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 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 281 398
Rank change year-on-year +3 +117 +81
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 511 493 467
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.74% 1.04% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 1.12% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 267 256 371
10th Percentile £36,400 £43,125 £34,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,625 £90,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,500 £60,000 £52,250
% change year-on-year -2.50% +14.83% -12.92%

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 54,960 44,026 66,518
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.09% 92.87% 88.40%
Number of salaries quoted 32,942 21,945 51,245
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £29,494
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,651 £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 £76,250 £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 25 February 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 25 February 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 -2 397 £65,000 - 278
UK excluding London +38 315 £58,500 -2.50% 256
London -22 154 £71,028 -5.30% 81
Work from Home +17 126 £66,500 +9.48% 79
South East +22 81 £55,000 - 80
Midlands -16 55 £60,000 - 51
North of England -28 53 £60,000 -7.69% 47
Scotland +1 52 £35,250 -66.02% 13
West Midlands +2 46 £65,000 +8.33% 23
North West -19 24 £57,500 -16.36% 26
Yorkshire -18 23 £77,500 +27.59% 12
South West -27 22 £70,000 +18.75% 30
Northern Ireland - 22 £77,500 - 6
East of England +15 21 £65,000 +20.93% 22
Wales +1 11 £42,500 -46.88% 11
East Midlands -30 9 £39,449 -28.28% 27
North East -5 6 - - 9

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 (4.11%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (2.94%) Confluence
3 12 (2.35%) Apache
3 12 (2.35%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.76%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.37%) CMS
6 6 (1.17%) SAS
7 5 (0.98%) IIS
7 5 (0.98%) nginx
8 4 (0.78%) Appian
9 2 (0.39%) CICS
9 2 (0.39%) MTS
9 2 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.20%) Drupal
10 1 (0.20%) GeoServer
Applications
1 67 (13.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (1.76%) Trello
3 7 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (1.17%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.98%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.98%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.39%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.20%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (2.35%) Shopify
3 6 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.78%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.39%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.39%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.20%) SAP PLM
6 1 (0.20%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 147 (28.77%) Power Platform
2 90 (17.61%) Azure
3 56 (10.96%) AWS
4 53 (10.37%) SaaS
5 24 (4.70%) GCP
6 20 (3.91%) Azure Data Factory
7 19 (3.72%) GitHub
8 14 (2.74%) Amazon S3
8 14 (2.74%) Snowflake
9 10 (1.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 10 (1.96%) Google Analytics
9 10 (1.96%) Serverless
10 9 (1.76%) Amazon Kinesis
10 9 (1.76%) Asana
10 9 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (1.76%) Microsoft Copilot
10 9 (1.76%) PaaS
11 8 (1.57%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (1.57%) Power Automate
12 6 (1.17%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.17%) Broadband
1 6 (1.17%) Wireless
2 1 (0.20%) 5G
2 1 (0.20%) ADSL
2 1 (0.20%) Internet
2 1 (0.20%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (28.38%) Power BI
2 66 (12.92%) Tableau
3 51 (9.98%) Data Warehouse
4 31 (6.07%) Metadata
5 21 (4.11%) Data Lake
6 19 (3.72%) Power Query
7 17 (3.33%) SQL Server
8 16 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
9 14 (2.74%) Big Data
9 14 (2.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 13 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (2.15%) Apache Iceberg
12 10 (1.96%) SAP BW
12 10 (1.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 9 (1.76%) Amazon Athena
13 9 (1.76%) Amazon QuickSight
13 9 (1.76%) NoSQL
13 9 (1.76%) Relational Database
14 8 (1.57%) Looker
14 8 (1.57%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 37 (7.24%) JIRA
2 21 (4.11%) Git
3 20 (3.91%) Postman
4 7 (1.37%) Visual Studio
5 5 (0.98%) MSI
5 5 (0.98%) Vite
6 2 (0.39%) MLflow
6 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.39%) Toad
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
1 238 (46.58%) Social Skills
2 204 (39.92%) Analytical Skills
3 141 (27.59%) Finance
4 76 (14.87%) Marketing
5 43 (8.41%) Law
6 33 (6.46%) Legal
7 31 (6.07%) Retail
8 28 (5.48%) Presentation Skills
9 24 (4.70%) Games
9 24 (4.70%) Public Sector
10 17 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (2.94%) Banking
13 14 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (2.74%) Manufacturing
13 14 (2.74%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.57%) Financial Institution
14 8 (1.57%) Military
14 8 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 97 (18.98%) Analyst
2 82 (16.05%) Senior
3 56 (10.96%) Lead
4 45 (8.81%) Senior Manager
5 44 (8.61%) Data Engineer
6 39 (7.63%) Data Analyst
7 35 (6.85%) Architect
8 32 (6.26%) Innovation Manager
9 22 (4.31%) Developer
10 21 (4.11%) Product Manager
11 20 (3.91%) Senior Architect
12 17 (3.33%) Senior Analyst
13 16 (3.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 14 (2.74%) Business Analyst
14 14 (2.74%) Data Manager
15 12 (2.35%) Product Owner
16 11 (2.15%) Business Developer
16 11 (2.15%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 11 (2.15%) Digital Product Manager
17 9 (1.76%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.91%) OpenAPI
1 20 (3.91%) Swagger
2 19 (3.72%) RESTful
3 16 (3.13%) REST
4 14 (2.74%) Kafka
5 13 (2.54%) JSON
6 9 (1.76%) Middleware
7 8 (1.57%) CSS
7 8 (1.57%) React
7 8 (1.57%) Vue
8 7 (1.37%) PyTorch
8 7 (1.37%) TensorFlow
9 6 (1.17%) HTML
9 6 (1.17%) Node.js
10 5 (0.98%) .NET
10 5 (0.98%) GraphQL
10 5 (0.98%) LEMP Stack
10 5 (0.98%) scikit-learn
10 5 (0.98%) Tailwind CSS
10 5 (0.98%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (7.83%) Product Ownership
2 34 (6.65%) Management Information System
3 24 (4.70%) Self-Motivation
4 23 (4.50%) Analytical Mindset
5 22 (4.31%) Data Structures
6 13 (2.54%) Algorithms
6 13 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (2.54%) Social Media
7 11 (2.15%) Cloud Native
7 11 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.57%) NHS
10 7 (1.37%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.17%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.17%) Reference Data
12 5 (0.98%) AI Agents
12 5 (0.98%) Reinsurance
13 4 (0.78%) Blog
13 4 (0.78%) e-Learning
13 4 (0.78%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.96%) Windows
2 7 (1.37%) Linux
3 2 (0.39%) Unix
3 2 (0.39%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.39%) zOS
4 1 (0.20%) Android
4 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 414 (81.02%) Decision-Making
2 270 (52.84%) Analytics
3 183 (35.81%) Business Intelligence
4 171 (33.46%) Continuous Improvement
5 133 (26.03%) AI
6 132 (25.83%) Agile
7 123 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
8 117 (22.90%) Stakeholder Management
9 104 (20.35%) Data Modelling
10 102 (19.96%) Roadmaps
11 97 (18.98%) ETL
12 86 (16.83%) Data Analysis
13 82 (16.05%) Actionable Insight
14 77 (15.07%) Visualisation
15 72 (14.09%) Data Governance
16 63 (12.33%) Customer Experience
17 62 (12.13%) Data Science
18 57 (11.15%) Data Engineering
19 56 (10.96%) Data Visualisation
20 55 (10.76%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 157 (30.72%) SQL
2 110 (21.53%) Python
3 21 (4.11%) R
4 18 (3.52%) JavaScript
5 15 (2.94%) Bash
6 13 (2.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 13 (2.54%) Java
7 9 (1.76%) T-SQL
8 7 (1.37%) Scala
9 6 (1.17%) PHP
9 6 (1.17%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.98%) Go
11 3 (0.59%) VBA
12 2 (0.39%) C#
12 2 (0.39%) COBOL
12 2 (0.39%) JCL
12 2 (0.39%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.39%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.39%) VB
13 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 133 (26.03%) Degree
2 32 (6.26%) PMI Certification
3 31 (6.07%) PMP
4 29 (5.68%) Master's Degree
5 19 (3.72%) MBA
6 15 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.35%) Security Cleared
8 7 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (1.17%) ACCA
9 6 (1.17%) CIMA
9 6 (1.17%) SC Cleared
10 5 (0.98%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.78%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.78%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.59%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (18.98%) Data Quality
2 23 (4.50%) GDPR
3 19 (3.72%) QA
4 12 (2.35%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.96%) Actionable Recommendations
6 9 (1.76%) SLA
7 6 (1.17%) PMO
8 5 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.59%) ISO 14001
9 3 (0.59%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
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%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.20%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (3.52%) Docker
2 2 (0.39%) RACF
Systems Management
1 11 (2.15%) Terraform
2 9 (1.76%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.98%) Ansible
4 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 66 (12.92%) Microsoft
2 44 (8.61%) SAP
3 31 (6.07%) Databricks
4 26 (5.09%) ServiceNow
5 21 (4.11%) Anaplan
6 20 (3.91%) Genesys
6 20 (3.91%) Verint
7 15 (2.94%) Salesforce
8 14 (2.74%) Google
9 13 (2.54%) HubSpot
10 8 (1.57%) Oracle
11 6 (1.17%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.98%) Alteryx
12 5 (0.98%) BT
12 5 (0.98%) Foundry
13 4 (0.78%) Workday
14 3 (0.59%) Informatica
14 3 (0.59%) Mercator
15 2 (0.39%) Ariba
15 2 (0.39%) Sage