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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 215 411
Rank change year-on-year -114 +196 +90
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 594 751 509
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 1.52% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 1.69% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 423 333 331
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,902 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,600 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +8.99%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £79,375
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +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 76,038 44,320 69,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.68% 89.51% 81.15%
Number of salaries quoted 52,466 25,228 46,329
10th Percentile £30,603 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.41%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 1 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 1 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 -80 542 £59,064 -1.56% 452
UK excluding London -90 397 £53,171 -3.33% 205
North of England +21 180 £55,000 -4.35% 59
Work from Home -53 155 £52,500 -8.70% 165
London -90 151 £75,000 - 289
North West +51 141 £55,000 -4.35% 29
Midlands -23 94 £51,928 -9.69% 24
South East -72 64 £50,000 -9.09% 67
West Midlands -28 57 £51,356 -10.69% 18
East Midlands -23 37 £52,500 -8.70% 6
East of England -11 31 £58,105 +33.57% 11
Yorkshire -34 27 £43,999 -23.48% 18
South West -104 14 £60,000 +31.15% 23
North East -43 12 £68,750 +19.57% 12
Scotland -57 8 £55,000 -21.43% 7
Wales -60 6 £53,171 -18.20% 6

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 9 (1.52%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.35%) CMS
2 8 (1.35%) Confluence
3 6 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.67%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.51%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.34%) Apache
6 2 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.17%) nginx
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 55 (9.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.51%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (2.36%) SAP PM
2 8 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.34%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 2 (0.34%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.34%) Primavera
4 2 (0.34%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.34%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.17%) FastStats
5 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.17%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.17%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 109 (18.35%) Power Platform
2 97 (16.33%) Azure
3 67 (11.28%) AWS
4 36 (6.06%) GCP
5 29 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
6 28 (4.71%) SaaS
7 18 (3.03%) Snowflake
8 15 (2.53%) Serverless
9 12 (2.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 12 (2.02%) Microsoft Purview
10 11 (1.85%) dbt
10 11 (1.85%) GitHub
10 11 (1.85%) Google Analytics
10 11 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (1.35%) Amazon S3
14 7 (1.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 7 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
14 7 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.67%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.51%) Broadband
2 3 (0.51%) Intranet
2 3 (0.51%) Modbus
3 1 (0.17%) Firewall
3 1 (0.17%) GoToMeeting
3 1 (0.17%) MQTT
3 1 (0.17%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.17%) WebEx
3 1 (0.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (18.35%) Power BI
2 60 (10.10%) Data Warehouse
3 52 (8.75%) Tableau
4 23 (3.87%) Data Lake
5 20 (3.37%) BigQuery
5 20 (3.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 18 (3.03%) Looker
6 18 (3.03%) Power Query
7 16 (2.69%) SQL Server
8 14 (2.36%) Metadata
9 12 (2.02%) MongoDB
9 12 (2.02%) Relational Database
9 12 (2.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (1.52%) NoSQL
11 9 (1.52%) Star Schema
12 5 (0.84%) GIS
12 5 (0.84%) MySQL
12 5 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (0.84%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 28 (4.71%) JIRA
2 16 (2.69%) Git
3 10 (1.68%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.52%) Postman
5 4 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (0.51%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.51%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.51%) Selenium
6 3 (0.51%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.17%) Vite
General
1 213 (35.86%) Social Skills
2 188 (31.65%) Analytical Skills
3 145 (24.41%) Finance
4 74 (12.46%) Marketing
5 63 (10.61%) Law
6 52 (8.75%) Public Sector
7 46 (7.74%) Influencing Skills
8 42 (7.07%) Telecoms
9 37 (6.23%) Legal
10 33 (5.56%) Retail
11 32 (5.39%) Back Office
11 32 (5.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 32 (5.39%) Military
12 30 (5.05%) Manufacturing
13 15 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (2.36%) Banking
15 12 (2.02%) Aerospace
16 9 (1.52%) Billing
17 8 (1.35%) Games
17 8 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 108 (18.18%) Analyst
2 107 (18.01%) Senior
3 85 (14.31%) Lead
4 42 (7.07%) Data Engineer
5 40 (6.73%) Data Analyst
6 26 (4.38%) Architect
7 24 (4.04%) Developer
8 22 (3.70%) Analytics Manager
8 22 (3.70%) Product Owner
9 21 (3.54%) Data Manager
9 21 (3.54%) Senior Manager
10 19 (3.20%) Data Scientist
11 18 (3.03%) Data Architect
11 18 (3.03%) Performance Analyst
11 18 (3.03%) Software Engineer
12 15 (2.53%) Performance Manager
13 14 (2.36%) Microsoft Engineer
13 14 (2.36%) Platform Engineer
13 14 (2.36%) Product Manager
14 13 (2.19%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (4.04%) Kafka
2 16 (2.69%) .NET
3 15 (2.53%) Spring
4 11 (1.85%) REST
5 9 (1.52%) .NET Framework
5 9 (1.52%) ASP.NET
5 9 (1.52%) ASP.NET Core
5 9 (1.52%) ASP.NET Web API
5 9 (1.52%) Entity Framework
6 8 (1.35%) RESTful
6 8 (1.35%) Spring Boot
7 7 (1.18%) OpenAPI
7 7 (1.18%) React
7 7 (1.18%) Swagger
8 6 (1.01%) Node.js
9 5 (0.84%) CSS
9 5 (0.84%) HTML
10 4 (0.67%) Leaflet
10 4 (0.67%) Middleware
10 4 (0.67%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 46 (7.74%) Product Ownership
2 44 (7.41%) Cloud Native
3 22 (3.70%) Management Information System
4 21 (3.54%) Onboarding
5 17 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (2.69%) Algorithms
7 14 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (2.02%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.52%) Social Media
10 8 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.35%) Blog
10 8 (1.35%) Replication
11 7 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.18%) IoT
11 7 (1.18%) Low-Code
12 5 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (0.84%) Mobile App
12 5 (0.84%) Private Cloud
12 5 (0.84%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.84%) Linux
2 4 (0.67%) Windows
3 1 (0.17%) Android
3 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 439 (73.91%) Decision-Making
2 284 (47.81%) Analytics
3 145 (24.41%) AI
4 139 (23.40%) Agile
5 138 (23.23%) Business Intelligence
5 138 (23.23%) Problem-Solving
6 130 (21.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 101 (17.00%) Roadmaps
8 98 (16.50%) Data Governance
8 98 (16.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 91 (15.32%) Visualisation
10 83 (13.97%) Data Modelling
11 70 (11.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 68 (11.45%) Mentoring
13 66 (11.11%) Data Science
14 64 (10.77%) Machine Learning
15 63 (10.61%) CI/CD
16 60 (10.10%) Actionable Insight
17 58 (9.76%) Data Analysis
18 56 (9.43%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 133 (22.39%) SQL
2 85 (14.31%) Python
3 26 (4.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 24 (4.04%) JavaScript
5 20 (3.37%) Java
6 16 (2.69%) R
7 14 (2.36%) TypeScript
8 13 (2.19%) C#
9 10 (1.68%) T-SQL
10 6 (1.01%) Scala
11 5 (0.84%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.67%) VBA
13 3 (0.51%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.34%) Ruby
15 1 (0.17%) Bash
15 1 (0.17%) C++
15 1 (0.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 75 (12.63%) Degree
2 32 (5.39%) Security Cleared
3 20 (3.37%) SC Cleared
4 10 (1.68%) ACCA
4 10 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (1.68%) CIMA
5 9 (1.52%) Master's Degree
5 9 (1.52%) TOGAF Certification
6 8 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.35%) DV Cleared
6 8 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (0.67%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.51%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.51%) CSPO
8 3 (0.51%) PhD
9 2 (0.34%) HND
9 2 (0.34%) MBA
10 1 (0.17%) ICAEW
10 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.17%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (14.31%) Data Quality
2 39 (6.57%) GDPR
3 23 (3.87%) QA
4 18 (3.03%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.68%) SLA
6 9 (1.52%) GRC
7 7 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 4 (0.67%) PMO
10 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.17%) GxP
10 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (2.02%) Docker
2 2 (0.34%) IAG
3 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (3.70%) Terraform
2 16 (2.69%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.34%) Ansible
5 1 (0.17%) Autotask
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.17%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 88 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.06%) SAP
3 32 (5.39%) Google
4 26 (4.38%) Databricks
5 12 (2.02%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.01%) Botify
6 6 (1.01%) Foundry
6 6 (1.01%) HubSpot
7 5 (0.84%) Alteryx
7 5 (0.84%) OpenAI
7 5 (0.84%) Oracle
7 5 (0.84%) ServiceNow
8 4 (0.67%) Dynatrace
8 4 (0.67%) Freshdesk
8 4 (0.67%) Splunk
9 3 (0.51%) BiZZdesign
9 3 (0.51%) Palantir
9 3 (0.51%) Pardot
9 3 (0.51%) Sage
10 2 (0.34%) Ariba