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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 215 344 358
Rank change year-on-year +129 +14 +186
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 627 479 413
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.12% 0.76% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 0.88% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 259 282 323
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,263 £34,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,399 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £103,000 £105,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -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 46,878 54,401 47,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.98% 86.62% 93.72%
Number of salaries quoted 28,142 28,251 36,353
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -1.70%

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 6 December 2025.

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 6 December 2025. 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 +85 464 £62,500 -3.85% 713
UK excluding London +130 439 £57,500 -4.17% 690
South East +67 165 £55,000 -4.35% 167
London +58 150 £75,000 -16.67% 123
Work from Home +66 107 £68,750 +10.00% 280
Scotland +72 103 £54,855 -23.68% 33
North of England +29 61 £60,000 -4.00% 171
Midlands +16 45 £57,500 -4.17% 123
North West +34 39 £57,500 -8.00% 91
West Midlands +19 36 £65,750 +9.58% 79
Northern Ireland - 19 £77,500 - 18
Yorkshire 0 18 £75,000 +1.69% 57
East of England +29 17 £43,500 -53.97% 83
South West +18 17 £62,500 +13.64% 82
Wales - 12 £50,124 - 24
East Midlands +16 9 £39,449 -52.18% 39
North East +12 4 - - 25

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 17 (2.71%) Confluence
2 12 (1.91%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.96%) Apache
4 6 (0.96%) SAS
5 5 (0.80%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.64%) Appian
6 4 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.48%) CMS
8 2 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.32%) CICS
8 2 (0.32%) MTS
9 1 (0.16%) Drupal
9 1 (0.16%) nginx
Applications
1 86 (13.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.44%) Trello
5 7 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.64%) Windchill
7 2 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 44 (7.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.91%) Shopify
3 8 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (1.12%) SAP CO
4 7 (1.12%) SAP FI
4 7 (1.12%) SAP FI/CO
5 6 (0.96%) SAP WM
6 4 (0.64%) Magento
6 4 (0.64%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.48%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.32%) Adobe Campaign
8 2 (0.32%) SAP PM
9 1 (0.16%) OpenText VIM for SAP
9 1 (0.16%) SAP PLM
9 1 (0.16%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 133 (21.21%) Power Platform
2 73 (11.64%) Azure
3 70 (11.16%) SaaS
4 45 (7.18%) AWS
5 21 (3.35%) GCP
6 20 (3.19%) Google Analytics
7 18 (2.87%) GitHub
8 17 (2.71%) Azure Data Factory
9 16 (2.55%) Snowflake
10 15 (2.39%) Serverless
11 11 (1.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 11 (1.75%) PaaS
12 10 (1.59%) Google Tag Manager
13 9 (1.44%) Asana
13 9 (1.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (1.44%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (1.28%) Amazon S3
15 7 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (1.12%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.64%) BGP
1 4 (0.64%) DHCP
1 4 (0.64%) DNS
1 4 (0.64%) Firewall
1 4 (0.64%) LAN
1 4 (0.64%) Network Security
1 4 (0.64%) OSPF
1 4 (0.64%) SD-WAN
1 4 (0.64%) TCP/IP
1 4 (0.64%) VLAN
1 4 (0.64%) VPN
1 4 (0.64%) WAN
2 3 (0.48%) Wireless
3 1 (0.16%) 5G
3 1 (0.16%) ADSL
3 1 (0.16%) Broadband
3 1 (0.16%) Internet
3 1 (0.16%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (20.89%) Power BI
2 52 (8.29%) Tableau
3 47 (7.50%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (3.67%) Data Lake
5 19 (3.03%) Metadata
6 16 (2.55%) Power Query
7 13 (2.07%) SQL Server
8 12 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (1.75%) Looker
10 8 (1.28%) SAP BW
11 7 (1.12%) NoSQL
11 7 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.96%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.80%) Apache Iceberg
13 5 (0.80%) Big Data
13 5 (0.80%) Qlik Sense
13 5 (0.80%) Relational Database
13 5 (0.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 63 (10.05%) JIRA
2 36 (5.74%) Git
3 26 (4.15%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.96%) Postman
4 6 (0.96%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.64%) Toad
6 3 (0.48%) MSI
7 1 (0.16%) GitLab
7 1 (0.16%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.16%) MLflow
7 1 (0.16%) RStudio
7 1 (0.16%) Selenium
7 1 (0.16%) Vite
General
1 386 (61.56%) Social Skills
2 280 (44.66%) Analytical Skills
3 167 (26.63%) Finance
4 88 (14.04%) Marketing
5 42 (6.70%) Retail
6 39 (6.22%) Organisational Skills
7 34 (5.42%) Law
8 33 (5.26%) Legal
9 28 (4.47%) Manufacturing
10 24 (3.83%) Public Sector
11 19 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 18 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
13 15 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
14 14 (2.23%) Banking
15 13 (2.07%) Games
15 13 (2.07%) Telecoms
16 10 (1.59%) Advertising
17 9 (1.44%) Financial Institution
18 7 (1.12%) Military
19 6 (0.96%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 97 (15.47%) Lead
2 96 (15.31%) Innovation Manager
3 93 (14.83%) Analyst
4 70 (11.16%) Senior
5 39 (6.22%) Architect
6 36 (5.74%) Data Analyst
7 32 (5.10%) Senior Manager
8 27 (4.31%) Data Engineer
9 21 (3.35%) Developer
10 19 (3.03%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 17 (2.71%) Product Manager
11 17 (2.71%) Senior Analyst
12 13 (2.07%) Business Analyst
12 13 (2.07%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 13 (2.07%) Data Manager
12 13 (2.07%) Product Owner
13 11 (1.75%) Digital Product Manager
13 11 (1.75%) E-Commerce Manager
13 11 (1.75%) Senior Architect
14 10 (1.59%) Business Intelligence Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.55%) REST
2 13 (2.07%) React
3 11 (1.75%) Middleware
4 10 (1.59%) JSON
5 8 (1.28%) AngularJS
5 8 (1.28%) Node.js
5 8 (1.28%) PyTorch
5 8 (1.28%) Vue
6 7 (1.12%) OpenAPI
6 7 (1.12%) scikit-learn
6 7 (1.12%) Swagger
6 7 (1.12%) TensorFlow
7 6 (0.96%) RESTful
8 5 (0.80%) .NET
8 5 (0.80%) Pandas
9 4 (0.64%) CSS
9 4 (0.64%) Django
9 4 (0.64%) FastAPI
9 4 (0.64%) GraphQL
9 4 (0.64%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (6.70%) Product Ownership
2 32 (5.10%) Management Information System
3 24 (3.83%) Self-Motivation
4 23 (3.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 21 (3.35%) Onboarding
6 11 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (1.75%) Social Media
7 9 (1.44%) Data Structures
7 9 (1.44%) FMCG
7 9 (1.44%) Virtual Team
8 8 (1.28%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.12%) Augmented Reality
9 7 (1.12%) Low-Code
10 6 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (0.80%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.80%) NHS
11 5 (0.80%) Reinsurance
12 4 (0.64%) Data Centre
12 4 (0.64%) e-Learning
12 4 (0.64%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.44%) Windows
2 4 (0.64%) Unix
2 4 (0.64%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.32%) zOS
4 1 (0.16%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 481 (76.71%) Decision-Making
2 311 (49.60%) Analytics
3 223 (35.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 180 (28.71%) AI
5 175 (27.91%) Stakeholder Management
6 160 (25.52%) Business Intelligence
7 133 (21.21%) Customer Experience
8 119 (18.98%) Agile
9 116 (18.50%) Problem-Solving
10 104 (16.59%) Data Modelling
11 97 (15.47%) Roadmaps
12 94 (14.99%) ERP
13 85 (13.56%) Data Analysis
14 72 (11.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 69 (11.00%) Visualisation
16 63 (10.05%) ETL
16 63 (10.05%) Project Management
17 59 (9.41%) Actionable Insight
18 57 (9.09%) Machine Learning
19 56 (8.93%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 141 (22.49%) SQL
2 86 (13.72%) Python
3 22 (3.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 18 (2.87%) JavaScript
5 13 (2.07%) R
6 7 (1.12%) T-SQL
6 7 (1.12%) TypeScript
7 6 (0.96%) PowerShell
8 5 (0.80%) Go
8 5 (0.80%) Java
9 4 (0.64%) Bash
9 4 (0.64%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.64%) VB
10 2 (0.32%) ABAP
10 2 (0.32%) C#
10 2 (0.32%) COBOL
10 2 (0.32%) JCL
10 2 (0.32%) PHP
11 1 (0.16%) C++
11 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 205 (32.70%) Degree
2 67 (10.69%) Master's Degree
3 39 (6.22%) MBA
4 31 (4.94%) Security Cleared
5 30 (4.78%) PMI Certification
6 29 (4.63%) PMP
7 15 (2.39%) TOGAF Certification
8 10 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.44%) SC Cleared
10 7 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (0.96%) ACCA
11 6 (0.96%) CIMA
12 5 (0.80%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.80%) PhD
13 4 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.64%) CCIE
13 4 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.64%) CISSP
13 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.48%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (15.63%) Data Quality
2 37 (5.90%) QA
3 27 (4.31%) GDPR
4 26 (4.15%) Def Stans
5 14 (2.23%) SLA
6 12 (1.91%) Accessibility
7 7 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.80%) PMO
9 2 (0.32%) IFRS
9 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.16%) GAAP
10 1 (0.16%) GMP
10 1 (0.16%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.16%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (1.91%) Docker
2 2 (0.32%) RACF
Systems Management
1 8 (1.28%) Terraform
2 7 (1.12%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.64%) Ansible
4 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 2 (0.32%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 99 (15.79%) SAP
2 79 (12.60%) Microsoft
3 35 (5.58%) Databricks
4 29 (4.63%) Google
5 19 (3.03%) Salesforce
6 15 (2.39%) ServiceNow
7 12 (1.91%) Anaplan
8 11 (1.75%) Genesys
8 11 (1.75%) Verint
9 9 (1.44%) Oracle
10 6 (0.96%) Adobe
10 6 (0.96%) HubSpot
11 5 (0.80%) OpenAI
12 4 (0.64%) Alteryx
12 4 (0.64%) NEC
12 4 (0.64%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 4 (0.64%) Workday
13 3 (0.48%) Ariba
13 3 (0.48%) Mercator
13 3 (0.48%) Sage