.64%) Senior Manager
5 36 (7.23%) Developer
6 31 (6.22%) Analytics Manager
6 31 (6.22%) Lead
7 28 (5.62%) Senior Analytics Manager
8 27 (5.42%) SAP Manager
9 26 (5.22%) Data Engineer
10 21 (4.22%) Data Analyst
11 18 (3.61%) Product Owner
12 15 (3.01%) Senior Product Manager
13 14 (2.81%) Architect
13 14 (2.81%) Data Manager
13 14 (2.81%) Insight Analyst
14 13 (2.61%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 12 (2.41%) Business Manager
15 12 (2.41%) Senior Data Engineer
15 12 (2.41%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.01%) HTML
2 11 (2.21%) CSS
3 10 (2.01%) 802.1X
3 10 (2.01%) React
4 8 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
5 7 (1.41%) PySpark
5 7 (1.41%) RESTful
6 6 (1.20%) AngularJS
6 6 (1.20%) Vue
7 5 (1.00%) Pandas
8 4 (0.80%) .NET
8 4 (0.80%) .NET Framework
8 4 (0.80%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (0.80%) LangChain
8 4 (0.80%) Node.js
9 3 (0.60%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (0.60%) FastAPI
9 3 (0.60%) GraphQL
9 3 (0.60%) JWT
9 3 (0.60%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 44 (8.84%) Product Ownership
2 31 (6.22%) Analytical Mindset
3 30 (6.02%) Management Information System
4 20 (4.02%) Data Structures
5 16 (3.21%) Data Centre
5 16 (3.21%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (2.41%) FMCG
8 11 (2.21%) Driving Licence
9 9 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (1.81%) Mobile App
10 8 (1.61%) Smart Energy
10 8 (1.61%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 7 (1.41%) Reinsurance
12 6 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.20%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.00%) Algorithms
13 5 (1.00%) Life Science
14 4 (0.80%) Culture of Ownership
14 4 (0.80%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.00%) Unix
2 2 (0.40%) Windows
3 1 (0.20%) Linux
3 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 402 (80.72%) Decision-Making
2 206 (41.37%) Analytics
3 163 (32.73%) Business Intelligence
4 136 (27.31%) Problem-Solving
5 108 (21.69%) Roadmaps
6 106 (21.29%) Agile
7 103 (20.68%) Visualisation
8 98 (19.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 91 (18.27%) Cybersecurity
10 83 (16.67%) Data Modelling
11 80 (16.06%) Data Analysis
12 71 (14.26%) ETL
13 70 (14.06%) Data Governance
14 69 (13.86%) Mentoring
15 66 (13.25%) Project Management
16 64 (12.85%) Data Visualisation
17 63 (12.65%) Data Management
18 59 (11.85%) Data Strategy
18 59 (11.85%) Product Management
19 58 (11.65%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 143 (28.71%) SQL
2 62 (12.45%) Python
3 19 (3.82%) R
4 16 (3.21%) JavaScript
5 13 (2.61%) PowerShell
6 12 (2.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 10 (2.01%) MATLAB
8 7 (1.41%) TypeScript
9 6 (1.20%) Java
10 5 (1.00%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.80%) C#
11 4 (0.80%) Go
11 4 (0.80%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.60%) Bicep
13 2 (0.40%) VB
13 2 (0.40%) VBScript
14 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.20%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 133 (26.71%) Degree
2 49 (9.84%) Security Cleared
3 18 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (3.61%) Master's Degree
4 17 (3.41%) DBS Check
5 9 (1.81%) PMI Certification
5 9 (1.81%) PMP
6 6 (1.20%) Numerate Degree
7 4 (0.80%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.80%) CSPO
7 4 (0.80%) HND
7 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (0.80%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.60%) CBAP
8 3 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.40%) CISSP
9 2 (0.40%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.40%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.40%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 2 (0.40%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (10.84%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.22%) SLA
3 19 (3.82%) GDPR
4 12 (2.41%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.41%) QA
5 4 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.60%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
System Software
1 10 (2.01%) Firmware
2 6 (1.20%) Docker
3 4 (0.80%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (1.20%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.80%) Terraform
3 2 (0.40%) Matomo
4 1 (0.20%) Ansible
Vendors
1 55 (11.04%) Microsoft
2 32 (6.43%) SAP
3 28 (5.62%) Google
4 26 (5.22%) Databricks
4 26 (5.22%) Oracle
5 25 (5.02%) Salesforce
6 10 (2.01%) Cadence
7 9 (1.81%) Foundry
8 6 (1.20%) Extreme Networks
8 6 (1.20%) Juniper
9 5 (1.00%) IFS
10 4 (0.80%) Alteryx
10 4 (0.80%) AppDynamics
10 4 (0.80%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.80%) Palantir
10 4 (0.80%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.80%) Splunk
10 4 (0.80%) Workday
10 4 (0.80%) Zoho
11 3 (0.60%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud